2012 Xmas 5 Days - Day 2 (2012-12-28)

Course cancelled due to misplaced control 8. The feature looked exactly as it was mapped, so I suspected something was wrong with the placement. There were a few other elites wandering around and we concluded that it was misplaced. I seached all of the similar features in the circle for 4 or 5 minutes, but I could not find it. I felt that it was almost certain that a no-race would be declared so I decided to wait at the correct site and tell other runners to go on so that their runs would not be impacted. After a few minutes, Lachlan Hallett came through and mentioned that the flag was placed 120m SE and 6 contours too high. I ran back to get the control and reposition it to the correct location, so at least the 2nd half of the field could have an uninterrupted run. On my way back, a few fast runners came through and tried to punch the moving control!