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Culpeppers Dish  14th September 2003

Controller’s Comments  

Any ‘O’ event run over any of Dorset’s heathland forests in early September is always going to be tough, but this summer’s fantastic weather meant that the areas south of the car parking were almost as bad as they could have been.  I say almost because the recent prolonged dry spell resulted in a noticeable improvement in conditions over those experienced when checking the control sites 6 weeks earlier!  

Planning ‘ideal’ courses on an area constrained by mixed ownerships, land uses, public roads and unpleasant bogs is no easy task, but Celia and Peter did a magnificent job in squeezing the best out of what is a far from ideal area.  Without doubt those who stayed in the northern part of the map experienced the best terrain, while those who ventured further south got value for money when measured by minutes per £.  All courses of Red and lighter sat comfortably within the BOF Guidelines while all of the darker courses, with the exception of the Brown, gave a far wider spread of times than expected.   

Peter Brett (WIM)

  Planner’s Comments

  White – Light Green Courses

Very early on I decided to confirm the shorter courses inside the area to the north as it is much more interesting and runnable than the rest of the map.   The exception to this was Red, which had 3 controls south of the road.

White – Red all had the majority of finish times well within BOF guidelines and it was gratifying to watch so many competitors finishing enthusiastically.

The times on the Light Green were rather longer than I expected.  I had run the course myself using what I thought would be the most difficult routes …….. but in much cooler weather!  Nevertheless, everyone I spoke to seemed to enjoy the course.

Celia Robertson

Green – Brown Courses

Planning was made difficult by the fact that there were good areas separated by what can only be described as ‘grot’.  Hence some long path runs which in this area I am sure you will agree were preferable to having to go through even more rough stuff.

For most competitors, brown seemed to be about right, but I must apologise as Blue and Green were obviously too long.

We both ran Green some weeks before the event, using different routes and got times which were roughly what we would expect.  However, on the day the heat was a factor, which pushed the times up.  In spite of this, most comments were positive.  

Peter Robertson  

Many thanks to Peter Brett, Charlie Morton, Alan Hooper and Bill Brown for all their help in nursing us through our first major planning exercise.  Also the many willing helpers who put out boxes and took in controls, and anyone else who helped in any way.  

Peter & Celia  

Organisers Comments  

The team works!  

We would like to wish Mike Nelson a speedy recovery and return home after being taken ill while on his course on Sunday.  

Charlie Morton

String Course  

I planned the String course ages ago and at that time chose a beautiful control called ‘Berry Tree’ – bit silly really as it became, in September, an insignificant tree with no berries at all.  Still, they liked the ‘Animal Hole’ (with rabbit peering out of it) and the enormous Indian-like ‘Wigwam hide’.  

The start of the String was tied to a gorse bush and while standing by it, the bush shook and the string disappeared all in an instant.  It was quite unnerving, so I sent the children into the forest to find out if any competitor had fallen over and was lying injured! No bodies were found, but we later heard that a deer had run through the Start (not far from us) so it must have run into the string and pulled it along with it for a bit. (Good job no children got pulled along too – suppose there is only so much you can think about in the Risk Assessment!)  

Ably assisted by Rachel & Sarah Beech, James & Emma Crickmore and Alex Jackson, we had 28 runners in total.  I had a lovely weekend, and by the time you read this, my sunburn/tan will have probably peeled!  

Thanks to the children’s mums for helping to bring in the course, and taking down the tent.

Liz    

 

Name

Age

Club

Time

1

ALICE BUTT

W13

SARUM

6

2

EMILY BENHAM

W14

SARUM

7

 

LUCY BENHAM

W12

SARUM

7

 

TRISTAN KNAPP

M9

SOC

7

 

JACK BENHAM

M9

SARUM

7

3

SARAH BEECH

W10

WSX

8

 

DANE BLOMQUIST

M6

BAOC

8

 

THOMAS BUTT

M11

SARUM

8

4

LUCY BUTT

W9

SARUM

9

 

RACHEL BEECH

W12

WSX

9

 

JULIET KNAPP

W11

SOC

9

 

JAMES CRICKMORE

M10

WSX

9

5

JESSICA BENJAMIN

W9

BOK

10

 

CLARE HODGE

W10

WIM

10

 

ALEX JACKSON

M10

WSX

10

6

EMILY HENDERSON

W11

SARUM

11

7

EMMA CRICKMORE

W8

WSX

12

8

CATHERINE HODGE

W7

WIM

13

9

CONNIE & HARRY BUTT

W7 & M7

SARUM

14

 

