{"id":278,"date":"2011-07-31T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2011-07-31T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T14:36:37","slug":"bathgate-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bathgate Alps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&#038;hl=en&#038;msa=0&#038;msid=215060050268106954071.0004a1f66547ec77f454a&#038;ll=55.942086,-3.573647&#038;spn=0.214575,0.438423&#038;source=embed\">map of climbs in West Lothian<\/a> and headed out to try a few.  I headed south from Linlithgow on Preston Road which rises up in a straight line as it leaves town, leading into a few turns before you reach the top &#8211; good warmup material.  The road rolled up and down for a while until I peeled off to climb a nice steep looking hill called Cairnapple.  It was &#8216;proper steep&#8217; &#8211; lowest gear, standing on pedals as the tarmac surged upwards like a wall.  Around the back side of the hill was a valley &#8211; steep down, then another similarly steep up.  I carried on towards civilisation, ending up in Boghall.  Turning round to retrace my steps meant climbing &#8220;Puir Wife&#8217;s Brae&#8221; &#8211; a severe uphill slog, part of which is at 14%.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a pretty good day of climbing and lots more hills to explore in the future.  The day came to an unfortunate end when I came across a crashed cyclist on the way down towards Linlithgow &#8211; conscious but clearly suffered a high-speed fall.  An ambulance and paramedics came, gave him oxygen and morphine and I could see he&#8217;d broken his clavicle (my area of expertise) and possibly ribs too.  So, a sobering end to an otherwise fun day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a map of climbs in West Lothian and headed out to try a few. I headed south from Linlithgow on Preston Road which rises up in a straight line as it leaves town, leading into a few turns before you reach the top &#8211; good warmup material. The road rolled up and down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}