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Planners Comments.
I hope you enjoyed night orienteering at Blackland Farm. It was satisfying to see 60 people turn up and take on the challenge of this 122 acre Guide campsite and activity centre at night. Initial impressions of the area (based purely on looking at the map) may be that orienteering there would be very straight forward. The darkness added another dimension, however, and the strong path network was not always easy to make out – “parallel terrain” errors were a frequent risk.
The weather conditions were pretty much ideal for night-O, with a crystal clear cold night and a little bit of a frozen crust on some of the muddy bits. There was no chance of being run over by 4x4 vehicles, shot by wayward archery arrows, or attacked from above by out of control zip wire passengers as these activities didn’t operate at night (unlike the following days event!) so we had the area to our selves. I felt that the area lent itself very well to night-O.
Blackland Farm has been a regular feature of the SO fixtures list for several years for our (normally) Saturday morning SOGallopen events. I tried to level the playing field for non-SO by ensuring that blank maps of the area were available to view for everyone prior to running their courses. I hope everyone found this fair and useful.
The longest (Navy) course was shorter than the guideline length as I felt that the area was physical enough to warrant it and I thought that twice round the area would be enough for most participants (three times, just to make up the length, would take some of the pleasure out of the challenge). Finish times on all three courses looked reasonable and within expected bounds. Congratulations to everyone for showing their competency at night. I feel that the recently launched Kent Night Cup (KNC) series of events has helped many people improve and gain confidence with night orienteering – it showed at Blackland Farm. There are moves afoot to have a KNC event at Blackland in 2008.
Thanks to Anna for organising the event, including arranging use of the hut for the weekend. Anna also ensured you parked your cars in the right place. Thanks to Jaquie for looking after the computing side of the electronic punching and producing the results (very quickly, after several hours in the freezing hut!).Thanks to Mike G for printing the maps in his normal highly efficient and effective manner. Thanks to Keith T, Ali W, Mike H for collecting controls. Thanks to Bridget for taking your money. Aside from these heroic SO helpers (familiar names? – less familiar names very welcome for subsequent events): thanks to Blackland Farm for allowing us to hold the event and you for all coming and making the event worthwhile.
Peter Chapman

NAVY

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Nick Barrable SYO M21 33:52 6.51    
  2   Jonathan Crickmore SO M14 35:06 6.75    
  3   Neil Crickmore SO M45 39:59 7.69    
  4   Christopher Hooker SO M45 41:42 8.02    
  5   Kenny Leitch SO M40 42:55 8.25    
  6   Mike Hooper SO M35 43:25 8.35    
  7   Keith Tonkin SO M45 43:46 8.42    
  8   Jeff Powell Davies SOS M21 43:48 8.42    
  9   Vince Joyce SO M50 44:39 8.59    
  10   Mark Rowe MV M21 45:04 8.67    
  11   Robert Lines SO M40 46:20 8.91    
  12   Justin Mills SO M21 46:40 8.97    
  13   Ian Ditchfield SO M50 46:54 9.02    
  14   Mark Collins SO M45 47:01 9.04    
  15   Don McKerrow SLOW M55 48:58 9.42    
  16   Graham Parkes HH M18 49:37 9.54    
  17   Owen Lindsell HH M21 50:06 9.63    
  18   Simon Greenwood SAX M50 51:32 9.91    
  19   Laura Pearson SO W21 52:42 10.13    
  20   David Bull MV M21 53:10 10.22    
  21   Tim Hulley SO M45 53:24 10.27    
  22   James Parker SO M60 56:23 10.84    
  23   Andy Robinson SLOW M50 57:33 11.07    
  24   Neil Lewer MV M40 60:07 11.56    
  25   Mike Elliot MV M55 60:20 11.60    
  26   Rob Keet SO M50 61:32 11.83    
  27   Jerry Purkis SAX M50 67:53 13.05    
  28   Simon Maytum SAX M40 68:14 13.12    
  29   Kevin Parkes HH M45 71:40 13.78    
  30   David Young SO M50 93:23 17.96    
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OLIVE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Julia Jarvis SO W35 32:30 8.55    
  2   Stephen Waite CROC M55 32:45 8.62    
  3   Bryony Crickmore SO W18 35:51 9.43    
  4   Les Hooper SO M65 37:47 9.94    
  5   Eric Heritage LEI M45 39:09 10.30    
  6   Laura Parkes HH W16 39:35 10.42    
  7   Rachel Collins SO W14 39:57 10.51    
  8   Sarah-Jane Gaffney SLOW W21 41:05 10.81    
  9   Ali Weller SO W21 41:39 10.96    
  10   Philip Craven DFOK M50 41:59 11.05    
  11   Simon Holford SO M35 43:05 11.34    
  12   Susan Crickmore SO W45 52:28 13.81    
  13   Mark Sykes SO M45 55:21 14.57    
  14   James Burton SAX M14 62:05 16.34    
  15   Stephen Burton SAX M50 62:23 16.42    
  16   Kjell Tullus SLOW M55 64:53 17.07    
  17   Barry McElearney SO M40 74:38 19.64    
  18   Penny Parkes HH W50 82:55 21.82    
  19   Claire Leitch SO W40 91:17 24.02    
      John Faller SO M70 49:30   No start  
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OCHRE

      Name Club Class Time Mins/K    
  1   Mark Purkis SAX M12 17:13 8.61    
  2   Alex Lines SO M12 18:23 9.19    
  3   Chris Lambert SO M16 18:48 9.40    
  4   Richard Purkis SAX M14 23:40 11.83    
  5   Nicholas Jarvis SO M12 24:01 12.01    
  6   Thomas Jarvis SO M10 24:03 12.03    
  7   Rowan Speers DFOK M12 25:47 12.89    
  8   Jillian Holford SO W35 26:03 13.03    
  9   Jane Lambert SO W45 35:41 17.84    
  10   Rowan Purkis SAX W50 42:18 21.15    
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Last Updated on 15/12/2007 at 20:45:28 by J. Drake
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