ALICE PARFITT

W7

SARUM

14

 

KIT BENJAMIN

M6

BOK

14

10

ALEX HANSON

W9

SOC

17

11

DAN BENJAMIN

M2

BOK

18

12

JENNY HANSON

W6

SOC

19

13

ELLENA PEARSON

W6

-

20

14

ELLENA RICHARDSON

W6

-

30

 

JONATHAN RICHARDSON

M4

-

30

15

MATTHEW PEARSON

M4

-

32

brown  (36)    8.500 km  185 m   21 C     

1 Ben Chesters M21         SWERVE   1:00:47

2 Gavin Clegg M45          BOK      1:02:49

3 Dale Paget M35           BOK      1:07:30

4 Michael Bowering M40     MOK   1:12:08

5 John Cook M45            WSX      1:13:51 NC

6 Axel Blomquist M50       SARUM    1:14:57

7 Mark Selley M40          BOK      1:15:21

8 Tim Brett M21            BAOC     1:16:35

9 Brian Fletcher M21       QO       1:17:04

10 Chris Moncaster M45      KERNO    1:17:40

11 Christopher Kelsey M45   BOK      1:18:29

12 Robin Smith M50          SO       1:20:30

13 Patrick Barclay M45      SARUM    1:21:00

14 Tim Sands M50            BAOC     1:23:55

15 Phil Newall M40          KERNO    1:25:55

16 Christopher Harrison M45 MOK      1:26:34

17 Chris Philip M45         QO       1:26:44

18 John Orton M45           MOK      1:28:01

19 Brian Pearson m40        QO       1:28:41

20 Mike Frizzell M45        BADO     1:29:14

21 Ian White M45            WSX      1:30:56

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22 Terry Crosby M45         BAOC     1:31:53

23 David Palmer M55         BOK      1:35:55

24 John Sadd M55            BOK      1:36:46

25 Tim Graham M40           SOC      1:37:14

26 Steve Hawker M35         WIM      1:37:18

27 Ted Heath M60            QO       1:37:39

28 Mel Hawker W35           WIM      1:40:23

29 David Mullins M50        SARUM    1:47:53

30 Mark Larcombem M40       QO       1:48:58

31 Pat Benjamin M40         BOK      1:56:10

32 Simon Branford M21       WIM      1:56:28

33 Howard Thomas M55        BOK      2:00:08

34 Noel Gould M65           DEVON    2:05:28

35 Angus Grandfield M40     WSX      2:15:20

Ken Wickham              SO            mp  

blue  (56)     6.600 km  150 m   19 C     

1 Rachael Holmes W21       QO       1:05:37

2 Ian Hargreaves M21       KERNO    1:07:21

3 Dudley Budden M55        BOK      1:08:23

4 John Shucksmith M50      WIM      1:16:35

5 Jeff Butt M40            SARUM    1:17:56

6 Jackie Butt W40          SARUM    1:20:04

7 Barry Olds M50           KERNO    1:20:17

8 Jan Belza M55            SARUM    1:21:46

9 Chris Lee m21            WSX      1:21:55

10 Michael Rose M18         BADO     1:22:27

11 Roger Hargreaves M55     KERNO    1:23:21

12 Peter Bliss M35          IND      1:24:45

13 David Holmes M55         QO       1:24:48

14 David Oxenham M45        SARUM    1:24:55

15 John Walton M40          SO       1:25:55

16 Roger Crickmore M40      WSX      1:26:44

17 Tim Symonds M21          BAOC     1:27:07

18 Gwyn Davies M50          SARUM    1:27:11

19 Laurie Rose M50          BADO     1:27:59

20 John Parfitt M60         SARUM    1:29:11

21 Nick Fernandes M35       QO       1:29:51

22 Richard Brightman M60    WIM      1:31:48

22 Dave Warne M40           WIM      1:31:48

24 Neil Underwood M45       SARUM    1:33:10

25 Keith Jones M60          BOK      1:33:23

26 Martin Broderick M18     BADO     1:34:03

27 Nigel Benham M40         SARUM    1:34:23

28 Tony Hext M55            QO       1:35:29

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29 Nick Dennis M40          BOK      1:35:37

