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Controller’s Comments
Thanks to Dave for the courses and
Sian/Steve for their organisation and all the DVO helpers for their work on the
day.
Black
Rocks is a tough area and it proved so on Sunday. We tried to ensure that we
got the shorter courses for the juniors around path systems that were different
to the local event that was held a few weeks ago. Ideally I would not have had
the finish as high up the slope (to avoid the climb back up for the longer
courses), but we felt that it was more important to have a clear route for the
juniors.
It seems
we got the shorter courses about right (White - Orange) as had no retirements
and no long times. The other courses proved too long. The underfoot going
proved tougher than I thought. We kept the courses to the shorter end of the
recommendations, but with the climb they probably should have been even
shorter. The other alternative might be to climb everyone to the top of the
slopes (but having walked everyone along the trail this felt too much). There
was a lot of growth of brambles and bracken in last 2 weeks (we didn't
recognise a few of the sites which had been a lot easier then). However, I
recognise that the courses were still too long.
The
courses were constrained as we did not want people damaging the fences in and
out of the central area, hence quite a few short legs, but what we tried to do
is provide as much route choice as possible. Hence trying to have longer legs
across the area near the end of Blue and Brown. I heard a lot of different
routes so sounds like we achieved this.
A few
points on sites. The track between 116 and 132 was not as visible as it had
been previously. I had hoped that would have made access to those sites easier.
I did get one person question 129, but we again rechecked it and believe this
was correct. The other question was against 140 where I reinstated the one
person who had not found it. The site used is probably too close to the
building but the other site suggested is too far in the other direction. So
looking back it may not have been the best site to use.
Mike Gardner
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