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Colour coded event (Level C) incorporating ESSOL
Highwoods Country Park, Colchester
Sunday 9th October 2016
Final Results

Officials' comments

Organiser - Dave Skinner dave.skinner@btinternet.com

Originally having committed to Organising an event at Wivenhoe, in early September I found myself taking on Highwoods, a venue at which I had only previously organised a Level D Relay event. The main challenge was choice of car parking location - we are not permitted to park within the Country Park. It had been suggested to me that Grahams Plumbing was a good option, the other being Chanterelle. A visit to Grahams suggested to me that additional use of their Goods-In Yard as a site for registration, download, etc would make this a very good option - a meeting with their Manager secured this. I hope that you think this was a good solution.

My thanks to go to Alex Ware (Planner) and Clive Wilkinson (Controller) for their advice leading up to the event and their efforts on the day. And of course my thanks to all the SOS helpers, too numerous to mention by name here, who ensured the smooth running of the event.

Controller - Clive Wilkinson (SUFFOC)

Thanks to all at SOS for the well run event today. The late change of venue meant that the whole planning , organising and controlling process was squeezed into a very short timescale. I thought Alex's courses provided as much challenge as the area allows and David's calm organising was excellent. The change of venue meant that the map was not updated for the event and it is noticeable that the woodland area will need some time spent on it before the area is used again.

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