{"id":2846,"date":"2011-06-18T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2011-06-19T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T09:54:25","slug":"world-cup-sweden-middle-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Sweden &#8211; Middle Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2848\" title=\"Middle Part 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0580-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The World Cup Middle race event centre was an Orienteering Club, Club House. Just amazing falicities, it even had a sauna.<\/p>\n<p>As I warmed up and chilled at the start, the skies opened. It really chucking it down.<\/p>\n<p>We knew the maps were not waterproof so in my pre-start minute I did not do any planning ahead, I just concentrated on folding my maps so they would stay in one piece. I ended up woith a rolling start through the startline just as the last beep went, sweet !<\/p>\n<p>I rode really well to number one but made the mistake of cutting through on number two losing a little time.<\/p>\n<p>A cut through again at number 6 after a small mistake missing a track junction cost me precious time, but I got the right route choice to 7, using the road and then started to nav a little better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2849\" title=\"Map Part 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DSCN0581-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The course looped around, the tracks becoming more waterlogged and muddy as the rain poured down. I was riding really well, both technically and strongly in the middle part of the course. After the spectator control and map change we went back across the road before a long leg back to the X Country Ski arena again. I picked a &#8216;straight is great&#8217; route choice which involved a cut through again. Unfortunately I ended up sliding down a bank in to a knee deep stream and had to throw my bike up the other side before hauling myself through some brashings. It was still a reasonable leg time but I think another route choice would have been quicker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/IMG_1338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2860\" title=\"IMG_1338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/IMG_1338-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Crossing the finish line I felt id had a reasonable ride and managed to stay in front of Lasse which had been my goal, but only by 2 seconds. Although I was 48<sup>th<\/sup> I was just 4-6 mins down on a much better placing, so I go into tomorrows mass start long fairly confident on a reasonable result.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody got any wet lube ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup Middle race event centre was an Orienteering Club, Club House. Just amazing falicities, it even had a sauna. As I warmed up and chilled at the start, the skies opened. It really chucking it down. We knew the maps were not waterproof so in my pre-start minute I did not do any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2846\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Cup Sweden &#8211; Middle 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":[13,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","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\/2846","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=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}