{"id":1432,"date":"2010-04-23T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-04-24T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T08:00:05","slug":"world-cup-mtbo-hungary-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"World Cup MTBO Hungary &#8211; Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1434\" title=\"World Cup Sprint Race - Hungary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1-111x150.jpg 111w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1-400x540.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/04\/photo1.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>The sprint race was held 2 km from the event centre, in the low cultivated hills and urban edge of the town. A stiff climb up to the start meant that there was a significant net descent on the course, which finished with a mad dash through the streets.<\/p>\n<p>I got a great start and nailed the first control, but lost loads of time on the second. Thinking I had overshot after blasting down a road, I went in too early on an unmarked track but relocated very quickly after spotting a very small quarry. I still lost perhaps a minute, though.<\/p>\n<p>I was good through number three, confidently riding the rocky &#8216;dangerous&#8217; descent for the TV cameras, but lost time near control 4, again taking an unmarked track which I should have noticed was wrong. I eventually extracted myself from the undergrowth (with a great big stick through the front mech) and headed out into the grassland section where I picked up some time riding and navigating well. I made one final error before the sprint for home, missing seeing a fence on the map and tried to cut through to a road, only to be forced back round losing time.<\/p>\n<p>I rode the town section cleanly and avoided mispunching the control that caught so many others out.<\/p>\n<p>I sprinted for the line overcooking the braking and managed a spectacular punch with rear wheel still in the air.<br \/>\nLooking at the results I was pleased to see I was well inside the top half in 30<sup>th<\/sup> position, my best international result to date.<\/p>\n<p>Em had a solid ride to take 12<sup>th<\/sup>, Sarah, 36<sup>th<\/sup> and Andy Conn beat me by 40 seconds, making only two small mistakes to take 25<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Results should be available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbo.hu\/\">www.mtbo.hu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sprint race was held 2 km from the event centre, in the low cultivated hills and urban edge of the town. A stiff climb up to the start meant that there was a significant net descent on the course, which finished with a mad dash through the streets. I got a great start and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Cup MTBO Hungary &#8211; Sprint&#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":[13,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}