NORTHERN NAVIGATORS
Hamsterley, Windy Bank - Sunday, 19th October 2003
Full colour coded and NEOA Galoppen League event
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YELLOW - 1.9km, 50m, 9 controls
1. M.Ratcliffe M10 NATO 22:30
2. H.Whitwood W12 NATO 22:40
3. E.Cranke W10 CLOK 24:07
4. R.Capper M6 EBOR 27:06
5. B.Proud W12 ind 28:50
6. R.Cooper M12 NATO 31:10
7. E.Wright W6 CLOK 35:25
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8. A.Campbell W10 CLOK 36:26
9. A.Crosby W8 NATO 38:41
10. S.Green M7 ind 39:05
11. D.Campbell M5 CLOK 43:44
12. C.Campbell W8 CLOK 45:43
13. S.Mackenzie+2 W7 CLARO 48:55
14. J.Hull W4 CLOK 67:42
ORANGE - 2.3km, 90m, 8 controls
1. M.MacNiven W18 UDOC 23:26
2. J.Gash M14 28:52
3. C.Curtis W12 NATO 33:01
4. L.Pilkington W21 UDOC 38:48
5. C.Dean W45 CLOK 39:07
6. B.Pearson M12 NATO 39:36
7. L.Street M20 UDOC 40:48
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8. S.Proud M16 ind 41:05
9. J.Taylor M12 ind 41:12
10. J.Pearce M14 ind 43:24
11. M.Smith W14 EBOR 43:47
12. A.Wright W12 CLOK 46:49
13. J.Miller M40 ind 51:39
14. P.Malley W65 NATO 54:54
L.GREEN - 3.5km, 110m, 11 controls
1. M.Whitwood M14 NATO 35:50
2. J.Malley M12 NATO 36:28
3. R.Unsworth M14 CLOK 38:32
4. D.Smyth M12 NATO 44:31
5. J.Thornton W14 CLOK 46:04
6. J.Bradley W21 ind 49:59
7. G.Hardy W60 CLOK 51:21
8. A.Hodgson W55 CLOK 51:25
9. D.Lee M40 NATO 51:33
10. R.Akers W20 UDOC 52:06
11. M.Conway W65 CLOK 53:28
12. E.Bedwell W70 CLOK 53:30
13. K.Crosby W21 NATO 53:42
14. E.Blott W50 CLOK 53:53
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15. M.Webb W50 LEI 54:30
16. R.Matheson W45 NATO 55:22
17. A.Pearson M45 NATO 57:15
18. N.Harris M60 NN 57:35
19. J.Robb W60 CLOK 61:43
20. J.Trigg M50 CLOK 65:16
21. J.Bedwell M70 CLOK 68:23
22. I.Smith M70 NATO 68:28
23. Lavery W40 ind 75:40
24. M.McEwan W21 ind 75:48
25. E.Collingwood W16 CLOK 81:21
26. P.Snaith W55 CLOK 81:23
27. A.Brown W16 ind 82:06
28. J.Smith W40 EBOR 100:08
GREEN - 4.5km, 100m, 14 controls
1. B.Grandey M18 CLOK 43:17
2. A.Cranke W45 CLOK 44:34
3. D.Brook M60 NN 46:20
4. T.Unsworth M55 CLOK 48:20
5. F.Major M55 NN 49:29
6. L.Unsworth W16 CLOK 49:30
7. S.Sprot W50 NATO 51:15
8. H.Allen W55 ind 53:06
9. M.Conway M65 CLOK 53:54
10. L.Hensman W55 CLARO 56:09
11. L.Dunn W40 EBOR 56:36
12. K.Bibby M60 CLOK 56:55
13. R.Campbell M65 CHIG 57:26
14. H.Cooper W45 NATO 60:21
15. R.Grandey W16 CLOK 60:25
16. G.Harrison M50 CLOK 61:18
17. M.Gibson M60 CLOK 61:33
18. M.Hardy M60 CLOK 62:00
19. R.Robb M60 CLOK 62:09
20. R.Malley M70 NATO 63:12
21. P.Smith M40 EBOR 63:36
22. J.Murphy M NN 64:45
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23. R.Campbell W65 CHIG 65:30
24. A.Elder W50 CLOK 67:28
25. P.Davies W45 NATO 68:46
26. S.Smith W55 EBOR 68:58
27. B.Hodgson M60 CLOK 70:02
28. L.Porter W45 CLOK 75:40
29. J.Selby W60 CLOK 82:28
30. C.Mackenzie W40 CLOK 83:57
31. D.Whitworth M60 BL 90:34
32. A.Luxmoore W55 ind 104:21
BLUE - 6.1km, 180m, 17 controls
1. R.Jackson M55 WCOC 56:31
2. C.Bradford M50 NATO 58:39
3. G.Capper M45 EBOR 59:27
4. C.Matheson M45 NATO 61:18
5. M.Mackenzie W40 BL 61:26
6. N.Sprot M50 NATO 61:50
7. A.Curtis W45 NATO 62:50
8. B.Cooper M55 NN 63:03
9. A.Ledger M35 NATO 65:53
10. D.Slade M35 NATO 66:02
11. M.Dean M40 CLOK 67:11
12. L.Godfree W55 DVO 67:57
13. D.Henderson M50 RR 68:16
14. B.Harrison M60 CLOK 68:19
15. M.Mackenzie W21 CLARO 69:33
16. T.Jones M35 ind 69:40
17. J.Elder M50 CLOK 70:34
18. S.Russell M45 NATO 72:14
19. D.Scott M55 EBOR 72:50
20. J.Malley W40 NATO 73:48
21. H.Tasanen W21 LiePol 74:23
22. G.Hensman M55 CLARO 74:40
23. W.Dehany M50 CLOK 76:22
24. A.Nicoll M60 NATO 78:13
25. R.Snaith M55 CLOK 78:24
26. C.Roberts W45 NN 79:22
27. R.Johnson M55 NN 80:15
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28. D.Allison M65 CLOK 86:42
29. A.Ajilogba W21 ind 88:23
30. K.Blackburn W55 BL 88:36
31. C.Benton M21 SO 98:44
32. S.Roworth M45 BAOC 101:10
33. A.Whitworth W60 BL 108:13
34. J.Garrod+1 SOC 118:58
Retired / disqualified
P.Thornton M40 CLOK 39:01 ret f1-4
BROWN - 8.1km, 275m, 25 controls
1. R.Campbell M35 CLOK 63:00
2. P.Smyth M45 NATO 65:46
3. G.Hull M35 CLOK 70:25
4. C.Wright M45 CLOK 71:13
5. G.MacMillan M21 CLOK 72:46
6. A.Mackenzie M45 CLOK 74:02
7. M.Suurenen M21 MS Parma 74:40
