Essex Stragglers Orienteering Society (SOS)Colour Coded, Schools League and Come-and-Try-It Event |
Organisers Comments - Dave Birkett (01245-352365)
Thanks to all the helpers on the day and to those who provided valuable assistance in the preparations for the event. -Peter, Peter`s son, Alan, Dean, Martin, Clive, Steve, Geoff, Julia, Suzy, Thomas, Lyn, Colin, Andrew, Shane, James, Mark, Hilary, Clare plus two (sorry don't remember your names), Wendy, Chris for Planning the course and Steve for Controlling. Thanks also to those who volunteered to help Pauline, Geraldine, the rest of the Tant family, Karen and family and Andrew. You all made the organising of the event a pleasure.
Many thanks to all of you for coming. I hope you enjoyed the day. Two controls were sabotaged during the event and moved to slightly different locations. They were re- positioned. One by a sensible young competitor and I thank him for that. If anyone knows or saw who was responsible for moving the controls please let me know and I will take necessary action. I hope that this act of vandalism did not diminish too much the enjoyment of those who were affected. The controls were credited to those who missed them.
It was great to see the string course being used. Steve's idea to use electronic punching worked and gave it another dimension for those who took part.
I have two items of found property a compass and whistle.
We are grateful to Essex University and Colchester Borough Council for use of their land.
The next SOS event is the Hylands Park relays on 7th July 2002. I hope you can all make it for what is traditionally a lot of fun in the sun.
Planners report - Chris Sellens
This event was origally meant to be planned by David West, then at the British Champs he told me that he was unable to plan the event as he had to attend a field trip. I then offered to replace him and do a event swap so he would plan the Chalkney Woods event in October. When I agreed to plan the event I had no idea when the event was to take place and was shocked when it coinsided with my As exams. Obviously the exams came first which finished 3 days before the event. The Planning therefore was very last minute. In fact the control descriptions weren't photocopied till 9.00 on sunday. Despite the last minute planning the event went well, it is just ashame about the individual that moved controls therefore making some competitors runs that little bit less enjoyable.
When planning the courses I tried to take advantage of the small pockets of beutiful parkland and woodland that the area processes as well as including some park race legs to add varrity and increase interest in parkracing which will debt in the Olympics in 2008.
I would like to thank the SOS members and Police that helped on the day who were managed by the efficient Dave Birket. I would also like to thank Steve Robertson the controler whose perfection made the corses what they were, and would like to thank ENGLAND who were considerate enough to play the day before so I could watch the game.
Be sure to come to the clubs next event at HYLANDS PARK, Chelmsford on the 7th of July, and partisipate in the annual SOS relays, it is bound to be a fun day out.
Controllers Report - Steve Robertson
Chris Sellens managed very well to fit in A level exams and planning of the Wivenhoe courses and upheld the Stragglers tradition of 'everything being allright on the night'. Despite the regular use of Wivenhoe for orienteering Chris utilised a new range of control site combinations to maintain interest on the longer courses, plus the addded interest of the 'twilight' run under the University buildings for some of the courses.
Unfortunately we had some interference with two controls, one on the White (106) and one on the Yellow (101) courses -- one moved into a nettle bed and one hidden in a bush. Both control sites were away from areas frequented by the general public and neither control was moved very far. Unfortunately it looks very likely that both controls were moved by early competitors who may have decided to make the courses a little more challenging for those who followed them. Competitors on white and yellow will not be shown as having`miss punched` if they were unable to punch at 101 or 106.
Next time think how you would feel if someone had done that to your course and spoiled your run!
Dave Birkett managed extremely well organising his first SOS event -- a good base for the future!
