{"id":121,"date":"2014-10-01T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-10-01T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:31:57","slug":"le-trail-du-gourg-denfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Le Trail du Gourg d&#8217;Enfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Aveyron and Bozouls is on the <a title=\"Racines et Ailes - FR3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.france3.fr\/emissions\/des-racines-et-des-ailes\/diffusions\/01-10-2014_265307\">TV tonight<\/a> I thought that I had better blog this quick. Last August I ran the spectacular\u00a0<a title=\"Trail de Gourg de l'Enfer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tourisme-aveyron.com\/diffusio\/fr\/agenda\/agenda\/bozouls\/trail-du-gourg-d-enfer_TFO181739007077.php\">Trail du Gourg d&#8217;Enfer<\/a>, a 20k up and down starting and finishing in Bozouls, Aveyron. This is a very attractive and geologically interesting village, built on a rocky spur above what could be described as a meander in the Dourdou river but is really more of an curvy incision. I think I read a long time ago an article in the Scientific American that spoke of &#8216;least work curve.&#8217; I looked this up on Google but all I found was &#8230; a <a title=\"Least work curve\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/sci.geo.geology\/rD9hbeJ2JVY\">short note<\/a> I wrote in 1999 on the same reminiscence. But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The run heads off steeply down into the bottom of the hole and then climbs quickly up steps and then proceeds up and down in a switchback. See my GPS track below. And here for the <a title=\"Goug de l'Enfer results 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runningmag.fr\/UserFiles\/chrono\/6554.pdf\">results<\/a>. I came in 67th out of 90 at just a smidgin under 8kph. Not too bad for the quite tricky terrain and d\u00e9nivell\u00e9. The saucisse aligot and fouasse et the finish was pretty good too.<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Aveyron and Bozouls is on the TV tonight I thought that I had better blog this quick. Last August I ran the spectacular\u00a0Trail du Gourg d&#8217;Enfer, a 20k up and down starting and finishing in Bozouls, Aveyron. This is a very attractive and geologically interesting village, built on a rocky spur above what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Le Trail du Gourg d&#8217;Enfer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[6,7,15,28],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","category-uncategorized","tag-aveyron","tag-bozouls","tag-gourg-de-lenfer","tag-trail-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}