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Caldicot Castle Summer Event 4 – Results

Thank you for everyone for coming. I hope the beginners enjoyed themselves and the advanced had a positive experience with the Norwegian exercise. As a memory exercise it is meant to make you pick your attack points more carefully. Hopefully good practise for the real thing.

Apologies for some of the SI dibber units going missing, despite a few red herrings, all the maps managed to stay out for the duration of the course.  Thanks to Bob and George finding some of the  “slung away” SI units. From a potential of losing 5 in the end we only lost 1. Also a big O sign went missing too… Go figure!

If anyone lost a Doberman pincher, a man came to me after the event and said he found one….

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Mark Andrews (organiser – mark.t.andrews (at) btinternet.com)

Beginners (Yellow)

1) Oliver Andrews (with Dad)                          24:04

2) Luke Andrews (with Dad)                            24:11

3) Jasmine Andrews (with Mum)                    24:46

4) Tom and Ben Lewsey (on their own)         39:00 – great results boys!

Norwegian

1)  John Mills                                      44:03

2)  Duncan Innes                               46:34

3)  Pete Colbert                                  49:29

4)  The Morgan’s                                56:08

5)  Christine Farr                                57:44

6)  Bob Teed                                        1:02:11

7)  Tim Andrews                                 1:03:25

8)  Ian Kennett                                     1:05:48

9)  Peter Baker                                    1:15:42

10) Sue Colbert                                   1:18:02

11) Martin and Sarah Jeers              1:21:04

12) George Thomas                           1:41:28

Dave May – DNF – had to run off for a meeting! (sorry about late start, caused by early vandals)

Angela McCarthy -1:14:56 – DNF

Isabelle Thomas – 47:51 – DNF

Thank you all for coming; with a good turn out it makes the time and effort worth while.

I had 31 entries by noon on Monday so had 50 maps printed thinking 66% extra would suffice; late that evening another 11 entries arrived. Fortunately for unannounced on-the-day entrants Nick had got more maps printed that morning, without which we would not have had enough maps for you all.

The format, which I borrowed from Duncan Innes, allowed me to put on a course in the easy terrain which kept the fit runners occupied for the hour, a little more in some cases.

Two competitors, Mark Saunders and Paul Gebbett managed to visit all controls and pick up the maximum number of bonus points, but paid a time penalty. They were beaten into 4^th and 5^th places by Nick, Clem and Richard who decided to forgo a few points to avoid (or minimise) their time penalty.

Apologies for the mal-functioning control M1 (unit number 172); I can assure you it gave me more problems than it gave you. I think I have credited all those who did visit the unit but got response, see Updated Control Visited spreadsheet.

I trust the absence of stakes/flags didn’t cause any problems – it saved me carrying around a lot of extra equipment and meant the units were less prone to any potential vandalism.

Thanks to Nick for handling registration and Clem for collecting in many controls.

  Graham Tough

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Results

Handicap Results

Results from Weds event.

Review from Caroline Dallimore:-

Thanks to Rhodri for putting on an interesting event on Wednesday, fortunately the rain had cleared by the evening. Registration was in Rhodri’s front garden and refreshments were provided for early arrivals!

 Rhodri had arranged the courses so that the first part was on the moor and the second half was a sprint event around the streets of Blaenavon. Personally I found the moorland tricky as I was accompanied by Harry the hound who despite his long legs found the heather slow going. Navigation wise it was great to get in some practice before the 6 Day. Luckily Nick walked up to the start of the street section so I could ditch Harry and concentrate fully. Blaenavon is a great place for a street event, there are so many little alley ways offering lots of route choice and short cuts. A great way to spend an evening!

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