Updated results and controls visited after checking control cards (quite a few scores have been increased as a result).  Cerys appears to have had the most efficient route clearing all of the controls closer to the start.

Sorry for the lack of electronic punching but it did make putting out and collecting the controls much easier. All controls were in by 9.15 the morning after.

Thanks to everyone who turned up and Nigel for finding the missing ‘extra’ control. Any errors please let me know.

Full results inc controls visited – here

			Points	Penalties	Total
1	Cerys Manning	W21	310	20	290
2	Alice Bedwell	W50	290	10	280
3	John Mills	M60	250	0	250
=4	Nigel Ferrand	M55	230	0	230
=4	Ian Kennet	M45	230	0	230
=4	Mark Saunders	M50	370	140	230
=7	Jeff Bryant	M55	210	0	210
=7	Frank Ince	M70	210	0	210
8	Pete Colbert	M60	200	0	200
10	Pete Ribbans	M55	190	20	170
11	Hayden Griffiths	M50	210	20	190
12	John Diffey	M45	170	20	150
13	Jeremy Parr	M40	150	10	140
14	Jill Manning	W65	120	0	120
15	Sue Colbert	W65	100	0	100
=16	Angela McCarthy	W45	110	30	80
=16	Tim Stanbury	M50	110	30	80
18	George Thomas	M16	120	50	70
19	CCBC group		120	190	0

	Blue
1	Stuart Lewis	40.05
2	Mark Saunders	44.33
3	Graham Horricks	44.54
4	Neil Grant	45.46
5	Paul Gebbett	46.19
6	Nigel Ferrand	56.03
7	Frazer Stevens	56.56
8	Andy Stott	57.16
9	Chris Sanderson	59.43
10	David May	60.21
11	John Mills	61.48
12	Pete Ribbans	63.11
13	Tessa Lewis	63.43
14	Paul Taunton	74.37
15	Peter Malony	82.02
16	Peter Colbert	94.21
17	Caroline Gay	DNF
	Green
1	Jill Manning	46.25
2	Jeff Bryant	54.22
3	Colin Powell	63.42
4	Jill Stott	69.50
5	Kate Stevens	70.24
6	Alan McKenzie	75.02
7	Judith Powell	87.56
8	Sue Colbert	90.10
	Red
1	Christine Farr	46.00
2	Jenny Lewis	58.12

 

 

Cardiff City Race 3/3/12

Photos here – sorry early runners only.

Standard results, WinSplits and SplitsBrowser.

Route Gadget available here

Pwll Du 4/3/12

Standard results, WinSplits and SplitsBrowser.

Route Gadget available here

Organiser’s Comments (Kate Balmond)

What a day, four seasons in one, but predominantly cold and windy. The “cagoules compulsory” decision that was made on the race morning was for your own safety.

I would like to thank the majority for keeping to the road crossing points as this is a very busy road with cars going very fast. I did see a few people not keeping to the designated route but fortunately there were no accidents.

Apologies to the few early starters who had to negotiate the way to the start due to the fact that my car battery went flat as I was putting out the signs and I had to be rescued. This meant your few vital pieces of red tape were put out a little late.

Planner’s Comments (Annemieke Silk)

I’ve really enjoyed the last hour of sitting in my cosy living room looking at what routes people took. – Some I never thought of and then there were others that weren’t even used. Clocking up 37km on my GPS over the weekend was all worth it after all (did I say that?). – Most of all it was a great relief that everything went according to plan and everyone arrived back safely. “Tough” it probably was, but I was delighted to see that the brown course winner was only 25 seconds over the target winning time of 57 mins. After all the thought (and discussion) that went into the course lengths I am particularly chuffed with that. So thanks to Kristian Jones for some timely running!

My memories of Pwll Du will be the cold. –Although the weather was a bit(!) grim on Sunday, I had the pleasure of enjoying a superb planning day in brilliant sunshine, blue skies, and yes wait for it, a breathtaking temperature of -5 degrees C, earlier in the year. – The snow on the ground that day, made finding the controls sites a little more challenging….. but at least I now have red shoes….

Of course all of the planning couldn’t have been done without expert help from all sides. Pete did a super job of advising me on some of the finer points of planning. Kate seemed as ever to take everything in her stride – nothing is ever too difficult, and thanks go to Gill, Jeff and Alice who so kindly helped bring in controls – my, how that was appreciated. I also need to give special thanks to the rest of the family, for their patience and hard work over the last 6 months on the household chores that were being left as I was preparing, and also in Nick’s case the lugging around of large numbers of controls on the day, (filling his wellies full of water in the process). – This all made the job possible, so thank you!

Finally congratulations to the 2012 Welsh Champions!

Controler’s Comments (Peter Ribbans)

Everything was well in hand until our previous controller suffered a stroke. Despite various attempts we were unable to find someone outside the club who was able to control the event, so I stepped in at short notice. Fortunately I found that the planner Annemieke had done significant work and that the courses required only a little fine tuning. This was especially commendable as this was the first event she had planned, apart from one of our small summer evening events.

On to the day itself. The Crowded House song Four seasons in one day keeps springing to mind – I wonder why. Despite the weather the comments were almost universally positive, which says it all really.

Finally many thanks also to Kate (Mrs Organised as always) and her dedicated team of helpers, without whom the event would not have been possible.