JK Sprint prizegiving:
M/W18E/20E/21E - same day (Friday) 16:30
Other classes - next day (Saturday) as soon as possible after 15:30.
On Friday, between the end of racing (last M21E starter is Chris Smithard at 15:20) and the prizegiving, squad members (including some not running the sprint) are doing a chat session for juniors (some of it will be prepared material, some Q&A) - the plan is somewhere in the gym.
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Re: JK2018
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Looks like we’ll need to pack our brollies - I hope the parking fields are resilient enough for all the rain that is forecast over the next week (or it’s all wrong and it will be brilliantly sunny!)
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Arnold wrote:Looks like we’ll need to pack our brollies ...
Current Met Office forecast for Stafford is heavy rain on Thursday night then dry for the following five days:-
Not warm though ...
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DJM wrote:Current Met Office forecast for Stafford is heavy rain on Thursday night then dry for the following five days:-
Hmm, yr.no has 7mm rain on Friday and 10mm rain Saturday for Stafford.
I know whose forecasts I trust more as well..... and it ain't the met office
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Even more fun, yellow warning for snow on Monday! its ok , its just the Met Office.
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Time to put the shovel back in the van then. From the top of the camp the next point that high going east is meant to be the Urals as I was told at the 1981 JK.
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There's lots of places with that claim, incl. Shotover & Brill Hills just outside Oxford.
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Ah! I well remember as a child in Sutton Coldfield being told by my father that there was nothing between us and the urinals - it was years before I got it!
Mind your its not called Sutton Coldfield for nothing! ![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_confused.gif)
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Nice today tho a cold start, for the day with a hard standing car park and mainly path running, although a few soft grassy bits.
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Relay day, well you were warned , traditional JK relay weather.
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Big thank you to all the officials and helpers today.
Amazing that the event went ahead as planned and on time in such testing conditions.![Boosch :boosch:](./images/smilies/icon_arrow.gif)
Amazing that the event went ahead as planned and on time in such testing conditions.
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Ditto what Homer said. However A gripe about no prizes for the individual junior B class leaders. No mention of which classes would get prizes so 2 very tearful juniors who'd waited in the cold and wet for the prize giving to then find out there were no prizes for them. It is SO IMPORTANT to encourage the younger juniors and this did not help. From being up on a high for doing well the response was orienteering was at the bottom of their favourite list.
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Homer wrote:Big thank you to all the officials and helpers today.
Amazing that the event went ahead as planned and on time in such testing conditions.
Agreed. The organisation all three days seemed excellent - coping well with last minute changes of plan.
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Big thank you to all involved for the JK weekend - in whatever role you helped out!
I thought it was a great weekend. Nice to have a compact weekend with the events all close together. I guess it's not always possible, but was a nice bonus this year.
And I especially enjoyed Saturday's middle distance event. I've not been to Brereton before and I thought it was a cracking area. If the new JK format (ie middle race for all on day 2) allows us to use more areas like this, then so much the better!![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I thought it was a great weekend. Nice to have a compact weekend with the events all close together. I guess it's not always possible, but was a nice bonus this year.
And I especially enjoyed Saturday's middle distance event. I've not been to Brereton before and I thought it was a cracking area. If the new JK format (ie middle race for all on day 2) allows us to use more areas like this, then so much the better!
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I also enjoyed the whole weekend. Thank goodness it wasn't an exposed moorland event given the weather. Probably a bit muddier than anticipated but still good tough fun.
Sprint area felt a little bit technically limited but I guess that's probably a pretty normal sprint area and a decent test of speed for elites - creaky old vets cant run fast enough to make it difficult - and we're just used to more complex areas as we're lucky to have some many. The JK as an event is pretty demanding for parking etc. Well done everyone involved.
Sprint area felt a little bit technically limited but I guess that's probably a pretty normal sprint area and a decent test of speed for elites - creaky old vets cant run fast enough to make it difficult - and we're just used to more complex areas as we're lucky to have some many. The JK as an event is pretty demanding for parking etc. Well done everyone involved.
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