Planners Comments

For those that may have been surprised by the low-tech approach, this was supposed to be one of a short series of one-man, low-key club events. My apologies to those who may not have a time recorded in the results, probably because I was trying to do 3 things at once having forgotten the original concept and missed their finish. Recording start and finish times was a mistake, I should have just issued maps and control cards and let you start and finish yourselves. It took me about 15 hours work in all to put on the event, spread over a week and including 5 hours putting out the controls so not too great a burden, and well worth it from the comments of many of you.

The brown-only maps add an extra dimension to the sport and challenge the experienced runner who knows the forest; it was nice to see so many runners tried it, probably more than those who annotated their control cards noted in the results. Planning the Orange course on brown features was not deliberate but it meant that even that simple course could become more of a challenge. I’d recommend brown-only versions of every map in a club’s inventory, and courses are planned to take advantage of them.