{"id":1408,"date":"2011-06-14T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2011-06-14T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:06:23","slug":"irish-podiums-at-the-british-mbs-in-wasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/14\/irish-podiums-at-the-british-mbs-in-wasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Podiums at the British MBS in Wasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1410\" title=\"BMBS Podium - Wasing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1308-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"BMBS Podium - Wasing\" width=\"655\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1308-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1308-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1308.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of the British Mountain Bike Series took place in Wasing estate near Reading last weekend and saw some strong performances from Irish riders who travelled over for the UCI C2 ranked event.\u00a0\u00a0Wet conditions made the woodland singletrack slippery and muddy on a relatively flat and flowy course which suited the Irish riders well.<\/p>\n<p>In a close fought junior women\u2019s race Claire Oakley (WXC Mountain Bike Team UK) began slowly but gradually moved up to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place where a close battle with teammate Hannah Ferguson followed. Claire was unlucky to lose time crashing on a slippery corner but quickly caught British National Champion Katy Winton who had dropped back from 1st. The two riders duelled closely until the end with Claire eventually finishing 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 31 seconds off the winner.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Claire Oakley &#8211; &#8220;Happy\u00a0enough but would probably have been a different result if I hadn&#8217;t have fallen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Elite Women\u2019s race Melanie Spath (Cycleways) and Cait Elliott (WXC World Racing) rode well in a competitive race. Early in the race there was a close battle for podium positions between 6 or 7 riders, with Cait starting strongly and riding in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> for much of the first 2 laps. By lap 3 Mel had moved up with Cait and British rider Mel Alexander following her wheel. Towards the end the riders began to string out a bit as continuous rain made the course increasingly slippery. Mel finished 3<sup>rd<\/sup>with Cait in 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mel Spath &#8211; &#8220;I had a good race considering the recent inconsistent training due to sickness and as I am still recovering from a shoulder injury. I had a slow start and it took me a few laps to get into the race, but I didn&#8217;t panic and worked my way up steadily. By the penultimate lap I managed to get into 3rd place, building up a lead over 4th in the last lap, but not being able to close down on Maddie Horton in 2nd place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Cait Elliott \u2013 \u201cI started a bit too well and couldn\u2019t keep it up. I\u2019ve been fighting injury recently and results haven\u2019t been great but today I was starting to feel back to normal for the first time in ages so under the circumstances I\u2019m happy enough\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd round of the British Mountain Bike Series took place in Wasing estate near Reading last weekend and saw some strong performances from Irish riders who travelled over for the UCI C2 ranked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,132,161],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xc","tag-bmbs","tag-race-report","tag-wasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.offroadcyclingireland.ie\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}