Berkshire Orienteers

Photos of the event can be seen here.

Results for Saturday Winter series, Yately Common, 26/09/2015

White (length 1.5km, climb 35m, 12 controls)

  1  Luke Harris & Dean Mombo          IND ?    12:19 
  2  Henry brothers & Lewis Pether     IND ?    12:39 
  3  Jack Symmonds & Ryan Smith        IND ?    12:40 
  4  Liam Debattista & Sherwin FernandesND ?    13:42 
  5  George Comer & Sneeden Fernandes  IND ?    14:18 
  6  James Thompson & Eryc Neidbala    IND ?    17:02 
  7  Luca Hartley                      IND M13  17:03 
  8  Abbie Sawle & Niamh Hynard        IND ?    17:46 
  9  Sain Baisden & Lydia McNaughton   IND /    17:54 
 10  Jordan Mortimer & Ryan Birch      IND ?    18:11 
 11  Fenella Greatrix & Anna Cawley    BKO W9   19:28 
 12  Holly Mahaffey & 1                BKO W8   20:13 
 13  Mica Gant & Ellie Smith           IND ?    20:14 
 14  Eddie Reed                        BKO M8   24:12 
 15  Neil Smith                        IND M9   31:19 
     -------------White standard--------------
mp   Michael Kelly                     IND ?    13:14 Missing no 1

Yellow (length 2.4km, climb 50m, 16 controls)

  1  Megan Evans                       BKO W14  24:29 
  2  Amelia Wing                       BKO W9   28:59 
  3  Alaistair Wynne & Oliver Smith    BKO M8   34:43 
  4  Adam Reed                         BKO M12  38:25 
  5  Jess Pond                         IND W12  38:26 
  6  Florence Ward & Daniel Beard    BKO M/W10  40:20 
     -------------Yellow standard-------------
  7  Olivia Pearce                     IND ?    46:08 
  8  Natalie Wing & Maddie Woodcock    BKO W8   56:58 
  9  Huw Collins & Family             RAFO M5   61:43 
mp   Liam Evans                        BKO M13  24:25 Missing no 14
mp   Will Stokes & Guy Stokes       BKO M10/12  58:58 Missing no 8

Orange (length 2.6km, climb 50m, 11 controls)

  1  Liz Snell                         IND W40  32:31 
  2  Alex Snow                         IND M45  35:31 
  3  Aileen Hargreaves                  SO W60  39:21 
  4  lucy, Ivy, Elliot Perrin          BKO W40  40:36 
  5  sally & Alex Rowe                SLOW W50  43:56 
  6  Ella Rowe                        SLOW F15  45:26 
  7  Mark Thompson                    TVOC M60  45:53 
     -------------Orange standard-------------
  8  joshua Tatam & Tracey Tatam       IND M10  51:21 
  9  Finn Miller                       BKO M12  51:28 
 10  Leah & Ottillie Jukes             BKO W18  59:41 
 11  Pilar Gomez                       IND W21  61:28 
 12  Emma Waite                        IND W40  64:21 
mp   Mark Evans                        BKO M45  28:39 Missing no 5
     Hettie Cook                       IND W11  rtd   Missing nos 2,6,8-11

Light Green (length 3.8km, climb 50m, 13 controls)

  1  Edward Cox                         SO M55  36:56 
  2  Matthew Gardner                    HH M14  38:49 
  3  Katie Clarke                       SN W40  39:15 
  4  lucy paton                         SN W50  41:03 
  5  Chris Simpson                      SO M70  41:18 
  6  Glenn Wass                        BKO M65  44:19 
  7  Peter Wilson                      BKO M55  44:23 
  8  Abi Bateman                        SN W18  47:20 
  9  Teresa Turner                    SLOW W65  48:26 
 10  Marcos Bateman                     SN M50  51:40 
 11  David & Lucy Palmer               BKO M16  57:58 
 12  Yvonne Hodson                    TVOC W65  58:53 
 13  Lasslo Pap                        VTC M55  62:21 
 14  Peter Smith                        SN M50  62:42 
 15  Balazs Hegedus                    IND M30  63:29 
 16  Andrea Gook                      BADO W45  65:08 
 17  Stephen Waite                     IND M45  68:29 
 18  Tallulah Willoughby               BKO W12  73:05 
     ----------Light Green standard-----------
 19  Jamie Stevens                     BKO M21  73:44 
 20  Amy Slatford                      BKO W12  75:39 
 21  Imogen Woodcock                   BKO W10  76:09 
 22  Krzysztof Lasewski                IND M35  82:06 
 23  Toni Whittle                      BKO W45  82:28 
 24  Paul Smih                        BADO M50  83:57 
 25  Holly Wakelam                     BKO W10  84:59 
 26  Archie Macpherson                 BKO M12  87:04 
 27  Brian Watkins                    TVOC M80  97:28 
mp   Kjell Tullus                     SLOW M65  63:50 Missing no 7
mp   Ian Wilson                        SAX M65  65:44 Missing nos 9-11
mp   Peter Entwistle                   BKO M65  68:30 Missing no 11
mp   Dillon, Lucy & Jon Cook           IND M12  81:10 Missing no 11
mp   Jacqui Briggs                     BKO W50  85:00 Missing no 11
mp   Linda Clemens                    SLOW F55  94:41 Missing no 8
mp   Murielle Pelay                    IND W21  96:02 Missing no 11
     Darrell Cruickshank               BKO M90  dnf   No finish time

