Page updated - July 4, 2010 East Pennine Orienteering Club

Holmfirth

Regional Urban Orienteering Event

Controller's comments

Well done to Alistair for planning this event at relatively short notice and without a detailed map for most of the planning time. From the comments everyone seemed to enjoy their Last of the Summer Wine experience.
Clearly planning an event in Holmfirth is not easy as anyone looking at the map can see. Most of the roads and tracks follow the contours with surprising few links between them. Once you do link the two, the height climb increases. Unfortunately the uncertainty of the size and requirement of the gala reduced some of the planning options. It is also surprising how busy the main roads are and crossing them several times can be a bit scary. All these issues reduced the route choice options for Alistair.
Next time we will make sure the gala is not on the same day ensuring that the majority of the courses are in the town centre.
Finally thanks to Chris Owens of Dee the first starter who reported a problem with one of the controls which cost him a couple of minutes compared to everyone else on course 2.

Richard Payne