{"id":2713,"date":"2011-05-12T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2011-05-13T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:18:28","slug":"dark-white-summer-1-teggs-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Dark &#038; White Summer #1 &#8211; Teggs Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2714\" title=\"teggs nose dark and white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose-300x293.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose-1024x1001.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose-150x146.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose-400x391.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teggs Nose has fond memories for me. I did my first ever Mountain Bike Score event there in 2005 or 6 with a brand new bike where the brakes failed on a decent towards the end!<\/p>\n<p>This year I was late arriving having had battles with horrendous traffic coming through Stockport, so was a little flustered starting at 6.45.Would it still be light enough at 8.45 ? I stuck a little flashing red led on my camel back just to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>I know the area around Teggs Nose and Macclesfield Forest very well and to be honest once I\u2019d sorted an order in which to collect the controls, it was just a case of eyeballs out riding and very little nav, bouncing around on far too hard tyres on some of the rocky descents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/TeggsNose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2717\" title=\"TeggsNose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/TeggsNose-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I felt great of the hills and enjoyed the fantastic scenery in the fine weather. I\u2019m pretty sure I could even see The Wrekin and Shropshire hills in the distance as I climbed up to the Cat and Fiddle.<\/p>\n<p>I started to feel a little tired on the climb to number 2 but half way up the hill from 3 to the finish my legs finally gave in and it was all I could do to keep going, watching the seconds tick away. I seem to remember the same thing happened in 2006 but then I was a lard bucket and off and walking !<\/p>\n<p>In the end I had to miss the final 5 pointer out and was still 4 mins late, putting me down in 5th place.<\/p>\n<p>Results available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkandwhite.co.uk\/results\/2011SummerLeagueRound1overallplaces.html\">http:\/\/www.darkandwhite.co.uk\/results\/2011SummerLeagueRound1overallplaces.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/05\/teggsnose.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teggs Nose has fond memories for me. I did my first ever Mountain Bike Score event there in 2005 or 6 with a brand new bike where the brakes failed on a decent towards the end! This year I was late arriving having had battles with horrendous traffic coming through Stockport, so was a little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark &#038; White Summer #1 &#8211; Teggs Nose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2714,"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-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}