Essex Stragglers Orienteering Society (SOS)Regional (Badge) Event incorporating East Anglia Championships
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Hatfield Forest is a typical East Anglian area – flat terrain and blocks of forest separated by rides -- although the indistinct vegetation, multiple thickets and open areas can confuse even the experienced orienteer.
The start and finish were moved from the traditional positions (north and west of the main lake) to south of the lake to change the perspective for those of you who are regular Hatfield visitors. The courses were planned in an attempt to minimise your time in the open areas and maximise time within the forest blocks – something assisted by Sportident which allows courses to overlap. From the favourable comments received this seems to have been reasonably successful.
A few competitors identified some areas for map modifications at the next update, primarily relating to feasibility/vegetation – thank you.
The only hitch on the day was the movement of one control by about 20 metres on the Yellow course that we repositioned as soon we were notified – hopefully the disruption was minimal.
My thanks to the SOS members who assisted both before and on the day, and Keith Downing for his support and rapid feedback when required.
Whilst it might be easy to plan basic courses in Hatfield, it is much harder to make the courses of the right technical standard. Steve did a good job by keeping you in the forest and giving route choice for senior courses. Strangely, it was the white- and yellow-standard course which presented difficulties to some due to the wide open areas. I was happy with Steve’s courses, but watching some of the younger competitors running in all directions did show that one of the basic key skills at this stage is just to stop and look at the map every so often, rather than just run regardless.
Everything worked well, although the demand for entry on the day with pre-printed maps always presents unpredictable problems of numbers. The solution adopted to recycle maps was the only option available, but one which might not be available at other events. Regional/Badge standard events always set much higher standards for organising clubs, but competitors should also co-operate and be more disciplined than at a more casual Local/Colour-coded event.
Congratulations to all new East Anglian Champions, and also SOS for a well organised event which gave me a very easy job to do.
Thanks for coming and making our event a success. SOS is a small club, and with members away on holiday and on coaching courses, manning the event was a bit of a struggle, but it all seemed to work on the day. Nine of the helpers even managed to become East Anglian Champions!
If you want a map because you were unable to attend or your map was recycled on the White or Yellow course (a large school group arrived unexpectedly) or you ran without a map on the String course or did not receive a certificate (I underestimated demand), please contact me.
