M/W21E medallist routes at BEOC (long)

[NeilC]

The BOC2006 website now has maps showing the routes taken by the top three in the men's and women's elite classes.

Also, if anyone is interested, a short monograph from the planner about his thinking behind the planning of M21E.

Linked from the results page

http://www.boc2006.co.uk/

[lilywhite]

This harks back to Tim Denton's article in the recent BOF Focus about pre-race preparation...

A friend of a friend had labouriously traced the OS map into OCAD and put in the 5 metre contours, paths, fields etc as well as the actual map samples provided in the pre-race details. I then effectively had a featureless o-map of the area allowing me (with details of road crossings etc) to work out the start and finish and have a guess at the rough shape of the course. I looked at long legs and decided the only place for a decent one was from the start (or a short first control) and planned a course with pretty much exactly the same 2nd leg! I moved the 2nd control around a bit to see how it affected my route choice. When I picked up my map and saw my leg I just had to run it as I'd planned. I got the fastest split by about 20 seconds and it set me up for a good result. It was interesting talking to GG and Jamie after as they both said they had trouble working out which way was up and down - not a problem for me of course!

[graeme]

All that for 20 seconds.

It just emphasises why the controller was right to insist on the "trivial" short first leg. The route 1-2 needs more than 20 sec thought, but to spend 20 sec thinking at the start kite would lose any gain from getting the choice right.

I thought that GG's route had too much climb - the slog up to the
trig point (on the Matt/Jamie route) came as an unwelcome surprise
but apparently I lucked into the right route.

(Thie paragraph edited on account of following post)

Good planning, good controlling.

[lilywhite]

It was GG who went over the top... I went a similar way to Jamie - minus monkeying round in someone's garden ;o)

[gg]

Yeah I went through the fields. Stood at number 1 scratching my head for about 10 seconds and then just decided to make it easy

[Toni]

I went that way too with a slight variation to gg just after the fields. I was relatively closer to the others on W21 on that leg than I was on the other legs (although still way too slow).