{"id":4412,"date":"2017-04-28T16:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:20:59","slug":"mtbo-camp-17-middle-race-2-svinklov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"MTBO Camp 17 &#8211; Middle Race #2 Svinklov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another morning of showers and manky weather but the day brightened into sunshine! Svinklov was another brilliant area for MTBO, a really dense track network of varying ride-ability including zoomy (and not so zoomy) single-tracks, lots of route-choice and a need for the brain to be engaged. The trouble is for the first 2 controls my brain was definitely not engaged, phaffing about with lots of stopping and little mistakes, but probably not losing more than a minute or so. On the way to #3 I got going and into the map and rode OK for the rest of the course except for a few wobbles. I did a little bit of forestry work on the way to #8 taking a difficult to ride track that disappeared! I lost a few&nbsp;minutes dragging the bike through some undergrowth,&nbsp;retracing my steps&#8230; pulling sticks out of the rear wheel! I cocked up number 10 misreading a track junction however it did mean I got to ride some great singletrack!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-768x485.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/day-3-1-400x253.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange inclusion to the course was a bonkers bit of singletrack with boulders and roots, steps and dropoffs which had most people off and running with the bike for a couple of controls between #19 and #21. Bits were fun but I think it should have been marked as difficult to ride and part of a route choice leg perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>I was mid-table again, a few minutes back on the other Brits &#8211; I need to have my head in the game tomorrow morning for the next race &#8211; another world masters series!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another morning of showers and manky weather but the day brightened into sunshine! Svinklov was another brilliant area for MTBO, a really dense track network of varying ride-ability including zoomy (and not so zoomy) single-tracks, lots of route-choice and a need for the brain to be engaged. The trouble is for the first 2 controls &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTBO Camp 17 &#8211; Middle Race #2 Svinklov&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4413,"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-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","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=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}