Note that certificate times have now been amended by the controller.
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Isabel Hill |
7 |
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8 |
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Lauren Emery |
4 |
NOC |
9 |
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Rhiannon Emery |
6 |
NOC |
9 |
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Megan Harrison |
9 |
EPOC |
9 |
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Laura Harrison |
7 |
EPOC |
9 |
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Nicolas Wilson |
9 |
LEI |
9 |
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Nicola & Matthew Jackson |
12 |
DVO |
10 |
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Isabella Edwards |
5 |
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10 |
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Ben Hardy |
3 |
LEI |
12 |
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Elisa Wayles |
4 |
NOC |
12 |
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Alex Bourne |
3 |
DVO |
12 |
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Lucy Bourne |
6 |
DVO |
14 |
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Lily Whittaker |
1 |
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Controller's Comments
Event comments can have the tendacity to appear like a boring Oscar acceptance speech with a list of "thank yous" as long as your arm which have little meaning. So I decided not go down this line. I then thought again. Orienteering is a sport which relies on the goodwill of a whole host of volunteers giving up hundreds of hours of valuable spare time free/gratis for your Sunday morning's run. Their hard work should be thanked. I would like to single out four people for special thanks. Sue Russell for invaluable help checking controls on Sunday, Derek Bishton for organising the event, Dave Vincent for coming out and drawing a new string course map and last but not least Jim Allen for his planning. Jim has my admiration for putting out the controls all day Saturday and Sunday in unrelenting rain, gale force winds and worst of all in zero visibility.
I would recommend for the next event that two base maps are used for the event. One for Light Green and below using the current base map and a second base map from which the pylons and power lines are omitted for the green, blue and brown courses. There is also a possibility that the assembly for the next event at Carsington could be in fields just north of Harborough Rocks giving a whole new shape to potential courses.
It is understood that control 11 on the green course was reported to be misplaced. It was checked at ~7:40am and I can confirm that it was not then in the large pit that it was suggested to be in at 2pm. Indeed the large pit was used to locate the control site! The control was not reported to be in the wrong place until after the courses were closed and it had been (or was in the process of being collected). It should be noted whilst checking during the early morning several controls had been uprooted by animals, a constant problem on Carsington Pastures, some dragged several metres. I can therefore neither confirm or deny the position of the control after 7:40 and as the report of the misplace was much later was unable to act. Looking at the results several competitors have taken a couple of minutes longer than would be expected whilst others seem to be unaffected. The data are inconclusive. I have however adjusted the certificate time as gesture of goodwill.
Several competitors have subsequently commented that the controls in pits were hung too high spoiling "the treasure hunt" aspect of the sport. Orienteering is not a treasure hunt but a navigational cross-country sport. Have you thought that you might getting this navigation lark right! Safety is always the paramount issue and as the pits are generally covered/capped lead mining pits (The whole area is a man-made industrial landscape) it would have been foolish in the extreme to place the control at the bottom of a pit. Several pits are entrances to extremely deep caverns. Moreover when the controls were put out the visibility was down to a few metres
One final thank you; thank you for coming.
Paul Wright - Controller
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