Discussion: Join the club

Comiserations - this SI Air thing takes a bit of getting used to; just a pity we have to learn the hard way!

I'm a bit confused - the splits show that you punched 20 at 16:08?

Yes, 20 on the splits was 21 on the map as an earlier control had been taken out. I was told when I finished I had missed control 19 (which I knew I had been to) when in fact it was 20 on the map.

Enough to confuse the best of us

Yep, took the best part of a day for my brain to process what had actually happened. It was all down to fencing for dance party meaning a control site became inaccessible, some last minute manual changes to the map and control descriptions were then required.

Another club joined - we had a passage blocked off on the morning of our NOL at Sydney Uni.

As well as the NYE concert that was being set up in Victoria Park after we had been given permission to use it for last day for the Xmas 5 days. And not to forget the Nerf gun wielding zombies wandering around when you organised BFS there. Quite a record.

They shut a pedestrian bridge the morning of the Melb City Race, the one that i had the nice leg into the last control over.

Seems to be all part and parcel of organising an urban event.

Pretty much, and it doesn't seem to matter where your permissions are from or who you talk to, they never seem to know things like that. We did go back and mention this one to them as I'd planned a really safe finish and the alternate was running over a roadbridge, so not a disaster but not ideal.

Outstanding run, Mark, missed control notwithstanding.

Thanks, it helped having controlled an event there last December.

My personal favourite was an ACT Sprint Championships where I arrived at the vicinity of the control site to find a crew of workers demolishing the feature the control was supposed to be on.