West Midlands Orienteering Association
POTOC Local Event
Sunday 20th August 2006
2.2 km 60m 10 controls
name club class time
1 Ellie Bales POTOC W5 26:01
2 Trotman x 4 Ind 29:10
3 Emelia Hilton +2 Ind W10 29:32
4 Claire and Adam Ind 49:03 (not punched)
5 Isabel Hill DEE W5 54:03
6 The Wedgewoods Ind 55:14
7 Beryl and Lorna Ind 65:45
2.8km 70m 12 controls
name club class time
1 Pat Pay WRE M65 26:09
2 Bob Roach DEE M60 26:35
3 Sue Sherwood DEE W55 32:40
4 Mavis Bailey POTOC W60 37:05
5 Derek Parke WRE M55 41:08
6 Trotman x 4 Ind 42:05
7 Noreen Turner WRE W65 47:20
8 Beryl Pay WRE W70 52:45
9 Claire and Adam Ind 70:09
10 I.V.C. Ind 78:40
5.4km 150m 20 controls
name club class time
1 Jerry Knights RAFO M50 42:00
2 Jonathan Milward POTOC M35 44:15
3 Mike Baggott HOC M55 49:48
4 Nathan Townshend POTOC M50 50:57
5 Henry Morgan POTOC M50 51:33
6 Richard Hill DEE M40 54:24
7 W. Stead DEE M45 61:00
8 Robert Vickers HOC M60 61:25
9 Alan Webster POTOC M45 65:26
10 A. Trowell Ind M50 66:10
11 John Sherwood DEE M60 66:26
12 Marian Denham POTOC W60 72:30
13 Derek Turner WRE M65 72:45
14 Peter Yoxall POTOC M60 75:00
15 Barry Chambers DEE M50 82:12
16 Caroline and Athene Ind W21 95:10
Barry McGowan HOC M55 57:48 (did not punch 20)
David Dann MDOC M50 70:30 (missed 11)
Catherine Hill DEE W40 75:00 (did not punch 20)
David Bales POTOC M50 29:10 (Part 1 only)
J. Harding MDOC W35 80:00 (Part 1 only)
Biddulph is a small but pleasant country park with some areas offering physical challenge if not much technical challenge. To get anything approaching a reasonable Hard (long) course from it requires a second round, and to make a course sufficiently easy for beginners is also more difficult than other areas.
Congratulations to all those who braved the weather. In the event the conditions prevailing while control hanging improved markedly by the time runners appeared and some even had a predominantly dry run! There were quite a few newcomers to orienteering and we hope you might try again and even join POTOC.
To those on the Hard course, thanks to those who handed in their maps so that we could enrol more competitors (we ran out at about 11.30). If you would like to have a copy of the course map to treasure, then please contact me with your address and I will arrange this for you. For those who found the final control a little tough on this course, then apologies. It was planned and executed in somewhat better weather. Even then, a slower approach than competition speeds normally suggest produced a reasonably safe descent for a planner with laden rucksack in wellington boots and a safe return to more terra firma. A few of you declined the challenge and informed the finish team.
In these days of almost exclusively electronic punching, old fashioned punching skills seem to have deserted many. At more serious events disqualification might have been the result. Those cited as missing punches show no evidence at all on their cards in the relevant boxes.