Planner's Commentary
Interesting day at Simonside; a place I now know rather well having spent something like 30 hours out there planning the event (however the scenery and the wildlife made it pleasant). Reasonable turnout for the 60 minute score which I planned on the basis that no-one would be able to get all the controls within the time limit; then I heard that Duncan Archer was coming! Fortunately the plan still worked and he missed one out and took time penalties. Still a great run (and he still had the energy to retrieve controls afterwards).
On the other courses White was deliberately at the bottom of the range because of the climb required (No choice really). On the Yellow I'm intrigued by two youngsters who seem to have taken a very long time between a path junction and a control down the path about 350m , I can only assume they now know what a "180 degree error" is!
The Orange course was planned to be a true TD3 course with two specific controls challenging at the top of that grading. One required competitors to go to "an above ground feature within sight of a line feature" with the control on the blind side of it (visible if you looked in the right direction at the previous control) and the other invited them to "travel on a rough bearing between two line features" (although they did have a longer path option) both specific challenges the guidelines for Orange suggest. The Light Green unfortunately needed a lot of climb if the best terrain were to be used and we designed it in early so you could get it over with before you got too tired (however that may have failed!).
I have to thank Alasdair for very interactive controlling (the sight of us both having to rest after a climb and affirming "that can't be on the Orange" must have been amusing) Fred and Adrian for their efforts (Adrian's mapping was very responsive to a planner's needs even if we can't agree what the feature at 147 is) and Richard and Duncan (the fit ones) for getting the "high altitude" controls. I'm also going to thank the start team for happily taking on managing the successful string course (I'm afraid that as the experiment of starting the string alongside the main courses has worked well twice now it has become an accepted option -in other words you're stuck with it!) and Peter for his normal unsung efforts (and his support team of course) as well as Andrew for coping with the "death" of the control furthest from assembly with equanimity and Bob for getting the cars parked and stopping anyone from getting knocked down.
Thanks also to the Forestry Commission for access and providing a key to the gate -without which control placement and retrieval would have been even more arduous I'm not sure if the Planner should thank the organiser but as I want to sleep with her tonight thanks Angel
Andy Clarke
Score Champions
Pl Name Age Class SI card Club Time Pts Pty Score
One Hour Score Results
1 Duncan Archer M35 501072 CLOK 62:19 1050 -30 1020
2 Nigel Wright M40 434753 NN 62:33 880 -30 850
3 John Phizacklea M40 442471 NATO 60:28 800 -10 790
4 Richard Purkis M20 414224 NATO 57:05 560 560
5 George Hare M45 442480 NATO 62:48 550 -30 520
6 Francis Shillitoe M35 774488 NATO 56:27 500 500
7 Julian Warren M45 12504 NN 67:24 580 -80 500
8 Christopher Lakey M20 219797 NATO 65:47 530 -60 470
9 Willard Wright M45 542255 NATO 70:24 580 -110 470
10 Chris Bradford M60 223322 NATO 67:37 530 -80 450
11 Nick Green M35 443899 NATO 52:55 430 430
12 Rob Bailey M50 882808 CLOK 61:29 410 -20 390
13 Walter Wright M70 363975 NATO 60:33 370 -10 360
14 Bob Cooper M65 438300 NN 56:42 340 340
15 Debby Warren W45 12581 NN 60:56 330 -10 320
16 Nicola Tilt W40 792458 NATO 61:18 340 -20 320
17 Patrick Smyth M55 220327 NATO 70:20 430 -110 320
18 Mary Rack W50 442478 NATO 54:42 270 270
19 Fred Miller M60 217790 NATO 56:39 270 270
20 Boris Spence M55 236259 NN 63:27 310 -40 270
21 Helen Elmes W18 220713 DEE 58:36 240 240
22 Katherine Crosby W40 217840 NATO 62:22 270 -30 240
23 Roy Bradley M65 363971 CLOK 74:32 390 -150 240
24 Pat Moody W55 220712 DEE 59:30 230 230
25 Jeremy Lakey M50 423525 NATO 67:19 310 -80 230
26 Patricia Davies W55 39955 NATO 60:08 230 -10 220
27 Isla Mathieson W45 221408 CLOK 63:06 220 -40 180
28 Michael Thompson M40 442433 NN 68:52 270 -90 180
29 Bob Elmes M65 220711 DEE 57:38 170 170
30 Bob Richardson M60 442498 NATO 64:23 220 -50 170
31 Jonathan Lakey M18 219781 NATO 71:29 260 -120 140
32 Oliver Wright M16 808000 NATO 74:50 280 -150 130
33 Helen Rafferty W65 32971 NATO 62:38 150 -30 120
34 Mike Bowden M75 436260 NN 62:19 130 -30 100
nc Adrian Barnes M60 510606 NATO 73:57 770 -140 630
45 Minute Score results
1 Carole Firth W65 50115 NATO 26:46 50 50