{"id":4036,"date":"2014-05-20T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:45:44","slug":"mansty-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4036","title":{"rendered":"Mansty Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1579\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579-400x282.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2014\/05\/DSC_1579.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Walton Chasers held its first competition on an area never before orienteer\u2019d on this weekend \u2013 a rare occasion nowadays in the UK. Its\u2019 a small forest called Mansty Wood, recently back under private management after years as a FC leasehold woodland.<\/p>\n<p>As I knew it was flast (flat and fast) I decided to bite the bullet and enter the Blue course (2<sup>nd<\/sup> longest behind Brown in the colour coded structure) rather than green and try and jog a bit more and walk a bit less and see how it went.<br \/>\nI started a little eagerly enjoying the bluebells underfoot and the complex ditch networks in otherwise fairly vague terrain. After 7 or so controls my hip started to complain so I backed off and walked a little more and ran a little less. The area was much better than the map would suggest and I know many people struggled and made costly mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>A Pilates session in the evening got rid of any post race niggles so I seem definitely on the mend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walton Chasers held its first competition on an area never before orienteer\u2019d on this weekend \u2013 a rare occasion nowadays in the UK. Its\u2019 a small forest called Mansty Wood, recently back under private management after years as a FC leasehold woodland. As I knew it was flast (flat and fast) I decided to bite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4036\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mansty Woods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","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=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}