2nd April 2012 - Octavian Droobers - The Orienteering Club for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull in the West Midlands, UK

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

1	Matthew Halliday	OD	M21	25.13
2	Chris McCartney	OD	M40	27.13
3	Tom Jeffries	OD	M40	27.45
4	Sophie Kirk	OD	W20	29.11
5	John Embrey	HOC	M50	29.18
6	Matthew Elkington	OD	M18	29.48
7	Chris Embrey	JOK	M21	30.40
8	Barry Elkington	OD	M55	32.29
9	Julie Emmerson	OD	W16	32.49
10	Andy White	HOC	M55	34.29
11	Alan Segar	OD	M35	34.45
12	Stan Alexander	OD	M60	35.36
13	Peter Carey	OD	M65	35.55
14	Andy Cherry	OD	M40	37.45
15	Keith Willdig	OD	M60	38.20
16	Shiela Carey	OD	W65	39.10
17	Liz Phillips	OD	W45	40.43
18	Diane Phillips		W50	41.48
19	Liam Clarke	OD	M18	43.07
20	Mike Shires	TVOC	M35	44.15
21	Mike King		M55	44.45
22	Margaret Willdig	OD	W55	47.17
23	Jackie Embrey	HOC	W50	48.30
24	Sue Bicknell	OD	W65	50.50
25	Neil Rackham	OD	M45	53.38
26	John Wright	OD	M70	55.39
27	Oliver King		M18	56.46
28	Volker Betz	OD	M40	59.29
29	Mike Snell	OD	M55	63.36
30	Nick Stringer & John McAnenny		M45	68.43
31	Elizabeth Pain		W21	69.08
32	Kim	OD	M70	70.06
33	Graham Urquhart	OD	M55	74.45
34	Jane Stew	OD	W55	100.49
35	Mark Bailey	OD	M45	RTD