Many thanks for coming along today to Canklow - hope you enjoyed the courses and weather (is summer finally here to stay?!)

Simple results, as well as Routegadget and Winsplits, can be viewed via the links above. (Uploaded 17:00)

Results for the YHOA Schools Championship can be viewed below.

If you spot any errors with the results, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and we'll sort them out.

For the YHOA Schools Champs, medals were awarded to the top 3 in each category (as below). It was great to see so many of you at prizegiving, but if you were unable to stay and your medal wasn't collected on your behalf, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. However in the Team Event, we would like to apologise to Thornton Primary and Bradford Grammar School, who both came 3rd in their respective categories. We had a few technical issues, resulting in some points being miscalculated. We'll be in contact to arrange getting your prize to you. Again if you notice any mistakes, please contact us.

Hope to see you at one of our Upcoming Events - next event is this Wednesday (15th May) at Bolehill Park & Crookes - Come and celebrate World Orienteering Day with us there!

Controller's Comments

Thank you all for coming, and the sun for shining - it makes such a positive difference to an event and enabled you to see Canklow and the bluebells at its best (before the summer brambles take over in a few weeks time!). Apologies for the hanging of control 35, but we realised too late there was nowhere to gripple it to on the knoll.

Amazing to me how all the quick youngsters get round their courses so fast, but also how others sort themselves out and finish their courses - we all learn something from our mistakes. It's a big transition for many youngsters from Saturday Series parkland courses to a real wood.

Thanks to Colin Lynch for his work on the courses, which many people commented favourably on, as well as Dave Peel's map. Thanks to Colin's control collectors, Pete Gorvett and Colin Smith.

Thanks to Paul Bradbury for his quiet organisation, almost in the background but functioning efficiently, and his many helpers.

Thanks to Mike Lucking for his fast and efficient map printing, reliable as always.

Hope to see you again in an 'SYO forest'.

Ian Cooper (SYO)

Planner's Comments

I hope you all enjoyed Canklow in the sunshine.  I feel I made good use of the area with many courses visiting the quarries twice and only briefly entering the uninteresting open area at the north of the map.  The vegetation had grown up considerably in the two weeks prior to the event though hopefully you could still find runnable lines.  I hope moving control 35 a short distance did not cause any major problems.

Thanks to Paul for organising (and collecting and returning the planners kit for me), to Ian for his controlling (including correcting some of my school boy errors in control hanging) and to the SYO helpers (particularly Colin and Pete for collecting controls).  Most of all thanks to you the orienteers for attending and helping make it a very enjoyable day for me.

Colin Lynch

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YHOA Schools Championship - Results

Individual Results

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Team Results

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Join South Yorkshire Orienteers for a regional orienteering race at Canklow. The area is an interesting mix of deciduous woodland and rough open with a intricate contours to challenge the experienced orienteer and a good path network to cater for newcomers and younger juniors. This event also incorporates the Yorkshire Schools Champs.

Parking

Woodside Health & Wellbeing Center, S60 2UH. £1 parking charge per car.

 

Terrain

Canklow Woods is a sloping area with a mixture of deciduous woodland, open and semi-open.  All along the top of the slope are the remains of stone workings, which provide good contour detail.  The area is criss-crossed by a complex path network. There are some areas of brambles but courses have been planned to avoid these.

 

Map

The A4 size map has been revised to ISOM 2017-2, with minor updates to Peel Land Surveys 2018 map by Ian Cooper. It is drawn at a scale of 1:7500 using LIDAR as a base for the contours. Brown has a 2 sided map.

There are numerous holly bushes at Canklow but the map only shows the most significant. A number of transient very small or barely discernible paths exist, especially in the quarried area, which are not shown.

 

Timings

Registration: 10am - 12 noon
Starts: 10.30am-12.30
Course Close: 14:00

Start/Finish approx 600m from parking and assembly.

A punching start system is being used and start times are not allocated.  Based on the preferences entered on Fabian4, we suggest that you plan to start in these periods:
                Early 10:30-11:00
                Middle 11:00-12:15
                Late  12:15- 12:30

Costs

Seniors - £8  (Non members £10)
Juniors/Students - £4                    
Family (running different courses) - £24(£20 members)
Adults running white to orange  - £4

Pairs & groups welcome - just pay for 1 entry.
SI card hire: £1 (Lost SI card fee: £30)

Pre entry is available on Fabian4 - closing date 10/5.

 

Courses

Course	Length km	Climb meters	Controls
Brown	7.2	255	21
Blue	5.2	190	16
Green	4.3	140	13
Short Green	3.4	105	12
Very Short Green	2.5	90	11
Light Green	3.7	140	13
Orange	2.8	95	11
Yellow	2.1	75	9
White	1.4	60	10

 

Yorkshire Schools Championships.

There will be prizes for the 1st 3 boys and girls in each class - Y3/4, Y5, Y6, Y7, Y8/9, Y10/11, Y12/13. Pupils on white & yellow can compete as pairs but must stay together. There will also be prizes for the 1st 3 primary & 1st 3 secondary schools (4 runners to count). The prize giving will held at approximately 13.30.

Pupils must attend a Yorkshire or Humberside school or be home schooled within Yorkshire or Humberside to be eligible for a prize.

The courses pupils should enter are:

Y3/4 white
Y5 white
Y6 yellow
Y7 yellow
Y8/9 orange
Y10/11 light green
Y12/13 girls green, boys blue

Competitors on white and yellow will be able to pick up their maps before the start box. Parents can discuss the map with their child before the start. No shadowing on schools champs courses.

Dogs

Dogs on lead are welcome in the car park or on the track to the start and finish.

 

Officials 

Planner:         Colin Lynch (SYO)
Controller:     Ian Cooper (SYO)
Organiser:     Paul Bradbury (SYO). Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Mobile: 0792 073 4313

           

Additional Safety Info

All competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety. Please take care when passing dog walkers and other members of the public.

The area is used by dog-walkers, horse-riders, mountain bikers, and occasional motor cycles.

Full leg cover is compulsory.

First Aid will be available at  enquiries. Rotherham Hospital is almost adjacent to assembly for any emergancies.

At enquiries we will have a place to store car keys. All lone drivers must leave their keys here and if you have come by other means (bike, walk, public transport, etc) please can you leave your details at enquiries.

Some of the crags in the quarried area are potentially dangerous please take care