Results click here http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk/results/2011/shoalhill/index.html
Colour standards click here. http://www.walton-chasers.co.uk/results/2011/shoalhill/colour.html
Click here for splitsbrowser http://www.splitsbrowser.org.uk/splitsgraph.php?eventId=5103
Click here for routegadget http://www.walton.routegadget.co.uk/walton/reitti.cgi
WEST MIDLANDS JUNIOR SQUAD CAKE STALL
Many thanks to everyone who baked cakes and helped to sell them today. Also many thanks to everyone who bought them and thus supported the West Midlands Junior Squad to the sum of £140.20!
Thanks also to Walton Chasers for accommodating us at their event. It is hoped to have anothe cakestall in aid of the West Midland Junior Squad at ODs WML Hay Wood event on 20th November (note change of venue from Old Arley). Hope to see you there!
Planners Comments – Kelvin Dawson
Shoal Hill is a lovely little area and the end of the quarrying work has made it a lot easier to criss cross over the rather than in previous years having to skirt round a big out bounds in the middle! My courses were at the low end of the recommendations for long events mainly because Im absolutely convinced that areas this size would be much more suited to middle distance events. I tried therefore to mix up a few long legs with short legs and lots of changes of direction. Admittedly slightly more technical would make it more of a “proper” middle but I would hope that the WM league is going to start incorporating middle, sprint, urban and score events into it over the next few years to embrace the exciting new developments in the sport and encourage other participants
Im glad to hear that feedback Mike got was good and I stood around and tried to get plenty myself; it makes it all worthwhile to hear people have enjoyed themselves. Apologies for a few slight map corrections missing which given slightly more time to plan (!) I would have hopefully spotted that said I thought though Neil our mapper did an excellent job at short notice making various changes and spent time cycling around there and spotting some Id missed himself.
It was really great to see the WMJS out and about on the area. My apologies to them for changing the control codes and some of the sites at the last minute! Thanks to them also for collecting the majority of controls from the heathland area which made the collecting job a lot easier. I now know that 24 controls is the most I can carry at once!
Finally thanks to Hannah (& Mark) for organising everything so well and providing me with a slab of rocky road and to Mike for keeping me on the straight and narrow – going out together to mark the sites worked very well and allowed us to make alterations while we were out there.
Hope to see you all soon 🙂
Controller’s Comments Shoal Hill
Moto Cross motor bikes had put in several new tracks which it was not possible to map in the time available. Visiting and taping all the control sites with Kelvin the previous weekend gave us confidence that we had the correct locations. Kelvin and helpers put out stakes in the safe areas on Saturday and this helped those putting out flags and SI boxes. I thought I was on schedule checking and waking them up when I got a phone call at 10:10 am saying there were people itching to start! I had 12 still to check, but luckily on the downhill run in.
Waylaying early finishers produced positive feedback for Kelvin’s courses which was pleasing.
Hannah answered my concerns about the route to the start by cutting the length of roadside walk, having BIG WARNING SIGNS for motorists and a Hi Viz Crossing Marshall. She had a useful tip which should appear in the Handbook- ‘ The Organiser shall provide the Controller with a BIG CAKE at the Start for when he arrives from checking all the controls. ‘ It was so good I hurried down to Assembly to buy another.
The neat display of results from the mini printer is worth other clubs copying I thought.
Mike Callow, Wrekin Orienteers. Don’t miss our WM League Event on The Ercall, November 6th. You are in for a technical treat!