{"id":3395,"date":"2011-12-09T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T10:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2011-12-09T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:50:09","slug":"baswich-night-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Baswich Night Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3396\" title=\"baswich1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1-1024x747.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1-150x109.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1-400x291.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/12\/baswich1.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This year my club, Walton Chasers, finally spiced up its winter Thursday\u00a0night training runs with a series of street score events. Trouble\u00a0is,\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0been injured and\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0been able to run in them.<br \/>\nWell, last night I thought I&#8217;d walk round, perhaps have a joggle and see how things went.<br \/>\nAlthough the weather had been foul, by the time we had the mass start it was quite a nice evening. I started being a good boy and patiently walked, concentrating on control flow at to keep things moving (pin punches so it\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0matter if they get nicked as\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0got hundreds of the things spare).<br \/>\nThen I started to joggle a bit on the down hills. Then I joggled a bit on the flats. Ray had set some\u00a0vicious penalties for being late back and I started to realise I was going to be proper late if I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0get a move on. The red mist\u00a0descended\u00a0and the competitive instinct took over. I ended up pegging it for the last 3 controls, running pretty much at near full race pace !<br \/>\nGetting back a minute early I hadn&#8217;t done too badly, considering I had walked 2\/3 of it.<br \/>\nThese simple street score races are a great way for adult beginners to get into the sport and I had a\u00a0fantastic\u00a0time, those competitive juices flowing\u00a0nicely, even when I was walking, working out a strategy to clear as many as possible in the 45 minutes available.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve\u00a0now got to plan the next one from our house in two weeks.<br \/>\nLets hope my over indulgence\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0have any ill effect on my back&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year my club, Walton Chasers, finally spiced up its winter Thursday\u00a0night training runs with a series of street score events. Trouble\u00a0is,\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0been injured and\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0been able to run in them. Well, last night I thought I&#8217;d walk round, perhaps have a joggle and see how things went. Although the weather had been foul, by the time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=3395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baswich Night Score&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3395","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\/3395","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=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}