One of the important functions of a WOC long distance trial is to ensure that those who successfully emerge from it are suitably prepared for the demands of a WOC long distance, and coping with the lousy printing in the 2010 trial would have come in very useful in coping with the lousy printing in the 2016 WOC.
(Looking at the results from 2010, of our 2016 long runners, Tash wasn't there, Jo didn't finish and Jules
didn't have a great run either).