Park Series Final - A Lethal Dose
Wes Dose came from the middle of the pack to claim the first "Newcastle Park Tour" title. First placed woman was Nicole Haigh, well clear of the rest of the female competitors. Alex Massey backed up his impressive performanes in the qualifiers, convincingly winning the short course (D grade).
The courses were contested on a new version of the "Newcastle University" map, an area not used for probably over a decade. Course setter Ian Dempsey provided us with a brand new version of this map and it's terrific. The area gives a great mix of buildings, open areas and even pockets of bushland all adding to the complexity of the map and thus the difficulty of forming route choices on the run. This area is so good that we might investigate halting further use and saving it for State or even national level event next year.