20th November 2011 Hay Wood WMOA Results - Octavian Droobers - The Orienteering Club for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull in the West Midlands, UK

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[-] White - Length 2.0km, 5m climb, 12 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time	Notes
1	Suzie Clarke	IND	W40	23:36
2	Ashley & David Knott	IND	M12	24:22
3	Laura Gould	IND		26:06
4	Rory Sarkies	OD	M10	73:03
	Sue Bowman/H+F+A Walker	OD	W65	rtd	Missing nos 4-7

[-] Yellow - Length 2.5km, 10m climb, 10 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1	Ewan Lloyd	POTOC	M10	21:55
n/c	Catherine Bailey	HOC	W7	24:18
2	Matthew Kermode	OD	M10	27:27
3	Jack Coathup	IND	M12	30:12
4	Billy Jarvis	IND	M10	31:11
5	Emily Lloyd	POTOC	W10	34:25
6	Enys Lloyd	POTOC	M10	41:21

[-] Orange - Length 2.6km, 10m climb, 14 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time	Notes
1	Karen Thomson	FVO	W40	42:59
2	Dan Matthews + 1	IND	M35 W21	46:33
3	Geoffrey Mander	OD	M65	48:25
4	Sam Ward	IND	M12	48:36
5	Richard Hancock	OD	M16	53:59
6	Alfie Bullus	OD	M12	56:06
7	Phillip Gould	IND		56:25
8	Richard Wilson	IND	M40	61:12
9	Beryl Pay	WRE	W75	79:22
	Kathleen Wright	OD	W65	rtd	Missing nos 9-14

[-] Light Green - Length 3.6km, 15m climb, 15 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1	Heather Rogers	OD	W14	45:07
2	Stephen Elkington	OD	M14	48:42
3	Matthew Hartland	WCH	M14	58:28
4	Tom Ross	OD	M14	62:56
5	Martin Hancock	IND	M50	70:17

[-] Short Green - Length 2.9km, 5m climb, 14 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1	Brian Morris	WRE	M70	33:03
2	Hazel Waters	WCH	W60	39:10
3	Sheila Carey	OD	W65	39:45
4	Janet Richardson	OD	W60	40:06
5	John Wright	OD	M70	43:16
6	Norman Hall	WCH	M75	52:02
7	Hilary Simpson	OD	W70	52:07
8	Jeff Haycock	WRE	M65	52:16
9	Marian Denham	POTOC	W65	54:30
10	Mike Callow	WRE	M70	55:31
11	Kirsty Staunton	WIM	W55	57:33
12	Diana Hailey	OD	W65	67:44
13	Ted Smith	HOC	M70	70:14
14	Linda Page	OD	W55	71:44
15	Elizabeth Urquhart	OD	W55	74:20
16	Joan Norris	COBOC	W60	77:36
17	Sue Lynch	WCH	W50	92:06
18	Toby Norris	COBOC	M70	94:44
19	Frank Smith	OD	M80	95:58
20	John Wilcock	WCH	M70	140:02

