The Chantries and St Martha'sSun 20 Feb, 2022

Pilgrims Races

Regional level event

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Organiser's Comments

First and foremost I thank my official colleagues, Sophie and Charlie, for being so calm and thoughtful (and friendly!). Things got a bit taut in the last few days but the ship sailed serenely on to a successful event (with some superb support from the ever-responsive GO team paddling furiously under the water).

I hope the result was enjoyable to all. Certainly I heard lots of happy comments about Sophie's courses. There were small glitches in our delivery of them and I'm impressed (and grateful) that you all took them in your stride. Many thanks to the two of you who reacted so quickly when some mindless vandal moved control 105, finding it and restoring it to its proper station.

And finally... weren't we lucky with the weather!

Jeremy Wilde

Planner's Comments

The Chantries and St Martha's are tricky areas to plan on without quickly accumulating a lot of climb, as the interesting route choices usually necessitate a bit of zig-zagging over the hills! I hope that the mental stimulation made up for the extra physical challenge, especially with some additional fallen tree obstacles.

Thanks very much to Nick and Charlie for their feedback on the courses. I was very disappointed that covid isolation, storms and train cancellations all conspired to prevent me from getting back to Guildford in time for the day! But I hope everyone enjoyed their runs.

Sophie Gordon

Controllers Comments

Well done GO for putting this event together and giving everybody a good day out. I hope the few early runners on the two longest course were not too inconvenienced by the switching of 140/147; unfortunately when something like this happens if often turns out that the controls are the furthest away from assembly and in this case the route choice decision was take the car and drive meandering roads or run 3k? The forest run route won but this is not on RouteGadget!

Both Jeremy and Sophie made my controlling task quite straightforward. Sophie is relatively new to planning and quickly sorted out lots of my suggestions and for the longer courses created the back-to-back maps, which if you have not done it before, how to this is not immediately obvious. Sadly due to a combination of Covid isolation, followed by cancelled trains she was stuck in Derby for the event, so she did not witness your fun.

Charlie Turner

Last updated: Mon 21 February, 2022

Overview

A classic set of (full distance) colour coded courses on Chantry Wood (around which the Pilgrims Way skirts) and St Martha's Hill over which the Pilgrims Way wholeheartedly goes past St Martha's church which is up there close to the heavens.

Pilgrims Races Final Details

Location Info

Near: Guildford
Lat,Lng: 51.22545,-0.56381
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