Another very enjoyable urban race today, with another really good long leg, which featured on several courses. Thanks, NATO!
Here's the Routegadget: http://www.nato.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#110
Here's at least 5 different ways of running the leg.
I went left, but it looks like right might have been up to 100m shorter.
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Re: Morpeth Urban
Spookster wrote:Here's at least 5 different ways of running the leg.
...but not the fastest
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greywolf wrote:Spookster wrote:Here's at least 5 different ways of running the leg.
...but not the fastest
Hmm, interesting. So was your "right round the road" route quicker because you run very fast, or quicker because it was better? If you'd run John Embrey's route through the school, could you have been faster still?
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Re: Morpeth Urban
Maybe a bit of both It would certainly have been quicker to take John's route to the east bridge, my garmin suggests I lost ~15s to him on this section by mucking about in the woods (I hadn't seen the purple Xs on the river path and was aiming for the western bridge )
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I planned that long leg on courses 1 thru 4 to give the opportunity to compare both routes and speeds across the classes.
Tried to make all the choices about as even as I could and to give extra choices along the way, although the western route didn't give much choice until you got to the bridge.
Oh, and the split of the course across the two maps was deliberate to make the long leg difficult to pre-plan!! As well as getting it to fit on an A3 sheet, of course.
Hope you enjoyed the challenge and weren't too put out by how insanely busy it got where you crossed the main Fair activity.
Tried to make all the choices about as even as I could and to give extra choices along the way, although the western route didn't give much choice until you got to the bridge.
Oh, and the split of the course across the two maps was deliberate to make the long leg difficult to pre-plan!! As well as getting it to fit on an A3 sheet, of course.
Hope you enjoyed the challenge and weren't too put out by how insanely busy it got where you crossed the main Fair activity.
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I think I have just worked out who Greywolf is !
I also didn't see the purple Xs to start with, but fortunately did by the top of the descent. Originally I was going to go W along the S bank of the river via the red Xs to the W bridge then E up the hill.
I didn't go through the school, started on D, stayed W on B along the road, NW across the playing fields to join route E for up the hill, then straight to the SE corner of the hilltop open and diagonally across to NW corner.
I also didn't see the purple Xs to start with, but fortunately did by the top of the descent. Originally I was going to go W along the S bank of the river via the red Xs to the W bridge then E up the hill.
I didn't go through the school, started on D, stayed W on B along the road, NW across the playing fields to join route E for up the hill, then straight to the SE corner of the hilltop open and diagonally across to NW corner.
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Shame we had to make that a "forbidden route" but the Council closed it when some of the path fell into the river!!!!
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