Thetford Warren (Thetford Thrash Day 2) 2013 Results

Organiser's Comments

Despite the dire weather warnings on the illuminated road signs on the A11, we were lucky that the rain held off for most of the day. Nevertheless I am extremely grateful in particular to the helpers on the Start, Parking, and on Road Crossing Marshalling duty who had long stints standing in the open.

I'm no less grateful to the CUOC team, who never stood still for a second; Rakesh, who handled pre-entries for both days and who helped throughout today; and the many WAOC members who helped on the day.

I am aware of only one complaint - relating to the time some had to wait for a start slot at the beginning of the day. There were clearly more people hoping for an early start than the start block allocations indicated, so the start officials were under a lot of pressure.

The block allocation system has a lot of advantages compared to a fixed pre-allocated start time - in particular in accommodating requests on the day for changes of course, and in giving flexibility in start times for all competitors.
The reason for alternating starts at this event was to avoid having runners setting off together who had the same first control. In theory the start block allocations allowed for this. However, a small number of you were clearly very unhappy with these arrangements and so we may have to consider in future allocating fixed start times.

In contrast, I was pleased to hear many wholly positive comments from finishers about the courses. This despite Steve having to replan most of the courses at the 11th hour to avoid surprise tree felling activity.

Peter Woods (WAOC)

A note from Ian Shepard:
Could you please pass on my thanks to everybody who helped me when my camper van broke down at Thetford Warren. The clutch has failed so I was really stuck.

Many people were kind and helpful (letting me use their mobiles and pushing the van in particular) and it's much appreciated. Thanks to them I got home to Norwich with the van by about six pm.

STRING COURSE RESULTS for both days of the Thetford Thrash can be viewed
here.

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Controller's Comments

Organising a Level B Event is never easy, even if you decide well in advance then find people willing to help this does not mean the day will go smoothly.

WAOC asked me a couple of days after the JIRC last year if I would control and I, after a successful champs, agreed. The area had changed very little from the compass sport heat last year and the forestry commission had no felling or thinning planned. This looked like a good decision, and although the planning hit a few mountain bike route and fence problems these did not stop the courses coming together. Then the god of fast balls decided just 8 days before the event to throw a real curve ball. The area adjacent to the golf course and monument was to be thinned starting 2 days later 6 days before the event; this was further complicated by not being able to talk to Suffolk County Council who were planning the work until the Monday before the Event.

Steve had planned to use this area to bring all the adult courses (apart from the very shortest ones) back together and turn them for the legs back to the finish. He made really good job of re-planning and producing the master maps to send to the Printers and get then back in time for the event. I hope most of you appreciated the organiser's decision not to hold you to your start block, which was designed to allow as many of you as possible to travel home sooner. The majority of the comments on the day of the event were very positive and the weather was not as bad as was forecast just 2 days before.

The Computer team did a great job in finding a suspected lost runner who had failed to report to download, saving a time consuming search for a lost competitor.

My thanks must go to Pat Martin who helped with waking up the controls. I hope you all enjoyed your course and congratulations to WAOC on winning the Iceni Trophy.

MIchael Chopping (RAFO)

Mapper's Comments

Black

Splits

11.9km 120 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Ben Maliphant	BOK	M20	70:47
2nd	James Hoad	CUOC	M21	72:45
3rd	John Ockenden	CUOC	M20	75:08
4th	Matthew Vokes	CUOC	M21	75:29
5th	Robert Campbell	CUOC	M45	77:50
6th	Tom Dobra	CUOC	M21	84:16
	Par Time 106:11 - winner's time + 50%
7th	Joe Hobbs	CUOC	M21	120:15
8th	Yehuda Alon	SLOW	M55	144:35

