SYO Colour Coded Event - Wombwell Woods

9 April 2000

RESULTS

Organiser's Outlook

As usual, the 'professional' teams of helpers made for a very relaxed morning for me. I hope you enjoyed your runs especially the person from Aboyne (570 miles!!)

Hazel Gibbs

Planner's Perceptions

The northern start at Wombwell provides a challenge to the competitor (the indistinct features of the old tip) and the planner, trying to find a clear route for white and yellow. Are there no local dog-walking orienteers we can set on to beat down and maintain paths under the power line and then right or left - across to the path near the field or to the one near the scarp edge? However, the poorly defined paths do mean that there are fewer passers-by to disturb the controls. Somewhat surprisingly, two did go missing form White/Yellow. I hope Orange competitors enjoyed the run down the gully. One thicket has grown so that it now blocks the gully, making it an orange rather than yellow challenge.

Blue and Green had a high proportion of pits, but at least such controls are less visible to passers-by. More can be added for the next update of the map! I did hear of a group of orienteer standing in a depressed area in broken ground saying 'this is the pit. Where is the kite?' Wombwell can be fast, but has its tricks. When I was doing the descriptions, it didn't seem worth doing loose descriptions for Part 2 if the descriptive information could be provided in advance if a coherent set of control codes could be reserved to be copied down or remembered (numbers increasing from 60 to 68). It seemed simple to me, but took some explaining at registration - sorry Andy.

I hope you enjoyed the day. I did!

Henry Marston

Controller's Corner

The problem for the planner in Wombwell is to produce some good legs which don't just end up as a path run. Henry produced some good courses making the most of the area but at the same time being conscious on past experience at Wombwell that controls could be subject to vandalism if very visible. Hence the use of pits on the longer courses. The vandalism problem came to light when we collected controls with two missing on the shorter courses but after competitors had completed their course. (my burnt out car count was five!!)

Hazel's organisation ran very smoothly and the feedback I received was that everybody enjoyed the event. Well done and also to the Sutherlands for an interesting string course.

Final comment from SYO Chair(s) Dave Peel and Jenny James before departing for the World Cup races in Japan is that the woods would be good for short races or night events.

Phil Haywood

String course

Name               Age  Club    Time

Heather Martin      8   MEROC   4.04

Jenny Martin        5   MEROC   5.36

Fiona Sutherland    5   SYO     5.45

Abbey Gaunt         5   SYO     9.20

Andrew Gaunt        12  SYO     2.52

Alex Murray         4   Ind    13.40

Katy Murray         1   Ind    15.20

Tom Crawshaw        3   EPOC    6.00

Alex Murray         4   Ind     9.10

David Booth         13  SYO     2.29

Rebecca Saif        13  SYO     2.01

Andrew Sutherland   7   SYO     2.30

Adam Wainwright     12  SYO     1.55

Marcus Gittins      11  SYO     2.22

Alice Leake         8   SYO     3.05

Sarah Williams      9   EPOC    2.45

Congratulations to everyone on completing quite a tough string course. Thanks in particular to the pupils of Bradfield School for their enthusiasm and well done to Adam for the fastest time.
Jim Sutherland

White course - 1.2k

1.  Andrew Sutherland    M7   SYO   13.57

2.  H & J Martin         W8+1       16.24

3.  Abbey Gaunt          W5   SYO   17.20

4.  Stephen Hawkins      M8   DVO   23.17

5.  Helena Taylor        W8   SYO   40.10

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Yellow course - 1.4k

1.  Alice Leake          W8   EBOR  12.47

2.  Marcus Gittings      M12  SYO   13.54

3.  Andrew Ward          M9   SYO   14.14

4.  Adam Wainwright      M14  SYO   15.42

5.  Rachel Ward          W7   SYO   17.08

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6.  H & J Baston         W9   SYO   19.21

Orange course - 2.5k

1.  J. Dicken                  M20     CLARO   26.54

2.  Rebecca Saif               W14     SYO     30.15

3.  Scott Hastey & Ross        M9+1    Ind     37.35

4.  Daniel Booth               M14     SYO     38.08

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5.  Sarah Williams             W9      EPOC    50.01

