Officials: Organiser: Kath Dixon Planner: Andy Clarke Controller: Tricia Davies
Planners Comments
Firstly a huge lot of thanks - Adrian Barnes for a great map, getting my descriptions right when I was working in pain and helping get the controls out (with Trish) while the gulls were still coughing. NATO for letting me have first crack at this new challenging area with all of its complexity, Trish for putting up with my lack of availability due to my two centred lifestyle and inconvienent infirmity and for taking on the longest part of the control putting out and retrieving. (Patrick's help in retrieving was also appreciated)
As usual I thank my long suffering wife for her assistance and everyone who helped make the event a success. Now an apology to those who got faulty loose control descriptions. It was entirely my fault for trying to add them at the last minute using a printer next to Elaine while she was trying to get to sleep for a dawn start the next day - lesson learnt.
The strange shape of the area lead to most of the planning decisions - once I decided to keep the shorter courses in the southern dunes there was only one possible White course - which decided Start and Finish (it did also allow a 1:5000 map for the shorter courses to let you see the contour detail).
The philosophy of the technical courses was simple - runners can always tell where they are E-W easily in such a narrow area so I tried to make it difficult to know how far you'd travelled N-S - from comments it seems to have worked.
I swear that the undergrowth had grown appreciably higher when I was retrieving controls than when I put them out earlier in the day - so you can guess that it was much higher in places than when I completed planning - I hope no-one suffered as result.
The ordered weather was perfect (apart from the sunburn some of us got as a result) and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. The only fly in the ointment was the complete disappearance of one control - fortunately late enough not to affect the event significantly.
The map adjoins the other Druridge Bay (Country Park) map to the North - so next time we may be able to use the parking there and let the shorter courses see the other aspects of the area.
Andy Clarke
Splitsbrowser split time analysis
White (1.1 km. - climb 20m.)
1 442920 Emma Van Dam HALO W10 22:31
2 223398 Yolanda Hampshire Wrigh NN W03 42:35
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434752 Maya Hampshire Wright NN W07 mp
361483 Hannah Brown NATO W10 mp
Yellow (1.8 km. - climb 25m. )
1 442919 George Van Dam HALO M10 20:34
2 430497 John Mackenzie NN M14 26:20
3 361487 Jack Huntley IND M08 28:59
4 361486 Sophie Hebblethwaite IND W12 29:04
5 361485 Jessica Hebblethwaite IND W07 29:21
6 361481 Robbie & Carole Wright NATO M10 34:40
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361482 Richard Cookson +3 NATO
Orange (2.6 km. - climb 40m.)
1 222388 Saskia Warren NN W12 33:03 2 345618 Alison Leonard CLOK 37:58 **************************** Colour Line 3 434751 Jeneba Hampshire Wright NN W09 55:33
Light Green (2.6 km. - climb 75m. )
1 361471 David Huntley IND M55 25:57 2 361472 Alan Hebblethwaite IND M55 27:50 3 808000 Oliver Wright NATO M16 28:18 4 442921 Maria Van Dam HALO W40 36:07 **************************** Colour Line 5 361488 David McAllister NATO M45 56:08
Very Short Green (2.6 km. - climb 40m. )
1 361484 Charles Spedding IND M55 35:54 2 264965 Hilary Cooper NATO W55 41:18 3 50115 Carole Firth NATO W65 48:05 4 11785 Angela Whitworth BL W65 53:47 **************************** Colour Line 5 220572 Ian Smith NATO M80 61:00
Short Green (3.2 km. - climb 75m. )
1 12569 David Brook NN M70 40:09 2 235606 Malcolm Gibson CLOK M65 47:17 3 235745 Joan Selby CLOK W65 52:40 4 400947 Alastair Macgregor NATO M70 52:42 5 32999 Shirley Moss BL W65 53:34 6 33249 Gill Hardy CLOK W70 57:26 7 33247 Mike Hardy CLOK M70 59:11 8 436388 Roy Malley NATO M80 59:17 **************************** Colour Line
Green (4.2 km. - climb 70m.)
1 792458 Nicola Tilt NATO W40 41:52
2 33232 Neil Sprot NATO M55 42:02
3 12581 Debby Warren NN W45 52:13
4 235730 Joanne Field NATO W35 52:19
5 41305 Simon Firth ESOC M35 53:24
6 345568 Richard Moss BL M65 56:03
7 11784 Dick Whitworth BL M70 56:46
8 220485 Ann Curtis NATO W55 57:23
9 12502 Jackie Barnes CLARO W65 58:43
10 12523 Bob Richardson NATO M60 61:24
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11 224764 Ruth Wilson NATO W21 69:46
361489 Mike Hudson NATO M70 mp
33213 Sheila Sprot NATO W60 mp
37597 Sheila Smith EBOR W60 mp
Blue (6.8 km. - climb 80m.)
1 504300 Kirstin Maxwell RR W20 48:13
2 50344 Alasdair Wilson Craw NATO M55 54:08
3 442424 Paul Leonard CLOK M45 56:07
4 220327 Patrick Smyth NATO M50 58:22
5 261847 Martin Wilson BKO M60 59:44
6 32862 Roger Scrutton ESOC M60 60:31
7 235807 Paul Van Dam HALO M45 63:23
8 12504 Julian Warren NN M45 63:46
9 416813 Christopher Bradford NATO M60 66:22
10 37781 Maria Mackenzie NN W35 66:30
11 220498 Andrew Curtis NATO M55 66:34
12 416796 Paul Jameson NATO M55 67:01
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13 12490 Allen Barnes CLARO M65 74:24
14 542255 Willard Wright NATO M45 76:09
15 217790 Fred Miller NATO M60 77:12
16 221656 Barnaby Warren NN M16 97:43
363975 Walter Wright NATO M70 mp
Brown (8.9 km. - climb 100m.)
1 504127 Jonny Malley EBOR M20 57:53 2 600429 Ian Maxwell RR M50 71:08 **************************** Colour Line 3 361490 John Phizacklea IND M35 99:05