{"id":3962,"date":"2013-12-28T22:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2013-12-30T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:30:09","slug":"carsington-christmas-mbo-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Carsington Christmas MBO Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3963\" alt=\"carsington1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1-250x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1-855x1024.jpg 855w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1-125x150.jpg 125w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1-400x478.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2013\/12\/carsington1.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>My back has been getting better week on week recently. Is it the 4 months of Pilates? Is it the fact I am not driving 32 thousand miles a year in a worn out car seat? Or just time? No idea, but it means I am feeling confident enough to ride for a little longer and up steeper hills and, for the first time in 2 years, have been thinking about Mountain Bike Orienteering again.<\/p>\n<p>I had originally intended to do the Military Challenge but this year it doesn\u2019t seem to be taking place. A quick look at the BMBO website showed a fun Dark and White Christmas event on the Friday before, just up the road from me at Carsington Water adventure centre \u2013 perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast was terrible and, to be honest, I felt terrible too, with what I know now to be a good dose of man-flu.<\/p>\n<p>Rocking up in the cold and dark, it was great to see Adrian and the Dark and White team again after so long and it was great to be finally doing my first event as a Vet, two years in!<\/p>\n<p>I got some advice from Adrian about bumpy tracks to avoid, strapped on my long unused hope vision 4 ( now 4 years old and still going strong), Orifix mapboard and compass and headed out into a vicious head wind, intending to stay on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d decided I wouldn\u2019t push my luck and go out for the full two hours allowed and the combination of my man-flu and my sensible head brought me in nice and early in time to catch up with a few old friends over some coffee and cakes. There were some serial comedy moments as people tried to make coffee and tea with the tea urn that actually contained mulled wine&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Lets hope this is the start of a recovery season!<\/p>\n<p>Results available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmbo.org.uk\/images\/event\/573b6d560ba57f2bfef556d5d986ee11.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My back has been getting better week on week recently. Is it the 4 months of Pilates? Is it the fact I am not driving 32 thousand miles a year in a worn out car seat? Or just time? No idea, but it means I am feeling confident enough to ride for a little longer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carsington Christmas MBO Score&#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":[13,8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}