On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
> As you may have noticed, the course had a different look. Hopefully those
> who have been to previous National Championships will agree with me that it
> had a "Nationals Look" to it.
>
> 23 people posted 1 or more DNFs. Fortunately only 2 had all 3 runs as DNFs.
> I'd love to know whether they had walked the course, where their DNFs
> occured, etc. 17 of the 23 DNFed only their 1st run. I'd also like to know
> how many of the other 6 found the course the first time, and got lost on a
> subsequent run and why.
>
> Do we want more courses like this?
>
> CHD
Charlie - I suspect most of the DNFs were in one place. After the back
two-cone slalom (nice element), when you turned into the left-hander to
come back, where the course went was suddenly very confusing. There was
one pointered cone in front of you, then you had to quickly look left and
pick up ANOTHER single, pointered cone to get the line into the following
right-hander. I almost DNFed my first run, and was lost again as I went
through a second run as a passenger. Subsequently I started looking at
the inside cones, which were regularly marked, and didn't have any more
trouble.
It wasn't obvious during course walk that that place would be "visually
difficult", at least to me.
I liked the course flow, it would have been nice to incorporate that
offset in the last straight we discussed to make it more interesting, but
it was too late by then.
Hope this helps!
KeS
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