Organiser's Comments

It was good to see so many of you braving the wintry weather to orienteer at Croxton Heath and to hear your appreciation and enjoyment of Mike and Helen Bickle’s thought-provoking courses.
The success of the event was also down to the adaptability and resourcefulness of over 20 WAOC helpers who responded to the many challenges of the day. These included a number of horses on the White Course, ably marshalled by Clare and Hazel.

Many thanks to them all, to the willing CUOC volunteers and to others who offered help on the day. Special thanks are due to Peter Woods for stepping in to handle entries and all things SI.

If people who pre-entered and didn't compete would like a map, please email entries @ waoc . org . uk with name and address and we'll send one in the post.

We were sorry that we couldn’t round off the day with presentations for Saturday’s Icenian Trophy and the East Anglian Championships. In the circumstances, it seemed better for all to get home, warm and dry.

Cath Pennington (WAOC)

EA Trophies
The presentation of EA Champs trophies and EA League mementoes will take place at an EA event soon and the venue advertised on the EAOA website.
Here is a list of The Winners

Download notes:
Results are now considered to be final and have been uploaded to the BO site for ranking points. Please email peterWAOCwoods AT gmail DOT com if you have any queries.

For those who may be interested, here is a brief summary of the panoply of gremlins visited upon the event timing today.
Firstly - having two finishes flumoxxed the download software, which for some reason threw its defaults out of the pram so that early finishers received splits printouts saying dns, dnf. Once we had specified that the Start control was the one called "Start", and similarly for the Finish(es), this was resolved.
Less obvious was why split times did not appear for control 82. We found at a late stage (but before the controls were set out) that we needed to substitute a different SI box for this control. The substitute control correctly recorded that runners had punched it, and results printed out at the event looked OK. The results were put on line whilst controls were being collected in, and we saw that the on line results display objected to not seeing a split time for control 82. This is nothing to do with the substitution itslf, just that we unluckily chose a non ideal substitute box. The split times for control 82 are not easily available, and so we have manually generated split times for control 82 that are mid-way between the punch times for preceding and following controls.