This section was subject to extensive forestry work in April and should not, in my opinion, have been used because nobody ever test ran there in summer conditions. But the planner doesn’t always get his way. You can read more details on my AP log.

If Thierry is offering to prerun WOC courses once he’s retired, I’m sure future organisers will be delighted. this can only be good. But let’s not pretend it’s easy – the former WOC Champion who preran the course just one day before told me it was “far too long”… And does anyone believe an elite test runner would forget to turn right, go straight into the thick undergrowth looking for a fence and 24, just so they could run through the thick undergrowth beside the fence when the control is just along the path? And even if they could, would they figure out that the fence would get knock down some time in the next year, maybe during the race?

http://www.attackpoint.org/discussionthread.jsp/message_1087758

Cat Taylor made a comment and in the absence of comments from Johansson and Gueorgiou, I for one tend to rely on her note since she was 5th so clearly visited that control under similar race conditions…