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Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 #
7 PM
Orienteering race (Bastard terrain) 56:34 [4] 5.9 km (9:35 / km)
shoes: Brooks Ravenna 5
BOK Urban / park series, Shithampton , Pisspole & Lawrence Weston.
Where do we start? We don't. I'm not quite ready to fill this in yet. Watch this space.
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OK. Had to borrow O trews from Pete Mali, as had turned up in shorts expecting an "Urban". Wrong.
Also had followed Street map postcode - taking in the delights of a cricket club, and no O event. WRONG.
Still - lovely evening? No 1 - 2 - 3 something not quite right.... ah, contact lense in . Take it out. no 3 - urm..... where am I? No idea. Oh! Map is "skewed". - the "Burley" effect of a diagonal map. O.... K........ Stung by nettles . A lot. Others have shorts on. This is going to be bloody.Worry for Erinna. And Abi. Their (nice) legs are going to be shredded.
No 5 - in trainers, it was hard to actually remain standing up. Hmmmm.... Spew out onto the urban towards no 9. More like it! Cruising, not taking it too hard, hill race tomorrow.....10, 11, silly little miss on route to 12.....
13, I find a bemused Caroline Potter, who really has no idea whether the control is here or not. It is, and we find it.
13-14. I'm on the right "path", yes? No? What? Very nettley & brambly. 15. No control. Go up valley. No control. Back down. there it is - up above my head. Fine.....
17-18-19-20 - words fail me. Finding it very brambly & difficult to remain uninjured. Plop out onto road, a 26-second leg to no 21. Now I can start enjoying myself!
WRONG. "Route" to no 22 is pretty much (apart from Thrunton & Callaly) the pits of 2014 to date. Walking, arms aloft, thru thick nettles & brambles really doesn't float my boat. At this point, I'm getting stroppy. So when I finally get into the circle, cannot find the flag, and some senior BOK person tries sign language on me to "show" me where it is (when I've led her to the circle), I am ready to start shouting. IF YOU KNOW WHERE THE F*CKING THING IS, TELL ME - I CANNOT SEE ANY SODDING CONTROLS! ah - it's up high! Dappled by sun! Obvious really. Oh FFS.
Next leg only takes 36 seconds, not surprisingly, but after that, I care not one iota and trundle thru, oooh, some nettles, and brambles, & shit, to the "fight" at the "Finish" .
Download. You are 1st out of 16 finishers. This means there are 15 people in a worse state than me. That's very, very sad.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/528522581#
And this was our BOK Klub champs and BBQ! No champs, no proper BBQ despite the Halletts trying a portable one. Clive looked very smug - he'd not run. He knew something we didnt'......? :)
BEER when I got home. In bad mood.
Result: http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Where do we start? We don't. I'm not quite ready to fill this in yet. Watch this space.
>>>
OK. Had to borrow O trews from Pete Mali, as had turned up in shorts expecting an "Urban". Wrong.
Also had followed Street map postcode - taking in the delights of a cricket club, and no O event. WRONG.
Still - lovely evening? No 1 - 2 - 3 something not quite right.... ah, contact lense in . Take it out. no 3 - urm..... where am I? No idea. Oh! Map is "skewed". - the "Burley" effect of a diagonal map. O.... K........ Stung by nettles . A lot. Others have shorts on. This is going to be bloody.Worry for Erinna. And Abi. Their (nice) legs are going to be shredded.
No 5 - in trainers, it was hard to actually remain standing up. Hmmmm.... Spew out onto the urban towards no 9. More like it! Cruising, not taking it too hard, hill race tomorrow.....10, 11, silly little miss on route to 12.....
13, I find a bemused Caroline Potter, who really has no idea whether the control is here or not. It is, and we find it.
13-14. I'm on the right "path", yes? No? What? Very nettley & brambly. 15. No control. Go up valley. No control. Back down. there it is - up above my head. Fine.....
17-18-19-20 - words fail me. Finding it very brambly & difficult to remain uninjured. Plop out onto road, a 26-second leg to no 21. Now I can start enjoying myself!
WRONG. "Route" to no 22 is pretty much (apart from Thrunton & Callaly) the pits of 2014 to date. Walking, arms aloft, thru thick nettles & brambles really doesn't float my boat. At this point, I'm getting stroppy. So when I finally get into the circle, cannot find the flag, and some senior BOK person tries sign language on me to "show" me where it is (when I've led her to the circle), I am ready to start shouting. IF YOU KNOW WHERE THE F*CKING THING IS, TELL ME - I CANNOT SEE ANY SODDING CONTROLS! ah - it's up high! Dappled by sun! Obvious really. Oh FFS.
Next leg only takes 36 seconds, not surprisingly, but after that, I care not one iota and trundle thru, oooh, some nettles, and brambles, & shit, to the "fight" at the "Finish" .
Download. You are 1st out of 16 finishers. This means there are 15 people in a worse state than me. That's very, very sad.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/528522581#
And this was our BOK Klub champs and BBQ! No champs, no proper BBQ despite the Halletts trying a portable one. Clive looked very smug - he'd not run. He knew something we didnt'......? :)
BEER when I got home. In bad mood.
Result: http://www.bristolorienteering.org.uk/sites/defaul...
9 PM
Note
Collecting 6 controls, jogging. Drove, twice, to near the sites.
Worryingly, a lot of youngsters were still missing by the time I started collecting controls, and then Charles Daniel who was also collecting controls, was still not back by 9:20pm
I hope that the event ended safely, despite the obvious issues with it from my point of view.....
Worryingly, a lot of youngsters were still missing by the time I started collecting controls, and then Charles Daniel who was also collecting controls, was still not back by 9:20pm
I hope that the event ended safely, despite the obvious issues with it from my point of view.....