Omm 2012

[Clash City Rocker]

suspect that our one/ the real one is the toughest!

Can we organise some sort of televised event to find out.

[lawriej]

Can we organise some sort of televised event to find out.

If it was a swearing contest I know who'd win...

[drmorris]

Well, I enjoyed my weekend
We managed 190 points on day1 with 5mins to spare, 135 on day 2 with 25 seconds to spare (Medium Score), bringing us in 90th overall of 205 starting teams in our class, which makes us 'top half of the field'
Very pleased for a first MM.
Usual recriminations of poor route choice in retrospect, esp on day 2(bloody re-entrants! lost one, and only found another after 30mins!)

We kept saying on day1 - 'savour this, it won't be like this tomorrow' ... and it wasn't. Hard slog by the end
Worst bit was probably the M6 southbound on the way home though!

[HelenSkelton]

Lawriej - wot are you like?!

[lawriej]

Lawriej - wot are you like?!

tall, good-looking with a full head of hair...

[Guick Dotto]

Thanks I think I wasn't being careful about finding the centre of the control. It sort of lights up when you hit it. Check out the C Course.

Go to top right and tick the 'draw your route' box - then choose your course and select your name.

Start to draw your route, making sure to go into the exact middle of the circle (it will shoot out a blue line to the next control - if it doesn't, you haven't got to the middle and you won't be able to save it) continue round the course until you've gone reached the finish then click 'Save your route' - It should confirm it's saved.

If at any point you realise you've made a slight error with your drawing click the blue 'Undo' button at the top

[creaky]

dr morris said " We managed 190 points on day1 with 5mins to spare, 135 on day 2 with 25 seconds to spare (Medium Score), bringing us in 90th overall of 205 starting teams in our class, which makes us 'top half of the field'
Very pleased for a first MM. "

That was good going i reckon...we got 180 on day1 with 20 mmins in hand but nothing to go for having chickened on the big hills and crossed the road early ( but we did get all on the west side. second day we over egged it on that horrible Baugh Fell ( if you spit out the name sounds what i thought of it) a looong way back from the road crossing saw us very late and due to penalties only ended up with 90 or so points....bah humbug.
Still one team day one collected the classic nil points due to penalties .I bet that hurt.

Also some teams dq'd due to using the track then road parallel to the main road to the finish on day 2 , but looking at the map it seems to be inbounds, certainly outlined as such, but there was a statement on the map saying road/track OUT of bounds...could be taken to mean the main road of course. NOt clear in my opinion, or at least ambiguous. I know of at least one team got dq'd on that and assume there were more...we played it safe and went around the top of the field boundary but it hurt.

Explains the number of pairs coming up the run in field as we were hammering down though.

Lots of mp's on the elite and a courses but havn't looked to see why yet.

Agree M6 was horrible had to leave it at poplar and use A500 for a bit.

[Tahr]

Well the ankle held up with extensive strapping, althoughthe strapping lead to a number of blisters. Neither I nor my partner are top navigatorsIMO. We lost 1:47 on day one by taking a parallel path and finding ourselves inthe wrong valley. We finished day one with 13 minutes to spare with 160 points,neither of us was anywhere near our physical limits mind.

On day two I made a big cock up and somehow thought we hadonly 4 hours to complete medium score, we then made a mistake and ran past onecheck point we were looking for, without that we collected 105 points and crossed the finish linein 3:10 hours we had the honour of being the first team to finish in the mediumscore class, shame we had so little points.

With hind sight we would of both been better doing the Bclass event with less check points it would have played to our strengths, stillonly my second one and I need more experience.

Well done to my ADAC club mate who finished 3rdin the short score class.

Oh the phyiso said no more running until he has seen me on Friday,so I did a little 8 miler tonight with the dogs, well they needed a run so thatdoesn’t count.

ATB

Tahr

[IainR]

Lots of mp's on the elite and a courses but havn't looked to see why yet.
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I think on day 2 moral would have been pretty low with any nav error and people may have just canned it.

I thought the nav on day 2 on elite was luckily all pretty straightforwards, there were a few on day 1 which I wouldn't have fancied in cloud.. but maybe I was much more switched on, on day 2. The main thing was the route choice options, we had some long legs, mainly 5 > 6. 8>9 looked long but there was one pretty clear option.

[creaky]

i have heard that the people dq'd for using the track to the finish on day 2 and then up field to last control are being reinstated but with time penalties...seems a pragmatic solution.