Ansons Bank

[m4rk]

with regard to the ansons bank topic, because one is able to post files in this forum

the green the blue and the brown all had this leg => which way did/would people go? The red line was my route but i think with hindsight that it sucked

[lilywhite]

Pretty sure that I was fastest on that leg and I went straight, which I'm fairly sure is best. When I ran the brown the second time I started out the way you went but continued all the way round the paths and attacked from the rear - the way I like it - which was about a minute slower, but I was running slower that time.

[Pingu]

What do people think about haveing the control codes on the map - see above? It was a pain to start with, but I was liking it by the end.

[John]

Me and a guy from Wrekin were about the same speed and kept leap-frogging one another all the way round. At this stage he was 30-60 seconds ahead of me. On the second half of this leg he followed the route you have marked, but I went north to the junction just left of no. 14 and followed the tracks round. I punched at 9 just in from of him, so I'd say the track was quicker.
(And to avoid the heather, in the second quarter I went E on the big track between the trees and followed the curving path back to the junction NW of no. 15. i.e. east of the route marked, which also saved a small amount of height gain).

[Nails]

attacked from the rear - the way I like it -which was about a minute slower

Ha ha...how could it be slower?...thought that you've got your rear attack down to a brown art now!

[FatBoy]

Here's mine in purple for what it's worth. While Craney whipped all of us on that leg (as for most of the others) my split was quite favourable compared to the other longer legs, so I'm happy with the route.

One of the difficulties was most of the heather was very runnable for my height/strength but some of it wasn't and there's not really any way you could map the difference. In the end I stayed to paths when I couldn't see in advance the runnability - as on this long leg. If I'd known all the patches were runnable maybe I would've gone straight, but a risky call I would say.

[m4rk]

What do people think about haveing the control codes on the map

Before i started and someone told me that that was the case,i thought it was a really good idea, but i never used them at all and i felt they just got in the way - especially when there are seperate control descriptions anyway, but i can see them being a good idea for relays

[ryeland of doom]

Used to be a common practice. I last saw it in the 1974 British Juniors at Chopwell.

There they just put the codes on.

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[OCM45]

Pingu wrote:
What do people think about having the control codes on the map

I was a bit confused early on by all the extra information (well that was my excuse for missing numbers 1, 2 and 3!) but I quickly got used to it. Indeed, by the end, I had forgotten it was different to normal.

One danger- it perhaps encourages lazy orienteers (like me) not to read the full control description i.e. you simply run into the circle and look for a kite with that code. Perhaps this could be why so many people yesterday at Anson's Bank first found the wrong number 1 and then found the wrong number 2. Argh!
(For those not there, Em had 2 adjacent controls at no.1 on different features, then a 100m run to where there were 2 more adjacent controls.)

[Rich]

I ran along the path to the track in the valley bottom and went pretty straight from there. Craney's route was definately the best looking at the splits he took quite a bit more out of me on that one than he had been.

[stodge]

Youve all got it wrong -

Go via the cafe and have a bacon butty !!!!

[Klebe]

Now theres an idea!

Have controls positioned at the entrance and exit to the cafe so that this leg can be taken out of the results. Wouldn't want to penalise anybody for the sake of a butty....