{"id":2225,"date":"2012-02-12T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:33:44","slug":"epic-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/epic-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seem to have racked up errors this weekend. Here are the lessons I’ve learned:<\/p>\n

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  1. Check race details before setting off.<\/strong> I drove to Llandegla on Friday night, only to find that the second Dash in the Dark<\/a> had been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.<\/li>\n
  2. Ensure adequate nutrition.<\/strong> No milk at all in my parents’ house meant that breakfast of cereal and\/or porridge was off. I replaced these with a Cadbury’s Caramel egg from a petrol station.<\/li>\n
  3. Don’t jump on your equipment.<\/strong> A boot \/ buckle \/ floor interface resulted in pieces of broken rucksack plastic all over the car park before I even set off.<\/li>\n
  4. You can tie yourself into your rucksack if the waist strap buckle is broken.<\/strong> But it’s hard to get back out again. Very hard.<\/li>\n
  5. Weather forecasts can be wrong.<\/strong> This weekend, for example, where cold temperatures and lots of snow will in fact turn out to be boggy and very warm.<\/li>\n
  6. Website ‘location’ features aren’t necessarily evil.<\/strong> It turns out a friend was in Cwm Idwal at the same time as me this morning, but neither of us realised. Maybe some advertising beforehand wouldn’t have been a bad idea.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Corner Gully, Cwm Cneifion. This was one of the more complete gully lines. \u00a9 Haydn Williams 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Nevertheless, I had a nice wander up to Cwm Cneifion even if there wasn’t anything climbable and so I had to retrace my steps back to the car. Welsh Winter remains elusive this year, but there’s time yet (ever the optimist!).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I seem to have racked up errors this weekend. Here...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,73,309,855,443],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-climbing","tag-cwm-cneifion","tag-snowdonia","tag-welsh-winter","tag-winter-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}