Tim Watkins Trophy / Bloslitet

[gg]

First chance to get on nopesport since sunday and i just want to say how great it was. A tough course, good tough area, and a great atmosphere. The buffet afterwards was a genius idea. Two points though - first the 1.5km back to the car park after the finish was an absolute killer and the fact that it was an open area i felt reduced the effectiveness of the butterfly loops.

Apart from that fantastic - so why werent there more people there?
I seem to remember always reading posts on nopesport about 'traditionalists' who insist courses are getting too short and bring back proper classic races. Here is a perfect opportunity for a good long hard race in technical terrain 'fairly' centrally located, and barely a handful of elites turn up - specifically none of the ones advocating more longer races spread throughout the season.

Basically what i am saying is - top race so go next year it'll be fun

[PaulF]

Glad GG liked the event. Interesting feedback on butterflies in open areas. I only saw Brendan Bolland and Mark Saunders on the final butterfly and they were on their own. Given the choice of TD5 terrain available in the Lake District for the event in the majority of cases open areas are most likely. BTW no idea yet when or where the the next event is to be held!

[eddie]

echo those sentiments GG it was a superb race thanks to all involved.

[bolder]

Shame it clashed with Lakeside

[mharky]

Is the lakeside weekend advertised out of the junior squads, because something like that would have a massive impact on an event

[Guest]

Lakeside happens on the same weekend every year - has done for the last 10+ years. But there isn't much of a clash - Lakeside is for 14/15s primarily, and a long distance event is not a good target for most of them. Some of the coaches may have missed out, but people just have to choose.

[rocky]

Lakeside is for 14/15s primarily, and a long distance event is not a good target for most of them.

http://fsk.no/arr/blodslitet/resultater/2005/H1314.HTM

[gross2007]

Looks like 73 Norwegian kids are wrong then:)

[Guest]

Yes, Murray, they could do it though there was a 10% drop-out rate in H14 in Norway. Point is that Lakeside vs Blodslitet is not a serious fixture clash in practice. Few of the juniors at Lakeside would have made it to the Blodslitet from the far corners of the country.

[Becks]

But how about the crew of top elites coaching? Craney, Winskill, Palmer, and most of the guys chasing them were coaching. I'd have loved to do both.

[dug t]

why should juniors travelling tothe tim watkins trophy be any harder than any other major event in the uk? it was quality terrain and a great race is that not enough of an incentive to travel.

[Pingu]