Ely Urban Saturday, 8 Oct 2016
Results
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MO MV WO MSV WV MUV WSV WUV MJ WJ MYJ WYJ

Organiser's Comments

We hope you enjoyed your runs at Ely.
There are two Routegadgets - #65 for courses 1-4 and #66 for courses 5, 6 and 7.

Urban events are generally organised so that an individual enters an age class and not a course. This is important for urban league events, but not strictly necessary for an event like this one - for example someone recovering from an injury might prefer to run a shorter course (of the same technical difficulty) than implied by their age or gender. Similarly a novice should be able to run a shorter course rather than a longer one without being stigmatised as a geriatric. And gender reassignment should not need to be the consequence of picking up the wrong map.
We will bear this in mind in future events and perhaps organise entries by course, with recommended courses for each age class.

Our next event is at Mildenhall North on 6th November. Online entries for this are open: click here.

Planner's Comments

Thanks to all who turned up and ran on Saturday and the feedback received and to those who have already drawn (or downloaded) their route into routegadget.
Planning in a city as opposed to a forest I though would be immune to having vast areas suddenly become unavailable due to (e.g.) tree felling, but having identified a start location and a good area for the U12 course and planned it this was thrown into disarray by new sewer construction and the need to fence off nearly all the area for a haul road. This meant a new start and new location for the Junior courses needed to be found in mid August. The new location did give more of an 'urban feel' to the Young Junior course and provided interesting starting legs for the other courses, but the small area meant it was difficult to get the U12 course to be a reasonable length.
Hope those on Courses 1, 2 and 3 weren't too hampered by the Potato festival which was happening in the centre of Ely, I had known the centre would be busy, as there was also a farmers' market, but not that the High Street would be affected by the sack races.
Many things need to come to together for an event like this to happen and I thank Peter Allen for doing a great job in organising (finding venue, marshals, sorting out permissions, attending Ely safety advisory group and so on), Caroline Louth for making updates the the map (adding trees, removing trees, adding fences and so on), also to Sarah Mansel for controlling the event (for providing good feedback on the courses, good communication, helpful suggestions, and for suggesting useful tweaks to some of the courses).
Iain Stemp (WAOC)

Controller's Comments

Iain and Peter were a pleasure to work with. Iain’s meticulous approach to planning with photographs of each control site made the job of checking urban controls really easy. Peter’s organisational skills meant the event ran very smoothly. The only hiccup on the day was the road closure for the potato festival, but hopefully no competitors were disadvantaged. The other unknown was the water works to the park land on the NW of the area, so it had to be marked OOB and Iain had to re-plan the junior courses in particular. However, on the day itself the area was accessible, which meant that there was more route choice for some legs.
Ely is not a particularly technical urban area, but Iain’s courses did give some route choice and seemed to be well received. There were some pretty fast times. I received a couple of comments about the accuracy of the map, but they were unfounded. The event was a success, so thanks are due to all the WAOC and CUOC helpers.
Sarah Mansel (SUFFOC)

MO

Splits

7.6km 20 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Ben Windsor DRONGO M21 41:26
2nd Mike Chapman LOG M35 47:05
3rd Gjermund Vingerhagen WAOC M35 50:17
4th John Marshall WAOC M45 57:24
Par Time 62:09 - winner's time + 50%
5th Edward Stott SLOW M21 65:13
6th David Garbett IND M21 66:54
7th Scott Stannett RAFO M21 71:20
8th James Clements IND M21 111:24

MV

Splits

6.5km 20 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Kevin Fielding HH M45 34:45
2nd Chris McCartney OD M45 35:26
3rd Robert Campbell WAOC M50 35:53
4th David Frampton HH M45 37:58
5th Ian Renfrew NOR M45 39:10
6th Andrew Ridgway NOC M50 40:47
7th Wayne Byrne RAFO M35 41:33
8th Mark Adams HH M50 42:11
9th Michael Muggeridge HAVOC M55 42:22
10th Jonathan Gilbert NOR M55 42:47
11th Peter Warland SOS M50 43:42
12th Stephen Borrill WAOC M45 44:01
13th Duncan Harrison SOS M45 44:05
14th Robin Bourne WAOC M50 44:29
15th David Hodson HH M50 45:47
16th Philip Hague WAOC M45 46:26
17th Stu Levene HH M45 46:55
18th Clive Wilkinson SUFFOC M50 49:49
19th Matthew Harden HH M16 51:09
20th Alan Brett CHIG M40 51:10
Par Time 52:08 - winner's time + 50%
21st Rakesh Chandraker WAOC M50 52:52
22nd Jakob Petersen CHIG M45 53:06
23rd Andy Barker-Pilsworth RAFO M45 54:32
24th Andrew Vanbeck SMOC M50 55:46
25th Tony Harden HH M50 57:32
26th Dean Blackburn NOR M45 68:16

