Points East Number 162 - Spring 2004
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Contents
- Editorial
- Chairman's Chat
- CompassSport Cup
- AGM Notice
- Nopesport: the way forward?
- EAGAL 2004
- Southern 6 Day
- Results Round-Up
- Varsity Match
- Electronic Punching... and Mispunching!
- EUOC Reunion
Editorial
If you were to leaf through this Points East when printed out, you would probably notice both that it's fairly thick, and that this is because there are plenty of results in it. Obviously there's no room to print full event results, nor much point in this either, but in the end orienteering is a competitive sport and those whose hard effort has brought them class-leading times deserve recognition. You'll also find out who is setting the pace in this year's EAGAL competition - well done to them, and the rest of you now have targets to aim at later in the year.
"Orienteering: come and have a go if you think you're hard enough"; "You think Adventure Racing is tough? So why do you keep getting beaten by orienteers?" No, not surprisingly these aren't the latest BOF promotional slogans, but some people think they ought to be, and that they would attract more of those missing 18 to 35-year-olds. This is just one of the ideas to emerge from Nopesport, an exciting new online community which you can read more about later. Check it out.
I'm glad to see that there will be a healthy East Anglian presence at the JK (170+) and I hope to see many of you there. Good luck and enjoy the contours!
Your comments, articles, reports and pictures are always welcome; please email to mark@drongo.org.uk or post to 46 The Crossways, Merstham, Surrey RH1 3NA.
The submission deadline for the Summer 2004 edition is 27th June.
Chairman's Chat
I am writing this after returning from the British Champs in a very windswept North East. It turned into a battle for survival on the moors of Simonside. The wind was so strong that it was impossible to stand up at times with horizontal rain lashing down - I suppose it isn't really down but you get the picture. Rarely have I finished up quite so wet. Every article of clothing was saturated (and I mean every bit). Fortunately the navigation wasn't too difficult so I managed to finish before hypothermia set in. Yet in some perverse way I actually enjoyed bits of it! In the meantime the download tent had blown away, Ultrasport had blown away, the porta-loos had blown over but Wilf's survived to dish out much needed hot food. Then there was the car to push out of the mud. Oh the joys of orienteering! Why do we do it..?
No British Champions this year (unless I have missed something) but there were some good results from East Anglians. Our highest position came from Ed Kelleher of NOR who was second in M18 with Helen Lloyd also of NOR just missing out on a medal with 4th in W45. Apologies if I have missed your stunning result!
Despite my showing in the British, 2004 seems to have got off to a good start for me. Your esteemed Chairman is feeling very pleased with herself. I started the year with a Championship standard run at the first National Event, something I have never before achieved and then followed it up by winning the W50 class at the Midland Night Championships at High Ash. OK so Night O does not appeal to many people and I was the only entrant. But I still had to find all the controls, no mean feat in the dark I can tell you. It is bad enough keeping track of blocks of Thetford Forest in daylight but it is far more difficult at night! Thank you to WAOC for hosting it.
EAOA staged a very successful CompassSport round, showing how capable we are of putting on a quality event. Personally I found Mark's planning made better use of the terrain than my British course. Thank you to Mark, Caroline, Roger and John who coped with the bulk of the work, and thank you to all EAOA club members who helped on the day. I think our region is very special in the way in which clubs work together. Congratulations to SOS who had a very convincing victory in the Trophy and carry the EAOA standard to the Final. Will this be their year?
So now we can look forward to the JK at Easter. The orienteering terrain will be challenging and I am looking forward to it. It is always a very social event (given half decent weather) with lots of friends to catch up with. One thing is certain, Relay Day will be very vocal with plenty of EAOA teams to cheer on the run in! And don't forget the BOF AGM. As well as the usual AGM business, there are a couple of subjects for discussion. Funding is one issue and Child Protection is another. Do go and have your say.
Changes are afoot at BOF with the restructuring of the organisation and the new Strategic Plan. EAOA committee has some reservations, to say the least, particularly about the latter. We are hoping to have Robin Field, the Chief Executive attend the next meeting on May 14th. Anyone will be welcome to attend. I think this is a very important way that we can get our concerns over to "management".
Enjoy your orienteering and I hope to see many of you in the Lake District.
CompassSport Cup Regional Round: Warren Wood, Thetford
On Sunday 14th March all of East Anglia's clubs descended on Warren Wood, along with a few others from further afield, to battle it out for a place in the CompassSport Cup final. With no less than seven controls visible in the large felled area through which all the courses finished, there was plenty of interest for the spectators who braved the squally showers.
![[competitors finishing]](csc_finish.jpg)
Fast times were expected in the gently sloping terrain, with only a couple of small areas of intricate depressions to break up competitors' flat-out rhythm, and the leaders in all classes duly delivered - from the 5.4min/km of Neil Northrop in the Men's Open to the 6.3min/km in which Edward Louth won the M/W14- course.
Northrop (WAOC) beat ShUOC team-mate Chris Sellens (SOS) by just two seconds, while in the Women's Open Liz Day (NOC) had a much more comfortable winning margin of nearly five minutes. Juniors took second and third places on both open courses, despite the new class allocations which would have M/W18s running Light Green instead...
With four individual course winners (Day, Mike Napier, Alison O'Neil and Andrew Llewellyn) and as top scoring team on five of the seven courses NOC won through to the final as expected despite fielding a relatively small team in terms of numbers, with a margin of 56 points over WAOC. In the Trophy competition, last year's final runners-up SOS qualified very comfortably with a massive 186 point margin over both CHIG and SMOC. Apparently SOS are getting very close to the maximum number of members allowed for entry to the smaller clubs' competition, so it may be that by next year they will present a new challenge to the region's larger clubs in the Cup. The final club scores were:
| Cup | Trophy | |
1. NOC 611 2. WAOC 555 3. NOR 422 4. LEI 278 |
1. SOS 540 2. CHIG 354 3. SMOC 354 4. HAVOC 270 5. SUFFOC 138 |
Congratulations to both winning teams, and good luck for the final in May. The leading runners in each class are listed below, and full results can be found at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger.stenson2/CSC2004/.
I hope you enjoyed the courses as much as Lyn :-) and I'd like to thank John for controlling, Caroline for organising and everyone else who helped for contributing to a successful event.
