{"id":353,"date":"2018-11-30T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkumar.bike\/?p=353"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T13:02:52","slug":"mtb-arunachal-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"MTB Arunachal 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MTB\nArunachal \u2013 The Hornbill\u00b4s Flight, was the last year of the race season 2018\nfor me. It happened almost only a month after the HERO MTB Himalaya and in the\ntime between these two major reasons I kind of struggled with smaller and\nbigger health issues. I suffered from a cold with a sour throat and fewer, as\nwell as an eczema on my bottom, which made sitting on a saddle for a couple of\ndays unbearable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway I\nwould participate with Rakesh Rana in the Team of Two category, in which the\ncompetition didn\u2019t seem to be so high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was\nespecially looking forward to meeting Andi Seewald and his brother Martin\nagain. Spending 10 days with an international pro rider was just such an\namazing opportunity for me, almost more important than the race itself!
\nI knew Andi from previous MTB Himalaya Races and at MTB Arunachal being almost\nthe only one he knew, me, his brother and him spent lots of time together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The race\nitself was going ok. It was nice to meet new riders from the North East states\nand Bhutan as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As expected\nthere was no real competition for Rakesh and me. There was a huge lead to the 2nd<\/sup>\nteam from Bhutan and we tried more or less to stay with the overall leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me it\nwas a good practise to ride in a team of two. Still a rather new experience to\nme and it was good to practise having a partner to ride with. Rakesh and I\nalternated with our weak days at the beginning. The first day I got severe\ncramps, next day Rakesh suffered during the long rainy downhill with sight.\nWith the race days continuing we found our rhythm and always gained the top\npositions at the stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately\nAndi got really sick during the race with food poisoning, so that he could not\nparticipate for a couple of days. Instead his brother Martin took the overall\nlead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MTB\nArunachal was a great closing for my racing season 2018. Apart from racing,\nspending a week in a beautiful area and ride the bike with fellow riders just\nmeans fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My aim for\n2020 is to be back stronger on the bike, participating and winning major races\nall over India. See you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTB Arunachal \u2013 The Hornbill\u00b4s Flight, was the last year of the race season 2018 for me. It happened almost only a month after the HERO MTB Himalaya and in the time between these two major reasons I kind of struggled with smaller and bigger health issues. I suffered from a cold with a sour … Continue reading “MTB Arunachal 2018”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,34,33],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-races","tag-mtb-arunachal","tag-mtb-northeast","tag-racing-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidkumar.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}