{"id":3987,"date":"2014-04-12T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2014-04-12T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:04:15","slug":"mtbo-camp-wre-long-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3987","title":{"rendered":"MTBO Camp – WRE Long race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MTBOCAMPLongrace14\"<\/a>We woke this morning. To glorious blue Baltic skies and crisp sea air. The camp long race is a world ranking event for the elite riders and reading the final bulletin I was glad to be only riding 1\/2 of the elite men’s distance.<\/p>\n

After lots of chatting and catching up with old friends I headed out, to be honest a little apprehensively towards the start. The route to 1, involved a slow climb option on a fire road which I took, avoiding the steepest of the climbs. I was feeling a little depressed as rider after rider overtook me. I wasn’t working that hard, trying to be careful with my back, but soon found the red mist coming up and starting to push the pedals a bit too much, particularly on the road section to 2. I paid for it straight away with an over the handlebars into a wet ditch and then after hauling myself up onto a fire road and \u00a0relocating a\u00a0realization I’d missed a track junction (my only real mistake of the course) which ended with me in a swamp splashing around in some brambles off track.\u00a0\u00a0I calmed down, enjoyed the sublime views of forests and little lakes, the low sun reflecting fantastic light through the trees and concentrated on a mistake free ride and the faster riders stopped worrying me.<\/p>\n

Although a little muddy in places, some of the single tracks were great and I enjoyed my full sus Whyte E5 for the first time properly chucking it about. At the half way stage I was starting to feel tired and was temped to bin it but the 2nd part of the course was a little less hilly and all to soon I was rolling into download.<\/p>\n

So no win today but to be honest that shows I am on the right course for my current capabilities and I am more than happy with 5th – 10 mins down on the old men.<\/p>\n

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We woke this morning. To glorious blue Baltic skies and crisp sea air. The camp long race is a world ranking event for the elite riders and reading the final bulletin I was glad to be only riding 1\/2 of the elite men’s distance. After lots of chatting and catching up with old friends I … <\/p>\n

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