Men Open 1. Neil Northrop (WAOC) M21 56:29 2. Chris Sellens (SOS) M20 56:31 3. Laurence Ball (NOR) M18 59:36 4. Dil Wetherill (WAOC) M40 62:09 5. Jeff Green (CHIG) M35 62:30 Women Open 1. Liz Day (NOC) W21 49:59 2. Helen Gardner (WAOC) W18 54:47 3. Suzy Robertson (SOS) W20 57:23 4. Janet Evans (NOC) W40 58:28 5. Nicola Robertson (SOS) W20 64:27 M45+ M20- (Cup) 1. Michael Napier (NOC) M50 45:34 2. Garry Drew (NOC) M50 48:49 3. Peter Gardner (WAOC) M20 49:03 4. Bill Morgan (NOR) M55 49:39 5. Mick Lucking (NOC) M45 50:45 M45+ M20- (Trophy) 1. Martin Sellens (SOS) M50 47:54 2. Phil Stewart (SOS) M45 50:32 3. Nick Pugh (SOS) M50 52:16 4. Richard Bonnett (SOS) M45 53:17 5. Keith Downing (SMOC) M50 54:44 W45+ W20- 1. Alison O'Neil (NOC) W20 42:15 2. Liz Rocke (LEI) W50 49:21 3. Maureen Weldon (WAOC) W50 50:00 4. Hilary Palmer (NOC) W55 52:48 5. Nicola Gardner (WAOC) W45 53:36 M60+ 1. John Pearce (CHIG) M60 41:26 2. Chris Morley (WAOC) M60 43:21 3. David Ball (NOR) M60 47:10 4. Robin Campbell (CHIG) M65 47:54 5. Bob Titterington (LEI) M60 50:13 M/W18- 1. Andrew Llewellyn (NOC) M18 21:51 2. John Rocke (LEI) M16 23:43 3. Simon Gardner (WAOC) M16 24:27 4. Rosemary Hodkinson (NOC) W18 26:23 5. Aiden Hewitt (NOC) M16 28:47 M/W14- 1. Edward Louth (WAOC) M14 19:00 2. Peter Hodkinson (NOC) M14 19:51 3. Mairead Rocke (LEI) W14 22:28 4. Matthew Wallace (NOC) M14 23:43 5. Sarah Claxton (NOC) W14 24:00
AGM Notice
The Annual General Meeting of EAOA will take place on Sunday 27th June at 12:30pm. It will be held at Warren Wood, Thetford, and follow a score event with a mass start at 11am. Put it in your diary now!
Agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of the last meeting [published in Points East 160]
- Matters arising
- Officers reports
- Chairman
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Fixtures
- SI equipment
- Points East
- Coaching
- Junior Squad
- Election of Officers listed above
- Any other business
Nopesport: the way forward?
There are many websites with an orienteering theme: nearly every club has one now, and they are an essential source of information for the modern orienteer. The most up-to-date fixtures information is always available, and results can now be published a matter of hours after an event. But they all share one thing in common - the information flow is one way, as if you were browsing through a library. You can only find what you are looking for if someone else has previously stacked it on the shelves.
For simple factual information, this is all well and good. Everyone knows that competitors want to know how to get to an area, or the results of a race. As ever more individuals create their own sites, all manner of trivia has found its way online, as well as their authors' opinions. However, the experience is still passive. Modern technology can do better than this and introduce an interactive element, allowing people to air their opinions and take part in discussions from wherever they are. It's a bit like a letters page, but one where you don't need to wait two months for replies. Or for more spontaneous discussions, it's "like a giant online assembly field" (Ed).
There are many such online communities, discussing many different subjects. What marks out the successful ones is a critical mass of posters, enough so that the content is always changing and users return regularly. In the last few months a forum dedicated to British orienteering has reached this stage, and is rapidly growing - it's called Nopesport.com. Set up by a group of orienteers based in Edinburgh, there are now hundreds of contributors from all over the country, with thousands of messages already posted.
Every user has the same opportunity to speak, whether you're a new convert or a club chairman - you choose your username, and your opinions stand on their merit. There's no need for traditional hierarchies, the site "allows people from all levels of the sport to exchange views and listen to ideas on an entirely equal footing" (Mrs H.). As an illustration of the interactive power of the Nopesport community, all the quotes used in this article come from its members (the attributions in italics are their usernames), and most were posted within a few hours of my request for them.
Some of the discussion topics are serious - a recent thread on the future of orienteering has received a wide range of considered views, some of which would be unlikely to reach the decision makers by traditional routes. Others are smaller in scope but have immediate effects: Nopesport was "instrumental in getting a scoring system for BUSA arranged which made it a much more exciting competition this year" (brooner). Do you think something can be done better? What bugbear do you want to get off your chest, and see if others share?
Another aspect of the site is its use for less serious and more general chat. After all, "orienteering can be a pretty solitary sport... how do you get to know the members of the club you just joined when they head straight back to their cars" (i-pod). And even when you have got to know them, they're not always going to be at the same events as you at the same time. Nopesport's forums provide a solution to "the main problem with orienteering - not being able to keep in contact with your friends" (Braddie). Your real club tent probably only puts in an appearance at a few major events, but now you can have a virtual club tent all the time, and stay in touch.
There are also several areas of the forum which have a narrower focus. There are places to discuss specific competitions, such as the UK Cup; there is a dedicated Junior forum which you have to be under 18 to post in; there is a Travel section to help co-ordinate lifts to events. And as the number of users rises there is sure to be demand for other such areas to supplement the main Discussion threads.
I have mainly concentrated on the forum, which for me at least is the most important part of the Nopesport site. But there is much more to it than that, as there is a comprehensive news section which is updated frequently with the latest from important events around the country. A network of reporters means that news travels fast, for example British Night Champions were announced before their prizegiving took place, and the cancellation of the Sunday event at Simonside was publicised immediately to save unnecessary journeys. There are also galleries where you can find an interesting selection of photos and maps.
So come and investigate Nopesport, the site which "combines a great forum with up to the minute information" (distracted). Join in with "structured debates about important aspects of the sport, from competition right the way through to administration" (bendover), or just "get to meet new people, and talk to people who you wouldn't normally talk to" (helen).
EAGAL 2004
The first three months of the year have seen the first three EAGAL events, starting with CUOC's Icenian at Highlodge Warren, and followed by NOR's event at Swaffham Heath and WAOC's at Warden Warren. The leading positions in each class going into the mid-season break are given below: particular congratulations to the four runners with maximum points so far - James Firth (M12), Rolf Crook (M21), Julia Wotton (W35) and Lindsey Freeman (W50).
