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COMMITTEE NEWS | EDITORIAL | |
| Preparations for the National event are progressing well and the map has now been completed. Kate Balmond would like to hear from anyone who hasn,t been allocated a job yet!! See below We are going to be stretched to the limit for helpers so if you can drag any friends along they will be very welcome. Helpers will have a 50% reduction in entry fees!! (mark your entry Helper) |
WANTED | 16 of the club have just returned from the lakes 5 day event & for once the weather was good. The last of the club Score events has been held and the general feeling amongst the people who turned up was positive. Although the organisers had a hard time putting out controls etc their efforts were appreciated -Thank you. Is this going to become a permanent feature in the calendar? Once again the Club is looking for volunteers to become more active in its organization. As we have so few members it is important that the load is shared and that same people don’t get left doing everything . Club website www.swoc.cwc.net, Club Webmaster - nigel.ferrand@uk.pwcglobal.com |
| Club Treasurer - to take over from Rebecca,( she is willing to produce this years end of year accounts). | ||
| There are still some CLUB T SHIRTS available at very greatly reduced prices, Contact Pete Colbert for the latest info on prices, sizes etc. | Equipment Officer - You don’t have to do much, just have some spare space for the club gear (a shed or 1/4 of a garage is enough). | |
Congratulations to Pete Ribbans on his engagement.Unfortunately this means that he is moving. So the club equipment has to be moved very soon. A new EQUIPMENT OFFICER is needed urgently. |
Compass Sport Trophy | Lakes 5 day Event | |
| The re-arranged Compass Sport Cup final will take place on 10th Nov at the HOC Badge event at Titterstone near Ludlow. The area is fast runnable moorland with some detailed worklings. Please keep this date free and contact John Mills if you are available to run. | We have just arrived back from the Lakes having had an enjoyable week. The weather was too hot for the first 3 days (Nick spent the week running in shorts) and only one day was typical rain and low cloud. There were three days with very steep climbs to the start which were energy sapping but the areas then used more than compensated for the climb. Unfortunately there was car parking chaos on day 1 which resulted in the Police closing the parking field and turning some people away. Because of this only 3 events counted in the final results which made things very competitive. Alan MacKenzie definitely found the best accommodation with cooked breakfast a landlady who washed 4 sets of O kit each night!! Congratulations to Rhodri Buffet who won each day of his event to take the overall M14 A prize. | Rhodri Buffet 1st M14A Jonathan Dallimore 14th M14A Jeff Colbert 19th M21S James Clemence 8th M40L Adrian Moir 8th M40S Nick Dallimore 10th M45L Gareth Buffet 45th M50L Pete Colbert 14th M50S Alan MacKenzie 23rd M50S Graham Tough 63rd M55L Colin Powell 57th M60L Clare Dallimore 6th W14A Caroline Dallimore 16th W45L Kate Balmond 9th W50S Sue Colbert 8th W55S Judith Powell 2nd W60L |
Dyffryn Gardens are holding an Open Weekend on 17-18 August (10am - 6pm) and have asked us to run a simple Orienteering course. I will be preparing a course and some display material. If any one is prepared to man the 'stand' for a period on either day and/or can provide some O photos, posters etc. please can you contact Pete Colbert on 029 2076 3827 pete.colbert@btopenworld .com
Fifteen of us travelled out to Fontainbleau as the British Team for the MBTO World Championships. The events were held over 5 days with a range of sprint (30min ) and Classic (1.5 hrs) courses. Most orienteering countries had sent teams including Japan, USA & Australia. The first day was going to be the prologue for the main event which was to be a chasing start. Unfortunately for the French organizers there was mutiny amongst the non French competitors because the map had been used for the French selection event a few weeks earlier! After a protest the first event was only used to decide the start order for the next day’s long race rather than actually counting. This was a shame as it was the only one I had a decent run in.Top
The event area was mixed woodland with a complex path system. The notable feature of the area were the ’star’ junctions with up to 12 paths meeting at the same point. This required some pretty accurate counting as you went into the junctions. This was complicated further by the fact that many of the smaller paths were out of bounds and marked with a small red cross which was very easy to miss on the poor quality laser printed maps we had to use. None of the out of bounds paths were marshalled and most of us saw people taking short cuts. The tracks we were allowed to use were often very sandy and almost unrideable.
