Sherrardspark Wood Colour Coded Event Results 08/12/02Results to the White, Yellow, Orange, Red, Light Green, Green and Blue Courses. If you have any queries about the results please contact Jon Marsden. Next HH Event - Stanborough Park Local Event, Welwyn Garden City, 04/01/03. Organiser's CommentsI hope everyone enjoyed their day. I was pleased with the turn out, exactly on the break even point, so thanks to everyone for coming. Thanks to all the Happy Herts helpers. Your efficiency on the day made me redundant, as it should be. Special thanks to Roger Moulding and Eric Brown. Roger arranged the land access and Scout Hut and then hanged and collected controls on the day. Eric also hanged and collected but found time to man the finish in between. Lastly thanks to the person who found the lost dibber and placed it on my car at campus west. It found its way to its owner! The Scout Hut made an excellent event centre. Somewhere warm to copy maps and discuss routes is invaluable on a cold December day. I hoped that the Scout Hut, Tea and Cakes would make for a sociable event and this was the case. Clive's courses looked excellent and it was only a shame that due to illness I could not try one. This was my first experience at organising a colour coded and despite some nerves in the week before the event, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Jacob Sharpe Planner's CommentsFirstly, I would like to thank everyone who came and sampled my courses. It is you that makes the whole exercise worthwhile. I would also like to thank Hedley Calderbank for controlling; all the control hangers marshals and collectors, for ensuring the gear in the forest got out to the right places, stayed there and them came back again respectively; and of course Jacob Sharpe. Worries of a destructive visit by an eco-fundamentalist sort of vandal-with-a-social-conscience (what other sort do you expect, in a Garden City? OK I live in one too!) who has been known before to dismantle control assemblies and then redistribute them into the nearest and thickest available rhododendron bush, thankfully did not materialise on the day - maybe he can't take the cold? My aim for the easier courses was to set them at the right level of difficulty, and ensure that there was a steady progression of challenge available from White right through to Orange/Red and above. I hope that - in retrospect - you all feel you chose the course which was right for the level of challenge you were seeking, and were not tempted into biting off more than maybe you could readily chew: orienteering course lengths do look rather short if you are new to the sport and maybe have a running or country/hillwalking background. Do not be deluded into thinking that because a course is advertised as, say, only 3 or 4 km means you will necessarily complete it quickly and easily. Orienteering really is the ultimate outdoor workout - you test your brain just as much as your legs! On the harder courses, given that no potential control site is too far from a path, my aim was to tempt you off the path network and to keep you thinking by setting legs with multi route choice options wherever I could. From the comments received from finishers, (for which I am very grateful, feedback is vital) most of you seemed to have enjoyed your outing. I was especially pleased to see the high number of relative newcomers to the sport: indeed at times in the Scout Hut it seemed that they were in the majority. It is very refreshing to see the "old faces" outnumbered for once. I hope that those of you who started orienteering recently through our Saturday Series events enjoyed the different sort of challenge that a Sunday colour coded event offers, with its graded difficulty courses which make it really easy for you to improve your skills and fitness at your own pace. And of course e-punching comes as standard too, which means you can see how you did on every leg compared to your friends (that is, if they can stand your bragging or, alternatively, you can handle the embarrassment). Best wishes to all for a Merry Xmas and for many happy orienteering days in 2003. Clive Street The Hertfordshire Orienteering Club ( HH )If you are not already a member of an Orienteering Club and live