{"id":4501,"date":"2017-10-29T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2017-10-29T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T18:51:32","slug":"rome-orienteering-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4501","title":{"rendered":"Rome Orienteering \u2013 Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 was in another large park in Rome \u2013 this time Villa Pamphilj , the weather a little warmer and this time slightly longer courses, planned as a middle distance race. As we had split start times, whilst Holly was out I enjoyed a coffee, a pastry and a dose of autumn sun in the park, again listening to the friendly commentary. Soon after Hol was back I wandered up to the start and stretched in the sunshine perusing a map they had on show in the prestart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2017\/10\/DSC_0199-2-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Being just over 5km I decided I should run flat out \u2013 \u2018parkrun\u2019 style and see what happened. I flowed through the controls well not making any mistakes but did find my technique was starting to fall apart at the end, tired with a few controls to go I found I was not planning ahead and had to make a conscious effort to stay in touch with the map and keep the gas on, particularly on the ups.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased with my result but I was still a long way off the pace \u2013 need to do some training!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 was in another large park in Rome \u2013 this time Villa Pamphilj , the weather a little warmer and this time slightly longer courses, planned as a middle distance race. As we had split start times, whilst Holly was out I enjoyed a coffee, a pastry and a dose of autumn sun in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=4501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rome Orienteering \u2013 Day 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","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\/4501","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=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}