Cademuir SoSOL
Results from the SoSOL at Cademuir today.
Winsplits
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String Course
Organiser’s Comments
It was an interesting experience organising an event, even such a lowly one as a SoSOL, having not done that for many a year. Janet provided expert guidance in the run up to it and on the day the army of experienced helpers made my job relatively easy – many thanks to you all. There were 123 competitors so considering that there were competing events going on that weekend that was a reasonable number. At 12.30 it looked as though the event was going to be trouble free but then Margaret fell and broke her lower arm while running between controls 1 and 2 but managed to make her way back to the start. She was well looked after by the Kershaws and then an ambulance crew who took her to the ERI.
A few interesting points arose from that incident as follows:
1/ The start was remote from the assembly area and while there was a first aid box at the registration tent there was none at the start where it was needed. Kirsten had managed to immobilise Margaret’s arm using one of our direction sign boards but had no proper first aid equipment. So do we need to have another first aid box?
2/ When I drove to the start to possibly collect Margaret to bring her back down to the assembly area I forgot to take the risk assessment which had the grid reference of the public road / forest track junction. Fortunately Dave Kershaw had a copy of the event information in his rucksack which had the grid reference on it. At least I had my mobile phone, which I had checked would operate at the assembly and start, as it turned out that Margaret could not be moved and therefore I had to call for an ambulance.
3/ I arranged to meet the ambulance at the forest public car park but the crew were reluctant to drive up the forest track as we had used it as the parking area for the event and they doubted the ambulance would get past the cars safely. Fortunately the parking team for the event had done a great job in making sure there was enough room for even an ambulance as it was a good bit wider that all normal cars but I had still to show the driver that the track verges were hard as there had been such little rain lately. So for future events where there is to be parking on forest tracks access for an ambulance has to be taken into account when parking competitors cars.
John McLaren
ESOC
Controller’s Comments
It’s not often that I get the chance to Control an event “only” 35 miles from home so I was happy to do so when Janet asked me. Mark planned some nice courses and the only real complaint I received was that one or two kites were visible from a way off, but this is almost inevitable on an open area where a lot of the features are quite low. A few people were confused by the cairn (144) which at first glance looks like a sheepfold on the map – perhaps this could be better mapped as a boulderfield, but remember the motto “if in doubt, read the instructions”.
As usual the ESOC team were very organised, and John dealt with the unfortunate injury to Margaret Dalgleish in a quietly efficient way, making good use of his Risk Assessment Form which had all the necessary information on it.
Lindsey Knox
Roxburgh Reivers
Posted on 10th Apr 11
by Andrew Dalgleish - Webmaster
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