Devon West Down Results 05/02

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It was glorious sunshine on Dartmoor for this re-arranged Devon league event at West Down.

A good turnout of 20 QOs of all ages made the journey - some of whom are pictured in the photo below:

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Robin and Ollie came 2nd and 3rd on Brown, although Adam looks to have been unlucky having some great leg splits but missing 13.

Ray had a good result on Green, coming 3rd less than 2 minutes behind the winner.

Results

Brown

6.72km 370m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
2nd Robin Fieldhouse QO M21 61:20 +3:39 Brown standard
3rd Oliver Rant QO M21 61:48 +4:07 Brown standard
8th Andy Rimes QO M60 83:28 +25:47 Brown standard
9th Jeff Pakes QO M50 83:32 +25:51 Brown standard
11th Brian Pearson QO M60 85:54 +28:13 Brown standard
12th Pete Shirvington QO M50 90:35 +32:54
14th Philip Sorrell QO M45 96:30 +38:49
Adam Fieldhouse QO M21 m13

Brown standard: 86:32

Blue

6.21km 320m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
9th S M Braine QO W55 88:17 +11:05 Blue standard
15th Rosie Wych QO W65 110:45 +33:33 Blue standard
18th Vicky Fieldhouse QO W60 150:12 +73:00

Blue standard: 115:48

Green

4.11km 190m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
3rd Ray Toomer QO M65 55:04 +1:41 Green standard
16th Ailani Braine- Clarke W20 75:59 +22:36 Green standard

Green standard: 80:05

Short Green

2.7km 110m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
4th Roger Craddock QO M80 54:13 +17:14 Short Green standard
5th Sue Toomer QO W65 54:59 +18:00 Short Green standard
11th Graham Pearson QO M60 66:32 +29:33
12th Karen Lewis QO W55 68:37 +31:38

Short Green standard: 56:59

Lt Green

3.62km 155m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind
4th Oliver Lewis QO M16 76:15 +33:03

Orange

3.54km 120m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
8th Annabelle Lewis QO W16 85:35 +43:42

Orange standard: 65:26

Yellow

2.08km 65m

Pos Name Club Age Class Time Behind Award
2nd Bee Hemmings QO M10 47:25 +22:13
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Another photo taken face into the sun!

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The sunshine was lovely and the terrain was fantastic. Unfortunately continuing poor fitness was made worse by some dodgy orienteering and an ice skating injury…

I mis-read the map to control 1 - taking the longer route around the vegetation and down the spur. Running was horrid on the rocks on the steep slope and I aggravated a bruised blister picked up ice skating the night before (which added to my woes for the rest of the course).

I actually got into quite a good rhythm up to control 8 - perhaps not as fast as I would want, but my navigation was ok. It went a bit (7 minutes) wrong on control 9 - I choose the track rather than the ditch (which, it turns out, has a delightful path on it), choose a bad attack point and panicked.

I was very surprised to see @Jeff.Pakes at control 13… until I realised I was actually at control 18 and Jeff (who had a fantastic run) had done the loop up and around the hill I still had to do. Thankfully I was not out of position too badly.

14 was the next to go wrong - I must have ignored my compass and headed to the wrong group of trees before I realised my mistake, and then I came out of the control at the wrong angle wasting more time heading in the wrong direction (thankfully I spotted the overhead cable that should not have been there).

The rest of the course was fine but I was glad to finish! Thankfully @Pete and Jeff went to the far controls for their collection stint leaving me to have a gentle hobble collecting the nearer controls whilst practicing how to use a compass in the sunshine.

Thanks to Devon and all the volunteers for putting on the event, and it was great to see so many QO shirts.

Now I just need to rest and try and find my form before a five event head-to-head against Pete in Portugal next week!