Discussion: Second courses

What is Vic's policy on running a second course? When I finished, my splits said I was 6:52 behind the then leader, with results telling me that was Brodie but he was finishing again later after me, which implies he ran a second course (I had originally thought you meant that when talking about Belinda running course 2). I had no thoughts on doing a second yesterday in the state I was in but I typically run all the courses at a WA sprint event.

Not sure if there's a formal policy, although in theory a second run should be unofficial. Brodie and Belinda both appear in the results only once, so maybe Brodie was just on a warm-down.

Same in Perth, we used to record results on second and subsequent runs as a separate course to official runners but the tendency now is to tick the NC box and not even show a time.

When I saw her today Belinda said she was running course 2 on purpose because that was closer to the length of the sprint races she's training for (she runs World Cup in China in two weeks).

Good on her! Unfortunately for older orienteers that want a distance where they can aime for 12-15 minutes there aren't enough courses. SiS has been going for a number of years, with participation increasing, but still has only two hard courses, same as we have in WA with less than half the number of participants.

Remember the good old days when we only had one course for everyone?

(Slightly/significantly longer than a) Sprint into Spring. Friday was reminiscent of our London evening park races, great distance race but long for a sprint.