{"id":25102,"date":"2018-04-29T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25102"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T22:25:47","slug":"california-amgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-amgen\/","title":{"rendered":"May Sporting Events: California AMGEN Bike and Spartan Endurance Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/geniea.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The World&#8217;s best cyclists come together May 13-19, 2018 for the only Worldtour Race in the United States,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-amgen.html\">Amgen Tour of California<\/a>. First launched in 2006, about a half dozen California host cities get the opportunity to cough up sponsorship dollars, hotel rooms and other perks, and bring media attention, tourism and fame to their destinations. Always a standard is Sacramento where the race begins or ends. It is also the home of Visit California, the state&#8217;s official tourism organization that has promoted this event from the beginning.<\/p>\n<h2>2018 AMGEN Tour of California Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Men&#8217;s race includes 645 miles of roadways, highways and coastlines<\/li>\n<li>Seven stages<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach to Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s race includes 3 stages spanning 187 miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Men&#8217;s Race Stages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Stage 1 Long Beach<\/li>\n<li>Stage 2 Ventura to Santa Barbara County (Gibraltar Road)<\/li>\n<li>Stage 3 King City to Monterey County (Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca)<\/li>\n<li>Stage 4 San Jose (Time Trial)<\/li>\n<li>Stage 5 Stockton to Elk Grove<\/li>\n<li>Stage 6 Folsom to South Lake Tahoe<\/li>\n<li>Stage 7 Sacramento<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Women&#8217;s Race Stages<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Elk Grove<\/li>\n<li>South Lake Tahoe<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Spartan Race<\/h2>\n<p>For those who prefer participating in sports instead of watching them, Spartan Race is coming to Southern California May 18-20, 2018 (sign up at spartan.com). Held at Snow Summit Ski Resort and presented by Big Bear Lake, the event features the nation&#8217;s most competitive athletes as well as weekend warriors and new racers competing for $100,000 in series cash prizes and points toward competing in the 2018 World Championship in North Lake Tahoe September 29.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Beast: 12+ miles, 30-35 obstacles<\/li>\n<li>Sprint: 3-5 miles, 20-23 obstacles<\/li>\n<li>Kids Races<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World&#8217;s best cyclists come together May 13-19, 2018 for the only Worldtour Race in the United States,\u00a0Amgen Tour of California. First launched in 2006, about a half dozen California host cities get the opportunity to cough up sponsorship dollars, hotel rooms and other perks, and bring media attention, tourism and fame to their destinations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25103,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25102\/revisions\/25103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}