{"id":2888,"date":"2011-06-23T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2011-06-23T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T20:06:42","slug":"staffs-summer-series-1-hoar-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"Staffs Summer Series 1 &#8211; Hoar Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2889\" title=\"hoar cross bike orienteering\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross-150x102.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross-400x272.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/hoarcross.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very tired Stodge rocked up at the first Staffordshire Summer Bike O series after a little commute from Sweden to Manchester on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Planner Neil had deliberately planned a course that could not be cleared in the time available making me think hard before blasting off into the lanes North of Hoar Cross.<\/p>\n<p>The area is deceptively hilly and it seemed to take a while to cover the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The two controls 43 and 36 made me laugh. Coming out of 43 across a field and through a \u2018horse\u2019 gated garden in a building site, I came to a lane, turned right and took the next bridleway sign back into the same field about 40 metres from where I had just been. All nice and legal though!<\/p>\n<p>After that it was out onto the escarpment and a series of controls with a fairly obvious route. It was here that I made a huge mistake, probably my worst in all forms of orienteering for years and years, Ill put it down to tiredness.<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of 31 going to 47 I did a classic parallel error but very magnified, descending a road to early and only when I got to what I thought should be the control site did I realize I was nearly 2km away from the actual site. Id thought a few times on the way in that things didn\u2019t feel quite right \u2013 doh!<\/p>\n<p>This then meant that the only sensible route to the real control site was a cross field trudge which cost me even more time. I think all in all it cost me about 10-12 mins.<\/p>\n<p>After that I just got stuck in and did as much of my original plan as possible but had to miss out number 44 as there wasn\u2019t time.<\/p>\n<p>Time for a rest ready for the British Championships on Sunday I think. It was a great first event, a little low on numbers but a beautiful area and one I\u2019m sure we will come back to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very tired Stodge rocked up at the first Staffordshire Summer Bike O series after a little commute from Sweden to Manchester on Tuesday morning. Planner Neil had deliberately planned a course that could not be cleared in the time available making me think hard before blasting off into the lanes North of Hoar Cross. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Staffs Summer Series 1 &#8211; Hoar Cross&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}