Level D Event

Events in Ipswich are slightly different to sign - just how far back into the town do you go? Hopefully there was enough to get you there!  We kept the prices low with all competitors on white and yellow at the £3 rate to try and encourage some newcomers. I was glad to see quite a few new names and if you enjoyed the event do try one of the mid week summer series ones by Suffoc (or ones by Stragglers Orienteering Society in North Essex).
 
As ever the team of helpers gelled very well and it was a doddle to organiser. Many thanks to all those that lent a hand - your help is much appreciated and is what keeps the sport going. It does appears that we should have been tighter on the timing, putting down seconds at the finish to split those with similar times - and making you rue the error where you looked at the map for just too long or spent just a little too long walking.  Thanks to Clive the planner and Paul the controller for
making it all run so smoothly (and to Paul for getting the results up so quickly) and I hope to see you all again at another event.

Thank you to all of you for coming out and trying out my courses in the Park today.  It was great to see so many new faces trying out the sport and we hope to see you at future events.  My aim was  to get you into all the different areas of the park with some significant route choice legs. Please put your routes onto routegadget as it is always interesting to see how different
runners solved the problems set by the courses. 

I hope those of you on the long training course enjoyed the first use of the combined Gippeswick and Chantry map and realised our reasons for calling it a training run due to the inability to provide a timed crossing across London Road. I could have used the subway further up the road but the very long run down the side of this busy road precluded this being an option. Thanks as always to Paul for his controlling and help when a control got thrown away at 9 o'clock just ten minutes after I had put it out!

Simon and his team of helpers made the day run smoothly and I look forward to seeing you all in the forest in the near future.

Well contrary to the weather forcast, the rain didn't come thus attracting you all to come to the event. Clive put on some good courses which all of you I spoke to enjoyed. Simon coped admirably with the organising. However a lesson to be learn't is that the finish team need to note the seconds as well as the minutes, we seem to have taken it for granted that computers will work it all out for us.