Massed Start Score, Cambus O'May
Sunday 10th February
 

Organisers Report:

Thanks to all competitors and helpers!

Evelyn Hall
 

Planners Report:

It all came together in the end – a good turnout, especially for a Score event, with clear, sunny weather, if perhaps a little on the cool side for officials standing around. But there were times when it looked less promising. The weekend I tagged most of the control sites had all the paths converted to skating rinks and the forest knee deep in snow!

I tried to give plenty of variety to the tactical options available. With a total distance of around 6.5 km round all the controls, there should have been plenty for all levels of competitors to go at, and giving everyone a chance to get into the more interesting parts of the forest. At the high performance end, bagging the lot within 60 minutes was designed to be achievable, and the outcome would then be determined on route choice round the easier controls. For those of more modest ability, the main choice was around which section of the high scoring controls to target, balancing between technical difficulty, ease of running, and proximity to the lower scoring controls. Most people took the back stretch from NW to SE, which tends to be the faster direction. For the beginners, there should have been enough “off path” targets to make it an interesting excursion.

From comments at the finish, it sounds like most people enjoyed themselves, with problems down to admitted navigational blunders, or not reading the full control description. It is a shame that at Cambus the best bit of forest parallels the edge of the map, and there is always a concern that controls close to the edge result in wanderings off the map, and I had a couple of comments to this effect. The counter is that you know the control is marked close to the map edge, so plan to attack it accordingly.

For all you Yellow Course regulars out there, take note of this - the highlight for me was listening to Fast Jon (Duncan) and Big Jon (Musgrave) comparing notes afterwards. The thing that made a big difference in their placings was how they chose to pick off the Yellow Course/10 point controls – and they both admitted to mispunching their control cards – so there is hope for us mere mortals after all!

Thanks to Evelyn, Julie and Althea for helping collect in the controls, and Jon Musgrave for planning advice.

Jeff Dickens
       
YELLOW COURSE 1.4 km 40m
1    T Gomersall M10 GRAMP 12.11
2    J Hickling W12 GRAMP 12.21
3    E & A Brindley M7 / M4 12.48
4    K McLeod W8 GRAMP 13.37
5    R Hendry M10 GRAMP 13.53
6    S Gordon W8 13.57
7    F Wright W6 MAROC 14.22
8    C McLeod M6 GRAMP 14.24
9    J Oxlade W10 GRAMP 15.27
10    C Hickling W10 GRAMP 15.27
11    E Robertson W7 MAROC 15.48
12    J Gomersall M6 GRAMP 15.51
13    J Maclachlan W10 MAROC 17.24
14    K McBeth M8 GRAMP 19.41
15    S McBeth W10 GRAMP 19.47
16    A Chepelin M5 GRAMP 21.13
17    Hamilton Family GRAMP 22.01
18    F Graham W8 25.18
19    Brindley Family 25.27
20    A Graham W10 25.35
21    T Robertson M9 MAROC 27.15
22    I Kitching W4 MAROC 30.27
SCORE COURSE
TIME POINTS PENALTY SCORE
1    J Duncan M21 GRAMP 41.29 550 550
2    J Musgrave M40 MAROC 43.41 550 550
3    C O'Hallaran M40 LEE 51.29 550 550
4    B Daly M45 GRAMP 53.02 550 550
5    D Gooch M21 MAROC 54.26 550 550
6    R Coombs M45 MAROC 57.29 550 550
7    D Coombs M16 MAROC 59.29 550 550
8    E Harwood M50 MOR 59.53 530 530
9    D Guy M35 GRAMP 50.47 510 510
10    P Duley M45 GRAMP 53.45 510 510
11    T Nash M35 GRAMP 54.47 510 510
12    R Oxlade M40 GRAMP 60.29 510 5 505
13    T Duncan M55 WCH 56.12 490 490
14    N McLean M55 GRAMP 57.27 490 490
15    S Dunn W21 MAROC 60.15 490 5 485
16    P Lawrence M35 GRAMP 57.47 480 480
17    S Gomersall M40 GRAMP 59.01 480 480
18    P Booth M18 MAROC 62.01 490 10 480
19    K Reinius W21 MAROC 59.23 470 470
20    H Adamson W21 GRAMP 59.52 470 470
21    I Searle M40 GRAMP 59.01 440 440
22    C Coombs M14 MAROC 53.08 430 430
23    no name 58.18 430 430
24    S Langan M40 MAROC 59.12 420 420
25    C Martin W35 MAROC 57.18 410 410
26    R Hickling M45 GRAMP 61.59 420 10 410
27    K Hepworth M35 GRAMP 53.04 400 400
28    C Low M40 MAROC 57.37 400 400
29    P Craig M55 MAROC 58.41 400 400
30    C Richards M21 MAROC 58.51 390 390
31    N McBeth M35 GRAMP 59.49 390 390
32    K Campbell M18 MAROC 58.13 380 380
33    T Litterick M40 57.24 370 370
34    A Brodie M50 MAROC 61.58 380 10 370
35    J Noble W55 INVOC 58.39 360 360
36    D Spencer M18 MAROC 56.55 330 330
37    S Spencer M45 MAROC 57.29 330 330
38    I McLeod M40 GRAMP 59.31 330 330
39    M Trees M45 GRAMP 60.31 330 5 325
40    E Duley W16 GRAMP 59.01 320 320
41    C Aust M50 GRAMP 56.08 310 310
42    D Campbell M50 MAROC 59.01 300 300
43    G Esson M50 GRAMP 53.02 290 290
44    V Springett W50 INVOC 54.19 290 290
45   G. Otto & T Coombs W45 MAROC 57.49 280 280
46    P Davey M60 MAROC 62.45 290 15 275
47    no name 50.34 270 270
48    G Hendry M40 GRAMP 56.12 270 270
49    A Hickling W45 GRAMP 59.55 270 270
50    A MacGregor M45 GRAMP 57.19 260 260
51    F Duguid M50 89.56 410 150 260
52    P Langan W14 MAROC 55.52 250 250
53    L McLean W55 GRAMP 56.18 240 240
54    P Davis M40 MAROC 61.58 250 10 240
55    H Wright W12 MAROC 54.33 230 230
56    M Craig W55 MAROC 59.49 230 230
57    H Cromar W35 MOR 56.01 220 220
58    M Aust W50 GRAMP 56.13 210 210
59    D Musgrave M45 GRAMP 56.18 210 210
60    J Langan W16 MAROC 47.08 190 190
61    J Nisbet M80 GRAMP 54.44 190 190
62    A Aitken M70 GRAMP 57.38 190 190
63    A Hoy W40 GRAMP 180 180
64    H Greenwood W65 GRAMP 56.01 180 180
65    P Langan W10 MAROC 53.17 170 170
66    P Cromar M70 MOR 59.31 170 170
67    P Low M10 MAROC 53.07 160 160
68    M Cromar W65 MOR 55.01 150 150
69    Otto Boys 51.11 150 150
70    J MacGregor W45 GRAMP 51.18 150 150
71    K MacGregor W10 GRAMP 44.11 140 140
72    K Coombs W10 MAROC 30.41 130 130
73    M Musgrave W75 GRAMP 51.01 130 130
74    L Esson W50 GRAMP 39.39 110 110