{"id":1034,"date":"2010-01-13T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:35:45","slug":"preview-strathpuffer-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Preview &#8211; Strathpuffer 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment of madness a few months ago I agreed to ride in a Team of 4 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanglefish.com\/Strathpuffer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strathpuffer 24 hour MTB race <\/a>near Inverness. Unfortunatley for various reasons this is now a team of 2, Alan Hartley and Myself riding as <a title=\"British Mountain Bike Orienteering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmbo.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;bmbo.org.uk&#8217;\u00a0 (British Mountain Bike Orienteering<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanglefish.com\/Strathpuffer\/pictures\/big\/IMG_0932.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Strathpuffer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spanglefish.com\/Strathpuffer\/pictures\/big\/IMG_0932.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/01\/strathpufferdigging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1041 alignnone\" title=\"strathpuffer digging out\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/01\/strathpufferdigging-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Held just outside of Contin about 25 miles north of Inverness the Strathpuffer 24 is known as the most challenging 2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanglefish.com\/Strathpuffer\/pictures\/strathpufferlogo(small).jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Strathpuffer Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spanglefish.com\/Strathpuffer\/pictures\/strathpufferlogo(small).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>4 hour\u00a0enduro race in the UK, as being in January there is often snow and because of the latitude not much daylight so lots of night riding. The big question over the weekend was &#8216;is it still on&#8217; but the organisers have had teams out clearing the snow from the single-tracks and it is, as long as we can get there.<br \/>\nSo Alan and I are currently getting our kit together and talking about the relative merits of spending \u00a380 each on ice tyres (we aren&#8217;t and will just wing it but to be honest we cant find any in the UK anyway)<br \/>\nOur current plan is for me to start and do 2 or 3 laps and then settle in to 3 to 4 lap stints depending on the laptimes. As you tuck yourself into bed on Saturday night, please spare a thought for us camping in the snow !<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportident.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportident UK<\/a> will be displaying live results at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lappedenduro.sportident.co.uk\/home\/event\/publicresults.html?&amp;eventid=906b739d-b5c2-4b38-a255-3373ba5f2567\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lappedenduro.sportident.co.uk\/home\/event\/publicresults.html?&amp;eventid=906b739d-b5c2-4b38-a255-3373ba5f2567<\/a><\/p>\n<p>so you can see how we are doing&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment of madness a few months ago I agreed to ride in a Team of 4 at the Strathpuffer 24 hour MTB race near Inverness. Unfortunatley for various reasons this is now a team of 2, Alan Hartley and Myself riding as &#8216;bmbo.org.uk&#8217;\u00a0 (British Mountain Bike Orienteering Held just outside of Contin about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preview &#8211; Strathpuffer 24&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}