Stodge-Blog

Our route to the car park and assembly for day 3 of the OO Cup took us up and over a winding pass with amazing, steep, forested vistas down the big valleys towards the capital, Ljubljana, in the distance, with endless mountains visible beyond.

Leaving Holly in ‘Kindergarden’, Cath and I started the epic walk to the [...]

Day 2 at the OOCup and the weather is just perfect, mid 20s and a bit of cloud cover. We were glad we were in our apartment last night though, those in the event campsite were treated to an explosion of sound in the middle of the night as some lightning smashed into a tree and [...]

Tonight was the Club summer handicap pursuit race. A 4km-ish course around Brocton Coppice with a fair bit of climb on good tracks. As I had not pre-entered I had to go off scratch with Iain Stamp, which was probably about right anyway. We started strongly with Iain tucked in behind me. As we turned at [...]

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Anton Foliforov

Team GB made a difficult decision last night. As Andrew Windrum was the only elite man to qualify for the long final, he gallantly gave his place in the relay to me. The deal was that Andy Conn, Ben and myself would not race the Long B final and keep ourselves fresh for the [...]