Officials: Organiser: Andy Clarke Planner:Adrian Barnes
Planner's Commentary
It was nice to see as many people out enjoying the autumnal sunshine in Morpeth. Most of you seem to have enjoyed yourselves from some of the remarks I heard at the finish. It’s not the most technically demanding of areas we have but using the road and path network in the estate to link the common to the wood gave me the opportunity to set you some route selection problems. By weaving round those deeply incised valleys in the woods made a few more. It was gratifying to hear how you’d tackled the challenges and many of you had found what I consider to be the best choices. The longer courses all had similar challenges in the woods deciding whether to stick to the paths or slide down and crawl up the valley slopes. Blue and Brown had to go to the end of the wood where there is not so much choice so I put in a lot of controls to keep up the interest plus, at least one person I heard from went up the wrong spur to the little knoll – you have to look closely at the map there to see that there are three spurs. I managed to go down the wrong one when putting out the control!
I kept the White, Yellow & Orange courses on the common to avoid crossing roads (the north south road between the estate and woods does carry some quite fast moving traffic – too fast, sometimes, I think) and, after the summer and autumn we have had it is very wet. I did mark the worst patch as a marsh so hopefully you managed to avoid the knee deep mud there. I hope my decision to give you a larger scale with a larger course marking was OK? It did mean that the descriptions had to be on the back but I felt it made it clearer for you.
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I’ve extracted a couple of bits to show what I think is the best route on the two longest legs which might be of interest. The first was common to Green, Blue & Brown (Short Green joined in part way), the second only to Blue & brown, although the first part of the route was shared also by Short green & Green) I’d be pleased to hear any observations you might have about the area, map or courses so that I can improve my knowledge of what you like/dislike. Adrian Barnes |
White (1.4 km.)
1. Isabel (W05) +
Maria Gaines BL 19:43
2. Yolande
Hampshire-Wright W10 NN 24:27
3. Ben Sanderson M06 NATO 29:26
4. MBPC Group (4) 32:58
5. Alexander Metcalfe +
Parent M03 NATO 41:16
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Yellow (2.3 km.)
1. Louise Brett + W14
Ellen Baxter 21:19
2. Anna Clark +
Leoni Hogg 26:40
3. Callum +
Nicola Crosby 36:16
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4. Hannah Eke W10 NATO 48:25
5. Joel Tilmouth MBPC 49:10
Ellen Fenwick MBPC 49:10
James Leatherland MBPC 49:10
Joe Miley MBPC 49:10
Roan Miley MBPC 49:10
6. Rosannah Metcalfe +
Parent W07 NATO 58:25
7. Robbie Wright M10 NATO 62:51
Orange (2.9 km.)
1. Charlotte Gaines W35 BL 30:20
2. Joseph Metcalfe M12 NATO 34:40
3. Declan McCreton + M18 MBPS
James Loughborough 37:00
4. Beth Wooley,
Beth Laidler
& Josie McCreton W15 MBPS 38:59
5. Lewis Eke M12 NATO 42:39
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6. Maya Hampshire-Wright W10 NN 46:30
7. Abinhar Roy 52:57
8. William (M05) +
Phillipa Graham NATO 54:52
Light Green (3.7 km.)
1. Daryl Mackie M21 IND 42:52
2. Zoe Eke W40 NATO 46:40
3. Mike Hardy M75 CLOK 50:28
4. Elaine Clarke W55 NATO 58:20
5. Amy Brown +
Matthew Burgum 59:37
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6. Matthew Eke M14 NATO 78:40
7. Judith Skedge W65 NATO 95:57
Short Green (3.2 km.)
1. William Lamb M14 NATO 52:26
2. Gill Hardy W75 CLOK 58:04
3. Carole Firth W65 NATO 69:09
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Daryl Mackie M21 Ind 30:22 non comp
Green (4.6 km.)
1. Patrick Smyth M55 NATO 41:45 2. Peter Rowbottom M50 MBPS 49:11 3. Colin Turner M55 CLOK 53:00 4. Frank Major M65 NN 57:53 5. Tricia Davies W55 NATO 59:17 6. David Brook M70 NN 61:18 7. Nicola Gardener W55 WAOC 63:39 8. Jenny Lamb W16 NATO 63:54 **************************** Colour Line 9. Bill Burlton M65 NATO 65:07 10. Joshua Boyles M14 NATO 65:32 11. Steve Beverley M60 Ind 66:02 12. Helen Rafferty W65 NATO 73:21 13. Bob Richardson M60 NATO 76:19 14. Tom Tinsley M55 NATO 77:34 15. Sumanth Nayak M21 Ind 77:35 16. Mike Hudson M75 NATO 83:58
Blue (6.1 km.)
1. Willard Wright M45 NATO 52:44 2. Bob Cooper M65 NN 57:45 3. Chris. Bradford M60 NATO 65:50 4. Paul Boyles M35 NATO 67:55 5. Andrew Major NN 75:41 **************************** Colour Line 6. Fred Miller M60 NATO 97:51 7. Marco Maggiali M21 Ind 109:16
Brown (8.0 km.)
1. Peter Bray M20 UDOC 50:17 2. Richard Purkis M20 UNOC 50:41 3. Kris Smith M21 UNOC 50:58 4. Nigel Wright M40 NN 55:22 5. Francis Shillitoe M35 NATO 59:30 6. Paul Gaines M35 BL 59:48 7. Alastair Mackenzie M50 CLOK 60:45 8. John Phizacklea M40 NATO 61:00 9. Adam Poole M21 UDOC 62:17 10. Jamie Martinez M40 63:09 11. Andrew Beverley M21 SOC 63:20 12. James Channer M18 UDOC 64:06 13. George Hare M45 NATO 73:52 **************************** Colour Line