Street Orienteering

Event Feedback

From Geoff

Sorry I couldn't make it later in the evening - and thanks to Judy for letting me run at 5:30. Wow! It is so nice running in cool conditions, but still in the light. While I had taken my headlamp, I didn't need to use it and only turned it on late in the event for safety purposes. The course was really well set and initially I thought I might get them all - I had 7 controls at 20 minutes, 11 controls at 30 minutes - but then realised that the Northern controls were more widely spread and...as someone later pointed out, there are in fact 21 legs in a score course except you don't get to count the last leg (final control to finish).

The Monday Night Series must be getting popular - I had to print 120 maps for Chris Sayers for next week! (Chris plans to run a streetO Hageby course - with 3 loops beginning and ending at his parent's house in Newton Street, Surrey Hills. In Hageby events the participants start on different loops and then rotate through the other loops until they have done all of them. It should be an interesting night).

From Ian Greenwood

So I ran 10.8km, got them all, back just one minute late! If it was a Wednesday, probably would have left out a two-pointer with not long to go. I ran: 10-19-12-2-16-6-13-7-4-17-8-1-14-3-5-18-9-20-11. Thought it was good to get 10 out of the way early and should have left 5 out near the end. Had a slowish first half and then had to work hard to get them all. How about you?

Judy had hot home-made sausage rolls at the finish - fabulous - polished off three of them and had to stop myself eating more!

By the way, the rumour going around at the start was that you got them all. However, someone chipped in and said it took you 2 hours 18 minutes! Wish it was me that said it, but I wasn't quick enough!

From Judy

I was only 1 point behind Pat, so that's good as Kirsty decided to be unofficial and we were fussing around and not hurrying at all.

Two people wrote the same strange thing on their cards - Ilze wrote 'final no yellow plate' and Peter Kempster wrote 'last no yellow pl' but I had an answer for every pole and no-one said anything, so I don't know what that was about. Luckily Kirsty and I ended up down in the dip near the nature reserve in time to find Suzanne running in circles trying to find the street sign. She hadn't read the instructions, so some of her squares had letters instead of numbers, but I'm OK with that.

Results - from Judy

Here are the scores as far as I can make them out. You know what it's like trying to interpret cards. We had 30 people which meant I had one spare map, the one I had drawn the course on

Bruce 70

Marta 70

Ian Dodd 70

Chris Sayers 70

Ian Greenwood 70, 59 seconds late

Louise Hall 70, 3 minutes late

Rick Bailes 67

Mark Besley 66

Geoff 66

Lauris 64

Peter Kempster 64

Paul Vella 63, 2 minutes late

Peter Maloney 62

David Beard 57

Katherine and Kristian 54

David Rowntree 54

Peter Yeates 52

Ian Stirling 51

Allan Miller 50

Mike Hubbert 50, 2 minutes late

Suzanne O'Callaghan 49

Ilze Yeates 48

Debbie Dodd 47

David Prentice 46

Pierre (who's that?) 43

Phil Giddings 43

Adam 39

Pat Miller 39

Judy 38

StreetO Emergency Number

Having a mobile phone at every event makes a lot of sense - and provides people who are late or cannot find the start location with a means of contacting us. We may choose to delay or leave a map out for you if you call - that will be up to the folks present at the time.

Please record the number - it's my mobile and it will be there at every event - 0407 998 240


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Where:	Judy's place
When:	7pm, Monday 7th May 2007
Map:	Highbury Hills

Score-Course by Judy Hopkins