{"id":733,"date":"2009-08-12T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-08-19T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:06:44","slug":"world-mtbo-champs-rest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"World MTBO Champs – Rest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was rest day, or rather, a day off from competition. Team GB were in breakfast early as everyone was off to see Jerusalem and the dead sea. Well everyone except me, as I had the IOF advisors course to do (see posting to be published later).
\nI met the Swedish rep at lunch, and as he was off to the model event (for the long race) I tagged along to look at the terrain and go for a bit of a bimble.\u00a0
\nI was just getting in to the 1:20,000 map with 10m contours when a cricket noise seemed to start following me. I turned another corner and it still followed me. Suspecting a flat I stopped and checked the rear wheel.<\/p>\n

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Poking out if the tyre was an inch of stick with lots of bubbling latex doing it’s best to keep the air in. Remarkably it stopped but I thought it prudent to cycle\"\"<\/a> the 2km back to the car rather than risking getting stuck miles from anywhere.\u00a0
\nThe ‘just riding along’<\/a> latex milk worked a treat and even managed to plug the hole when I eventually pulled out the 5 cm sharp stick\u00a0but\u00a0I\u00a0decided\u00a0to\u00a0replace the tyre with my spare rather than risk racing on it.
\nMy Swedish pal had an even worse time, though. He had a huge “off”, lacerating his elbow, knee and right hand as he slid off on the loose gravel, certainly a lesson in not forgetting gloves!
\nThe team returned from their dead sea mud baths later in the evening in high spirits and we are all looking forward to the relays tommorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was rest day, or rather, a day off from competition. Team GB were in breakfast early as everyone was off to see Jerusalem and the dead sea. Well everyone except me, as I had the IOF advisors course to do (see posting to be published later). I met the Swedish rep at lunch, and … <\/p>\n

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