The remaining four events are all in the autumn:
- SOS Hatfield Forest, 26th September
- SUFFOC Ickworth, 3rd October
- HAVOC Thorndon Park, 31st October
- SMOC Dunstable Downs, 21st November
M10 1. Thomas Hemingway (WAOC) 292 (3) 2. Thomas Louth (WAOC) 200 (2) 3. Philip Wright (WAOC) 64 (1) M12 1. James Firth (WAOC) 300 (3) 2. Adam Chalkley (NOR) 122 (2) 3. Alex Minshall (WAOC) 100 (2) M14 1. Edward Louth (WAOC) 91 (1) 2. Matthew Bedder (NOR) 50 (1) 3. James Park (SUFFOC) 48 (1) M16 1. Simon Gardner (WAOC) 172 (2) 2. Mark Chalkley (NOR) 138 (2) 3. James Lyne (SOS) 91 (1) M18 1= Nathaniel Leaker (SMOC) 100 (1) 1= Jonathan Nelson (NOR) 100 (1) 3. Laurence Ball (NOR) 97 (1) M21 1. Rolf Crook (WAOC) 300 (3) 2. Mark Collis (DRONGO/WAOC) 137 (2) 3. Glen Richardson (NOR) 134 (2) M35 1. Robert Frost (NOR) 200 (2) 2. John Ward (NOR) 180 (2) 3. Perry Mole (SUFFOC) 168 (3) M40 1. Paul Beckett (HAVOC) 299 (3) 2. Mark Wadeson (WAOC) 182 (2) 3. Richard Freeman (RAFO) 150 (2) M45 1. Mike Capper (WAOC) 247 (3) 2. Bob Hill (RAFO) 236 (3) 3. Peter Woods (WAOC) 212 (3) M50 1. Phil Brown (NOR) 258 (3) 2. Bruce Marshall (WAOC) 221 (3) 3. Tim Eden (NOR) 189 (2) M55 1. Mike Bickle (WAOC) 271 (3) 2. Fred Northrop (WAOC) 233 (3) 3. Peter Ryall (WAOC) 221 (3) M60 1. John Ward (NOR) 200 (2) 2. Clive Coles (SUFFOC) 187 (3) 3. Tony Bishop (WAOC) 186 (2) M65 1. Peter Leverington (NOR) 245 (3) 2. John Lewis (SMOC) 200 (2) 3. Rodney Freeburn (NOR) 192 (2) M70 1. Jack Isbester (SOS) 287 (3) 2. Alan Coddington (NOR) 199 (2) 3. Norman Howarth (NOR) 187 (2) M75 1. Maurice Capper (WAOC) 200 (2) 2. Harry Meatyard (NOR) 100 (1) 3. John Peel (NOR) 44 (1) M80 1. Bob Farnbank (NOR) 100 (1) W10 1. Chloe Parker-Freeman (WAOC) 124 (2) 2. Jacqui Doyle (NOR) 100 (1) 3. Maddy Vogler (NOR) 50 (1) W12 1= Katie Doyle (NOR) 100 (1) 1= Sophie Louth (WAOC) 100 (1) 1= Katrin Sengerová (WAOC) 100 (1) W14 1. Rachael Malley (SOS) 100 (1) 2. Nicola Barker (SUFFOC) 60 (1) 3. Ellen Sanderson (SOS) 50 (1) W16 1. Clare Woods (WAOC) 162 (2) 2. Jo West (SOS) 100 (1) 3. Nina Tant (SOS) 80 (1) W18 1. Helen Gardner (WAOC) 184 (2) 2. Hazel Tant (SOS) 100 (1) 3. Katie Sellens (SOS) 89 (1) W20 1. Nicola Robertson (SOS/CUOC) 90 (1) W21 1. Blanka Sengerová (WAOC/CUOC) 200 (2) 2. Ali Ingleby (CUOC) 100 (1) 3. Kay Fowler (NOR) 99 (1) W35 1. Julia Wotton (WAOC) 300 (3) 2. Alison Fox (WAOC) 100 (2) 3. Louise Walker (SUFFOC) 81 (1) W40 1. Pamela Hemingway (WAOC) 200 (3) 2. Caroline Louth (WAOC) 194 (2) 3. Sue Speller (WAOC) 94 (2) W45 1. Barbara Fothergill (HAVOC) 246 (3) 2. Sue Woods (WAOC) 222 (3) 3. Nicola Gardner (WAOC) 143 (2) W50 1. Lindsey Freeman (WAOC) 300 (3) 2. Maria Marshall (WAOC) 244 (3) 3. Jane Howsam (WAOC) 145 (2) W55 1. Ruth Saxl (WAOC) 209 (3) 2. Jenny Collyer (SOS) 200 (2) 3. Mary Batten (WAOC) 162 (2) W60 1. Geraldine Russell (SOS) 200 (2) 2. Gillian Pilgrim (NOR) 195 (2) 3. Sue Vine (NOR) 136 (2) W65 1. Clarissa Napier (NOR) 162 (2) 2= Shirley Lane (NOR) 50 (1) 2= Mary Ryder (HAVOC) 50 (1) W70 1. Barbara George (NOR) 197 (2) 2. Ursula Oxburgh (WAOC) 189 (2) 3. Anne Duncumb (WAOC) 139 (2) W75 1. Sheila Farnbank (NOR) 100 (1)
Thanks to Neil Humphries for doing the calculations - full results for everyone can be found at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/n.humphries/Eagal/2004.htm. Remember that your best four scores count, and you need to have been to at least three events by the end of the year to qualify for the overall competition.
Southern 6 Day, New Zealand
![[Southern 6 Day logo]](s6d_logo.gif){kind=logo}
This Christmas and New Year my family and I spent the holiday visiting my brother, who's currently studying in New Zealand. At some point in the Autumn, I noticed an advert in CompassSport; it said that the early bird closing date for the Southern 6 Days, an orienteering event organised by Dunedin Orienteering Club, was approaching. As we were supposed to be finishing the Milford Track just after New Year's Day and this event was starting at about that time, we thought we'd be close enough and might give one of the days a go.
First things first - I think we've all heard before that our compasses wouldn't work "down there" in the South. So Kim did all the preparation and bought us southern hemisphere compasses to use during the event and whilst walking too (apparently some sort of "kiddies compass just in case yours doesn't work..."). I decided I wouldn't bother bringing the compass I usually use - I was told so many times it wouldn't work anyway! - but my Dad did and (to his horror!?) found that it worked in the south quite fine. OK, with a little bit of holding it off the horizontal, but apparently it was only a minor problem. An even worse discovery, though, came when the "kiddies" compass worked back in England!
![[Naseby Forest]](s6d_forest.jpg)
The area of the event was Naseby Forest - apparently in winter Naseby is a centre for curling and in the past it has been a gold-mining town. Travelling towards Naseby from the rather wet west coast of the South Island, the countryside suddenly felt very dry and uninviting as we headed east. In fact, so much so that we wondered whether there would actually be any forest to run in anywhere! Nevertheless, the forest did appear the next morning we found ourselves in the assembly area just on the outskirts of the little town of Naseby.
The terrain was supposed to be old gold mining terrain with a lot of erosion gullies - going up and down them can get quite tiring! - and a number of various different types of forest. Well, I noticed a lot of dry pine needles underfoot, not the greatest place not to be running in O shoes - I didn't feel that carrying them around for almost a month was worth it, but on hindsight I might have been better off wearing them. I was also intrigued by this note in the final details:
"Courses 1 to 3 have a small magnetic anomaly on one part of the map where the compass needle suddenly dives towards the ground. Keep moving and within 50m you are back to normal. There are no controls within the area!"...but I have to say I didn't actually come across this area of "small magnetic anomaly" despite being on course 3!
