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Colour coded event (Level C) incorporating ESSOL
Baddow Ridge
Sunday 11th October 2015
Preliminary Results

Officials' comments

Organisers - Colin and Lyn West colin.west@hotmail.co.uk

Pre-event organisation from Wests senior appears to have delivered sufficient materiel and intelligence to support West junior, now Evans, to discharge all required activities on the day. Helpful to have good contacts locally, and a close-knit team for planning and controlling. Thanks to Patrick Attebury and Andrew Green for access arrangements and car parking, and to the range of landowners of this mapped terrain. Gratitude of course to the team of helpers - sine qua non.

Planner - Clive Tant

I was conscious that all courses had their difficulties but all within the requisite technical difficulty. Almost every event demands a compromise and the green course suffered most. Thank you to those competitors who understood the limitations of planning in this area and my appreciation and respect to all competitors who took up their respective challenges. Well done to the small band of Stragglers who lent a hand to Eleanor - the calm “on the day organiser” and a special thank you, yet again, to Kevin Machin who puts in so much time, produces such fine maps and contributes so much more than is required from a controller.

Controller - Kevin Machin (SOS)

The first thank you is to the powers that gave us such brilliant weather for the lead up and the event itself. This is a difficult area to plan in as it is rare that we get a chance to run on gradients in Essex and when you add distance and the vegetation that you get in the early Autumn, the courses start to stretch all abilities. Hopefully those who did the Green course were happy with our compromise on the distance, we really wanted to get you onto the East side of The Ridge. I only heard positive comments regarding Clive’s courses and this must be due to his knack of finding good control sites and good legs permitting both route choice and make it possible to miss the worst of the undergrowth. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of recent felling in Blakes Wood where all the short courses were situated, which made it even harder to plan good courses. But congratulations to Clive on his hard work and his effort has to be admired over the entire weekend. Well done also to Eleanor on here first organisational responsibility for a long time, and apart from losing a few on the way to the East start early on (apologies to those affected), everything went very smoothly. Thanks also to Eleanor’s team for playing their full part on the day. Well done everyone!

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