Devon League - Whitchurch Common 10 Dec 06 - Results
Organiser's Comments
After very pleasant weather on Saturday, the
forecasters were predicting something more challenging on Sunday,
and they were not mistaken. Fortunately the tent stood up, as did
a committed team of helpers. My thanks go to Ann Hughes,
registration, Graham Dugdale, IT, Mark Bagley, parking, Vivienne
and Nicholas Maxwell on the start, and Peter Flick on enquiries.
60 seniors and 22 juniors braved the elements.
Most returned exhilarated, though one lady muttered something
about questioning her own sanity! Pride of place goes to the
Torbay 20th Scout Group, who keep turning out in force. They have
now purchased ten dibbers, and some boys ran two courses despite
the conditions.
Our new Sportident electronic punching kit has worked flawlessly for 12 months. Unfortunately we had the first case of malfunction yesterday. Control 69 was not responding reliably to dibbers. Fortunately Steve Rose the planner had a spare box in his pocket, number 59, and substituted the faulty control. This did cause concern to a number of competitors, but kept the show on the road.
Alan Simpson
Planner's Comments
Despite its
size Whitchurch Common hosts some intriguing technical areas.
Whilst the majority of the running is open and the ground
uncluttered, there are some areas which do cause the runner to
slow right down, and these are mainly due to the gorse and the
wet ground in the north and central area.
I wanted the
senior courses to take advantage of all these variations in the
terrain as much as possible, and I hope that I achieved my aim.
Control 69
didn’t want to play when it was checked in the morning and
was swapped. The control stake was the same and had the control
code for the site plainly visible. I believe that runners should
take the stake number as the site control code and not the dibber
box, as this could change if it has a fault.
The junior
courses, as usual are the hardest and more challenging ones to
plan. The yellow course had to have a taped route due in part to
the myriad of paths that exist around Pew Tor. Even running one
way down a path, to check a control, turn round and run back
proved that you never go over the same ground twice!
Judging by
the smiling faces and good comments received at the download
area, everyone enjoyed their runs, despite the horrendous
weather.
We are
becoming used to running on
I must thank
Roger Green for being my Picover and OCAD mentor and sorting out
the problems I had with the scale of the map. Without his help
you may not have had a pre printed map. Thanks also to Lew Bean
for controlling, putting out and collecting controls and to Alan
Simpson and the rest of the team for putting on another high
class event, which is becoming the
See you at
Brimpt's Farm in a fortnight!
Merry
Christmas everyone.
Steve Rose
Controller's Comments
I thought the event went very well. I had a few qualms about the currency of the map with its proliferation of unmarked paths etc. It is an early 90s map, based on a 1991 photogrametric plot. However, the big boys on the Brown managed around 6 minute kms, and on the Blue 8 mins, despite the attrocious conditions, so there can't have been too much confusion out there. Fortunately Steve picked up the fault with 69 as he was putting the box out. In retrospect we should have done something to change or obscure the number on the substituted box, but in the relative warmth of the tent we considered that the feature could not be confused and the code on the stake was clear. Besides, it was drier in the tent! In future it would be advisable to not only carry spare boxes when putting out controls, but also some tape and a waterproof pen.
Thank you all for coming.