The best british results were from John Houlihan who was 11th in the classic distance and 9th in the short race. I had very disappointing runs making mistakes in both races. A 2 minute route choice error in the short race was enough to drop me by 30 places.
Nick Dallimore
This was run on a blazing hot day in July (yes there was one) and attracted a select but high quality field from SWOC & SBOC. Nyall had planned a challenging course on the very difficult terrain available which resulted in a win for a scratch team of Judith Powell, John Mills & Clare Dallimore, closely followed by the rest of the Dallimore family. Clare claims to have won this event for the last 3 years so if anyone wants her in their team next year they will have to book early!
The overall results of the Score League are enclosed. Those who did turn up seemed to enjoy themselves over a great variety of terrain on well planned courses. The weather was kind for the 2 high level events which were also the best attended attracting a few runners from SBOC.Top
Congratulations to Nick Dallimore for winning. He may claim a free club T-shirt of his choice from the remaining stock. Second and third places went to John Mills and Caroline Dallimore.
My family and I have had several debates about problems with the scoring system which closely follows that used in the Western Night League. For example:
1 The handicap factors are based on BOF course length ratios but seem to penalise the 18-21 year olds too much. They also assume that every competitor is at the same fitness and ability relative to their age class. It might be fairer to use a handicap system based on individuals known performance.
2 The penalties for being late are also increased by the handicap factor. Hence a W10 finishing 1 minute late gets penalised 34 points compared to an M21's 10 points. The counter-argument is that a 10 point control is actually worth 34 points to a W10, so the penalty is actually 1 control for both.
3 Organiser's lose an opportunity to increase their score. The league was designed to only count the best 4 events, so that competitors could miss 1 event and still win. However, after the first event I felt that organisers were still being disadvantaged, so should be given an average score, but how was it to be calculated? Average of their scores for each event?; Average score for the particular event?; Estimated score based on average position at other events?
It was plainly unfair to change the rules after the league had started, so I have compromised and given a flat 700 points (the score for an average person) to each organiser. Without this addition, John would have won, but I think he will agree that Nick is a deserving winner. A special thank you to all the organisers, but especially Nigel Ferrand who stepped in to replace Peter Ribbans a couple of days before the final event.
Pete Colbert Score League Coordinator
| League Position | Name | Number of Events | St. Julian's Park | Pontcanna Fields | Llangynidr | Merthyr Common | Cwmdare | League Total | ||
| 1 | Nick Dallimore | 4 | M45 | SWOC | 1061 | 852 | 700 | 1186 | 0 | 3799 |
| 2 | John Mills | 5 | M50 | SWOC | 879 | 899 | 664 | 816 | 1042 | 3636 |
| 3 | Caroline Dallimore | 4 | W45 | SWOC | 0 | 985 | 700 | 1022 | 621 | 3328 |
| 4 | Sue Colbert | 5 | W55 | SWOC | 674 | 966 | 589 | 742 | 557 | 2971 |
| 5 | Pete Colbert | 5 | M50 | SWOC | 750 | 764 | 617 | 825 | 536 | 2956 |
| 6 | Richard Barrett | 3 | M21 | SBOC | 0 | 0 | 805 | 1132 | 794 | 2731 |
| 7 | Jill Manning | 3 | W50 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 789 | 700 | 1198 | 2687 |
| 8 | Jeff Colbert | 4 | M20 | SWOC | 0 | 636 | 826 | 732 | 428 | 2622 |
| 9 | Clare Dallimore | 4 | W14 | SWOC | 0 | 288 | 971 | 735 | 587 | 2581 |
| 10 | Vladimir Kuznetsov | 3 | M45 | SWOC | 700 | 0 | 1014 | 597 | 0 | 2311 |
| 11 | Nigel Ferrand | 5 | M45 | SWOC | 418 | 378 | 592 | 511 | 700 | 2221 |
| 12 | Roger Stein | 3 | M45 | SBOC | 0 | 0 | 728 | 705 | 750 | 2183 |
