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Courses: Sprint-O Orange Yellow White
Planner's comments
The first Sprint race of the summer was, happily, blessed by summer weather rather than a tropical heatwave. In fact, after standing at the start for an hour in the shade of the trees, I was actually starting to feel a bit chilly.
I can’t find any formal guidelines for Sprint races, but to my mind it’s short, sharp legs with changes of direction and lots of route decisions to be made at high speed without too much trouble actually finding the controls. Preston Park proved to be well suited to this style of orienteering.
The plan was to keep you off the large grassy areas either side of the start/finish area as these are very heavily used for football coaching, circuit training and other activities. I also saw little point in using the far sides of the cycle track as this would just have been dead running.
The White course was a very straightforward, natural route which avoided crossing any of the park roads. Yellow used the same course with extensions at top and bottom. Orange competitors saw virtually all parts of the park apart from venturing into the rose garden.
Ah, the rose garden! I didn’t compete in this event last year, but I was aware of the problem: whether jumping over the out-of-bounds flower beds was fair or not.
I honestly tried my best to make Sprint course competitors aware that crossing the flower beds in any way, including jumping even if there were no flowers, was prohibited. The fail-safe was, I thought, the instruction “Do not cross flower beds” in the control descriptions. The whole point of that section was negated if that rule was disobeyed. My apologies to those to whom I failed to get the message across, and credit to those who owned up! As OCAD shows the shortest route for both legs (to 107 and 131) to be 70m each, my all-seeing spy (aka Splitsbrowser) will be most interesting.
I understand that the rose garden made most competitors stop and think – which was what was intended – and I hope you enjoyed “solving the maze”. Apologies to those who misread the map in the area and headed for 106 rather than 131, but I tried to show the courses as clearly as I could.
I hope the hollow tree (102) provided a moment of enjoyment too, as well as perhaps the stepping stones for the younger competitors.
I won’t name all those who assisted as I am afraid of omitting someone (as I have done in the past), but I do thank you all.
Finally, one sour note. Please, please, DO NOT offer help on the course to those who do not seek it. My wife wants to do the best SHE can when running a course, and neither seeks nor wants assistance. It really defeats the object of the whole exercise when someone tells her where a control is, as happened today on the very first control of the Sprint course, thereby ruining, in her mind, the rest of her run as a fair, competitive event. If you want to know how angry she was, then reading the article she wrote for the recent Southdowner (“A Point of View”, page 17) might give you a clue. And a seething wife is something to be feared!
Tim Carder

SPRINT-O

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Neil Crickmore SO M45 18:09 5.04    
  2   Mike Hooper SO M35 20:08 5.59    
  3   Jon Coles SO M40 20:48 5.78    
  4   Peter Chapman SO M45 20:52 5.80    
  5   Nicholas Jarvis SO M14 21:58 6.10    
  6   Robert Sweatman SO M45 21:59 6.11    
  7   Steve Jarvis SO M45 22:20 6.20    
  8   Lucy Jepson SO W21 23:41 6.58    
  9   Andy Bridge SO M50 23:50 6.62    
  10   Edward Cox SO M50 25:03 6.96    
  11   Anna Chapman SO W35 25:18 7.03    
  =11   Robert Lines SO M40 25:18 7.03    
  =11   Jennie Pullin SO W21 25:18 7.03    
  14   Katrina Reader SO W45 25:31 7.09    
  15   Nigel Sarjudeen IND M45 25:53 7.19    
  16   Alexander Lines SO M14 25:55 7.20    
  17   Steve Brockbank DFOK M60 26:09 7.26    
  18   Vince Joyce SO M55 26:32 7.37    
  19   Judith Carder SO W50 26:36 7.39    
  20   Michael Merritt SO M50 26:39 7.40    
  21   Chris Jepson SO W50 26:54 7.47    
  22   James Parker SO M60 26:55 7.48    
  23   Noema De la Fuente   W35 27:23 7.61    
  =23   David Marsh SO M45 27:23 7.61    
  25   Alan Flitton   M21 27:38 7.68    
  26   Luke Corkill SPOOK M35 28:14 7.84    
  27   Keith Cornelus SAC M50 28:30 7.92    
  28   Penny Marsh SO W45 29:40 8.24    
  29   Ali Hooper SO W35 29:57 8.32    
  30   Clare Lines SO W40 30:16 8.41    
  =30   Andy Ward SO M45 30:16 8.41    
  32   Julia Lindfield BOK W21 30:47 8.55    
  33   Edward Nichols SO M21 31:21 8.71    
  34   Nigel Bullen SO M40 31:25 8.73    
  35   Jonathan Dall SO M55 31:59 8.88    
  36   Edward Lines SO M12 32:41 9.08    
  37   Les Hooper SO M65 33:10 9.21    
  38   John Faller SO M70 34:03 9.46    
  39   Pat Maher SO M70 34:35 9.61    
  40   Jack Ashworth SO M12 36:18 10.08    
  41   Karen Ashworth SO W40 36:20 10.09    
  42   Debbie Bullen SO W21 36:49 10.23    
  43   Euan Marsh SO M14 36:56 10.26    
  44   Susan Parker SO W65 37:19 10.37    
  45   Ruth Rhodes SO W65 42:44 11.87    
  46   Gill Smith SO W70 46:03 12.79    
  47   Bridget Hooper SO W65 46:26 12.90    
  48   Brian Smith SO M75 46:34 12.94    
  49   Ian & Assuntina Cardillo     66:59 18.61    
  n/c   Tony Hufflett SO M40 23:40 6.57    
  n/c   Peter Drake SO M70 32:35 9.05    
      Ian Ditchfield MV M50 21:09   m12  
      Malcolm Kemp SO M60 22:54   w12  
      Mike Baron SO M65 27:22   w12  
      Jaquie Drake SO W70 50:17   w12  
      Susan Crickmore SO W45 25:23   w12,Retd  
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ORANGE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Kieran Marsh SO M12 21:12 8.48    
  2   Oliver Lay GO M16 22:20 8.93    
  3   Dan Corbie SO M12 25:35 10.23    
  4   Keveena Mosen IND W50 28:35 11.43    
  5   Liam Marsh SO M12 28:53 11.55    
  6   Abi & Herbie Henley     30:25 12.17    
  7   Anja Broomby IND W10 30:33 12.22    
  8   Shorrocks Family     31:56 12.77    
  9   Dueroth Family     32:16 12.91    
  10   Graham Bradbury SO M65 36:15 14.50    
  11   Daggett Family     42:54 17.16    
  12   Radmall Family     48:09 19.26    
  13   Family Whittle     73:04 29.23    
      Jan Camenzand IND D 0:00   No finish  
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YELLOW

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Sam Hufflett SO M12 11:25 7.61    
  2   Corbie Family     14:24 9.60    
  3   Louis Evans SO M10 16:14 10.82    
  4   Max Evans SO M10 16:16 10.84    
  5   Davidjames Weaver GO M16 21:32 14.36    
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WHITE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Judi Holley IND W10 8:55 8.92    
  2   Louis Evans SO M10 12:10 12.17    
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Results last updated on 07/07/2009 at 12:06:48 by J. Drake
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