{"id":787,"date":"2009-09-18T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=787"},"modified":"2009-09-18T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T10:57:11","slug":"maize-maze-orienteering-club-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Maize Maze Orienteering &#8211; Club Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 107px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walton-chasers.co.uk\/gallery\/2009\/MaizeMazeSprint\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Maize Maze Orienteering\" src=\"http:\/\/walton-chasers.co.uk\/gallery\/2009\/MaizeMazeSprint\/thumbnails\/dsc_0708.jpg \" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maize Maze Orienteering Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/wp-admin\/target21.html\"><\/a>It was whilst wandering round between the showers in a Maize Maze near Cambridge with some friends a coupl<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walton-chasers.co.uk\/events\/2009\/Flier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Maize O\" src=\"http:\/\/www.walton-chasers.co.uk\/events\/2009\/Flier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a>e of months ago that Cath came up with the idea of Maize Maze Orienteering.\u00a0There are Maize Mazes up &amp; down the country set up by\u00a0entrepreneurial farmers looking for an alternative income to crops. Some mazes are quite straightforward, others are more tricky and there are a number of professionals who design the maizes for the farmers, too. The mazes also provide rudimentary maps which can act as a base map for foot orienteering.<br \/>\nTuesday was the &#8216;warm up&#8217; and &#8216;shakedown&#8217; event before a full blown event in a few weeks time. Walton Chasers runs a Domination series throughout the summer for its club members. It takes the form of a league that covers all the main disciplines of Orienteering : Sprint, Score, Classic, Cross Country Running. This years sprint was the Maize Maze.<br \/>\nI started really well and was very pleased with the way I was running, however then came a lesson in concentration. I discovered a SI box that was programed incorrectly and after running back to the finish with it I then blew the next 4 controls finally accidentally missed two out &#8211; Muppet.<\/p>\n<p>Many were sceptical\u00a0about this novel new form of orienteering but everyone can back saying it was one of the most intense orienteering experiences they had ever done.<br \/>\nsee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maize-maze.com\/\">http:\/\/www.maize-maze.com\/<\/a>\u00a0for your nearest Maize maze, which are normally also a great family day out !<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;real&#8217; event is on the 3rd OCT &#8211; see advert right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was whilst wandering round between the showers in a Maize Maze near Cambridge with some friends a couple of months ago that Cath came up with the idea of Maize Maze Orienteering.\u00a0There are Maize Mazes up &amp; down the country set up by\u00a0entrepreneurial farmers looking for an alternative income to crops. Some mazes are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maize Maze Orienteering &#8211; Club Sprint&#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":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}