Thanks to The Bull for hosting our race on Streatham Common and Norwood Grove. And thanks to Gordon Parker for planning and organizing it all, and to the several other members of SLOW who helped it go smoothly.
Thanks to The Spencer for hosting our race on Barnes Common today. And thanks to Nikolay Kolev and Vesela Chokoeva for planning and organizing it all, and to the several members of SLOW who helped it happen.
This was the second of a five race series called GLOSS, in which most runners all take on the same 4km course.
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Results after handicap on the London OK site (SLOW won.)
Last night saw the final street orienteering race of the 2018-19, on a wonderful sunny evening in Wimbledon. Thank you to Bob and Bex for (once again) organising a great event and to around 100 of you for taking part! You can now find the Day Results with Simon Wright and Ed Catmur on an exactly equal 674 points to take the win, and Vinh Hoang once again taking the women’s crown.
You can also find the Final Series Results for the 2018-19 season, with street-o stalwart Ed Catmur taking his 7th series win, followed by James Fraser and Steve Clelland. In the women’s category, Vinh Hoang was the runaway winner (taking 12th place in the overall rankings) followed by Camilla Brueton and Elaine Battson. A special call-out also goes to Ed Forman and Roderick Hoffman who attended all 9 races of the season.
Thank you to all the organisers who made the series possible, and I look forward to seeing you all again in September for the next season.
Matthias Mahr, street-o coordinator
The Sprint Relays took place on Saturday May 4th at Bradford University. SLOW had teams in the Open (4 runners), Veteran (3 runners), Super Veteran (3 runners) and Hyper Veteran (3 runners) races.
Edinburgh University won the Open Class.
The Individual Long Champs took place at Arncliffe & Kilnsey North on Sunday 5th May.
The new British Champions are Megan Carter-Davies of Mid-Wales Orienteering Club, and Alasdair McLeod of Airienteers.
SLOW Results
The Relays took place on Monday May 6th in Middleton Park Leeds with the arena in the John Charles Stadium.
The women’s premier relay was won by South Yorkshire and the men’s by home team Airienteers – their most recent previous win was 1978.
**Revised Sunday 14/04 with minor changes to Day Results and addition of Series Results. Sorry about the delay, Matthias (series coordinator).**
Many thanks to Bob for organising and everyone for coming. Don’t forget the final race in the series on Tuesday 14th of May in Wandsworth (details to come.)
Many thanks to all the competitors who ran in the 2019 Kingston Urban Race today, and to the Hawker Centre for hosting us.
We have an official “after-movie” of the race.
Thanks to organiser Vinh Phuong Hoang and planner Dave Wright for providing such a great day, our controllers Helen and Ian Marsden of Happy Herts, and to Kingston Council and private landowners for permission to run in Kingston.
Thank you for attending the Kingston Urban Race. I thoroughly enjoy urban races and so I was glad to see a good number coming along. I wanted it to be a relaxed and informal event, I hope that was the vibe that came across. It was my first time organising a race and so I was rather worried leading up to it. The day ran smoothly and there were no complaints, which was a massive relief. The only thing that could have been improved was the weather – it was rather overcast and I was hoping blue skies and sunshine! The competitors enjoyed the courses, for which the credit goes to Dave, Helen and Ian. It was great seeing the competitors arriving back at the Hawker Centre with smiles on their faces and hearing the positive comments.
I was also impressed with the number of newcomers and children who came along to try orienteering. I hope you caught the bug and will come along to some more events in the future.
Thank you to the Hawker Centre for hosting us. The space and facilities worked well. Thanks also to Kingston Council for agreeing to the event, and the various private areas for permission. Finally a massive thank you to all the volunteers who made my job extremely easy on the day: Alan, Barbara, Don, Dorte, Ed, Fiona, Gordon, Heather, Heikki, Marc, Matteo, Michael, Natalia, Neil, Nikolay, Ollie, Paul C, Paul S, Raffaella, Rebecca, Rich, Sarah, Steve, Sue, Tim, Vicky, Yordan. Many thanks also to Duncan, who was not there on the day, but was the key contact with the council and getting permission for the event.
Lost Property : A watch (Geonaute) – please contact the organiser.
Vinh
My overriding strategy for my only attempt at planning a level C event was to keep it simple, hence the single start and finish. My only departure from this was the use of a smaller scale map for the real oldies (Course 5) which inevitably caused various printing problems, so I hope it was appreciated!
As regards planning legs with good route choice, I quickly realised that Steve had used the best ones in the 2016 event but believe I offered a few new ones.
At this point I know it’s customary for the Planner to offer profuse thanks to the Controller, in an attempt to encourage them to offer their services to the club in the future. Now I appreciate the actual reason. Thank you, Helen.
Thanks to Alan for implementing my requested changes to the map and to Gordon (SI) Parker for everything else.
(And congratulations to Vinh and Steve for coolly coping with my “toys-out-of-pram” temporary resignation)
Dave Wright
Here are the final tables for the 2018/19 night series. Many thanks to Don McKerrow for co-ordinating, and the organisers/planners: Steve Clelland, Duncan Grassie, Peter Huzan, Sue Carter and Di & Alan Leakey.
Congratulations to the series winners.
A lovely dry, still and quite warm evening for the last race of this night terrain series. Thanks to Steve Clelland for organising and planning, the Albert for hosting us, and Richmond Park for permission. Welcome to several newcomers, we hope you enjoyed the evening.
Thanks also to series co-ordinator Don McKerrow.
Organiser/Planner Steve Clelland:
The night series season finale is one of my favourite races of the year. I hope you enjoyed competing as much as I did planning.
In case it wasn’t obvious on the night, there were 4 variations of the Long course, with all of them having the same legs, albeit in different orders.
The Short course didn’t have any variations as I didn’t feel it was practical without making it excessively long. I hope you enjoyed the excitement of the pure head to head racing!
Huge thanks for helping on the night to Gordon, Don, Sarah, Paul, Vinh, Abi & Pete.
Do please add your route on routegadget, and enjoy replaying the races.
