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Didn't we do well with the weather?! Or at least until we came to packing up and a heavy shower soaked the download tent. I had the impression from comments from finishers that you enjoyed having a dry run in sunshine - something lacking in recent weeks.
All seemed to go well on the day thanks to the wonderful band of helpers. I apologise for the final stile into the finish field; we intended opening the gate but I failed to locate the key holder (there is a long story). I lost count of the number of times I was told that the army issued key opened ALL the gates on the area when it was a totally different style of padlock. I also apologise for not putting a sign at the entrance to the assembly field to send those approaching from the wrong direction to the Whalebone Inn to turn round. The route signed was not the most direct but was a safer choice. Please read final details and comply with instructions rather than relying on satnav or the 'I know better approach'.
Congratulations to all the East Anglian Champions. My thanks to Major Gurung from Colchester Garrison for his support in staging the event, all my helpers and the competitors for coming.
It's difficult to turn down the opportunity to plan an event on an area that is just over the road. I cycle through Donyland Woods on the way to work when the tracks are dry enough and co-planned the only previous event that used the area a few years ago, when it was linked to the Roman Valley area by a dodgy double crossing of the Mersea Road. My son Chris mapped the Middlewick ranges for the Army inter-services night championships in 2007 which produced a new area with an interesting mix of open grassland, patches of woodland and military infrastructure. The main problems of Donyland and Middlewick are getting permissions (with a commitment from the army not to cancel at short notice to allow live firing), the possibility of control vandalism in heavily used areas on the ranges, trespassing motorcyclists and rampant brambles. Several sessions of map tinkering were thwarted by the red flags and the February monsoon flooded a key route on short green, light green and orange, but at least the snow compressed the brambles a bit. I tried to minimize the number of courses that had long running legs over the open areas, and to compress as much as possible into the more runnable areas of Donyland Woods. Personally, I think there are some lovely bits in this patchwork of old conifer, heathland, beech and oak woodland and I hope you will remember them rather than any areas of rampant bramble that you encountered. I regret the incursion of motorcyclists, who are generally 'considerate' but use the area illegally and to the great detriment of other users, wildlife and the tranquility of the environment. I hope you enjoyed your visit to my backyard and found some appropriate orienteering and physical challenges on your courses. Finally, a few votes of thanks, in no particular order. Firstly to Duncan Harrison who planned white to orange and put out half the controls on the day as well as planning and helping Claire to run the string course. Secondly to Stragglers' mapping officer Kevin Machin for formatting and printing the maps to a very tight schedule. Thirdly to Clive and Karen, Duncan and Kevin (again), Chris, Hilary and Steve Cartwright for helping to collect controls at the end of a very tiring day. And finally to Jenny Collyer, ably assisted by John, for her constructive and sympathetic controlling.
Martin made good use of the two very different areas finding a balance between the slower wooded area of Donylands and fast open areas of Middlewick Ranges.
We were fortunate this year that the bramble was much lower than usual - thanks to the snow and frost of the winter. We were not so lucky with the water levels though and I apologise to those competitors who had controls 117 and 128 and some paths in that area - the levels were higher after two dry weeks than they had been at the end of the rainy spell. The control we did move (131) would have been alright on the day but two weeks ago was totally submerged.
The event ran smoothly on the day under the direction of Lyn and SOS helpers.
