Planner's Comments
Thanks to all who came along today and made the hard work worthwhile. I appreciate the kind words from weary competitors and your constructive comments which will help to improve my planning skills in the future. If you can spare the time to use Routegadget that will help me as well. The times look reasonable even if Adrian Barnes almost won the short green by walking! Clearly the weather helped a lot to make it a nice day out. The narrow courses were the result of uncertainty about the wind farm construction which precluded use of the farther moorland but, necessity being the mother of invention, we ended up using what we had left in new ways that seemed to work.
Thanks to Rob McKenna who did a lot of background work and remapping in addition to his controller duties which contributed a lot to the success of the courses, to Adrian Barnes for the final map work and printing, Peter for advertising and Katherine for excellent organisation. The Start Registration and Finish teams (with Paul "three computers" Boyles and his media show - very impressive!) all did us proud whilst Chris Stafford, Fred Miller and the Hare family helped get the controls in.
I was helped by all the folk at Ray Demesne, Barbara Sunley in the Estate office, Russell the gamekeeper, David and James the farmers and James and William from the Land agents.
Special thanks to Anne , my wife, for keeping the house going while I mapped and planned into the night!
Finally I am sure we'd all thank Lord Devonport for allowing access to such a great area and we hope to be back in the future.
Jeremy Lakey
Controller's Comments
Jeremy managed to get some good courses in a relatively small area that had many restrictions - mainly the fence boundaries. Unfortunately this made some of the controls a bit easy for the more technical courses. However, most of the comments that I heard at download were favourable so well done to him.
The winning times on the courses seem just about right, although the Brown course could have done with being a bit longer
- I'm not sure how this could have been achieved without straying north onto the moor.
The organisation ran smoothly under the control of Katherine and all the helpers were friendly and efficient.
The sun shone and there was a good atmosphere in the parking area.
Rob McKenna (NN)
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Many thanks to bakers and customers. The cake stall raised £88.85, possibly for a squad banner.