Event Details
Club: | Pendle Forest Orienteers |
Event Name: | Rossendale Quarries MTBO Sprint(s) |
Date: | 24/06/18 |
Format: | MTBO |
Mapping: | Orienteering |
Time Limit: | |
National League: | - |
League: | - |
Electronic Punch: | SportIdent |
Event Report
I hope everybody enjoyed their tour of the quarries, the weather certainly helped. I think it's a great area for MTBO with the combination of contour features, paths everywhere and the grass offering reasonable off-track riding. It's certainly tough riding and tough navigation though so I hope you relished the challenge presented and didn't feel it was too hard.//
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//My estimate of winning time was a fair way out, so sorry to anybody who ended up out of drink or misjudged their effort. My test ride was 65 mins and not 100% effort so I guessed at 50-55 but I guess in hindsight knowing the area and route choices makes it a lot easier in such terrain. //
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//Also apologies for the string of control problems 24-26. 24 was misplaced but in a place which would've been easy to see on the way in so if you had problems it was likely to be on the way to 25. But then 25 and 26 were swapped over so maybe those finding 25 correctly and seeing it was 26 were even more confused. Without control hanging help I couldn't have put them all out myself on the morning and unfortunately we had no spare manpower for a controller to check control hanging. Ideally we should be following the foot orienteering model here with taping sites and agreement with the controller in advance about sites, but we need more competitors to justify that. But apologies to anybody affected here. A quick check of the splits times shows some time losses in here although without chatting to all of you I don't know if these were caused by this or mechanicals or other navigation issues. Nobody changed places after 23 although of course that's not to say you wouldn't have without these issues.//
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//It's a shame not to have had more competitors entering. Of course any event in June is likely to have lots of clashes but this area is very exposed and you (and I) don't want to be up there in bad weather. Hopefully the event will kick start MTBO in the UK as we're terribly short of events and competitors.//
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//Many thanks to PFO for their continued support of MTBO. It simply wouldn't have been possible to put this event on without their help mapping, printing, SI kit and on the day help.