Planner’s Comments
I was very pleased with myself for managing (with Graham Louth’s help) to create a control circle with a dot in it in OCAD
but then there is nowhere to hide when the dot gets misplaced by the planner!
I’m very sorry about that: I gave credit for any answer / comment and I apologise for the extra
time you spent searching for the clues on a couple of controls. 


I have run in many SLOW Street-O events – once in Wimbledon I ended up with 0 points after 76 minutes of extreme effort!
- but I have never planned & organised one.
Using Coe Fen as a venue had the advantage of providing challenging
training for the juniors and also an optional mini-sprint.
The disadvantages were that to the S and W there are very very few roads and with the considerable
OOB round the city centre runners have to go a good distance E to get into a reasonable maze of streets. 


The railway provides quite a barrier- in hindsight it would have been better to have had 3 crossings on the map,
and the critical decision seems to have been whether or not to go over it. 
Matthew Vokins, our clear winner, decided not to do so – he went out up the Backs and came back via the mini-sprint,
while Russ Ladkin, a worthy 2nd at over twice Matthew’s age, did.


Thank you for your enthusiastic comments as you finished: I enjoyed the planning and the challenge of making a Street-O map
so it was the icing on the cake that the majority of you seemed to enjoy having a go.
Over the years I get worse and worse at organising so thank you to everyone who helped me out there,
with particular thanks to Peter Allen for sterling support and to Matthew, Ben W and Andy for collecting in the controls.


I hope to see you in a month’s time, when CUOC will be planning I hope,
probably from somewhere further E – we’ll let you know fairly soon.


Ursula