British Middles

[Mrs H]

dsq D 31:50 Nick Barrable SYO Impersonation

Wow! Never seen that before Nick said he was feeling too poorly to take part so who was the impersonator - and was he any good?

[tomtom]

Peter Bray. He's alright!

[ianandmonika]

Well done DVO and Mike Napier - results out fast.

[mikey]

Well done also for a really enjoyable race. It was great having the car park on site!

[King Penguin]

First part really challenging. Delighted to have redeemed myself.

[Arnold]

Another great arena and a good race, even if the planning was slightly odd - started really technical and got progressively easier ending with a 2k Orange course at the end (admittedly quite fun).

I wonder why they didn't use that other technical bit in the northeast - it's a big slope down but would have added some more difficulty plus the extra distance that was needed on the longer courses.

[graeme]

NE section was used for the warm up. I think they're obliged to provide a model area. It was actually rather simple and very physical, while giving a good idea of the terrain, mapping and underfoot conditions.

Really excellent area and assembly, shame our course missed a lot of the technical bits on the west as well as that NE section, but in less than half an hour you simply couldn't do the area justice. Any orienteering course should try to offer a variety of terrain types and test different skills, so the fast easy bit was good to have. Maybe it would have been better to have it early on so that overdoing it there could really prove costly later. In fact, running my course (4) backwards would have been doubly good because the big heathery slog would at least have been downhill.

[andypat]

Long but probably unavoidable heathery slog apart, I also really enjoyed my course. As Graeme says you could almost tick off the different techniques the planner was testing us on as you went around. Could happily have had my whole course in the first really technical bit!

[GML]

On course 4 I deliberately took the far longer path route to the left to avoid the long heathery slog. I probably lost time on the leg, but still think this was probably the right choice for me overall.

[andypat]

I'f I'd realised the heather was waist high I might have done the same - suspect you didnt lose much time!

[CrawfordL]

I preferred the technical first half of the course and did it quite well for me. I got distracted by Peter Haines storming past and made several silly mistakes that cost about 3 minutes or more in the easier second half.

[afterthought]

Many thanks to the officials. I thought it was a really well put together event and very enjoyable. The manner the arena placed the commentary, start, spectator and run-in was one of the best. Personally I thought all courses balancing quarry and moor with the quarry start and moor finish was good planning, and congratulations to anyone who didn't lose much time - I think you are a small minority. And to be lucky enough to have the carpark adjacent too!

[nooomember]

Headcam video footage to follow on youtube.... Does anyone know easiest way to upload there? Is it free, or need account for larger files? Or any better video sites?

[andy]

Headcam video footage to follow on youtube.... Does anyone know easiest way to upload there? Is it free, or need account for larger files? Or any better video sites?

I've used youtube, very easy and it compresses files so all you need to upload larger files is time (and a decent enough connection)

[denbydale]

Headcam video footage to follow on youtube.... Does anyone know easiest way to upload there? Is it free, or need account for larger files? Or any better video sites?

Did you ever manage to upload your video? If so, where can we view it?