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Peppersalde 28/11/2010
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Peppersalde 28/11/2010
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Planner Comments. I hope everyone enjoyed their time on the Chase last Sunday. It was certainly more pleasant in the sunshine of the late morning and early afternoon than at minus 7 degrees when we started puting out controls at dawn! The map was enlarged at the printing stage to 10,000 so OCAD was set to have smaller description box sizes so that once enlarged they were 5mm on the map. To print the separate descriptions we should have reset the box sizes – and simply forgot. However with the descriptions on the map, strictly speaking, we didn’t need to do loose descriptions at all. Sorry to anyone who suffered.
Apologies first for the unusually small size of the control descriptions handed out at registration and, to a lesser extent, those printed on the maps themselves. We were hamstrung by the wish to have descriptions on the front of the map (as putting them on the back seems to serve little purpose). With the courses almost filling the A4 sheet there was little space, particularly for Blue and Brown. Hence they were printed at the bottom size limit of what the regulations allow.
Secondly, there were some concerns that the Light Green course was technically too easy. However it is nigh on impossible to cater for the wide range of runners on this course from youngsters moving up from Orange to very experienced Veterans. Taking the slowest time on each leg, the eclectic total was approximately 2 and a half hours. So virtually every leg (bar leg 8-9) tested some competitors. Whilst leg 8-9 was overly simple, it did set up an more interesting next leg. With hindsight (and the advice of Marlene) I would have created an extra control, perhaps in the wooded area.
I have enjoyed looking at Routegadget and the variety of routes taken on some of the legs. It's a relatively easy area technically (albeit with some physical hills and thick heather), particularly with paths through the snow leading from control to control, so it was good to see that route-choice and route-execution brains were exercised.
Ian Turner