At the final of the Wessex Regional Night League Mike Frizzell (BADO) suggested the area would make a good sprint event. So adding southwards to the map I was able to keep the sprints away from the main road through the estate, and gave enough area to have 2 distinct loops both for the long and short sprints. Apologies for the delay in getting the final started, but having lost one control at the end of the prologue, I wanted to make sure all the controls were in place for the final, and had a volunteer patrolling the woodland to keep an eye on things. Thanks to all the volunteer helpers, especially to Pete Davis heading up our new SI computing system.

I hope those that ran on the introductory sprints enjoyed themselves in the safe environs of the school grounds and the adjacent woodland (which used to be part of the grounds themselves).  I suspect that the planning of the first race was slightly too challenging for some of the younger and less experienced competitors, and the second race was perhaps slightly shorter than it should have been.  As my first attempt at planning sprint courses, I'll use these as a yardstick (metrestick) for future events.

And as Colin above says, I too would like to thank everyone who helped make today possible, including David and Bill for front & rear gate-duty, Vicky on parking, Kevin, Paul, and Steph for control hanging/collection, Norman for manning the finish, Pete and Alastair on computing (aided by James from Wessex), and Lou for the biscuits!

Thanks Pete for putting up Routegadget for all the sprint loops. Interesting to see the differing routes on both loops of the long sprint