Our apologies for the confusion with controls 103 and 134 which were initially transposed, affecting Orange, Light Green and Green courses. The legs before and after the affected controls have been removed.
Organiser Sal Chaffey, Planner Dave Chaffey, Controller Iain Phillips (LEI)
Lost Property – pair O glasses with black band, claim as below.
Planner’s
comments
It
was rewarding to see competitors bathed in the Autumn sun in Grangewood on Sunday, very different
from the deluge on Saturday. Thanks for the positive comments and feedback on
the courses. The most common negative comments were about the density of the
vegetation near the final controls of the longer courses and difficulty in
reading some of the map detail because of the positioning of numbers and the
halos around them. We checked and tried to optimise these for all courses, but
not sufficiently for some controls.
Many
thanks to Iain for his helpful guidance and collaboration in controlling.
Organiser’s
comments
It
was a pleasure organising with Iain and Dave, despite the challenge of Covid. I’ve enjoyed visiting
the area since August, having competed there in DVO’s events in 2016 and
2018 (the very wet one). It really does offer a unique orienteering challenge!
Thanks
to all the DVO Help Teams, but especially to Malcolm, Hilary, Stuart and Andy
who had the challenge of parking ~150 cars across 3 sites, one of which was
only made available to us early this morning.
Jane
Kirkland at Grangewood Farm Livery owns and manages
the woods with her family. It’s always
interesting chatting to her and learning about the problems of forest
stewardship. Thanks also to the Woodland Trust for allowing us to hold the
event.
Controller’s comments:
When I volunteered to control Grangewood
back in the depths of time I had imagined it as weekend off orienteering racing
for me in the midst of a packed season. What
came about was one race on and one that I wasn't able
to compete in the middle of a very sparse season. Congratulations to Sal
for working out all the permissions and to Dave for his courses. In
the planning I pushed upwards Dave on the lengths especially of the longer
courses to give an appropriate distance. Given the size of the area
he did very well to twist a Brown course in. Grangewood
provides a lot of good challenges especially to the returning orienteers, which
made it a good place for a come-back event. It was also highly popular
with over 250 entries leading to potential problems with car parking as
well as the expected issues in running a COVID-safe event. In the
end everything seemed to go off well, thanks to the organiser, the car parking
team and, by no means least, the competitors themselves. My
apologies that I didn't spot Dave's transposed
controls affecting the Orange, Light Green and Green courses. After swapping
them, we then took the decision, in consultation with the organiser, to void
the legs so that results on those courses can be fairly compared. IP
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