SROC Night Street League 2007/2008
Wednesday 9th January - hosted by SELOC
Event 6 BOLTON NORTH 
75 Mins Points % best
Pos. Name Club Age Score Time  Pen Net per hour +1 Shadow(s) Disallowed Comments rate
1 Quentin Harding SROC M45 810 76:44 34 776 621 100
2 Steve Lang MDOC M35 700 73:27 0 700 560 15 ('2') 91
3 Dave Hargreaves SROC M55 680 75:57 19 661 529 86
4 Ali Welsh Bowland FR M45 660 75:50 16 644 516 29 allowed 84
5 Mark Seddon SELOC M45 640 76:21 27 613 491 80
6 Darren Baker DEE M40 610 75:35 11 599 480 78
7 Ed Mellor SELOC M35 590 74:44 0 590 472 77
8 Steve Wilson SROC M21 580 70:59 0 580 464 75
9 Tony Marlow SROC M40 580 71:44 0 580 464 39 crossed out 75
10 Steve McLean SROC M45 620 77:10 43 577 462 24 ('145/8') 75
11 Alex Willis PFO M18 530 65:52 0 530 424 36 ('1276' ) 69
12 Ian Selby SROC M45 510 74:04 0 510 408 Rainwashed 66
13 Kev Latham SELOC M50 500 73:07 0 500 400 Rainwashed 65
14 Neill Barton ShUOC M20 480 74:41 0 480 384 62
15 Chris Rostron MDOC M60 510 77:55 58 452 362 Rainwashed 59
16 Jason Middleton Ind M35 440 75:21 7 433 347 56
17 Richard Longlands Horwich RMI M21 410 75:41 13 397 318 16 ('2') and 19 ('12') 52
18 Les Davies SROC M50 430 80:03 101 329 264 43
19 Melody Thompson + Hannah SELOC W45 & W10 100 90:12 304 0 0
60 Mins  Points
Pos. Name Club Age Score Time  Pen Net per hour +1 Shadow(s) Disallowed
1 Karen Nash SROC W45 490 53:00 0 490 490 79
2 Jamie Martinez Army M35 470 53:58 0 470 470 76
3 Paul Ferguson SROC M55 470 57:16 0 470 470 29 allowed 76
4 David Downes SROC M50 460 58:30 0 460 460 75
5 Matthew & Chris Nash SROC M14 & M16 450 54:53 0 450 450 +1 Bob 73
6 Chris Roberts SROC M50 430 60:22 7 423 423 69
7 Chris Heys Horwich RMI M21 390 58:12 0 390 390 63
8 Doug Moir SROC M40 390 59:24 0 390 390 63
9 Ian Roberts Bowland FR M55 360 60:10 3 357 357 29 allowed 58
10 Brian Looker SROC M65 380 61:25 28 352 352 10 ('37') 57
11 Rowena Browne SROC W45 390 62:13 44 346 346 49 (401') 56
12 Bill Lock SROC M65 300 56:48 0 300 300 49
13 Mike & Mary Ormerod SROC M65 & W55 300 60:52 17 283 283 +1 46
14 Liz Peak & Catherine Kitching Ind & LSARR W21& W21 270 59:29 0 270 270 +1 Very rainwashed; check added  49 44
15 Steve Round SELOC M55 320 63:01 60 260 260 24 ('12/8')  29 allowed 42
16 John Ashton SROC M55 300 64:04 81 219 219 44 ('617' )  Retired; rainwashed; 29 allowed 36
17 Tony Mason MDOC M45 240 62:30 50 190 190 44 ('046') and 49 ('206') 31
18 Clive Atty SELOC M60 200 60:45 15 185 185 20 ('424') - in wrong box 30
19 Rebecca Davies & Daniel Wilson SROC / Ind W21 & M21 210 62:15 45 165 165 +1 42 ('1/4') 27
20 Dawn Lock SROC W60 260 66:34 131 129 129 29 allowed 21
21 Jenny Wyler & Daryl Peter Chorley H W40 & W45 170 62:06 42 128 128 +1 22 ('Andrew') 21
22 Albert Sunter Horwich RMI M45 90 51:34 0 90 90 15
23 Pamela Hartley MDOC W50 70 51:34 0 70 70 33 ('falling') 12
24 David Ellis PFO M60 200 89:41 593 0 Very rainwashed
40 Mins  Points
Pos. Name Club Age Score Time  Pen Net per hour +1 Shadow(s) Disallowed
1 Philip Dewhurst SELOC M45 340 38:34 0 340 510 83
2 Lisa Tipton & Pete Kidd Trafford AC & Leeds  W21 & M21 310 40:20 6 304 456 +1 74
3 Liz Britton MDOC W20 350 43:17 65 285 428 30 ('412') in wrong box 412' OK in 41 69
4 Glenys Ferguson SROC W55 220 40:41 13 207 311 49 ('101') 51
5 Hamish Willis PFO M50 90 38:34 0 90 135 22
6 Carl Tipton Trafford AC M21 110 41:17 25 85 128 21
7 Hana Stringer SELOC W12 130 52:59 259 0 Darren + Paul
8 Rose Dewhurst IND W18 retired 0
Planners Thanks and Comments:
Feedback regarding the slightly hillier than usual nature of this area meant that the I opted to reduce the area covered and move from the previous 1:15,000 to a 1:12,500 map scale.