Brown

Splits

10.1km 105 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Peter Ward	NGOC	M40	60:42
2nd	Paul Gebbett	BOK	M40	64:29
3rd	Graeme Ambler	INT	M35	78:19
4th	Jacob Sharpe	HH	M35	82:24
5th	Sebastian Pugh	SOS	M21	83:02
6th	Gavin Hurley	SLOW	M35	84:57
7th	David Wilson	RAFO	M35	85:45
8th	Ben Holland	WAOC	M35	91:10
9th	Stephen Borrill	WAOC	M40	91:18
10th	Ric Brackenbury	SMOC	M21	91:26
	Par Time 91:26 - 50% of starters
11th	Jo Reeve	SLOW	W21	91:45
12th	Philip Hague	WAOC	M40	91:46
13th	Neil Carter	SUFFOC	M35	93:25
14th	Ian Wells	RAFO	M60	101:25
15th	John Clarke	SUFFOC	M45	102:48
16th	Tracey Apperley	SOS	W45	104:39
17th	Andy Gibb	WAOC	M40	123:10
18th	Gopal Chand	WAOC	M40	146:57
mp	Hugh Hurley	SLOW	M21	88:52

Short Brown

Splits

7.8km 75 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	John Ward	NOR	M45	52:35
2nd	Jon Coles	MV	M45	56:58
3rd	Alan Hickling	SAX	M45	58:13
4th	David Cronk	WAOC	M50	59:33
5th	Peter Warland	SOS	M45	61:06
6th	Paul Beckett	HAVOC	M50	62:10
7th	Paul Fox	SN	M50	65:46
8th	Clive Wilkinson	SUFFOC	M50	66:47
9th	Alan Spidy	NOR	M45	66:57
10th	Colin Swallow	SN	M55	71:13
11th	Helen Lloyd	NOR	W50	74:09
12th	Christopher Bailey	NOR	M18	76:43
	Par Time 78:53 - winner's time + 50%
13th	Rakesh Chandraker	WAOC	M50	79:07
14th	Ashley May	IND	M45	79:33
15th	David Vinsen	NOR	M50	82:59
16th	Caroline Gay	BOK	W21	87:50
17th	Rod Mansel	SUFFOC	M50	93:01
mp	Tom Hemingway	WAOC	M18	37:26

Blue

Splits

5.9km 50 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Peter Maliphant	BOK	M55	43:47
2nd	Martin Wilson	BKO	M65	46:38
3rd	Roderick Mansel	SUFFOC	M16	47:19
4th	Mick Liston	NOR	M60	47:25
5th	Nicholas Pugh	SOS	M60	48:13
6th	Richard Bonnett	SOS	M55	48:31
7th	Michael Bickle	WAOC	M65	50:28
8th	John Hurley	DVO	M55	51:19
9th	Ian Shephard	NOR	M60	51:57
10th	Kate Brett	CHIG	W45	54:27
11th	John Duffield	CHIG	M65	55:11
12th	David Lyness	IND	M35	56:49
13th	Philip Halford	SUFFOC	M55	57:48
14th	Simon Hooton	SUFFOC	M55	58:06
15th	Dylan Campbell	WAOC	M16	58:08
16th	Gerry Spalton	OD	M65	58:20
17th	Kim Eden	MOR	W55	58:47
18th	Ian Smith	WAOC	M55	59:27
19th	Peter Waldron	NOR	M55	59:44
20th	Bill Morgan	NOR	M60	60:29
21st	John Mills	SOS	M40	60:35
22nd	Bob Hill	WAOC	M55	60:42
23rd	Paul Nicholls	NOR	M60	61:52
24th	Robin Bourne	WAOC	M50	62:07
25th	David Ball	NOR	M65	63:34
26th	Octavia Chambers	IND	W21	63:42
27th	Peter Woods	WAOC	M55	64:28
28th	Helen Bickle	WAOC	W21	64:36
29th	Simon Peck	SUFFOC	M55	64:42
	Par Time 65:41 - winner's time + 50%
30th	Peter Howsam	WAOC	M60	66:48
31st	Ian Lawson	WAOC	M55	75:19
32nd	Lyn West	SOS	W55	81:40
33rd	Carly Crookes	RAFO	W21	97:50
34th	Duncan Harrison & Lana Banham	SOS	M40	132:11
mp	Ann Mills	SOS	W40	87:26

