{"id":740,"date":"2009-08-14T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T14:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-08-17T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T20:32:08","slug":"world-mtbo-champs-sprint-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"World MTBO Champs &#8211; Sprint Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/lh\/photo\/8HfD2K77Qw6VZjgYYzIQ1g?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_dnuoCcaVeyk\/Som2doq2iEI\/AAAAAAAAAQQ\/YRaQOy6Fv1E\/s144\/DSC_0572.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The sprints were held at Neot Kdumim, again near to the event centre. I had drawn a very late start just before the red &#8216;top 10&#8217; group and was hoping for a good result if I could get pulled along as they came past me. The first couple of controls were easy and I quickly got into the map and then nailed # 3,4,5 but got distracted by the eventual winner Adrian Jackson as he came through on the way to #2 and picked a \u00a0duff route choice to #6 , perhaps losing 1 min or so. I then rode really well and started to realise that cutting through carrying the bike off track was an option. I really blasted the last big hill and cut across the open to # where I was caught by Lasse (2nd place) and we both took a daft short cut down some terraced farm land. Lasse didn&#8217;t hesitate and jumped 2 metres off a wall, bike in hand. I stopped, saw no alternative and jumped too. I pulled back ahead slightly with another carried shortcut and I sprinted up to the finish to take 44th place just 30 secs off some world ranking points and 6 mins down on the winner, my best international result to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sprints were held at Neot Kdumim, again near to the event centre. I had drawn a very late start just before the red &#8216;top 10&#8217; group and was hoping for a good result if I could get pulled along as they came past me. The first couple of controls were easy and I quickly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World MTBO Champs &#8211; Sprint Race&#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-740","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\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}