From course planner Andrew Power
As this was my second consecutive year setting a BOSS event at Killingworth I set out to find control locations I and others hadn’t used recently. I went out for a few rides to explore and found some new tracks. Not long after I worked out my proposed course the first Duo event was moved to Killingworth and meant Greg was also looking for control locations. A discussion with Denis informed me that some of my new tracks were in the National Park and couldn’t be used. I’ll just start again.
After the Duo I revised my course and went out and rode it the last weekend to check it was OK and long enough for the faster riders.
I rode the whole course on Saturday to put out controls and check everything was OK. The rain earlier in the week must have been pretty heavy as I discovered a new “lake”, some tracks had been washed away and a couple of the bridges had been damaged; but after the underwater riding at Lone Pine Road who’d be worried about a couple of puddles.
Sorry to those competitors who struggled to find controls 2C and 3F. I wanted to make them difficult to navigate to but the scale of the map, the placement of the circle and the detail behind the circle being hidden made it more difficult than I planned. I’ll look out for that next time.
I hope everyone had fun, was challenged or at least got some exercise.
Thank you to everyone who helped:
Map Advice/Printing – Geoff Todkill
Setup/Pack up - Greg Bacon, Tim Hackney, Nicole Haigh, Andrew Haigh
Start/Finish Desk - Chris Battle, Cheryl Todkill, Nicole Haigh, Denis Lyons
Control Collection - Tim Hackney, Andrew Haigh, Rudi Lansiedel, Denis Lyons, Steven Todkill