{"id":1286,"date":"2010-04-08T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2010-04-08T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T17:55:32","slug":"mtbo-camp-unpacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"MTBO Camp &#8211; Unpacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1287\" title=\"Bike out of its bag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Thursday afternoon\u00a0has been\u00a0for bike building, swearing\u00a0on finding more scratches on unprotected parts of\u00a0the bike\u00a0frame and then a fantastic shakedown ride with the Austrians in the forests around Ahus.<\/p>\n<p>The singletracks in the forested sand dunes are simply sublime and we spent over an hour criss-crossing this fantastic area, the boys showing off pulling air at every available opportunity as the bike went light over the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1288 alignright\" title=\"Posh Butlins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a> crests, the girls wondering what the fuss is about and having no trouble keeping up with the pace.<\/p>\n<p>We are staying in what is best described as a very, very posh Butlins, great food and comfy beds, with wifi access on my terrace (great for servicing bikes in the sunshine), and hopefully a room share with an Austrian who doesn&#8217;t snore\u00a0and isn&#8217;t\u00a0smellier than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1289\" title=\"My terrace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2-400x533.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/swphoto2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>me (I&#8217;ll update that one tomorrow!).<\/p>\n<p>This evening there is a night sprint which should be fun (lets see what these Europeans think of my Hope Vision 4). Tomorrows action consists of a mass start long race (with 150 bikes, that should be interesting) and the ultrasprint, where the start interval is 20 seconds and two ex- world champions will be\u00a0starting in the same minute as me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Thursday afternoon\u00a0has been\u00a0for bike building, swearing\u00a0on finding more scratches on unprotected parts of\u00a0the bike\u00a0frame and then a fantastic shakedown ride with the Austrians in the forests around Ahus. The singletracks in the forested sand dunes are simply sublime and we spent over an hour criss-crossing this fantastic area, the boys showing off pulling air at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTBO Camp &#8211; Unpacking&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}