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Planner’s Comments
The northern half of Beeston Regis provides some challenging orienteering terrain but is rather small and I tried to design courses which would make best use of this part of the area in order to test your route choice and navigation skills.
I was conscious that fallen branches and bracken can make going difficult in places and I aimed to avoid the worst parts and minimise unnecessary climb.
The news a few weeks before the event that felling would be taking place led to some hasty re-planning of the shortest and longest courses but hopefully the Blue and Brown still provided a good mental and physical test.
As an inexperienced Planner I was grateful for the support and guidance provided by Sally as controller.
John.
Controller’s Comments
It has been a pleasure to work with John and Daniel on this event. Beeston Regis is a lovely area and John’s longer courses really challenged people technically and physically. Daniel did a great job in his first time as Organiser, especially in dealing with a change of date caused by storm Darragh.
Sally.
Organiser’s Comments
Having not Organised before, it took a while to realise it isn’t possible to run an Orienteering event single-handedly, and that everyone that ‘helps’ is in fact running the event themselves, just with the Organiser as the conductor. So whilst they have been thanked by myself already, I must thank everyone that played a part in making today’s event happen – either as part of the Event Team out in the cold during the day; all the post-holders on the Committee that in the months and weeks leading up to the event undertake all the background tasks that need to occur; to Karen, Ben, Sally & John for their guidance & support when I started to lose my nerve in the initial stages, and doing more than necessary when we had to reschedule; Helen for her support and unprompted lightening of the workload without fuss; and to Lucy & Richard at the National Trust for making access permission so simple & straightforward.
I couldn’t not focus on all the possible Bad Things that could occur at an O event, and what on earth would have to be done to resolve them if they did happen – from an excess of vehicles to a significant injury in the terrain. So, apologies for my overbearing Event Details, and thank you all for not having a single incident that I am aware of, despite the physical technicality of the area. Indeed, the day went without a hitch, and comments I heard on Download suggested that I think almost everyone enjoyed the area, their run and John’s courses, even if they were slightly more worn out at the end than usual in East Anglia!
It was probably the Wednesday before the original date of the 8th that it looked like the weather wouldn’t play ball, and so it came on the Friday afternoon that National Trust said the area would be closed on the Sunday. The forecast as of Saturday afternoon was no better, with very strong gusty winds forecast blowing directly onto the North-facing slopes, so it would have been too wild to have been out there setting up and holding the event, and whilst disappointing it was a decision I was relieved was taken. As I understand some it, fairly large trees came down during that weekend, so it was a doubly correct decision. Thankfully with a bit of advance warning that this may be the case, availability of the key Officials, and the NT onboard, it was possible to swiftly re-schedule for a week later as opposed to holding over to Jan or Feb like so many other events. Alas this meant some couldn’t make it, and I apologise they missed out this time, and Event Team numbers were hit; but others were able to attend, and we were able to gather enough hands to run the event, and courses and maps (already printed) could remain without additional work or expense. Overall, we ended up with around the same number of entries as we had for the original date.
Thank you all for coming.
Daniel.