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BANSTEAD HEATH EVENING SCORE
18 JULY 2006

Results

Runner Club Class Start Finish Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Controls Points Penalty Score
Mark Collis CROC M21 19:10 19:55 45
2 3





10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
19 220 0 220
Alison High SO W21 19:00 19:43 43








10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
17 210 0 210
Peter Martin MV M45 18:30 19:14 44
2 3





10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
26
18 205 0 205
Steve Brockbank CROC M55 18:40 19:24 44
2 3





10 11

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
17 200 0 200
Simon Ling MV M60 18:20 19:04 44
2 3





10 11 12 13
15

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
16 190 0 190
David Fisher MV M50 18:30 19:13 43 1 2






10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
25

17 190 0 190
David Dawson CROC M45 19:32 20:15 43

3 4 5 6
8
10 11

14 15
17 18
20
22 23 24 25 26 27 18 190 0 190
Jon Coles CROC M35 19:10 19:55 45
2 3 4

7 8
10
12
14 15
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

27 18 190 0 190
Chris Sparkman SAX M55 18:50 19:35 45 1







10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
23
25 26
16 185 0 185
Keith Tonkin GO M45 18:50 19:38 48
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
22 23 24
26 27 22 215 30 185
Pete Jones SN M50 19:10 19:58 48
2 3 4 5
7 8


12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
22 23 24
26 27 20 205 30 175
Les Hooper SO M60 18:30 19:16 46

3





10 11 12
14 15 16
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
26
15 180 10 170
Nick Hooke MV M45 19:00 19:42 42
2 3





10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
22
24
26
15 165 0 165
Alaistair Masson MV M10 18:30 19:16 46








10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24


14 170 10 160
Nicky Masson MV W40 18:30 19:16 46








10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24


14 170 10 160
Shona Masson MV W12 18:30 19:09 39








10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18

21 22 23 24 25

13 155 0 155
Keith Masson MV M45 18:30 19:09 39








10 11 12
14 15 16 17 18

21 22 23 24 25

13 155 0 155
Steve Allen SLOW M50 18:40 19:29 49
2






10 11


15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
25 26
14 170 40 130
James Parker SO M60 18:30 19:19 49



5 6




12 13 14 15

18 19

22 23 24 25 26 27 14 165 40 125
Ted McDonald MV M60 19:00 19:49 49


4 5
7 8
10 11

14 15 16
18 19


23

26 27 14 140 40 100
Nigel Saker SLOW M55 19:00 19:46 46
2
4

7





14 15 16 17 18 19 20





27 11 110 10 100
Dominic Lawrance SLOW M21 19:10 19:59 49

3 4 5 6
8 9 10 11

14


18



23
25 26 27 14 130 40 90
Chris Starnes MV M40 18:20 19:12 52
2 3





10 11

14 15 16

19
21 22 23
25

12 135 70 65
Steve Poulton MV M45 18:40 19:44 64
2 3 4 5 6
8
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
23 24 25 26
22 225 190 35
Sue Parker SO W65 18:30 19:49 79
2 3


7

10 11 12
14 15

18 19 20





27 12 120 340 0
total visits to control 2 14 14 8 7 5 6 7 2 22 21 17 9 23 24 19 18 24 21 19 16 19 22 17 14 16 9



Planner/Organiser's Report

Hot, wasn't it?

Last year I competed in an event with the motto “Really lazy organizers. Bloody fantastic orienteering.”, the idea being that you can cut out many of the frills that normally accompany event organisation and still run an enjoyable event. I intended to follow this philosophy, although in view of the weather conditions I did relent and provide water at the finish. I decided that a lazy organiser would rather fill a bucket with water than drive people with heatstroke to hospital!

The use of pin punches rather than SI was not a consequence of my laziness, but rather due to the fact that we couldn't fathom out how to program the SI computer for a score course. (Our club expert is currently overseas). This turned out to be fortunate, as it would have been extremely difficult to get SI stakes into the baked earth. With pin punches, we were able to hang the vast majority from vegetation and avoid the need to penetrate the ground. Not using SI stakes did however give me the opportunity to be really lazy and dispense with control codes. With all the controls in the forest being on your course, there was nothing to check anyway.

For the event planning, I had a number of goals in mind. I wanted, so far as possible in summer vegetation, an enjoyable experience for competitors. I couldn't clear all the bracken, brambles and nettles from the forest, but I could and did reject any control site that actually forced you through them. Visiting control sites with bare legs is a discipline that BOF should make compulsory for all planners!

I wanted a total course length that would tempt the best runner who might turn up into trying for all the controls, but not quite succeeding. For the record, OCAD measures the (sometimes impractical) straight-line distance along what I believe to be the optimum all-controls sequence as 7.1km.

I wanted a simple route that children and beginners could complete and still get a reasonable score. I achieved this by laying out a series of controls around the big field, and giving them the middle points value.

Finally, I wanted it to be easy to remember the points values of the controls. Control cards have three rows of nine, hence 1-9 5 points, 10-18 10 points, 19-27 15 points. Having allocated the 10 point row to the easy controls, of the remaining 18 controls, I made the easier 9 worth 5 points and the harder 9 worth 15.

It was an accident of the geography of the terrain that the farthest controls tending to be the lowest scoring, but actually I was quite pleased about that. It really put pressure on the decision-making of the stronger runners when at the far end of the course.

So to the results. I didn't attempt timing to seconds, so your time is rounded up to the next minute. Mark Collis showed the benefits of careful choice of which controls to visit, getting the highest point score despite not visiting the most controls, and getting back in time. Alison High was another who got the selection right for maximum points for minimum effort. Good to see a couple of Mole juniors half-way up the results – they still had to run round even if Mum and Dad were helping with the navigation. Any errors or queries, let me know.

My thanks go to Simon, Chris and Steve for helping me set up and hang controls, Peter for control collecting, but most of all to everybody who made the effort worthwhile by running.
 
Ian Ditchfield (Mole Valley)

Mole Valley Orienteering Club

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