RYTON POOLS EVENING EVENT		Wednesday 25th August 2004

					Results

YELLOW COURSE		
1.	17:30		Boden family						COBOC

ORANGE COURSE	
1.	30:30		John Bowman			M60		OD
2.	33:05		Greta Shields			W55		OD
3.	35:29		Ted Richards				M45		OD
4.	36:12		Philip Earp				M12		OD
5.	45:05		Sophie Kirk				W12		OD

GREEN COURSE		
1.	36:25		Pete Carey				M60		OD
2.	36:54		Ian Gregory				M35		OD
3.	42:08		Sheila Carey 			W55		OD
4.	49:42		Sue Hallett and Nadine Wright			OD
5.	50:40		Charlie Nelson					HOC
6.	51:15		John Boden			 	M55		COBOC
7.	54:24		Phil May				M50		OD
8.	56:30		Klaus Chen				M50		OD
9.	58:50		Ulli Ull					W45		OD

BLUE COURSE	
1.	48:06		Bob Brandon				M55		OD
2.	50:06		Gary Waite				M35		OD
3.	53:19		Mike Baggott				M50		HOC
4.	53:25		Tony Feltbower			M50		OD
5.	56:50		Rodney Hugo			M55		OD
6.	58:28		Paul Wallace-Stock			M60		SN
7.	62:04		Don Locke				M65		OD
8.	63:50		Miranda Aston			W40		OD

There were fewer competitors than I expected, probably due to August holidays and the counter attraction of the Olympics on TV. I decided to use big banners on the Yellow Course and where controls might prove difficult to spot on the other courses. Even so some control sites were more overgrown than I expected, particularly control 125, the small re-entrant, which was difficult if approached from the lower path. Some obviously managed it, as there was a beaten track there when the control was collected. The only problems were on the Blue Course. Some competitors punched at the nearby seat rather than the distinct tree at control 16, although this did not happen with any of those running the Orange Course. Control 21, the gully, was a late addition and not checked beforehand. It proved more overgrown than expected and should have had a large banner. With such a small attendance, rather than disqualify, I decided to penalize those competitors with a reasonable explanation for their mispunch with an extra 5 minutes. My thanks to Phil and Ian for helping with control collection.
								John Ward