Short Blue

Splits

4.9km 45 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Tony Davies	SELOC	M65	41:49
2nd	Glynn Smith	LEI	M65	42:27
3rd	Tom Edelsten	CHIG	M70	42:31
4th	Jane Archer	SN	W55	47:01
5th	John Collyer	SOS	M65	48:03
6th	Mark Nicholls	NOR	M50	48:47
7th	Bill Marlow	POW	M65	49:33
8th	Sally Wilkinson	SUFFOC	W45	54:39
9th	Gillian Edgar	HAVOC	W45	55:47
10th	Sarah Mansel	SUFFOC	W45	57:00
11th	Peter Cheetham	HH	M55	60:38
12th	David Nixon	SOC	M65	62:21
	Par Time 62:44 - winner's time + 50%
13th	Charlotte Cheetham	HH	W50	62:56
14th	Paul Lowe	SUFFOC	M50	65:36
15th	Rachel Oxburgh	WAOC	W45	65:54
16th	Nicky Nicholls	NOR	W50	68:41
17th	Liz Large	NOR	W45	76:23
18th	Laura Allen	RAFO	W21	95:53
19th	Raj Chand	WAOC	M16	104:06
20th	Lakshmi Chand	WAOC	W35	105:10
21st	Graham Ward	NOR	M65	107:26
22nd	Philip Levi	WAOC	M65	180:12

Green

Splits

4.7km 45 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Ben Windsor	CUOC	M21	26:17
2nd	John Ward	NOR	M70	36:49
3rd	Daisy Partridge	SOS	W14	40:50
4th	Matthew Clarke	SUFFOC	M12	44:53
5th	Ray Curtis	CHIG	M55	46:07
6th	Emma Holland	WAOC	W21	48:12
7th	Mary Nixon	SOC	W60	48:49
8th	John Wickersham	WAOC	M70	49:10
9th	Alice Hodkinson	WAOC	W40	49:24
10th	John Russell	SOS	M70	49:56
11th	Perry Mole	SOS	M45	51:14
12th	Richard Barker	SOS	M60	52:46
13th	Bill Butcher	NOR	M60	53:18
14th	Ian Goodship	IND	M21	53:44
15th	David Skinner	SOS	M60	54:05
16th	Ella Gilbert	NOR	W16	54:19
17th	Rodney Freeburn	NOR	M75	54:45
18th	Stephen Nobbs	NOR	M55	54:45
19th	John Rushmer	NOR	M65	57:31
20th	Kristjan Kalve	NOR	M20	58:46
21st	Peter Gay	SUFFOC	M70	58:50
	Par Time 58:50 - 50% of starters
22nd	Fred Ross	AIRE	M65	58:59
23rd	Janet Cronk	WAOC	W55	59:10
24th	Peter Leverington	NOR	M75	60:03
25th	Sue Woods	WAOC	W55	61:11
26th	Dave Timney	IND	M40	63:32
27th	David Stanhope	IND	M35	66:40
28th	Ben Warland	SOS	M16	66:58
29th	Sam Nicholls	NOR	M16	66:59
30th	Matthew Gulliver	RAFO	M21	67:42
31st	Estella Ward	NOR	W60	68:40
32nd	Anthony Biggs	HAVOC	M60	68:47
33rd	Ben Rivers	IND	M65	70:02
34th	Barbara Fothergill	HAVOC	W55	70:56
35th	Janet Biggs	HAVOC	W60	72:48
36th	John Harris	WAOC	M65	73:13
37th	Dale Bennett	HAVOC	M45	74:35
38th	Jane Howsam	WAOC	W60	74:38
39th	Catherine Pennington	WAOC	W60	84:14
40th	Kevin Jones	RAFO	M45	90:05
41st	Chris Gay	SUFFOC	W60	102:02

