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Wednesday May 25, 2016 #
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(rest day)
'My' orienteering event in Stoke Gifford.
It was going well until I was attaching the fourth control of the day to a lamppost outside someone's house, and she accused me of 'encouraging people to run next to her house' and went off to ring the council. This is ludicrously comical afterwards but was an incredibly stressful argument at the time. 'With all the other things going on in my life right now, I don't need this!'. Quite - me neither.
Other than Tim Sands' (I think) campervan getting stuck in the car park due to the mysterious addition of a height restriction barrier (his wife was NOT happy) and Gwen parking her car in the ditch (the AA refused to rescue it because 'it wasn't broken down')...and somehow managing to have control 10 and 11 in the same place in the Green (thanks for spotting this Richard - the previous 5 people who saw the courses didn't!)...and getting 111 and 117 the wrong way around and not being able to change them back because the gripple key got stuck in a gripple...everything went fine.
Massive thanks to Clare and Tommi for personing the road crossing, Paul and Ben for collecting controls, and Phil for doing every job I asked him to (the event would not have happened were it not for you).
This was an extremely stressful experience and I'm not going to be doing it again any time soon! Planning was good though - and feedback on the courses was generally positive - so might have another go at that. But organising is not for me!
It was going well until I was attaching the fourth control of the day to a lamppost outside someone's house, and she accused me of 'encouraging people to run next to her house' and went off to ring the council. This is ludicrously comical afterwards but was an incredibly stressful argument at the time. 'With all the other things going on in my life right now, I don't need this!'. Quite - me neither.
Other than Tim Sands' (I think) campervan getting stuck in the car park due to the mysterious addition of a height restriction barrier (his wife was NOT happy) and Gwen parking her car in the ditch (the AA refused to rescue it because 'it wasn't broken down')...and somehow managing to have control 10 and 11 in the same place in the Green (thanks for spotting this Richard - the previous 5 people who saw the courses didn't!)...and getting 111 and 117 the wrong way around and not being able to change them back because the gripple key got stuck in a gripple...everything went fine.
Massive thanks to Clare and Tommi for personing the road crossing, Paul and Ben for collecting controls, and Phil for doing every job I asked him to (the event would not have happened were it not for you).
This was an extremely stressful experience and I'm not going to be doing it again any time soon! Planning was good though - and feedback on the courses was generally positive - so might have another go at that. But organising is not for me!