Manchester and District Orienteering Club
Alderley Edge Evening Event
Tuesday July 20th 2004
RESULTS
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Manchester and District Orienteering Club Alderley Edge Evening Event
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Alderley Edge is a beautiful woodland with a wealth of detailed and interesting features, making the planner's job a very enjoyable one. 'The Edge' itself, however, running along the northern side of the area, is exceptionally steep, and in places rises more than 50m from bottom to top. Also, at this time of the year (when the event must be held due to land restrictions), the bracken, which colonises many of the slopes, is at its worst.
The flatter upper part of the area is quite suitable for White and Yellow courses, albeit that in such a heavily used woodland there are always many new minor paths making it sometimes difficult to decide which is the path on the map. I hope everyone who tackled these courses, especially those new to the sport, enjoyed them and will want to have another go.
The Orange and Red courses were perhaps aimed too much at those with experience of courses at this level, rather than those trying them for the first time. However, whilst tempting the competitor to cut directly across the forest, there were feasible path routes on all legs, with good attack points. The courses probably did have too much climb, so I apologise to those of you who found them too physically tough !
The Light Green course was planned to be significantly more technical than Orange. The guidelines for this state that anything except navigation through detailed contour features is acceptable. I think that most competitors on this course found the technical level about right, although again, the severity of the slope made the course very physically challenging, especially for older competitors.
The Blue course is meant to be the hardest physically and navigationally, and most people who ran this expected it to be so. I thank you for the many favourable comments received !
It's the people on the Green course who deserve the biggest apology. We committed the ultimate travesty of siting control no. 13 incorrectly, as several of you pointed out, in a re-entrant closer to the road than the one circled. Those of you with courses complete apart from that control have been reinstated. To anyone who wasted time there, many apologies - I've learnt a lesson about taping control sites in advance. Apart from that the Green course was, I now realise, much too physically tough, and to those who called me a sadist afterwards - criticism accepted. You all deserve a medal !
Finally, A really big THANK YOU !!! to those wonderful Trojans, who, despite surviving (just) the rigours of my courses, ventured forth, in the rain, to bring in controls - especially those who went down that hill just one more time, struggling back up with armfuls of awkward aluminium stakes ! Thanks to Mike Butcher, Phil Colville, Paul Jarvis, Steve Bingham, Dave Walker, Andy Smith, Martin Green (who was press-ganged on the day), and all the Greenwood family, especially 5-year-old George ! I couldn't have done it without you guys !.
| Alderley Edge 2004 | Wed 21/07/2004 21:08 |
| Results | created by OE2003 © Stephan Krämer 2004 |
Pl Stno Name YB Club Time
Blue (25) 6.0 km 225 m 22 C
1 Clive Giddis 63 DEE 1:05:11
2 Kevan Latham 56 SELOC 1:05:24
3 Derek Fryer 54 LOC 1:06:37
4 Matthew Tinker 79 MDOC 1:07:25
5 Simon Coppock DEE 1:11:23
6 Dave Broatch 60 ERYRI 1:12:50
7 Nicholas Tinker 86 MDOC 1:15:59
8 Lee Scott 66 SYO 1:17:27
9 Phil Colville 54 MDOC 1:17:39
10 Daniel Tinker 86 MDOC 1:18:01
11 Austin Farr 44 POTOC 1:20:33
12 Mike Cumpstey 46 MDOC 1:22:08