Short Green

Splits

3.8km 45 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	John Evans	DEE	M75	42:28
2nd	Jenny Collyer	SOS	W65	43:23
3rd	Caitlin Campbell	WAOC	W18	47:07
4th	Gill Ross	AIRE	W65	47:29
5th	Bronwen Mansel	SUFFOC	W16	48:03
6th	Robin Campbell	CHIG	M75	48:06
7th	Steven John Partridge	SOS	M40	49:48
8th	John Harvey	NOR	M75	50:33
9th	Rachel Ambler	INT	W35	52:32
10th	Geraldine Russell	SOS	W65	52:45
11th	Helen Rivers	IND	W55	55:39
12th	Alison Curtis	CHIG	W55	57:18
13th	Thelma Spalton	OD	W65	58:06
14th	Hazel Bickle	WAOC	W60	62:31
15th	Clare Woods	WAOC	W21	63:18
	Par Time 63:42 - winner's time + 50%
16th	Molly Smith	LEI	W65	64:47
17th	Jack Isbester	SOS	M75	64:52
18th	Pam Hemingway	WAOC	W50	65:10
19th	Colin Curtis	WAOC	M75	73:04
20th	Leanne Bailey	NOR	W21	73:26
21st	Lorraine Houghton	WAOC	W55	74:35
22nd	Sue Vine	NOR	W70	88:34

Very Short Green

Splits

3.1km 30 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Barbara George	NOR	W75	52:08
2nd	Ruby Campbell	CHIG	W75	63:05
	Par Time 78:12 - winner's time + 50%
3rd	Alf Timney	IND	M12	86:14

Light Green

Splits

3.8km 30 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Josh Partridge	SOS	M14	36:54
2nd	Catherine Hemingway	WAOC	W14	40:36
3rd	Ruth Parsons	NOR	W16	52:26
4th	Jaya Chand	WAOC	W14	58:09
5th	Lucy Carter	SUFFOC	W35	61:04
6th	Aditya Sahu	IND	M21	61:45
7th	Sharon Warland	SOS	W45	63:36
8th	Laura Hurley	SLOW	W21	63:52
9th	Catherine Mole	SOS	W14	64:26
	Par Time 64:26 - 50% of starters
10th	Oliver Hague	WAOC	M14	71:01
11th	Dominic Vinsen	NOR	M14	73:20
12th	Bryn Pedrick	IND	M21	89:47
13th	Kevin Dale + 1	IND	M50	96:14
14th	Patrick Schrader-Bidwell + Louis Allen	IND	M14	110:47
15th	Duncan Pedrick	IND	M14	113:44
mp	Daisy Savery	NOR	W16	49:29
mp	Jocelyn Brett	CHIG	W14	94:11
mp	Ian Pickering	WAOC	M55	223:18

Orange

Splits

3km 20 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Sam Hague	WAOC	M12	30:53
2nd	Andrea Marlow	POW	W60	33:29
3rd	Oscar Wilkinson	LEI	M10	35:07
4th	Edward Low	WAOC	M12	35:37
5th	Oliver Brett	CHIG	M12	42:49
	Par Time 46:20 - winner's time + 50%
6th	Flora Timney and Rachel Camina	IND	W9	50:38
7th	Angus May	IND	M14	58:42
8th	Carrington family	IND		62:42
9th	Martin Parsons	NOR	M12	63:52
10th	Nadine Randell	NOR	W45	75:46

Yellow

Splits

2.6km 20 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Daniel Hague	WAOC	M10	19:51
2nd	Henry Gibb	WAOC	M6	27:34
3rd	Felix May	IND	M10	41:49
	Par Time 41:49 - 50% of starters
4th	Elizabeth Ambler	INT	W10	41:54
5th	Lucy Warland	SOS	W10	49:30
6th	Abrial Jerram	IND	M10	58:11

White

Splits

1.7km 5 m

Pos	Name	Club	Age Class	Time
1st	Eleanor Low	WAOC	W10	15:24
2nd	Tom Rowe	WAOC	M10	19:00
3rd	Daniel Rowe	WAOC	M10	19:12
4th	Rebecca Ward	NGOC	W10	20:10
5th	Jonathan Ambler	INT	M10	20:52
6th	Rachel Gibb	WAOC	W8	21:51
7th	Jessica Ward	NGOC	W10	27:18
8th	Ben Dawkins	SO	M4	34:54
9th	Caroline Dawkins	IND	W35	35:33
10th	Ben Partridge	SOS	M10	37:07
	Par Time 37:07 - all finishers

	Thetford Warren (Thetford Thrash Day 2)	Sunday, 10 Feb 2013
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