Club News by Karin Kirk news@octavian-droobers.org
OD CELEBRATE WITH 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT AT SHUCKBURGH PARK
To mark the club’s 50th anniversary a special orienteering event, organised by Phil Kirk, planned by Sue Hallett and controlled by Kerstin Mitchell, was held at a brand new venue in Warwickshire. The use of Shuckburgh Park, by kind permission of Sir James Shuckburgh, in the east of the county, near Daventry was perfect and offered a variety of terrain, both woodland and open grass areas with significant climb, to challenge the 265 competitors.
This West Midlands League event attracted over 100 club members to maintain their current league leader status. Fastest runner on the longest Brown 8.6km course with 325 metres of climb was Will Gardner M21 who found his 30 controls in 51.39mins ahead of Harrison McCartney M18 63.33mins and Chris MacKenzie M21 from CLOK club 69.24mins. On the Blue 6.5km course with 280 metres of climb, Adrian Pickles M55 from Wrekin Orienteers came 1st in 56.34mins just ahead of fellow club mate Clive Richardson M45 57.27 and David Williams M50 from Harlequins Club 58.17mins.
Richard Windsor M50 from Leicestershire Orienteering club was 1st on the Green 4.5km course with 190 metres of climb taking 50.35mins, Felix Lunn M14 was 2nd in 51.23mins and Jamie Rennie M45 from LEI was 3rd in 52.22mins. Bruce Bryant M55 was 1st on the short Green 3.5km course taking 36.03mins, Jim Prowting M65 from Thames Valley 2nd in 41.12mins and Peter Carey M70 44.58mins.
Paul Quinney M45 won the Light Green 3.5km course in 39.56mins, Oliver Flippance M14 was 2nd in 41.55mins and Guy Ross M20 3rd in 45.00mins. Charlie Rennie M12 from LEI was 1st on the Orange 3km course taking 30.08mins, Peter Markham M12 2nd in 34.34mins and Pippa Smart W12 3rd in 35.14mins. Arthur Mitchell M10 from Harlequins won the Yellow 1.8km course in 25.30mins and was awarded a prize as the most promising junior on the day, Emma Grier W14 was 2nd in 27.08 and Joe Quinney M12 3rd in 32.38mins. On the very short White 1.3km course Daisy Rennie W10 from LEI was 1st in 15.16mins, Joel Taylor M10 2nd in 16.49mins and George Rennie M8 LEI 26.17mins.
Afterwards the club put on a BBQ, and awarded prizes to the competitor wearing their oldest orienteering outfit and to the most promising junior.
9th June 2015
PEAK PERFORMANCES
Orienteers from around the country had several choices of events to compete in this weekend and club members chose: urban races around Bruges in Belgium and Bracknell in Berkshire and classic cross country courses on the hills of Leicestershire and in the Lake District.
The annual Twin Peak event in the Lake District was run on open fell terrain beside Ullswater, and after two days, the first on Angle Tarn Pikes and the second on Place Fell provided some good results for club members. Anne Straube was the overall winner of the W40 class coming 1st on both days in a total time on 121.49mins. Hilary Simpson was also first, with a narrow margin of only 5 seconds, on the W75 course having won the first day and being placed 3rd on Day 2 taking 118.44mins. Trevor Simpson M75 was 2nd overall on his course with a 1st on Day 1 and 6th on Day 2 taking a total of 113.52mins. Carolyn Marr was 3rd overall on the W65 course after winning Day 1 and being placed 5th on Day 2. Julie Emmerson clocked up a 3rd place on Day 2 at Angle Tarn on the W21 course.
Congratulations to Club Chairman Liz Phillips who achieved a 2nd and two 3rd places in her age class in the three urban events staged over the weekend around the city of Bruges in Belgium. Top placed Droober at the Leicestershire Borough Hill event was Roger Hailey M75 who came 5th on the Medium 3.1km course.
Running around the well planned intricate courses of the Great Hollands district of Bracknell was very popular and formed part of the UK National Urban Orienteering League. Using the touch free Emit tag timing system Alfie Bullus M16 was 2nd on the Junior Mens 3.05km course taking 22.06mins, Richard Gardner was 7th on the Mens Super Vets 5.74km course in 42.45mins and Chris McCartney was 8th on the Mens Vet 7.16km course in 49.51mins. Margaret Willdig was 3rd in 43.27mins on the Womens Super Vet 4.11km and Jane Stew 8th in 53.48mins, and Karin Kirk 4th on the Womens Ultra Vet course 3.13km in 43.12mins.
2nd June 2015