Burbage District Event

Provisional Results For Burbage District Event - 15-Jun-2008

Updated 15-Jun-2008 19:34:15

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String Course Results

Blue

Splits

6.4km

1	Mark Spendlove	DVO	M35	57:29
2	Bruce Bryant	OD	M50	58:26
3	Phil Murray	BOK	M40	61:34
4	Roger Edwards	LEI	M55	62:19
5	Ben Ross	OD	M16	65:33
6	Richard Windsor	LEI	M45	67:32
7	Alastair Paterson	LEI	M40	71:12
8	John Marriott	LEI	M60	71:16
9	Paul Basher	HOC	M50	71:34
10	Paul Goodhead	DVO	M45	72:46
11	Sheila Carey	OD	W60	73:18
12	Peter Carey	OD	M60	73:34
13	Peter Leake	LEI	M65	77:28
14	Alison Hardy	LEI	W40	78:46
15	Keith Roberts	NOC	M45	79:32
16	Mark Sherriff	LEI	M45	80:06
17	Sian Roberts	NOC	W21	81:56
18	David Toach	LEI	M40	82:16
19	Robert Haskins	LEI	M55	82:27
20	Mark Hardy	LEI	M40	82:30
21	Michael Lord	NOC	M45	82:44
22	Simon Ford	LEI	M65	83:09
23	Neil Eaton	ind	M50	83:34
24	George Normand	LEI	M60	84:53
25	John Boden	OD	M60	84:58
26	Roman Kotecky	PRAGA	M55	88:46
27	Andrew Wallace	NOC	M50	89:43
28	Lesley Ross	OD	W40	91:35
29	Andy Smith	DVO	W40	98:50
30	Peter Cholerton	NOC	M50	101:17
31	Kevin Ross	OD	M45	106:38

Brown

Splits

8.2km

1	Bill Edwards	SYO	M40	60:07
2	Ben Windsor	LEI	M18	61:20
3	David Lawson	DVO	M45	62:31
4	David Bray	LEI	M55	67:53
5	Ruedi Billeter	NOC	M55	70:42
6	Mike Capper	WAOC	M50	76:01
7	Chris Bosley	LEI	M60	76:28
8	Ian Wells	LEI	M55	78:55
9	Dave Denness	LOG	M45	80:05
10	Michael Parsons	LEI	M50	80:20
11	Glynn Smith	LEI	M60	88:01
12	Tim Cairns		M40	90:05
13	Ursula Williamson	LEI	W45	90:17
14	Robert McNab	RAFO	M45	91:32
14=	Barry McGowan	HOC	M60	91:32

Green

Splits

5.0km

1	Ian Wilson	LEI	M40	43:56
2	Sophie Kirk	OD	W16	53:30
3	Liz Phillips	OD	W40	53:33
4	Mark Webster	NOC	M40	58:22
5	Dave Skidmore	DVO	M60	60:57
6	Robert Shooter	DVO	M50	63:35
7	Neil Fraser	NOC	M45	64:21
8	Martin Cross	OD	M60	65:05
9	Jillian Baker	NOC	W35	68:11
10	Daniel Parsons	LEI	M14	69:30
11	David Beal	OD	M60	70:34
12	Michael Lindsay	DVO	M55	72:27
13	Felicity Manning	LEI	W55	73:07
14	Chris Phillips	LEI	M60	73:57
15	John Woodall	NOC	M70	77:13
16	Pauline Ward	DVO	W60	77:34
17	Jill Emmerson	OD	W40	77:52
18	Drew Thomson	LEI/oc	M35	81:49
19	Donald Moir	LEI	M75	90:52
20	Ruth Ellis	DVO	W55	91:42
21	Louise Sandell	IND	W50	97:42
22	Rachel Simonetti	LEI	W21	103:55
23	Manda McNab	RAFO	W40	114:59
24	Roger Kelly	LEI	M70	135:31
mp	Maria Roberts	NOC	W45	110:57

Light Green

Splits

3.8km

1	Harriet Lawson	DVO	W14	39:17
2	Guy Ross	OD	M14	48:53
3	Silvia Ruiz	LEI	W21	52:38
4	Roy Denney	LEI	M60	52:54
5	Sam Fraser	NOC	M18	55:27
6	Graeme Barker	IND	M35	58:20
7	Sharon Carey	OD	W21	58:44
8	Paul Stothard	LEI	M40	60:11
9	Claire Douglas	WAOC	W21	61:01
10	Jordan Webster	NOC	M14	65:47
11	Julie Webster	NOC	W40	68:23
12	Karin Kirk	OD	W60	74:04
13	Brian Ward	DVO	M70	76:03
14	Victor Thomas	IND	M60	76:20
15	Daniel Kotecks	PRAGA	M14	76:57
16	Edward Sherriff	LEI	M14	77:57
17	Tara Monab	RAFO	W18	98:16
18	Hannah McNab	RAFO	W12	99:17
19	Shirley Moir	LEI	W70	110:17
mp	Ben Lord	NOC	M14	72:18
mp	Pru Normand	LEI	W60	85:57