6.  Mark Sutherland            M10     SYO     61.28

7.  Andrew Taylor, Jason Guy   M10,M13 Scouts  76.10

Red course - 4.1k

1.  P. Beresford         M21   SYO   47.54

2.  H. Shulver           W21   Ind   60.49

3.  Kevin Fidler+1       M40   Ind   60.55

4.  S. Grant             M21   Ind   61.16

5.  J. Eglen             W55   Ind   69.17

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6.  J. Lewis             W21   Ind   74.24

    H. Elgood            M75   Ind   Retired

Light Green course - 3.5K

1.  C. Picker              M21   Ind    34.19

2.  M. White               M21   Ind    46.35

3.  J. Gaunt               M40   SYO    48.36

4.  S. Banister            W16   CLARO  51.33

5.  Ryan Hastey +1         M13   Ind    52.00

6.  M. Leake               M40   EBOR   53.59

7.  D. Hawkins             W35   DVO    58.15

8.  D. Murray              M40   Ind    59.32

9.  S. Brant               W50   EPOC   61.22

10. ClAIRE Booth           W16   SYO    65.48

11. J. Leake               W40   EBOR   66.55

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12. David Hakes            M14   SYO    67.55

13. R. Bowens              W21   AIRE   69.45

14. G. Gaunt               M40   EBOR   70.50

15. C. Sutherland          W12   SYO    72.14

16. Tom Holmes             M14   SYO    77.01

17. G. Parsons             M70   SYO    83.39

18. M. Georgia             W21   Ind    87.57

19. S. Beech               W35   HALO   99.46

20. C. Gaunt               W40   EBOR  lll.20

    C. Burgon, S. Harburn  M14   SYO   Retired

    F. Humphrey            W50   HALO  Disq No 6

Green course - 4.8k

1.  R. Stansfield        M60   SYO    41.55

2.  M. Picker            M21   Ind    42.18

3.  N. Devlin            M50   Ind    44.58

4.  B. Bibby             M60   DVO    46.55

5.  M. Rose              M55   AIRE   49.23

6.  R. Goodman           M40   SYO    50.40

7.  G. Goodair           M60   EPOC   51.46

8.  Jack Soper           M65   SYO    51.48

9.  Ian Wainwright       M55   SYO    52.03

10. S. White                   SYO    53.38

11. C. Hillam            M50   AIRE   55.54

12. Eric Shimmin         M70   SYO    57.15

13. Pat O'Grady          M65   SYO    57.20

14. M. Naylor                         57.34

15. T. Seaston                 DVO    57.58

16. S. Dicken            M14   CLARO  58.53

17. C. Kirkham           M50   SYO    59.40

18. C. Dicken            M45   CLARO  60.52

19. R. Sutherland        W40   SYO    62.14

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20. J. Goodair           W55   EPOC   75.52

21. R. Simcock           M50   EPOC   83.46

22. J. Mellor                  EPOC   91.51

23. E. Dent                           92.09

    J. Croskell                SYO    Retired

Blue course - 6.0k

1.   D. Peel             M21   SYO    40.45

2.   K. Marshall         M21   SYO    46.10

3.   J. James            W21   SYO    47.14

4.   A. Thorpe                 EPOC   48.07

5.   Rob McPherson       M35   SYO    48.27

6.   R. Lewis                  SHUOC  49.06

7.   R. Last             M35   SYO    49.38

8.   M. Elgood           M40   SN     49.39

9.   S. McManus          M35   MDOC   54.46

10.  L. Scott                  SYO    56.47

11.  T. Morton           M60   SYO    61.37

12.  P. Martin                 EPOC   62.29

13.  Crawshaw            W21   EPOC   63.00

14.  D. Heath                  SYO    63.59

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15.  S. Nichols                EPOC   65.41

16.  P. Moore                  AIRE   66.44

17.  J. Lochhead         W50   SYO    68.35

18.  M. Wilson                 SYO    73.26

19=. A. Banister         M40   CLARO  73.51

19=. H. Potter           M21   EPOC   73.51

21.  M. Saul             M45   EPOC   76.16

22.  D. Best             M20   EUOC   79.14

23.  M. Humphrey         M50   HALO   81.23

24.  S. Bowens           M21   AIRE   83.28

25.  N. Beech            M40   HALO   96.46

26.  Clarke              M50   CLARO  97.24

27.  M. Lomas                  SYO   109.47

     K. Walters          M21   SYO    68.17