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Organiser – Nicola Hart
Planner – Jane Kayley-Burgess
Controller – Ranald Macdonald
Planner’s Comments
Starting at the Stone Centre meant we could provide a safe course for the
under 16s, as well as parking, toilets and a good cafe. The challenge was to
get the other courses into the interesting jitties and ginnels without a)
having everyone there at the same time and b) avoiding unnecessary climb and
dead running for course 5.
Thank you to everyone who came today and for the positive feedback from some
very respected orienteers. Thank you also to all of those who helped make
today a success, particularly Nicky Hart, organising her first level C event,
Simon Brister, who had his first experience of planning and Ranald Macdonald
for advice and guidance. Thanks to Mike for extending the Wirksworth map to
cover the Stone Centre and Graham’s team of control collectors, so often
the unsung heroes of events who do the work no one else wants to do, long after
everyone else has gone home. And everyone else!
Jane Kayley-Burgess
Controller’s Comments
Firstly, thanks to Jane for
her very well planned courses which seemed to be greatly appreciated by most
people. A couple of competitors somewhat churlishly commented that it
wasn’t a ‘proper urban’ event, whatever that means. However, if
they had read the pre-event details they would have had no surprises:
‘Urban, including woodland paths and tracks.’
Thanks to those who gave such
positive comments about what a change it was to have such variety, even if
there was quite a lot of climb. The early controls below the Stone Centre
provided some initial orientation problems for quite a number of people and The
Puzzle Gardens also gave cause for second thoughts about route choices. In
fact, there were few legs where there wasn’t route choice.
By the time I got to see
Jane’s courses there was little for me to do as they had been so well
thought through and any suggestions I made were either taken on board or a good
reason provided as to why her original plan was better. The only main
constraint was not being able to provide a longer Junior course, but everyone
by now knows the reasons for this.
Most people understand that a
mass start is easier for us to run on New Year’s Day and the mass
start/briefing gives the event more of a social feeling.
Thanks also to Nicky for her
efficient Organising; Simon for assisting with control hanging and organising;
Annie for checking that the Controller had placed his allocated controls in the
correct place (in joke!); all the other DVO helpers, most of whom also managed to
squeeze in a run. Thanks also to the staff at the café, who seemed to
appreciate the extra custom and the Stone Centre was helpful in providing a
room and use of the toilets.
Finally, thanks to all of you
for turning up to our, by now, traditional New Year’s
Day event. Hopefully, we’ll see you all next year – possibly at
Buxton.
Ranald Macdonald, DVO,
Controller
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