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The PlatformThe Newsletter of South Wales Orienteering Club
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| Committee news | Club T Shirts |
| Editorial | Club O Tops |
| National Event | Ranking List |
| COMPASS SPORT CUP | Calendar |
| Bixslade Night O | Bike O |
Committee notes |
Editorial | |
| Preparations for the National event are continuing, Helpers were being enlisted at the Club Dinner but more are needed, see below. Nigel Ferrand has taken over as the new Club Webmaster he can be contacted nigel.ferrand@uk.pwcglobal.com It was decided to organise a series of evening events | during the summer These will be 1hr Score events held fortnightly on Thursdays see calendar. To celebrate National Orienteering Week (8-16th June) the Club is organising a Gallopen at Mynydd y Gaer. The next meeting is on Tues 5th March. | A big thank you to Gill Manning for arranging the
Club Dinner in January it was no mean feat sorting out menus etc. Several
members turned up for the afternoons activities which included a cycle
reccee of the GlanUsk Park to plan the parking for our event, various
walks and for the more active a run to the Chartists cave, followed by tea
at Gill’s house. As you can see the calendar is full in the coming months
however behind all these events are an army of helpers. Please offer
assistance when you can or enlist the help of non-orienteering family
members it can be fun!!! On a more serious note SBOC is reporting a 60%
drop in their membership renewals which as a small club may be a worrying
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| Thanks to all contributors. Next copy date April 21st. Caroline Dallimore, caroline@ndallimore.freeserve.co.uk | ||
l need to sort out entries for these events in the next few days to meet entry deadlines. Can you respond asap. The Compass Sport Cup is being held on 10 March at the Wenallt, Cardiff . It now looks like SWOC and SBOC will be the only clubs competing in this 1st round. The courses are Colour coded with eligibility based on age classes. Everyone in SWOC is welcome to run, irrespective of whether they think they are likely to score in the competition, but the event is pre-entry only via myself. See event details overleaf.JK Relays, 1 April 02, Lydney Park, Forest of Dean Relay classes are either open (mens/womens long short etc.) or based on the combined age classes of the team (e.g Men Total Age > 120, M/W total age <40). Please let me know if you have any preferences for classes. Full details can be found on the JK website - www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~greyeyet/jk/
John Mills john.w.mills@btinternet.com T 01633 680159
For your information, the competition is now only between SWOC, SBOC and POW, so we stand a very good chance to win. All entries to John Mills (see previous page) ASAP, Entry Fees: Senior £4-50 Junior £2. Travel directions - Please approach from the NORTH. From M4 J32,travel north on A470 for 2 junctions, then take A468 towards Caerphilly. The event will be signposted from the next roundabout. From North, travel on the A470 to Caerphilly turn off and follow above directions. Parking: The main car park is a forest car park with limited space. Grid Ref ST 143839. Overflow parking is at the golf club 800m north of the main car park/assembly area at ST/142844. Park on road to golf club (area on left just to the north of the brick pillars). Allow 10-15 minutes from the overflow carpark to the assembly area (downhill) and a further 5-10 minutes to the start(flat). DO NOT LEAVE CARS UNLOCKED. Assembly area, enquiries/registration: will be in the forest car park. Electronic Punching will be used. SI Ecard available for hire 75p per competitor. Toilets: Available at Golf Club, NON are at the assembly area. Start and Finish: The start will be 500m from the assembly area. Call up at -3mins( to keep spacing) but an electronic punching start is actually being used. The finish will be situated next to the assembly area. Maps: The map is at 1:10.000 5m contours. The area is a mixture of deciduous and coniferous woodland. Courses will be overprinted. Results will be displayed in the assembly area.