Short Blue (length 6.0km, climb 85m, 19 controls)

  1  Roger Thetford                   TVOC M50  46:52 
  2  Andrew Snell                     BAOC M40  47:22 
  3  Daniel Gardner                     HH M21  47:46 
  4= Alex Moore                      SHUOC M21  49:37 
  4= Richard Barrett                  BAOC M45  49:37 
  6  Keith Tonkin                       GO M55  51:16 
  7  Charles Gook                     BADO M45  52:22 
  8  Colin Dickson                    BAOC M60  52:29 
  9  Charlie Turner                   SLOW M60  52:37 
 10  Simon Moore                       BKO M55  52:47 
 11  Axel Blomquist                   BAOC M60  53:37 
 12  Charlotte Turner                 SLOW W21  53:56 
 13  Ian Cooper                        BKO M70  54:53 
 14  John Briggs                       BKO M55  55:11 
 15  Peter Daplyn                       SN M35  55:13 
 16  Martha Paton                       SN W21  56:10 
 17  Adam Hecquet                       SN M40  57:00 
 18  Jonathan Steed                   BADO M50  58:27 
 19  Jim Wilson                       TVOC M55  59:38 
 20  Paul L'Estrange                   LVO M45  59:50 
 21  Derick Mercer                     BKO M50  60:32 
 22  Mark Saunders                     BKO M35  60:34 
 23  Debbie robinson                    SN W45  61:24 
 24  Katherine Bett                     SN W20  61:51 
 25  John Metvan                       BKO M45  63:12 
 26  Elisabeth Dickson                BAOC W55  66:11 
 27  John Chappell                    TVOC M65  66:39 
 28  Andrew Tyrrell                    BKO M21  67:40 
 29  Eddie Whittle                     BKO M45  68:45 
 30  Christine Kiddier                  GO W60  68:49 
     -----------Short Blue standard-----------
 31  Serena Ludford                   BADO W50  74:38 
 32  Brian Pilling                      SN M65  75:07 
 33  Mark Foxwell                      BKO M50  76:06 
 34  Fiona Clough                      BKO W50  78:26 
 35  Terence Hosking                   BKO M50  79:57 
 36  Nigel Clemens                    SLOW M50  80:08 
 37  David Battison                  SARUM M65  81:05 
 38  Paul Channing                     SOC M55  84:11 
 39  Lisa Methven                      BKO W45  89:54 
 40  Kim Rowe                         SLOW M50  90:41 
 41  Peter Riches                     TVOC M65  98:37 
 42  Harry Wilsdon                     IND M21 101:33 
 43  Ian Pickering                    TVOC M55 105:26 
 44  Cliff Thorne                      BKO M60 108:52 
mp   Tony Ludford                     BADO M70  61:49 Missing no 16
mp   Jack Norton                       IND M21  65:06 Missing no 16
mp   Roy Heselden                     BADO M65  67:44 Missing no 13
mp   Mike Shires                      TVOC M40  84:40 Missing no 16
mp   Neil Mitchell                    SLOW M55  94:23 Missing no 19
mp   Bernie Newitt                     SOC W50 102:15 Missing nos 15-16
     Sam Anderson                       SN M21  dnf   No finish time
     Ian Birks                         IND M50  rtd   Missing nos 8-9,11-13,16
     Lynne Moore                       BKO W50  rtd   Missing nos 10-16

White (length 1.3km, climb 5m, 9 controls)

