A chance comment by Mark Garside reminded me on Saturday night that on Sunday there was a novel event involving a Sprint and a Middle race on the same area, organised by Adrian Bailey. Having enjoyed the sprint action in Taunton I informed Cath at midnight when she got back from her Coldplay concert that we would all be up early to travel down to Wombourne, just south of Wolverhampton, she was mightily impressed !
The organiser was back from his antics on the empty plynth in Trafalger Sqaure and put on a great days orienteering. First was a sprint, well short race really but it was fun tearing round the parkland surrounding Himley Hall. I ran clean except for #13 which had an interesting control description of copse inside ! Everybody lost 
time
(me about 2.5 mins) so not a huge problem but not a control site I would have used. A quick drink and a muffin from the cafe onsite and we were ready for the 2km walk over to Baggeridge Country Park where the middle race was being held. This rough sort of country park is exactly the sort of thing I generally avoid in West Midland foot Orienteering but it was fine for a middle race. The planner packed 24 controls into the 6.0km and other than bashing my leg at one point I had a really good run only losing time on #12 after checking to see if blood was pouring from the place on my leg that hurt so much ( should be a nice bruise there in the morning) put me off. So Cath and Holly are Black Country Champions (W10 and W35) and we had a great morning out on a simply organised local event, exactly what we need lots more of, its just a shame it was not as well attended as it should have been.
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