| HELPERS LIST WITH TIMINGS | |
| Signing event - Dallimore Family Car Parking Alan Mackenzie, Havard Prosser, Gareth Buffett, Caroline Dallimore 9-15 to 11-15 Registration/Download/Enquiries/SI hire: Manning Family to set up tent etc Registration - Peter Colbert Enquiries/ SI hire - Kate Balmond Download 1: 10 to-12-30. Graham Tough, Vladimir 10 to 11-30, Ken Manning 10 to 11-30 Download 2: Adrian Moir 12-30 to end. Frank Ince and Neil Grant asap after run to end | Start 1: SET UP 9am( for first start time of 10-00) to 11am, Peter
Nicholson,Kevin Bush,Richard Jones. Start 2: 11am-12-45ish, Malcolm Graham,Peter Morfey, Rhodri Buffett Finish: (Grant Family to set up) 10 to 12noon Clare Grant. 12 to 2-30pm Sue Colbert Drinks: Clare and Jonathan Dallimore Control Security: James Clemence and Nick Dallimore ASAP after run, Nyall and Peter Ribbans will be keeping watch throughout. |
NGOC Night O Bixslade | |
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| February 10th a child free weekend, it was going
to be a tough decision to decide how to spend Saturday night. Would it be
a romantic Candlelit meal or a trip to the theatre or Cinema or a Night
Event at Bixlade? There was no contest as far as Nick was concerned and I
reluctantly agreed I will try anything once. As darkness fell I was definitely having second thoughts. Having a reputation for getting lost on a regular basis how was I going to cope in the dark? Nick was reassuring telling me that there was always an easy yellow course. The rain had stopped by the time we started and I had decided to do the 6 controls on the yellow course. It was very different in the dark, paths were not obvious but I managed to find the first 3 controls with their luminous tapes fairly easily. Feeling much more confident I decided to divert to 3 other controls which were a short way off the path, I was alright until I had to retrace my steps to get back onto the yellow route. I thought that I was on the right path but when 4 wasn’t where I expected mild panic set in . I retraced my steps. | Where were all the friendly lights which had been bobbing
through the trees earlier ? Was my torch really becoming fainter? With
time ticking by I decided to head West on a large track hopefully towards
the Car park. I had taken the precaution of leaving my mobile phone no on
the back of my control stub much to the amusement of the organiser but
what would I be able to tell anyone who phoned ? I am in a wood on a track
and my torch has almost given up! Just then 2 lights flickered into view
Where was I? Somehow I had managed to get myself to the 4th control which
was right next to me. From there it was plain sailing although the small tracks through the trees were hard to follow. It was a great relief to reach the finish only 12 minutes late! Would I be tempted to try another one?? Possibly, but it would be more fun in a pair (most people were in pairs) and I would make sure that it wasn’t me left with the Action Man torch again. Caroline Dallimore. |
| There are still some CLUB T SHIRTS available at greatly reduced prices, Contact Pete Colbert for the latest info on prices, sizes etc. | |
| The club is about to order some more of our snazzy O tops. Even better news is the fact that the SWOC will subsidise the cost of overprinting of the club logo. Sizes 00 to 2 (junior) are normally £15.50 but will be only £12.50 after discount. Sizes 3 to 8 (senior) retail at £17.50 but will be sold at the reduced price of £14.50. O bottoms (green with a red stripe) are a stock Ultrasport item and can be purchased directly from them but I can order these as well if required. These are priced at £10.00 and £11.50 respectively. | Sizes 00 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chest 27" 29" 31" 33" 35" 37" 39" 42" 44" 46" Waist 23" 24" 25" 26" 28" 30" 32" 34" 36" 38" Ins Leg24" 25" 26" 27" 28" 29" 30" 32" 34" 35" All orders by phone (029) 2052 0506 or by Email to Ribbo2@btopenworld.com by 15th March |
FIRST SWOC RANKING LIST FOR 2001/02 27 Feb 2002
John Mills has compiled the first ranking list of the year, please can you send him your results so that they can be included in future lists.