[-] Green - Length 4.1km, 15m climb, 18 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1	Matthew Elkington	OD	M16	28:50
2	Robert Brandon	OD	M60	35:41
3	Julie Emmerson	OD	W16	37:41
4	Geff Trewin	HOC	M60	38:23
5	Ian Turner	WCH	M50	39:53
6	John Pearson	HOC	M60	43:44
7	Barry Houghton	HOC	M60	44:52
8	Adrian Bailey	HOC	M45	45:46
9	Liz Phillips	OD	W45	46:36
10	Stephen Bates	OD	M60	46:46
11	Richard Windsor	LEI	M45	47:13
12	John Ward	OD	M65	47:45
13	Francesca Slade	OD	W16	50:42
14	George Normand	LEI	M65	51:44
15	Ruth Lockley	HOC	W55	52:14
16	Charles Nelson	HOC	M60	52:34
17	Delia Kingsbury	WRE	W45	52:58
18	Barry McGowan	HOC	M60	52:59
19	Guy Ross	OD	M16	53:06
20	Dennis Mews	HOC	M60	54:11
21	Stephen Bramwell	HOC	M60	55:22
22	David Arnot	HOC	M60	56:27
23	Russ Fauset	HOC	M60	56:42
24	Robert Scott	HOC	M60	56:44
25	Rollo Rumford	HOC	M65	58:20
26	Stephanie Ellis-Gray	OD	W21	58:24
27	Daniel Roth	OD	M40	58:37
28	John Bowman	OD	M65	58:38
29	Peter Riley	POTOC	M16	58:39
30	Sue Bicknell	OD	W65	59:19
31	Marian White	HOC	W50	59:24
n/c	Elizabeth Furness	OD	W55	59:24
32	Peter Carey	OD	M65	59:34
33	Diane Jacks	WRE	W40	59:36
34	Elizabeth Davies	OD	W16	59:59
35	Jeremy Knott	OD	M16	60:53
36	Jill Emmerson	OD	W45	61:16
37	Gwen Tanner	BOK	W50	62:08
38	Colm Connaughton	OD	M35	63:05
39	John Boden	OD	M60	63:18
40	Kerstin Mitchell	HOC	W45	63:52
41	Martin Gibbons	WRE	M60	64:34
42	Liz Heaton	LEI	W21	64:56
43	Patrick Pay	WRE	M70	66:26
44	Tamsin Alcock	OD	W16	66:52
45	Chris Boycott	WCH	M65	67:27
46	Sue Hallett	OD	W65	67:38
47	Philip Kirk	OD	M55	69:21
48	Chris Heaton	LEI	M21	70:15
49	Will Wheeler	HOC	M60	70:32
50	Andrew Waters	WCH	M60	70:33
51	Rosalind Taunton	NGOC	W60	70:36
52	Richard Lewis	WRE	M60	70:57
53	Phil Bibby	WRE	M55	71:44
54	Stephen Nightingale	HOC	M60	74:35
55	John Bennison	COBOC	M65	77:10
56	Jill MacKenzie	HOC	W50	83:58
57	Graham Urquhart	OD	M55	85:33
58	Barbara Ford	HOC	W55	87:38
59	Anne Wade	OD	W50	87:59
60	Ashley Ford	HOC	M60	89:56
61	Helen-Louisa Jordan	DFOK	W21	123:25
	Trevor Simpson	OD	M70	????
	Alastair Gardner	OD	M16	????
	Derek Turner	WRE	M70	????

[-] Blue - Length 7.0km, 30m climb, 28 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time	Notes
1	Christopher MacKenzie	CLOK	M18	48:17
2	William Gardner	OD	M18	50:18
3	John Embrey	HOC	M50	55:23
4	Richard Pay	WRE	M45	56:23
5	Barry Elkington	OD	M55	57:42
6	Clive Richardson	WRE	M45	63:40
7	Richard Gardner	OD	M55	63:45
8	Paul Basher	HOC	M55	65:11
9	Andy Emmerson	OD	M55	65:52
10	Lesley Ross	OD	W45	65:59
11	Anne Straube	OD	W35	66:08
12	Tony Callow	WRE	M45	66:42
13	Amy Sarkies	OD	W21	68:03
14	Ray Collins	WCH	M55	70:49
15	Mark Thomson	FVO	M45	70:56
16	John Robinson	WCH	M60	72:57
17	Nathan Lawson	DVO	M14	75:17
18	Peter Langmaid	HOC	M40	76:40
19	Ian Gamlen	COBOC	M45	77:19
20	Henry Morgan	POTOC	M55	78:01
21	John Leeson	HOC	M50	78:05
22	Alan Halliday	OD	M55	78:25
23	Mark Garside	WCH	M50	78:47
24	Eamon Staunton	WIM	M55	80:18
25	Hannah Garside	WCH	W18	80:22
26	Ian Jones	WCH	M60	83:13
27	Andrew White	HOC	M55	85:19
28	Steve Chiverton	HOC	M60	85:33
29	John Middler	OD	M55	88:01
30	Karl Kingsman	HOC	M45	91:48
31	Kevin Ross	OD	M45	92:16
32	Mick Sadler	COBOC	M60	92:20
33	Gerry Riley	POTOC	M50	93:06
34	Jim Matthews	WCH	M55	104:06
35	Martin Lancaster		M60	106:38
36	Rodney Hugo	OD	M65	110:51
37	Nigel Cousins	HOC	M55	115:53
	Paul Watterson	HOC	M60	????
	Gerry Spalton	OD	M65	????
	Paul Taunton	NGOC	M60	????
	Keith Ellery	WCH	M55	rtd	Missing nos 12-28
	Jeremy Smith	OD	M45	rtd	Missing nos 24-28