We had only entered for Day 2 of the 6 Days; both Day 1 and Day 2 were run in Naseby. When I saw the details, I noticed my course length was a bit short (3.7km for W21A) so I wondered whether it would be very technical instead. In fact, from some comments at the start and in the loo-queue, it appeared that some of the competitors felt that by not having done Day 1 was an advantage because you'd be blissfully unaware of what awaits you.
![[a helpful preview]](s6d_newmap.jpg)
The organisers weren't too keen to help: the hand-written note on the sample map (right) reads "Sorry but if we showed you this bit in the middle we would have to kill you!!"
Well, I do have to say that once out on my course I was quite glad that it wasn't any longer, having spent a lot of time looking for some of my early controls and not having a clue where I was - as to how I eventually found number 5, that will forever remain a mystery to me! After a bit of a disaster at numbers 4 and 5, I found myself getting (a bit!) used to the terrain and the sort of map. It didn't eliminate all of my mistakes, but I didn't feel quite as lost as I did at the start of the event. Whilst scrambling up and down lots of gullies, I felt that I knew vaguely which gullies they were... There was a small watercourse in the area - about 1.5m wide and about 20cm deep - I'd avoided crossing it at the beginning of my course where I chose to run to a bridge further along a track, but ended up having to step inside it on the way to and from my penultimate control. At which point I bumped into my brother, who was crossing it, too - in quite an interesting fashion, jumping with both feet straight into the middle and then straight back out again! And later my Dad was explaining how he managed to jump across it, but ended up with the map on the other side of the water as he'd let go of it in flight when he thought he'd need all of his hands and feet to help him end up on the bank...
![[map extract]](s6d_map.jpg)
In the end, I thought my time wouldn't be too great when I finished but as I saw other people's time, I gradually started feeling a bit better; my result wasn't that brilliant but it seemed within a decent percentage of the other competitors on the course. Katrin doesn't seem to have found it as hard as the rest of us - in fact, she won the W12 course on the day we ran!
In any case, it was certainly an interesting and fun experience to have a go at orienteering in New Zealand, and I would recommend it to anyone who just happens to be down there at the time of an event.
Results Round-Up
SOS Broaks Wood 18/1/04
White 1. Pierre Riley +1 (Ind) M10 11:53 2. Alexander Hesketh (DVOA/USA) M10 15:22 3. Fran Musgrave +1 (Ind) W10 16:49 Yellow 1. Alex Ware (SOS) M10 21:34 2. Grace Sanderson (SOS) W10 34:33 3. Conor Weed (SUFFOC) M12 35:44 Orange 1. Donne Medley (CHIG) M35 38:43 2. Megan Malley (SOS) W12 45:46 3. Sarah Park (SUFFOC) W14 49:05 Light Green 1. Jo West (SOS) W16 32:27 2. W.A. Owen (Ind) M40 39:28 3. John Collyer (SOS) M55 39:49 4. Petra Hajkova (NOR) W21 45:27 5. Paul Hammond & P Branto (Ind) M21 49:00 Green 1. Bob Alderson (NOC) M60 48:41 2. Peter Duthie (WAOC) M45 49:08 3. Phil Crocker (Ind) M21 50:15 4. Graham Bridgland (SAX) M50 53:29 5. Emma Johnson (SOS) W18 53:56 Blue 1. I. Maynard (HAVOC) M40 50:37 2. Phil Stuart (BAOC) M45 51:50 3. Mike Muggeridge (HAVOC) M40 57:10 4. Clive Tant (SOS) M45 60:40 5. Chris Cann (HAVOC) M21 61:08
NOR Sandringham 18/1/04
White 1. Daniel Rawsthorne (LEI) M10 9:20 2. David Harvey (NOR) M10 10:08 3. Chloe Parker-Freeman (WAOC) W10 11:12 Yellow 1. Josh Jarvis (NOR/WyCol) M12 14:13 2. Alex Minshall (WAOC) M12 19:57 2. Adam Charvey (NOR/WyCol) M12 20:42 Orange 1. James Taylor (NOR/WyCol) M12 35:03 2. Ollie Ridout (NOR/WyCol) M14 35:56 3. Richard McCormick (NOR) M14 38:55 Red 1. Rob Shephard (LOG) M35 35:02 2. Joe Harris (CNS) M16 36:42 3. Jonathan Garner (Ind) M35 44:18 Light Green 1. Luke Minshall (WAOC) M35 34:43 2. Richard Chalkley (NOR) M50 37:39 3. Hamish Pritchard (Ind) M21 41:10 4. Alison Cook (Ind) W21 42:28 5. Steve Cowley (NOR) M45 43:30 Green 1. Pat Martin (NOR) M60 50:52 2. David Anstee (NOR) M40 51:46 3. Julia Wotton (WAOC) W35 51:47 4. Ian Shephard (NOR) M50 52:10 5. Chris Holt (Ind) M55 52:14 Blue 1. Kevin Smith (NOR) M50 45:56 2. Becky Carlyle (OUOC) W21 53:38 3. John Ward (NOR) M60 59:39 4. Nigel Gardener (NOR) M55 60:22 5. Graeme Corden (NOR) M40 61:08 Brown 1. Danny Goldsworthy (NOR) M21 67:56 2. Michael Chopping (NOR) M45 68:58 3. Clive Baker (NOR) M45 76:00 4. Rolf Crook (WAOC) M21 76:28 5. Tim Wright (NOR) M21 78:58
