EEOL EVENT RESULTS - WAKERLEY GREAT WOOD - 8 MAY 02

RAF Brampton/Wyton/Henlow hosted an orienteering event for the EEOL on Wednesday 8 May 02 at Wakerley Great Wood. Technically, under BOF guidelines the A Course is void. However, due to the many issues expressed and involved with the league, we have forwarded the results (disregarding the punching of checkpoints 5 and 16) to the league officials for consideration.Interim results for the event follow the event officials comments.

CONTROLLER'S COMMENTS

Oops, Sorry !

ORGANISER'S COMMENTS

This was the first event that I have organised, and it turned out to be very enjoyable - I recommend it to anyone who wants to get a little bit more involved in their sport!

Wakerley is a good location - apart from being very picturesque just at this time of the year (did you have time to notice the bluebells and primroses), it offers a range of terrain, and even managed to stay quite wet under foot in places, despite the recent dry spell!

Having check run it myself without being involved in the planning, I felt that the A course was an excellent course, with good use of the layout of the woods and a good degree of technicality. Obviously it was a great shame that controls A5 and A16 were misplaced - I ended up doing a lot of apologising on the day, which I'm only too happy to repeat - Sorry! It just goes to show, you can check, check and check again, bit there's always something that can c**k you up!

PLANNER'S COMMENTS

The B course is always challenging to plan as it needs to accommodate both the novice runners (without frightening them away from the sport) and to challenge the more experienced Orienteer who does not want to cover the longer A course distance. The winning time of 47 minutes was about right for the B course and I didn't hear any unhappy campers at the end of it so I'll mark that one down as a success.

The A course, what can I say? I had intended the course to be a challenge, but having the No.5 and 16 flags about 100 metres from their marked locations is a tad on the excessive side, OOPS!! Despite this, I noticed most competitors took it in the right spirit and decided to have a go at the rest of the course instead of kicking it into touch. Wakerley has an extensive path network, the use of a second master map and figure of eight circuit was intended to dissuade everyone from the track running scenario so common in our local forests, and give a more challenging combination of multiple route choice, varying terrain and greater distances from attack points. Judging from the comments at the finish I think the course achieved this, and the winning time would have been nearer 70 minutes if competitors hadn't experienced panic, fustration, confusion, anger, heart palpitations, etc. a third of the way into the course. Sorry.

Could the chap from 3 AAC who had an early shower come forward as we wish to enter you in the East Anglian World Bog Snorkelling Championships ;-)

EEOL - WAKERLEY WOOD - 8 MAY 02 - A COURSE
NAME	RANK	UNIT	AGE GROUP	START TIME	FINISH TIME	TOTAL TIME	POSITION	SCORE
IAN WHITEHEAD	MR	DVO	M45	10:31	11:53:33	82:33:00	1	GUEST
LEE	CPL	MWF	M21	11:20	12:45:50	85:40:00	2	103
MICK LISTON	FLT LT	COLTISHALL	M50	11:15	12:43:55	88:55:00	3	99
WHITE	CPL	3 AAC	M21	11:12	12:42:43	90:43:00	4	97
WILSON	LAC	MARHAM	M21	11:35	13:09:01	94:01:00	5	94
MARV HINE	CPL	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	M21	10:05	11:40:24	95:24:00	6	93
KILNER	FLT LT	COLTISHALL	M45	11:08	12:44:02	96:02:00	7	92
WEED	SGT	7 AAB	M35	11:21	12:58:08	97:08:00	8	90
GHARIB	L/CPL	7 AAB	M21	11:22	13:04:42	102:42:00	9	85
BROWN	CAPT	39 ENG	M40	11:36	13:19:21	103:21:00	10	85
DICKINSON	JT	COLTISHALL	M21	11:00	12:44:03	104:03:00	11	84
BOB HILL	FLT SGT	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	M45	13:02	14:47:12	105:12:00	12	83
DICKS	CPL	3 AAC	M21	11:05	13:03:32	118:32:00	13	69
MOORE	WO	MWF	M35	11:32	13:32:09	120:09:00	14	68
PALMER	SSGT	MWF	M21	11:30	13:32:41	122:41:00	15	65
GRAHAM BARBER	SGT	HONINGTON	M35	10:50	12:57:31	127:31:00	16	60
WELLINGTON	CPL	WITTERING	M35	10:35	13:23:55	168:55:00	17	19
SULLIVAN	CPL	3 AAC	M21	10:51	13:54:56	183:56:00	18	4
SCOTT	CPL	HONINGTON	M35	10:48	14:07:36	199:36:00	19	0
HEDGELEY	LT	39 ENG	M21	12:40	MISS 14	MISS	MISS 14	0
LE SAGE	AIR TRP	3 AAC	M21	10:58	RTD 9	RTD 9	RTD 9	0

