The JK
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good to hear all had a good time, any chance of someone putting some maps up in the gallery so those who didn't make the trip can "sample" the courses?
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distracted - addict
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Two frustrations in an otherwise excellent weekend. Firstly the fact that it took over an hour to get out of the day one car park. To the credit of the organisers, they obviously learned from this and fixed it as the queues were much better on the other two days.
The other issue is that of collecting maps. I can understand letting people keep their maps at the British when everyone just wanted to go home but there was no excuse this weekend. There are, unfortunately, people in orienteering who are prepared to cheat to do well and not collecting maps at an event of this standard makes it very easy.
Other than that it was the best even I've been to in a long time and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
The other issue is that of collecting maps. I can understand letting people keep their maps at the British when everyone just wanted to go home but there was no excuse this weekend. There are, unfortunately, people in orienteering who are prepared to cheat to do well and not collecting maps at an event of this standard makes it very easy.
Other than that it was the best even I've been to in a long time and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
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PeterG - diehard
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EMOA
One thing of progress at the JK nobody commented on yet.
This was the EMOA JK - instead of Sherwood Brambles and Sliding Cliff we got to run in the Lake district. Congratulations to EMOA for breaking the tyranny of the "JK must rotate around the regions" mentality, and at the same time not ducking their turn to help.
Graeme
This was the EMOA JK - instead of Sherwood Brambles and Sliding Cliff we got to run in the Lake district. Congratulations to EMOA for breaking the tyranny of the "JK must rotate around the regions" mentality, and at the same time not ducking their turn to help.
Graeme
WOC2024 Edinburgh
Test races at SprintScotland (Alloa/Falkirk) and Euromeeting (near Stirling).
Test races at SprintScotland (Alloa/Falkirk) and Euromeeting (near Stirling).
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rob f - yellow
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The run in on day 2 was indeed quality, although, half way down the slope I did think I was going to die. I hadn't seen the steepness of the slope before my run, so it wasn't until I got to top speed that I realises I was rapidly descending. With gravity very much on my side, by the bottom of the slope it was a case of keep the legs pumping or eat dirt. Fortuanately, the mental image of the pork pie in my bag back at the car was enough to rotate my legs sufficiently quickly, and I just stumbled slighty, got my balance and pegged it to the finish, to the download, and to that lovely pie. Mmm.
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Migsy - white
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Migsy wrote: With gravity very much on my side, by the bottom of the slope it was a case of keep the legs pumping or eat dirt.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has that sort of problem on a downhill run-in, and with this e-punching somehow you have to slow down so you can stop at the finish, hence losing time on that ever-important, potential trophy-winning finish split... Why can't they use these clever finish arcs at more events?
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distracted - addict
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Laser finish gates would be good, but they are very expensive....hence the laser bit. Also its a bit unnecessary for a classic race, not like 10ths of seconds really count, and then you'd need to be using a series 6 si card if you were worried about it!
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Nails - diehard
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Nails wrote:Laser finish gates would be good, but they are very expensive....hence the laser bit.
Emit has a nice radio arc which you run through, no lasers. and they have controls with the wide range for the MTBO so you don't have to get off your bike, as described in that article on the front page. So why don't SI do that sort of thing as well? As Jene says, sometimes the [nope]ing SI Card just refuses to go into the SI box. The November classic used a finish arc (although they were using Emit) so why NOT for the JK as well?
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distracted - addict
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distracted > because the systems don't work in the same way.
i don't know how expensive a laser thing would be, but i would be surprised if it was very expensive. of course, it would be just as possible to have someone sitting on the finish line pressing the button whenever someone came over the line like we always used to have. no reason why the button couldn't be linked into whatever computer program exists for dealing w the laser situation, is there?
i don't know how expensive a laser thing would be, but i would be surprised if it was very expensive. of course, it would be just as possible to have someone sitting on the finish line pressing the button whenever someone came over the line like we always used to have. no reason why the button couldn't be linked into whatever computer program exists for dealing w the laser situation, is there?
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