Planning Fight with The Night on Campus

I was in charge of putting on EUOC's Fight with the Night event at Riccarton (Heriot-Watt's campus) last night. It was a great experience in which I learnt a lot. Firstly I started just by getting to know campus. Ran some old sprint courses, had Colm plan me some other training, and just went running around. The issue with having done this is that I kept finding places in which I thought "Oh I could put a control there!" "That would be a cool control location". It also lead to me really wanting to update the map. Sadly though I never got around to learning how to update maps but probably for the better as in the last few months the University has pulled down many trees on campus.
When it came to actually planning the courses I was a bit nervous to be honest. It was probably only the 3rd or 4th set of courses I had planned and the first here in the UK. I wanted them to be really good and people enjoy themselves. Well between that and too many places I wanted to put controls I was having a few issues. Thank fully Colm looked at my draft and came to the rescue in making the courses better. And sounds like people really enjoyed them selves.

There were two courses. Short 2.6km with 16 controls and 10 runners. Long 4.9km and 30 controls and 26 runners.

Here are the results:
Short

Place	Time	Name
1	23:50	Ann Haley
2	25:40	Craig Woodger
3	25:48	Rachel Kirkland
4	27:22	Val Finch
5	28:18	Les Dalglesh
6	34:14	R Web
7	36:14	Margret Dalglesh
8	38:07	Janice Nisbet
9	47:32	Bill Gold
10	53:33	Brian Miller

Long

Place	Time	Name
1	30:46	Oleg
2	32:58	Philipp Von Arx
3	36:03	Simon Gardner
4	36:15	Andrew Lindsay
5	39:12	Andrew Dalglesh
6	40:38	Mark Wood
7	40:42	Rebecca Harding
8	43:58	Heather Thomson
9	45:48	John Ellis
10	45:51	Jo Shepherd
11	46:36	Mark Rove
12	49:20	Stephen Mcharg
13	50:17	Isla Simmons
14	50:20	Tony Loultson
15	51:22	Tim Kieniewicz
16	51:58	Marhoch Hamilton-Jones
17	52:10	Jack Baker
18	54:28	Lauren Eyre
19	55:05	Kirstin Maxwell
20	55:52	Crawford Lindsay
21	57:50	John Mckendrick
22	58:58	Peter Gardner
23	59:13	Heather Kiniewicz
24	1:02:54	Ted Finch
25	Mp	Laura Ramstena
26	Mp	Sam Kilferd

Both Maps:
Short


Long


I want to say thank you to Simon, Isla, and Marhoch for picking up controls for me. and a Special thanks to Ross and Quiche from Heriot-Watts athletics club for helping me at the start and finish. I'll get the athletics club to actually go at on a course at some point!

So main thing I learned from this is that I need to just draw up more courses for practice and figure out what makes a good course. Also I would love to learn to do map updates!