W10 | No entries | M10 | Duncan Cooper WAOC |
W12 | Bronwen Mansel SUFFOC | M12 | William Louth WAOC |
W14 | Rhiannon Ware SOS | M14 | Thomas Birkett SOS |
W16 | No entries | M16 | Will Hooton SUFFOC |
W18 | Sophie Louth WAOC | M18 | Jonny Cronk WAOC |
W20 | No entries | M20 | James Park SOS |
W21 | Lenka Anstead SUFFOC | M21 | Neil Carter SUFFOC |
W35 | Anna Falk WAOC | M35 | Andrew Elliott SUFFOC |
W40 | Rachel Pocock WAOC | M40 | Ronny Falk WAOC |
W45 | Frances Cooper WAOC | M45 | Michael Belshaw NOR |
W50 | Janet Cronk WAOC | M50 | Mike Capper WAOC |
W55 | Maria Marshall WAOC | M55 | Richard Bonnett SOS |
W60 | Rosie Shaw SMOC | M60 | Michael Bickle WAOC |
W65 | Geraldine Russell SOS | M65 | John Ward NOR |
W70 | Seonaid Dudley WAOC | M70 | Chris Morley WAOC |
W75 | Barbara George NOR | M75 | Jack Isbester SOS |
Joan George Trophy for the best performance by a Junior – Jonny Cronk
White | 31:00 | All competitors |
Yellow | 44:30 | 50% of competitors |
Orange | 1:23:00 | 50% of competitors |
Light Green | 56:30 | 50% of competitors |
Short Green | 1:17:00 | Winners time + 50% |
Green | 1:04:00 | 50% of competitors |
Short Blue | 1:25:00 | Winners time + 50% |
Blue | 1:14:57 | Winners time + 50% |
Short Brown | 1:21:47 | 50% of competitors |
Brown | 1:26:30 | 50% of competitors |
NAME | AGE | CLUB | TIME |
Tom Birkett | 12 | SOS | 3.44 |
Danny Fig | 11 | HH | 4.47 |
Alex Wetherill | 7 | WAOC | 5.18 |
Freddie Grey | 8 | SUFFOC | 5.23 |
Josh Cathmoir | 8 | SOS | 6.48 |
Ben Ross | 6 | IND | 6.58 |
Craig Carter | 4 | SUFFOC | 8.19 |
Alesha Lowe | 6 | SUFFOC | 8.26 |
Alex Birkett | 10 | SOS | 10.03 |
Maja Falk | 4 | WAOC | 13.07 |
Tuva Falk | 7 | WAOC | 13.5 |
Ryan Carter | 1 | SUFFOC | 15.22 |
Roxy Anstead | 3 | SUFFOC | 16.44 |
Katy Hinshelwood | 3 | WAOC | 32.21 |
Libby Hinshelwood | 1 | WAOC | 32.3 |
Ethan Ross | 2 | IND | 6.29 (to no. 5) |
Pl Name Club Class ActualAge Time White (4) 2.0 km 15m 14 C 1 Ben Ross IND W M10 25:34 2 Freddie Gray SUFFOC W M10 27:25 3 Lucy Warland SOS W W10 30:35 Alex Wetherill WAOC W M10 mp Yellow (11) 2.6 km 20m 11 C 1 Duncan Cooper WAOC M10 M10 17:26 2 Ben Wetherill WAOC Y M12 21:26 3 Hannah Pocock WAOC Y W12 33:40 4 Josh Caithmoir+ 1 IND Y M10 37:26 5 Adam Mugliston IND Y M12 37:47 6 Nadine Randall NOR Y W45 44:08 7 Daisy Randall Savery NOR Y W12 55:41 8 Sheila & Alesha Lowe SUFFOC Y W45 1:01:05 9 Martin Parsons NOR M10 M10 1:10:37 Alex Birkett SOS Y M12 mp Catherine Girvan NOR Y W45 mp Orange (8) 3.0 km 15m 13 C 1 William Louth WAOC M12 M12 25:39 2 Timothy Harrison IND M12 M12 1:00:03 3 Bronwen Mansel SUFFOC W12 W12 1:03:30 4 Daniel Figg HH M12 M12 1:22:30 5 Ruth Parsons NOR O W14 1:45:30 Ben Warland SOS M12 M12 mp Lewis Cooper WAOC M12 M12 mp Margaret Moody IND O W45 dns Light Green (9) 3.5 km 20m 16 C 1 Thomas Birkett SOS M14 M14 29:25 2 Todd Cooper WAOC M14 M14 35:27 3 Rhiannon Ware SOS W14 W14 48:50 4 Roderick Mansel SUFFOC M14 M14 56:05 5 Jon Beaumont SOS LG M40 57:29 6 Ros James SMOC LG W45 1:13:55 7 Lucy Carter SUFFOC LG W21 1:19:52 Robert Young HH