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They`ll only remember you for your mistakes........
Ive just spent the last 9 months organising the British Elite Orienteering Championships at Middle Distance in Mulgrave Woods near Whitby, on Sunday 15 April 2007.I would say that 99.5% of the organisation was fine. Unfortunately, the event will be remembered for the 0.5% which wasn - the awarding of…
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the junior Elite prizes to the wrong people.To compound matters, I wasn actually at the race site for most of the event - I was running the Gisborough Moors Race (or its F&M year replacement) for the 30th consecutive year. And dear Chris P told everyone in Assembly, so no chance of sneaking out and back without anyone noticing that I wasn there!And there were those BOF Committee individuals who lambasted me as soon as I reappeared - presumably they considered this a severe dereliction of duty and that I should be made to suffer - the organiser should have…
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