{"id":3059,"date":"2011-08-18T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2011-08-18T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:17:04","slug":"woc-spectator-races-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"WOC spectator races day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3060\" title=\"DSC_0509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509-1024x718.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509-400x280.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/08\/DSC_0509.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Day 3 of the WOC spectator races for me was a total disaster. Our bus to the assembly arena was very delayed, I missed my start, got wound up by the start officials who to begin with said I could have a punching start and then said no on the start line. I then sprinted off in a foul mood and pretty much blew every other control losing countless minutes my head full of every thought other than that of the task in hand.<\/p>\n<p>It was a real lesson in lack of mental preparation. I just could not make the small contour detail on the map fit the ground and felt I was running with a cupboard bare of the skills I needed to get round such a tough course on a physically demanding area.<\/p>\n<p>In the end it was just a case of getting round with out retiring and writing off a bad day, as in the overall results it is the best 5 of 6 to count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 of the WOC spectator races for me was a total disaster. Our bus to the assembly arena was very delayed, I missed my start, got wound up by the start officials who to begin with said I could have a punching start and then said no on the start line. I then sprinted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WOC spectator races day 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitions","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3062,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}