Results for the Hackney Wick Park Race MOBO

Results for the Hackney Wick Park Race MOBO have now been published, below, along with series rankings (this event is not included) at the bottom.

Organiser’s Comments

Thank you to everyone who came along and tried out “MOBO” orienteering with smartphones and QR codes. Following the cancellation of the original park race event that was planned to be in east London this week, there was an opportunity to stage one of SLOW’s occasional free test format events, following in the footsteps of the Wimbledon Common Mobile-O and the Esher Commons MicrO, taking advantage of the new Permanent Orienteering Course which had been installed in the adjacent park, only a few weeks ago, with QR codes allowing for smartphone orienteering.

As we discovered on the night, the success of the format is very much down to people’s individual phones. Some people’s app crashed a few times, others struggled to load in the initial map, and some couldn’t access the options needed to get the map in the first place, due to UI quirks. Short battery lives, old cameras struggling to focus in the gloomy conditions, and screens being difficult to operate in rain also proved to be challenges. But most did get set up, around the courses, and enjoyed the terrain of the new park adjoining Hackney Wick. Out on the course, a gate that was closed late in the race blocked one route to/from a control. Temporary barriers (which have been moving every day) also meant some route choices were less optimum than the map suggested.

Thanks to Tarmo Klaar (creator of MOBO) for setting up a custom event page, Andy and Suki for co-planning and Number 90 Bar for hosting us. The next Park Race is in Beckenham Place Park in south London and is organised by DFOK – details here and Facebook event here.

One item of lost property: Black/turqouise Talon running shoes – they are behind the bar at Number 90. Ollie O’Brien.

Results

MOBO Courses (Long 4.0km, Short 2.5k)
See splits here

Position Name Course Time Remarks
1 danlewington  Long 00:27:45
2 FRBlackSheep  Long 00:29:32 1 control missing – results allowed to stand.
3 Angus  Long 00:29:37
4 remox  Long 00:29:54
5 Miro Torma  Long 00:30:07 2 controls missing – results allowed to stand.
6   Long 00:31:01
7 Hugh hurley  Long 00:31:19 1 control missing – results allowed to stand.
8 Vince Roper  Long 00:32:24
9 JamesRH  Long 00:32:35
10 Gavinhurley  Long 00:32:39
11 Don McKerrow  Long 00:32:47
12 CliffMat  Long 00:33:10 3 controls missing – results allowed to stand.
13 Long 00:33:17
14 rattyrunner  Long 00:33:18
15 vasil peykov  Long 00:33:37
16 Tim Gage  Long 00:33:53 3 controls missing – results allowed to stand.
17 Carys  Long 00:34:12
18 Maprunner  Long 00:35:07
19 Neil Speers DFOK  Long 00:35:43
20 Heather Findlay  Long 00:35:44
21 Christophe Borysiewicz  Long 00:35:58
22 Ian Croft  Long 00:36:45
23 Ed Stott  Long 00:37:04
24 Buiscits  Long 00:37:27
25 tigger42  Long 00:37:51
26 richardwkirk  Long 00:38:03
27 Risto1980  Long 00:38:12
28 parkrace29  Long 00:38:23
29 NeilRickards  Long 00:39:15
30 Iris Lüke  Long 00:40:38
31 Lukas Tretera  Long 00:40:48
32 Jo  Long 00:40:55
33 alexwheeller  Long 00:41:11
34 Ester Bonmati  Long 00:41:12
35 Maria Carmen Jimenez Camp  Long 00:41:21
36 sivals  Long 00:41:41
37 Marcus Bateman  Long 00:43:59 1 control missing – results allowed to stand.
38 Catherine Galvin (LOK)  Long 00:44:13
39 fiona  Long 00:44:29
40 Geoff Goodwin  Long 00:44:47
41 toddf  Long 00:45:20
42 ChrisM  Long 00:47:58
43 Slowson  Long 00:48:04
44 Matthewpritchard  Long 00:48:44
45 Chris Robinson  Long 00:51:23 Manual result time applied.
46 Fionasibley  Long 00:52:19
47 Molecule  Long 00:53:02
48 Greencricketer  Long 00:53:28
49 firhayes  Long 00:55:23
50 Irene Petersen  Long 00:58:46
51 Robrunbikeman  Long 01:06:02 Missed start control – 3 minute penalty applied.
bazgooner  Long DSQ
1 Dianeuk 2000  Short 00:35:50 Missed finish control – 1 minute penalty applied.
2 tke  Short 00:42:28 4 controls missing – results allowe to stand.
3 Eoin O’Callaghan  Short 00:48:40
4 Jennifer Sibleyy  Short 00:49:44 1 control missing – results allowed to stand.
5 Judith Armitt  Short 00:50:50 Missed finish control – 1 minute penalty applied.

Paper Course (2.6km)
Jevgenijs Petrovs – 18:27
Guna Dubrovska – DNF
Scott Collier – 20:12

Protests to

Series rankings here.