Orange

Splits

3.3km

1	Nathan Lawson	DVO	M12	27:59
2	Jack Lord	NOC	M12	40:27
3	Fraser Monab	RAFO	M12	51:46
4	Alan Towler	Ind	M45	55:40
5	Julia Biggs	IND	W35	56:46
6	Alison Hayes & Alexa	DVO	W45	63:36
7	Tom Ross	OD	M12	64:30
8	Nathan Currell & Gareth Towler	Ind	M12	69:08
9	Kathryn Spendlove			77:27
dnf	Jose Gason		M35

White

Splits

1.2km

1	Alex Cvancara	LEI	M8	9:53
2	Imogen Wilson	LEI	W10	11:48
3	Ben Hardy, Blake Spencer,and Grandad Mills			13:53
4	Josie Waters & Isabella Moeller	Ind	W9	14:21
5	Tia & Toby Foxon	Ind	M8	14:47
6	Ben Sansome	Ind	M7	15:38
7	George Walters		M7	15:54
8	John and Alex Cvancara	army	M45	16:24
9	Ben Sansome	Ind	M10	17:03
10	Emily & Eileen	Ind	W6	18:15
11	Georgia & Alan	Ind		18:16
12	Thom Lambert & Max Thomas		M9	19:35
13	Ailith and ivan Smith	DVO	W3	30:12
dns	Jake Rich	Ind	M11
mp	Joshua and Stephanie Tisseman	ind		16:45

Yellow

Splits

2.0km

1	Nicholas Wilson	LEI	M10	16:41
2	Joseph Ford	LEI	M8	29:17
3	John Cvancara	Army	M48	30:55
4	Melanie Smith	IND	W40	35:58
5	Thomas Webster	NOC	M12	37:19
6	Charlotte Webster	NOC	W10	38:50
7	Katherine Eaton	IND		41:05
8	Sian Smith	LEI	W10	44:11

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Controllers Comments

Burbage Common benefits by combining several contrasting blocks of terrain. The two woods to the west, Sheepy Woods and Burbage Wood are heavily managed by coppicing, with the result that last years runnable is this years fight and vice versa. The commons and fields are usually mown once the wild flowers have seeded and only some paths are cut regularly and not always in line with our mapping. The larger block of woods, Aston Firs, was originally managed for shooting but has been abandoned for many years. For the first few years it meant that the woods became overgrown, but they have now started to become much more passable, although, as many of you found out, it was just about as quick to run round the blocks, and a safer way of finding the control or attack point.

There were numerous changes made to update the map. In places many more alterations would have been useful, but there is a limit to what can be done without a full remap on an area which is so changeable.

One problem that affected all the senior courses was the location of the start, this was slightly too far to the south than marked on the maps giving a more difficult route to what were already tricky controls. This was entirely my fault as I had asked for the start to be positioned along the path away from the track junction in order to give better initial route for the white, yellow and orange courses so that they did not start at a decision point. The start banner was then put out at the position of where the start triangle should have been and the start kite then went even further out, far enough to push competitors to the south of the larger block of woods and getting some lost in the process. My apologies for this.

The organiser was asked by one competitor to remove the time for the first leg on one course and asked me for advice on this matter. As the rules currently stand, there is no provision for this. Had there been a complaint, and it the complaint was upheld, then the whole course or courses, as they were similarly affected, would have had to be voided. I did not consider that this was necessary or desirable.

Two cases of vandalism occurred during the event. Control 130, the bridge was moved slightly around the corner onto a path and control 126, the middle pond was moved back into the undergrowth by several feet. In both cases the controls were left intact and well planted! Strange indeed.

The results show that competitors had fun all over the map, many routes caused car-park debate as to the preferred routes and Routegadget will be very instructive to show how you navigated as compared to you peers. Please fill in your course on Routegadget so that other runners can judge which were the best routes and planners can improve based on real evidence of decisions made. Go on, do it now, the link is at the top of the page.

I enjoyed controlling Kevins courses. He planned many interesting and varied legs in a difficult to plan area and confused competitors by swapping in and out of the woods. Thanks also to Andy for his assistant planning help.

The organisation team lead by Mark did a smooth job and coped well. It seemed a pity that our two local clubs decided to hold events on the same morning, despite this being an EMOA league event. Mark and his team could easily have dealt with the extra numbers, although numbers were still similar to previous June's events.

Thanks to all who came and especially to the many people who thanked the officials, it makes it worthwhile!

Peter Hornsby

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