Sunday 26th February 2006 at Morpeth Cottingwood
60 Minute Score
Pos Name Club Class Time Gross Pen Net
Score Score
1 Tom Bray UDOC M20 0:56:10 500 00 500
2 Tom Billam UDOC M21 0:58:21 500 00 500
3 Colin Matheson NATO M50 0:58:50 455 00 455
4 Elizabeth Bridge UDOC W21 0:58:50 415 00 415
5 Morag McNiven 0:58:50 415 00 415
6 Boris Spence NN M50 0:54:52 380 00 380
7 Chris Bradford NATO M55 0:59:34 355 00 355
8 Paul Boyles NATO M21 1:00:41 365 10 355
9 Chris Sanderson UNOC M21 0:53:36 350 00 350
10 David Raymond NATO M45 1:00:00 330 00 330
11 Walter Wright NATO M65 1:00:35 325 10 315
12 Steve Martin Ind M45 1:05:23 375 60 315
13 Fred Miller NATO M55 0:57:22 305 00 305
14 Keith Cooper NATO M50 0:59:00 285 00 285
15 Gillian Martin Ind W40 0:57:22 275 00 275
16 Dave Slade NATO M35 0:59:06 260 00 260
17 Frank Major NN M60 1:05:21 320 60 260
18 Angus Lumb NATO M35 0:56:02 250 00 250
19 Barry Young NN M45 0:59:03 235 00 235
20 Alan Craft NATO M60 0:57:58 225 00 225
21 Bob Cooper NN M60 1:17:40 395 180 215
22 David Floyd NATO M45 0:58:57 210 00 210
23 Graham Scott NATO M60 0:59:44 185 00 185
24 Malcolm Gibson CLOK M60 0:59:12 180 00 180
25 Allan Fortune NATO M60 0:57:07 175 00 175
26 Monica Madl 1:01:12 165 20 145
27 Jennie Morrison UNOC W21 0:50:31 130 00 130
28 Joan Selby CLOK W60 1:07:00 200 70 130
29 Michael Thompson Ind M35 0:54:53 110 00 110
30 Ian Smith NATO M75 1:02:36 110 30 80
Yellow 1.8 km. + 10m. climb
1 O‘Neill Family Ind 27:34 2 Chelsea Colonel W10 Scouts 32:55 3 Brooke Bentham W10 NATO 34:20 4 Scott Martin M07 Ind 42:06 *************************** colour line
Orange 2.9 km. + 65m. climb
1 Jamie Bentham M16 NATO 29:09 2 Helen Rafferty W60 NATO 41:20 3 Eleanor Raymond W12 NATO 53:31 4 Craig Martin M10 Ind 56:11 *************************** colour line 5 Burn Family NATO 76:17 6 Liam Mather + 2 M10 NN 81:45 7 Liam Stephenson M12 Ind 91:10 7 Jim Stephenson M45 Ind 91:10
Controller's Comment
"Thank you to all the competitors for coming. I hope you enjoyed this little corner of Morpeth. The woods are really nice at this time of year. They get too nettly in the summer which is very unpleasant.
I was very impressed with the two UDOC Toms for getting maximum points in the Score. If you could e-mail me the order you got the controls I'll be interested and we can share that with the other competitors. Although not present today due to running for England in Germany, Jonathan Malley did the bulk of the planning and I put the finishing touches and added the points values. The values of controls on the score were planned to give you lots of choice to accumulate points.
Three competitors on the Score punched in the order they visited controls rather than in the relevant boxes. that made it quite difficult to calculate. I tried to get it right but it's your own fault if I didn't ! Apologies to the Orange course competitors for the rather muddy section in the woods. I thought that going down there would make it a bit more interesting and I hope you think it was worth it.
A word of advice to the younger Yellow competitors who slavishly followed the broken fence between controls 2 and 3. It must have been quite difficult as the undergrowth is a bit thick there. Remember that you don't need to be in touching distance to follow the line of a fence/stream/wall etc. just so long as you can see it and run parallel to it is fine.
Adrian Barnes
Organiser's Comment
A good turnout on a cold grey day considering the other orienteering options available. Many thanks to Peter and Carole on Registration, Richard and Fred on Starts and Graham who was co-opted onto Finish with me. Courses were partially planned by the Malleys, but Jonathan was away in Germany running for England! Adrian finalised courses and Controlled, braving the woods at night to get controls out. This gave me the chance to run as well as organise, and I was able to appreciate an excellent Score event with good route choice. UDOC are starting to get together an excellent group of runners, with the two Tom's gaining maximum points. More by chance than skill I hit on a good route that took me to all but three controls - I was very glad of spikes on the more slippery slopes. With hindsight I could have had another 5 points if I had run to No 1 first. Route taken was 6 13 17 21 20 12 11 26 16 19 23 27 10 18 22 5 2 15 14 9 25 8 3 4 - 24 was beyond my fitness level and 7 just too far at the end. Start and finish clocks were 2 seconds out and sympathy to Dave Raymond who reckoned he did 59.59 while I timed him at 60.03 (really 60.01)! Sympathy also to Bob Cooper who discovered that trainers were not up to the job (O-shoes at home ready to go) and as a consequence suffered a severe muscle strain.
Colin Matheson