{"id":4453,"date":"2017-06-24T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2017-06-24T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:29:43","slug":"poland-cup-2017-world-masters-series-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4453","title":{"rendered":"Poland Cup 2017 \u2013 World Masters Series \u2013 Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-768x502.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-1024x669.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/06\/Polandmiddle1-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The start overlooked a classic central European wooded valley with the town of Polanica-Zdroj nestling in the bottom. From there it was straight up &#8211; 65 metres of climb off the bike and pushing \ud83d\ude41 &nbsp;but once up it was a reasonably dense track network with lots of route choice around steeply sided valleys.<\/p>\n<p>We were allowed to ride (or carry \/ push) in the forest too so a few of the legs saw me diving into the trees (mostly downhill) cutting through between paths rather than riding round. I think this worked for me sometimes and not others.<\/p>\n<p>I was riding OK, struggling with the physicality (500 metres of climbing) but eventually blew up at 3\/4 distance, sweat in my eyes and not thinking straight a made a stupid mistake at #18 losing about 7 mins. I was really tired and hot after that and continued to lose a few seconds here and there all the way to the finish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decent into the finish was fun but it was a long one for me &#8211; 100 mins&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start overlooked a classic central European wooded valley with the town of Polanica-Zdroj nestling in the bottom. From there it was straight up &#8211; 65 metres of climb off the bike and pushing \ud83d\ude41 &nbsp;but once up it was a reasonably dense track network with lots of route choice around steeply sided valleys. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4453\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poland Cup 2017 \u2013 World Masters Series \u2013 Middle&#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":[13,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453","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=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}