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Officials: Organiser: John Crosby Planner: Andy Clarke Controller: Colin Matheson
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NATO: Newcastle and Tyneside Orienteers CLOK: Cleveland Orienteering Klub NN: Northern Navigators IND: Independent BL: Borderliners UDOC: University of Durham O Club MEXP: Morpeth Explorer Scouts mp: Mispunched (wrong control) dnf: Retired
Planners Comments
Well interesting isn't it - planning needed to take account of areas set aside for Mountain Bikers and an Environmental Exclusion Zone which, maybe, achieved our objective of making them as unlike "Kielder" as possible, with lots of running, staying near the bottom of the guidelines for length and avoiding all the areas that the planner found too slow going and unpleasant. I think a few White runners were disconcerted to find that two line features used were a stone wall and an Earthbank - both legitimate line features easy to follow even if "off path" - hopefully drawing you to more technical courses in future. Now the Thanks: Firstly Fred Miller for his patient mapping of an area that will never be among his favourites and putting up with Colin and I spotting lots of changes required - but we all agree you have to map the Owl. Paul Boyles for the "bridge" used on the "junior" courses, Colin Matheson for his zealous controlling and assistance in control placing and retrieval (and Ro for the latter), the Lakey family for more retrieval (sorry about 101), Alex Crosby for sterling carparking and my wife for sandwiches and traipsing round with me planning (which includes slogging through less pleasant parts of the area and losing her gloves).
Andy Clarke
Controller's Comment
The area at Kielder lends itself pretty well to Light Green, Short Green and Green but is a bit complex for the easier courses and has a bit too much track running for the longer courses. Andy decided to use the area north of the river for the easier courses, but there are issues with mountain bikers using some of the paths so by following earthbanks and walls the white was whitish and the yellow was yellowish. The Forestry Commission asked us not
to use the area with bike trails so the route had to loop around the top.
Restrictions were imposed on an area used by the Brown Course, but it was pretty rough and I think runners would have had enough by the time they got to the far end. I made some suggestions to Andy the planner about how to get the runners off the tracks and into the forest and in the end I think the courses were sufficiently interesting and challenging. The Orange was well within the required technical standard but I do know that the first 5 controls caused some issues - they were my suggestion rather than the planner's so blame me if you ran the Orange and didn't find the first part quite as straightforward as you would have expected. One of our more experienced orienteers has learned a lesson about looking at the map - don't assume when you see a finish banner that it is necessarily on your course!
Colin Matheson
Link to Splits File
White (1.4 km.)
1 Livia Wright W08 CLOK 29:13 2 Harry Boyles M10 NATO 29:52 3 Matthew Howd IND 45:57 4 Isabel Gaines +2 W03 BL 53:04 **************************** Colour Line
Yellow (2.3 km.)
No runners
Orange (2.5 km.)
1 Declan McCreton M14 MEXP 41:40 2 Isabel Flynn W09 NATO 43:11 3 Thomas Edgoose M08 IND 43:29 4 Joshua Boyles M12 NATO 49:41 5 Daniel Harper M14 MEXP 50:16 6 Susan Riddle W40 NATO 57:53 7 Aoife Lakey W12 NATO 63:41 **************************** Colour Line 8 Tom Savage M16 MEXP 174:04 Charlie M16 MEXP dnf Christopher English M14 MEXP Eden Webley M16 MEXP dnf Eddie Baxter M16 MEXP 40:42 mp Jacob Ventors-Wood M16 MEXP 43:22 mp
Light Green (3.4 km.)
1 Eloise Wright W14 CLOK 41:04 2 Cameron Willis M16 MEXP 52:49 3 Aran Whalley M16 MEXP 64:15 4 Robert Naylor M16 MEXP 67:56 5 Daniel Thorn M14 MEXP 70:46 6 Jonathan Lakey M16 NATO 71:03 **************************** Colour Line 7 Andrew Clough M16 MEXP 74:32 8 James Thorn M14 MEXP 78:26 9 Anne Lakey W50 NATO 88:31 10 Andrew Scott M14 MEXP 112:43 11 Robert Walker M14 MEXP 115:02 Mark Doyle M16 MEXP 76:53 mp
Short Green (2.5 km.)
1 Gill Hardy W70 CLOK 49:01 2 Carole Firth W65 NATO 50:36 3 Ruth Fletcher W55 NATO 51:31 4 Ro Matheson W55 NATO 54:50 5 Helen Rafferty W65 NATO 55:37 **************************** Colour Line 6 Ian Smith M80 NATO 84:48
Green (3.8 km.)
1 Paul Flynn M45 NATO 50:46 2 Bob Richardson M55 NATO 53:04 3 Quasimodo Crow M45 NATO 55:14 4 Andrew Rice M21 NATO 55:18 5 Bill Burlton M65 NATO 56:52 6 Sheila Sprot W55 NATO 58:07 7 Jeremy Lakey M50 NATO 61:07 8 Tom Tinsley M50 NATO 64:32 9 Christopher Lakey M18 NATO 64:40 10 J. Edgoose M40 IND 68:37 11 Alana Wright W18 CLOK 70:25 12 Mike Hardy M70 CLOK 73:12 13 Polly Jeffrey W16 MEXP 75:50 **************************** Colour Line 14 Kath Dixon W55 NATO 78:17 15 Andrew Templey M16 MEXP 79:50 16 Paul MacDonald M55 MEXP 92:17 17 Mike Hudson M70 NATO 95:43 18 Alex Robson M16 MEXP 97:41 19 James Jarecki M16 MEXP 108:20 20 Frances Rowbottom W16 MEXP 148:20 Daniel Smith M14 MEXP 81:09 mp
Blue (6.2 km.)
1 Paul Gaines M35 BL 62:01 2 Adrian Barnes M55 NATO 70:28 3 Chris Bradford M60 NATO 76:16 4 John Collingwood M50 CLOK 80:47 5 Adrian Ledger M45 NATO 83:15 6 Terry Gregg M45 NATO 84:10 **************************** Colour Line 7 Fred Miller M55 NATO 109:09 8 Peter Rowbottom M50 MEXP 145:17
Brown (8.2 km.)
1 Chris Wright M50 CLOK 84:19 2 Alex Machin M21 UDOC 85:35 3 Sarah Hutton W21 UDOC 86:27 4 Kath Ivens W35 NN 100:32 **************************** Colour Line