EEOL - WAKERLEY WOOD - 8 MAY 02 - B COURSE
NAME	RANK	UNIT	AGE GROUP	START TIME	FINISH TIME	TOTAL TIME	POSITION	SCORE
GUYATT	SSGT	MWF	M35	11:25	12:12:30	47:30:00	1	77
JIM BEIRNE	FG OFF	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	M40	12:34	13:22:32	48:32:00	2	76
ARNOT	SSGT	35 SIG REGT	M50	10:45	11:35:38	50:38:00	3	73
MCDONALD	CAPT	7 AAB	M40	11:14	12:09:25	55:25:00	4	68
MACPHEE	CAPT	39 ENG	W21	12:40	13:39:26	59:26:00	5	64
WOODALL	COL	MWF	M60	11:05	12:04:47	59:47:00	6	64
BULL	AIR TRP	3 AAC	M21	11:20	12:21:34	61:34:00	7	62
EVANS	JT	COLTISHALL	M21	11:00	12:04:48	64:48:00	8	59
MCDONNELL	L CPL	3 AAC	M21	11:15	12:21:31	66:31:00	9	57
JOHN GALLAGHER	CHF TECH	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	M35	12:15	13:24:26	69:26:00	10	54
LYALL	L CPL	3 AAC	M21	11:06	12:15:39	69:39:00	11	54
BAINES	WO1	MWF	M35	11:16	12:26:56	70:56:00	12	52
PARKER	CPL	3 AAC	M21	10:56	12:08:31	72:31:00	13	51
COOPER	L CPL	3 AAC	M21	11:02	12:20:45	78:45:00	14	45
RICHARDS	SGT	WITTERING	M40	10:39	12:01:52	82:52:00	15	41
VIRGO	LAC	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	M21	10:31	11:48:54	101:54:00	16	21
HANSON	CPL	WITTERING	W35	10:35	12:34:22	119:22:00	17	4
POULSON	SAC	BRAM/WYT/HENLOW	W21	10:05	12:13:50	128:50:00	18	0
PIPER	AIR TRP	3 AAC	W21	10:51	13:33:22	162:22:00	19	0
PROSSER	AIR TRP	3 AAC	M19	11:11	RTD 9	RTD 9	RTD 9	0
DOYLE	CPL	MARHAM	M21	11:10	RTD 3	RTD 3	RTD 3	0

EEOL - WAKERLEY WOOD - 8 MAY 02 - TEAM RESULTS
UNIT	POSITION	SCORE
BRAMPTON	HOST	400
COLTISHALL	1	334
MWF	2	313
3 AAC	3	285
7 AAB	4	243
39 ENG	5	149
MARHAM	6	94
35 SIG REGT	7	73
WITTERING	8	64
HONINGTON	9	60

The event officials are listed below, along with the claimed points for hosting the event.

a. Controller: Sqn Ldr Paul Nicholls (95371) 5422 100 points

b. Organiser: Flt Lt Rich Roberts (95371) 4522 100 points

c. Planner: Sgt Marc Roberts (95371) 6108 100 points

Any queries on these results should be directed to the league Results Secretary, Sgt Jayne Congreve by telephone on 95751-7159, or by e-mail: jaynecongreve@hotmail.com