CUOC Highlodge Warren 25/1/04 (Icenian & EAGAL)
JM1 1. Rory Braggins (WAOC) 17:29 2. Alasdair Pedley (EPOC) 45:42 JM2 1. Tom Adams (Ind) 17:30 2. Thomas Hemingway (WAOC) 17:54 3. Alex Minshall (WAOC) 20:55 JM3 1. Thomas Louth (WAOC) 31:07 2. Nathan Czyzewicz (Ind) 51:06 3. James Firth (WAOC) 56:59 JM4 1. Matt Richmond (DFOK) 47:54 2. Robert Hime (LOK) 48:12 3. Tobias Leaker (SMOC) 64:23 JM5M 1. John Rocke (LEI) 43:27 2. Tim Street (HH) 48:43 3. Simon Gardner (WAOC) 51:50 JM5L 1. Mat Dickinson (DVO) 54:27 2. Jonathan Street (HH) 60:48 M21L 1. Duncan Archer (HH) 62:53 2. Martin Stepanek (CROC) 69:05 3. Ed Catmur (OUOC) 74:23 M21S 1. Glen Richardson (NOR) 51:29 M35L 1. Phil Marsland (JOK) 63:57 2. Jeff Green (CHIG) 64:16 3. Ian Renfrew (WAOC) 65:47 M35S 1. Hugh Potter (EPOC) 46:38 M40L 1. Simon Errington (HH) 69:46 2. Mark Adams (HH) 69:56 3. Clive Street (HH) 72:46 M40S 1. Richard Freeman (RAFO) 45:14 M45L 1. Mark Saunders (BOK) 47:21 2. Phil Stuart (BAOC) 53:07 3. Andrew Malley (SOS) 55:18 M45S 1. Maurice Hemingway (WAOC) 51:30 M50L 1. Martin Sellens (SOS) 55:26 2. Douglas Henderson (RR) 56:54 3. Charlie Turner (SLOW) 57:37 M50S 1. Tim Pribul (CHIG) 40:43 M55L 1. William Morgan (NOR) 50:37 2. Peter Martin (SAX) 51:38 3. Mike Hampton (OD) 55:51 M55S 1. Barry Parker (NOR) 43:03 M60L 1. Chris Morley (WAOC) 53:35 2. Pat Martin (NOR) 55:41 3. Tony Bishop (WAOC) 58:50 M60S 1. Colin Nicholson (SMOC) 45:32 M65L 1. John Lewis (SMOC) 48:15 2. Robin Campbell (CHIG) 48:38 3. Robin Barris (HH) 50:32 M65S 1. Keith Ryder (HAVOC) 68:29 M70L 1. Jack Isbester (SOS) 66:05 2. Alan Coddington (NOR) 66:14 M70S 1. Ken Livermore (HH) 57:36 M75L 1. Maurice Capper (WAOC) 100:08 JW1 1. Hannah Skinner (SN) 29:30 JW2 1. Sophie Liddament (Ind) 21:18 2. Megan Malley (SOS) 25:19 3. Grace Sanderson (SOS) 68:26 JW3 1. Ellen Sanderson (SOS) 44:15 2. Katrin Sengerová (WAOC) 51:41 3. Katy Woods (WAOC) 61:01 JW4 1. Laura Parkes (HH) 52:46 2. Mairead Rocke (LEI) 53:02 3. Sophie Louth (WAOC) 66:20 JW5S 1. Jo West (SOS) 47:00 2. Clare Woods (WAOC) 53:49 3. Nina Tant (SOS) 58:14 JW5L 1. Hazel Tant (SOS) 54:50 2. Katie Sellens (SOS) 61:23 3. Emma Johnson (SOS) 66:59 W21L 1. Pippa Whitehouse (OUOC) 55:41 2. Katerina Heczkova (CROC) 57:01 3. Alice Bedwell (BOK) 60:35 W21S 1. Line Jenssen (Ind) 47:51 W35L 1. Kate Brett (LOK) 52:27 2. Catherine Galvin (LOK) 64:52 3. Julia Wotton (WAOC) 65:27 W35S 1. Alison Fox (WAOC) 45:27 W40L 1. Wendy Billing (SYO) 51:59 2. Helen Errington (HH) 53:36 3. Susan Skinner (SN) 57:36 W40S 1. Pamela Hemingway (WAOC) 52:32 W45L 1. Hilary Sellens (SOS) 45:59 2. Sue Woods (WAOC) 52:57 3. Clare Bense (Ind) 55:35 W45S 1. Carol Iddles (NOR) 42:28 W50L 1. Elizabeth Rocke (LEI) 45:38 2. Lindsey Freeman (WAOC) 54:49 3. Lesley Brown (HH) 63:32 W50S 1. Maureen Weldon (WAOC) 44:50 W55L 1. Jenny Collyer (SOS) 51:22 2. Satu Peregrine (WAOC) 65:37 3. Frances Goldingay (HH) 66:11 W55S 1. Maureen Webster (HOC) 60:06 W60L 1. Geraldine Russell (SOS) 54:11 2. Gillian Pilgrim (NOR) 56:57 3. Jennifer Taylor (CHIG) 59:34 W65L 1. Ruby Campbell (CHIG) 55:50 2. Susie Hall (HH) 57:17 3. Clarissa Napier (NOR) 59:04 W65S 1. Mary Ryder (HAVOC) 70:23 W70L 1. Barbara George (NOR) 61:19 2. Ursula Oxburgh (WAOC) 68:20 3. Anne Duncumb (WAOC) 84:55
SUFFOC Knettishall Heath 1/2/04
White 1. Robert Barker (SUFFOC/Barn) M10 6:44 2. Sarah Bibby (SUFFOC/Barn) W10 8:49 3. Oliver Jones (SUFFOC/Barn) M10 8:53 Yellow 1. Alex Bibby (SUFFOC/Barn) M12 11:57 2. James Firth (WAOC/KCS) M12 14:09 3. Joshua Harris (SUFFOC/Barn) M12 14:20 Orange 1. Katie Doyle (NOR/Mill) W12 28:24 2. James Park (SUFFOC/Copp) M12 38:26 3. Keith Johnstone (Ind) M21 40:00 Red 1. Jess Trowbridge (Ind) W20 39:03 2. June Smith (SUFFOC) W21 40:37 3. A. & I. Howells (Ind) M35 51:41 Light Green 1. Simon Williams (WAOC) M21 26:00 2. Anee Elvidge (SUFFOC) W45 27:52 3. Annika Swindell (NOR) W21 28:39 4. Colin Curtis (WAOC) M70 32:39 5. Sarah Finn (Ind) W21 35:48 Green 1. Rob Weed (SUFFOC) M35 32:13 2. Simon Peck (SUFFOC) M45 35:06 3. Pat Martin (NOR) M60 36:35 4. Peter Duthie (WAOC) M45 37:28 5. A.D. Wright (WAOC) M20 39:48 Blue 1. Tim Eden (NOR) M50 35:39 2. Richard Bonnett (SOS) M45 37:12 3. Paul Goldsworthy (NOR) M40 39:44 4. Rupert Finn (Ind) M21 41:01 5. Phil Brown (NOR) M50 41:17 Brown 1. Tom Horton (HOC) M21 40:36 2. Glen Richardson (NOR) M21 43:48 3. John Ward (NOR) M35 46:56 4. Richard Freeman (RAFO) M40 47:42 5. Phil Stuart (BAOC) M45 49:21
