I understand what you're saying, and "nationals style" vs "regional
style" is a whole 'nother debate, but let me clarify my intent:
I don't consider (and I don't think Charlie does either) "national style"
courses to be more visually challenging than "regional style" courses. NS
courses do often have design elements that can lead you into poor line
choices if you just follow the cones, and they often have fewer cones and
more gates than RS courses, but they are not typically hard to navigate.
I found that particular location on Sat's course difficult not only
because of the sparse cones, but because it was inconsistent with the cone
spacing/marking of most of the rest of the course.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't feel that particular issue was
part of the "Nationals Style", it was either just a course anomaly or an
unintended consequence.
KeS
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Geoff Mohler wrote:
> Maybe it would be best to create more visually challenging courses so that
> the concept of a 'nationals style' course becomes more routine than the
> exception.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Kevin Stevens wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > As you may have noticed, the course had a different look. Hopefully those
> > > who have been to previous National Championships will agree with me that
>it
> > > had a "Nationals Look" to it.
> > >
> > > 23 people posted 1 or more DNFs. Fortunately only 2 had all 3 runs as
>DNFs.
> > > I'd love to know whether they had walked the course, where their DNFs
> > > occured, etc. 17 of the 23 DNFed only their 1st run. I'd also like to
>know
> > > how many of the other 6 found the course the first time, and got lost on a
> > > subsequent run and why.
> > >
> > > Do we want more courses like this?
> > >
> > > CHD
> >
> > Charlie - I suspect most of the DNFs were in one place. After the back
> > two-cone slalom (nice element), when you turned into the left-hander to
> > come back, where the course went was suddenly very confusing. There was
> > one pointered cone in front of you, then you had to quickly look left and
> > pick up ANOTHER single, pointered cone to get the line into the following
> > right-hander. I almost DNFed my first run, and was lost again as I went
> > through a second run as a passenger. Subsequently I started looking at
> > the inside cones, which were regularly marked, and didn't have any more
> > trouble.
> >
> > It wasn't obvious during course walk that that place would be "visually
> > difficult", at least to me.
> >
> > I liked the course flow, it would have been nice to incorporate that
> > offset in the last straight we discussed to make it more interesting, but
> > it was too late by then.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > KeS
> >
>
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