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Planner’s Review
Let me start by thanking all the people who said kind things about my first attempt at planning for a quarter of a century.
Second, let me congratulate all those who had the sense to retire when the heat got too much for them. It takes a particular kind of courage to do that, especially when competing amongst people you know.
Thirdly let me apologise for the somewhat pared-down nature of the Start layout and organisation; it wasn’t until 10:00 on the day that I understood that that was my responsibility. Thanks to you all for your understanding, and thanks especially to Vince Joyce for helping me out at no notice whatsoever.
Once I knew that the Warren had been selected for the Club Handicap, I went for a stroll around. I was struck by the sheer variety of vegetation and terrain types, by the complexity of the path network, by the accessibility of the off-path areas, and – of course - by the stunning views. All packed into a very, very, small area.
Far too small, really… Early ideas of loops circling away from, and climaxing on, the viewpoint on the central ridge were abandoned when I considered:-
(i) how short the average leg would be, and therefore how many would be needed to make up courses distances for Green and Blue;
(ii) how difficult it would be to avoid long stretches of path running – a more experienced planner might have had less of a problem with that;
(iii) how difficult it would be to give separate, personal, challenges to Blue and Green competitors – I don’t like cross-county processions;
(iv) what a pleasant Start and Finish area we had available just inside the main gate, with the right amount of shade and privacy, with gorgeous views of pines, heather and birches, and with enough nearby map features to allow varied and interesting (I hope…) approaches to the finish.
So, I apologise to all those disappointed by the lack of loops; instead you had, as Ali Hooper remarked, figures crossing the landscape in all directions. A premeditated distraction; a designed confusion; an enhanced need for concentration and self-reliance. I’d be interested to hear your views on that…
I’m indebted to Neil Crickmore, my Controller, for cleaning up my Blue & Green courses. I’d looked at the spaghetti of intersecting course legs on the map and decided that I needed three part-maps for Green and four for Blue (you would have liked that, in that heat…); Neil did a little prestidigitation and - lo! – you could see what was what on just two part-maps. Neil also eased the technical difficulty of my Yellow and Orange courses; I first orienteered as an M35, and don’t have a Junior’s eye view.
Neil’s idiot’s guide to OCAD was also invaluable, as I scrambled up that part of the learning curve.
I’d like to thank Jaquie Drake for her handicapping, and to compliment her on its accuracy. The scatter of early arrivals each had a story of adversity or error; the successful completers, when they eventually came, arrived in a rush (as Jacquie intended), and from all directions of the compass (as I intended). And Jacquie, thanks again for the fast, reliable, registration and download systems on which our events rely.
I’d also like to thank Ali Hooper who, on a day when she had far more important things on her mind, organised the car parking and the taping of a slightly longer and less obvious route to the competition area. I chose this because I thought it would allow a more relaxed approach, and return, than is allowed by a narrow footpath along a busy road with fast traffic. (Did it make a difference?)
And thank you, also, to all those who helped Ali, and Jaquie, and me!
I relied, totally, on Mike Gammon’s map production. I hope he’ll take my casual assumption that he’d do a flawless job as a profound compliment. Mike spotted my one “deliberate” error, and produced a quality product with no fuss whatsoever, in a very short time, even though it involved back-printing, and two sets of control descriptions – which I just assumed he’d cope with...
I’d be interested in feedback on the double set of descriptions. The small size of the mapped area gave me the opportunity; exploratory dabbling with OCAD gave me the idea. My thought was that, if we set out both text and symbolic descriptions side by side, it would provide a relatively painless way of helping the less experienced graduate from text to symbolic.
You didn’t get control description lists because, again, I wasn’t clear who was supposed to be doing what. Mea culpa! Did not having extra control descriptions matter to you? (I personally prefer them as I don’t have to unfold the map…)
Control 91: there was comment… Yes, it’s a small depression, and yes, the birch scrub is invading up the slope (the map background should perhaps show scattered trees?) but, even so… It’s accurately positioned on the map, hung visibly, and reachable by compass and pacing from any of: (i) the knoll on the ridge, (ii) the nearby platform, and (iii) the path junction below. And it’s the kind of control that redresses the balance away from those who think slower than they run and towards those who run slower than they think. Personal bias showing here…
On the map itself… I could (now, after much exploration) suggest a couple of minor amendments but those apart, I think Ed Nicholls did an excellent job with the map revision, allowing me to take you to places where, in Roger Maher’s words “only mappers go”.
There were times, during the build-up to this event when, with work and domestic deadlines arriving like storm waves crashing on the beach, I felt oppressed and exhausted. However, walking the deserted, dawn-lit area on Saturday morning while setting out the controls, everything seemed wonderful. True, the subsequent “Start, what Start?” moment was a bit of a downer but thereafter the eager expressions of the outbound starters and the smiling, if sweat-stained, faces of the inbound finishers made it all absolutely worthwhile.
Thanks for the opportunity!
John Morris, 6th June 2010

