Organiser's Comments

Planner's Comments

I hope you enjoyed your runs and the weather.
Rowney is one of the few of our forest areas with topography and dry and sandy soil. It also has an ever expanding path network which makes it hard to plan technically hard courses although the intricate path network can be challenging and akin to a city race. Although some areas of open forest remain, much has significant and just runnable bracken at this time of year but the more open areas are largely impenetrable. We are loosing control sites in the forest although Hallie Hardy pointed out that it should have been my job to dig out the pits and the depressions. I tried to plan the longer courses with a combination of complex path route choice and interesting but not impossible controls. Judging by the splits, searching for controls hidden in bracken wasn't too much of problem. For the shorter courses, I was worried that once they lost the course, competitors would wander forever along the path network. This didn't seem to happen except maybe for a couple of exceptions on the YBT courses. However 10 of the 20 competitors on the white course appeared to have trouble on the 100 m path leg from 10 to 11. It would be interesting to know what went wrong here? What ever my faults, the planning and map preparation were much assisted by the very professional help from the controller (and mapper) Steve Hardy and for map presentation and printing by Neil Humphries. Hazel and Helen helped with putting out controls.
Mike Bickle (WAOC)

Controller's Comments

As controller I was aware of the numbers of maps being printed and they seemed entirely reasonable based on turnout at recent similiar events at Rowney. However, the team coped well with the crisis and everyone, as far as I'm aware, ran the courses they wanted and had a copy of the map to keep if they wanted it. Having an experienced planner like Mike to work with makes a controller's job easy. For the most part it was just a question of checking all the Is were dotted and Ts crosssed. We were both a little concerned about the Yellow course which needed careful planning to take inexperienced competitors through Rowney's labyrinthine, and constantly changing, path network safely; on the day it seemed to do the job.
Steve Hardy (SMOC)

String Course Results

Name                     Age class      Club               Time (mins)

Armen Ricard                M3          WAOC                   14

Quentin Jeffrey             M4                                  8

Lola  Baldrey               W6          Barnardiston            6

Ben Dostick                 M6                                  6

Gemma Dostick               W11                                 4

William Trevor              M6                                  6

Andrew Trevor               M4                                 10

Phylis                      M3                                 10

Lucy Worland                W8            SOC                   5

Ottihe Finch                W2½                                24

Isaac Whewell               M2                                  

Jacob Fisher                M4                                  9

Ayla Fisher                 W3                                 12

Isobel Hill                 W10           DEE                   4

Ben Partridge               M5                                  5

Milly Askham                W6                                  8

Richard Askham              M4                                  8

Peter Errington             M12           HH                    7

Joshua & Kerra                                                  5

Ella Darling                W6                                  6

Chloe Cracknell             W10                                 3

David O'Hara                M8                                  4

Daisy Partridge             W12                                 3

Adam O'Hara                 M13                                 3

Tom O'Hara                  M11                                 3

Joshua Buist                M9                                  3

Ella Darling (2nd run)      W6                                  5

Anna Darling                W10                                 3

Alex Darling                M12                                 3

Edward Low                  M9                                  4

Richard Ashkam (2nd run)    M4                                  8

Milly Askham (2nd run)      W6                                  6

Isobell Hill (2nd run)      W10           DEE                   3

Anthony                     M5                                  5

Catherine Hemmingway        W12           WAOC                  3

Joshua Buist (2nd run)      M9                                  3

Catherine & Isabell                                             9