  1  Sophie Shindler Maddie Woodcock   ST AND Y5/3   9:39 
  2  Alice Wakefield                    ST AND Y3    9:44 
  3  Anna Cawley                        ST AND Y4   12:53 
  4  Bilal Arshad George Whelan        HAM ACA Y11  14:43 
  5  Rilley Allan Tommy Lee Young      HAM ACA Y11  15:03 
  6  Luca Nicholl Ragheed Maki         HAM ACA Y11  16:53 
  7  Abigail Barrett,  Rochelle D'Silv HAM ACA Y11  24:17 
  8  Megan Simpson Bella Thomas        HAN ACA Y11  29:31 
     ---------------White standard----------------
mp   Stefan Petrovic Sunddep Singh     HAM ACA Y11  15:47 1 out of order

Yellow (length 1.9km, climb 10m, 8 controls)

  1  Liam Debattista George Comer      ALT SCH Y11  15:13 
  2  JP Garcia Ryan Smith              ALT SCH Y11  15:41 
  3  Fenella Greatrix                   ST AND Y4   16:44 
  4  Alex Halson                        ST AND Y4   17:24 
  5  Edward Reed                        ST AND Y3   18:47 
  6  Abbie Sawle Lydia McNaughton      ALT SCH Y11  19:53 
  7  Niamh Hynard Sian Baisden         ALT SCH Y11  19:58 
  8  Natalie Wing Bia Teagle            ST AND Y3   20:44 
  9  Lewis Pether                      ALT SCH Y11  21:08 
 10  Alistair Wynne                     ST AND Y4   21:47 
     ---------------Yellow standard---------------
 11  Sherwin Fernandez, Mica B Gant    ALT SCH Y11  30:54 
 12  Jon Gardner                           IND M60  33:25 
 13  Genia Must                           TVOC W10  34:04 
 14  Guy Hutchins                       ST AND Y6   34:05 
mp   Eryc Neidbala Dean Mombo          ALT SCH Y11  20:12 Missing no 5

Orange (length 2.9km, climb 10m, 10 controls)

  1  Louise Etherington                    BKO W18  28:45 
  2  Fred Ashford                          IND M75  31:23 
  3  Adam Reed                          ST AND Y6   35:05 
  4  John Hatton                           BKO M12  36:41 
  5  Emma Waite                            BKO W40  37:38 
  6  Dominic Must                         TVOC M10  37:40 
  7  Claire Smart                          IND F35  38:06 
  8  Lucy Cook                             IND W44  39:21 
  9  Amelia Wing Gustavo Teagle         ST AND Y5   41:20 
     ---------------Orange standard---------------
 10  Megan Evans                           BKO W14  48:27 
 11  Pilar Silvia Gomez alcove             IND W30  48:36 

Light Green (length 4.0km, climb 20m, 12 controls)

  1  Andrew Graham                         BKO M60  36:47 
  2  Derick Mercer                         BKO M50  37:20 
  3  Fiona Clough                          BKO W50  42:07 
  4  Greg Birdseye                        TVOC M70  44:28 
  5  Glenn Wass                            BKO M65  44:42 
  6  David and Guy Palmer                  BKO M16  45:04 
  7  Annika Hermik                         BKO W40  45:39 
  8  Matthew Harden                         HH M16  46:56 
  9  Steve Waite                           BKO M45  49:46 
 10  Sue Parker                            BKO W55  51:13 
 11  Eric Harper                           BKO M60  51:21 
 12  James Stevens                         BKO M30  52:18 
 13  Denise Harper                         BKO W65  52:45 
 14  Mark Thompson                        TVOC M60  53:21 
     ------------Light Green standard-------------
 15  Archie Macpherson                  ST AND Y6   58:51 
 16  Catherine Springett                   BKO W55  58:56 
 17  Tallulah Willoughby                ST AND Y8   60:46 
 18  Imogen Reed                        ST AND Y8   61:40 
 19  Imogen Woodcock                    ST AND Y6   62:02 
 20  Peter and Helen Errington              HH M16  62:04 
 21  Lynne Moore                           BKO W50  64:36 
 22  Holly Wakelam                      ST AND Y6   65:06 
 23  Sue Risbridger                        IND W50  80:09 
 24  Shirlaine Fasanya                    TVOC W21  84:04 
 25  Barbara Wiltshire                      HH W65  87:59 
mp   Andy Murphy                           IND M30  59:31 Missing no 6
mp   Paul Smith                           BADO M50  67:54 Missing no 4
     Lucy Perrin                           BKO W40  dnf   No finish time