13 Kevin Watson MDOC 1:23:55
14 Ian Watson 47 MDOC 1:25:38
15 Joan Cumpstey 48 MDOC 1:30:09
16 Ruth Beresford 88 MDOC 1:34:29
17 Peter Bream IND 1:34:53
18 Jonathan Hughes DEE 1:34:57
19 Martin Crosby MDOC 1:35:07
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20 Tony Hulme IND 1:41:54
21 David Nevill IND 1:52:32
Stephen Fellbaum 60 MDOC mp
Andrew Gregory 35 MDOC dnf
Peter Sleigh DEE dnf
John Bainbridge 73 MDOC dnf
Green (39) 4.5 km 200 m 15 C
1 Anya Crocker 85 DEE 57:57
2 Nick Price 58 MDOC 58:21
3 David Mawdsley 41 MDOC 1:03:07
4 Malcom Fisher IND 1:05:27
5 Martin Green MDOC 1:06:27
6 Andrew Smith 71 MDOC 1:07:49
7 Stephen Bingham 58 MDOC 1:10:50
8 Pete Owens DEE 1:11:19
9 Alan Heron 34 SELOC 1:11:50
10 Paul Nicholson DEE 1:13:46
11 Ian Gilmartin DEE 1:16:55
12 John Nicholson DEE 1:17:32
13 Barry May 41 DEE 1:17:52
14 Graham Taylor IND 1:19:38
15 Stephen Beresford 48 MDOC 1:22:41
16 Ralph Murray IND 1:23:24
17 Norman Hall 48 DEE 1:23:47
18 John Sherwood 46 DEE 1:25:17
19 Elizabeth Hughes DEE 1:25:43
20 Mike Eccles 38 PFO 1:25:59
21 Sian Calow DEE 1:26:50
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22 Peter Hills 44 DEE 1:29:31
23 Beryl Blackhall 40 SELOC 1:36:03
24 Elliot Malkin MDOC 1:36:25
25 Julie Brook 47 MDOC 1:42:18
26 Sarah Green MDOC 1:44:55
27 Malcolm Duncan 34 POTOC 1:51:17
28 Catherine Beresford 90 MDOC 1:53:39
Alan Shaw 48 MDOC mp
Tom McGaff IND mp
Karl Becosby MDOC mp
Jenny Shaw 49 MDOC dnf
Barry Barnes 42 DEE dnf
Mark Stambridge IND dnf
Simon Proud IND dnf
David Beattie 37 DEE dnf
Graham Sutton DEE dnf
Neil Laidlaw IND dnf
Barbara Murray IND dnf
Light Green (3 3.1 km 155 m 12 C
1 Thomas Fellbaum 92 MDOC 42:13
2 Roger Bryant 92 MDOC 43:13
3 Julia Simpson 65 MDOC 46:17
4 Seth Thomas IND 49:24
5 Neil Hunt MDOC 50:17
6 Alan Mullock 46 DEE 55:26
7 Rhian Roberts MDOC 1:00:24
8 Paul Martin MDOC 1:01:02
9 Andrew Hall DEE 1:01:05
10 Kath Speak 59 MDOC 1:05:14
11 Clare Crocker 59 DEE 1:06:31
12 Frances Heron 39 SELOC 1:07:05
13 Helen Price 59 MDOC 1:07:12
14 Mike Butcher MDOC 1:09:09
15 Jean Rostron 42 POTOC 1:10:11
16 Diana Moss MDOC 1:10:16
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17 Barbara Farr 43 POTOC 1:11:10
18 Julie Morrissey 63 MDOC 1:11:25
19 Angela Heppenstall 42 LOC 1:13:44
20 Daniel Kirschen MDOC 1:16:20
21 Pat Moody DEE 1:18:11
22 Jan Ellis 48 MDOC 1:20:30
23 Cordelia Robinson IND 1:20:59
24 Philippe Kirschen MDOC 1:21:35
25 Sheila Hills 45 DEE 1:35:09
26 Annie Price 89 MDOC 1:53:33
Lucinda Hodges MDOC mp
Chris Calow DEE dnf
Callum Crocker 91 DEE dnf
Margaret Gregory 38 MDOC dnf
Ross Crook DEE dnf
Red (5) 4.0 km 165 m 13 C
1 A Woodrow IND 1:06:50
2 Declan Murray IND 1:08:17
3 Richard & Kate Ayres IND 1:18:11
4 Tony Davies IND 1:19:16
5 Paul Jarvis 64 MDOC 1:29:19
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Orange (15) 2.8 km 130 m 12 C
1 Andrew Broach IND 32:43
2 James Barker IND 38:40
3 Matthew Fellbaum 63 MDOC 58:59
4 Fred Warburton IND 1:16:13
5 Joe Battman IND 1:19:31
6 Anna Ledger MDOC 1:24:14
7 Pippa Josie & MDOC 1:29:13
8 Vicky + Liberty Price 92 MDOC 1:34:37
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9 Lizzy Hodges MDOC 1:35:34
10 Natasha Rendall IND 1:35:36
Jane Rawlings IND mp
Atthea Wilkinson IND mp
Andrew McQuire IND mp
Alex Wareing IND mp
Sean Malkin IND dnf
Yellow (8) 1.9 km 50 m 13 C
1 Jeanette Proud IND 21:55
2 Edward Calow DEE 25:20
2 Eveln Elmes DEE 25:20
4 Barney Broatch 96 ERYRI 27:14
5 Thomas Rawlings IND 32:44
5 Piers Wilkinson IND 32:44
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7 Beatrix Calow DEE 43:36
Thomas Eastgate IND mp
White (3) 1.6 km 35 m 11 C
1 Nick Gale IND 24:33
2 Charlotte Bream IND 26:20
3 Sally Rawlings IND 30:02
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