| 4 Oct 98 | Strawberry Hill & Ransom Wood |
| 31 Oct 98 | -- Area for event unselected yet -- |
| 28 Nov 98 | Bestwood Country Park |
| 29 Nov 98 | Bestwood Country Park |
| 27 Dec 98 | Wollaton Park |
| 14 Feb 99 | Sherwood Forest |
| 11 Apr 99 | Thieves Wood and Nomanshill Wood |
| 13 May 99 | Burntstump Country Park |
| 16 May 99 | Colwick Park |
| 20 May 99 | Trent University - Clifton Campus |
Results for NOC District Short Races Event, Sherwood Pines, Sat 13th Feb 1999
OpenW. Open
M45+
M16-
W18-
W40+
Organiser's Comments
Planner's Comments
Controller's Comments
Open Race 1 Length 5.2km, 25m climb, 15 controls Race 2 Length 3.7km, 20m climb, 12 controls 1 Nick Barrable HOC 54:14 33:56 (2) 20:18 (1) 2 Jason Inman CLARO 55:55 33:39 (1) 22:16 (4) 3 Andrew Preston SHUOC 57:11 34:41 (3) 22:30 (6) 4 Andrew Middleditch SHUOC 58:59 36:47 (8) 22:12 (3) 5 Steve Feltbower OD 59:08 36:24 (7) 22:44 (7) 6 Alistair Footitt NOC 59:17 35:30 (4) 23:47 (10) 7 Ian Turner WCH 59:19 37:15 (9) 22:04 (2) 8 Richard Robinson NOC 59:30 35:44 (5) 23:46 (9) 9 Simon Ross SHUOC 61:04 36:21 (6) 24:43 (13) 10 Jonathan Emberton EPOC 62:10 39:06 (13) 23:04 (8) 11 Mick Lucking NOC 62:12 39:43 (15) 22:29 (5) 12 Dave Chaffey DVO 62:46 38:05 (11) 24:41 (12) 13 Robert Palmer NOC 63:12 37:58 (10) 25:14 (14) 14 Mike Barmby SHUOC 64:57 38:28 (12) 26:29 (20) 15 James Broadhead WRE 65:34 39:35 (14) 25:59 (19) 16 Andrew Malley SOS 66:04 40:14 (16) 25:50 (18) 17 Gregory Pettingill LEI 67:05 42:49 (25) 24:16 (11) 18 Patrick Bartlett INT 67:13 41:54 (21) 25:19 (16) 19 Phil Pittson NOC 67:26 41:48 (20) 25:38 (17) 20 Christopher HodkinsonNOC 68:38 42:03 (22) 26:35 (21) 21 Stephen Wright NOC 69:02 41:08 (17) 27:54 (25) 22 Adrian Moir SWOC 70:12 42:04 (23) 28:08 (27) 23 James William SHUOC 70:34 41:29 (18) 29:05 (31) 24 John Malley DVO 72:10 42:36 (24) 29:34 (36) 25 Paul Fox MDOC 72:57 43:35 (27) 29:22 (34) 26 John Broadhead WRE 72:59 43:28 (26) 29:31 (35) 27 Mike Bradley DEE 73:12 44:10 (28) 29:02 (30) 28 Alastair Mackenzie CLOK 74:06 46:21 (31) 27:45 (23) 29 Rolf Crook CUOC 74:10 46:36 (32) 27:34 (22) 30 Mike O'Neil NOC 74:23 46:18 (30) 28:05 (26) 31 David Spence CLOK 74:57 47:12 (33) 27:45 (23) 32 Mark Collis CUOC 75:31 46:14 (29) 29:17 (33) 33 Neil Northrop WAOC 75:42 47:33 (34) 28:09 (28) 34 David Pilling SYO 76:02 47:38 (35) 28:24 (29) 35 Tim Filby NOC 79:51 49:03 (37) 30:48 (39) 36 Clive Tant SOS 79:57 50:51 (41) 29:06 (32) 37 Robert Foster HOC 80:10 49:41 (39) 30:29 (38) 38 Jim Sutherland SYO 80:37 50:13 (40) 30:24 (37) 39 John Bennett LOG 80:59 48:51 (36) 32:08 (42) 40 Nev Myers EBOR 82:21 49:03 (37) 33:18 (44) 41 Philip Bramham-Jones NOR 84:47 51:16 (42) 33:31 (45) 42 Nick Martin MDOC 85:34 53:44 (44) 31:50 (40) 43 Allan Yeomans PFO 86:46 53:33 (43) 33:13 (43) 44 Keith Roberts NOC 86:58 54:53 (46) 32:05 (41) 45 Francesco Lari CHIG 90:56 56:02 (48) 34:54 (46) 46 Nick Fernandes RMOC 91:32 55:04 (47) 36:28 (49) 47 Colin West SOS 92:33 54:30 (45) 38:03 (50) 48 David Aldridge BUOC 96:13 59:58 (49) 36:15 (48) 49 Martin McShane SYO 96:50 61:47 (50) 35:03 (47) Ian Wadeson WAOC 41:31 (19) dsq m10 Adam Rumley NOR 61:54 (51) rtd Andrew Sidley PFO 71:28 (52) dsq m12 Rob Baker CLARO rtd 25:17 (15)
