Nothern Navigators Carrs Top, 20th July 2003 KEY: m - control missed, f - control found, w - control wrong. Splits page Return to NN home page YELLOW 2.2km / 30m, 8 controls 1 Eleanor Cranke W10 CLOK 18:38 2 Helen Whitwood W12 NATO 20:08 3 Matthew Ratcliffe M10 NATO 22:57 4 Rowan Capper M6 EBOR 24:43 -----------------colour line----------------- 5 Karen Maxwell W10 RR 28:16 ORANGE 2.7km / 35m, 8 controls 1 Kirstin Maxwell W12 RR 35:26 2 Johnathon Malley M12 NATO 36:20 3 Anne Dehany W45 CLOK 38:20 4 John Miller M21 ind 39:31 5 Lucy Taylor W12 CLOK 42:00 6 Robert Johnson M12 NN 43:33 7 Pat Malley W65 NATO 52:15 -----------------colour line----------------- LIGHT GREEN 3.3km / 110m, 9 controls 1 Hilary Ratcliffe W40 NATO 34:33 2 Louise Dunn W40 EBOR 35:04 3 Eileen Maxwell W40 RR 35:38 4 Wendy Taylor W45 CLOK 36:44 5 Matthew Whitwood M14 NATO 38:31 6 John Bouttell M50 SYO 39:01 7 Alan Bentham M50 NATO 41:59 8 Jamie Bentham M14 NATO 44:43 9 Shelley Cresswell W40 CLOK 46:36 10 Rosemary Matheson W45 NATO 49:08 11 Marjorie Conway W65 CLOK 50:08 -----------------colour line----------------- 12 Eileen Bedwell W70 CLOK 53:14 13 Ian Smith M70 NATO 54:59 14 Katie Balam W20 CLOK 62:08 15 Judith Robb W60 CLOK 63:11 16 Shelagh Sims W55 CLOK 69:28 17 Eileen Morgan W65 NN 77:53 disqualified / retired Andy Pearson M45 NATO retired f1 GREEN 4.7km / 185m, 12 controls 1 Stephen Whitwood M45 NATO 46:07 2 Malcolm Conway M65 CLOK 48:18 3 Patricia Davies W45 NATO 49:43 4 Mike Hardy M65 CLOK 53:21 5 Jack Soper M65 AIRE 53:35 6 Ann Cranke W45 CLOK 54:56 7 Sheila Sprot W50 NATO 55:37 8 Jill Smith W45 EBOR 56:52 9 Debby Warren W40 NN 61:25 10 Roy Malley M70 NATO 61:51 11 Norman Harris M60 NN 64:46 12 Robert Ian Robb M60 CLOK 67:16 13 Hilary Cooper W45 NATO 67:44 14 Tim Field M35 LOC 68:24 -----------------colour line----------------- 15 Malcolm Gibson M60 CLOK 73:54 16 Charlotte Roberts W45 ind 75:58 17 John Bedwell M70 CLOK 96:15 disqualified / retired Ken Bibby M60 CLOK 60:55 m6 Howard Forrest M55 ind 76:54 m5 Lee family - NATO retired f1,2,3 BLUE 6.7km / 235m, 13 controls 1 David Sprot M21 NATO 45:08 2 Andrew Monro M21 EBOR 46:16 3 Tom Keenan M21 ind 51:47 4 Boris Spence M45 NN 52:23 5 Ian Maxwell M40 RR 54:22 6 Neil Sprot M50 NATO 54:37 7 Howard Sawyer M45 AIRE 56:50 8 Julian Warren M40 NN 56:57 9 Simon Filmore M45 LOC 57:24 10 Steven Wood M50 EPOC 57:51 11 Colin Matheson M45 NATO 59:12 12 David Riches M40 CLOK 59:50 13 Raymond Snaith M55 CLOK 61:09 14 Jon Williams M55 CLOK 61:18 15 Barry Harrison M60 CLOK 63:38 -----------------colour line----------------- 16 Martin Sims M50 CLOK 67:50 17 William Dehany M50 CLOK 69:14 18 Bob Richardson M50 NATO 72:34 19 Dave Allison M65 CLOK 73:05 20 Angela Whitworth W60 BL 101:54 21 Stewart Gardner M50 ind 109:52 22 Brian Fletcher M35 ind 110:03 disqualified / retired Stephen Restorick M45 CLOK 67:48 w14 Paul Van-Calster M40 MDOC 70:35 no controls recorded BROWN 9.8km / 305m, 15 controls 1 Neil Conway M35 AIRE 60:57 2 Michael Sprot M21 SYO 67:15 3 Duncan Woods M40 CLOK 73:42 4 Paul Taylor M55 CLOK 77:05 5 Colin Blackburn M40 TVOC 81:45 6 Andrew Berne M35 NATO 84:08 7 Wilfred Bell M45 NN 84:11 8 Michael Daehnn M21 UNOC 89:20 -----------------colour line----------------- 9 Bob Cooper M55 NN 107:56 10 John Dixon M55 NATO 125:25 disqualified / retired Patrick Smyth M45 BAOC 82:39 m3 Graham Capper M40 EBOR ret m3, f1-9 Officials Organiser - Boris Spence Planner - Gary Russell Controller - Rob McKenna Computing problems - Rob McKenna This was my first attempt at running the computing for an SI event on my own and it turned out to be a baptism of fire. Things didn't go too well on the day to say the least and I must thank all competitors for their patience and understanding during these problems. Firstly, the system was planned to run on a generator with an invertor as a standby, but when the equipment was attached to the generator, the generator seemed to falter and would not run under any load. It turned out that the AC adaptors of both the system laptop computer and the SI splits printer had been damaged making those items of equipment un-usable by an AC supply. Fortunately, the laptop did have an internal battery, which would normally last about 3 hours. This time restraint was cutting it fine to ensure that all competitors would have their E-cards downloaded on the day (given a possible event duration of about 5 hours). The other drawback was that with no splits printer, no split times could be issued on the day. These ongoing problems and the need to save on laptop battery power meant that competitors were asked to come back and download after they had got changed. Although allowing competitors to start at will, makes the event organisation very flexible from both the clubs and competitors point of view, there is no manual start / finish timing should the system fail and cards have to be downloaded to produce meaningful results. This set up has worked very well in the past and I think that we were just unlucky on the day. Perhaps next time a full test of all the equipment together might highlight any problems before they arise. SportIdent is a superb system offering many advantages over the old pin punch type of event. I hope that our problems did not spoil your enjoyment of the event and the superb orienteering challenge that Carrs Top has to offer, particularly at this time of the year. Controllers comments - Rob McKenna Gary's courses made good use of what is a superb area to run on. The shorter course are always going to be a problem at Carrs Top, with few line features to navigate by. I hope that the bracken down by the Bollihope Burn didn't prove too challenging for the orange course runners. Times are about as expected and in line with BOF guidelines. There were a few problems: Firstly - control number 3 on the brown (130 Narrow marsh / ditch junction). This seemed to cause problems to a few competitors. When checked, the control was found to be in the correct position, but over the years, the reed grass had made map the map slightly inaccurate in that area. I felt that criticism was a bit unjustified as the control was on a line feature and there was a good attack/relocation point some 30m south of the control. It was unfortunate that the kite was hung fairly low in this instance. Secondly - control 138, again on the brown (the SI box had went down) The split times have been re-instated with a null time for that control. Interestingly, there was one competitor who apparently punched the start and finish boxes but no other control in between. His time suggests that he visited all the controls, but what he did when and if he got there only he will know. NEOA Colour Award Scheme Members of NEOA may purchase the relevant colour badge on completion of three events, finishing above the colour line (one may be from outside the NEOA area). For further details, contact : Margaret Crosby, tel: 0191 2685449 Splits page Return to NN home page