Cambridge City Race entry

[RS]

Have to agree. A cracking race Thank you all and well done

[awk]

I'd like to add my thanks for a great race too. Loads of variety, had to keep your wits about you all the time right from the start. Unusually, some outstanding longer legs, but plenty of shorter more intensive action too. Definitely worth the journey south!

[roadrunner]

I'd like to add my thanks too - a great event, looking forward to the next one.

[Tatty]

Great day. Thanks to CUOC for going ahead after all the weather problems earlier in the year. good challenges with route choice, short and 1 very long leg that had loads of options. If only I'd not gone down the wrong passageway in St. John's

[ba-ba]

cracking event, even if I did fall into the biggest dead-end trap ever laid by a planner For those wondering, I first saw GG on the way to 4. He was still behind me (but not for very long!)

[Adventure Racer]

After 4 years in Cambridge it was fun to see it from a running perspective and control 8 and 9 on the women's course were about 20 metres from my 1st and 4th year rooms in college...

Does that make your rooms in the control circle? Was going to ask if anybody else not only has an orienteering map they've lived on, but a control circle they've lived in, as I do now (4 on men's open - fairly sure I could have seen the control site from my bedroom window!)

Very pleased it got postponed so I could have a run and subject my family to some nostalgia - was a very enjoyable event.

[Adventure Racer]

even if I did fall into the biggest dead-end trap ever laid by a planner

Well put up your routegadget then - I'm guessing the peninsula heading to 5?

[Blanka]

After 4 years in Cambridge it was fun to see it from a running perspective and control 8 and 9 on the women's course were about 20 metres from my 1st and 4th year rooms in college...

Does that make your rooms in the control circle?

No 8 on women's course (9 on men's) not quite - the entrance to my staircase was in the NW corner of that courtyard. No 9 on women's course (8 on men's), the circle does include the entrance to the building I lived in. That building was actually only built in ~1995/1996 and first lived in 1996/1997, but I have that from hearsay as that was way before my time at Uni!

[Mrs H]

Really great event - so many things to look at for a yokel like me it's a wonder I got round at all - thank you for taking us to so many beautiful places.
AR is our house on the Wyche Ridge map? I'm sure our little orchard is. A control at last year's Sheffield race was in Young Neville's first year garden!

[Becks]

I was very proud of beating Oli on a split at the first Oxford city race, when I realised that the two controls in Wadham were basically my first year room, then my third year room. That was pretty fun.

[Seamus]

Just to echo the comments, throughly enjoyed the quick sigthseeing tour of Cambridge.
My legs are sore after a fair pounding on tarmac, did anyone record on their Garmin how long they ran on the Men's Open course? Anywhere near 10k?

[gg]

Great race. My garmin measured 8.9 km

[mike g]

I didn't wear a Garmin but measured my route as 9.95k on gmap pedometer. I took a couple of poor routes so that's probably at least 0.25k more than optimum.

[roadrunner]

I made it 9.7km, but that includes around 200m of route choice errors - I didn't see the big ditch beside the road that #4 on Mens Open was on (Garret Hostel Lane for those who know the city), had to go back to the next bridge across the Cam.

[HOCOLITE]

Really enjoyed the race glad it was cancelled earlier in the year as I wouldn't have gone otherwise. I so enjoyed the arches in one college that I went in and out several times. May not have been optimum but I thought it a good idea at the time.

As you all have prior area knowledge I'm waiting for Swansea Uni but I think it would have been better before the new building however there might be capacity for crossing onto the beach and controls in the dunes Could get Uni, park, beach and city but I wouldn't want to climb Constitution Hill