One compass was handed in as lost property. If it's yours, tell me which model it is and I'll send it to you.
Thanks to all the SOS helpers on the day, to Lyn for handling pre-entries and Kevin for printing the maps, and to the Planner and the Controller - you were all a pleasure to work with.
East Anglia ChampionsM10 William Louth WAOC M12 Thomas Louth WAOC M14 James Park SOS M16 Edward Louth WAOC M18 Simon Gardner WAOC M20 James Lyne SOS M21 Rolf Crook WAOC M35 Rob Weed SUFFOC M40 Dil Wetherill WAOC M45 Neil Humphries WAOC M50 Richard Bonnett SOS M55 Mick Liston NOR M60 Pat Martin NOR M65 Chris Morley WAOC M70 Jack Isbester SOS M75 Maurice Capper WAOC W10 Rhiannon Ware SOS W12 No runners W14 Sophie Louth WAOC W16 Sarah Park SOS W18 Emma Johnson SOS W20 Jo West SOS W21 Sarah Wright NOR W35 Julia Crook WAOC W40 Louise Walker SUFFOC W45 Sue Woods WAOC W50 Janis Ryall WAOC W55 Estella Ward NOR W60 Jenny Collyer SOS W65 Clarissa Napier NOR W70 Anne Duncumb WAOC W75 No runners |
Badge TimesClass Gold Silver Bronze M21L 73:22 88:03 117:24 M21S 52:11 62:38 83:30 M35L 61:26 73:43 98:18 M40L 61:26 73:43 98:18 M40S 43:19 51:59 69:18 M45L 60:29 72:35 96:47 M45S 40:19 48:23 64:31 M50L 65:00 78:00 104:00 M50S 43:20 52:00 69:20 M55L 57:06 68:31 91:22 M55S 39:27 47:20 63:07 M60L 62:15 74:42 99:37 M60S 37:21 44:49 59:46 M65L 54:01 64:49 86:26 M70L 69:56 83:55 111:54 M75L 64:22 77:15 103:00 M75S 56:34 67:53 90:30 W21L 68:56 82:43 110:18 W21S 45:57 55:09 73:32 W35L 58:48 70:34 94:06 W40L 58:11 69:49 93:06 W40S 40:12 48:14 64:19 W45L 60:12 72:15 96:20 W45S 43:11 51:49 69:06 W50L 62:59 75:35 100:47 W50S 39:42 47:39 63:32 W55L 60:27 72:33 96:44 W55S 46:08 55:22 73:49 W60L 52:41 63:13 84:18 W60S 40:12 48:15 64:20 W65L 56:00 67:12 89:36 W70L 60:20 72:24 96:32 JM5L 55:11 66:14 88:18 JM5M 53:17 63:57 85:16 JM4 35:12 42:15 56:20 JM3 29:35 35:30 47:20 JM2 15:18 18:21 24:28 JM1 12:17 14:45 19:40 JW5L 51:16 61:31 82:02 JW5S 44:45 53:42 71:36 JW4 46:43 56:03 74:44 JW3 42:00 50:24 67:12 JW2 39:58 47:57 63:56 |
Colour Coded Par TimesWhite 33.30 Yellow 26.28 Orange 59.46 Light Green 46:25 Red 45.43 |
Pl Name Club Time M21L (17) 9.660 km 23 C 1 Julian Birkenshaw TVOC 58:08 2 Tony Burton MV 59:16 3 Janis Zamovskis CHIG 1:00:42 4 Jason Howell IND 1:04:07 5 Rob Palmer NOC 1:04:17 6 Colin Dickson BAOC 1:04:31 7 Rolf Crook WAOC 1:04:39 8 Tim Wright NOR 1:05:38 9 Anthony Squire INT 1:08:40 10 Alasdair Bruce CHIG 1:10:17 11 Charlie Whetham SLOW 1:14:24 12 Straka Daniel CZE 1:15:12 13 Anthony Covey-Crump HH 1:23:09 14 Ken Wickham SO 2:22:02 15 Peter Finch SOS 2:23:19 Glen Richardson NOR dnf Martin Pugh SOS dns M35L (7) 7.820 km 19 C 1 Alan Hickling SAX 58:00 2 Robin Weed SUFFOC 1:00:04 3 Steve Tanner RAFO 1:00:34 4 Vince Roper SLOW 1:05:59 5 John Ward NOR 1:06:18 6 Michael Chopping RAFO 1:06:23 7 Paul Oates CROC 1:06:29 M40L (15) 7.820 km 19 C 1 Dil Wetherill WAOC 46:56 2 Simon Errington HH 51:22 3 Ian Mayward HAVOC 51:54 4 Michael Muggeridge HAVOC 55:04 5 Bert Park SOS 59:37 6 Steve