The challenge on an area like Hascombe is to keep the start and finish in the same area, and close to the car park, so we considered several sites, finally choosing the easternmost sector of the map. This did mean taped routes from the start for the longer courses and I hope that did not detract from your enjoyment. I was particularly pleased with the finish area - wide open spaces and mostly downhill! I also enjoyed the wildlife - deer, squirrels, rabbits, pheasant, geese, and even a snake (during summer) - I hope you all saw a selection of these while you were out.

For the most part feedback on the control sites were appropriate for the courses set, and the course results seem reasonable although Red looks a little longer than I'd anticipated. I was pleased that the Brown course proved challenging, and aside from the incident with the nettles (and whistles!), we recovered all White and Yellow runners with respectable times and no damage, even if the hills were daunting.

I do apologise for the clearing control site, just before the road crossing for the Blue and Brown course. It was set a little too high up the hill and caused some time loss for our more accurate navigators. On inspection there were 3 or 4 possible sites in that area of the map, none of them particularly ideal, and hence the mistake.

I enjoyed the role very much, and for a large part that was due to the tremendous support I received from team GO - on pictorial descriptions, SI training, reprinting the map, start and finish selection, tagging controls and then on the weekend itself on putting out and collecting controls and taping the routes. Lots of work, and looking forward to the next one.

Many thanks to Brian Pilling, the controller, who saw me through all of the above and lent a hand in it too.

Linda Pakuls