8. P.Batts M40 CLOK 74:50
9. J.Collingwood M40 CLOK 75:49
10. A.Berne M35 NATO 78:05
11. K.Heppenstall W21 CLOK 80:48
12. C.Blackburn M40 TVOC 81:33
13. N.Robson M35 NATO 83:37
14. R.Bean M20 UDOC 87:57
15. M.Godfree M50 DVO 89:40
16. S.Gardner M50 NN 91:41
17. R.Gale M20 UDOC 92:22
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18. P.Abbott M20 UDOC 97:55
19. S.Restorick M45 CLOK 98:10
20. J.Dixon M55 KNOBOC 99:56
21. N.McMillan M18 UDOC 106:09
22. M.Adamson M65 CLOK 112:21
23. W.Wright M65 NATO 123:56
Retired / disqualified
E.Graystone M21 UDOC 79:47 disq f1-15
V.Stuart + 1 W20 UDOC 89:00 disq f1-19
KEY - m=missed controls, f=found controls, w=wrong controls
NEOA Colour Award Scheme
Members of NEOA may purchase the relevant colour badge on completion of three events, finishing above the colour line
(one result may be from outside the NEOA area).
For further details, contact :
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Planners comments - Rob McKenna
When the event was first registered, it was hoped to use the whole of the Hamsterley map as used for the October Odyssey last year.
Unfortunately, the Forestry Commission had started to clear fell much of Potato Hill (the area which connects the west of Windy Bank
to the west of Low Redford). This would have meant a rather long track run for the longer courses, with nothing much in between.
In the end, it was decided to use Windy Bank for both the night and day events - hopefully competitors who ran at both events did not
notice much overlap.
Windy Bank does have some very nice runnable areas, but also has some strength sapping bracken and brambles, which at this time of the
year was still unusually virulent. Some of the original proposed control sites had to be abandoned for this reason and some of the
courses ended up technically a little easier than I would have liked.
Electronic punching was not used at this event as Hamsterley is well used by the general public and the club felt that some of the
control sites may not have been secure enough for this type of equipment (control boxes cost about �60).
Many thanks to Dave Caudwell for the excellent base map and for helping site controls on the Saturday.
I must apologise for control 17 on the brown (162) - I put the control out in haste early on Sunday morning and the site had not been
thoroughly checked. I hope that this oversight did not inconvenience competitors too much.
The numbers of competitors on the day took us very much by surprise. The club does not have a paper copy of the new Hamsterley map
so copies were printed off especially for this event on my colour laser printer. Overprinting maps is always a problem with the
dilemma of gauging the number of maps to print. The quantity of maps overprinted was based on what I thought was one of the clubs more
successful events this year - Black Banks, with a few spare. Email entries seemed to bear this out. Unfortunately there was a
reasonably good turn out on the day and we ran out of maps on the longer courses. For this reason, it was decided to try to re-cycle
competitors maps from the earlier finishers - to avoid disappointing those that turned up late to the event. This was a very
embarrassing situation and we must apologise if you feel put out by this request. If your map was taken from you and you would like a
replacement, then please contact Rob McKenna (details to the left).
Because we had anticipated a low turn out, the organisation was based around this. We were trying out a new system at the start /
registration. The idea was to try and reduce queues at registration, but in the end this made things worse at the start, with long
queues there - I hope the confusion did not spoil you enjoyment on the day. Many thanks for your patience and understanding during
this period.
Results were not posted on the day due to the finish team working flat out recording finish times and not really having the time to
process results.
Many thanks to the small band of helpers for collecting in controls after the event - it allowed me to get home a little bit earlier
to process the results for the web that night.
Its been a long weekend, but I hope that you all enjoyed your runs.
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