Jarvis SO 1:01:16 7 Stephen Hinshelwood WAOC 1:04:10 8 Robert Lines SO 1:07:03 9 Paul Beckett HAVOC 1:08:40 10 Simon Moss CROC 1:13:04 11 Graham Louth WAOC 1:13:12 12 Perry Mole SUFFOC 1:20:32 13 Mick Sillet RAFO 1:20:59 14 David Cooper WAOC 1:26:57 15 Peter Beale WAOC 1:29:58 M45L (11) 6.920 km 19 C 1 Clive Street HH 48:17 2 Neil Humphries WAOC 48:30 3 David Saunders HH 53:39 4 Kevin Machin SOS 59:46 5 Stephen Dobson SAX 1:01:14 6 Mark Lyne SOS 1:01:38 7 Peter Woods WAOC 1:03:45 8 Paul Lowe SUFFOC 1:07:23 9 Chris Brolly HAVOC 1:09:23 10 Kevin Parkes HH 1:10:15 Eric Heritage LEI dns M50L (20) 6.920 km 19 C 1 Richard Bonnett SOS 51:20 2 Nigel Bush MV 52:40 3 Don McKerrow SLOW 55:49 4 Paul Langston HH 56:06 5 Mike Capper WAOC 56:26 6 Andrew Evans DFOK 59:35 7 David Kingdon SAX 1:00:03 8 Andrew Welsh SMOC 1:01:24 9 Rod Postlethwaite WRE 1:01:34 10 Colin West SOS 1:02:00 11 Mark Thompson TVOC 1:04:45 12 Paul Nicholls RAFO 1:06:27 13 Bruce Marshall WAOC 1:07:59 14 Philip Brown NOR 1:08:52 15 Maurice Hemingway WAOC 1:11:29 16 Geoff Pye SOS 1:14:10 17 Michael Hill HAVOC 1:17:53 Bill Hanley SYO mp David Edwards TVOC dnf Nicholas Pugh SOS dns M55L (17) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Peter Martin SAX 44:04 2 Mick Liston NOR 47:18 3 Richard Towler NOR 48:11 4 Colin Webster HH 51:29 5 Tony Davies MDOC 53:18 6 Martin Hore SUFFOC 53:30 7 Garry Parmenter HAVOC 54:14 8 Chris Shaw HAVOC 57:15 9 Scott Evans SAX 58:30 10 John Duffield CHIG 59:31 11 Peter Howsam WAOC 1:02:01 12 Christopher Drew MDOC 1:04:15 13 Peter Ryall WAOC 1:04:41 14 Ian Wilson SAX 1:21:21 15 William Morgan NOR 1:24:58 Andy Elliott CROC mp Peter Riches TVOC dns M60L (12) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Keith Marsden HH 48:28 2 Pat Martin NOR 51:09 3 John Ward NOR 51:56 4 Tony Bishop WAOC 52:32 5 Tom Edelsten CHIG 53:01 6 Geoffrey Newton MV 54:03 7 Greg Birdseye LOK 54:39 8 Goff Hill SUFFOC 54:50 9 Roy Lindsell OD 1:00:10 10 John Russell SOS 1:03:07 11 Tony Grainger HH 1:06:23 12 Graham Ward NOR 1:34:24 M65L (4) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Chris Morley WAOC 43:13 2 John Webb SUFFOC 57:09 3 John Lewis SMOC 59:00 Peter Leverington NOR dns M70L (6) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Donald Moir LEI 55:57 2 Jack Isbester SOS 58:11 3 Derek Ladkin SOS 1:00:24 4 Colin Curtis WAOC 1:03:08 5 Reg Parker BKO 1:21:25 6 Brian Glenister SAX 1:52:41 M75L (4) 3.300 km 11 C 1 Bernard Potter TVOC 51:30 2 Darrell Cruickshank BKO 1:02:19 3 Maurice Capper WAOC 1:42:23 Norman Howarth NOR mp W21L (6) 6.920 km 19 C 1 Sarah Wright NOR 55:09 2 Adrija Kulbokaite IND 59:55 3 Becky Kingdon SHUOC 1:00:46 4 Woo Allen BAOC 1:00:59 5 Stephanie Gilmour AIRE 1:10:46 6 Nicola Robertson SOS 1:11:02 W35L (3) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Julia Jarvis SO 47:03 2 Julia Crook WAOC 53:10 3 Robina Austin RAFO 1:09:44 W40L (6) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Helen Errington HH 46:33 2 Louise Walker SUFFOC 1:05:08 3 Caroline Louth WAOC 