> I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel that particular issue was
> part of the "Nationals Style", it was either just a course anomaly or an
> unintended consequence.
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Agreed. From other comments it looks like this style of course offers
people who dont prepare for an AutoX *dont walk and observe the course
beforehand* an idea why its important to do so.
I dont MIND a course thats easy to navigate blindly, but I would think it
would be more appropriate to scatter course designs that do require
pre-race preparation as an important part of a points-race thru the
season.
Im by no means saying that any course is easy, but the course deisgn
should try to push people to learn more about the whole sport and how to
prepare for it rather than always being able to run in blindly and
expect a good finish..and last weekends course seems to have pointed that
out to at least one person.
> KeS
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Geoff Mohler wrote:
>
> > Maybe it would be best to create more visually challenging courses so that
> > the concept of a 'nationals style' course becomes more routine than the
> > exception.
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> >
> > > 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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