{"id":3134,"date":"2011-09-14T21:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:46:09","slug":"run-up-to-the-european-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3134","title":{"rendered":"Run up to the European Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/09\/rusfoto_russian_visa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3135\" title=\"rusfoto_russian_visa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/09\/rusfoto_russian_visa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve had a woolly summer of training, a few niggly injuries has made it a bit disjointed, but I\u00a0have been continuing to concentrate on strength. I\u2019ve been feeling great during the last month so now it is a case of tapering to next weeks championships. This week I have been doing a fair bit of MTBO practice on areas locally\u00a0I think are most similar to what we can expect in Russia. Cannock Chase, Sutton Park and Delamere Forest have been great with a few bits of urban thrown in &#8211; local housing estates that are mapped to sprint specifications. I\u2019ve also done a little fast cadence turbo session and a lap of Cannock Chase\u2019s Monkey trail to get speed up my legs and get my eye back into more technical\u00a0XC riding.<\/p>\n<p>Off the saddle I have given the bike a thorough service and have spent a few hours trying to find Russian versions of Google street view to have a look at Vyborg. I also now have my Russian visa, which took some getting&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s now time to pack the bike, make sure I haven\u2019t forgotten anything and get myself to Gatwick on Saturday !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve had a woolly summer of training, a few niggly injuries has made it a bit disjointed, but I\u00a0have been continuing to concentrate on strength. I\u2019ve been feeling great during the last month so now it is a case of tapering to next weeks championships. This week I have been doing a fair bit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Run up to the European Champs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-kit","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134","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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}