M14 M14 dns Rachael Harrison IND W14 W14 dns Short Green (16) 3.6 km 20m 18 C 1 Chris Baker DFOK M75 M75 51:20 2 Nancy Powell Davies SOS W60S W60 58:01 3 Jack Isbester SOS M75 M75 1:00:00 4 Ruby Campbell CHIG W70 W70 1:00:14 5 Geraldine Russell SOS W65 W65 1:03:59 6 Barbara George NOR W75 W75 1:05:22 7 Seonaid Dudley WAOC W70 W70 1:05:24 8 Sharon Warland SOS W45S W45 1:06:09 9 Anne Power LOK W75 W75 1:06:59 10 Julia Robertson SOS W55S W55 1:13:00 11 Ursula Oxburgh WAOC W75 W75 1:13:40 12 June Webb SUFFOC W75 W75 1:25:08 13 Colin Curtis WAOC M75 M75 1:25:19 14 Hazel Bickle WAOC W55S W55 1:26:21 Julia Baker DFOK W70 W70 mp Angie Hinshelwood WAOC SG mp Green (34) 4.4 km 25m 18 C 1 Peter Martin SAX M60S M60 34:57 2 Joanne Hickling SAX W40S W45 44:52 3 Shona Masson SO W16 W16 46:09 4 Robin Campbell CHIG M70 M70 46:42 5 Chris Morley WAOC M70 M70 47:26 6 Alison Saunders HH W40S W50 47:29 7 Derek Jenner CHIG M55S M55 49:24 8 Graham Bridgland SAX M55S M55 49:31 9 Dawn Figg HH W40S W40 56:01 10 Michael Hill HAVOC M55S M55 57:58 11 Rosie Shaw SMOC W60 W60 59:08 12 John Shaw SMOC M60S M60 59:10 13 Alex Ware SOS G M18 1:00:41 14 Andrew Cordle SOS M60S M60 1:01:45 15 Rodney Freeburn NOR M70 M70 1:03:16 16 Anita Kingdon SAX W55 W55 1:03:46 17 Carys James SMOC G W18 1:05:04 18 Paul Lowe SUFFOC G M50 1:06:41 19 David Skinner SOS M60S M60 1:07:26 20 Julie Collins DFOK W40S W50 1:07:30 21 Ann Mills SOS W35S W35 1:08:55 22 John Webb SUFFOC M70 M70 1:10:48 23 Maria Marshall WAOC W55 W55 1:12:24 24 Hally Hardie WAOC M70 M70 1:15:13 25 Michael Sprague IND G M21 1:15:45 26 Barbara Fothergill HAVOC W55 W55 1:16:33 27 Estella Ward NOR W60 W60 1:19:19 28 Ros West CHIG W60 W60 1:20:33 29 Janet Biggs HAVOC W55 W55 1:21:34 John Harris WAOC M60S M60 dns Becky Young HH W16 W14 dns Harry Li NOR G M16 dns nc Nic Foster IND G 52:21 nc Clive Tant SOS G M55 1:22:30 Short Blue (22) 5.6 km 20m 16 C 1 Tom Edelsten CHIG M65 M65 56:40 2 John Ward NOR M65 M65 57:56 3 Sophie Louth WAOC W18 W18 58:39 4 Frances Cooper WAOC W45 W45 1:03:22 5 Helen Bickle WAOC W21S W21 1:05:15 6 Jonathan Houseago SUFFOC M50S M50 1:05:20 7 Stephen Cartwright SOS M50S M50 1:12:02 8 Sarah Mansel SUFFOC W45 W45 1:14:38 9 Helen Nisbet SMOC W45 W45 1:15:00 10 John Starkey SOS M65 M65 1:15:34 11 Rod Mansel SUFFOC M50S M50 1:15:50 12 Janet Cronk WAOC W50 W50 1:17:03 13 Jeremy Gray SUFFOC M45S M45 1:17:33 14 Caroline Louth WAOC W45 W45 1:17:57 15 John Russell SOS M65 M65 1:20:00 16 Rowan Purkis SAX W50 W55 1:23:36 17 Michael Park SOS M18S M18 1:30:46 18 Susan Waller-Toyne SOS W45 W45 1:31:43 19 Karen Heybrook WAOC W45 W45 1:35:41 20 Judith Wetherill WAOC W45 W45 1:54:27 Graham Ward NOR M65 M65 mp David Ball NOR M65 M65 dns Blue (38) 6.7 km 35 17 C 1 Richard Bonnett SOS M55 M55 49:58 2 Peter Warland SOS M40S M45 55:40 3 Simon Greenwood SAX M55 M55 56:21 4 Steve Robertson SOS M55 M55 57:56 5 John Duffield CHIG M60 M60 59:17 6 David Saunders HH M40S M50 1:00:31 7 Michael Bickle WAOC M60 M60 1:00:33 8 Anna Falk WAOC W35 W35 1:00:47 9 Rachel Pocock WAOC W40 W40 