{"id":90,"date":"2008-11-01T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=90"},"modified":"2008-11-03T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:28:21","slug":"90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"More Snow and a visit to the World Cup Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day started with a much more successful ride up over the same col as Wednesday, still lots of snow around but amazing views and sunshine. I returned via the Moel Authur pass (granny ring and out of the saddle most of the way) and then ended up being a bit late back as I got stuck behind a huge herd of misbehaving cows which were being driven up the road to Cilcain. Lots of poo all over the road means the bike will have a good clean tomorrow.<br \/>\nAfter lunch Holly and I drove to the Velodrome in Manchester for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcycling.org.uk\/web\/site\/BC\/tra\/EventReports2008\/20081031_ManchesterWTC_Hub.asp\" target=\"_blank\">UCI World Cup. <\/a>(Cath and her parents followed later) Its the first time ive been and I was amazed to see quite how steep the banked section was. We had a great time watching the keirin, the sprints, points and scratch races, and Holly got to see a podium ceremony with Vicky Penddleton on gold. There was also a demo of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattbike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Cycling endorsed WattBike<\/a>. I had a go and it is very very good, and a bargain at \u00a31650. I was quite pleased with my 1107 Watts max power output, but I&#8217;m a little short of Chris Hoys 2200 Watts, mind you bet I could beat him at an MTBO \ud83d\ude09<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/2008\/IMAGE_324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"To Ruthin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/2008\/IMAGE_322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Moel Authur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/2008\/IMAGE_324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattbike.com\/Images\/pic-wattbike-cycling-for-all.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Watt Bike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wattbike.com\/Images\/pic-wattbike-cycling-for-all.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"World Cup Racing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/pics\/2008\/IMAGE_328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day started with a much more successful ride up over the same col as Wednesday, still lots of snow around but amazing views and sunshine. I returned via the Moel Authur pass (granny ring and out of the saddle most of the way) and then ended up being a bit late back as I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=90\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Snow and a visit to the World Cup Races&#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":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}