SLOW - Richmond Park - 03 Aug 04

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NOTE: The Light Green and Orange were also run as part of last years Yvette Baker Trophy... to compare times go to... YBT Results; the weather was rather different that day!


Organisers Comments:

Firstly a big thank you to Gavin for re-constructing the results from the control boxes. I don’t know how he does it, but I suspect it’s due to his compulsive urge to write a computer program for any situation that might arise. Of course it would have been a lot easier if I’d had the foresight to program one of the download units to store the results for later connection to Gavin’s laptop… but that’s enough from nerds’ corner.

Congratulations to Darrell for getting Ed’s scalp and to Owen (on his final “final” appearance for SLOW) on beating (by one second) 13 year-old Ralph Street’s time from last October. The rest of you will have to blame it on the weather and the bracken.

Speaking of the weather, I had 25 Light Green maps and if it had been dry and sunny a lot more would have come and we would have had a different problem. Now I’ve got 44 Green maps at home from last October’s race….. but that will need an evening much nearer the solstice.

Thanks to Don for setting out, collecting and having a convenient boot for me to shelter in; also to Chris, Ed and Owen for collecting.

For the rest of the month orienteering is taking a holiday. SLOW’s next promotion is the Trail Challenge half marathon on 3rd October.

Andy Robinson

Results Team Comments

It was intended to be a low maintenance SI event with people simply doing a DIY download in the car park but in the end I am afraid that I was stuck on a train for 2 hours (lightning fusing the signals) so couldn't deliver the computer to the event! Unfortunately we hadn't planned for no computer at all so we didn't have a Master Unit programmed with AutoSend ON into which to download people.

I did manage to make it to the pub to download a few people but for the main results I have read the backup memory of all the controls and reconstructed the results; a process itself delayed since 116 was not collected until the day after the event!

Finally, I apologise that Sarah Nosworthy didn't appear on the initial version of the results (and still doesn't appear in the Splitsbrowser); this is because Sarah used a SI dibber that my computer believes is used by Aislinn Austin (a member of the British Squad.)

Gavin Andrews, SI Wizard, SLOW