BLUE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Jonathan Crickmore SO M18 43:12 6.97    
  2   Simon Thraves SO M45 53:51 8.69    
  3   Tom Stroud SO M21 57:55 9.34    
  4   Andrew Parkinson SO M55 58:08 9.38    
  5   Steve Jarvis SO M45 59:00 9.52    
  6   Lucy Thraves SO W16 62:35 10.09    
  7   Barry Jones SO M40 62:36 10.10    
  8   Rachel Collins SO W18 64:04 10.33    
  9   Edward Cox SO M50 66:36 10.74    
  10   Alan Williamson SO M60 67:07 10.83    
  11   Andy Hannaford SO M55 67:21 10.86    
  12   Christopher Hooker SO M45 67:23 10.87    
  13   Katrina Reader SO W45 68:42 11.08    
  14   Chris Lambert SO M20 69:34 11.22    
  15   James Parker SO M65 71:32 11.54    
  16   Paul Wilson SO M45 72:28 11.69    
  17   Alexander Lines SO M16 72:37 11.71    
  18   Robin Wilson SO M50 75:08 12.12    
  19   Ted McDonald SO M65 75:37 12.20    
  20   Jane Lambert SO W50 81:15 13.10    
  21   Pete Dudman SO M55 84:08 13.57    
  22   Roger Maher SO M70 85:00 13.71    
  23   John Pittam SO M60 85:54 13.85    
  24   Chris Jepson SO W50 87:07 14.05    
  25   Ali Hooper SO W35 90:45 14.64    
  26   Susan Crickmore SO W45 94:21 15.22    
  27   Leslie Coles SO M65 96:17 15.53    
  28   Ian Waghorn SO M40 97:44 15.76    
  29   Les Hooper SO M65 98:17 15.85    
  30   David Young SO M55 100:31 16.21    
  31   Jannion Ireland SO W50 102:47 16.58    
  n/c   Hilary Sellens SOS W55 96:34 15.58    
      Andy Bridge SO M50 46:01   m17,m23-26  
      Julia Jarvis SO W40 60:02   m8  
      Penny Marsh SO W45 91:13   m9  
      Alan Flitton SO M21 37:39   Retd  
      Jennie Warner SO W21 38:16   Retd  
      Mike Hooper SO M35 40:06   Retd  
      Bryony Crickmore SO W20 42:13   Retd  
      Adam Moscovici SO M45 112:20   Retd  
      Jon Wallace SO M50 116:05   Retd  
      Barry McElearney SO M40 70:32   w11  
      Tom Crossett SO M70 129:41   w19,Retd  
  n/c   Martin Sellens SOS M55 77:10   w8  
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GREEN

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Nicholas Jarvis SO M14 38:55 10.24    
  2   Kieran Devine SO M55 39:04 10.28    
  3   Claire Leitch SO W45 52:45 13.88    
  4   Clare Lines SO W45 55:58 14.73    
  5   Chris Simpson SO M65 56:54 14.97    
  6   Steve Brownbill SO M45 61:35 16.21    
  7   Matthew Leitch SO M12 61:51 16.28    
  8   Ian Curtis SO M40 63:40 16.75    
  9   Edward Lines SO M12 64:56 17.09    
  10   Ruth Rhodes SO W65 67:28 17.75    
  11   Euan Marsh SO M16 67:36 17.79    
  12   Andy Ward SO M45 70:06 18.45    
  13   Ian Goodwin SO M55 70:20 18.51    
  14   Karen Ashworth SO W40 70:45 18.62    
  15   John Faller SO M70 72:27 19.07    
  16   Jack Ashworth SO M14 78:13 20.58    
  17   Diane Rhind-Jones SO W45 78:26 20.64    
  18   Jaquie Drake SO W70 79:03 20.80    
  19   Susan Parker SO W70 79:07 20.82    
  20   Piers Pollard SO M60 84:28 22.23    
  21   Sylvia Coles SO W65 87:13 22.95    
  22   David Wilson SO M21 92:55 24.45    
  23   Mike Turner SO M80 99:48 26.26    
      Mike Winn SO M75 0:00   No finish  
      Julie Collins SO W50 52:49   Retd  
      Alex Wise SO M21 55:14   Retd  
      Helen Wise SO W55 63:37   Retd  
      Mary Fogo SO W75 65:35   Retd  
      Bridget Hooper SO W65 78:47   Retd  
      Liz Ward SO W55 83:24   Retd  
      Mark Darby SO M50 88:20   w1,w4-18,Retd  
      Pat Maher SO M75 60:24   w6-14,Retd  
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ORANGE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Kieran Marsh SO M14 50:17 16.76    
  2   Thomas Jarvis SO M12 68:29 22.83    
  3   Eliot Jones SO M12 76:13 25.41    
  4   Gill Smith SO W70 82:55 27.64    
      Liam Marsh SO M12 64:08   m6,Retd  
      Isobel Campbell SO W14 0:00   No finish  
      Christopher Hannaford SO M14 82:24   No start  
      Brian Smith SO M75 72:38   Retd  
      Karen Darby SO W45 68:54   w1-3,w5-10,Retd  
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YELLOW

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Jack Leitch SO M12 26:58 17.98    
  2   Charlie Waghorn SO M12 31:50 21.22    
  3   Samuel Leitch SO M10 31:57 21.30    
  4   Jamie Waghorn SO M10 32:35 21.72    
  5   Oliver Hannaford SO M12 33:37 22.41    
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Results last updated on 05/06/2010 at 18:10:17 by J. Drake
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