{"id":4378,"date":"2017-04-27T21:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2017-04-27T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:11:49","slug":"the-route-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"The Route (Midlands)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-768x473.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-1024x630.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black-400x246.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/The-Route-Black.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>I was assisting with Sportident timing Walton Chasers contribution to \u2018The Route\u2019 on Saturday. The Route is a new idea by British Orienteering to attract newbies to our sport, targeting a different demographic. There are three \u2018Routes\u2019 on offer at each of the events all with a 1 hour time limit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Route Runner: is traditional score orienteering (but on an OS map)<\/li>\n<li>Route Breaker: is again score orienteering but with the added challenge of having to collect the checkpoints according to snooker rules \u2013 ie a red control then a colour.<\/li>\n<li>Route Camp: Involves coming back after each checkpoint to the event headquarters to do a gym exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4408 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-768x457.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-1024x610.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-150x89.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4-400x238.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-4.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-768x459.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-1024x613.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-150x90.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1-400x239.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-1.jpg 1471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The branding and atmosphere at the event was great. Small orienteering events have a lot to learn from other adventure sports: feather flags, a podium, lots of gantry banners etc together with kicking music gave the event a great feel \u2013 even though the numbers were low.<\/p>\n<p>The demographic has completely new, attracted mainly through social media adverts, the competitors were mostly new to orienteering with a high percentage were women, who in the most came in groups.<\/p>\n<p>Also great to see were people who were still fairly new to running and were looking for something less daunting than a 10k or an obstacle course to try as an event.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4407 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-768x427.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-1024x569.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-150x83.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2-400x222.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/route-2.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all a good event, a little poorly attended for the effort inputted but all seemed to have a great time, however a couple of experienced orienteers who attended and raced route runner felt a little short changed as they finished their courses I under 30 mins! I know the organisers will be looking at this ahead of the next event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was assisting with Sportident timing Walton Chasers contribution to \u2018The Route\u2019 on Saturday. The Route is a new idea by British Orienteering to attract newbies to our sport, targeting a different demographic. There are three \u2018Routes\u2019 on offer at each of the events all with a 1 hour time limit. Route Runner: is traditional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Route (Midlands)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannockchase","category-competitions","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","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=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}