Event: 2010 Park2
Location: Hunter River High (Heatherbrae)
Weather: Mild.
Setup: Mick Kavur, Toni and Sally-Anne Henderson, Karen and Nicola Blatchford
Registration: Toni Henderson
Start: Sally-Anne Henderson, Karen and Nicola Blatchford
Finish: Karen, Peter Orr, Damien Enderby, Kerry Bacon and Carolyn Rigby
Control Collection: Adam Trace, Arthur Kingsland, Greg and Kerry Bacon
Entries: 85
Park2 was contested on the brilliant new map of the Hunter River High school and surrounds at Heatherbrae. Have we wasted a good area on a club park event? This is the question I asked myself while I was running around this excellent new map during the event. It's so good that perhaps we should have saved it for a state sprint event! Maybe next year.
Russell our setter is kicking himself for getting the maths wrong thus ensuring we got a little bit more exercise than we anticipated, but really at this stage of the season we should be used to it.
Here are a few words from the man himself.
‘BRICKBATS and BOUQUETS’
- PARK SERIES 2 at HUNTER RIVER HIGH SCHOOL
A bouquet to Russell Rigby for his wonderful mapping of a very enjoyable area - touch of urban sprint in the buildings, some hard slog in areas of agriculture and some street running for those with the ‘post Summer Series blues’.
Bouquets to Graham Eather, Principal HRHS, who was all for the event from the outset. Also a bouquet to Matthew Hargreaves, Head Teacher Science/Agriculture, who so willingly accommodated every request. And a bouquet to HRHS Farm Assistant Tony Ziemba, who drove his own tractor and mulching equipment to the school, from out towards Seaham, just so we had a minor track network in the back paddock.
Bouquets to my HRHS work colleagues who allowed access to their properties for some slightly more challenging control placements in the street section of the courses. I speak of Dale Kennewell #5, Susan Battle #10 and Ian Battle #24. They are all related you know, and they are all very happy with the conduct of competitors during the event.
Bouquets (this is getting expensive) to the wonderful helpers:
Set up - Mick Kavur, Toni and Sally-Anne Henderson, Karen and Nicola Blatchford
Registration - Toni Henderson
Start - Sally-Anne Henderson, Karen and Nicola Blatchford
Finish - Karen (again), Peter Orr, Damien Enderby, Kerry Bacon and Carolyn Rigby
Control Collection - Adam Trace, Arthur Kingsland, Greg and Kerry Bacon
Brickbat (it had to come) to the idiot of a course setter that got the course lengths all wrong. He now knows what happened, but there are no excuses. My sincere apologies to all competitors. Thank goodness many of you had some quality running in your legs from the recently completed Summer Street Series.
And finally, a bouquet to all who competed. You were still able to be generous with your feedback on the map, and the courses. The mapping observations were well deserved. Not so sure about the courses given the inappropriate length, but I really did appreciate your positive and understanding demeanour around the finish desk and results board as you recovered from your epic Heatherbrae adventure.
Russell (I’m only a PE teacher, you can’t expect me to be good at Maths!) Blatchford
(Organiser / Course Planner / Idiot)