1:10:43 4 Erica Pilkington WAOC 1:11:29 5 Sandra Vogel MV 1:19:54 6 Pamela Hemingway WAOC 1:40:17 W45L (7) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Sarah Howes SAX 48:10 2 Sue Woods WAOC 51:07 3 Carol Edwards TVOC 51:47 4 Elisabeth Dickson BAOC 53:28 5 Anne Jago SAX 59:29 6 Ruth Rhodes SO 1:00:47 7 Penny Parkes HH 1:07:17 W50L (11) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Janis Ryall WAOC 49:57 2 Anita Kingdon SAX 50:50 3 Barbara Fothergill HAVOC 56:40 4 Elizabeth Drew MDOC 56:48 5 Lyn West SOS 56:55 6 Sue Hooper HH 1:00:11 7 Rina Hill HAVOC 1:05:03 8 Jane Howsam WAOC 1:07:54 9 Janet Biggs HAVOC 1:11:50 10 Maria Marshall WAOC 1:17:31 11 Julia Robertson SOS 1:17:42 W55L (2) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Frances Goldingay HH 48:22 2 Estella Ward NOR 55:33 W60L (5) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Jenny Collyer SOS 42:09 2 Susan Marsden HH 47:43 3 Geraldine Russell SOS 52:34 4 Gillian Pilgrim NOR 54:15 5 Lesley Norton WRE 1:00:18 W65L (4) 3.300 km 11 C 1 Clarissa Napier NOR 44:48 2 Susie Hall HH 49:32 3 Anne Parker BKO 58:46 4 Shirley Moir LEI 1:22:16 W70L (3) 3.300 km 11 C 1 Anne Power LOK 48:16 2 Anne Duncumb WAOC 1:16:52 3 June Webb SUFFOC 1:33:45 M21S (8) 6.920 km 19 C 1 Chris Cann HAVOC 48:15 2 Kostya Lutsenko CHIG 54:55 3 Owen Lindsell EUOC 1:01:33 4 Oliver O'Brien SLOW 1:03:09 5 Damien Smith WAOC 1:28:00 6 Caine Batten IND 1:31:12 7 Neil Carter SUFFOC 1:32:12 Kevin Oliver NOR mp M40S (4) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Richard Freeman RAFO 40:32 2 David Sanderson SOS 54:15 3 Robin Stevens LOG 1:10:26 4 Gary Woods SOS 1:23:21 M45S (2) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Z. Gebka SPLOT 43:51 2 Colin Jackson HAVOC 52:33 M50S (5) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Charles Taylor-Keane TVOC 46:04 2 Hedley Calderbank HH 51:48 3 Rob Blows WAOC 1:03:40 4 Alan Alford SOS 1:11:35 5 Graham Urquhart OD 1:14:13 M55S (1) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Philip Norris SAX 58:41 M60S (4) 3.300 km 11 C 1 Barry Pilgrim NOR 32:36 2 Bob Alderson NOC 36:13 3 John Collyer SOS 42:35 nc Richard Neale CHIG 51:25 M75S (1) 2.860 km 11 C 1 Tom Crowston HALO 2:21:18 W21S (9) 4.590 km 16 C 1 Laura Dickson BAOC 45:35 2 Annika Richardson NOR 52:57 3 Sarah Grainger HH 56:27 4 Kate McKerrow IND 57:28 5 Louise Sime NOR 58:48 6 Claire Maxted IND 1:07:36 7 Pippa Colchester IND 1:35:31 8 Strakova Lenka CZE 1:48:47 Emily Cordle SOS dnf W40S (5) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Joanne Hickling SAX 41:19 2 Jenny Gebka SPLOT 53:59 3 Helen Nisbet SMOC 1:00:50 4 Clare Lines SO 1:00:54 5 Sue Speller WAOC 1:18:51 W45S (4) 3.300 km 11 C 1 Carol Iddles HH 39:19 2 Wendy Welham SOS 44:21 3 Alison Saunders HH 52:52 Frances Street HH dnf W50S (1) 2.860 km 11 C 1 Hazel Rice NOC 44:16 W55S (1) 2.860 km 11 C 1 Maureen Webster HH 43:39 W60S (1) 2.860 km 11 C 1 Gillian Grainger HH 1:01:32 JM5L (7) 6.920 km 19 C 1 James Lyne SOS 44:09 2 Graham Parkes HH 47:36 3 Simon