Esher Common – Micr-O

Tuesday 14 August 2007

Results: (see organiser’s comments below)

SI card no	Name	Time	Missing controls	Dummies punched	Penalty
501088	Graham Gristwood	14.25	8	8a	1
37200	Ed Catmur	15.55	9	9a	1
680505	Darrell High	24.10	9	9a	1
217785	Craig Purchase	27.49	6	6a	1
300304	Mike Elliot	39.14	10-13 16	16a	1
32545	Charles Bromley-G	28.50	7 9	7a 9a	2
37350	Philip Gristwood	45.58	6 17	6a 17a	2
503495	Richard Barrett	24.18	6 9 14	6a 9a 14a	3
890212	Audrius Janulynas	25.22	6 9	6a 9a 14a	3
300294	Ausra	25.26	6 9 16	6a 9a 16a	3
221448	Sarah-Jane Gaffney	45.02	6 8	6a 8a 17a	3
220645	Anita Ray	49.48	16 17 18	5a 17a	4
261326	Don McKerrow	28.55	1 6 8 14	6a 8a 14a	5
770620	Ali High	30.02	5 6 8 9 14	5a 6a 8a 9a 14a	5
203150	Nigel Saker	43.36	14 16 18	14a	5
966699	Steve Allen	35.57	1 6 8 9 16 17	1a 6a 8a 9a 5 17a	6
300292	Chrissie Glew	61.43	1 9 14 16 17 18	16 16a 16b 9a 7a 5 16b	14
33297	Chris Robinson	bad light	6 11-18	6a	17

What an evening!! Thank you for coming. The rain and bad light pretty much ruined it – so I hope you gained something from the exercise. We can’t use this map from April to July due to nesting birds and evenings get shorter in August. The previous Tuesday was lovely, but too many of you were away at the Scottish.

The results above have been sorted firstly according to penalties, and secondly according to time. Penalties are for punching a dummy close to the right control – one penalty for not punching near the right control – two penalties.

Note that:
6a is the dummy near 6
5 is near enough 16 to counts as dummy and a single penalty
7a is far enough away from 14 to count as a double penalty

I was expecting most penalties to arise in the detail around 4, 5 and 16 as I had 5 dummies in there. All the other dummies were paired with a real control and the majority of the night’s penalties were achieved by those of you punching the dummy control that you reached first without ever seeing the real one – or not until it was too late.

I was surprised and disappointed that no-one managed a clean run. Five people with just one error should feel pretty pleased with themselves. Note that Mike didn’t find 10-13 because they had been taken in and so I have not given him a penalty. There is a good argument for saying that Mike and Anita had the best runs as they were clean for the first 15, and then, as the last starters, it was too late to see anything around 16.

Fastest on the night was of course Graham. We hope he found this useful in preparation for his World Champs Sprint qualifier 4 days later and wish him all the best.

Thanks to Chris and Don for help in setting up and all those who helped clear up. It meant Chris started late and had to retire due to bad light.

The course was originally planned by Chris Fry for the Southern Express last March, when nearly all who competed ran the other longer course. So this was really a way of using up maps rather than a purpose-designed exercise. I wouldn’t have had the start so far from the car park otherwise.

So next August we will have an originally designed race starting near the eastern car park, probably in the week of the Welsh 5 day and with hopefully better weather.

Andy Robinson

Posted 16 August 2007