{"id":1237,"date":"2010-03-28T20:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:50:32","slug":"event-report-rugeley-and-cannock-chase-mbo-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Event Report – Rugeley and Cannock Chase MBO Score"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Round 2 of the British Mountain Bike Orienteering Score League came to Cannock Chase. Although I was organising, fellow Chaser Neil Lawford kindly planned the courses and updated the map allowing me to compete locally for the first time in years.
\nWith the clocks changing, a houseful of friends on Saturday night for my birthday and feeling generally tired after organising and planning the middle race the day before, I stood in ZipVits car park feeling decidedly ropey but I soon felt better after a quick warm up.
\nThere was, again,\u00a0lots of interest in my Corratec Bow<\/a>, many taking in the fine curves of it’s frame and having a quick squirt round the car park.<\/p>\n

After helping Neil set up it was time for me to get going. I decided I would hits the lane network north of Rugeley first with fresh legs and really get them spinning. I pumped up the tyres really hard, knowing I could handle anything on the chase like this and as I zoomed through Armitage and in to the lanes, the Pythons were howling on the smooth tarmac. It felt great. Although I tend to ride the road bike on some of the lanes, many were new to me, as were all the off road sections. I looped back towards Rugeley, flying, feeling I might be able to clear the course.<\/p>\n

I made a small error at #173 when I went down the wrong side of the canal, losing me a couple of minutes but then came th cluster of 3 30 point controls all on\u00a0bridleways\u00a0in farmland north east of\u00a0Little Heywood.<\/p>\n

Essentially the map going into #151 from Coton needs some work and the bridleway is not obvious on the ground. I, like many, lost the track and ended up jumping ditches and fences trying to get back in the right place. I’m not sure how much time I lost but it was very slow riding on the edges of ploughed fields.\u00a0 The going got worse on the way to #152 and the map round all the farms again needs some work and I lost time making sure I wasn’t straying onto private roads or footpaths. Coming back-out, again confused, I decided Id lost too much time and binned the last 30 pointer and headed for my comfort zone, Cannock Chase. Luckily I know this part\u00a0really well so\u00a0I didn’t really need to navigate, just head down and blat the hills.<\/p>\n

I knew I was going to be late but desperately didn’t want to get later than 10 mins and start hemorrhaging all those hard won points. In the end I skidded to a halt at 3hours, 9 mins and 59 secs, phew !<\/p>\n

I think those competitors\u00a0entering the farm track section from the west probably had a slight advantage but I was very happy with my 3rd place.<\/p>\n

Many thanks toZip Vit sport <\/a>for hosting us in there car park and donating a gel to all the competitors and thanks to Neil for planning , enabling me to ride.<\/p>\n

No GPS today so no idea how far I rode, full results on the Walton Chasers website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Round 2 of the British Mountain Bike Orienteering Score League came to Cannock Chase. Although I was organising, fellow Chaser Neil Lawford kindly planned the courses and updated the map allowing me to compete locally for the first time in years. With the clocks changing, a houseful of friends on Saturday night for my birthday … <\/p>\n

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