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W. Open Race 1 Length 3.7km, 20m climb, 11 controls Race 2 Length 2.9km, 20m climb, 10 controls 1 Linn Nilsson HOC 51:09 29:10 (1) 21:59 (2) 2 Liz Day CLARO 61:16 36:59 (3) 24:17 (4) 3 Dorothy Pelly SYO 61:22 36:50 (2) 24:32 (5) 4 Sally Gilliver MDOC 62:15 41:42 (7) 20:33 (1) 5 Gillian Wainwright LEI 62:36 39:35 (5) 23:01 (3) 6 Rosemary Whitehead EBOR 66:09 38:31 (4) 27:38 (8) 7 Caroline Mackenzie CLOK 66:13 40:37 (6) 25:36 (7) 8 Martha Taylor MDOC 68:40 43:12 (8) 25:28 (6) 9 Amanda Greenwood NOC 85:19 51:39 (9) 33:40 (9) 10 Michelle Barrows HOC 105:36 60:57 (10) 44:39 (10) Alice Bennett LOG rtd rtd
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M45+ Race 1 Length 3.7km, 20m climb, 11 controls Race 2 Length 2.9km, 20m climb, 10 controls 1 Paul Street SLOW 50:17 28:21 (1) 21:56 (7) 2 Tim Eden NOR 50:30 28:51 (2) 21:39 (6) 3 Ivor Noot EPOC 52:00 31:45 (6) 20:15 (2) 4 Steve Buckley DVO 52:17 30:06 (3) 22:11 (10) 5 David Smith WCH 52:24 32:19 (7) 20:05 (1) 6 Brian Shaw SYO 52:57 30:53 (5) 22:04 (9) 7 David Day CLARO 55:50 32:39 (8) 23:11 (15) 8 David Bray LEI 55:53 30:31 (4) 25:22 (21) 9 Alex Ross SO 56:30 33:24 (9) 23:06 (14) 10 Steve Whitehead EBOR 57:03 35:51 (12) 21:12 (4) 11 Malcolm Campbell WAROC 57:37 33:57 (11) 23:40 (18) 12 John Britton MDOC 57:44 36:07 (13) 21:37 (5) 13 Philip Jones SYO 58:22 36:08 (14) 22:14 (11) 14 Stephen Wright NOC 58:57 37:00 (15) 21:57 (8) 15 Ian Wells LEI 60:57 38:31 (18) 22:26 (13) 16 Andrew Payne DEE 61:11 37:41 (17) 23:30 (16) 17 David Booker NOC 61:14 38:51 (19) 22:23 (12) 18 Colin Best SYO 61:33 37:32 (16) 24:01 (19) 19 Paul Furness OD 62:15 33:32 (10) 28:43 (26) 20 Martin Sellens SOS 62:17 41:33 (26) 20:44 (3) 21 Ray Barnes NOC 64:44 39:26 (20) 25:18 (20) 22 Henk Van Rossum AIRE 64:47 41:13 (24) 23:34 (17) 23 Ian Gilliver MDOC 65:47 39:46 (21) 26:01 (25) 24 Ian Wainwright SYO 66:24 40:54 (23) 25:30 (22) 25 Stephen Hodkinson NOC 66:36 40:36 (22) 26:00 (24) 26 Alan Goddard SYO 67:16 41:23 (25) 25:53 (23) 27 Jim Young LOC 76:16 42:38 (27) 33:38 (29) 28 Colin Nicholson SMOC 76:46 46:14 (29) 30:32 (27) 29 John Collyer SOS 81:56 48:35 (30) 33:21 (28) 30 Graham Hardy DFOK 93:02 54:16 (33) 38:46 (30) 31 Mike Bowden NATO 99:12 51:28 (31) 47:44 (34) 32 Michael Lomas SYO 103:13 56:49 (34) 46:24 (31) 33 Alan Goodall MEROC104:12 57:45 (35) 46:27 (32) 34 Keith Ellis LOG 107:45 59:03 (36) 48:42 (35) 35 Don Taylor MDOC 118:46 72:14 (37) 46:32 (33) Tony Smith POTOC 45:59 (28) dns Denis Murphy ODR 52:07 (32) dns
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M16- Race 1 Length 3.5km, 20m climb, 12 controls Race 2 Length 2.6km, 20m climb, 10 controls 1 David Hodkinson NOC 49:25 31:37 (2) 17:48 (1) 2 Thomas Van Rossum AIRE 50:20 31:16 (1) 19:04 (4) 3 Christopher Sellens SOS 50:53 32:59 (3) 17:54 (2) 4 David West SOS 56:44 38:06 (7) 18:38 (3) 5 Peter Gardner WAOC 56:51 37:13 (5) 19:38 (6) 6 Edmund Kelleher NOR 57:00 37:46 (6) 19:14 (5) 7 Timothy Blaney NOC 58:16 36:21 (4) 21:55 (7) 8 Thomas Billam NOC 68:16 44:56 (8) 23:20 (8) 9 Nicholas James NOC 71:02 45:07 (9) 25:55 (9) 10 Tim Bagguley NOC 89:30 59:44 (11) 29:46 (10) Andrew Bull NOC dsq m2 36:53 (11) Martin Humphries WAOC dns 85:17 (12) Colin Olivant NOC 51:54 (10) dns
