{"id":4351,"date":"2017-04-15T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2017-04-15T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T16:57:55","slug":"easter-4-day-2-hrusica-doing-a-karst-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4351","title":{"rendered":"Easter 4 Day 2 – Hrusica – doing a karst shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What a day, talk about contrasts from yesterday. Chucking it down with rain, misty (although not too cold) and a technical limestone karst forest which was so rocky underfoot I didn’t so much run as shuffle.<\/p>\n

I went straight from the car to the start and was like a drowned rat by number 1, the buff keeping the rain rather than sweat out of my eyes. #1 was a looong leg and I took it carefully, skirting the edges of the enormous sink holes being careful to exit the rim at the right place, keeping an eye on the compass.<\/p>\n

2\/3rds of the way round I was still having a clean run but catching people on my course and started to get distracted. #9 to #10 I skirted the edge of a sinkhole and then ended up trying to make the terrain fit on a parallel route. Eventually, nothing made sense and I quickly bailed out \"\"<\/a>to relocate on a path and then ran around to the control losing about 2 to 3 mins. The next 4 controls into the finish I had a good race with the 3 others I was with, although all the time performing the ‘karst shuffle’ trying not to break an ankle or trip and fall flat on my face!<\/p>\n

Results <\/a>are now out and I am pleased to be 6th overall but now 4 mins down on a podium place it will be hard to make that up at the half way point.<\/p>\n

This afternoon after a very lazy lunch at our hotel in the aptly named village of Slope we headed out to Skocjanske Jame caves <\/a>nearby. The system, a UNESCO world heritage site ia 6km in length and has one of the largest chambers in Europe, The Martel Chamber, 146 metres in height,120 metres wide and 300 metres long!<\/p>\n

We had a very scary guide who always seemed to instil silence when she finished a talk with ‘any questions’ but the caves were amazing! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a day, talk about contrasts from yesterday. Chucking it down with rain, misty (although not too cold) and a technical limestone karst forest which was so rocky underfoot I didn’t so much run as shuffle. I went straight from the car to the start and was like a drowned rat by number 1, the buff … <\/p>\n

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