Results for NOC Local Event, Colwick Park, Sun 17th Jun 2001

White
Yellow
Light Green
Photo-O Medium
Photo-O Long

Planner/Organiser Comments

White

Length 1.9km
 1  L & J Evans           NOC    W11     18:01
 2  Laura Billam          NOC    W7      18:24
 3  Samantha Vincent      DVO            22:27
 4  C Thomson             FVO    M7      24:23

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Yellow

Length 2.7km
 1  C & P Cregg           Ind            24:37
 2  L Billam              NOC    W7      27:22
 3  O Pickles             NHS            30:40
 4  L& J Evans            NOC    W11     31:29
 5  Sue and Winnie        NOC            63:57

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Light Green

Length 4.5km
 1  Bob Alderson          NOC    M60     33:18
 2  C Claxton             NOC    W40     36:36
 3  J Evans               NOC    W40     38:32
 4  D Vincent             DVO            40:02
 5  R Davis               DVO    W35     42:27
 6  H Rice                NOC    W45     46:30
 7  D Moir                LEI    M65     46:33
 8  A Portsmouth          LEI    M45     50:51
 9  M Burley              IND    M14     51:15
10  J Pickles             NOC    M50     61:29
11  Cregg                 IND    M/W45   64:21
12  F&S Claxton           NOC    W8&11   64:33
13  P Burley              IND    M45     65:30
14  P Robinson            DVO            68:40
15  A Jones               NOC    M70     68:59
16  S Moir                LEI    W60     70:17
dsq Richard Williams      Ind            58:13 m7
dsq A Roberts             Ind    M60     41:27 m7


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Photo-O Medium

12 photos in 4.5km  (5 min penalty per miss)

 1  Hilary Palmer         NOC    W50     39:43         = 39:43
 2  Mark & Stuart Thomson FVO            41:12         = 41:12
 3  Keith Streb           NOC    M45     43:10   1 +5  = 48:10
 4  Brian Ward            DVO    M       60:30         = 60:30
 5  Jim Clarke            NOC    M45     58:20   1 +5  = 63:20
 6  Pauline Ward          DVO    W       64:50         = 64:50
 7  Jennifer Beverley     NOC    W18     55:00   2 +10 = 65:00

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Photo-O Long

18 photos in 9.5km  (5 min penalty per miss)

 1  Duncan Archer         HH     M21     32:00   9 +45 =  77:00
 2  Roger Lewis           SHUOC  M21     79:52   1 +5  =  84:52
 3  Tom Billam            NOC    M16     23:08  14 +70 =  93:08
 4  Paul Beverley         NOC    M45     78:21   3 +15 =  93:21
 5  NickJames/ColinOlivantNOC    M16     80:07   8 +40 = 120:07
 6  Paul Morris           NOC    M40     76:00   8 +40 = 116:00
 7  Ian Wells             DVO    M45    134:40   9 +45 = 179:40
    Michael Napier        NOC    M45                       rtd


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Planner/Organiser Comments A good turnout given the atrocious weather over the weekend - the near-lack of rain during the event was better than would have been expected. Especially good to see beginners turning up in less than alluring conditions. The times reflect the slightly longer courses, as well as the number of light green runners who took the west side of the river and not the east - read the control descriptions!

Paul Giles

Firstly, I must thank Paul for his first effort at planning. The Summer League scale is an excellent place to learn the ropes and I hope Paul didn't find the pressures too great to put him off taking on a C5 next time! Thanks to Duncan and Colin for checking the controls before the event.

Secondly, an apology for the burden taken on by the Olivant family following my decision to enjoy myself carrying 14lbs for 36km + 1600m of beautiful, dry but chilly Scottish mountains. I had just assumed that David and Paul could do the event themselves - I had overlooked that David was still not mobile, and consequently, Colin, Nicola and Pauline had rather more to do than expected.

And now perhaps a few words on the experiment of the Photo-O.

Both courses had the same difficulty, even sharing some of the pictures. Yet the approach taken by all on the Medium was in sharp contrast to that taken by some on the Long.

During preparation, I showed David the course and the photos, and he was able to identify all but two of the controls purely by the control descriptions and photos. Certainly, as mapper, he knew the area well, but he could see that for each photo there could only be two or three locations on or very near the line. I think the correct tactic was to follow the line expecting to find gullies or pits etc, and as each is reached to see if a photo matched. Yes, there were more photos on the Long, but some were quite quickly found, and several more were obviously excluded until you met the water features later on the course. There was only one SE Hedge, N end on the map - yet only two of you got it.

Mind you, I've seen just these same two approaches at ordinary events - run fast and hope versus run and spike.

Feedback received was that the photos should have been in sequence. Well you wouldn't have had to follow the line then, would you? I think it would have ensured that physical speed was more of a premium than the balance I tried to achieve with the cerebral side of our sport.

Congratulations to Hilary and Duncan for winning - but in very different ways but equally viable ways!

Ray Barnes

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