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W18- Race 1 Length 3.5km, 20m climb, 12 controls Race 2 Length 2.6km, 20m climb, 10 controls 1 Rachael Holmes QO 52:25 30:52 (1) 21:33 (1) 2 Suzy Robertson SOS 57:13 34:16 (2) 22:57 (3) 3 Alison O'Neil NOC 58:18 36:42 (3) 21:36 (2) 4 Nicola Robertson SOS 62:54 37:34 (4) 25:20 (6) 5 Helen Gardner WAOC 65:07 42:02 (5) 23:05 (4) 6 Eleanor West SOS 68:49 44:54 (6) 23:55 (5) 7 Blanka Sengerova WAOC 81:29 51:08 (9) 30:21 (7) 8 Louise Pointer SOS 83:39 49:23 (8) 34:16 (9) 9 Sian Roberts NOC 92:14 60:11 (10) 32:03 (8) n/c Ruth Holmes QO 58:35 35:29(n/c) 23:06(n/c) Hazel Tant SOS 62:05 (11) dns Joanne West SOS 81:13 (12) dns Katie Sellens SOS 93:10 (13) dns Sarah O'Neil NOC 48:14 (7) dsq m9
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W40+ Race 1 Length 3.5km, 20m climb, 12 controls Race 2 Length 2.6km, 20m climb, 10 controls 1 Sarah Brown SLOW 62:09 38:39 (1) 23:30 (2) 2 Kim Eden NOR 62:44 40:09 (2) 22:35 (1) 3 Hilary Sellens SOS 65:45 41:45 (3) 24:00 (3) 4 Sue Edlington HOC 74:38 49:27 (9) 25:11 (4) 5 Jean Payne DEE 74:56 48:46 (8) 26:10 (5) 6 Jane Booker NOC 80:00 52:00 (10) 28:00 (6) 7 Jean Lochhead-Lomas SYO 83:55 42:46 (4) 41:09 (16) 8 Janet Taylor MDOC 85:16 54:06 (12) 31:10 (9) 9 Jayne Malley DVO 85:29 46:07 (5) 39:22 (15) 10 Elizabeth Furness OD 87:41 53:32 (11) 34:09 (13) 11 Jenny Collyer SOS 88:57 57:11 (13) 31:46 (11) 12 Rachel Thomas SMOC 89:39 59:05 (15) 30:34 (8) 13 Pamela Hardy DFOK 93:45 59:51 (16) 33:54 (12) 14 Lyn West SOS 94:22 57:59 (14) 36:23 (14) 15 Jennie Fiander SYO 96:37 65:11 (17) 31:26 (10) 16 Margaret Ellis NN 136:13 87:30 (18) 48:43 (17) Judy Buckley DVO 47:49 (7) dns Margaret Murphy ODR 88:36 (19) dns Hilary Hodkinson NOC 46:36 (6) dsq w1 Helen O'Neil NOC lost card 29:13 (7)
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Organiser's Comments Firstly I would like to thank all the NOC members who volunteered to help on the event. As any event organiser knows getting helpers can be one of the most time consuming and frustrating activities. Not having to ask anybody was fantastic. Secondly my job was made very straightforward by all the pre-event 'legwork' done by Ray Barnes, the Coordinator for the weekend's fun and games. Thirdly thanks are due to the Forestry Commission for their permissions and assistance.
It's always good to try something a little different from the usual type of event and judging from the many favourable comments the day was a success with many competitors taking the time to express their thanks at the second finish. (They certainly didn't take their time anywhere else). Last but not least, thanks to DVO for the loan of a couple of tents - much appreciated.
Tony Donaldson