Allan Wilson had produced the map originally in 2002. As Allan sadly passed away in 2006, this became my first serious venture into mapping updates. I hope Allan would be pleased with the significant number of map revisions and additions made this time to the map of his local area.

I aimed to make the courses well-balanced between the 40, 60 and 75-minuters and give you lots of options to choose directions and areas and controls to include or omit. Originally we were to have the Start/Finish to the SW of the area. The move to Eagley gave more options to tempt you in different directions but was always going to mean some height gain to get away from the the centre and the possibility of some muddy paths. Perhaps the shorter courses got relatively more of the muddy stuff as once away from the central area, routes were generally on street.
Working as Planner/organiser with John as my Controller was a great experience. John was so thorough on his full bike tour of the original potential control sites (over 100), I thought his car would be locked in the complex when he hadn't returned by dark on a bitterly cold day. We finished the updates late that evening!.

We hope you appreciated the provision of partial answers where the markings of a LP or TP number included a faint digit.

I waiited until Tuesday to print maps with one eye on the weather forecast which persuaded me that waterproof paper was essential. This seeemed to work well with everybody except those who weren't advised that pencil is the best. There were several rainwashed answer sheets with running highlighter stains.

What a great turnout - thanks to all of you for coming for what turned out to be a very wet night for you! It was a shock to see the first returners dripping wet as the rain had held off until we had entered the building at 6:00 pm. However, the weather was the only complaint I heard.
Another win for Quentin. With Steve L just back from NZ. Dave H got close with a great run and a podium place. It was great to see several newcomers and returners shaking up a big and quality entry in the 75' minute field - is 19 a record? These included Neill Barton representing ShUOC but living locally.

It was much closer at the top of the 60-minute table with Karen keeping Matt&Chris at bay and having time to spare, but so did Jamie in 2nd.

SELOC local Phil Dewhurst had top score on the 40 minutes, closely followed by another local Pete Kidd, who we were delighted to see bring a whole gang along.with him, including running partner Lisa. Liz B scored higher but succumbed to the trap of forgetting time needed for the finish.

I never like to see anyone lose all their hard-earned points in time penalties. While there are good developmental reasons why it happens, it is unusual to occur on all three courses together. Again, this is perhaps something to work on when there is a gap to the streets proper giving limitations on the number of controls available in the vicinity of the venue. Feedback welcome on this.
There were rumours of people getting muddy trying to go short-cut on the banking between the start/finish and the estate. I'd tried to discourage via the hazards map using anything other than the path and tracks here, but it's difficult to say all off-street / track/path is out-of-bounds in a Street-O. Another feedback was that I should really have upgraded 'torch advisable' to 'essential' given the start location; this is one to add to future guidelines, along with the use of pencils especially for the waterproof paper!

Rumour was that control 18 proved difficult with some not searching for a 'high' telephone number because of a weak petzl; however, the sign was illuminated!

The 'private' venue at Eagley seemed popular despite the distance to the streets proper. The pastie & peas went very well and I got the numbers just right, enough for one each for those that wanted..

So, thanks to John B for all the Controlling work and timekeeping duties, Glenys for the ongoing co-ordinating, Roy and Judith for registration, briefings, kitchen and scoring on the night and thanks again to all those who turned up and made all the work worthwhile.
I look forward to seeing you all at the next round in Morecambe on the 23rd. any new Eagley locals wanting to co-ordinate travel with the SELOC / MDOC contingent, please drop me a line

Paul Turner
SELOC
pcturner@iclway.co.uk
www.seloc.org.uk

Controllers Comments:
This was a virtuoso performance from Paul as planner, mapper and organiser, and very easy for me. I thought the first draft course was so good the final version was almost identical - it took ages to see any sort of plan and there were tricky route choices and decisions all over the place. It must have been a bit daunting for all the new folks - with the weather doing its thing, this really is as hard as it can possibly get. 
John Britton
MDOC
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