30 Valery Philippov M40     SOC      1:35:45

31 James Nickolls M35       QO       1:36:04

32 John Searle M50          BOK      1:36:08

33 Stephen Robinson m40     SARUM    1:36:54

34 Ian Bartlett M35         QO       1:39:18

35 Ron Cartwright M50       SOC      1:39:52

36 Philip Eeles M45         SOC      1:41:09

37 Roger Hateley M60        DEVON    1:42:18

38 Louise Benjamin W40      BOK      1:43:57

39 Mike Kite M55            WIM      1:44:27

40 Chris Rose W50           BADO     1:46:02

41 Alan Brown M45           WSX      1:48:03

42 Iain Cairns M60          GO       1:48:49

43 Robert Knapp M45         SOC      1:50:28

44 Roy Heseldgn M55         BADO     1:51:39

45 Chic Young M45           SARUM    1:55:47

46 William Dean M16         SARUM    1:56:34

47 Susan Hateley W55        DEVON    2:05:57

48 Matthew Knipe M40        QO       2:07:49

49 Ian Fleming M40          SLOG     2:08:40

50 John Warren M65          WIM      2:16:17

Christopher Branford M55 WIM           mp

Jane Smith W35           WIM           mp

Michael Yeo M50          SOC           mp

Thomas Davison M45       IND           mp

Ellen Starling W45       SLOG          mp

Edward Brett M45         WIM           mp

green  (62)    4.600 km  100 m   14 C

1 Ian Middlebrook M35      WSX        45:24

2 Ruth Holmes W16          SARUM      47:31

3 Stef Blomquist W16       SARUM      51:08

4 Emily Benham W14         SARUM      54:12

5 Tim Cant M45             RMOC       59:11

6 Martin Goddard M45       SARUM    1:00:58

7 Nathan Fairhurst M18     WIM      1:01:19

8 Christopher Illman M16   SARUM    1:04:37

9 Thomas Miles M16         WIM      1:05:26

10 Nicola Thornton W50      SARUM    1:06:18

11 Richard Arman M70        WSX      1:07:38

12 Rachel Dennis W35        BOK      1:07:39

13 Colin Evans M50          WIM      1:08:51

14 Sue Hands W55            WIM      1:10:07

15 Andrew Thornton M50      SARUM    1:10:48

16 John Trayler M55         QO       1:11:04

17 Elsie Hargreaves W55     KERNO    1:11:11

18 Richard Raynsford M55    BOK      1:11:13

19 Trevor Bridle M60        WIM      1:12:02

20 John Higgins M65         BOK      1:13:25

21 Shirley Robinson w45     SARUM    1:14:27

22 Denise Mullins W50       SARUM    1:15:49

23 Neil Clegg  M45          QO       1:16:18

24 Robert Lloyd M60         QO       1:17:40

25 Frank Watts M40          IND      1:17:46

26 Kevin Peters M40         BOK      1:17:48

27 Nigel Britton M50        SARUM    1:20:38

28 Charlotte Duncan W55     SARUM    1:20:54

29 Mike Broderick M50       BADO     1:22:08

30 Dean Harrison M18        MOK      1:23:38

Colour Standard 

31 Alan Starling M45        SLOG     1:23:40

32 Jose Stanley W55         WIM      1:24:40

33 Kay Sayer  W55           WSX      1:24:59

34 John Coleman M65         NGOC     1:25:55

35 John Symonds M60         BOK      1:27:46

36 Trevor Bevins M45        WIM      1:27:50

37 Ron Ley M75              SARUM    1:28:19

38 Sue Spillar W50          WIM      1:29:28

39 Cathy Warne W40          WIM      1:32:34

40 Roger Holehouse M50      SOC      1:32:38

41 Tony Milroy M50          QO       1:33:47

42 Peter Dickenson M50      BAOC     1:34:01

43 Anne Palmer W50          BOK      1:37:41

44 Steve Gillion M45        IND      1:39:29

45 Lynn Branford W50        WIM      1:42:23

46 Heath                    WIM      1:44:18

47 Richard Thornton M60     SARUM    1:49:20

48 Roy Morgan M65           WSX      1:52:18

49 Andrew Beldowski M70     WSX      1:56:03

50 Des Wyatt M75            WSX      2:40:50

Tim Houlder M45          WSX           mp

Staunton W45             WIM           mp

Caroline Morris  W45     WIM           mp

Lennox Heath W55         QO            mp

Mike Nelson M70          BOK           mp

Pauline Olds W45         KERNO         mp

Andy Kent M40            WIM&