1:01:01 10 Martin Hore SUFFOC M60 M60 1:01:03 11 Stu Levene HH M40S M40 1:01:59 12 Andrew Cummings HH M55 M55 1:03:20 13 Nicholas Pugh SOS M55 M55 1:03:25 14 Stan Foster HH M60 M60 1:03:28 15 Keith Downing SMOC M55 M55 1:05:03 16 Philip Craven DFOK M55 M55 1:05:16 17 Chris Shaw HAVOC M60 M60 1:05:28 18 John Williams SOS M55 M55 1:07:36 19 Philip Halford SUFFOC M55 M55 1:09:16 20 Will Hooton SUFFOC M16 M16 1:09:25 21 Garry Parmenter HAVOC M60 M60 1:09:29 22 Colin West SOS M55 M55 1:10:35 23 Bruce Marshall WAOC M55 M55 1:11:54 24 Rachel Collins SO Blu W18 1:13:35 25 Ali Lea BAOC W35 W35 1:14:13 26 Andrew Welsh HAVOC M55 M55 1:15:14 27 Simon Hooton SUFFOC M40S M50 1:17:10 28 Christopher Childs SOS M60 M60 1:18:19 29 Edwin Banks SOS M55 M55 1:19:53 30 Ian Lawson WAOC M55 M55 1:19:55 31 Sandra Vogel MV W40 W45 1:27:06 32 Anthony Biggs HAVOC M60 M60 1:34:36 33 John Mills SOS M35S M35 1:37:28 34 Bryan Smith IND M40S M40 1:41:48 35 Paul Garton NOR M60 M60 2:03:58 Laurie Rudling NOR M60 M60 mp Mick Liston NOR M60 M60 mp Thomas Louth WAOC M16 M16 dns Short Brown (33) 8.0 km 45m 23 C 1 Keith Masson MV M50 M50 54:31 2 Ian Hargreaves KERNO M21S M21 55:38 3 Michael Belshaw BAOC M45 M45 56:57 4 Ian Maynard HAVOC M45 M45 58:30 5 Steve Hinshelwood WAOC M45 M45 58:43 6 Alan Hickling SAX M45 M45 59:07 7 Dil Wetherill WAOC M45 M45 59:15 8 Jonny Cronk WAOC M18 M18 1:03:50 9 Graham Louth WAOC M45 M45 1:04:52 10 Mike Capper WAOC M50 M55 1:07:03 11 Paul Beckett HAVOC M45 M45 1:09:04 12 Michael Muggeridge HAVOC M45 M45 1:09:05 13 David Sanderson SOS M45 M45 1:09:52 14 Richard Purkis SAX M18 M18 1:10:09 15 Clive Wilkinson SUFFOC M45 M45 1:11:09 16 Dorien James SMOC M45 M45 1:12:19 17 Jon Chandler LOK M21S M40 1:14:08 18 Kevin Machin SOS M50 M50 1:18:05 19 Jerry Purkis SAX M50 M50 1:18:25 20 Peter Heybrook WAOC M50 M50 1:19:21 21 Eric Heritage LEI M50 M50 1:19:34 22 James Park SOS M20 M20 1:20:26 23 Bert Park SOS M45 M45 1:20:44 24 Lenka Anstead SUFFOC W21 W21 1:25:30 25 Alan Anstead SUFFOC M45 M45 1:28:10 26 Jaqueline Heybrook WAOC W21 W20 1:29:01 27 Mark Collins DFOK M50 M50 1:39:45 28 Emma Johnson SOS W21 W21 1:45:12 29 Simon Peck SUFFOC M50 M50 2:02:22 Ian Smith WAOC M50 M50 mp David Cooper WAOC M45 M45 dns Chris Young HH M18 M16 dns Richard Freeman HH M45 M45 dns Brown (19) 9.9 km 65m 24 C 1 Jon Pedersen Halden SK M21 M21 56:41 2 Andrew Quin IFK M21 M21 1:00:28 3 Oyvind Stokseth Halden SK M35 M35 1:01:46 4 Mark Ford CHIG M35 M35 1:02:40 5 Ronny Falk WAOC M40 M40 1:05:17 6 Pete Jones SN M40 M50 1:17:17 7 Tony Burton MV M40 M45 1:18:45 8 Neil Speers DFOK M40 M40 1:19:43 9 John Van Rooyen SAX M40 M60 1:26:09 10 Neil Carter SUFFOC M21 M21 1:28:04 11 Andrew Elliott SUFFOC M35 M35 1:29:36 12 John Ward NOR M40 M40 1:29:49 13 Andrew Stimson WAOC M21 M21 1:32:48 14 Becky Kingdon SLOW M21 W21 1:34:39 15 Yehuda Alon SLOW M40 M55 1:48:43 16 David Kingdon SAX M40 M55 1:51:34 17 Ken Wickham SO M40 M70 2:38:55 Ian Renfrew NOR M40 M40 dns nc Chris Sellens SOS M21 M21 1:03:19
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