WIM Galoppen

Ringwood Forest is not the easiest area to plan on nor to navigate around. Stephen's courses made use of the best of the area (indeed several people commented on this fact) but nevertheless for some of you the going underfoot made for an arduous time. Whilst there is little we could have done about this I feel that two or three of the courses were on the long side for which I apologise. I had initially persuaded Stephen to shorten some courses and keep the competitors of more advanced years away from the worst of the undergrowth and brashings but with hindsight they could have been shortened more.

Despite this I know that many were impressed with the shape of their courses and the accuracy of the control placing. A lot of effort went into bringing this event to fruition (indeed Stephen was in the forest at 05.00 placing control boxes before changing into uniform for a Remembrance Day Parade while the event was going on, later returning to arrange control collecting). And a major bonus was the fantastic weather on the day, for which, as Controller, I take full credit!!!!!