WAOC High Ash 14/2/04 (Midland Night Championships)
JM5M 1. Matthew Halliday (OD) 51:20 JM5L 1. Daniel Halliday (OD) 40:34 2. Jonathan Street (HH) 53:02 M21 1. Rolf Crook (WAOC) 55:33 2. Daniel Goldsworthy (NOR) 62:53 3. Jacob Sharpe (HH) 76:04 M35 1. Bert Park (SUFFOC) 61:20 2. Perry Mole (SUFFOC) 126:09 M40 1. Dil Wetherill (WAOC) 48:21 2. David Brown (WAOC) 52:59 3. Paul Caban (INT) 62:15 M45 1. Alan Rosen (HH) 41:43 2. Andy Creber (BOK) 42:38 3. Mick Lucking (NOC) 46:29 M50 1. Michael Napier (NOC) 40:09 2. Alan Halliday (OD) 63:16 M55 1. Roger Moulding (HH) 59:21 2. Mike Hampton (OD) 70:57 3. Anthony Biggs (HAVOC) 88:21 M60 1. Chris Morley (WAOC) 45:07 2. Pat Martin (NOR) 51:25 3. Colin Nicholson (SMOC) 64:25 JW5S 1. Clare Woods (WAOC) 38:42 W21 1. Blanka Sengerová (WAOC) 72:33 2. Kay Fowler (NOR) 98:31 W35 1. Julia Wotton (WAOC) 61:46 W40 1. Liz Philips (OD) 58:20 W45 1. Sue Woods (WAOC) 85:59 W50 1. Lyn West (SOS) 70:04 W65 1. Alison Sloman (HOC) 51:26 2. Clarissa Napier (NOR) 63:19 W70 1. Ursula Oxburgh (WAOC) 68:20
SMOC Salcey Forest 15/2/04
JM1 1. Nathan Lawson (LEI) 9:52 2. Tom Ross (OD) 14:33 3. Stephen Elkington (OD) 17:21 JM2 1. Thomas Hemingway (WAOC) 15:55 2. Matthew Elkington (OD) 16:08 3. Daniel Parsons (LEI) 25:24 JM3 1. William Gardner (OD) 23:05 2. Ben Ross (OD) 31:52 3. Thomas Louth (WAOC) 33:38 JM4 1. Robert Gardner (OD) 24:46 JM5S 1. Robert Hime (LOK) 59:47 2. Toby Leaker (SMOC) 70:20 JM5M 1. Edward Louth (WAOC) 57:52 2. Teige Malley (DVO) 109:10 JM5L 1. Jonathan Pye (SOS) 86:56 2. Ben Greenhalgh (CUOC) 116:04 M21L 1. Anthony Squire (INT) 75:14 2. Mike Barnby (OD) 82:44 3. Andy Simpson (OD) 85:12 M21S 1. Jeremy Tonge (BOK) 71:35 M35L 1. Iain Botheroyd (OD) 70:41 2. John Ward (NOR) 78:04 3. Marcus Tett (Ind) 79:58 M35S 1. Ian Wilson (LEI) 56:40 M40L 1. Mark Adams (HH) 87:29 2. Colin Oliver (OD) 88:20 3. Martin Hime (LOK) 95:49 M40S 1. Mark Bristow (TVOC) 57:49 M45L 1. Andrew Malley (SOS) 57:08 2. Andy Emmerson (OD) 65:40 3. Ian Ditchfield (MV) 65:41 M45S 1. Andy Heath (OD) 47:28 M50L 1. Chris Norwood (EU/AUS) 63:52 2. David Bray (LEI) 68:32 3. Mike Jones (SMOC) 71:53 M50S 1. Richard Harris (SMOC) 55:00 M55L 1. Bob Joiner (TVOC) 57:05 2. Michael Bickle (WAOC) 60:41 3. Martin Cross (OD) 66:10 M55S 1. David Cooke (NOC) 50:14 M60L 1. Richard Collins (SROC) 63:44 2. Chris Morley (WAOC) 66:13 3. Simon Ford (LEI) 66:58 M60S 1. John Wright (OD) 47:26 M65L 1. Trevor Simpson (OD) 63:23 2. Peter Leake (LEI) 70:02 3. Keith Picksley (NOC) 76:18 M70L 1. Jack Isbester (SOS) 60:18 2. Colin Curtis (WAOC) 62:57 3. Donald Moir (LEI) 68:42 M75S 1. Frank Smith (OD) 53:28 JW1 1. Rachel Emmerson (OD) 10:17 2. Julie Emmerson (OD) 12:10 3. Harriet Lawson (LEI) 13:01 JW3 1. Helen Elkington (OD) 23:06 2. Megan Malley (SOS) 52:34 JW4 1. Catherine Beresford (MDOC) 29:26 2. Rachael Malley (SOS) 67:40 JW5S 1. Erin Malley (DVO) 57:40 2. Ruth Beresford (MDOC) 59:04 3. Nicola Barker (SOS) 91:01 W21L 1. Lesley Ross (OD) 72:30 2. Wendy Billing (SYO) 74:46 3. Sarah Wright (NOR) 74:57 W35L 1. Maire Convery (HH) 61:02 2. Tamsin Horsler (WIM) 77:00 3. Catherine Galvin (LOK) 84:59 W35S 1. Alison Fox (WAOC) 50:08 W40L 1. Jill Emmerson (OD) 80:45 2. Caroline Louth (WAOC) 107:54 W40S 1. Melanie Elkington (OD) 60:35 W45L 1. Jayne Malley (DVO) 74:14 W45S 1. Carol Iddles (HH) 46:40 W50L 1. Janis Ryall (WAOC) 72:51 2. Lyn West (SOS) 84:48 3. Janet Biggs (HAVOC) 104:13 W50S 1. Judith Guillaume (OD) 39:45 W55L 1. Jenny Collyer (SOS) 59:12 2. Janet Richardson (OD) 60:42 3. Margaret Keeling (DVO) 72:07 W60L 1. Sue Bicknell (OD) 67:38 2. Gillian Pilgrim (NOR) 67:54 3. Geraldine Russell (SOS) 70:47 W60S 1. Kathleen Wright (OD) 70:18 W65L 1. Susie Hall (HH) 73:44 2. Shirley Moir (LEI) 76:40
NOR Swaffham Heath 22/2/04 (EAGAL)
