Thanks to everyone who came to the final park race of the series.
The two areas used are maybe not the most challenging technically but with the bends of the river, and the depth after a bit of rain, the skill level required increases. Also a unique feature of both parks is how close you are to major transportation (M4 and Piccadilly Line) and yet in a navigational world of your own!
Boston Manor House is well worth a visit once renovation work is complete and we have to thank Linda Massey for her support in using the area.
Additional thanks from me go to our helpers on the night: Don McKerrow, Sue Carter, Steven Clelland and Ralph Dadswell, as well as Vicky Whaley, my neighbour Chris, Gordon Parker and John Owens for ensuring I was able to get the equipment to the right places at the rights times without a car. Of course Fiona Tam also put in a power of effort on the night making sure that the series results were correct and updated and of course managing to coordinate another successful park race series.
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.
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.
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.
Start of the Open Class relay with Fiona leading off the SLOW team (credit: Wendy Carlyle)Olin hands over to Dorte for the final leg of the open (credit: Steve Rush)Matthias heads out of the spectator control on leg 1 of the Vet Relay – the race with the most teams (credit: Wendy Carlyle)Matthias hands over to Abi (credit: Wendy Carlyle)Abi finishing with fastest time for the middle leg of the Vet relay (credit: Wendy Carlyle)Vet Relay Podium with Matthias, Abi and Paul taking silver behind South Yorkshire and ahead of Forth Valley (credit: Wendy Carlyle)
Pete, running in the SuperVet Relay, passes through the spectator control (credit: Wendy Carlyle) SLOW won the HyperVet relay – Paul, Sarah and Alan on the podium (credit: Wendy Carlyle)
Individual
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.
David Roach, wearing the Luxembourg colours, finishes (credit; Wendy Carlyle).Paul Street (credit: Wendy Carlyle)British Championships – the 65s podium (credit: Rob LInes)
SLOW Results
W21E – Abi Weeds 11th
M21E – Yordan Kolev 38th
M16A – Olin Davies 12th
W21L – Fiona Tam 8th
M35L – Duncan Grassie 6th
M40L – Matthias Mahr 6th
M45L – Paul Couldridge 6th
M45L – Ross Arnold 29th
W50L – Dorte Torpe Hansen 13th
M50L – Peter Huzan 49th
M50S – Keith Davies 7th
W55S – Heather Walton 8th
W60L – Diane Leakey 16th
W60L – Maggie Roach 19th
W60L – Kathy Haynes 26th
M60L – Andy Jones 34th
M60L – Mal Lyon 40th
M60L – David Roach 55th
W65L – Sarah Brown – 3rd (Bronze Medal)
M65L – Alan Leakey 8th
M65L – Paul Street 15th
M70L – David May 7th
White – Claudia Mahr 6th
Forest Relays
The Relays took place on Monday May 6th in Middleton Park Leeds with the arena in the John Charles Stadium.
The start of the Women’s Premier Relay (credit: Crawford LIndsay)
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.
Yordan, Ian, Paul were 13th in the men’s premier.
Fiona, Dorte, Heather were 12th in the women’s short.
Abi, Matthias, Paul were 3rd in M40 (Bronze medals).
Alan, David, Andy were 7th in M60.
Sarah, Kathy, Diane were 2nd in W60 (Silver medals).
1. BorderLiners, 2. South London Orienteers, 3. Bristol.
**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.)
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.
The Women’s Open Course WInner (@sloweb)The Men’s Open Course Winner (Steve Rush)
Organiser’s Comments
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
Planner’s Comments
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)
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.
