Do you know? I've just discovered that the Malvern race was the first in the FCC series. How come no one told me about this (or even asked if they could) I would have happily incorporated the logo and bigged it up in my publicity campaign - good for me and the FCC - now that chance is passed.
Who's in charge of the FCC these days anyway?
March in the Marches
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Re: March in the Marches
Photos from the Malvern Urban
There is a mistake in the results for course 8 on the BOF website for Foxley. I could not see an e-mail address of who to point this problem out to.
There is a mistake in the results for course 8 on the BOF website for Foxley. I could not see an e-mail address of who to point this problem out to.
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Hi Simon, lovely photos. Is the mistake just on the BOF results or the HOC results too? I'll flag it up if you like.
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Knee Deep Mud! wrote:you can normally safely assume it is OOB as soon as you see that its a flower bed.
I think part of the problem was that you couldn't actually see the flower bed until you were about to step In it. In fact, I don't think anybody did step in it, only jump over it. (Yes, I know that's illegal, but at least it doesn't upset the gardener.)
I didn't have this problem as I'd approached the start the long way past the loos, and already seen it.
Really liked the area, the course was pretty good, but I'm not keen on steep earth slopes in urban races. I know we were warned beforehand, but I still don't process a pair of shoes which are comfortable and long lasting on tarmac, while still giving a good grip on a slippery hillside. Also had to laugh at having a timed-out road crossing when slogging uphill, then racing downhill across the same road with no time-out a couple of minutes later. Still, I was carrying a whistle so it must have been safe.
Sunday's race had lovely weather and a good assembly area, that's really the only positive thing I can say about it. Not a National Event standard area, IMHO. I'd hate to plan in it myself, so I'm not going to knock the courses, except to say that I think controls in brambles should be hung high, not down the bottom of small holes.
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Standings updated for the UK Cup after these two races: http://www.ukcup.org.uk/. Still a long way to go, with many top runners still to count a race yet. I'm sure that'll all change with BOC Middle / Sprint and JK races...
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Duncan - something funny has happened with the scores for the Men's course on the Malvern Urban race - they seem to skip several values...
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distracted wrote:Duncan - something funny has happened with the scores for the Men's course on the Malvern Urban race - they seem to skip several values...
Thanks, now fixed hopefully. Confusion caused by having two runners with the same name in the results, causing things to go wrong when I uploaded the results, and I thought it was sorted out, but guess not.
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Simon wrote:There is a mistake in the results for course 8 on the BOF website for Foxley.
Looks like this may be a wrong BOF number issue - should be sorted by tonight.
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Mrs H - god
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Malvern routegadget up http://www.hoc.routegadget.co.uk/hoc/reitti.cgi
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Routegadget on course 2 should be interesting.
Thanks for a fun race, enjoyed myself but not sure it was the best prep for yesterday's half marathon (let's say my marathon training revolves a lot around what I enjoy rather than what is necessary...)
As an aside my sister did the Malvern Race after not orienteering for a while, and wrote about it on her blog. I think it's a nice write-up from a non-orienteer.
http://www.realbuzz.com/blogs/u/Catgrrr ... n-malvern/
her main problem was not realising that the you could get under the railway, but having looked at the map again I think I just assumed you could, as I think you might get put off by the thick black line (especially when you've just been told that under no circumstances should you cross a thick black or green line!)
Thanks for a fun race, enjoyed myself but not sure it was the best prep for yesterday's half marathon (let's say my marathon training revolves a lot around what I enjoy rather than what is necessary...)
As an aside my sister did the Malvern Race after not orienteering for a while, and wrote about it on her blog. I think it's a nice write-up from a non-orienteer.
http://www.realbuzz.com/blogs/u/Catgrrr ... n-malvern/
her main problem was not realising that the you could get under the railway, but having looked at the map again I think I just assumed you could, as I think you might get put off by the thick black line (especially when you've just been told that under no circumstances should you cross a thick black or green line!)
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thanks Jayne - it can only help to hear other people's views on mapping conventions so that we arrive at an accepted form of practice
Back to my uncrossable wall concerns. Someone did try to cross the wall at the care home and was warned off by the marshal. He was extremely cross and used a lot of bad language - fortunately the marshal felt it was not directed at him - else I would have no hesitation in disqualifying him as I have his bib number.
It's surprising and disappointing - I worked hard to gain access to the care home grounds which a lot of people felt were a very good addition to the course (and the residents certainly seemed to enjoy the spectacle) as you can hopefully see - there's not much doubt about it
Back to my uncrossable wall concerns. Someone did try to cross the wall at the care home and was warned off by the marshal. He was extremely cross and used a lot of bad language - fortunately the marshal felt it was not directed at him - else I would have no hesitation in disqualifying him as I have his bib number.
It's surprising and disappointing - I worked hard to gain access to the care home grounds which a lot of people felt were a very good addition to the course (and the residents certainly seemed to enjoy the spectacle) as you can hopefully see - there's not much doubt about it
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Mrs H - god
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I wasn't there, but looking at the RouteGadget and the sample above, the contour lines look very dominant and distracting. Is this impression replicated on the printed maps?
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It's so frustrating i can't get the routegadget maps to load - i think it s Mac thing, Mr H is desperate to look at the routes. I've had a look at the problem page - all that Java stuff is gobbledegook to me. I thought the printed maps looked better - but others will no doubt say more objectively
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one confused by the mapping of the passages under the railway.
I dithered on course 3 leg 14-15 (but should also have dithered on leg 13-14).
There's a solid black line on both sides - does that not indicate you can't go across ?
I looked for dots ... none that I could see.
I looked for the bent-line-ends of "bridge" symbols.
I looked for grey "canopy" - which might have been the clearest way of representing it.
I then guessed that the intention had been that the passage was usable and used it - but I think a perfectly sensible interpretation of the map is that it wasn't allowed.
I dithered on course 3 leg 14-15 (but should also have dithered on leg 13-14).
There's a solid black line on both sides - does that not indicate you can't go across ?
I looked for dots ... none that I could see.
I looked for the bent-line-ends of "bridge" symbols.
I looked for grey "canopy" - which might have been the clearest way of representing it.
I then guessed that the intention had been that the passage was usable and used it - but I think a perfectly sensible interpretation of the map is that it wasn't allowed.
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Mrs H wrote:It's so frustrating i can't get the routegadget maps to load - i think it s Mac thing
I'm pretty sure it's not a Mac thing, as they are working for me on my Mac. The only issue I'm aware of with Macs is that the animation function doesn't work.
The problem with map loading is most likely connected to the massively oversized image that has been uploaded. It's 1.4MB and 2512x3604 pixels, it doesn't need to be much more than 500kb and 2000 pixels on the longest side. The amount of memory required to manage the image can cause some computer/browser combinations to struggle. I have written many times about this problem and it's covered in the RG UK user guide. But given that people keep using too big an image I'll do another write up about it.
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