White 1. Tom Howe (Ind) M10 14:15 2. Catherine Hemingway (WAOC) W10 15:16 3. Miles Bate-Weldon (NOR/Brow) M10 16:37 Yellow 1. Alex Minshall (WAOC) M12 18:55 2. Thomas Hemingway (WAOC) M10 20:19 3. Jacqui Doyle (NOR) W10 21:33 Orange 1. James Firth (WAOC) M12 27:33 2. Matthew Bedder (NOR) M14 40:09 3. James Park (SOS) M14 41:08 Red 1. Gary Boothroyd (LEI) M50 44:33 2. Margit Zeiler (Ind) W21 52:54 3. Helen & Shah Mian (NOR) 59:15 Light Green 1. Rob Harber (NOR) M16 31:12 2. Niven Last (NOR) M50 36:49 3. Mark Crookes (NOR) M35 39:07 4. M. Hussin (NOR/CNS) M16 40:11 5. Sue & Simon Hooton (SUFFOC) 41:57 Green 1. Ben Cowley (NOR) M20 38:48 2. Alison Fox (WAOC) W35 41:33 3. Pat Martin (NOR) M60 41:58 4. John Rathjen (Ind) M35 42:23 5. Mark Chalkley (NOR/WyCol) M16 42:39 Blue 1. Bill Morgan (NOR) M55 53:44 2. Tim Eden (NOR) M50 59:08 3. Richard Bonnett (SOS) M45 60:19 4= Mike Bickle (WAOC) M55 63:11 4= Katerina Houdkova (Ind) W21 63:11 Brown 1. Rolf Crook (WAOC) M21 53:44 2. Laurence Ball (NOR) M18 54:51 3. Robert Frost (NOR) M35 57:27 4. Peter Lake (CHIG) M35 57:44 5. Glen Richardson (NOR) M21 63:23
SOS Roman Valley 29/2/04
JM1 1. Daniel Figg (HH) 33:30 JM2 1. Thomas Hemingway (WAOC) 19:19 2. Alexander Ware (SOS) 23:11 3. Tom Richardson (NOR) 32:35 JM3 1. Adam Chalkley (NOR) 62:14 2. Calum Machin (SOS) 63:55 3. James Park (SOS) 64:19 JM5M 1. James Lyne (SOS) 56:36 2. Mark Chalkley (NOR) 64:32 3. Sebastian Pugh (SOS) 91:45 JM5L 1. Alexander Machin (SOS) 92:40 2. Jonathan Pye (SOS) 119:40 3. Ben Greenhalgh (CUOC) 121:12 M21L 1. Rolf Crook (WAOC) 80:56 2. Michael Muggeridge (HAVOC) 87:47 3. Owen Lindsell (SLOW) 90:20 M21S 1. Will Kromhout (DEVON) 58:24 M35L 1. Alan Hickling (SAX) 72:49 2. Bert Park (SOS) 82:35 3. John Ward (NOR) 86:00 M35S 1. Perry Mole (SUFFOC) 86:37 M40L 1. Simon Errington (HH) 66:01 2. Kevin Robison (SOS) 86:24 3. Robert MacDermott (Ind) 90:40 M40S 1. Graham Perry (HH) 69:40 M45L 1. Phil Stuart (BAOC) 59:58 2. Andrew Malley (SOS) 61:50 3. Richard Bonnett (SOS) 62:23 M45S 1. Charles Taylor-Keane (TVOC) 51:17 M50L 1. Colin Webster (HH) 72:23 2. Andrew Welsh (SMOC) 73:41 3. Alan Springett (BKO) 78:52 M50S 1. Bob Blows (WAOC) 55:12 M55L 1. Alan Williamson (SO) 62:25 2. Peter Martin (SAX) 67:42 3. William Morgan (NOR) 71:47 M60L 1. Pat Martin (NOR) 63:37 2. Roy Lindsell (OD) 65:19 3. Tony Bishop (WAOC) 69:24 M60S 1. John Starkey (SOS) 56:57 M65L 1. John Webb (SUFFOC) 63:03 2. Rodney Freeburn (NOR) 70:49 3. John Faller (SAX) 79:06 M65S 1. Keith Ryder (HAVOC) 62:48 M70L 1. Chris Baker (DFOK) 64:40 2. Colin Curtis (WAOC) 80:43 3. Jack Isbester (SOS) 87:42 JW1 1. Catherine Hemingway (WAOC) 26:14 JW2 1. Jacqui Doyle (NOR) 19:30 2. Lauren Tinker (NOR) 19:46 3. Sonia Last (NOR) 22:57 JW3 1. Katie Doyle (NOR) 40:38 2. Sarah Park (SOS) 59:33 3. Katrin Sengerová (WAOC) 63:36 JW4 1. Rachael Malley (SOS) 152:12 JW5S 1. Joanne West (SOS) 59:08 2. Nina Tant (SOS) 68:32 3. Hang Tung Chow (CUOC) 69:31 JW5L 1. Emma Johnson (SOS) 74:17 2. Kiri Alford (SOS) 131:14 W21L 1. Helen Lloyd (NOR) 88:19 2. Blanka Sengerová (CUOC) 89:40 3. Julia Wotton (WAOC) 96:58 W21S 1. Carys Morgan (DFOK) 49:59 W35L 1. Catherine Galvin (LOK) 107:49 W35S 1. Joanne Hickling (SAX) 50:59 W40L 1. Helen Errington (HH) 64:58 2. Anne Elvidge (SUFFOC) 84:03 3. Louise Jones (LOK) 84:52 W40S 1. Sue Speller (WAOC) 64:08 W45S 1. Catherine Springett (BKO) 47:39 W50L 1. Lindsey Freeman (WAOC) 56:31 2. Jean Fitzgerald (SAX) 75:27 3. Maria Marshall (WAOC) 79:23 W50S 1. Rina Hill (HAVOC) 83:52 W55L 1. Jenny Collyer (SOS) 60:57 W55S 1. Maureen Webster (HH) 85:27 W65L 1. Clarissa Napier (NOR) 80:29 W65S 1. Mary Ryder (HAVOC) 85:28 W70L 1. Barbara George (NOR) 65:14
WAOC Warden Warren 7/3/04 (EAGAL)
White 1. William Louth (WAOC) M10 11:33 2. Catherine Hemingway (WAOC) W10 13:37 3. Chris Duckworth (WAOC) M10 14:07 Yellow 1. Thomas Norris (WAOC) M12 14:57 2. Jonathan Cronk (WAOC) M12 15:40 3. Thomas Louth (WAOC) M10 16:25 Orange 1. James Firth (WAOC) M12 15:00 2. William Gardner (OD) M12 19:42 3. Jenny Gray (WAOC) W45 26:43 Light Green 1. Neil Gostick (HH) M40 32:39 2. Don Nisbet (SMOC) M40 36:46 3. Ian Byrne (SMOC) M45 38:45 4. Keith Downstone (Ind) 42:01 5. David Lyons (Ind) 50:14 Green 1. Robin Campbell (CHIG) M65 32:34 2. John Lewis (SMOC) M65 33:48 3. Martin Rigby (BAOC) M45 34:58 4. Freya Incledon (SMOC) W21 36:31 5. Roger Dear (HH) M50 38:58 Blue 1. Richard Bonnett (SOS) M45 35:56 2. Tim Street (HH) M16 37:09 3. Bruce Bryant (OD) M45 38:48 4. Graham Parkes (HH) M16 39:08 5. Nathaniel Leaker (SMOC) M18 40:08 Brown 1. Rolf Crook (WAOC) M21 40:06 2. Simon Errington (HH) M40 43:02 3. Clive Street (HH) M45 43:23 4. John Ward (NOR) M35 44:05 5. Robin Smith (SO) M50 45:43
Varsity Match
So, what have the EA student orienteers been up to recently..?