Pl Stno Name YB Club Time
White
1 Alexandria Phillips Barnardiston 10:56
2 Stephen Dickens Barnardiston 11:03
3 David Eustace Barnardiston 11:17
4 Robert Barker Barnardiston 11:40
5 Alex Bibbie Barnardiston 11:43
6 Nicholas Axford SOS 12:36
7 Alicia Cox Barnardiston 12:57
8 Tom Bright/Chris Buck'm Barnardiston 12:59
9 Erin Rose Barnardiston 13:02
10 Grace Sanderson Independent 13:29
11 Emily Axford SOS 13:43
12 Alice Wilson Barnardiston 14:39
13 Alex Ware SOS 14:57
14 Ralph Knight Barnardiston 14:58
15 Georgina Duthie Barnardiston 15:35
16 Samantha Ayrton Independent 15:52
17 Lucy Hamilton Barnardiston 16:19
18 Matthew Dakin Barnardiston 17:15
19 Chloe Coles Barnardiston 17:40
20 Thomas Rae Barnardiston 18:52
21 Joshua Harris Barnardiston 22:16
22 Verity Mole/Henry/Cath Independent 34:00
**** PAR TIME ****
Devon Williamson Independent mp
Yellow
1 Matthew Dickens Barnardiston 18:45
2 Samuel Gregory Barnardiston 19:47
3 Charlie King Barnardiston 20:33
4 Tom King/Chris Moulton Barnardiston 25:14
5 Sarah Haggie Barnardiston 27:07
6 Jodie Kershaw Barnardiston 28:11
7 Christine Davies Barnardiston 29:11
8 Mathew Rowland SOS 30:36
9 Ellen Sanderson Independent 32:21
**** PAR TIME ****
10 Bridget & Lucy Independent 34:36
11 Alex Ritchings SOS 42:08
12 William Stacey Independent 44:14
13 James Reynolds SOS 48:01
14 Terry Reynolds SOS 48:04
15 Victoria Pye SOS 64:47
16 Harry Biggs HAVOC 78:39
Clare Courtney SOS mp
Orange
1 Perry Mole Independent 32:24
2 Graham Womack Independent 41:37
3 Robert Taylor SOS 44:56
4 Debbie Ritchings SOS 51:23
5 Sam Robinson Independent 58:01
6 Juliet Schoonderwoert Independent 61:20
7 Georgina Czyzewicz SOS 63:01
8 Nicola Barker Barnardiston 64:31
**** PAR TIME ****
9 Nathan Czyzewicz SOS 66:33
10 Jonathan Delle SOS 69:22
11 Euan Arnold Independent 70:30
12 Sam Arnold Independent 72:55
13 Daniel Robinson Independent 73:10
14 Jenny Dale SOS 76:58
Wendy Lucy Nicole Ellis SOS mp
Peter Symes-Thompson Barnardiston mp
Light Green
1 Dvaid Thompson Independent 54:43
2 David Brew HAVOC 56:27
3 Andrew Cordle SOS 61:29
4 Alistair Thompson Independent 64:27
5 Nancy Powell Davies SOS 68:45
6 Kiri Alford SOS 69:49
7 Dean Sykes Independent 72:17
8 Alan Alford SOS 72:18
**** PAR TIME ****
9 Elspeth Mizzen SOS 87:03
10 Ham & Jenny & Amy SOS 110:14
Elizabeth Bellinger Independent mp
Elena Ighatjeva CROC mp
Green
1 Colin West SOS 44:27
2 Geoff Pye SOS 53:10
3 James Lyne SOS 53:53
4 Joanna Nikandrova CROC 54:57
5 Stephen Cartwright HAVOC 57:15
6 Katie Sellens SOS 59:10
7 Joanne West SOS 59:11
8 Hazel Tant SOS 59:12
9 Nina Tant SOS 59:58
9 Emma Johnson SOS 59:58
11 Lyn West SOS 61:53
**** PAR TIME ****
12 Jonathan Pye SOS 69:02
13 Maria Marshall WAOC 78:37
14 Bob Cathmore SOS 78:49
15 Denise Ellis SOS 87:29
16 S Russell/D Sanger Independent 97:27
17 Clive Tant SOS 126:16
Dianne HH mp
Chloe Russell SOS mp
Blue
1 Steve Robertson SOS 54:07
2 Chris Cann HAVOC 59:44
3 Rick Bayne HAVOC 63:34
4 Suzy Robertson SOS 63:46
5 Bruce Marshall WAOC 71:17
6 Darryll Smith Chig 75:59
7 Steven King SOS 76:58
8 Kevin Ellis SOS 80:57
**** PAR TIME ****
9 Nick Richards Independent 83:01
10 Kelvin Howard HAVOC 85:10
11 Anthony Biggs HAVOC 85:49
David Carter WAOC mp
John Russell SOS mp
Geraldine Russell SOS mp
String
1 Matthew Roland SOS 3:44
2 Carl Rowland SOS 3:52
3 Nicholas Axford SOS 4:10
4 Grace Sanderson SOS 4:53
5 Samantha Ayrton Independent 5:26
6 Emily Axford SOS 6:46
7 Grace Sanderson SOS 7:54
8 Alex SOS 8:27
9 Joanna Ayrton Independent 8:29
10 Thomas Birkett Independent 10:03
11 Helen Carter Independent 10:55
12 Trent Williamson Independent 15:06
Stephen Rowland SOS mp