[-] Brown - Length 9.1km, 30m climb, 31 controls

Position	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1	Andrew Monro	HOC	M40	59:35
2	Romualdos Stupelis	HOC	M21	61:04
3	Jonathan Rhys	HOC	M21	65:10
4	Riina Kuuselo	OD	W21	75:52
5	Tom Jeffries	OD	M40	81:15
6	Chris McCartney	OD	M40	82:16
7	David Lawson	DVO	M45	84:58
8	Mark Beverley	OD	M35	85:50
9	Allan Williams	WCH	M40	89:57
10	Alan Segar	OD	M35	100:44
11	Thomas Lewis	WRE	M21	112:17

Planners comments.

I visited the original venue for this event in August (Arley Wood) to find the forestry commission thinning all areas with unknown consequences for the map. I spoke with Bob Brandon and we tried to move to Bentley, which was available but we couldn’t sort any parking. Hay wood was the next option and permission was obtained rapidly (thanks John Bowman!).

The wood continues to improve in runnability, however the map was drawn long before GPS and in plotting some map updates using a borrowed GPS (thanks Phil Kirk!) It became apparent that the NW area of the map needed “fixing”- enter Bruce Bryant, who took my GPS work and visited the wood to update this area and the vegetation along the main track.

Elizabeth Furness helped with control hanging on Saturday afternoon and as a special birthday treat also got up at 6:00am Sunday to do more, ably assisted by Suzanne Humphries and the forest was ready in good time.

Control collectors to be mentioned in despatches were Sue Bicknell, Alan Segar, Chris Mackenzie, John Ward and Roger Edwards (controller).

I tried to plan course legs that would test compass skills as well as requiring good attack points, comments from finishers showed that it is easy to lose orientation in Hay Wood despite the ditch and path network.

So you can see from the above that today was all my own work.

Thanks to the OD team for their invaluable support in making this event happen.

Paul Furness

Planner

Organisers comments.

Thank you all for coming to today’s event. Paul certainly put on some testing courses. My green course had us running straight through the forest from the start, with little path/track running throughout. Paul had us on our toes by constantly changing direction and threw in the odd short leg to confuse. Roger Edwards our controller for the day was alert to our needs and kept us on track to deliver the event you had today. The Droobers are an organiser’s dream with plenty of offers of help to make my role so easy.

Congratulations to the Junior winners who received their trophies today. A complete list of 2011 West Midland Orienteering Association Champions will be listed on the Octavian Droobers web-site once the WMOA Chairman has confirmed eligibility of those taking part. Certificates are awarded to the first three members in each age class on A and L courses. The certificates will be sent to Club Secretaries for distribution with a week of today’s event.

Today marks the end of an era because Paul and Elizabeth Furness are moving to Scotland. I will miss them both, and you will too. It is impossible to try and list the valuable varied contribution the couple have made to orienteering in the West Midlands. Liz and Paul have made a difference, I thank you both.

Bob Brandon

Organiser

Controller’s comments

Any change of area always leads to more pressure on the planner and therefore both the other two main officials. In addition the map accuracy or representation of the ground is more likely to be out of date, as the area won’t have been recently surveyed and the planner is tempted to use ‘to be mapped’ features.

The initial courses were really the best set I have reviewed and my main comments were related to trying to get some courses closer to guidelines and (near) perfect control descriptions. Not being a CONDES user also makes it more difficult as I was unaware of the special features and the points where errors can arise. This makes for more work for the Controller. This could be an issue for further out of area controllers.

The control hanging was done well, but I did a minor relocation of a few of the ‘beacon’ controls. We missed highlighting on the start lane maps the Wind blown ride feature as several competitors thought it was out of bounds. However, treating it as ‘out of bounds’ was probably to their advantage.

Paul’s Courses show that Hay Wood would be a good area for a future Middle Distance style event. The club will certainly miss having a top quality planner.

Roger Edwards

LEIOC