{"id":913,"date":"2009-12-14T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-12-14T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T14:14:24","slug":"m-c-stodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"M.C. Stodge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No racing for me this weekend as I was\u00a0organising the timing for my Club&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walton-chasers.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Walton Chasers<\/a>) National Event on Sunday.<br \/>\nWith over 1000 entries and logistical problems with a remote registration and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/microphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" title=\"microphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/microphone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"microphone\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>a timed start for the\u00a0entries on the day,\u00a0I was looking forward to a busy day not just running the timing but also doing a functional test of all the kit ready for next years British Orienteering Championships where there will probably be more like 2500 entries.<br \/>\nWe wired the last control (300 metres distant) to the Sportident <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportident.co.uk\/autodownload\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Autodownload commentary software,<\/a> as well as the finish and borrowed the West Midlands OA public address kit, intending to do a little commentary.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Per_Forsberg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Per Forsberg - the godfather of orienteering commentary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jukola2008.net\/r12\/images\/stories\/uutiskuvat\/per_forsberg_300.jpg\" alt=\"Per Forsberg\" width=\"126\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Per Forsberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The day dawned frosty and sunny and with all the kit in place before first start I started a little PA&#8230;.. In fact I ended up commentating most of the day, stopping from time to time to sort out entry queries, mispunches and the usual confusion caused by very tired runners. I don&#8217;t think Per Forsberg has got anything to worry about as I suspect I was probably fairly dull but I did try to vary it a bit and with a prewarning of 300 metres it was fairly easy not to miss anything important.<br \/>\nThanks to Alan Hartley of Sportident UK and\u00a0author of Autodownload for his unofficial support all weekend, and to the rest of the WCH download team.<br \/>\nI was pleased to get all the results and rankings on to the web in time for\u00a0competitors to spend the evening dissecting and analysing when then got home. Cath managed to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walton-chasers.co.uk\/gadget\/cgi-bin\/reitti.pl\" target=\"_blank\">Routegadget <\/a>upload done really early and this seems to have paid off with129 people posting their routes on Sunday night.<br \/>\nOh and I also got to ride my new bike, but more of that later in the week !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No racing for me this weekend as I was\u00a0organising the timing for my Club&#8217;s (Walton Chasers) National Event on Sunday. With over 1000 entries and logistical problems with a remote registration and a timed start for the\u00a0entries on the day,\u00a0I was looking forward to a busy day not just running the timing but also doing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M.C. Stodge&#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-913","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\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}