West Midlands Orienteering Association
POTOC Score Event and Barbeque
Sunday 8th July 2007
Competitors with the same score are in the order in which they finished.
name class club score 1 John Ward M60 OD 220 Senior male winner 2 Geoff Hollins M50 POTOC 220 3 Jonathan Millward M35 POTOC 200 4 George Lamplough M40 POTOC 190 5 Ralph Phipps M55 POTOC 190 6 Jean Rostron W65 POTOC 140 Senior female winner 7 Delia Kingsbury W40 WRE 130 8 Andy Payne M55 DEE 125 (5 minute penalty) 9 Peter Yoxall M60 POTOC 120 10 Dave Sparks M60 POTOC 120 11 Patrick Pay M65 WRE 120 12 Marian Denham W60 POTOC 120 13 Mike Lloyd M40 Ind 110 14 Philip & Jessica Hackney M35/W13 Ind 90 15 Alex Sparks W60 POTOC 70 16 Beryl Pay W75 WRE 60 17 Katie Phipps W55 POTOC 52 (4 minute penalty) 18 Lynn & Megan Hackney W35/W10 Ind 20 19 Emily & Georgina W14 EHS 10 Junior winners
The turnout was disappointing considering the improved weather over the weekend. POTOC numbers were particularly low, so a big thank you to all of those non-POTOC members who travelled to take part. We do hope that the incorrect positioning of control 11 did not spoil your day. It is evident from the split times at which point people were in search of it and one or two competitors were clearly inconvenienced more than others. Thank you to Geoff Hollins who did eventually find the elusive control at a smaller less distinctive pine tree some distance away!
Our e-control expert, John Pigott, has since established the reason for the times being recorded as almost two minutes quicker than they really were - the download box which is used to start the score event, was evidently not in sync with the other boxes. In view of the problem with control 11, we decided that it would have been unfair to deduct further penalties based on the true times. Any adjustment for this would have had no impact on the class winners.
Park Hall is an interesting and tricky area and those novices who took part should be congratulated and encouraged to come to future events.