Planner's Comments For many years I had wanted to plan a badge event in Sherwood Pines but I always seemed to be somewhere else at the time. When I returned from KIMM 98 with soggy brain syndrome and Ray asked me if I would like to plan the short courses, I jumped at the chance. Big Mistake #1.
Sherwood Pines with its strong linear path network and areas of man-eating brambles proved to be far more of a challenge than I had anticipated. "Still there is always the trenches", I thought. Big mistake #2.
The combination of car parking at one end of the forest and the trenches at the other, in February was simply not worth the risk. After all, it would be hard to run the second race with hypothermia, so sadly the trenches just had to go and the 1st generation planning was scrapped.
I planned the three courses to the same technical difficulty with the only variance being the physical difficulty. Contrary to what your legs told you in the bath afterwards, the worst of the brambles were widely avoided even if this meant that the technical difficulty was diminished. But I didn't think I would be thanked for ruining the following days run. If I was being particularly cruel, or looking for a suitable turning control, Peter would gently steer me back onto the straight and narrow pointing out control features etc that would be more suitable. Indeed I believe that Peter's suggestions greatly heightened the element of head to head racing that I was striving for.
There was always the difficulty of predicting the winning times and although the distances were based on previous events in Sherwood Pines we could never be sure who was going to run on the day. Overall we managed to get it within 10% with only a couple of exceptions.
I do hope you all enjoyed it. (I take it you all agree, as I heard no rude comments at the finish.)
I would particularly like to thank Peter whose ideas and guidance were invaluable to ensuring the events success.
I would also like to thank the following for their assistance: Mark Thomson for helping me with the control hanging/collecting (even though it meant we missed seeing all the action); Alan Beardsley and David Olivant for the backstage work; and particularly my wife Vivian for her patience and assistance in dealing with overprinters, controls, bag sealers, and maps strewn all over the house for what seems like for ever.
Right I'm ready for a rest, so I'm off to run around some sand dunes in the dark! If you see me looking lost just remember yesterday and point me in the right direction.
Keith Streb
Controller's Comments Thanks for coming and acting as guinea pigs in our new venture. I trust our inexperience in putting on short races wasn�t too obvious. It seems from many comments, overheard and seen, that we were successful in papering over any cracks. Credit goes particularly to Keith Streb for his imaginative planning and Tony Donaldson for his efficient organisation but especially to Michael Napier for his incredible computer technology.
Finally two apologies. Firstly the confusion caused by the differing codes and secondly the brambles. We accept responsibility and apologise for the former, but not the latter.
Peter Hubberstey