Nice article (I will try and start actually reading compasssport in future rather than just looking at the maps/routes!)
What I do see a lot of when I'm on download is telling people they missed out a control. It's usually greeted with a 'no no, I did punch that, absolutely definitely' only for them to walk off in a huff. I usually see them back again in a few minutes saying 'you know what, I didn't go to y, I went straight from x to z'. There are good people out there, honest!
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Re: st andrews race
andy wrote:If someone had come to me at download on Saturday and I said 'I saw X jumping over this wall', I'd have said 'umm, ok, great, what do you want me to do about it?'
The only thing you could do is ask the person in question and hope they confess to it, otherwise there really is nothing you can do.
What you could have said was "Thanks, I'll inform the organiser, who will decide what action to take". Unless we take action when rules are broken, the situation will not improve. Of course better education (of impassable features) and different planning (control placement to avoid the temptation of crossing walls if possible) are also part of the solution.
andy wrote:If a marshal has seen someone doing it then that's a different story.
Is it? Are marshalls more honest that fellow competitors? I'd say a fellow competitor who clearly witnesses an incident is as good as a report from a marshall.
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I tend to agree Spookster - while you maybe cant DQ someone on the basis of one person's word against theirs, its surely enough basis on which to approach them and ask for their version of events. In an event as busy as St Andrews, the chances are maybe more than one person will have seen the transgression anyhow.
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on the subject of competitors adopting a policing role during or after events...we may not always be as reliable as we might think! I've just looked at the Urban Long winner's route on Routegadget, and thought he'd infringed by running from #22-#23 along a road marked out of bounds - and then realised that although the road was marked OOB, the pavement wasn't. Doh!
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How about adding the thick purple line, over the uncrossable feature, to try to stop people crossing uncrossable features. I must admit that I have difficulty seeing thick black lines when they are only used to block ally ways off. They are so small they are hard to spot when running. I've never crossed one but it would help with route choice when leaving the last control if you could easily see a thick purple line.
I'd rather be orienteering in a Scottish Forest.
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