{"id":161,"date":"2019-03-21T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=161"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:46:44","slug":"march-21-mara-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/21\/march-21-mara-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"March-21- Mara Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mara Abbott is a U.S professional women\u2019s bicycle racer from Boulder, Colorado, who rides on the Wiggle High 5 team. \u00a0This is a British professional cycling team based in Belgium which competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She took up road bicycle racing at Whitman College as a springtime activity and then from there she started competing. She won first place in 2007 in National Road Cycling Championships. She won first place in 2008 in 4 Mount Hood Classic, Krasna Lipa Tour,and Giro della Toscana. \u00a0In 2010, Abbott became the first U.S. cyclist ever to win the Giro Donne, one of the Grand Tours of women&#8217;s bicycle racing in 2008. In addition, she has won first 9 times over a 2 year period. Abbott retired after the 2016 Olympic Games road race. Road cycling requires a lot of training and effort for long hours like any other sport; cycling is done in nature (roads, mountains) in both harsh and good weather. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to cycling, Abbott is a yoga instructor. She is a freelance writer published in the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado as well as the Wall Street Journal and EspnW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/mara-abbot-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Abbott riding her bike with a helmet and cycling uniform on, the crowd and street behind her is blurred in the image\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/mara-abbot-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/mara-abbot.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara Abbott is a U.S professional women\u2019s bicycle racer from Boulder, Colorado, who rides on the Wiggle High 5 team. \u00a0This is a British professional cycling team based in Belgium which competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/21\/march-21-mara-abbott\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}