{"id":1182,"date":"2010-02-28T21:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:26:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:26:06","slug":"dark-white-mbo-sherwood-pines-national-league-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Dark & White MBO – Sherwood Pines – National League #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I looked on Friday evening, \"\"<\/a>the weather forecast for Sunday was horrendous: 29 mile per hour North East winds, sleet, hail and 2 degrees celsius. Winter boots and a gillet then….<\/p>\n

I’d had a fairly hard week of training, particularly after perhaps a few too many squats at Chasers training on Tuesday night! I’d also had\u00a0a big interval session on the turbo on Friday\u00a0and 3 kids under 4 staying with us over the weekend, so\u00a0I was not exactly in tip top condition for this, the first event of the National MBO league of 2010.\u00a0The day\u00a0dawned cold, but the predicted wind was nowhere to be felt as I queued up to start at Sherwood Pines.<\/p>\n

Great for us MBO types was the\u00a0inclusion\u00a0of a \u00a01:15,ooo\u00a0map with 16 controls as well as the standard Dark and White 1:50,000 OS map with a further 13 controls. I decided even if it was detrimental to the rest of the event that I would really push it on the smaller scale map and get\u00a0some MBO training in.\u00a0I picked an OK route and rode cleanly, just getting confused by some rogue red and white\u00a0tapes near to some of the controls, and chose to exit She\"\"<\/a>rwood Pines at the West Entrance\u00a0after I had cleared it. In hindsight this was a mistake as the route out was a\u00a0tortuous snake through a country park\u00a0requiring very careful navigation. I also made the mistake of trying to cut through the housing estates of Clipstone, frustratingly not finding\u00a0the route through (Killian Lomas\u00a0also had the same problem). In the end\u00a0I had to go right up to the roundabout, and looking at the GPS tracks lost about 4-6 minutes.<\/p>\n

My route after than was sound, and other than a small mistake on the mad dash for home at number 20 which cost 45 seconds and another\u00a030 secondss lost on the way to number 25 after crossing a road accidentally, I rode really well. To be honest, as I entered Clumber Park with only 35 minutes left I thought Id bitten off more than I could chew and had set myself up for another classic ‘Stodge back very late’ performance, but with the wind behind me and a real effort pulling out all the stops I ended up just over 5 minutes late back.<\/p>\n

Results when I left for home showed 2nd in class and 3rd overall\u00a0just behind\u00a0Liam and Killian\u00a0which I was very happy with. It was\u00a0good to see \u00a0how on an area that required\u00a0more complex nav than normal that the three of us MBO specialists\u00a0showed all the normal mountain bike\u00a0whippets a clean pair of heels.<\/p>\n

Good to see as well was another\u00a0cracking performance for Great Britain Slalom Canoeist Campbell Walsh<\/a> ( just back from a 6th place at\u00a0the Oceania Open in Australia) in his first year of\u00a0orienteering and adventure racing, luckily\u00a0just behind me. Just don’t ask for a return match on the water at Nottingham, Mr Walsh……<\/p>\n

Full results available at http:\/\/www.darkandwhite.co.uk\/results-cross-country-fell-races.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

Event Stats : 64km – 500m climb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I looked on Friday evening, the weather forecast for Sunday was horrendous: 29 mile per hour North East winds, sleet, hail and 2 degrees celsius. Winter boots and a gillet then…. I’d had a fairly hard week of training, particularly after perhaps a few too many squats at Chasers training on Tuesday night! I’d … <\/p>\n

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