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Verulamium Park Try-O Event Results 15/10/00Results to the Light Green,
Orange,
Yellow and
Yellow ( with guidance sheet ) Colour Coded Courses. Planner's Comments - Eric Brown.Verulamium Park, although a beautiful setting, is not the easiest area on which to plan orienteering courses because, apart from one technically interesting area to the west near the Roman wall, the ground is predominantly open and runnable. Add to that the many football pitches and the golf course and you end up with limited choices. As a result I have spent many happy hours since July - invariably in the rain - trying to optimise the courses. It was therefore particularly embarrassing that an error should have appeared on the Orange map, caused by inadvertently printing an interim version. I hope that we managed to send out sufficient scouts to minimise any problems to those on the course and that the error did not cause too much grief for those taking part. On the day the hangers and collectors were brilliant and the organiser so much in control that - the glitch apart - the Planner's job was reduced to admiring the views of the Abbey through the autumn leaves. Organiser's Comments - Jane Breed.First a big thankyou to you the competitors for turning out in such satisfyingly large numbers, making the work of the officials worthwhile. Second, an equally big thankyou to all the club members who either offered or agreed to help. It made my task simplicity itself! The planner has mentioned our problems with the orange course which we minimised as best we could by sending helpers to the rescue. Scrutiny of the results shows that early runners were undoubtedly disadvantaged and such an error would void the course in more stringent circumstances. I have published them nevertheless as I felt you would like to see them. They cannot, of course be used towards a colour-coded award! I apologise for not finding the error before the first starts and hope it did not spoil the day for too many of you. Putting on any event, even a very small one, without an official controller now looks like an over-economy in manpower. I have not published par times for any course as they would be meaningless with so many pairs and trios. If you are a beginner, you are probably wondering why you have been given a strange age! Orienteering operates on age classes, the youngest of which is 10yrs. Anyone 10 or under this year is classed M10 (men) or W10 (women). The classes then change every 2yrs. so even if you are only eleven this year, you are classed M/W 12. Once you become 21, you compete with everyone aged 21 - 34 yrs. As soon as you enter the year when you become 35, you change class to M/W 35. The steps are then 5 yearly. These classes allow you to compare your personal performance against others of similar age. More high profile events set courses according to age class rather than colour code them. Should you decide that you have discovered a new sport and want to carry on, membership of a club and the British Orienteering Federation become the way forward. For more information about Happy Herts see below. 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 ) at Light Green, 4.1km, 10 Controls.1 Neil Gostick HH M35 25.25 2 R Robinson HH M45 30.27 3 Jim Drysdale IND M45 32.09 4 Nicholas Denton HH M40 33.32 5 S Oliver HH W?? 34.17 6 W A Owen WAOC M40 35.42 7 Catherine Galvin LOK W35 35.57 8 Ian Lawson HH M45 36.13 9 Michael Layzell HH M55 37.09 10 Frances Goldingay HH W50 37.58 11 J Taylor CHIG W55 38.21 12 Bob Kay HH M55 38.52 13 ? Brown + 2 IND M21/W21 41.51 14 Graham Parkes HH M12 42.56 15 M Oliver HH M40 44.54 16 C Smith TVOC M65 45.37 17 Jenny Gostick HH W35 49.09 18 Abbie + 3 IND W21 51.30 19 Jill Chapman SMOC W50 52.55 20 Oliver & Sally Melton IND M10/W40 56.19 21 Louise & Wayne Melton IND W10/M40 59.22 22 R Rudd IND M12 60.01 23 Christopher Melton IND M12 61.19 Orange, 2.9km, 13 Controls. 1 P Walker & J Payne DFOK M14 21.49
2 L Haze DFOK M16 23.45
3 Rose Nicoll + 1 IND W?? 34.41
4 H Abiola & M Kachhia DFOK M12 39.55
5 Sue Owen WAOC W21 40.15
6 David Mander IND M35 40.52
7 Jamie Lawson WAOC M14 41.01
8 Harry Downae IND M50 44.49
9 S Logan & M Smith IND M14 48.22
10 Andrew & Karen Ward IND M35/W35 55.19
11 Dale Lawson HH M10 62.49
12 John James + 3 IND M40 69.39
13 T Gladstone & J Huang HH W10/M10 70.11
14 Alex Gladstone HH ? 71.38
RTD H Webster, S Sawyer
& C Wallace DFOK M12/W12 Retired
Yellow, 1.7km, 10 Controls.1 Adam Sultan IND M10 10.59 2 The James Brothers IND M10 13.10 3 Christopher Denton + 2 HH M10 15.01 4 Katy Martin IND W10 18.08 5 Rachael Cosier IND W10 18.50 6 John Duffield CHIG M50 19.16 7 Vishal Luhar IND M10 21.48 8 G Pearson + 1 IND M10 23.28 9 E Pearson + 1 IND M10 23.31 10 Darryl Lee IND M12 24.20 11 Dale Lawson + 2 HH M10 24.50 12 Emma Oliver + 1 HH W10 39.19 13 Emily Batty HAVOC W10 43.06 14 Isobel Hancox + 1 IND W35 76.33 Yellow ( with guidance sheet ) , 1.7km, 10 Controls.
1 Sam Nicoll + 1 IND M14 10.41
2 Lee Haze DFOK M16 11.23
3 Michael Profit IND M10 14.59
4 Rose Nicoll + 1 IND W14 16.47
5 Katy Burnell & Daisy IND W10 18.35
6 J Payne & P Walker DFOK M14/M12 19.17
7 M Kachhia & N Arivoa DFOK M12/W12 22.45
8 C Wallace, S Sawyer
& H Webster DFOK M12/W12 24.30
9 Laura Parkes HH W10 25.50
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