{"id":1805,"date":"2010-07-20T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T20:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2010-07-20T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T21:01:15","slug":"chasers-summer-pursuit-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Chasers summer pursuit race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1806\" title=\"stodgepursuit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit-649x1024.jpg 649w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit-95x150.jpg 95w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit-400x630.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/stodgepursuit.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>Tonight was the Club summer handicap pursuit race. A 4km-ish course around Brocton Coppice with a fair bit of climb on good tracks. As I had not pre-entered I had to go off scratch with Iain Stamp, which was probably about right anyway. We started strongly with Iain tucked in behind me. As we turned at the top of the German Cutting I accelerated up the little incline and put a few metres between us. Looking ahead I could see our minute men (Simon Webb and Mike Barnby). Knowing that we could end up in a big group I decided to try and drop Iain and the other two at the same time. I slowly pulled in Simon and Mike but kicked about 10 metres before them and accelerated hard away. Luckily it worked, but I then had to keep the pace on all the way to the top of the hill and up to\u00a0Coppice car park. I then eased back a little and strode out starting to catch the main stream of time handicapped runners who had set off and minute intervals based on their declared fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the race is steep down hill on slippery wet grass, so although I had caught and passed most of the field I could not make it past father and son Mike and Sam Musters racing each other, or supervet Norman Hall who had a clear lead.<\/p>\n<p>So, fastest time and 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the pursuit race. It also looks like a new course record 15.11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1807\" title=\"dsc_0041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041-400x268.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2010\/07\/dsc_0041.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Its one of those races that means nothing but secretly means quite a bit and everyone wants to win it, so a happy Stodge tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Following the run was the summer club barbecue which, unfortunately the same as last year, was a little damp and ended fairly early, but it was good to catch up with Mike and Ali, amongst others,\u00a0who I had not seen for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was the Club summer handicap pursuit race. A 4km-ish course around Brocton Coppice with a fair bit of climb on good tracks. As I had not pre-entered I had to go off scratch with Iain Stamp, which was probably about right anyway. We started strongly with Iain tucked in behind me. As we turned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasers summer pursuit race&#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-1805","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\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}