Planners Comments ……..
Thank you for coming to Sunday’s event. I hope you enjoyed the courses and the nice weather.
I am a new recruit to orienteering and it was only my second attempt at being “The Planner”.
Like a lot of clubs, I suspect, Chasers struggle sometimes to find planners (and I am not very good at saying “no”), so at the last WCH AGM in October, I somehow found myself volunteering to plan 2 events within the following 3 months. The first was a CATI at Satnall Hills 6 weeks later (at which only 4 competitors turned up) and the second, another 6 weeks on was Brindley & Hednesford Camp. Fortunately more than 4 of you turned up this time!
My planning here was hampered by doing the Satnall Hills event, trying to do 3 part-time jobs, Christmas festivities and snow covering the area for much of December. I was glad my trusty assistant Ian was able to help out.
Oh, and just when we had the courses all drawn, the Council decided to fell a large block of nice white forest (where 10% of the intended controls were situated). So with 3 weeks to go we revised the courses missing out what would have been a nice technical finishing loop. Hope what we came up with as a compromise was still acceptable.
There were a few slip-ups:
– on the day, we somehow managed to put control 193 on the wrong side of the thicket. Apologies for this. It was pointed out to the Controller and me, but rather than move it half way through the event, we decided to leave it so that everyone was impacted in the same way;
– the red line from 191 (after the second road crossing) to 180 should have been bent round the out-of-bounds industrial estate;
– we tried to revise the old map as best we could (particularly the tracks for the easier courses) however we do acknowledge there are some bits of vegetation that need updated- as well as the recently felled East end of the map!
– and perhaps 201 was a bit of a dog leg on the Blue course.
Routegadget shows that there were quite a few variations of route choice on the longer courses, which is good to see.
I think I will probably plan an event again, hopefully with less assistance from others, but with more of a lead time!
Thanks to all my helpers, Doug the mapper and the Williams family of controllers.
Sue (Planner) and Ian (her Assistant)
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