{"id":2497,"date":"2011-02-25T00:13:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2011-02-25T00:14:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:14:34","slug":"youth-orienteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"‘Youth’ Orienteering"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the Walton High School gym, our normal venue for WCH club circuit training, closed for half term, Cath organised another Tuesday night ‘orienteering in the dark’ mini training event on the Wildwood estate in Stafford this week. This time we were to be using the fruits of a her winters nights of OCADing a brand new A3 1:4000 map, complete with every house, fence and wall plus the surrounding parkland.<\/p>\n

My calf not being 100% for running and it being very low key (15 runners) I decided to go off last and use my bike (and be very careful not to run anyone over). I started well but at number 3 smelt trouble as I dropped the bike to punch a control on some steps going down to the playgrounds and sports pitches.<\/p>\n

A large group of youths were on their way, bottles in hand, to get smashed in the park. Most walked on but as I rode away I saw two getting quite intimate with the control. At over \u00a3100 each I took the decision to bin my ride and go and get it. I got a fair bit of catcalling but just rode off ignoring it but got a loud cheer when I couldn’t get a gear on a steep bank and had to get off. Returning the control to Cath about 400 m away at the finish she told me there was another one at risk on the shorter course, so I had to return to rescue it from where it had been thrown. This time I got a lot more abuse and started to feel a little intimidated, but I managed to get it out of the tennis court and away to safety. I then had to go and stand at the previous control on the short course to tell runners to miss out the ‘youth’ control, but I didn’t manage to catch one runner who had a nice chat with the youth as he hunted around for it!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately we also lost one other control, I suspect by the same group of kids. At \u00a3100 to replace it was an expensive training session, but we will leaflet the few houses around where it went missing to see if it ended up in a garden !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Walton High School gym, our normal venue for WCH club circuit training, closed for half term, Cath organised another Tuesday night ‘orienteering in the dark’ mini training event on the Wildwood estate in Stafford this week. This time we were to be using the fruits of a her winters nights of OCADing a … <\/p>\n

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