SYO Club Champs

9 December 2000, Blackamoor

COMMENTS

Last year our 4 year old son Aidan won the club champs, and so the task fell to us to organise it this time. Aidan was very keen to get involved and had great plans that everyone would be doing string courses (up to 5K for the longest!). Not fancying trailing a piece of string that long around Blackamoor (or indeed anywhere else!), we compromised on some shorter ones that everyone would finish off with. He very much enjoyed designing some of the pictures for the string course and putting out the string and the controls. To add a bit of variety we added an off string course as well (rarely seen in this country). I hoped you enjoyed these novelties - it certainly makes for interesting spectator controls, and obviously flummoxed a few of our early finishers who couldn't quite locate some of the controls thus losing their lead!!???

Given the exposed nature of Blackamoor, and an early visit in the teeth of a howling, very cold wind, I opted for the sheltered nature of the Rhododendron area for the start/finish, and chose to run the courses in the (slightly) more sheltered main valley. There's not a lot in the lower areas that is particularly runnable, and route choice is tricky given the unconnected nature of the 3 main paths. I must apologise to those of you on the shorter technical courses C and D - they were in hindsight too physical, particularly control 56 (middle re-entrant), and perhaps a few people would have appreciated a shorter course!

Congratulations to David Harrison, the new club champion. We look forward to next year's event!

Thanks also to Jenni and Zoe Fiander and Tim and Lucy Wiegand for helping on the day and the volunteers for collecting in controls and the string.

Colin Smith and Jackie Butcher

     Name          Course  Time

1    David Harrison   A   0:47:55

2    Phil Haywood     B   0:50:08

3    Alan Goddard     B   0:54:30

4    Dave Charles     A   0:44:36

5    David Heath      B   0:55:32

6    Hiliary Bloor    B   0:52:11

7    Guy Seaman       B   0:46:17

8    Brian Shaw       B   0:46:14

9    Phil Jones       A   0:54:35

10   Clive Wilson     A   0:55:41

11   Nick Taylor      B   0:52:55

12   Kevin Walters    B   0:59:56

13   Mark Chapman     A   0:43:33

14   Jenny James      A   0:49:20

15   Martin Smith     A   0:52:05

16   Ryan Wilson      G   0:22:15

17   Tim Wiegand      A   1:03:45

18   Rob Last         A   0:57:47

19   Dorothy Pelly    B   0:56:35

20   Viv Kaye         A   1:06:50

21   Andrew Taylor    E   0:51:05

22   Simon Anders     E   0:57:58

23   Janet Adams      B   1:06:38

24   Martin McShane   C   0:57:52

25   Ruth Charles     B   1:13:59

26   John Storey      C   1:02:40

27   Jill Croskell    D   1:20:00

     Eric Shimmin     C   retd

     Gill Milner      C   retd

     Janet Haywood    D   retd

     John Gaunt       B   retd

     Monika Cooper    D   retd

     Pat O'Grady      C   retd

     Pauline Wilson   C   retd