[Dean]

It is funny with Debbie and I typing in parallel...

I would challange that Phase 3 is about a bunch of things including course/surface analysis, but ends up being about RUN strategy, planning, execution, and analysis more than course analysis.

The morning course walk is incrediably detailed and will overwhelm all but the most technical, but I beleive that is it's purpose. There are nuggets of truth intersperessed that after being reinforced all day by the exercises force you to look at courses differently.

The remainder of the day is not about walking, but about convincing the students what is the fast way around the course in their cars despite what preconceived notions they may have. They do this again with multiple segment times, and other tools.

I would reccomend this phase only for the hard core autocrosser. If it is about being social, you don't need this course. If you are serious about it, and have a season or so under your belt, go for it. Our newbie got something out of it, but since he was not fast, and could not lay down consistantly good runs, his segment times were probably not meaningful at his level, but he got a taste...