Club News by Karin Kirk news@octavian-droobers.org
RATBY WOODLANDS AND STONELEIGH AGRICULTURAL CENTRE
A high attendance of club members at both events was partly due to the good weather and as a build up to the annual international orienteering four day Easter Festival (the JK) which this year is taking place in Scotland.
John Middler, organising his third event in three weeks, was pleased at the participation levels at Stoneleigh (90 competitors), and in particular the number of juniors who came along to take part in the club’s extra coaching and training run by Debbie Morse and the Emmerson family.
On the short Orange course Suzanne Humphries W45 was 1st in 14.37mins, and juniors Davina Mistry and Thomas Pegler were 2nd and 3rd in 19.43mins and 20.53mins. On the Light Green Course Dermot Lynch M40 was 1st in 36mins, John Ward M65 2nd in 36.06mins and John Bowman M65 3rd in 40.31mins. On the longer Green Course Matthew Halliday M21 was 1st in 25.13mins, Chris McCartney M40 2nd in 27.13mins and Tom Jeffries M40 3rd in 27.45mins.
At the Leicester Orienteering Club regional event over two and fifty hundred competitors from around the midlands ran through Ratby and Martinshaw Woodlands, part of the new National Forest, crisscrossing paths and scrambling through bramble undergrowth. Club members produced some fine results: on the long 9.22k Brown course Harrison McCartney M14 was 5th in 1.07.41mins, Lesley Ross W45 was 3rd on the Green 5.02k course in 42.28mins and Richard Gardner M55 4th in 42.54mins, on the Short Green 3.9k course Janet Richardson W60 was 4th in 50.05mins and John Leyden M14 4th on the Light Green 3.44k course in 38.51mins.
2nd April 2012
BRITISH SPRINT AND MIDDLE DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND
Nearly 50 Octavian Droobers club members travelled up to York to compete in the British Sprint and Middle Distance Championships. The Sprint event was held at York University and the morning heats and afternoon finals were run around the campus in quite gloomy and misty conditions. Whereas on Sunday the Middle Distance event was staged at Strensall Common, a technical area on open heathland, quite boggy in places, in glorious sunshine.
Congratulations go to several club members who achieved some great results, in particular to Harrison McCartney, Julie Emmerson and Sheila Carey who completed the double after winning both Championships.
Harrison McCartney, took first place in the Sprint M14 Final completing the 1.9k course in 12.55mins and the Middle Distance event in 17.40mins, nearly 3mins ahead of nearest rival. Julie Emmerson W16 was 1st in the sprint final 2.3k course in 15.46mins and in the Middle Distance 4.1k course winning in 28.20mins. Sheila Carey W65 won the Sprint Championship 1.5k course in 13.01mins and the Middle Distance 3.5k course in 31.00mins.
Club Members produced some fine runs in the Sprint Finals and on the podium were: Hilary Simpson W70 2nd on the 1.5k course in 18.08mins, Mike Hampton M65 3rd on the 1.7k course in 12.59mins and Anne Straube W35 3rd on 2.3k course in 18.10mins. Jane Halliday W50 was 5th as was Trevor Simpson M70. In the B Finals Sue Bicknell W65 was 1st Aimee Morse W16 and Heather Rogers W14 3rd and Karin Kirk W65 4th.
Anne Straube W35 had a fine run in the Middle Distance Championship coming 2nd on her 5.2k course in 42.47mins, Matt Elkington M18 came in 3rd on his 6.5k course in 37.51mins. Hilary Simpson W70 was 3rd on the 2.7k course in 33.34mins, Trevor Simpson M70 4th in 46.22mins on the 4.1k course and Sophie Kirk W20 5th in 38.46mins on the 5.5k course. Other club members achieving championships times in the middle distance event were: Hamish Rogers M16, William Gardner M20, Mike Hampton M65, Jo Halliday W21 and Riina Kuuselo W21.
27th March 2012