WO

Splits

6.5km 20 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Ruth Vingerhagen WAOC W21 43:48
2nd Katerina Skarkova SKPRAGA W18 45:32
3rd Sue Carter SLOW W45 45:54
4th Helen Lloyd NOR W55 49:54
5th Andrea Page LOG W40 51:41
6th Julie Laverock MDOC W45 54:09
7th Helen Bickle WAOC W21 60:52
8th Emma Crickmore CUOC W21 64:38
9th Bronwen Mansel SUFFOC W18 64:52
Par Time 65:42 - winner's time + 50%

MSV

Splits

5km 15 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Martin Wilson BKO M65 30:30
2nd Alan Rosen HH M60 30:51
3rd Peter Haynes WAOC M55 32:50
4th Peter Woods WAOC M55 34:20
5th Richard Bonnett BAOC M60 34:57
6th Mark Webster NOC M50 35:08
7th Peter Duthie WAOC M55 35:26
8th Rod Mansel SUFFOC M55 35:28
9th Paul Langston HH M60 37:32
10th John Duffield HH M65 38:35
11th Simon Hooton SUFFOC M60 42:10
12th Bob Hill RAFO M60 43:16
13th Nick Dowdy IND M55 44:12
14th John Middler OD M60 44:56
Par Time 45:45 - winner's time + 50%
15th Paul Lowe SUFFOC M55 58:27

WV

Splits

5km 15 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Tanya Taylor LOG W45 31:02
2nd Rachel Edwards SMOC W50 35:04
3rd Elizabeth Hamer-Davies MDOC W50 38:36
4th Rachel Pocock WAOC W45 39:52
5th Sally Wilkinson SUFFOC W50 40:10
6th Catherine Slade SAX W40 42:48
7th Viv Hodson HH W50 44:35
8th Gillian Hanson HH W45 44:47
9th Sharon Warland SOS W50 44:49
10th Irene Petersen CHIG W50 45:25
Par Time 46:33 - winner's time + 50%
11th Ceri Renouf IND W45 48:57
mp Sue Wilkinson IND W50 90:26

MUV

Splits

3.9km 15 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Doug Dickinson DVO M70 24:43
2nd Mick Liston NOR M65 25:12
3rd Steve Brockbank DFOK M65 27:15
4th Mike Hampton OD M70 27:42
5th Roman Kotecky OD M65 28:37
6th Tom Edelsten CHIG M70 29:44
7th Chris Shaw HAVOC M65 30:10
8th Hedley Calderbank HH M65 30:45
9th Michael Bickle WAOC M65 30:53
10th John Russell SOS M75 32:33
11th Peter Carey OD M70 32:36
12th Peter Gay SUFFOC M70 34:11
Par Time 37:05 - winner's time + 50%
13th Robin Campbell CHIG M75 38:30
14th Mike Elliot MV M65 38:45
15th Chris Morley WAOC M75 41:13
16th Rodney Freeburn NOR M75 46:08
mp Colin Curtis 79:40

WSV

Splits

3.9km 15 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Janet Rosen HH W60 27:40
2nd Sue Woods WAOC W55 28:20
3rd Janet Cronk WAOC W55 28:40
4th Sheila Carey OD W70 31:45
5th Kathy Haynes SLOW W55 32:17
6th Eliza Hermann HH W55 33:46
7th Julie Webster NOC W50 34:49
8th Sue Hartley WAOC W60 35:30
9th Rachel Thomas SMOC W60 38:06
Par Time 41:30 - winner's time + 50%
10th Chris Gay SUFFOC W65 49:43
11th Julia Paul NOR W60 53:54
12th Leanne Bailey NOR W35 63:33

WUV

Splits

2.9km 10 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Yvonne Hodson TVOC W65 30:05
2nd Hazel Bickle WAOC W65 34:01
3rd Barbara George NOR W80 36:25
nc Patrick Thouroude WAOC M50 36:48
4th Fegarty Family IND 45:13
Par Time 45:13 - 50% of starters
5th Ursula Oxburgh WAOC W80 51:30
6th Geraldine Russell SOS W70 54:47
7th Ruby Campbell CHIG W75 60:09

MJ

Splits

2.7km 5 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Alex Fielding HH M14 20:08
Par Time 30:12 - winner's time + 50%

WJ

Splits

2.7km 5 m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Lucy Warland SOS W14 24:58
2nd Caitlin Dunning WAOC W14 28:38
Par Time 37:27 - winner's time + 50%

MYJ

Splits

1.5km m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Noah Woods IND M10 12:18
2nd Jack Dunning WAOC M12 17:43
Par Time 18:27 - winner's time + 50%
mp Simon Vingerhagen WAOC M4 35:16

WYJ

Splits

1.5km m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time
1st Jemima Borrill WAOC W12 12:55
2nd Alesha Lowe SUFFOC W12 13:35
Par Time 19:23 - winner's time + 50%