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Organiser’s
comments
I hope everyone enjoyed their run today in the beautiful winter sunshine.
We had people taking part from as far away as
See you at the next orienteering event.
Ann-Marie
Planner’s comments
From the comments I received
afterwards most of you enjoyed your courses today and appreciated what I was
trying to do in my planning. The British Orienteering guidelines for urban events
say: "The best areas tend to be the older areas of towns and cities which
have developed haphazardly over many years. Areas with a regular grid type of
pattern of streets are less suitable." Buxton town centre has certainly
developed haphazardly and it was this feature that I was trying to focus on
rather than long, dead legs in the suburbs which always leads me to wonder why
I do urbans. It meant that I had use two sides for courses 1, 2 and 3 and there
was a lot of criss-crossing, including crossing the main road, but it did
create some route choice and forced you to read the control description!
There were some very close times - the first five on Course 2 only
had 30 seconds between them - and no very long tails of times, except perhaps
where people chose a course too long for their experience. Not everyone likes
the mass start whilst others commented on it making for exciting head-to-head
racing, more akin to what relays should be.
Apologies for a few blips where I failed to cut a connection line
- it all looks very different on screen.
I know it's very frustrating for those under 16 on the day of the
event to have to run course 6 but we are bound by British Orienteering's
insurer's stipulation.
My particular thanks to Mike Godfree for his advice, suggestions
and oversight which helped me produce better courses as well as his amendments
to the map. Thanks also to Ann-Marie for organising an efficient team of
helpers and Graham Johnson and his merry band of control collectors.
Ranald Macdonald, Planner
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