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NOR’s next event, is 8th December, at Beeston Regis on the North Norfolk coast.
Plenty of other East Anglian orienteering taking place on every weekend before that – see the fixture list here.
Organiser’s Comments
Thank you to the very many who entered and ran yesterday in full-on autumn weather; I heard good feedback during the day so I hope people enjoyed themselves.
Firstly an apology to the couple of people who missed the sign to say that White and Yellow maps needed to be picked up from Registration and suffered the long walk back from the Starts to collect them. It was a decision I made on Saturday because I knew we had a reasonable number of entrants for those courses and it would be fairer to give children a chance to study the maps in the registration area rather than under pressure in a busy start area. I realise I could have done more to notify all entrants of White and Yellow and I apologise that I didn’t.
NOR has now pretty much moved across entirely to event registration online and it was good to see that we had 140 entrants before the deadline. We do then estimate a number of additional maps to allow for Entry on the Day and that is very much an educated guess based on course numbers already known; we need enough, but not too many that we’re wasting money. As it happened my estimate (20 additional maps across the colours) could have done with being higher, although we managed to find maps for everyone who got in touch ahead of the day and the few who arrived on Sunday not having registered or reserved. So a request – please register online. If you do happen to miss the deadline – and I know they sneak up before you know it – get in touch with the organiser as soon as possible to see if there are maps available that can be reserved (and if early enough after the online deadline it might be possible to add to the print order). Organisers hate the thought of having to turn away orienteers because we don’t have an endless supply of maps.
Finally, a thank you to the volunteers who made the event possible, they were fantastic and most gave up more time and effort yesterday than would ordinarily have been expected. If you’re able to spare an hour on a day you’re orienteering, please do get in touch with the organiser to offer your time even if they haven’t asked yet – they will love you for it. No tasks are very onerous, there’s always guidance or help and the more volunteers there are, the shorter the amount of time is needed from each.
Liz.
Planner’s Comments
Hopefully you all found today’s courses challenging but enjoyable.
It was my first time planning an event and all seemed to go smoothly. We had a few changes to the areas we were allowed to use in the run up to the event along with lots of map updates needed keeping me on my toes. I tried to avoid the worst of the grotty brambles (apologies to those of you who became entangled) and take the longer courses to the more interesting areas Hockham has to offer.
My thanks to those who assisted with control collection at the end of the event and all the other volunteers who give up their time to make these events happen. Thanks also to Bruce for being controller for the event keeping me on the straight and narrow.
Ben.
Controller’s Comments
As a first-time planner, Ben coped well with the new challenge. The Blue and Brown courses had to be replanned after we were refused permission for the wonderful pingo area. With that done, we then lost the south part of the map because new forestry work was planned. That meant replanning all eight courses.
So thanks to Ben in succeeding in giving you some tough orienteering today. Please thank the Organiser, Liz, for organising the permissions. Without her persistence I don’t think the event would have gone ahead.
Bruce.