| 13 | Judith Powell | 2 | W60 | SWOC | 1045 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 838 | 1883 |
| 14 | Cerys Manning | 2 | W16 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 1037 | 700 | 0 | 1737 |
| 15 | Rod Jones | 2 | M50 | SBOC | 0 | 0 | 791 | 757 | 0 | 1548 |
| 16 | Alan Mackenzie | 2 | M50 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 688 | 838 | 0 | 1526 |
| 17 | Pete,Stefan &Tom Morfey | 3 | M45 | SWOC | 440 | 700 | 359 | 0 | 0 | 1499 |
| 18 | Jonathan Dallimore | 2 | M14 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 847 | 357 | 1204 |
| 19 | Adrian Moir | 2 | M40 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 576 | 595 | 0 | 1171 |
| 20 | Gareth Buffett | 2 | M50 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 915 | 163 | 0 | 1078 |
| 21 | Rhys Manning | 1 | M20 | SHUOC | 0 | 0 | 1006 | 0 | 0 | 1006 |
| 22 | Rhodri Buffett | 1 | M14 | SWOC | 954 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 954 |
| 23 | Ian Kennett | 1 | M35 | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 914 | 0 | 914 |
| 24 | Graham Tough | 1 | M55 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 841 | 0 | 0 | 841 |
| 25 | Frank Ince | 1 | M60 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 803 | 0 | 803 |
| 26 | Jane Ritchie | 1 | W45 | SWOC | 0 | 747 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 747 |
| 27 | Andrew Lewis | 2 | M16 | IND | 0 | 0 | 318 | 418 | 0 | 736 |
| 27 | Toby Cowern | 2 | M16 | IND | 0 | 0 | 318 | 418 | 0 | 736 |
| 29 | Josh & Nathan | 1 | M14 | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 725 | 0 | 725 |
| 30 | Steven Edwards | 1 | M40 | SWOC | 695 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 695 |
| 31 | Bob Achermann | 1 | M55 | SWISS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 692 | 692 |
| 32 | Kate Balmond | 1 | W50 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 654 | 0 | 654 |
| 33 | Zoe Ryan | 1 | W10 | IND | 622 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 622 |
| 34 | Bob Teed | 1 | M60 | NGOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 541 | 0 | 541 |
| 35 | Emma and Sarah | 1 | W10 | ROK | 492 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 492 |
| 36 | Havard Prosser | 1 | M50 | SWOC | 0 | 485 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 485 |
| 37 | Rhys & Lewis | 1 | M14 | IND | 0 | 0 | 0 | 455 | 0 | 455 |
| 38 | Richard Wall | 1 | M21 | SWOC | 371 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 371 |
| 38 | Peter Seward | 1 | M70 | SBOC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 371 | 0 | 371 |
| 40 | Rebecca Moir | 1 | W21 | SWOC | 0 | 0 | 256 | 0 | 0 | 256 |
August
14th SBOC Summer League 11Broughton Burrows, Gower Roger Stein 01792296122
17th-18th SWOC Duffryn Gardens Come & Try O-VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
21st SBOC Summer League 12 Ogof Ffynon Ddu, Abercraf Phil Jenkins 01639830065
31st NGOC Chairmans Challenge Score Event Soudley Ponds, Cinderford. Roger Coe 01594 510444 start 1400hr
September
4th SBOC League Prizegiving (Social& Fun Event) Singleton Park Swansea Niall Reynolds 01792527566
8th SBOC 2x2 Relays Oxwich Burrows, Gower David Seward 01554771807
14-15th Caddihoe Chase Weekend ,Penhale Sands Newquay Cris Tween 01258861804
14th NGOC Local Score Event Robinswood Hill, Gloucester Steve Williams 01242571589
21st NGOC Local Sheepscombe SO914118 Steve williams 01242 571589
28th SWOC NATIONAL EVENT & VHI Mynydd Llangatwg Crickhowell Kate Balmond
29th SBOC VHI Relays & Welsh Championships Merthyr Mawr Bridgend Roger Stein 01792296122
October
5th Dartmoor Long O Burrator Yelverton Roger Green 01392278512 www.devonorienteering.co.uk
12th NGOC Local Event Cleeve Hill, Cheltenham Eddie McLarnon 01242 673079
13th Eryri Badge Event Gwydyr Forest, Llanwrst Hilary Davies 01492622608
13th QO Long O Dunster Minehead Arthur Vince 01935863429
19-20th Twin Peaks Badge Event Whaley Bridge, Buxton.
