{"id":254147,"date":"2025-11-10T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:38:10","slug":"do-you-prefer-out-and-back-trails-or-loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/254147\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you prefer out-and-back trails or loops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.singletracks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/trail-map-pointing-finger.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/trail-map-pointing-finger-1170x780.jpg\" alt=\"A person pointing at a detailed map showing the Back 40 trails in Bella Vista, Arkansas that highlights various trails and locations in a park, with marked paths indicating different difficulty levels. The map includes multiple lakes and forests, along with information on parking and regulations.\" class=\"wp-image-706358 lazy\"  data-\/><\/a>File photo: Jeff Barber<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, some surveys are designed to validate my own personal opinions about mountain biking. Though I try to avoid biasing the results, this week I\u2019m just going to come out and say it: I really prefer loop trails to out-and-backs and spiderweb trail networks. Riding a loop gives me a sense of accomplishment at the end of the ride, the scenery never repeats itself, and I don\u2019t have to think too hard.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t choose \u201cloop,\u201d convince me that another trail layout is better in the comments below. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo: Jeff Barber Admittedly, some surveys are designed to validate my own personal opinions about mountain biking.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[233,4206,63464,63477,18640,4985,9350,105692,63484,63476,63478,63475,50,13730,105690,45379,63483,101,47,105691,56,54,55,10720],"class_list":["post-254147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-article","tag-articles","tag-bike","tag-bike-blog","tag-blog","tag-cycling","tag-do","tag-loops","tag-mountain","tag-mountain-bike","tag-mountain-biking","tag-mtb","tag-news","tag-or","tag-out-and-back","tag-prefer","tag-singletracks","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-trails","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}