Pos. Name Class Total Events Events included 1 Alan Mackenzie M50 1805 10 8/9 Sep 01 Twin Peaks- 2 James Clemence M40 1758 7 16 Sep 01 Sarum Saunter 3 Nick Dallimore M45 1660 7 21 Oct 01 Newborough 4 Frank Ince M60 1591 7 11 Nov 01 Boktrot 5 Peter Colbert M50 1572 9 25 Nov 01 Pembrey 6 Cerys Manning W16 1451 5 6 Jan 02 Malvern Hills 7 Neil Grant M50 1413 6 13 Jan 02 West Woods 8 Sarah Bayliss W21 1380 6 20 Jan 02 NGOC event 9 Sue Colbert W55 1361 9 27 Jan 02 Avon Water 10 Jonathan Dallimore M12 1313 5 3 Feb 02 Chiltern Challenge 11 Kevin Bush M40 1306 10 10 Feb 02 NE1 12 John Mills M50 1229 6 17 Feb 02 Draethen 13 Judith Powell W60 1160 4 24 Feb 02 Concorde Chase 14 Jeffrey Colbert M20 1115 7 24 Feb 02 Rawnsley Woods 15 Graham Tough M55 1100 6 16 Peter Nicholson M50 1080 6 17 Clare Dallimore W14 1078 5 18 Caroline Dallimore W45 1059 6 19 Jill Manning W50 896 3 20 Rhodri Buffett M14 865 3 21 Clare Grant W45 836 5 22 Helen Sharp W35 750 4 23 Colin Powell M60 724 3 24 Kate Balmond W50 693 4 25 Peter Ribbans M45 593 4 26 Vladimir Kuznetsov M45 589 3 27 Chris Poole M21 497 2 28 Gareth Buffett M50 456 2 29 Havard Prosser M50 319 2 30 Richard Howells M40 309 3 31 Marianne Morfey W12 308 2 32 Stephan Morfey M14 264 2 33 Rhys Manning M20 246 1 34 Adrian Moir M40 230 1 35 Alex Lyne M21 228 1 36 Carys Morgan W21 181 1 37 Laure Ferrand W14 165 1 38 David Wilson M21 159 1 39 Tom Morfey (M6) M10 156 1 40 Claire Prosser W20 148 1 41 Peter Morfey M45 138 1 42 Eric Smith M65 132 1 43 Ian Kennett M35 132 1 44 Stephen Edwards M40 129 1 45 Chris Cudmore M45 105 1 46 Hywel Butts M21 101 1 47 Nyall Meredith M45 95 1 48 Isobel Moir (W3) W10 82 1 49 Joel Ferrand M16 74 1 50 Barbara Prosser W50 70 1 51 Nigel Ferrand M45 64 1 52 Martyn Stones M35 48 1 53 Iestyn Thomas M21 37 1
TopCALENDAR (CLOSE EVENTS ONLY)
March 2ND NGOC Informal The Delves SO/665183 : Bill Smith 01452610924. 10th SWOC Compass Sport 1st round , Wenallt. 16th NGOC League (J) Ninewells : Bob Teed 01291625048. 17th SWOC Bike’O Wentwood: Nick Dallimore, 029 20842481. 29th -3rd BOK JK’02 Forest of Dean. April 7th WRE Badge event The Wrekin, Telford, entries Graham Hardy 01584 861418. 13th QO Short course warm up Blackborough, Cullompton 14th QO National Event ,entries David Holmes 01823 451343. 20th NGOC League Bixlade SO/608116 ; Paul Taunton 01594 529455. 21st SBOC Colour Coded & Welsh Gallopen Clyne Valley,Swansea ; Roger Stein 01792 296122. EPS-SI May 4th NGOC Informal Parkend SO/667067 ;Dave Hartley 01452863805. 5th SWOC Informal Cwm Lickey & Bar-B-Que 11th SBOC Local Craig Fawr,Port Talbot, Bridget Stein 01792 296122 12th Compass Sport Cup Final 18th NGOC League Painswick S0/ 870118 Ian Strirrups 01452812923. 19th BOKTrot Badge event New Beechenhurst, Ashley Cooper 077 1740598 CD 28/4/02 22nd SBOC Summer League 1 Pembrey Dave Seward 01554771807 25th WYE Badge event Fownhope Park Hereford 26th HOC Badge Event Bampton Bryan Ludlow 26th SBOC Local Craig Fawr, Port Talbot; Bridget Stein 01792 296122 29th SBOC Summer League 2 Millenium Coastal Park Llanelli Dave Seward 30th SWOC Evening Score St Julians Wood June 1st NGOC Informal Cranham,SO/883131; Paul New 01242863126. 1-4 KERNO/DEVON Tamar Quadruple 1st Colour Coded Cardinham Woods Bodmin 2nd Badge event Middle Bedalder, Bodmin 3rd Badge event Braunton Burrows Saunton 4th Badge event Braunton Burrows 5th SBOC Summer League 3 Mynydd Mawr, Llanelli, Dave Seward 9th SWOC Colour Coded & Welsh Gallopen Mynydd y Gaer, Bridgend Nyall Meredith 02920 843178, nyall@swoc34freeserve.co.uk or www.swoc.cwc.net 12th SBOC Summer League 4 13th SWOC Evening Score Pontcanna 21-23 SBOC Mid Summer on Gower (3 events) Entries Roger Stein 01792 296122 No EOD 21st Event 1 & Summer League 5 Llanmadoc Hill 22nd Event 2 & Welsh League Cefn Bryn 23rd Event 3 & Welsh League Broughton Burrows 26th SBOC Summer League 6 27th SWOC Evening Score Llangynidr 29th NGOC Score Cleeve Hill SO/994248 ; Sue Stirrups 01452812923
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