Organiser's Comments

A good day, weather-wise, but fewer competitors than we had hoped for. Hopefully those that did turn up enjoyed the kind weather and the excellent courses planned and controlled by Martin and James. The well-oiled TVOC event machine ran as smoothly as ever – thanks to all team leaders and helpers.

A couple of items of lost property to announce: mens signet ring and ladies hair slide (purple) handed in. Contact TVOC if you think they're yours.

Peter Narramore, TVOC

Planner's Comments

Brasenose wood doesn't seem to get any better, and didn't add much except about 1.5 km to the length of the courses that visited it. Maybe I should have tried to plan without it. But the Controller decided that my original Light Green and upwards courses were short by about 1 km, so rather than reduce I was looking to extend them. I was glad of the ability to print Green to Brown courses in 2 parts, as there would have been too much overlap without. Without Brasenose the Brown might have gone to 3 sides!

Looking at the winning times, the Light Green and Blue stand out as being a little long, but the median times for Light Green:77, Green:70, Blue:77, Brown:70 don't seem so long when compared to another event on the same day – Lt Gn:74, Green:72, Blue:90, and Brown:103 – but it was Box Hill. Taking winning and median times together perhaps the Light Green was a little hard – it was based on Green with a few controls removed.

My apologies for not noticing the line 10 to 11 on Brown obscured a main path! And I think there was another overprinting which I can't recall. I would have liked a different end of Blue – there wasn't enough thinking required – but I'm not too organised at the best of times and time to make changes ran out ... and I still haven't found the answer – suggestions to get from no. 17 to the finish please!

Also I probably worry a bit too much when the map doesn't seem right, without thinking whether people are likely to notice, and I spent some time looking at the boundaries of the open area around the Finish, where compass bearings across it north to south will not take you where expected, but because of knock-on effects didn't change them much. A number of (hopefully!) improvements were made, but there are still places where for example the contours don't seem quite right. But then, for good or ill, one is never too far from a footpath in Shotover!

Martin Ricketts, TVOC