Newcastle and Tyneside Orienteers Results Service
Sunday 12th March 2006 at Blagdon
Planner: Andy Clarke
Controller: Ray Barnes (NOC)
White 1.9km , 5m. climb
1 221351 Daniel Graham Ind M10 24:42
2 221656 Barnaby Warren NN M10 26:52
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221341 O'Neill Family Ind mp
Orange 2.4km , 25m. climb
1 219781 Jonathan Lakey NATO M10 35:56 2 221343 Christopher Rich Ind M12 41:14 3 221342 Wesley Tighe Ind M14 52:55 ******************************************************Colour line 4 221345 Kai and Michael Thompson Ind M21 67:46
Light Green 3.5km , 50m. climb
1 221350 Ben Lester Ind M21 36:52
2 221344 Seth James + 1 Ind M10 40:47
3 235804 Jamie Bentham NATO M18 41:10
4 32506 Alan Morgan NN M75 50:57
5 235803 Alan Bentham NATO M55 51:07
6 247157 Christopher Lakey NATO M14 51:22
7 33249 Gill Hardy CLOK W65 53:09
8 400049 Joan Adamson CLOK W55 57:53
9 33264 Eileen Bedwell CLOK W75 61:14
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10 32500 Eileen Morgan NN W70 67:11
11 221347 Liam Stephenson Ind M12 100:05
12 221346 Jim Stephenson Ind M45 100:06
13 221348 Dan Spraggon Ind M21 100:39
12511 Bob Johnson + 1 NN M60 mp
Green 4.0km , 50m. climb
1 39595 Adrian Barnes NATO M55 36:17 2 219797 Jeremy Lakey NATO M45 41:46 3 32477 Raymond Snaith CLOK M60 42:26 4 221207 Keith Cooper NATO M55 46:03 5 12581 Debby Warren NN W40 49:00 6 33247 Mike Hardy CLOK M65 49:40 7 39955 Patricia Davies NATO W50 49:55 8 221349 David Floyd NATO M45 52:17 ******************************************************Colour line 9 217790 Fred Miller NATO M55 63:23 10 235620 David Murphy CLOK M40 64:41 11 33095 John Bedwell CLOK M75 79:40
Blue 5.8km , 80m. climb
1 501072 Duncan Archer CLOK M21 34:38 2 503510 Pippa Whitehouse CLOK W21 39:38 3 236259 Boris Spence NN M50 50:07 4 401537 Bob Cooper NN M60 52:51 5 219798 David Fairbairn NATO M50 53:34 6 416813 Christopher Bradford NATO M55 55:05 7 33328 Colin Matheson NATO M50 57:59 ******************************************************Colour line 8 12504 Julian Warren NN M40 60:36 9 33155 Andrew Nicoll NATO M65 60:44 10 400050 Martin Adamson CLOK M60 61:09 11 32505 Frank Major NN M60 63:51 12 220747 David Raymond NATO M45 69:00 13 411115 Angus Lumb NATO M35 72:08
Officials' Comments
Planner
Well, an interesting day for what is probably my swansong with NATO as a planner, as the weather threatened but did not deliver, so thank you to everyone who braved the threats from the Met Office for what it seemed was a good event for everyone. It‘s unfortunate that no-one did what I thought was an interesting yellow course (I could have saved putting out control 120!) especially as the design of it caused more discussion between the controller and myself than any other.
Only one person mentioned our deliberate mistake in the descriptions for the longer courses (we knew about it on Friday but felt that experienced orienteers would understand and the others wouldn‘t notice and just head for the obvious flag)
Finally thanks to my wife and son without whose help on Saturday the controls would not have been out, to AOL and Orange without whom the event would not have happened and to Blagdon Estate (and the deer who seemed to deliberately put on a display near the finish for our entertainment).
Andy Clarke
Controller
My duties elsewhere forced the timescales for the last two weeks before the event to be very compressed. My apologies to NATO, especially to planner Andy, and printer Adrian.
Apologies to the Blue and Green course competitors too - because this compression and the need to make a number of late map changes introduced two problems which did not become apparent until I was checking on the morning.
Firstly control 142 was a late addition to increase the technical difficulty of Blue. Having agreed the site together a week before, Andy couldn't find the marker cane when setting out controls. He found a ditch that matched the map and description and told me what he'd done. On the morning, I couldn't find the cane either, but his placement was fine. But that means that there is a least one more ditch in that block - and either the distinct tree is too far SE - or the ditch bend is shown incorrectly.
Secondly control 134, narrow ride, NW end. The problem is the new wide ride, NW-SE, and the three hides along it, running almost parallel 40m away. This new ride was added to the map a week before the event, and the three hides added by eye. On the morning, I could see that the NW hide was not far enough to the NW, so decided to move the kite for 134 about 30m NW to align better with the hide - as this was a likely attack point. 134 remained within the gap of the narrow ride, which itself extends a little further NW than mapped. This of course made the control slightly wrong with respect to the river bend, but I felt it was an open enough area not to be difficult to see from a far distance.
Despite the foregoing, I believe everybody enjoyed Andy's courses, and I hope that you, the competitors, relished a run in the snow as much as I did checking controls with the company of deer on a rather chilly, white morning.
I understand that Blagdon Estate may be happy for a larger area to be mapped; an extended and completed map together with adequate parking could provide a fine venue for a full-scale District event.
Ray Barnes