Controller’s
Comments.
This is the
first time, as a controller, that I have had to
consider the safety of the competitors as my main
priority. The overnight rain was far more
than I had appreciated even though I was camping
in a small tent at Princetown. To give an
example of the scale of the problem : When
I was checking the tagging of the control sites
Roger Green and I investigated and decided on a
river crossing for the Blue and Brown courses.
At that time I crossed the river with dry feet.
When I checked that crossing on Sunday morning
the water came above my knees at less than a foot
from the bank. The other river crossing
needed only a quick glance!!!
We were
fortunate that the courses could be rearranged to
give fairly good courses, although they were not
as good as the originals especially at the end.
My apologies to the Light Green competitors
– there was no other way in which we could
have given you a reasonable course. The
diversion round the aqueduct made your course
much longer than the usual Light Green course but
at least you still had the technical challenge to
keep you amused.
The various
people organising any competition make the
decisions they make knowing that certain facts
cannot and should not be ignored. I was,
therefore, amazed to hear that one particular
individual took a particularly stupid risk to
cross the river at a totally unsuitable spot.
I find this sort of behaviour completely
inexplicable especially in the light of the
recent tragedy in this year’s Ten Tors
expedition. If that individual never comes
to a Devon event again I shall not be
disappointed! Yes, I know that a couple of
other people also crossed the river but , at
least, they chose a reasonable spot to do so.
I would like
to express my thanks to all those who helped at a
rather damp, cold and miserable Norsworthy Bridge.
My thanks go especially to Lew Bean for his help
with the maps which meant that he did not have
enough time for the Blue course he would normally
have run and also to John Hurrel who ran to
the north end of the woods and back , in double
quick time, to give us a report on the state of
the river there.
May you
always run in sunlit forests.
Dave Livsey
Organiser's
Comments
Not much to
add except to thank everybody who came for coming.
We were all rather busy to talk much to various
helpers – we even had car park attendants,
who would have been busy had we had more people
coming. It was nice to see a lot of youngsters,
obviously made of sterner stuff.
John Hurrell
was ‘learning the trade’ as an
Organiser. I can’t say it was a
‘baptism of fire’ for him. It was more
a case of ‘in at the deep end’. John
did a lot of running around and standing about in
the cold next to flooded rivers but he is an M35.
That’s what these young people are for!
Roger
Green
Pl Name Class Club Time
Brown 8.9km
1 Ben Chesters M21 SARUM 57:07
2 Emmit Andrews M35 DEVON 1:08:21
3 Andy Tustin M45 BAOC 1:09:48
4 Tom Chesters M21 IND 1:12:02
5 Andy Rimes M40 QO 1:13:59
6 Michelle Spillar W21 WIM 1:20:22
James Head M35 DEVON mp
Blue 7.8km
1 Hugh Crawford M50 QO 1:07:22
2 Nick Hockey M55 DEVON 1:08:54
3 Mike Wimpenny M55 DEVON 1:12:35
4 Gary Ratcliffe M40 DEVON 1:24:14
5 Nicholas Maxwell M50 DEVON 1:29:54
6 John Chesters M55 DEVON 1:33:00
7 Phil Gordon M45 DEVON 1:43:51
8 Rosie Wych W50 QO 1:54:46
Bryan Smith M55 DEVON mp
Ian Bowles M50 DEVON mp
Green 5.5km
1 Michael Smith M20 DEVON 57:45
2 Matt Ryder M15 DEVON 1:02:14
3 Ann Hughes W60 DEVON 1:05:19
4 Lew Bean M60 DEVON 1:05:33
5 Lesley Ratcliffe W40 DEVON 1:13:01
6 Roger Hateley M60 DEVON 1:18:34
7 Tony Smith M55 DEVON 1:23:03
8 Chris Miller M45 DEVON 1:31:49
9 Nicola Kelly W40 DEVON 1:45:05
10 Kelly Peter M45 1:46:05
Light green 5.1km
1 Nigel Lane M40 IND 47:04
2 Ian Bowles M50 DEVON 55:44
3 Jack Baker M15 Torbay 2 57:38
4 Paul Goff M21 DEVON 1:01:19
5 James Bourne M16 DEVON 1:06:32
6 Peter Baker M45 IND 1:10:03
7 Paul Sturtridge M55 DEVON 1:10:19
8 lISA JAMES w21 IND 1:13:26
9 Robert Smith M55 DEVON 1:23:39
10 Humphry Shotton M12 IND 1:28:48
11 Jude O'Carroll W21 IND 1:45:22
12 Susie Wolstenholme W21 IND 1:45:27
13 Susan Hateley W60 DEVON 1:57:03
14 Ruth Chesters W55 QO 1:58:05
15 Wendy Cooper W40 IND 1:58:17
16 Hannah Wilson-Rudd W21 DEVON 1:58:39
17 Vivienne Maxwell W55 DEVON 2:00:47
18 Lloyd Phillips M55 IND 2:02:50
Orange 3.5km
1 Steve,Nathan,Tho Monk M35 IND 49:51
2 James Trott M10 IND 52:39
Yellow 2.2km
1 Alice Kelly W12 DEVON 23:07
2 Aidan Holdborn M7 DEVON 27:08
White 1.9km
1 Nathan Monk M11 IND 16:08
2 Heather Andrews W12 IND 16:15
3 Lewis Monk M11 IND 19:19
4 Heather Robertson W10 DEVON 19:54
5 Aidan Holborn M7 DEVON 22:50
6 Monty Barker-Pilswort M7 RAFO 23:15
7 Hannah Andrews W8 IND 28:29
8 Dave Salt M40 44:17
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