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Organiser’s Comments
The day started cold and crisp and without a cloud in the sky. We were fortunate to have a nice compact event centre thanks to our Planner. Setting up was a real pleasure and everything was in place well before the first starts. The courses were set and checked by the Planner and Controller in good time to get runners away in good time. I received nothing but positive comments with the regards to the various courses. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all those kind people who offered their time to help in the various tasks that make this kind of event happen. I appreciate that it was very cold standing around but everyone got on and did a great job. I would also like to offer my thanks to the Kelling Heath Caravan Park for allowing us to use their splendid site and for permitting us to use the luxurious washroom facilities. We were blessed with a gorgeous day and I only hope that everyone enjoyed their orienteering at Kelling Heath.
Les Jarrold
Planner’s Comments
Kelling Heath has a mixture of areas. To the south is a dark-green wood – not very interesting, but is useful to put some length into the longer courses. In the middle is an easy runnable wood, plus the plethora of caravans, where I did note several runners were running about in all directions around the rides! The best bit is the hilly section to the north. The only problem here is people may be tempted to cross through caravan gardens. We did have a complaint at the last event here, so I tried to design courses to miss these out where I could, plus give route choices. Hopefully I have mostly succeeded.
I hope you enjoyed the event, despite the cold (-4 when I set off this morning), but it was nice in the sunshine. Thanks go to Les Jarrold for a smooth operation, and to Rob Frost for controlling. He very kindly did many amendments to the map and lots of OCAD stuff – thanks for that. And thanks also to all the other helpers who turned out in the cold. See you all again in the forest soon.
Steve Nobbs