20th Sarum Badge Event Hampworth, Salisburywww.sarumO.co.uk
26th NGOC Local Event Parkend, Lydney Lin Callard01453 843793
27th HOC Colour coded Worcester Beacon Malvern SO765455 Elaine Bass 01684 561440
November
2nd NGOC Local Standish Wood Gloucester SO838087 Steve Williams 01242 571589
9th NGOC Local Night Score Sallowvallets Coleford David Jones 01684 573372
10th Compass Sport Final, Titterstone, Clee, Ludlow
23rd NGOCLocal Cranham Glos SO883131 Steve Williams 01242 571589
December
1st SWOC Colour coded & Welsh League Wenallt, Cardiff
7th NGOC Local Kidnalls BlakeneySO634032 William Budden 01452 790435
14th NGOC Night Score Cranham Glos SO883131 Malcolm Green 01242 863064
14-15 Sept Mountainbike O Festival Bank Austria
23-27 April Roma MTBO 2003 - MBTO Festival with courses for all standards & opportunities for sightseeing! More details from Nick Dallimore
The final ranking list for club trophies will be up to the end of August. John needs any outstanding results by Mid September.
| Pos. | Name | Class | Total | Events | Events included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cerys Manning | W16 | 3097 | 10 | 8/9 Sep 01 Twin Peaks- |
| 2 | Judith Powell | W60 | 3049 | 10 | 16 Sep 01 Sarum Saunter |
| 3 | Rhodri Buffett | M14 | 2875 | 10 | 21 Oct 01 Newborough |
| 4 | Jill Manning | W50 | 2846 | 10 | 11 Nov 01 Boktrot |
| 5 | James Clemence | M40 | 2705 | 10 | 25 Nov 01 Pembrey |
| 6 | Frank Ince | M60 | 2651 | 10 | 6 Jan 02 Malvern Hills |
| 7 | Sarah Bayliss | W21 | 2510 | 10 | 13 Jan 02 West Woods |
| 8 | Jonathan Dallimore | M14 | 2504 | 10 | 20 Jan 02 NGOC event |
| 9 | Neil Grant | M50 | 2428 | 10 | 27 Jan 02 Avon Water |
| 10 | Nick Dallimore | M45 | 2424 | 10 | 3 Feb 02 Chiltern Challenge |
| 11 | Clare Dallimore | W14 | 2293 | 10 | 10 Feb 02 NE1 |
| 12 | Gareth Buffett | M50 | 2238 | 10 | 17 Feb 02 Draethen |
| 13 | John Mills | M50 | 2212 | 10 | 24 Feb 02 Concorde Chase |
| 14 | Alan Mackenzie | M50 | 2205 | 10 | 24 Feb 02 Rawnsley Woods |
| 15 | Kate Balmond | W50 | 2171 | 10 | 2 Mar 02 BNC |
| 16 | Sue Colbert | W55 | 2132 | 10 | 3 Mar 02 GO event |
| 17 | Helen Sharp | W35 | 2129 | 10 | 10 Mar 02 CC cup, Wenallt |
