{"id":4429,"date":"2017-04-30T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:24:28","slug":"mtbo-camp-17-map-memory-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"MTBO Camp 17 &#8211; Map Memory Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1-109x150.jpg 109w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1-400x550.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/04\/mapmem1.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>The Brits as usual sneaked off for a lunchtime caf\u00e9 stop nearby following the middle race and a few of us returned to the mornings venue for the afternoon training \u2013 map memory.<\/p>\n<p>A blank map was given out to carry around face down on our map boards to act as a safety net, in-case we lost the plot, but essentially there was a 2 leg little bit of laminated map hanging from a tree at each control and you had to memorise your route.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest as we had been there in the morning and as we wound our way round again it was also a bit of terrain memory but excellent all the same. I tried 4 times to remember double legs, ie not stopping for two controls and memorizing the route the whole way. I managed it twice and had to resort to the backup map close to the control on two occasions to finish the leg.<\/p>\n<p>The area is crisscrossed by dedicated MTB singletracks and we had a great time too enjoying these outside of race conditions before heading back to base before heading out for a team meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brits as usual sneaked off for a lunchtime caf\u00e9 stop nearby following the middle race and a few of us returned to the mornings venue for the afternoon training \u2013 map memory. A blank map was given out to carry around face down on our map boards to act as a safety net, in-case &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTBO Camp 17 &#8211; Map Memory Training&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","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=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}