| Course planner Paul Murgatroyd had a very difficult task at Middle Rasen. Large areas of new trees, cattle enclosures and challenging vegetation severely restricted his choice of control sites. However, he rose to the task and included a butterfly section of controls for Long competitors in a runnable part of the wood to the North. Thanks go to him a member of LOG, not HALO, and this continues the excellent cooperation between the two clubs that has existed for several years. Thanks also to Neil Harvatt, Dorothy Smith and Ingrid Slater who handled the computer side of things for the seventy competitors including two from Norway - taking Poacher back to the late nineties when there was a strong Scandinavian presence from the Humber bank capital projects. Kite retrievers Sean Harrington, Mel Clark and Mark Tyszka did sterling work at the end in heavy rain - the first for many weeks. The lack of rain in the last two months had dried up some of the marshes and ponds, one of which proved to be particularly elusive for some. Results on Short and Long courses were altered to compensate for a problem with two controls, a rare occurrence considering the Poacher Series' frugal approach to man power. There was a double win for the Fields on the time adjusted courses. Next week the ever popular Primrose Warren beckons. Pete Kullich. It has been necessary to remove three legs from both the Long and Short courses. The positions of controls 107 and 101 were interchanged; this leg was thus made void. It was clear from the splits that many competitors lost time on the preceding and succeeding legs and so a decision was made to void these two legs also. The initial results did include for the voided legs, but due to the incompetence of the person with the computer (me), the legs were only voided for those competitors who were initially declared as 'mispunched'. The revised results incorporate the three voided legs for all competitors (hopefully). One of the controls (either 107 or 101) has been removed from the courses in order to re-instate the mispunched runners. RouteGadget may be interesting as a result! Should anyone have any better suggestions or who can find fault with my logic (not hard) please contact me as soon as possible. All the original data is still available. The adjusted lengths are 4.6km (Long) and 2.8km (Short) subject to checking by the Planner Neil Harvatt. |