| 18 | Peter Colbert | M50 | 1980 | 10 | 17 Mar 02 Harewood |
| 19 | Peter Nicholson | M50 | 1954 | 10 | 24 Mar 02 Bryanston |
| 20 | Caroline Dallimore | W45 | 1916 | 10 | 30 Mar 02 JK Day 1 |
| 21 | Graham Tough | M55 | 1913 | 10 | 31 Mar 02 JK Day 2 |
| 22 | Jeffrey Colbert | M20 | 1792 | 10 | 7 Apr 02 Wrekin |
| 23 | Clare Grant | W45 | 1779 | 10 | 7 Apr 02 Trossachs |
| 24 | Chris Poole | M21 | 1514 | 6 | 7 Apr 02 Clarendon Park |
| 25 | Kevin Bush | M40 | 1510 | 10 | 14 Apr 02 QO Nat Event |
| 26 | Vladimir Kuznetsov | M45 | 1443 | 7 | 21 Apr 02 Clyne Valley |
| 27 | Havard Prosser | M50 | 1421 | 7 | 28 Apr 02 Dorset Delight |
| 28 | Carys Morgan | W21 | 1359 | 7 | 28 Apr 02 Bigland Nat Event |
| 29 | Laure Ferrand | W14 | 1311 | 7 | 5 May 02 British Champs |
| 30 | Colin Powell | M60 | 1292 | 6 | 19 May 02 BOKTrot |
| 31 | Peter Ribbans | M45 | 1257 | 7 | 25 May 02 Fownhope Park |
| 32 | Richard Jones | M35 | 1125 | 7 | 26 May 02 Brampton Bryan |
| 33 | Alex Lyne | M21 | 960 | 4 | 2 Jun 02 Tamar Day 2 |
| 34 | Rhys Manning | M20 | 792 | 4 | 3 Jun 02 Tamar Day 3 |
| 35 | Barbara Prosser | W50 | 769 | 6 | 4 Jun 02 Tamar Day 4 |
| 36 | Alun Morgan | M55 | 766 | 6 | 9 Jun 02 Mynydd y Gaer |
| 37 | Nigel Ferrand | M45 | 693 | 5 | 21 Jun 02 Gower Day 1 |
| 38 | Adrian Moir | M40 | 676 | 4 | 22 Jun 02 Gower Day 2 |
| 39 | Jane Ritchie | W45 | 673 | 6 | 23 Jun 02 Gower Day 3 |
| 40 | Joel Ferrand | M16 | 607 | 5 | |
| 41 | Stephan Morfey | M14 | 537 | 4 | |
| 42 | Marianne Morfey | W12 | 529 | 3 | |
| 43 | Peter Morfey | M45 | 498 | 3 | |
| 44 | Malcolm Graham | M35 | 444 | 2 | |
| 45 | Hywel Butts | M21 | 367 | 3 | |
| 46 | Claire Prosser | W20 | 334 | 2 | |
| 47 | Richard Howells | M40 | 309 | 3 | |
| 48 | Ian Kennett | M35 | 264 | 2 | |
| 49 | David Wilson | M21 | 159 | 1 | |
| 50 | Tom Morfey (M6) | M10 | 156 | 1 | |
| 51 | Isobel Moir (W3) | W10 | 143 | 2 | |
| 52 | Alison Stevens | W35 | 138 | 1 | |
| 53 | Eric Smith | M65 | 132 | 1 | |
| 54 | Stephen Edwards | M40 | 129 | 1 | |
| 55 | Iestyn Thomas | M21 | 122 | 3 | |
| 56 | Nyall Meredith | M45 | 117 | 2 | |
| 57 | Chris Cudmore | M45 | 105 | 1 | |
| 58 | Martyn Stones | M35 | 48 | 1 | |
| 59 | Rebecca Moir | W21 | 41 | 1 |