Lew Bean
Brown (19) 7.8 km 180 m 13 C
1 Ben Chesters M21 SARUM 43:21
2 Kevin Hagley M40 DEVON 49:20
3 Steve Edmonds M45 DEVON 52:41
4 Graham Wilding M55 BAOC 53:57
5 Graham Pring M50 KERNO 58:48
6 Nigel Jenkins M40 IND 58:59
7 Michelle Spillar W21 WIM 1:01:47
8 Ian Bartlett M40 QO 1:02:43
9 William Hancock M21 KERNO 1:05:04
10 William Ames M16 DEVON 1:05:22
11 Andrew Reynolds M40 DEVON 1:07:00
12 Andrew Bowman M40 DEVON 1:08:14
13 Mark Lockett M21 KERNO 1:09:03
14 Arthur Boyt M65 KERNO 1:10:24
15 Robin John Kohler M50 DEVON 1:12:16
16 Andrew Ranson M16 KERNO 1:18:02
17 Gary Ratcliffe M40 DEVON 1:18:23
18 Alison Reynolds W40 DEVON 1:26:23
19 Paul Sturtridge M50 DEVON 1:39:17
Blue (17) 6.2 km 150 m 11 C
1 Peter Boon M40 DEVON 47:05
2 Mike Wimpenny M55 DEVON 47:20
3 Bryan Smith M50 DEVON 49:06
4 Mike Steward M50 DEVON 50:53
5 Antony Dew M21 DEVON 56:05
6 Michael Cullen M55 DEVON 56:39
7 Andy Rimes M40 QO 58:08
8 Rohan Maxwell M21 IND 58:13
9 John Chesters M55 DEVON 58:56
10 Hugh Crawford M50 DEVON 1:01:51
11 Bill Vigar M70 QO 1:02:52
12 Lesley Ratcliffe W40 DEVON 1:08:31
13 Phil Gordon M45 DEVON 1:12:11
14 Ella Bowles W45 DEVON 1:13:28
15 Rosie Wych W50 QO 1:18:27
16 Charlotte Levy/Luders W21 IND 1:22:40
17 Roger Hateley M60 DEVON 1:27:38
Green (19) 4.6 km 125 m 8 C
1 Mike Hughes M60 DEVON 45:20
2 Stuart Robertson M40 DEVON 47:31
3 Richard Worrin M35 BOK 51:00
4 Jennifer Pring W14 KERNO 51:11
5 Stephen Dunford M65 DEVON 51:56
6 Mike Kite M55 WIM 55:12
7 Neil Clegg M45 QO 1:00:36
8 Ann Hughes W60 DEVON 1:00:53
9 Hana Skuckova W40 IND 1:03:13
10 Lynne Whitfield W35 DEVON 1:09:40
11 Chris Ranson M55 KERNO 1:10:03
12 Alan Doe M55 WIGHTO 1:12:12
13 Matt Ryder M14 20th Torbay Scouts 1:17:09
14 Annabel Pring W50 KERNO 1:17:44
15 Chris Miller M45 DEVON 1:17:54
16 James Bourne M16 IND 1:18:18
17 Rory Hutson M21 IND 1:20:51
18 Sandy Cowan M65 KERNO 1:25:54
Nigel Pinkstone M40 IND mp
Lt-green (9) 3.1 km 60 m 10 C
1 Paul Moroz M14 20th Torbay Scouts 36:45
2 Ruth Chesters W55 DEVON 50:13
3 Carol Doe W55 WIGHTO 50:34
4 Eleanor Taylor W45 DEVON 50:56
5 Edward Ames M12 DEVON 51:10
6 Vivienne Maxwell W55 DEVON 57:52
7 Ann/Ruth Mitchell/Luff M50 1:00:38
Kate Glanville W40 DEVON mp
Susan Hateley W60 DEVON mp
Orange (12) 3.0 km 55 m 11 C
1 Charles Clack M14 20th Torbay Scouts 23:35
2 Jack Baker M14 20th Torbay Scouts 24:27
3 Paul Moroz M14 20th Torbay Scouts 29:41
4 Jason Power M35 30:49
5 Joyce Burgess W60 DEVON 32:30
6 John Whitfield M10 DEVON 38:45
7 Annie Capel W45 IND 39:36
8 Luke Hayward M14 20th Torbay Scouts 50:01
9 Jacob Shah M13 20th Torbay Scouts 1:37:46
Oran Perrett M12 20th Torbay Scouts mp
Alice Glanville W7 DEVON mp
Oliver Mant M10 IND mp
Yellow (8) 2.2 km 60 m 14 C
1 Charles Clack M14 20th Torbay Scouts 16:34
2 Dave/Josha Allen/Farmer IND 24:24
3 Harriet/Eve Ames/Jones M8 DEVON 26:04
4 Olivia Kinnear W5 IND 28:28
5 Angus Hilton M10 IND 29:32
6 Kitty Hilton W14 IND 29:50
7 Gill Orme IND 52:09
8 Christian/Megan Rushbrooke M8 IND 1:01:27
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