{"id":652,"date":"2009-07-01T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=652"},"modified":"2009-07-01T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T12:40:51","slug":"european-mtbo-champs-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"European MTBO Champs – Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The heat again was a factor in the relay, held back down near to the middle race. I was happy to be riding 2nd leg after my middle race disaster so after taking a few photos got into the pen to await Killian who was on first leg. I got a poor start as I had to fight my way past a couple of waiting riders to get to the changeover pen and had on jump on my bike after I had been tagged losing a few seconds.
\nThe first 400m out of the event field were tough, marshy\u00a0with long grass and very bumpy but once out I got into the flow was riding and navigating well. I had a small wobble on two controls in the middle of the course perhaps losing 30 secs or so after missing a couple of track junctions but was still going well when I got to the complicated spectator area for the first time. I left the spectator control and nailed the next 5 controls riding really well until ……. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I noticed I’d just ridden them in the wrong order. There was a line leading out from the spectator area on the map and with the map upside down I just had not noticed that I had gone to 24 not 18. I skidded to a halt in a public carpark, cursed, collected my thoughts for 15 secs then roared away to redo this loop in the right order. The atmosphere going through the spectator area the second time was great and I then caught our Spanish rival on the next control. I then had a great head to head race with him, outsprinting him over the line before handing over to Jimmy on the last leg. Unbelivably I had not lost us any places since changeover but we would have had a much higher placing If I had not been a muppet ( I perhaps lost between 9 and 11 mins).<\/p>\n

Jimmy kept our place and had an alomost identical sprint for the line with the Spanish teams 3rd leg rider and again pipped him to the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heat again was a factor in the relay, held back down near to the middle race. I was happy to be riding 2nd leg after my middle race disaster so after taking a few photos got into the pen to await Killian who was on first leg. I got a poor start as I … <\/p>\n

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