{"id":17,"date":"2008-10-13T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-10-13T21:52:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T20:52:47","slug":"mammoth-monday-night-road-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t get dropped !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/RoadTrainingCannockChase13-10-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Mammoth Monday Night Route\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/RoadTrainingCannockChase13-10-2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>Came home well chuffed tonight. I have been going out on and off with a group of riders starting at the Mammoth shop in Milford for a couple of years.\u00a0In the past, especially earlier\u00a0this year I have been well an truly spat out of the back of the group to find my way home on my own many times.<br \/>\nThe route leaves Milford, weaves its way out through Stafford out on the Wolverhampton Rd, under the M6 then into the lanes behind P<span><span>enkridge<\/span><\/span>. It then returns to P<span><span>enkridge<\/span><\/span> before heading again south through the lanes, crossing the A5 down to Coven. It then crosses the A449 , the A5 again and returns to <span><span>Brocton<\/span><\/span> via more lanes near Shoal Hill, with the speed really cranking up from the <span><span>Potal<\/span><\/span> Pool roundabout.<\/p>\n<p><span>Today &#8211; a first, I\u00a0got to <span>Brocton<\/span> Cross Roads in the lead of the chasing pack, about 1 min down. At one point two chaps who were drafting me overtook, and wow what a difference when I sat in behind them, I had a rest for about 1 min then went out in front again and kicked for home, a great feeling, particularly with a race in my legs from yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came home well chuffed tonight. I have been going out on and off with a group of riders starting at the Mammoth shop in Milford for a couple of years.\u00a0In the past, especially earlier\u00a0this year I have been well an truly spat out of the back of the group to find my way home on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I didn&#8217;t get dropped !&#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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}