{"id":2460,"date":"2011-02-12T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2011-02-12T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:30:10","slug":"mountain-biking-is-the-new-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Mountain biking is the new golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/suitbike6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2462\" title=\"Man carrying bicycle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/suitbike6-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/suitbike6-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/suitbike6-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/suitbike6.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Pruners is a North West of England &#8216;Linked In&#8217; networking group with a difference. Rather than golf, breakfast clubs or twilight seminars, Pruners go mountain biking!<\/p>\n<p>Partner at Pozzoni, Nigel, asked me for some advice on where to go next so I persuaded them to come down to Cannock Chase. After the usual faff, eventually 14 property industry executives joined me and a couple of other locals for 3 hours of mud-fest, the recent rains on top of the snow and frosts of late December and January having left the Cannock Chase Mountain Bike Trails (Follow the Dog and Monkey Trail) in a dreadful state.<\/p>\n<p>The group was fairly well matched, but the regroup stops allowed for those bits of essential networking, as did the long climbs and the couple of puncture repair\u00a0breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing back at the Birches Valley Visitor Centre we had a group jet wash before some more essential networking time and the all important ceremonial exchange of business cards at a local pub, The Chase in Rugeley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/linkedin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2461\" title=\"linkedin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/linkedin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/linkedin-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/02\/linkedin.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It seems more and more with the rise of the MAMIL and the popularity of mountain biking growing all the time, golf now has a rival for THE business recreational activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pruners is a North West of England &#8216;Linked In&#8217; networking group with a difference. Rather than golf, breakfast clubs or twilight seminars, Pruners go mountain biking! Partner at Pozzoni, Nigel, asked me for some advice on where to go next so I persuaded them to come down to Cannock Chase. After the usual faff, eventually &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mountain biking is the new golf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannockchase","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","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=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}