in or around Herfordshire, you may like to join Happy Herts. Membership allows you to enjoy many exclusive extra activities, including technique training and socials and receive the Club journal and monthly newsletter which includes an events programme compiled specially for people living in this area. More club information. For more details contact S. Marsden ( Membership Secretary ). White, 1.5km, 35m Climb, 9 controls.1 Jill Gibson LOK 16:12 2 Thomas Hemingway WAOC 17.43 3 Helen O'Connor IND 42.45 4 James Errington HH 45.40 5 Callum Friend IND 45.47 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jean Burgess IND mp Jenny Gostick HH mp Yellow, 2.1km, 35m Climb, 10 controls.1 Helen Tilley IND 25.42 2 Alex Meilton HH 28.04 3 Dawn Willmott IND 29.42 4 Bryony Harding HH 30.23 5 Georgina Lawrence IND 31.58 6 Will Corbett IND 34.39 7 Beth Kirby IND 34.44 8 Liberty Kavakeb IND 35.21 9 Lauren Ballantyne IND 36.21 10 Thea Bichard IND 38.00 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Daniel Brigginshaw HH 43.32 12 Matthew Brigginshaw HH 44.32 13 Jen Quinton & James H HH 45.27 14 Hanna Laming IND 45.30 15 Chris Lewczynski IND 46.08 16 Daniel Connell IND 47.06 17 Catherine Hemingway WAOC 48.36 18 Ellie Quinton HH 49.16 Orange, 3.1km, 60m Climb, 10 controls.1 Dion Gibson IND 45.55 2 Rebecca Harding HH 47.24 3 Edwin Baynes IND 59.58 4 Francis Mercer IND 60.59 5 Roy Chapman IND 65.29 6 Will Corbett IND 80.16 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Laura Parkes HH 82.59 8 Kate Lambert IND 96.45 9 Michelle Gardner IND 102.50 10 Catherine Kay IND 215.44 Mike Roantree IND mp Emma Oliver HH mp Red, 4.0km, 75m, Climb, 13 controls.1 Rod Hewson IND 87.12 2 Rosalyn Nelson IND 88.22 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Chris Lambert IND mp Light Green, 3.5km, 70m Climb, 10 controls.=1 Roger Hadland IND 61.40 =1 Tony Miley HH 61.40 3 Anna Black HH 62.54 4 Bob Kay HH 66.57 5 Michelle Hadland IND 69.57 6 Simon Turton CROC 70.20 7 Joan Miley HH 72.33 8 Ken Livermore HH 73.29 9 Chris Page WAOC 75.51 10 Maureen Webster HH 81.18 11 Berny Profit HH 87.50 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David Chappell IND mp Pru Normand HH mp Jill Chapman HH mp Alison Saunders HH mp Green, 4.5km, 95m Climb 14 controls.1 Stephen Bingham LOK 34.19 2 Duncan Minty LOK 46.15 3 Charles Taylor-Keane TVOC 47.13 4 Julie Cleary LOK 47.45 5 Petter Fure LOK 48.57 6 Nigel Quinton HH 50.29 7 Glen Jones LOK 51.07 8 Ronan Cleary LOK 52.54 9 Gill Adams LOK 53.10 10 Richard Blake LOK 56.48 11 Eric Heritage LEI 60.00 12 Camilla Darwin LOK 60.25 13 Patrick McNeill IND 60.34 14 John Shaw SMOC 60.48 15 Linda Collison IND 61.54 16 Maurice Hemingway WAOC 62.01 17 Lesley Brown HH 63.42 18 Graham Parkes HH 63.44 19 Freya Incledon SMOC 67.00 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Cherry Fryer IND 68.01 21 Stanley Holroyd SMOC 68.05 22 John Beadle WAOC 69.09 23 Catherine Galvin LOK 69.14 24 Barrie Walmsley TVOC 69.27 25 David Andorson HH 70.04 26 Phil Brown HH 71.33 27 Rachel Hopkins LOK 74.13 28 Michael Inglis LOK 75.08 29 Andy Mitham HH 76.57 30 Penny Parkes HH 79.25 31 Robert King IND 80.48 32 Bernard Potter TVOC 81.19 33 Rosie Shaw SMOC 81.48 34 Julie Lowe LOK 83.11 35 Keith Hailey IND 86.23 36 Steve Johnson WAOC 88.32 Timothy Street HH mp David Saunders HH mp Blue, 7.4km, 150m Climb, 22 controls.1 Mark Adams HH 48.28 2 Luke McNeill TVOC 49.11 3 Simon Errington HH 50.50 4 Mike Jubb HH 51.02 5 Mark Ford CHIG 54.47 6 Roger Moulding HH 63.59 7 Katka Novotna HH 64.48 8 Tim Hall HH 66.11 9 Steven Horsler SMOC 69.02 10 Neil Brooks LOK 70.43 11 Jonathan Street HH 71.31 12 Sian Challacombe HH 72.18 13 Paul Langston HH 73.17 14 Dave Tookey HH 73.41 15 Anthony Wadeson WAOC 76.43 16 Colin Webster HH 80.18 - Colour Standard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 17 Andrew Welsh SMOC 80.45 18 Ian Smith WAOC 81.03 19 Alwyn Challacombe HH 81.27 20 Val Challacombe HH 82.54 21 Andrew Elliott SUFFOC 84.31 22 George Normand HH 84.53 23 Peter McMunn HH 91.18 24 Kevin Parkes HH 91.52 25 Gillian Jubb HH 94.44 26 Tamsin Horsler SMOC 95.04 27 David Rudd IND 103.01 28 Nicolas Panesi IND 103.10 29 David Brigginshaw HH 103.14 30 Ian Lawson WAOC 115.35 Richard Hyman HH mp Keith Verralls IND mp |