Blue (length 6.0km, climb 35m, 19 controls)

  1  Jegor Kostylev                        INT M21  35:00 
  2  Anastasia Trubkina                    FVO W21  43:04 
  3  John Travnicek                       TVOC M40  43:11 
  4  Simon Errington                        HH M50  43:15 
  5  Simon Moore                           BKO M55  47:52 
  6  Matthew Grant                          SN M40  48:53 
  7  Jonathan Steed                       BADO M50  55:29 
  8  Adam Hecquet                           SN M40  55:52 
  9  Tony Ludford                         BADO M70  58:45 
 10  Sue Carter                           SLOW W45  58:49 
 11  Steve Fletcher                        BKO M60  59:34 
 12  Rob Smart                             BKO M40  60:15 
 13  Matthew Gardner                        HH M14  61:39 
 14  Neil Watts                             SO M55  61:40 
 15  Neil Frankum                          BKO M45  61:48 
 16  John Briggs                           BKO M55  63:52 
     ----------------Blue standard----------------
 17  Jean-rene Blaie                       BKO M40  66:31 
 18  Peter Riches                         TVOC M65  66:38 
 19  Terence Hosking                       BKO M50  66:42 
 20  Dave Tookey                            HH M60  68:48 
 21  Colin Godbold                         BKO M55  70:49 
 22  Christine Jepson                       SO W55  72:06 
 23  Thomas Elgood                        CHIG M50  72:19 
 24  Simon Paterson                       TVOC M45  72:34 
 25  Tom Venn                             TVOC M21  78:30 
 26  Doug Greenwood                        BKO M40  81:07 
 27  Tony Harden                            HH M50  83:42 
 28  Hugh Wiltshire                         HH M65  93:28 
 29  John Evans                           TVOC M60  93:30 
     Ruth Holmes                            SN W21  dnf   No finish time
     Cliff Short                            HH M65  dnf   No finish time
     Paul Lambert                          IND M21  rtd   Missing nos 7-8,12-19; 1 out of order

Thank you for coming.

Initial results are now available at: http://www.emit-uk.com/results/2016/01/31/results-sun-31st-jan-2016-bko-concorde-chase-barossa-31-jan

Photographs taken in the later part of the event (about 12.00-13.30) are available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/103669960@N03/albums/72157663454875709

Routegadget is now available at: http://www.bko.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#107  Please add your routes for the benefit of all competitors and so the planners can see how you tackled their courses.  Thank you!

Controllers Notes

It was an honour to be asked to control the Concorde Chase this year. BKO have an experienced team and the organisation and the planning team of Mike and Pete were easy to work with. I think Mike and Pete set some challenging and interesting courses in a highly runnable area. Well done guys it was a pleasure working with you. 

A special thanks to my assistant controller Peter Riches, TVOC who did both recces with me to check control sites and helped on the day checking the controls were in the correct positions. I have promoted him to General Dogsbody. 

Most thoroughly enjoyed their runs judging by the comments. Well done the planners. 

 I feel I should comment on control 231 used by the Short Greens and Brown courses, which created some debate on the day. We received a challenge from a very experience orienteer early on in the day, claiming that the control was in another pit some 50m to the WNW, and set off to investigate. We paced in on a bearing from the path bend to the W and the suggested site was only 50m away whilst its 100m on the map. Indeed 100m away was a pit on the bearing in front on an obvious small copse of trees and in it was control 231 so we dismissed the claim it was

in the wrong pit. There has been some removal of firs since the map update as many of the scattered trees have been removed, and it is possible this modified the veg boundary shown (representing the edge of some small firs). In addition we checked path junctions to the N on the large WNW trending open area with the pylons and we were happy these lined up. 

So back download there were several more experienced orienteers claiming they lost significant time on this control. Indeed two went back to investigate. They also claimed the control was actually in the same pit as the previous challenger some 50m to the WNW of the centre of the circle. They interpreted the trees to be the bend in the veg boundary to the E of the control and not the copse on our interpretation, they claimed the obvious copse on the map was another further E. They claim that all pits and gullies mapped fitted better with those of the ground. 

Who’s right? I believe our measurements along the bearing from the path bend to be crucial and the copse is an obvious feature on the ground and is unlikely to the bend in the veg boundary. However as we had a total of seven challenges from orienteers who are very experienced one has to accept there are 2 interpretations of the map in this area. I apologise therefore if you lost significant time and I hope it did not ruin your run. 

