Results for BSOA National Score Champs 2010, Witton Country Park, Blackburn, 09/10/2010
Comments: Organiser and Planner .Organiser
Organising the Score championships has been very rewarding, because the day was
a great success. This was due to the enormous help and support that we received
from so many people.
Our thanks go to:
Jim Mitchell (PFO) for planning the course, and Mike Ormerod (SROC), for
controlling. It was good to know we could leave them both to do their own task
and have no worries. The courses were very testing for the experienced
orienteers but was still able to offer enough of a challenge to the young and
less experienced.
Mike Napier was used for the entries, but it was Gillian Rowan-Wilde (PFO) who
spent an enormous amount of time co-ordinating the schools entries. I don't
think Gillian had much sleep in the final two weeks before the 9th October.
Mike Napier did a very efficient job on the day with the SI. Results were ready
within minutes of the final finisher which meant we could bring the prizegiving
forward.
We were very fortunate to have a podium erected for the medal presentation,
special thanks for this goes to Mike Fairburn (PFO) who worked tirelsesly for
the success of the event as our equipment officer. As always, a terrific job
well done.
We must of course thank the Rangers at Witton Park for allowing us the use of
their facilites in the courtyard as well as the changing rooms and showers which
I believe were very popular. I am sure that other events in the future will wish
that they had such a range of facilities on offer
We were concerned about inexperienced runners exiting the Park in error so our
thanks go to Shelley who recruited several of the local Cadets to marshal road
crossings. Volunteers from SROC patrolled the park all day and came to the aid
of more than one tearful competitor.
Compass Point and Run Direct provided the spot prizes while BSOA very kindly
sponsored the medals to the winners as well as certificates to all competitors.
We were extremely grateful for this generous support.
Finally, a huge thank-you goes to all the members of PFO for showing what a
great job can be done by such a small club. We are very proud of our
achievements.
Maureen and John Ashton
Planner
Planning for this event began in late 2009 and was going smoothly until I visited the wooded Billinge Hill in the NE corner of the area, to check some potential control-sites. There I found a new mountain-bike trail, which, if mapped for the event,would make an already complicated area almost unreadable. However, a few suitable sites were found in the NW part of the map, which then left me with Witton's perennial problem, namely the permanently out-of-bounds fields. The three narrow wooded corridors going roughly N/S in the central part of the area were obviously ideal for sites, and these factors, allied to the parkland and the Southern area, determined the final shape of the course.Results service provided by MERCS.