{"id":3049,"date":"2011-08-15T13:25:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2011-08-15T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T12:25:35","slug":"woc-spectator-races-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"WOC Spectator Races Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A 7am alarm clock is not everybody’s idea of a first day on holiday but as the World Orienteering Championships spectator courses (we have decided we are ‘WOCtators’) were run before the Middle Qualification races we had an early start. We also had a particularly steep and long walk up the linear car park which was the access road to the mountain top!<\/p>\n

We were expecting roughty toughty courses, with such short lengths and fairly big amounts of climb and boy did we get them.<\/p>\n

My psoas injury is still playing me up for running so I decided to walk and perhaps jog some of the downs but this didn’t really slow me up too much as the challenging terrain forced most people to walk. In fact the elites later in the day were struggling to get under 10 mins per km on the rocky steep slopes.<\/p>\n

I started well and nailed number one but had a big wobble on two and ran straight past it. Going to 3 I was convinced I was running down into a valley so was on rough navigation, going for the bottom. It then dawned on me that there was no bottom, well not for a long time, and that I had lost contact with the map. After a minute or so I started heading back up the mountain to relocate. Luckily fellow chaser Iain Stamp came piling down with look of confidence. I turned and followed him down the hill, Iain calling the terrain, only it still didn’t make sense. Afterwards he told me he had made exactly the same error, thinking we were piling down to a valley bottom. Eventually, joined by a frenchman, we relocated and found the control. I had a clean rest o\"\"<\/a>f my course, taking the straightest routes due to not running but managed a jog up the run in where the WOC runners would come sprinting up through later in the day.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Holly had an encounter with some wasps on her D10 race. The course was bonkers difficult and the combination of 5 stings and a non found control had left her not a happy girl. I got a lift back to the campsite with her while the others stayed to watch the qualifiers. The arena was not brilliant for spectating but the atmosphere was good, with Per commentating as usual. I managed to grab an hour later and cycled back up the gruelling hill to the arena and saw a few finish, but I had promised Holly a swim in the lake so I soon zoomed back down the hill (20 minutes of flat out descent) for a refreshing dip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 7am alarm clock is not everybody’s idea of a first day on holiday but as the World Orienteering Championships spectator courses (we have decided we are ‘WOCtators’) were run before the Middle Qualification races we had an early start. We also had a particularly steep and long walk up the linear car park which … <\/p>\n

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