Club News by Karin Kirk news@octavian-droobers.org
INTERNATIONAL ORIENTEERING FESTIVAL IN SCOTLAND
At the 4 day annual JK Orienteering Festival, held in Scotland nearly 70 club members, including some new members, competed alongside 2500 orienteers from around UK and Europe, and congratulations go to several who achieved podium places.
Six were awarded prizes at the Day 1 Sprint event held in Livingston: Harrison McCartney M14 and Mike Hampton M65 came away with 1st places, Sophie Kirk W20 Elite was 2nd and 3rd places went to Anne Straube W35, Jane Halliday W50, Trevor Simpson M70 and Hilary Simpson W70.
On Day 2 and 3, running near Pitlochry in Perthshire, Harrison McCartney M14A achieved the double coming 1st in his class on both days as did Emma Kettley on the W20 Long course. Anne Straube was overall 2nd on her W35 course coming in 2nd on both days and Julie Emmerson was awarded 3rd place overall on the W16A course coming in 2nd and 5th respectively.
At the relays on Day 4 the competition was tough, the club entered several teams, and juniors Julie Emmerson, Rachel Emmerson and Emma Kettley were the highest scoring coming 3rd on the short Women’s Open Class.
John Ward organised the event at Borough Hill, Daventry, and newcomers Bernie and Cat Snell came in 1st on the Yellow course in 17.13mins ahead of juniors from the Jeffries and Sarkies families. Suzanne Humphries W45 was 1st on the Orange course in 27.49mins, Ros James W45, South Midlands Orienteers, 2nd in 30.18mins and Richard Steel M45 3rd in 30.39mins. Only seconds separated the top three on the longer Green course which Bob Brandon M60 won in 32.18mins ahead of Alan Segar M35 32.37mins and Mike Hampton M65 33.06mins.
16th April 2012
RATBY WOODLANDS AND STONELEIGH AGRICULTURAL CENTRE
A high attendance of club members at both events was partly due to the good weather and as a build up to the annual international orienteering four day Easter Festival (the JK) which this year is taking place in Scotland.
John Middler, organising his third event in three weeks, was pleased at the participation levels at Stoneleigh (90 competitors), and in particular the number of juniors who came along to take part in the club’s extra coaching and training run by Debbie Morse and the Emmerson family.
On the short Orange course Suzanne Humphries W45 was 1st in 14.37mins, and juniors Davina Mistry and Thomas Pegler were 2nd and 3rd in 19.43mins and 20.53mins. On the Light Green Course Dermot Lynch M40 was 1st in 36mins, John Ward M65 2nd in 36.06mins and John Bowman M65 3rd in 40.31mins. On the longer Green Course Matthew Halliday M21 was 1st in 25.13mins, Chris McCartney M40 2nd in 27.13mins and Tom Jeffries M40 3rd in 27.45mins.
At the Leicester Orienteering Club regional event over two and fifty hundred competitors from around the midlands ran through Ratby and Martinshaw Woodlands, part of the new National Forest, crisscrossing paths and scrambling through bramble undergrowth. Club members produced some fine results: on the long 9.22k Brown course Harrison McCartney M14 was 5th in 1.07.41mins, Lesley Ross W45 was 3rd on the Green 5.02k course in 42.28mins and Richard Gardner M55 4th in 42.54mins, on the Short Green 3.9k course Janet Richardson W60 was 4th in 50.05mins and John Leyden M14 4th on the Light Green 3.44k course in 38.51mins.
2nd April 2012