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Summer Series Event 4
Great Notley Country Park
Thursday 5th July 2012
Results

Organiser/Planner's Comments - Eddie Banks banksy.eddie@gmail.com

True to 'Summer Series' a balmy evening in Great Notley Country Park, with wild flowers blooming and birds singing; disturbed only by 30 orienteers trampling through the high vegetation and arriving looking a little overheated at the finish! Requests from some competitors to avoid the compulsory hill climb up to the big bird next year will surely be ignored by the planner. This year we were able to include the addition of a second lower hill at the north end of the park, a small but interesting young wooded area. Even some experienced orienteers were caught out here (by the slightly evil planner and perhaps wishful thinking) that control 12 (nr 42) on the yellow course was control 7 (nr 46) on the green. Both were on a fence but that was where the similarity ended, nr 46 being 60m further across the plateau through the trees. There were one or two other controls where people reported finding it difficult to spot the small control squares, so precise navigation and checking control descriptions is clearly advisable. I did try to avoid 'hiding' the controls but clearly not always successfully for which I apologise. It was good to hear some extensive discussion after the event over route choices.

Many thanks to John Collyer for helping with the map update and planning control advice, Nancy and David for the first aid cover and everybody who helped collect controls and pack away the start/finish area at the end of the evening. Much appreciated!
 

Yellow	2.2km, 70m climb
Position	Name	Club	Age	Time
1	Steven Partridge	SOS	M40	22.41
2	Josh Partridge	SOS	M14	23.12
3	Chloe Cracknell	SOS	W12	29.52
4	Emily Cordle	SOS	W21	37.59
5	Joshua Buist	SOS	M10	38.54
6	Thomas Lock	SOS	M12	40.56
7	Amy Bocking	SOS	W12	41.00
8	Chloe Plumb & Lucy	SOS	W12	67.34
9	Ben Partridge	SOS	M10	84.30
10	David & Julie Randall	IND	M60/W35	86.15
Light Green	4.1km, 100m climb
Position	Name	Club	Age	Time
1	Peter Warland	SOS	M45	30.11
2	Richard Bonnett	SOS	M55	31.52
3	John Williams	SOS	M60	34.35
4	Chris Childs	SOS	M60	35.34
5	Chris Panton	Suffoc	M35	37.50
6	David Lumby	SOS	M50	38.04
7	Simon Clamp	SOS	M50	47.53
8	Susan Clamp	SOS	W50	49.10
9	Les Childs	SOS	M60	51.20
10	Rob Enderby	HAVOC	M40	52.50
11	Paul Lowe	Suffoc	M50	53.30
12	Andrew Cordle	SOS	M60	55.30
13	Nancy Powell Davies	SOS	W60	62.40
14	Daisy Partridge	SOS	W12	64.34
15	Jack Edwards (& Julie)	SOS	M10	78.18
	Andy Mason	IND	M45	35.18	MP	Control 7
	Simon Peck	Suffoc	M55	57.10	MP	Control 7
	Bob & Joanne Willis	IND		78.15	MP	Controls 7, 3/4 & 6/9 (sequence)

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