14th February 2011 - Octavian Droobers - The Orienteering Club for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull in the West Midlands, UK

BRUETON PARK RESULTS

Sheila and Pete Carey, organisers, welcomed many new orienteers to bright and sunny Brueton Park, Solihull at the Saturday morning local event. The club appreciated assistance with publicity and use of the Brueton Park Parkrun marquee resulting in several new runners experiencing orienteering for the first time. Other club members offered coaching for juniors and encouragement for school children from Bournville and Coventry.

There were over 80 entries on the 3 courses: short 2.4k, medium 3.1k and long 5.3k. It was pleasing to see newcomers from Bournville School taking the top 3 positions on the short course: Dan Thornewell M14 16.15mins, Joel Thomas M14 17.48mins and Matthew Stoddard M16 18.47mins. Having enjoyed the short course they went out again, ran the medium course and finished in the top 10. We look forward to seeing them again.

On the medium course OD club members took the honours: 1^st Paul Furness M55 20.39mins, 2^nd Dermot Lynch M35 22.19mins and 3^rd Suzanne Humphries W45 23.06mins. Romualdas Stupelis M21 from Harlequins came 1^st on the Long course in 30.45mins, Glenn Bloomer M35 British Army 40.34mins and 3^rd Alan Segar M35 OD in 41.18mins.

Robin Hood Trophy, near Mansfield

Octavian Droobers travelled to Sherwood Forest on Sunday competing in the annual Robin Hood trophy. The club were placed 3rd with 14 runners achieving great results to count toward the 159 points. Nottingham Orienteering Club, hosts of the event came first with 109 points, Derwent Valley 2^nd with 122 points and OD were 3^rd with 159 points.

Scorers were Suzanne Humphries W45 4th on the Blue course, Sheila Carey W65 2^nd on the Green, Tamsin Alcock W16 2^nd on the Light Green, Ella Rose McCartney W12 1^st on the Orange and Jill Emmerson W45 9^th on the Short Blue. Lesley Ross W45 3^rd on the Short Brown, Hilary Simpson W70 5th on the Short Green and Helen Elkington 1^st on the V. Short Green. Pete Carey M65 had a very good run coming 1^st on the Short Blue, Harrison McCartney M14 was 2^nd Light Green, Matthew Elkington M16 4^th on Short Brown, John Middler M55 10^th, Gerry Spalton M65 15 Blue and Frank Smith M80 6^th on Short Green.

14th February 2011