Gardner WAOC 49:44 4 Alexander Machin SOS 58:28 5 Timothy Street HH 58:50 6 Jonathan Pye SOS 1:09:35 Sebastian Pugh SOS dns JM5M (1) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Edward Louth WAOC 42:38 JM4 (3) 3.060 km 9 C 1 James Park SOS 28:10 2 Jonathan Cronk WAOC 45:04 Conner Weed SUFFOC dns JM3 (5) 2.720 km 10 C 1 Thomas Louth WAOC 23:40 2 Michael Park SOS 37:31 3 Calum Machin SOS 1:23:56 Alex Ware SOS mp Luke Dobson SAX dns JM2 (3) 1.810 km 10 C 1 William Louth WAOC 12:14 2 Thomas Hemingway WAOC 17:08 3 Nicholas Jarvis SO 20:01 JM1 (4) 1.370 km 9 C 1 Alexander Lines SO 9:50 2 Edward Lines SO 10:23 3 Ross Birkenshaw TVOC 19:53 4 Kieran Tanner BKO 1:24:07 JW2 (2) 1.810 km 10 C 1 Rhiannon Ware SOS 31:58 Miranda Leaf HH dns JW3 (3) 2.720 km 10 C 1 Katy Woods WAOC 33:36 2 Jacqueline Heypoick WAOC 37:43 3 Sushruta Chandraker WAOC 51:48 JW4 (3) 3.060 km 9 C 1 Sophie Louth WAOC 37:22 2 Ellen Sanderson SOS 54:28 Katy Howes SO dns JW5S (6) 3.820 km 14 C 1 Clare Howes SO 35:48 2 Andy Strakova CZE 37:39 3 Zuzka Strakova CZE 46:51 4 Isabel Urquhart OD 48:34 5 Laura Parkes HH 50:22 6 Sarah Park SOS 1:05:46 JW5L (4) 5.460 km 17 C 1 Anne Edwards TVOC 41:01 2 Joanne West SOS 53:53 3 Emma Johnson SOS 1:02:23 Clare Woods WAOC mp White (25) 1.370 km 9 C 1 Rory Coutts IND 9:51 2 Gregory Jones IND 10:21 3 Flora Mol IND 10:36 4 Abbey Dixon IND 11:02 5 Flora Hamilton IND 11:03 6 E Carter E Willliams WAOC 11:05 7 Jessica Mol IND 12:27 8 Elizabeth Merceron IND 13:26 9 Tom Jarvis SO 13:48 10 Charlie Bright IND 14:14 11 Barnardiston B5 IND 14:16 12 Michael Wilkinson IND 14:31 13 Emma Vidler IND 14:54 14 Vicky & James Crane IND 15:33 15 Catherine Hemingway WAOC 16:54 16 Ivo Hayes IND 18:18 17 Barnardiston G5 IND 18:54 18 Duncan Cooper WAOC 19:23 19 Nick McKerrow SLOW 19:33 20 James Nisbet SMOC 25:04 21 Stephanie Ware SOS 29:29 22 Fiona Hampton +1 CHIG 30:32 23 Rosa Hampton CHIG 33:30 Ben Wetherill WAOC mp Erica Williamson WAOC dnf Yellow (14) 1.810 km 10 C 1 Millie D & Martha C IND 12:35 2 James S-T & Marcus T IND 13:36 3 Thomas G & Euan M IND 16:41 4 Helen Laurie IND 16:59 5 Matthew Hills GO 17:03 6 Helen V & Sarah R IND 21:07 7 Lewis Cooper WAOC 26:28 8 Anne Turton AIRE 26:47 9 Ross Dobson IND 27:34 10 McAndrew IND 27:45 11 Alex Davidson IND 31:35 12 India H & Helen H IND 36:39 13 Vicky Squire INT 44:04 Max Smith IND mp Orange (10) 2.720 km 10 C 1 Nicholas Jarvis SO 24:47 2 Trent Williamson WAOC 32:49 3 Anthony Biggs HAVOC 36:20 4 Florence Collins +1 IND 46:32 5 Todd Cooper WAOC 59:46 6 Heather Brolly HAVOC 1:00:23 7 Matthew Brolly HAVOC 1:00:54 8 Birkett Family SOS 1:04:19 9 Poppy Collins +1 IND 1:11:51 Janet Allen CHIG dnf LGreen (9) 3.060 km 9 C 1 Peter Allen CHIG 30:46 2 Ashley Clarke GO 32:11 3 Jon Garner IND 38:17 4 Yvonne Hodson TVOC 39:37 5 Alison Rothery WAOC 46:25 6 Rachel Barford SOS 53:48 7 Bob Kay HH 1:06:39 8 John Greaves TVOC 1:10:05 9 Angeleen Hinshelwood IND 1:14:29 Red (3) 4.840 km 14 C 1 Simon Peck SUFFOC 43:34 2 Kevin White AIRE 45:43 3 Caroline Prince IND 55:51