South of Scotland Orienteering League

Event 5

Edinburgh University Orienteering Club

Sunday 4th February 2007

Holyrood Park

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Controller's Report

At least for once EUOC got decent weather for their event, makes a change from the last couple they have put on at Holyrood.

Many competitors told me they had enjoyed their courses so well done to the committee and all the members of EUOC for getting it all together in the end.  In future, could you build in a time allowance for all being ill in the last week before the event! 

Holyrood is a more challenging area than it looks from the distance. The gorse is a perennial problem as it changes from year to year, and it is difficult to keep the map updated. Some control sites were rejected because the gorse was too wrong in the area and there was only time for minor map corrections.

Those competitors who faced the climb from Dunsapie to the top will realise why the planner has escaped to South Africa and why the Controller wonders if a few day's hire of a Stannah Stair Lift is an allowable expense.

Apologies to Crawford Lindsay who, having entered Brown, was given a blue course map with brown control descriptions on the back.

Control 189 at the source had been lifted and thrown away between checked and first starts. Three early runners were affected by its absence. Thanks to Alasdair McLeod for finding it and standing it up where it was, and Donald Smith and Tal Ramsay for moving it back to its correct location.

Sheila Strain ELO

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