I noticed that for some courses at the high start at Creag Choinnich yesterday, one side of the start triangle obliterated most of a path on the map. Although the mapped path finished, I understand that, as often happens, the track actually continued.
At first I thought the planner should have “broken” the start triangle, but on checking I find that Condes doesn’t let you do that (and I suspect rules don’t either). Just something else for planners/controllers to be aware of and nudge the start location if necessary?
Breaking the start triangle
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Re: Breaking the start triangle
The rules don't explicitly permit the breaking of finish circles either, but some / most software seems to allow it, if only to cover situations where the finish is very close to the final control.
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Re: Breaking the start triangle
I did a TrailO event recently where the 1st 2 controsl were v.close to the start so they made them into tiny circles instead. IMO it would have been better to shrink the start triangle.
I don't recall seeing anything in the rules to encourage, permit nor prohibit cutting of start triangle nor finish circles. I did however cut the finish circles at BTOC this year to show more clearly where people were allowed to go and more importantly where they weren't.
I used Condes for this, but I think you are correct in that start triangles can't be cut.
A couple of related thoughts about S/F getting in the way of the course or each other:
I don't recall seeing anything in the rules to encourage, permit nor prohibit cutting of start triangle nor finish circles. I did however cut the finish circles at BTOC this year to show more clearly where people were allowed to go and more importantly where they weren't.
I used Condes for this, but I think you are correct in that start triangles can't be cut.
A couple of related thoughts about S/F getting in the way of the course or each other:
- If you are considering cutting the finish circle because it is too close to the last control circle (as opposed to obscuring important detail) then you are likely to have too short a run-in. Type 11 "flashy" dibbers have a default ~7s of flashing during which they can't re-dib so watch out for run-ins that may take less than that.
- A combined finish/circle symbol would be v.nice for mass start Score events - overlapping S and F always look a mess if they are in the same place.
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Re: Breaking the start triangle
PG wrote:Just something else for planners/controllers to be aware of and nudge the start location if necessary?
Yep - that works for me.
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