Lincoln

[mikey]

Really enjoyable courses - great to see the start in the middle of town.

Did anyone video the goings-on in the maze - it must have looked really funny.

Thanks to LOG - you keep finding new parts of Lincoln to visit!

[Strider]

Thanks for the kind comments

Provisional results posted on the LOG site: http://www.logonline.org.uk/Result/2010 ... /index.htm

Routegadget to follow soon

The troublesome leg on D has been voided by the controller...apologies for that.....the planner has been placed on a suitable re-education programme in the meantime

S.

[Wendles]

Thankyou to everyone involved in organising Lincoln today. It was a great event with fiendish bits, including the maze, which my brain told me you always have to navigate to the centre of.....! Derrr!

[Blanka]

Thanks to LOG for putting on a fantastic event in Lincoln, it was a very enjoyable course with a nicely visible assembly area right in the centre of town. The maze bit also provided a nice piece of novelty and I really liked the control in the middkle of the bridge over the large road - I wonder what the drivers throught of it. Well done!

[DM]

I'd been to the Peter Palmers with our team and got pestered to go to Lincoln afterwards. I gave in and really enjoyed it, thanks for an excellent course (A). Vineyard in Lincoln? And those 2 controls in the building cost me a bit of time but were fair. Not amused that I didn't spot the underpass towards the end, allowing my eldest to catch me up. Well worth the extra miles travelled

[awk]

I'd also like to add my thanks for a really enjoyable event today. For various reasons (not connected with the event) this was our first return since the first race, and it was definitely worth it!

A couple of thoughts on planning which I hope will add to the mix when reviewing:

1) I really liked the inclusion of the maze - it certainly threw a lot of people, both observable when running through, and from the splits! It might have been even better if there had been one full leg in the maze rather than just in and out. I was certainly able to simplify it a lot because of that, making a decision to simply reverse the route in - not worth the few seconds I might gain (with potential to lose a lot more) doing anything different. (I'd also suggest slightly changing the way the enlargement is shown on the map: one or two people were confused by the big black arrow, which looked like an uncrossable wall as it stretched across the park, and the black circle round the enlargement led to one or two people confusing it with the outer fence/hedge (even if the fact there were no breaks in it might have suggested it wasn't!). One suggestion (not from me, but it looks a good one) was to draw the the arrow and surrounding circle in blue?

2) The best legs on our course were the shortest ones - the least interesting tended to be the longer ones. For me that highlighted what seems to have been a trend in recent urban races, towards more longer legs and fewer shorter legs. A few more punchy, shorter, legs (maybe in the estate in the SE corner or round the town centre) would have really added to today's challenge. They don't have to be super-interesting problems - the intensity of one problem following fast upon another can be more than enough, disrupting rhythm and making the longer legs more interesting because there's less time to think ahead (I'd planned my whole course by the time I got to control 7 today).

But I'm not complaining!! It was great fun, and I hope we don't have to wait so long to return next time.

[Mrs H]

Sadly I couldn't recover from the misleading control description on course D and didn't trust the next description - which was also inadequate and the circle slightly off-set so wasted 4 minutes running round to a locked gate (marked as open on the map - just as well really else I'd have lost more time) shame as I was really enjoying it up till then - and it was my birthday

[cbg]

The troublesome leg on D has been voided by the controller...apologies for that.....the planner has been placed on a suitable re-education programme in the meantime S.

And the Controller ....?

[Wendles]

Happy Birthday Mrs H, you kept that quiet!

[Strider]

Routegadget is now up:

http://www.log.routegadget.co.uk/log/reitti.cgi

S.

[Strider]

The troublesome leg on D has been voided by the controller...apologies for that.....the planner has been placed on a suitable re-education programme in the meantime S.

And the Controller ....?

Is awaiting summary execution...probably by Mrs H.....

S.

[Mrs H]

That's a bit unfair - I only said what happened to me and that I had enjoyed it up till then

[Strider]

Sadly I couldn't recover from the misleading control description on course D and didn't trust the next description - which was also inadequate and the circle slightly off-set so wasted 4 minutes running round to a locked gate (marked as open on the map - just as well really else I'd have lost more time) shame as I was really enjoying it up till then - and it was my birthday

Whilst I agree with you that the cd for number 9 was a cock-up, I would take issue with the next part of the statement - the circle was not 'slightly off-set' and 'wall, SE inside corner' was adequate (in fact if I'd paid more attention to it in the first place, I wouldn't have lost a minute aiming for the wrong side of the wall..... ).

The only thing I would say, if you were being really pedantic, is that it should have said 'southern wall, SE inside corner', but that made no significant difference here, as the northern wall bounded a settlement and a control sited on the SE inside corner of this one would have been OOB.

S.

[Strider]

A couple of thoughts on planning which I hope will add to the mix when reviewing:

1) It might have been even better if there had been one full leg in the maze rather than just in and out.

Agree with you here, and I was surprised to see that he'd only gone with one control on each course. Would have made my time in there even longer than it already was, though

I'd also suggest slightly changing the way the enlargement is shown on the map: one or two people were confused by the big black arrow, which looked like an uncrossable wall as it stretched across the park, and the black circle round the enlargement led to one or two people confusing it with the outer fence/hedge (even if the fact there were no breaks in it might have suggested it wasn't!). One suggestion (not from me, but it looks a good one) was to draw the the arrow and surrounding circle in blue?

Again, I agree. Another thought was that it probably should have been done as a dotted thin line rather than a big black arrowed line, to avoid confusion with any uncrossable feature, such as a wall. Again, the black circle could have been dotted to avoid confusion or removed all together. Something for us to play around with on future versions of the map....

2) The best legs on our course were the shortest ones - the least interesting tended to be the longer ones. For me that highlighted what seems to have been a trend in recent urban races, towards more longer legs and fewer shorter legs. A few more punchy, shorter, legs (maybe in the estate in the SE corner or round the town centre) would have really added to today's challenge.

Another agreement with you here and the SE estate would have been good for that, certainly.

S.

[Mrs H]

Whilst I agree with you that the cd for number 9 was a cock-up, I would take issue with the next part of the statement - the circle was not 'slightly off-set' and 'wall, SE inside corner' was adequate
S.

Except of course you are failing to take into account the under-mining of confidence in the control descriptions which the previous "cock-up" produced. On control 9 the circle appeared to favour the East side of the wall but the cds said West - i should have believed the evidence of my own eyes. On control 10 the circle appeared to favour the south east side of the wall - was I to believe the control descriptions or the evidence of my own eyes?