Varsity Match? Of course, I mean the annual competition between Cambridge and Oxford University Orienteering Clubs, which takes place in most sports, orienteering included. This year, after much to-and-froing with the area because of the planned World Cup races in Surrey, we ended up with the individual race on Wimbledon Common and the relays on The Nower in Dorking.
So it was that, on a February weekend, a minibus-load of Cambridge orienteers left, heading for south London, on Saturday morning (not too early for a change!). With lots of anticipation maybe? Well, Oxford having left Yorkshire with most of the trophies (excepting the one for the beer-race) the previous year, it seemed quite an impossible task to even get close to getting them back, especially considering that last year's Varsity winners, Ed Catmur and Pippa Whitehouse, came all keen to take the trophies back!
On the day of the event, all attempts to distract Ed Catmur before the start (apparently at the Icenian, Alan nearly managed to send him off "3km to the other start down that way" - I'm sure when I planned the courses there was no other start there!) seemingly yielded little by way of positive results. Unsurprisingly, Ed and Pippa had the early starts, finishing almost undistracted by the following runners.
![[Blanka at the start]](vm.jpg)
The Cambridge women's team, despite consisting of four reasonably experienced orienteers and a fast cross-country runner, was unable to keep up with Oxford's stronger team and the Dark Blues were victorious by a margin of almost 30 minutes. Meanwhile, the men's team, similarly to last year, were betting on the presence of some cross-country runners making their orienteering debut at the VM, to help make up the team. Perhaps partly due to Alan's injury the previous term and partly due to others' bad runs (someone suggested people were being distracted by Wombles at certain controls, which may be the reason!), Cambridge's fastest time was only the fourth overall, with a Dark Blue winning margin of about 50 minutes.
After the event, we headed towards Barnes, where the evening's entertainment was to be held. In the process, we nearly forgot Ash Bown, the men's captain, in the car-park, waving just as we were leaving it to join the dual carriageway... (Fortunately another car still had to follow so gave him a lift). The buffet meal was held in the local rugby club bar and was followed by the prize-giving and then the final race of the day - the beer-race. This was possibly the one race where Cambridge came very close to Oxford (although not quite to the victorious point of last year), followed only by a struggling JOK team, because most DRONGO members weren't there and it would probably been slightly harsh on the remaining two to drink all eight and half pints between them. :-)
So, to end on a positive note given the results from this year's race, it can now only get better for Cambridge! Let's hope for some new talent swarming into Cambridge Uni (and not Oxford!) for next year... Finally, many thanks to Nicky King and her bunch of JOK helpers for organising the event.
2004 Varsity Match, Wimbledon Common, 7th February
Men's A - 11.4km 1. Ed Catmur (Oxford) 64:51 2. Alex Rothman (Oxford) 72:30 3. Tom Cochrane (Oxford) 75:58 4. Alan Elder (Emmanuel, Cambridge) 77:23 5. Chris Davidson (Oxford) 78:28 6. Ian Elder (Downing, Cambridge) 85:27 7. Ashley Bown (Trinity, Cambridge) 87:09 8. Nick Pilsbury (Oxford) 88:01 9. Toby Kirk (Emmanuel, Cambridge) 89:37 10. Chris Millard (Oxford) 91:22 11. Mark Wadley (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) 99:14 12. Edmund Ward (Selwyn, Cambridge) 141:37 Women's A - 7.3km 1. Pippa Whitehouse (Oxford) 57:04 2. Becky Carlyle (Oxford) 63:03 3. Anne Osborne (Oxford) 66:23 4. Blanka Sengerová (Pembroke, Cambridge) 70:08 5. Rosemary Dyer (Girton, Cambridge) 71:45 6. Ali Ingleby (St Catharine's, Cambridge) 73:30 7. Katherine Asker (Oxford) 74:50 8. Nicola Robertson (Downing, Cambridge) 76:25 9. Christine Jones (Oxford) 95:15 10. Anne Marie Cody (Churchill, Cambridge) 107:12
Electronic Punching... and Mispunching!
The Event Standards Committee has considered two appeals in the past year following disqualification of competitors whose punch at a control failed to register electronically where SI punching was being used. In both cases the appeals were made on the grounds that the competitors had been seen to punch at the control and, in both cases, it was clear that the control unit was functioning properly both before and after the competitor had punched. Both appeals were turned down and the disqualifications were upheld.
So competitors at events using electronic punching are advised to take care when they punch. If the SI system is being used, the control unit will bleep and the light on the control unit will flash. If the competitor's punch produces either of these signals, the punch will have registered on their e-card/dibber. If you are not absolutely sure that you have heard the bleep or seen the flash, go back and punch again as Jon Duncan did at his last control for the relay at the recent World Champs.
Particular care is needed at busy or noisy controls. Where there are several competitors at a control with a number of punching units, the bleep you hear may be from another competitor's punch. If there is background noise, such as the last control where there may be spectators cheering you on, you might not hear the bleep at all. In these circumstances, it is best to look for the light, rather than simply relying on the bleep.
The responsibility to punch correctly is firmly the competitor's. The relevant part in the rules follows in italics:
"6.5.2 The control card, electronic or otherwise, must clearly show that all controls have been visited. A competitor with a control punch missing or unidentifiable shall be disqualified unless it can be established with certainty that the punch missing or unidentifiable is not the competitor's fault and that the competitor visited the control..."
Those of you who have bought the new faster SI-card should be aware that even with that it is possible to punch too fast for the card to record a punch. It is not worth trying to gain a fraction of a second and risk disqualification.
The first and fastest part of the SI punching process is when the SI unit reads the card. The longest time is taken to write the data into the card. So even if you punch too fast and don't get the data written to your card, the unit will almost certainly have read the card number and recorded your visit. However, it is not allowed for that data to be used to reinstate the competitor; if it were, we'd never get the results out until all units had been retrieved from the forest and interrogated. The new IOF rules make this completely explicit with the following wording:
"20.7 ... If a competitor punches too fast and fails to receive the feedback signals, the card will not contain the punch and the competitor must be disqualified (even though the control unit may have recorded the competitor's card number)"
EUOC Reunion
2004 sees the 40th birthday of the first university orienteering club in Great Britain. Edinburgh University Orienteering Club, known by its members as the legends, was set up in 1964. The club has enjoyed great success and are the current British Universities' Champions. Many true legends have been members including World Championship medallists Jon Musgrave, Jon Duncan and Yvette Hague. To celebrate this occasion there will be a dinner held in the Playfair Library, Old College, Edinburgh followed by a ceilidh at Teviot Row Union. The date of this will be Saturday 30th October. There will also be orienteering events on both days of the weekend. In order to kept aware of developments and to apply for tickets please send an e-mail to partyboy@euoclegends.co.uk or send a letter to: Ed Nicholas, Edinburgh University Sports Union, 48, The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ.
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