{"id":15567,"date":"2026-07-14T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=15567"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:37:17","slug":"ultimate-mountain-athlete-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/?p=15567","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Mountain Athlete: Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"justify-start\">\n<nav class=\"align-left col-span-full mb-base\" data-pom-e2e-test-id=\"breadcrumbs\"\/>\n<p>Mountain biking, the final discipline in the competition, gets under way and we see who has the ultimate speed, endurance, skill, and style on two wheels<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Published July 14, 2026 10:32AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the initial rock climbing and ski mountaineering events wrapped up, the leader board is starting to take shape. But there\u2019s one more discipline to go, and it will definitely shake things up. In Episode 5, the athletes embark on the mountain biking events and they\u2019ll have to calibrate what it takes to win it all with what it takes to stay out of the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough to be good at one sport, or even one dimension of a sport, if you want to be crowned Ultimate Mountain Athlete. That\u2019s why Outside created the unprecedented competition in collaboration with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-content-link text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" rel=\"sponsored\" data-afl-p=\"2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toyota.com\/trucks\/\">Toyota Trucks<\/a>\u2014to find out who could put it all together.<\/p>\n<p>The biking competition includes three events, and in this episode we see the first two as the athletes hit the Flow and Downhill courses. That\u2019s two-wheel magic and two-wheel mayhem as eight athletes\u2014four men and four women\u2014ride with their eye on the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Who will take home the cash? After the first two mountain biking events, we\u2019re a lot closer to finding out.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/biking\/ultimate-mountain-athlete-episode-5\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain biking, the final discipline in the competition, gets under way and we see who has the ultimate speed, endurance, skill, and style on two wheels Published July 14, 2026 10:32AM With the initial rock climbing and ski mountaineering events wrapped up, the leader board is starting to take shape. But there\u2019s one more discipline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wild-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildgreenquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}