EYOC 2011

[Strider]

Arrival of athletes in time to do the model would seem wisest. Flying the am the day before the race and getting on the model in the pm in time for the first race the next day would seem optimal to me for folks who lack time and money.

Just to clarify, for those interested, we flew out on the Thursday afternoon and then visited the model long area on Friday morning, before the sprint event Friday afternoon.

S.

[AndyC]

I'm interested in route choice earlier -wouldn't you have eyeballed #12 enroute to #9? It even looks shorter than the route the first two took.

[Domhnull Mor]

The winner of the M18 long and silver medal winner in the sprint, Rudolfs Zernis, is a member of and occassional runner for my club here in Sweden. He ran 9th leg in our 1st team at 10-mila this year. Looks as if he's had a real flyer this week. Like he commented after the long distance, he likes the Czech terrain. Seems it suited him alright.

[JK]

Agreed IanD - Routegadget evidence isn't sufficient and in this case it would have been easy to just draw a straight line when he had gone round the bridges. His split doesn't suggest he gained any time either IMO so he did probably did use the bridge.

Had it been done by GPS signals though then it gets more contentious. There were big discussions about it at the WSOC when a russian went through OOB, but wasn't seen in person.

JK

[Becks]

Looking at most urban O GPS traces I've produced, using GPS in urban is even less accurate than the self reporting of Route Gadget. Tons of distortion and running through buildings. Certainly a problem with the NORT tracking. It's a cool tool but the tech isn't there to use to police urban infractions. Saying that, you can usually tell if someone went all the way round to the inside corner of a fence inside of sticking their hand through it to punch.

[harry]

Heidi Bagstevold was DSQed at Oringen chasing start last year largely due to a protest from the Mother of another competitor who had seen Heidi's tadpole going through OOB on the GPS tracking shown in the arena.

[buzz]

JK (who punched 229 instead of 239 at a recent urban event.... )

You actually punched the infamous '229' - nice one!

[buzz]

I note from one GBR competitor's training log that the EYOC Long race was her first time on a 1:15,000 map.
Is it time 1:15,000 was the standard scale for M/W16 Long races in Britain?

Not sure that would have helped much in this case - as a first year 16 they had only run a few 16 longs anyway. They also had exams leading up to the races so no time for any event specific training on 1:15,000 maps.

I can see that larger scale maps might help to encourage beginners some of whom could go on to be internationals so perhaps changing the scales to suit a handful of current internationals might be counter productive.

Squad coaches should provide opportunities to run on 1:15,000 at training camps and the athletes can run up when 1:15,000 maps are on offer at events.