Southwark Park – Results
Planner’s Comments
I hope you all enjoyed the final park race of the season. It was great to see a big group of orienteers having a drink and a chat on the benches outside and the pub if slightly overwhelmed was a great base with our own private room. In the end we had over 100 competitors including a recent WOC (World Orienteering Champs) competitor from Paraguay and also a member of the Spanish Orienteering Federation, as well as a number of other nationalities.
Southwark really is the perfect venue for a summer park race what with the “interesting enough” park itself combined with the surrounding housing, making for a fun and varied environment. On the Long Course I tried to give you a good number of route choices (1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 6-7, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15 and 19-20 all had at least 2 quite different options); I don’t actually know which route was quicker in each case but hopefully it kept you thinking most of the way around.
The Long course was maybe a little longer than I had intended (I was shooting for a 24-25 minute winning time) but as it’s the final race I hope you enjoyed getting your money’s worth.
If you liked the Park Races tell your friends! We’ll be back next summer. In the meantime of course SLOW’s next big event is the mighty London City Race in September – not to be missed – and then no doubt we’ll be back with winter night, street, forest and some MTBO races, details for all of which you’ll find on the site in due course. Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Matthias (planner).
Routegadget – draw your route!
Park Race Series
Thankyou to all the organisers, planners (for many races this was the same person) and volunteer helpers who helped make the 2024 series so much fun.
From SLOW thanks to Chris Waite (assisted by Steve Clelland) for Battersea Park, Nathan Havel (assisted by Vinh) for Tooting Commons, Don McKerrow for Walpole and Lammas Parks and Matthias Mahr & Abi Weeds for Southwark Park.
For the other races thanks to people from partner clubs: Richard Lloyd of London OK for Finsbury Park, David Lobley of Dartford OK for Greenwich Park, Tony Burton of Mole Valley for Beddington Park, Keith Bennett of Dartford OK for Lesnes Abbey, Neil Brooks of London OK for Fryent Country Park, and Harold Wyber of Chigwell Orienteers for Fairlop Waters.
What a great gathering and setting for the series prizegiving!
Sarah Brown, Park Race Series Coordinator 2024