{"id":4356,"date":"2017-04-10T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2017-04-15T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T17:24:03","slug":"spring-dark-white-mbo-score-hayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"Spring Dark &#038; White MBO Score &#8211; Hayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1-400x200.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture1.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sunday dawned as warm and sunny as Saturday and I decided it was the perfect day for not just some mountain bike orienteering but also a lengthy trip in my Triumph Spitfire, fresh from a service and recent MOT. I&#8217;ve had the spitfire since I was 18 and this year it is 40 years young! With the bike on the back, it really shows how small it is compared to a modern car!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/Capture-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"178\"><\/a>The venue, Hayfield is brutal, nestled in a valley near Manchester there are hills in what seems every direction. With my #pearlizumi #pichampion kit on I decided to not try and avoid them, just get on with it and soon I was off and pushing up rocky tracks towards the top of Chinley Churn. I then headed in a clockwise direction through New Mills before climbing seemingly never ending hills ending up to the North of Hayfield at &#8216;Robin Hood&#8217;s Picking Rods&#8217;, whatever they are, and Crown Edge Rocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/03\/DSC5841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/03\/DSC5841-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>I was a little early and ended up a slightly disappointing mid-table&nbsp;but I can feel my fitness slowly returning. Afterwards, there was a great atmosphere for the Winter Series prize giving &#8211; the man of titanium, Killian Lomas, again scooping the overall win.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home the sun baking down on my bonce had me stopping in Buxton for some sun tan cream &#8211; spring must finally be here then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday dawned as warm and sunny as Saturday and I decided it was the perfect day for not just some mountain bike orienteering but also a lengthy trip in my Triumph Spitfire, fresh from a service and recent MOT. I&#8217;ve had the spitfire since I was 18 and this year it is 40 years young! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring Dark &#038; White MBO Score &#8211; Hayfield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}