{"id":488,"date":"2015-03-17T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-03-17T21:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T21:41:54","slug":"sxc-cathkin-braes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"SXC Cathkin Braes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.org.uk\/events_detail.php?id=35&#038;type=assoc\">opening round<\/a> of the SXC series at Cathkin Braes in Glasgow.  I&#8217;ve signed up, mostly as a way of keeping up my fitness for 10 Under The Ben in June.  I haven&#8217;t done an XC MTB race since <a href=\"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=226\">Kirroughtree in 2010<\/a> so I&#8217;ve entered into the shorter 2 lap &#8220;taster&#8221; race rather than the 5 lap &#8220;sport&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I checked out the course for a few hours.  I really like it.  It&#8217;s a long figure-of-8, much less &#8220;up then down&#8221; than Glentress.  There&#8217;s a couple of big rock drop offs, a crazy 4X section, one brutal climb and plenty of flowing stuff, albeit lumpier underfoot than at Glentress.  I did four laps, sessioning some of the trickier bits, and had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t think to time a &#8220;hot lap&#8221; to see where I might fare in a race.  Extrapolating wildly, I can compare my Kirroughtree 2010 laptime to the 2010 Elite winner&#8217;s laptime (I was +57% slower!), and apply that to last years Cathkin Brae&#8217;s Elite winners laptime &#8211; this suggests I might do a 23 minute lap at Cathkin Braes.  Over the two laps, that&#8217;d be 46 minutes which would&#8217;ve placed me in 5th out of ten riders in last years Taster race.  The same pace, over 4 laps, would&#8217;ve got me 12th place out of 23 starts in the sport race (+lapped once).<\/p>\n<p>All this hypothetical racing is tiring.  The real pedalling variety is more fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the opening round of the SXC series at Cathkin Braes in Glasgow. I&#8217;ve signed up, mostly as a way of keeping up my fitness for 10 Under The Ben in June. I haven&#8217;t done an XC MTB race since Kirroughtree in 2010 so I&#8217;ve entered into the shorter 2 lap &#8220;taster&#8221; race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}