Firestone Copse

BLUE

1 Glyn Williams M45 84:00
2 Pete Bartlett M45 90:58
3 Sue Williams W50 93:20
4 T. Smith M40 97:32
Keith Wolton M45 Retired

LIGHT GREEN

1 C. Vann / P. Billington M45 85:38
2 Vann / Ody W40/45 90:30
3 V. Leary W35 97:00
4 Chris Ody M45 120:55
5 C. Eggleton M40 133:30
6 “Corkeheads” W55 134:10
Pat Hart Missed 11 and 12

ORANGE

1 M. Vaughan/K and J King M45/W21/M5 73:55
2 Frank Winter M65 74:34
3 Chris Stokes W50 84:40
4 Anne Ralph W35 98:20
5 Geoff Stokes M55 100:00
6 Ben Hammond M16 104:40
7 James and George Wallace M10/M40 115:00
Nicci Billington W40 Missed 1 and 5
Ben Ralph M11 Retired
Stephen Perfect M11 Retired

YELLOW

1 Matthew Pakes M13 23:45
2 M. Vann / D. Ody M12 24:15
3 Laura Pakes W15 34:45
4 Simon Walton M11 38:30
5 G. Pickard / K. Eggleton M12 39:10
6 B. Vann / K. Billington W10/12 44:35
7 Richard Dougins M15 45:55
8 Ashley Bravery M16 46:40
9 Dave Parker M14 47:40

WHITE

1 Sam Billington M157:10
2 Jack Billington M1310:05
3 Ella Symons W6 18:25
3= Ben Symons M4 18:25
5 Abigail Mackett W5 18:44

STRING

1 W10 Kate Billington W109:50
2 W7 Rose Billington W711:15
3 M6 Alex Ralph M6 14:16
4 W5 Abigail Mackett W5 18:10
5 W4 Sophie Allen W4 22:30

PLANNERS REPORT
D. Mackett

My main difficulty with planning this event was to make it different from the event I planned in Firestone not very long ago. In particular I didn’t want to send the yellows round the same old paths. After several walks round the copse, I decided to move the start a short distance away from the usual location near the car park and open up some new areas. This was a bit of a risk as several years ago I had come in for a lot of criticism for having a 1Km walk to the start in Parkhurst. On the mainland 2 to 3 Km walks and even bus journeys are not uncommon.

After planning courses on paper and then more walks in the copse an event began to emerge using very few of my previous control features and making the yellow and orange a bit more challenging. I also wanted to make full use of the areas east of the road for the light green and blue courses.

Heavy rain in the days leading up to the event made all areas very muddy with the yellow course particularly muddy. On the day it started dull and drizzly but gradually improved and a good number of competitors braved the mud.

Everybody seemed to enjoy themselves and there were very few problems. The orange course turned out to be too difficult, more of a very light green, and I will bear this in mind next time. I apologise to competitors on the light green and blue courses for mixing up two of the controls.

Many thanks to Sarah Fish and Dominic for helping to put out controls, to Ian Ralph for manning the finish and collecting in the controls, to Chris Lipscome and her map sales and string teams and to all those who helped to run this event.