About 7 new posts over the past 48 hours, but nothing about what should be the premier weekend of the year. (Apart from an indirect comment about ranking lists!)
Was there nothing of note - either positive or negative?
BOC/BRC weekend
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Re: BOC/BRC weekend
Apparantly the BBC were filming at the Relays today for south of England regional news. I heard it won't be on national BBC, but should be available on iPlayer.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001kkrj/south-today-evening-news-26032023 from 2:08
I only ran the relays but had a great time.
I only ran the relays but had a great time.
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Men's premier relay looks to have a cracking finish - have photos appeared somewhere? (and they all ran for over 90 minutes the previous day!)
https://www.mdoc.org.uk/results-archive ... index.html
https://www.mdoc.org.uk/results-archive ... index.html
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My first British Champs in a while, and much enjoyed it. The individual was definitely the highlight for me, well planned in an excellent forest (sapping!).
If you want a topic for discussion, there's always the old perennial: relay classes. I think it's utterly absurd that the biggest class of all (by some way) is yet again the Mixed Ad Hoc (populated mainly with teams where the members are all from the same club because the standard class combinations don't work for them), and the biggest junior class is the Junior Ad Hoc. The Women's Premier had just 5 teams from 4 clubs, whilst the Women's Short had 4 times that number. There were other oddities too: for instance the W70 in the M/W70 team was asked to run further than the W60 relays.
I understand the reasons for the 'fixed' classes for the British (although I disagree with them), and it's probably a good thing that they are 'different' to the JK, but something is still wrong with the British combinations/classes, especially for smaller clubs. They certainly don't encourage clubs/teams to enter. Amazing finish in the Men's race though!
If you want a topic for discussion, there's always the old perennial: relay classes. I think it's utterly absurd that the biggest class of all (by some way) is yet again the Mixed Ad Hoc (populated mainly with teams where the members are all from the same club because the standard class combinations don't work for them), and the biggest junior class is the Junior Ad Hoc. The Women's Premier had just 5 teams from 4 clubs, whilst the Women's Short had 4 times that number. There were other oddities too: for instance the W70 in the M/W70 team was asked to run further than the W60 relays.
I understand the reasons for the 'fixed' classes for the British (although I disagree with them), and it's probably a good thing that they are 'different' to the JK, but something is still wrong with the British combinations/classes, especially for smaller clubs. They certainly don't encourage clubs/teams to enter. Amazing finish in the Men's race though!
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Agree it (individual) was very good (organisation/map/planning)... so not much to discuss! I do find the area wierdly confusing but this time I ignored the confusion and just went the right way using the compass whatever my brain told me.
I think the courses for the young kids were a bit long and tough (they had the muddiest of muddy paths to wade through). I hope the long times don't put them off - they deserve credit for finishing or at least finding all but one in some cases.
I think the courses for the young kids were a bit long and tough (they had the muddiest of muddy paths to wade through). I hope the long times don't put them off - they deserve credit for finishing or at least finding all but one in some cases.
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yted wrote:I think the courses for the young kids were a bit long and tough (they had the muddiest of muddy paths to wade through). I hope the long times don't put them off - they deserve credit for finishing or at least finding all but one in some cases.
I really enjoyed the individual day. I shadowed our children on Yellow after my own run and it was certainly a tough course - more muddy than my own course given all the paths, and most finish times were over an hour. But all the children I saw out there were having a great time, and the course gave them some good experience with complex/indistinct paths and non-path line features. Hopefully will work out well to get used to a tougher course before the JK next week!
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Just got round to trying to watch the BBC coverage, but it seems I am too late and it has gone...
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Re: BOC/BRC weekend
Local news only stays on iPlayer for 24 hours, but Southern Navigators have posted the relevant bit on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=539058261648601
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I got around the individual but think as an area it is very much lacking. I get why it is used - it’s big enough, it has a suitable car parking field, there are limited options in the vicinity - but the only part of the map which is genuinely interesting is the holly in the far south and barely anyone gets there. The rest of the area is just ping pongging around some ditches / clumps of green-ish veg and a few slopes. No variety. if the area was 1/4 of the size it would only be deemed good enough for a local event. It’s got nothing distinctive to it. Maybe I am a terrain snob but I wouldn’t mind it if it was a one off, but it’s been used for 3 major events in the last 10 years!
Having said that the planning made the most of the poor area and the organisation was excellent. I do like Hambleton. It’s an area which I think reflects the Chilterns topography quite accurately and that makes it interesting.
Having said that the planning made the most of the poor area and the organisation was excellent. I do like Hambleton. It’s an area which I think reflects the Chilterns topography quite accurately and that makes it interesting.
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housewife wrote:I got around the individual but think as an area it is very much lacking.
Well, enough people were making plenty of mistakes. Even those at the front end of their class. Funnily enough, I thought it was one of the more varied areas I've run on in a while, subtle rather than having nothing distinctive about it. We're both agreed on the quality of the planning and organisation though!
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