Organiser's Comments

Many thanks to all who turned up today. I hope there were interesting courses in what is after all, very much a “runners location”.

For once those on the Long course didn't have to run around the perimeter of the lake once or even twice, but instead zig-zagged about the park area. I was very pleased to get the runners in several of the wooded areas and on courses that were not pure path running. However, I am aware that because the Club and I were concerned about potential vandalism, runners had to contend with trying to punch in dibber holes that were very much more restricted than the norm. And because the control box had to be secured to something solid, they weren’t always at the optimum height or location for the nominated feature. The final drawback of using a higher risk site was that the control kites were also not as plainly visible as we would like because of the way they were secured to the control box.

However, despite these drawbacks, every control was found with one exception. I also have to say that on this occasion we were perhaps a tad too pessimistic about potential vandalism as not one control was missing, moved or tampered with (not even the one on which the security band failed for some reason and which was lying beside the tree next to the main access path to the park).

All routes shared the final leg across the Open from the lamppost (CCTV Camera Stand) to Finish – a distance of 240 metres. The fastest run-in, in each class and overall was:

Short - Dan Ridley - 54s
Medium - Carys James - 52s
Long - Tom Hemingway - 43s (non-competitive)
Long - Dorien James - 49s

Many thanks to the backroom support crew that gave us much assistance in the lead up to the event and at the event managing the SI side – Helen, Hazel, Peter and Ben.

The Hemingways