Comments on: World Cup Middle: Maps, Results and Analysis

By: kilian

kilian — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:04:33 +0000

i would love to see some photos of this terrain…

By: Kell Sønnichsen

Kell Sønnichsen — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:20:27 +0000

I can confirm that it was very easy to get too low on that control. What had happened to me was as Blair describes: When crossing the dry stream gully I was too low. But the rocky area to the west of #2 looked like a solid cliff wall and I thought I was too high at the cliff north of #2. So I went further down and had some big difficulties relocating.

By: Mike Dowling

Mike Dowling — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:36:35 +0000

Photo of control posted on Twitter at https://twitter.com/2015OceaniaWCup/status/553507624738516992

I walked the leg 2 twice with course setters and if you were out to the right and hit the ridge at about 75% along the leg without knowing exactly where you were it causes challenges. I would imagine this is what may well have happened to a number of the runners.

As Blair says above you had to do the hard work and climb to get to the dry stream gully before the control and not come from the right of the line. Less risky choice.

By the way, the course setters tell me they did not see any snakes at Coles Bay but a lot of blue tongued lizards instead.

By: Blair

Blair — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:58:28 +0000

I’m a bit puzzled why #2 caused so much carnage – I thought it was one of the easier controls on the course, with mostly good visibility on the leg and a good attack point (the dry stream/gully before the control). The people I spoke with who made mistakes mostly dropped too low and then had difficulty relocating.

The third-last control (#20 for the men) was the one I was expecting to cause the greatest difficulty.