Results
for Leith Hill Compass Sport Cup & Trophy – Sunday 24 January 2010
These are PROVISIONAL
results.
Compass Sport Cup & Trophy Results
Results updated 22:00, 25/1/10 as EOD competitors
weren’t reporting their age class, and hence were being ignored in the
results. The overall positions were unaffected, although GO moved to
within 2 points of MV.
·
SO
win the Cup round with 2317 points, 70 points ahead of SN.
·
All
Cup clubs had 25 scoring runners except SLOW with 24.
·
MV
win Trophy round with 1264, 6 points ahead of GO, both being the only clubs to
have 13 scoring runners.
·
451
competitors on the day … only 20 DNS from the pre-entered.
Feel
free to scrutinise the results … let me know if you see any errors.
Thanks
to Graham Tough (SWOC) for updating his scoring software to handle the new
rules … made our life simple, and allowed results to be displayed during the
event.
Controller’s Comments
About
12 years ago I used to live not that far from Leith Hill. It was possible to
run from my front door to the tower and back home in under 2 hours without
really touching much road. More often than not, however, I would take the lazy
option and drive there. Running at Leith Hill in winter was far preferable to
the clay paths near to where I lived; for the most part Leith Hill drains well
and the paths don’t really get bogged down. It is therefore an area I have come
to enjoy and was very happy to say yes to the request from LOK to control the
event. Now that results are out I am not sure that GO’s team captain is that
sure as GO appear to have lost the CompassSport Trophy competition by only 2
points, and I may have counted if I had run……
Paul’s
courses on the day were largely as initially presented to me. I didn’t need to
suggest too many changes and for the most part I think he got it about right.
Leith Hill is a technical area, in places probably the best you can get in the
South East. As such the courses should have challenged most competitors, with
mistakes potentially being costly if relocation was not obvious. It was a fitting
area to use for this competition, and I hope the successful clubs find the area
used for the final offers something similar.
Over
the years I have ran at Leith Hill I have noticed the number of paths appear to
have exploded as mountain bikers have taken to the area, to such an extent that
it is really quite hard to keep the map up to date with the ever-changing
network. The World Cup in 2005 and more recent JK left a fairly solid base map
but Paul Todd still needed to make a number of updates to paths, vegetation and
National Trust fencing. I think we got most of them around the control sites,
although off to the East of the cricket ground on the brown course I suspect
that there were many more indistinct paths than could be shown on the map.
The
number of green courses was clearly a problem. I checked the map layout at the
start, checked the maps were in the correct boxes, checked that the start team
instructions were reasonably clear. Nevertheless there seems to have been some
confusion. Perhaps there were other things we could have done to make it more
obvious, perhaps adding a course number as well, but I do apologise to those
few who inadvertently picked up an incorrect map.
Keith
Tonkin (GO)
Organiser’s Comments
Well,
mid Jan event, only practical car park is a field with no entrance track
(except for 4x4), coldest winter for a number of years, 2” of snow on the field
four days before the event, but you know what, this is an LOK event, and we
ALWAYS book good weather for our neighbouring clubs ……. and so it was!
After
such a fantastic day in terms of terrain. courses and weather, we hope you will
look back and say ‘eye, 2010 was a special Cup and Trophy event, LOK did us
proud and rolled out the (muddy) carpet for us!’. Two weeks ago this was
a long way from where I expected to be on this day, as Britain froze, and all
Cup/Trophy organisers looked to their crystal balls and debated whether to go
ahead or not. We instigated a contingency plan, and after marrying up
house moves, holidays, important national events and the SEOA fixture list,
agreed an alternative date with DFOK, which would have involved them
sacrificing their Westerham event in March – fortunately it wasn’t required,
but nevertheless, our thanks to DFOK for being so generous.
With
the on/off/on/off, it wasn’t until the day before that we actually built the
road in to field, finishing 30 min before Mr Portaloo arrived …. until this
hardcore had been laid, under Nick Vass’s watchful eye, 2-wheel drive cars
could only get 2 wheels off the road before they sank in to the mud. And
as for that 100m+ of luxurious carpet …. you’d have been slipping and sliding
(and sinking!) without it!
All
the pre-work was worth it though! Fantastic comments about the map
accuracy and courses, 425 pre-entries made the on-the-day stuff relatively
painless. With LOK being a small club, and most volunteers involved in
‘carpet’ duties, we called upon HH to run the Start for us, so thanks to their
stalwart members for their assistance.
Small
note to the two competitors who didn’t get split times printed ….. it was
because you started before the course opened at 10:30 …. OE settings changed
and you should see you results now.
Final
thank yous:
·
Keith
Tonkin (GO) for controlling and sacrificing a run for GO (those 6 points could
have made all the difference!)
·
Peaslake
School for the catering and ‘Landy’ duty for the few sunk-in-the-grass cars
·
The
Evelyn Wooton estate and National Trust for the use of their land
·
Laurence
Matthews for the use of his field – trust the Belted Galloways find no trace of
us when they return in March!
Lost
property:
·
1
x telescopic walking pole
·
1
x compass
·
1
Gore Running Wear left glove
·
1
x pair of sunglasses
Neil
Brooks – chairman@londonorienteering.co.uk
Compass Sport Competition Result
Results with split
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Routegadget – see
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