Officials' Comments
Controller
Most of you will have spent most of your course
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Ian Sayer (
Planner
My
thanks to Kevin Pickering and my wife, Lynn for
Chris Branford WIM
Organiser
Thank you all for coming and taking part in our Winter Warmer event. I hope you enjoyed the experience. The penalty for having good hard standing for parking was a long walk across the exposed Plain Heath to the start and back from the finish, but we were fortunate that the weather was kind to us. Thank you also to the teams of WIM helpers who made it all run so smoothly.
We were obliged to allocate start times because of the decision by Rules Group/Events Committee to include it as a requirement for Level B events in the new Event Guideline A. The feedback I have had on this is that competitors much prefer the flexibility of start blocks. Unless there is a very large entry pre-allocated start times do not seem to be necessary, and our start team were able to start competitors earlier or later than their allocated time. We particularly did not want competitors taking risks at the A35 road crossing because they felt they would be late arriving at the start.
John Shucksmith WIM