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Sunday Sep 6, 2015 #
Note
On yesterday's event.
Planning: Crispin planned courses, I suggested some mods, we taped sites, a couple more mods.
Printing: done in-house, not very high q, waterproof paper.
Setting controls: C&me the night before, plus I did some more the morning of. System is friendly. SI vest is amazing, any club who doesn't have one should buy a couple. Canes were light with a thing to step on at the bottom that also worked as a wedge to stabilise the control. Flags were in a bag. They weren't knotted to the cane, just slid between the manual punch and the SI-holder, good idea! I could run with twelve controls no problem.
Working the event: Crispin, Helen (ex-interloper) and me. Collected stuff from clubroom (9am), drove up. I went out setting controls while C,H and Zheng (helping before the event) set up registration and computers. Mostly ready by 12, except none of us had used SI and the rental SIs had been forgotten. Lennart arrived with those and did the first five minutes of reg, as I watched on.
Big rush of early entries, then a brief lull, then more entrants and the first finishers. But the SI wasn't registering finishers... oops. We had to keep sending people away until Mr Niggli got recruited. Classes (with course names) hadn't been assigned to the courses. He sorted that out and all was good, modulo some errors.
More people entered than expected (140 or so?), so I had barely a break on the computer, and we managed to run out of maps.
We didn't have results up anywhere, just turned the screen occasionally to show people. That could be better, esp with power available, an extra screen would have been great.
Weather was cold, we were all a bit frozen.
We wrapped up a bit later than we ought, it would have been smarter to be ready to collect control at 5 sharp. H went out to get some controls, then returned not finding the right road to drive up, so I swapped. C packed up, I collected my bunch, got changed, H arrived a little stressed and hungry, she hadn't found two or three of the controls, no big deal. C&I went out to collect them, near two roads, so easy enough. Packed the cars, stocked stuff in the clubroom, home for 9pm.
Big problem: not descending in time to buy food in Gex!
While it wasn't particularly smooth, I think 3 people can just about manage an event that size, esp with volunteers to help with SI issues :) I'm surprised how little dead time there was. It's nice that the controls are so light, collecting them isn't a problem. Also, the longest course was only 6km, so they weren't toooo far.
Planning: Crispin planned courses, I suggested some mods, we taped sites, a couple more mods.
Printing: done in-house, not very high q, waterproof paper.
Setting controls: C&me the night before, plus I did some more the morning of. System is friendly. SI vest is amazing, any club who doesn't have one should buy a couple. Canes were light with a thing to step on at the bottom that also worked as a wedge to stabilise the control. Flags were in a bag. They weren't knotted to the cane, just slid between the manual punch and the SI-holder, good idea! I could run with twelve controls no problem.
Working the event: Crispin, Helen (ex-interloper) and me. Collected stuff from clubroom (9am), drove up. I went out setting controls while C,H and Zheng (helping before the event) set up registration and computers. Mostly ready by 12, except none of us had used SI and the rental SIs had been forgotten. Lennart arrived with those and did the first five minutes of reg, as I watched on.
Big rush of early entries, then a brief lull, then more entrants and the first finishers. But the SI wasn't registering finishers... oops. We had to keep sending people away until Mr Niggli got recruited. Classes (with course names) hadn't been assigned to the courses. He sorted that out and all was good, modulo some errors.
More people entered than expected (140 or so?), so I had barely a break on the computer, and we managed to run out of maps.
We didn't have results up anywhere, just turned the screen occasionally to show people. That could be better, esp with power available, an extra screen would have been great.
Weather was cold, we were all a bit frozen.
We wrapped up a bit later than we ought, it would have been smarter to be ready to collect control at 5 sharp. H went out to get some controls, then returned not finding the right road to drive up, so I swapped. C packed up, I collected my bunch, got changed, H arrived a little stressed and hungry, she hadn't found two or three of the controls, no big deal. C&I went out to collect them, near two roads, so easy enough. Packed the cars, stocked stuff in the clubroom, home for 9pm.
Big problem: not descending in time to buy food in Gex!
While it wasn't particularly smooth, I think 3 people can just about manage an event that size, esp with volunteers to help with SI issues :) I'm surprised how little dead time there was. It's nice that the controls are so light, collecting them isn't a problem. Also, the longest course was only 6km, so they weren't toooo far.
trail run 1:10:00 [3]
Lignon loop.
Stretched in the park/garden after, felt good/necessary.
Stretched in the park/garden after, felt good/necessary.