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Courses: Sprint-O Orange Yellow White
PLANNER'S REPORT
This is a very problematic area to plan on. At first glance it looks ideal terrain for sprint/park orienteering. The map shows four clusters of buildings sharing open and many-featured playing fields, even two small patches of woodland. Unfortunately life is not so simple.
The area is split between three bodies for land management thus complicating land permission. Two of the schools (Varndean School in the east and Balfour Junior in the south) are fortresses behind high railings and locked gates; there was never any possibility of visiting their buildings.
The main headache was Varndean College in the north. Perhaps because of the school holidays, it was some weeks before Rob managed to finalise permission to use the area. This was achieved just thirteen days before the maps had to be printed and excluded running between the buildings - a severe restriction for the more technical courses. The caretaker lives on site and the college is covered by CCTV so, other considerations apart, I could not sneak the odd leg through! So, after revising the white and yellow courses to take account of this, I was now in a position to plan orange and sprint on the small part of the map remaining.
By the way, I love Dorothy Stringer, the only school with no locked gates that gave us carte blanche to go anywhere. Luckily this is the most interesting part of the map.
I was not out of the woods yet. Some of you who ran last year may have noticed that the fencing around Balfour has been extended. The map had to be updated. I carefully paced the new fencing and took a few bearings with a sighting compass as a double-check. Back home, I pencilled the changes onto a map and found that the bearings just didn't work. An hour later I'd given up trying to fathom out why. Back on site two days later I found that there's a magnetic deflection at the fence producing readings up to 96 degrees awry. A few paces from the fence the compass worked perfectly. I'm still scratching my head over this. Hopefully no-one was affected.
Map updated, courses planned, I was making a final site visit when I came across football practise and discovered that our event coincided with the start of youth football matches. More out-of-bounds overprint was hastily added to the maps to stop you joining the games.
Given the short time-scale for planning and the problems encountered, I was pleased that most of you seemed to enjoy the courses. The white was kept to line features on the playing fields. Yellow went through the school for a short stretch to give you a taste of sprint orienteering. Orange visited the buildings and some far-flung corners of the fields to give you an overview of the area. Sprint used two maps because of the need to revisit the one available set of buildings. I tried not to include too much dead running, though there were some moans about the long, uphill leg on sprint!
Thanks go to the gallant helpers (Tim, Karen and Jack Ashworth, David and Penny Marsh, Jane Lambert, Jaquie, and others who volunteered on the day). Without you the event would not have happened. Particular thanks go to Tim for supporting me through the many stressful moments before the event.
One further observation: the maps you ran with were noticeably less clear and well defined than the maps I planned on. I believe this is a known issue with the club printer. I hope no-one was too optically challenged.
Judith Carder

SPRINT-O

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Kenny Leitch SO M45 21:17 5.75    
  2   Peter Chapman SO M45 22:02 5.95    
  3   Simon Thraves SO M45 23:02 6.23    
  4   Barry Jones SO M40 23:24 6.32    
  5   Steve Jarvis SO M45 23:25 6.33    
  6   Christopher Hooker SO M45 23:45 6.42    
  7   Ian Curtis SO M40 24:16 6.56    
  8   Timothy Carder SO M50 24:50 6.71    
  9   Malcolm Kemp SO M60 24:57 6.74    
  10   Lee Kemp SO M35 26:17 7.10    
  11   Anna Chapman SO W35 26:29 7.16    
  12   Edward Cox SO M50 26:55 7.27    
  13   Katrina Reader SO W45 27:05 7.32    
  14   Mike Perry SAX M65 27:17 7.37    
  15   David Marsh SO M45 27:20 7.39    
  16   Steve Ewens SO M50 27:25 7.41    
  17   Mark McCaughan   M40 27:35 7.45    
  18   James Parker SO M60 27:36 7.46    
  19   Jennie Pullin SO W21 27:53 7.54    
  20   Alan Flitton SO M21 28:13 7.63    
  21   Andy Hannaford SO M50 28:14 7.63    
  22   Mike Baron SO M65 28:19 7.65    
  23   Edward Nichols SO M21 28:48 7.78    
  24   Johanna Samuelson SIOK D21 29:26 7.95    
  25   Jane Lambert SO W45 31:00 8.38    
  26   Jack Ashworth SO M12 31:46 8.59    
  27   Julia Lindfield SO W21 32:10 8.69    
  28   Euan Marsh SO M14 32:11 8.70    
  29   Penny Marsh SO W45 32:55 8.90    
  30   Les Hooper SO M65 33:55 9.17    
  31   Chris Simpson SO M60 35:22 9.56    
  32   Karen Ashworth SO W40 37:07 10.03    
  33   Leslie Coles SO M65 37:14 10.06    
  34   Bridget Hooper SO W65 40:02 10.82    
  35   Pat Maher SO M70 41:03 11.09    
  36   Ian Waghorn SO M40 41:56 11.33    
  37   Debbie Bullen SO W21 43:17 11.70    
  38   Mary Fogo SO W75 45:39 12.34    
  39   Susan Howes SAX W65 46:38 12.60    
  40   Margaret Kent SO W70 47:34 12.86    
  41   Susan Parker SO W65 48:51 13.20    
  42   Sylvia Coles SO W65 57:59 15.67    
  43   Geoff Nash SO M60 65:30 17.70    
  44   Miles Cary SO M55 66:38 18.01    
      James Baker SO M45 26:25   m14  
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ORANGE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Kieran Marsh SO M12 22:29 8.99    
  2   Matthew Leitch SO M12 23:55 9.57    
  3   Dan Corbie SO M12 27:37 11.05    
  4   Jas & Alice Bennett IND   28:26 11.37    
  5   Daniel Sharp GO M16 30:15 12.10    
  6   Liam Marsh SO M12 32:43 13.09    
  7   Ben and Jen Keneally     38:02 15.21    
  8   Shorrocks Family     39:10 15.67    
  9   Marc and Malc Keneally     43:45 17.50    
  10   Debbie Sherman     51:51 20.74    
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YELLOW

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Ed Stanley GO M14 11:28 6.75    
  2   Zack Creton ~GO M16 11:57 7.03    
  3   Thomas Jarvis SO M10 12:56 7.61    
  4   Charlie Waghorn SO M12 15:11 8.93    
  5   John Goode GO M14 15:26 9.08    
  6   Eliot Jones SO M12 19:26 11.43    
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WHITE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Holly Curtis SO W10 14:29 13.17    
  2   Samuel Leitch SO M10 15:39 14.23    
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Results last updated on 13/09/2009 at 15:12:45 by J. Drake
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