Randy,
Not a bit of it! My opinion is it was a superb course. Lately
our GGF courses have been faster and lacking a little in technical
difficulty. You kept the speed up, but gave me a challenge!
I liked the ending slalom and offset finish box, though perhaps
somebody overdoing it might have taken the timers out. For me
it was hard to get right, but could be done right with great
satisfaction.
The entire back section, its entry and exits, were lots of fun.
Challenging, but flowing with a little foresight.
My Jag E Type has a long wheelbase, and would not like tight
courses, but the entire course after the first slalom was easily run,
lots of fun.
I never got the first section right, but it was not too tight -- it was too
difficult for me. But I know I COULD have gotten it right, there was
a "right", but I was just not good enough to get it in 3 runs. This is a
good thing -- we need challenges like this. It was a matter of looking
far enough ahead and positioning myself properly on course. What's bad
is courses so tight or narrow that it's not a challenge, there's in fact
no "right" way to go through except to lug slowly through. You gave us
enough room to make a good line.
One area that may bear improvement was the entry to the final slalom.
I was never sure there was a good way to get into the slalom
without just brute forcing it. It may have been just me, but you
might look at that point to see whether there would have been a way
to get set up for the slalom properly with a flowing line. Didn't happen
for me, but the following slalom was fun, and the entry was not
impossible -- .just didn't seem to flow for me.
BRAVO! for a first design, you did a real winner!
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Noll" <rnoll98@yahoo.com>
To: "ba-autox" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Thanks and course feedback from Nov. 4
> Hi all,
> Wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone who attended the event
> yesterday. Everything ran very smoothly and quickly. Almost all workers
> reported early (especially the people who did tech!) and we were able
> to switch on the fly. Everyone's hard work paid off in fun runs at the
> end of the day. Special thanks to everyone who pitched in for an extra
> work assignment and to those who arrived early to help setup. It made
> Elise and my jobs much easier!
>
> I also wanted to get feedback on the course design. It was my first
> effort at this and I definitely want to improve on it next time. So far
> I've had a couple people mention it was a little tight. Please let me
> know what you thought and if there were any specific corners/features
> that you liked or disliked and why.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy Noll
> Co-chair, Slush Rd. 4
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