SELOC Orienteering Club

Thanks to all for turning out, especially Carl for getting the bulk of the planning and all those who helped on the day in various ways. Good to see some competitors from further afield, though shame we had clashes with other clubs' events nearby. The bright sunshine certainly helped make a good day of it. Congratulations to Josh, Therése and Kevan on their victories, I imagine they'll all be pleasantly but modestly surprised.

Darcy Lever isn't great at this time of year because of the vicious vegetation, but it has enough detail to be very interesting in the spring. There are enough options for Yellow and Orange courses, and the way our juniors are going, we'll need to add some more difficult courses next time although a true Light Green might be difficult to squeeze in.

The vegetation was what persuaded me to put a score event on rather than a conventional technical course, so that you had options to avoid the worst. A straightforward score would have been a bit boring so I picked up the "Escalator" concept from CompassSport magazine. I'd hoped to make it a bit fast and furious by keeping the time short and thereby forcing rapid strategic decisions on you about whether to start low or middling, when to break off for the second quartile scores and when to go for the bunch of highest scoring but difficult controls. I think I probably made the time a bit too short at 30 minutes allowed(I obviously remember when you could all still run and think fast!), but 45 minutes would have given you a bit too long and cut out at least one of the strategic decisions for the faster runners.

SELOC's next event is a full Regional one at Tockholes on October 10th, so we don't then have another Saturday event until the last Saturday in November, at Leverhulme Park in Bolton. Hope to see you there.

Steve Round

Results

   Pl Name                          Club        Age Cl   Time  Pts  Pty Xtra  Score 



Escalator Scor 30:00 min  20 C  1190 Pts   

    1 Kevan Latham                  SELOC       M50     29:48  540              540 
    2 Andrew Stimson                WAOC        M21     31:52  700 -240  +16    476 
    3 Roy Stevenson                 SELOC       M60     28:35  470              470 
    4 Paul Turner                   SELOC       M50     32:53  750 -360  +14    404 
    5 Clive Atty                    SELOC       M60     32:55  460 -360  +10    110 
    6 Stephen Richards              SELOC       M55     35:28  720 -720  +64     64 



Open Score  (1 75:00 min  20 C  1190 Pts   

    1 Douglas Wright                SELOC       M60     66:43 1020             1020 



 Pl   Name                                    Club             Age Class       Time    With or shadow                  


Orange  (8)               2.7 km  50 m   11 C     

  1   Therese Thetford                        SELOC               W14         36:21                                                   
  2   Wendy Olsen                             SELOC               W50         38:38                                                   
  3   Robert Sadler                           BARRO               M14         40:11                                                   
  4   Beryl Blackhall                         SELOC               W70         42:55                                                   
  5   Joel Thetford                           SELOC               M10         44:57                                                   
  6   Ben Martland                            MDOC                M12         48:12                                                   
  7   Tony Varley                             SELOC               M60         56:30                                                   
  8   Jason Tonge                             Lostock AC          M40       1:04:24                                                   



Yellow  (5)               1.9 km  30 m   10 C     

  1   Josh Sammon                             SELOC               M10         27:59                                                   
  2   Ruth Sadler                             LOC                 W16         31:32                                                   
  3   C and M Sadler                                                          43:28                                                   
  4   Oliver Sammon                           SELOC                M4         44:00        + Mark                                     
  5   Adam Thetford                           SELOC                M4         48:31      + AnnMarie

Splits

Darcy Lever 20100925 Splits Score

Darcy Lever 20100925 Splits Yellow & Orange

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