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Croxley Moor Try-O Event Results 31/10/99Comments from the Organiser. Organiser's CommentsWith so many isobars on the weather chart, it seemed incredible that we should be blessed with continuous sunshine, not a drop of rain, and little more than a stiff breeze throughout the event. Thank you all for coming. We hope that those who were trying orienteering for the first time enjoyed the experience, and that we shall meet you again. Don't hesitate to contact us if you realised too late that you had forgotten to ask us some burning question. We hope that those who were already orienteers found sufficient challenge in our only technical course, the Light Green. Perhaps with hindsight, we might have arranged at least one more technical course. I would like to thank Three Rivers Council for allowing us to use Croxley Woods and Common for orienteering, and Costco and Kenwood for the use of their car park in Dwight Road. Thanks to all the willing helpers on the day, and I mean willing - they all volunteered to help. Without them, a heap of miscellaneous equipment brought to the site and dumped on the grass would never have become so quickly an orienteering event. Special thanks too to Paul who planned the courses and who, with the minimum of help, not only put out the controls before the event, but maintained a watching brief over their safety throughout the morning, and then went out yet again after the event to collect them in again. One or two runners on the Light Green course , finishing at about 12 o'clock, reported that they had been unable to find control 6, and that the presence of boys on bicycles in the area suggested a possible explanation. The same control had as mysteriously reappeared in place for subsequent runners. Do I suspect a Halloween prank by the boys ? "Now you see it, now you don't, now you see it again ?" We may never know, but suffice it so say that no-one was disqualified. Finally an apology. The water at the finish should have been squash, but the active ingredient had slipped 'below decks' in the car and never made that heap in the field. I failed to notice this, and you were all too polite to complain! John Currie Yellow, 1.9km, 5m Climb, 10 Controls1 Matthew Johnson TVOC M10 12.54 2 Harry Goldingay HH M14 16.21 3 Nicholas Dunham TVOC M10 17.30 4 Daniel Allison TVOC M8 17.39 5 Michael Johnson TVOC M9 18.11 6 Sammy Poole TVOC W12 20.15 7 Matthew Allinson TVOC M10 22.49 8 Ryan Rudd IND M11 25.50 9 Laconca & Burrows IND M21 26.28 --- Par Time --------------------------------- 10 Jo & Clare Webb IND W11/40 29.48 11 Jennifer Howell TVOC W10 35.54 12 M & L Allan TVOC M/W21 37.10 13 Sopel Family IND 41.17 14 Emma Golding & Mum IND W3 43.13 15 Daishan Patel IND M10 44.44 16 M O'Hagan +3 IND M40 48.18 Orange, 2.9km, 40m Climb, 11 Controls1 L Bleasdale TVOC W45 26.34 2 A Dunham TVOC M12 26.53 3 W Howell TVOC M40 27.11 4 Laconca & Burrows IND M21 36.17 5 H Batchelor +1 IND W11 36.57 --- Par Time --------------------------------- 6 L Batchelor +1 IND W9 43.57 7 T Gladstone +3 IND 48.34 8 C Floyd +1 IND W10 52.58 9 D Hartshorn +7 IND 69.50 Light Green, 3.7km, 50m Climb, 11 Controls1 D Saunders HH M40 26.10 2 R Allinson TVOC M40 26.20 3 D Cook BAOC M35 30.05 4 C Webster HH M45 35.50 5 E Brown HH M50 36.02 6 C Davidson HH M16 36.05 7 H Calderbank HH M45 37.45 8 J Porter IND M60 40.51 9 S Rackett WIGHTO M35 41.47 10 H Goldingay HH M50 42.40 11 P Goddard HH W21 43.44 12 F Goldingay HH W50 46.08 13 D Hailey HH M55 46.11 14 A Hale IND M55 46.22 15 P French HH M50 48.35 16 T Davidson HH W45 51.50 17 B Potter TVOC M70 52.50 --- Par Time --------------------------------- 18 D Lambert + 2 IND 62.26 19 T Dunham TVOC M45 57.48 20 D Allan TVOC M50 57.53 21 M Layzell HH M55 61.44 22 J & R Skepper HH/IND W/M40 64.48 23 M Webster HH W50 67.08 24 D Golding IND M35 73.36 25 M Allinson TVOC W40 73.48 26 J Pack + 1 IND M35 79.58 27 E Dunham TVOC W40 84.02 28 I Whisson CHIG M40 98.43 29 S Daniels CHIG W35 106.37 30 P Morris IND W35 112.40 31 R Patel IND M14 118.06 |