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Successful Sheffield City Race
Competitors enjoyed Rob and Clare's exciting courses in the sunshine at The Ponderosa in Sheffield yesterday. The senior courses in the prologue had a control every 50m on average, making for extreme difficulty in keeping one's brain ahead of one's legs. Both courses featured twisty gennels (alleys in south-speak), unexpected dead-ends and complex route choices.
In the open classes, Richard Robinson overcame a 10 second (but four-place) deficit after the first race to win the Men's, while there was a close finish in the Women's when Mairead Rocke's 12 second lead on the second race was enough to overtake Jenny Johnson's 7-second advantage after the first.
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Thanks to Wendy Carlyle for photos of Mairead and Jenny: more here.
Tim gets Bronze in the Long distance
Tim followed up his win earlier in the week with a 3rd place and Bronze medal in the Long distance finals today. Other SYO members in A-Finals were Nick Barrable 15th in M35, Monika Cooper 35th in W65, Peter Gorvett 47th in M60, and Brian Shaw 24th in M65.
World Masters Golds for Nick Barrable and Tim Tett!
SYO has two world champions, after Nick Barrable won H35 and Tim Tett won H50 at the Sprint race final in Switzerland today. For Nick this is the second masters title in succession, as he also won H35 in Sydney last year. The Classic distance qualification and final races are later this week.
| Tim, Nick, and other Brits at the Sprint prizegiving. Photo credit: CompassSport |
O-Ringen
7 SYO members made the trip over to Örebro, Sweden for the 46th O-Ringen last week. The weather wasn't brilliant, but the complex area's proved a great challange. There were over 11,000 competitors at this years event, less than previous years. Overall results were: Charlie Adams 22nd, Louise Adams 52nd, Michael Adams 69th, Marcia Bradbury 72nd, Janet Adams 107th, Adam Bradbury 128th and Paul Bradbury 137th.
Parkrun at Endcliffe Park
For those SYO Members living in/near Sheffield who want a bit of speed training, from 10th July, parkrun started in Sheffield at Endcliffe Park. As at many other venues through the UK, who already host their own parkruns, it is a free 5km timed run starting at 9:00am every Saturday. It's good for newcomers to running, or as a time trial for the elite. Details are on www.parkrun.com, look under 'events'. People who want to run should register (a one off task for all parkruns) by Friday night before their first Saturday run.
Update 20 July: It is now possible to register with club South Yorkshire Orienteers.