Coe Fen

Summer Galloppen - 9 June 2004

Results

'Limited map' challenge, ~3.9km

Pos  Name             Club   Time  Comment
---  ----             ----   ----  -------
 1   Rolf Crook       WAOC  28:58
 2   Martin Bailey    WAOC  31:56
 3   Marcus Misson    WAOC  35:18
 4   Roger Horton     WAOC  36.36
 5   Rosemary Dyer    CUOC  37.29
 6   Bruce Marshall   WAOC  39.55
 7   Ian Lawson       WAOC  44.39
 8   Julia Wotton     WAOC  49.23
 9   Rob Sheppard     LOG   52.14
10   Hally Hardie     WAOC  68.02
11   Maria Marshall   WAOC  80.05

     Frances Cooper   WAOC  38.27
     forgot to check that no. 5 was a postbox time rather than a 
     plastic cup so was looking for a plastic cup fruitlessly...
     Jean Sinclair    WAOC  50.51  missing numbers 6 and 12

Orange-ish, ~3.2km

 1   Andy Merritt     WAOC  27.37
 2   Robin Chrystie   CUOC  41.37

     Fionne Austin    EBOR  25.34  wrong no. 11 (CD instead of BP) 
     Chris Thorne     WAOC  30.47  wrong no. 11 (CD instead of BP)
     Sarah Nosworthy  IND   34.23  wrong no. 11 (CD instead of BP)
     Ed Bailey        WAOC  58.11  missing no. 5

Organisers Comments

Firstly many thanks to you all for coming. Fortunately, it seems to have cooled down a bit so running hopefully wasn't quite as bad as it might have been in the heat of the day before!

I hope those of you who took the challenge of the limited map (which was most of you) enjoyed their somewhat empty maps. It is difficult to make Coe Fen interesting for orienteering at times so I hope that this extra twist made it slightly more interesting. Apologies for those of you who found number 7 at the corner of the paddling pool missing. I think the control must have fallen down from the branch and been removed into the bin by some conscientious citizen! Congratulations to Hally for his "lateral thinking" and actually noticing it in the bin (I didn't put it there on purpose, honest!). And many thanks to Marcus for going to replace the missing control for me.

Apologies to those of you who couldn't find the control on the end of the earthwall - it is somewhat difficult to guess where exactly the earthwall ends there and I have tried to put it where it looked right to me. However, when you're putting out controls, things may seem obvious to you that aren't to the competitor later!! I hope it didn't cause too many problems.

Having just gone through the control 'cards', I was somewhat taken aback of how many orange runners 'mis-punched' at the last control. There were two controls quite close by on the ditch, CD (last one on the challenge course) and BP (second one on the challenge course), each on one of the 'bumps' of the ditch. BP was further south and that was the control that was last on the orange course. Admittedly, in a real event, you would have had the control code to cross-check, so maybe it was a little mean of me if I put the two so close together. Sorry if I confused you with this (I think Andy actually put CD down and then crossed it out to replace it with BP...).

Blanka Sengerova

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