Mark Thompson, TVOC

Results for Saturday Winter Series, Langley Park, 23/04/2016

 Routegadget is available for competitors to share their routes.  See: http://www.bko.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#110.

 Some photos taken at the event by our registered club photographer are available on Flickr at: Langley Park Flikr Album

Yellow (length 2.0km, 11 controls)

  1  George Comer & Jereme Willis             ALT SCH  16:15 
  2  Anne Halson                              IND W45  16:48 
  3  Alex Halson                           ST AND M9   17:46 
  4  Ellie Smith & Mica Gant                  ALT SCH  18:24 
  5  Maddie Woodcock & Anna Cawley         ST AND W9   20:11 
  6  Natalie Wing & Bia Teagle          ST AND W9 &W8  21:43 
     ----------------Yellow standard-----------------
  7  Lewis Pether & Eryc Neidbala             ALT SCH  25:24 
  8  Michael Kelly & James Thompson           ALT SCH  27:44 
  9  Liam Debattista & Ryan Smith             ALT SCH  31:02 
 10  Niamh Hynard & Lydia MacNaughton         ALT SCH  33:46 
 11  Maryum Qayum + Shadow                    IND M3   43:35 

Orange (length 3.1km, 13 controls)

  1  Adam Garratt                         DEN SCH M16  39:20 
  2  Max Wilcox                           DEN SCH M16  39:21 
  3  Guy Hutchins                          ST AND M12  43:42 
  4  Megan Evans                              BKO W15  49:10 
  5  Ivy & Elliot Perrin + Shadow Lucy Perrin IND M7   53:25 
  6  Matthew Hicks + Shadow (George Hicks)    IND M11  53:39 
  7  Xiaoying Li                              IND W21  54:59 
     ----------------Orange standard-----------------
  8  Dianne O'Donoghue                         MV W50  68:34 
  9  Jon Gardner                               HH M60  70:50 

Light Green (length 4.1km, 19 controls)

  1  Yordan Kolev                            TVOC M21  33:24 
  2  Nikalay Kolev                           TVOC M50  37:14 
  3  Jane Coutier                             BKO W60  42:43 
  4  Mark Foxwell                             BKO M50  43:08 
  5  George Engelhardt                         MV M65  47:46 
  6  Inara Gipsle                            TVOC W60  48:49 
  7  Nathan Judd                               MV M12  49:26 
  8  Trevor Etherington                       BKO M55  52:41 
     --------------Light Green standard--------------
  9  Eoin Sharkey                             BKO M50  55:10 
 10  Yvonne Hodson                           TVOC W65  56:09 
 11  Peter Smith                               SN M50  66:54 
 12  Sophie D + Shadow                        IND W9   77:26 
 13  Leah, Ottillie Jukes +Shadow David Jukes BKO W18  89:39 
 14  Archie Macpherson                     ST AND M12  96:17 
mp   Doughie Cochran                        T VOC M45  39:09 Missing no 8
     Mel Golding + 1                          BKO W45  dnf   No finish time

Short Blue (length 5.8km, 19 controls)

  1  Jan Travnicek                           TVOC M40  38:15 
  2  Thomas Honniball                         IND M35  38:49 
  3  Matthew Gardner                           HH M16  41:47 
  4  Robin Bishop                            TVOC M45  42:11 
  5  Mark Saunders                            BKO M35  42:36 
  6  John Tzantis                              SN M45  45:15 
  7  Mikhail Gryaznevich                     TVOC M60  48:48 
  8  Jim Prowting                            TVOC M70  49:19 
  9  Matt Belous                              IND M21  51:48 
 10  Neil Frankum                             BKO M45  53:02 
 11  Tony Ludford                            BADO M70  54:10 
 12  Richard Bamber                          TVOC M50  54:37 
 13  Nigel Clemens                           SLOW M50  55:07 
 14  Debbie Robinson                           SN W50  55:30 
 15  Rich Golding                             BKO M45  56:10 
     --------------Short Blue standard---------------
 16  Thomas Elgood                           CHIG M50  57:32 
 17  Terence Hosking                          BKO M50  57:34 
 18  Ken Ricketts                             BKO M60  58:23 
 19  Kim Rowe                                SLOW M55  61:36 
 20  Serena Ludford                          BADO W50  62:11 
 21  Fiona Clough                             BKO W50  66:23 
 22  Mark Evans                               BKO M45  66:32 
 23  Sue Parker                               BKO W55  68:00 
 24  Mark Thompson                           TVOC M60  81:42 
     Stephen McKinley                          SN M50  dnf   No finish time