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