{"id":1824,"date":"2010-07-24T17:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T16:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2010-07-24T18:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:09:36","slug":"oo-cup-2010-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"OO Cup 2010 – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>Friday seemed to be spent constantly drinking. It was so hot, even after 35 minutes spent jogging round the model event I was gagging for water! Saturday morning dawned about 10 degrees cooler and it even looked very ominous for rain as we drove the short distance, past a village name we cant pronounce but seems to us, much to Hollys amusement, to sound like ‘Lettuce’.<\/p>\n

OOCup organisation is laid back but slick. Efficient enquires soon got me a hire SI card, mine still attached to my bike back in Stafford, while Holly went off round her course with Cath shadowing and I got stuck into my pre-event preparation before after Holly returned, happy!, as the heavens opened. It really chucked it down and soon, walking to the start, I felt like a drowned rat.<\/p>\n

The route to the start passed beautiful meadows and dacha’s built into the hill sides with amazing views of forested valleys shrouded in wispy clouds.<\/p>\n

After starting I made a mistake straight away on the way to number one, overshooting on the 1:7500 map. I only lost perhaps a minute though as I quickly realised the map wasn’t fitting the ground and got straight back out to a path junction to relocate rather than thrashing around, went back in and got it without further time lost. I made another small error on the way into 4, again overshooting as I tuned into the scale. After that I had a good clean run. I tried to not go too fast, saving my legs and ankles and making the navigation easier. I had a couple of other lucky legs finging controls just as I was starting to feel as though I was losing contact with the map. I took a good safe route choice to number 20 which I think saved some time before a very slippery run in to the finish where I backed right off after seeing someone in front go A over T.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Holly seemed to have enjoyed sitting in the car whilst the rain came down, rather than going into ‘kindergarden’ taking photos of various parts of the dashboard after we said she wasn’t allowed to take the camera out into the rain, but she got a great one of a chap wearing a chair. Results are not yet up, but I was after a clean run with no big mistakes, which I think I got. Preliminary results at the event had me about 5 minutes down on 2nd<\/sup> place (the leader was 4 minutes clear). The overall cumulative time for the week decides the final result so consistency with no epics is important this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday seemed to be spent constantly drinking. It was so hot, even after 35 minutes spent jogging round the model event I was gagging for water! Saturday morning dawned about 10 degrees cooler and it even looked very ominous for rain as we drove the short distance, past a village name we cant pronounce but … <\/p>\n

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