Update 23/07: Add Rob’s comments below.
Thanks to everyone who braved the elements today for the event at Cleeve Hill – although many found the conditions somewhat testing, a fair few finishers reporting really enjoying them! There was also much appreciation among many finishers for Rob Finch’s courses.
Results and routegadget links are now up on the Results page.
Some comments follow from Rob, the planner/organiser:
I hope everyone enjoyed their run on Cleeve Hill yesterday. Either despite of the fun weather or if you enjoyed it even more! Unfortunately, the nicest weather of the day was when I was hanging and collecting the controls!
Cleeve Hill is one of my favourite places to orienteer and run locally so I was very pleased when the opportunity to plan an event on Cleeve Hill came up. I wanted to focus the longer and more technically difficult courses in the quarried contoured areas and also provide some longer route choice legs between them. The longer courses also had some sections in the green gorse bushes as well to mix things up. The shorter beginner friendly courses I wanted to provide an appropriate adventure. The vague paths are quite tricky for them! I definitely found the short green the hardest to plan as I wanted some sections in the contoured areas but was really conscious that the hilly-ness of Cleeve HIll could be too much.
I’ve heard about the NGOC Event Organising Machine and it definitely delivered again yesterday. Everything just seemed to happen on the day. All our volunteers remained cheery despite being soaking wet all day (and for some that was before their run!) Thank you to everyone who made the day possible but in particular to Tommi for his assistance in perfecting my courses, Greg for his map and sorting permissions and to Pat for sorting so much kit and logistics.
I’d love to see peoples route choices and see what they found difficult so please do upload or draw your route on Routegadget: It is a great tool for improving your orienteering (analysing where you could have done better and seeing the different routes people took).