{"id":2350,"date":"2011-01-16T18:53:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2011-01-17T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T10:27:55","slug":"sutton-park-csc-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"Sutton Park CSC qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2351\" title=\"sutton park map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark-743x1024.jpg 743w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark-108x150.jpg 108w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/suttonpark.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>A very stiff wind blowing across Sutton Park, just north of Birmingham, meant the club tent couldn&#8217;t go up so\u00a0the\u00a0national inter clubs qualification races were not quite as sociable as normal. However our\u00a0new club captain Kelvin got a good turn out for Walton Chasers, my club. I had a very late start\u00a0but wasn&#8217;t expecting much help from it, Sutton park being essentially flat and very very fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2353\" title=\"stodge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge-96x150.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge-400x619.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/stodge.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a>I ran hard through the first 9 controls in the open area\u00a0cleanly and could not have gone any quicker. I wobbled on number 10 but made a full on mistake on both 11 and 12. Sutton park is blessed with acres of dense holly trees and I couldn&#8217;t make the vegetation fit the map in the low visibility thrashing around in the circle. I think I was probably within 5 metres of number 11 on my initial attack\u00a0but must have missed it.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled myself together and only made one other little mistake on 15. I started to tire as the course climbed to 19 before a final blast up through the holly trees but I held it together on\u00a0the potentially\u00a0difficult\u00a0number\u00a022 but the flag was hung high, then picking up another Chaser before the final sprint for the line, finishing in 62 mins for the 9.1km. I think the mistakes mid course cost me about 3 mins, but this would not have brought me up many places. Most of\u00a0the Midlands best had done 57 mins but an old rival from my days as a junior\u00a0in the South West Andy Simpson was well ahead winning in\u00a052.<\/p>\n<p>Results available here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octavian-droobers.org\/results%2011\/csc11\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.octavian-droobers.org\/results%2011\/csc11\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very stiff wind blowing across Sutton Park, just north of Birmingham, meant the club tent couldn&#8217;t go up so\u00a0the\u00a0national inter clubs qualification races were not quite as sociable as normal. However our\u00a0new club captain Kelvin got a good turn out for Walton Chasers, my club. I had a very late start\u00a0but wasn&#8217;t expecting much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sutton Park CSC qualifier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}