SROC Night Street League 2003/2004
Event 10 Leyland
Wednesday 31st March 2004
75 Mins Long-
Pos. Name
Class Club Score Time
Pen Net /hr
1 John Britton
M53 MDOC 790 73.26
790 632
2 Paul Turner
M46 SELOC 860 80.02
100 760 608
3 Paul Ferguson
M53 SROC 760 75.46
15 745 596
4 Dave Hargreaves
M53 SROC 720 74.38
720 576
5 Jon Carberry
M43 SROC 670
73.57 670 536
6 Kevan Latham
M48 SELOC 660 75.11
660 528
7 Edward Mellor
M35 SELOC 630 73.41
630 504
8 Janet Vials
W44 SROC 380 70.07
380 304
60 Mins Standard-
Pos. Name
Class Club Score Time
Pen Net /hr
1 Tim Watkins
M48 SROC 630 61.15
25 605
=2 Karen Nash
W43
& Chris Nash
M8 SROC 570
59.15 570
=2 David Kesby
M35 SROC 620 62.39
50 570
4 Moz Kitching
M45 SROC 560 61.37
30 530
5 Bill Lock
M62 SROC 510 60.23
5 505
6 Steve Wrigley
M41 FMC 490
58.48 490
7 Frances Watkins
W45 SROC 470 59.22
0 470
8 Rowena Brown
W42 SROC 580 66.56
135 445
9 Mike Ormerod
M61 SROC 560 66.59
135 425
10 Glenys Ferguson
W54 SROC 510 65.13
100 410
11 Catherine Taylor
W31 SROC
& Liz Peak
W32 NFAC 400 58.10
400
=12 Dawn Lock
W59 SROC 350 62.03
40 310
=12 Sue Whyte
W51 SROC 310 55.35
310
30 - 60 Mins Short ( Scores adjusted to 60 minutes equivalent )
Pos. Name
Class Club Score Time
Pen Net /hr
1 Maureen Ashton
W52 PFO ?
& John Ashton
M55 SROC 460 53.02
50.00 60 400 480
2 Sue Roome
W52 SROC
& Martyn Roome
M52 SROC 350 44.47 47.00
350 447
3 Dot Griffiths
W ? MDOC 190 39.53 45.00
190 253
4 Dave Griffiths
M ? MDOC 160 42.36 45.00
190 253
Malcolm feels that as he was not with us, he is not well placed to make any comments as the Planner.
Our thanks to Malcolm for the courses, and to Brian for course checking, and to Gemma for leading the team of substitutes on the night, and also to Bernie Temmen and Ms Venn, the head, for the use of Balshaws.
People seem to have enjoyed having a daylight event to close the series, I was prepared for a load of whinging that it did not stretch your night skills. A welcome to our visitors Kevan Latham from SELOC, and my old friends dating back to a 1966 trip in a ‘Liverpool’ team to the Swedish Euromeet, Dave and Dot Griffiths.
A little of the edge was taken off the grandstand finish with Ali injured through a lack of concentration descending Ingleborough ? the previous weekend. As a result about half of you had scoring runs.
Paul took this opportunity to creep past Ali on the Mens handicap, although of course Ali leads the basic scoring rate table with a perfect 500. David Kesby overtook Steve Wrigley for 3rd place on the Men and he beat the system by being the most improved performer for the second successive year when we ignore the class winners and runners up. A fine performance, and if he keeps it up Ali and Paul may be under pressure next season. Steve and Edward Mellor both finished with a good series of runs, and deserved their prizes and so now lose their novice status.
Due to Bob Nash being on family duties elsewhere, Karen paired up with young Chris. They went like a bomb, as was obvious from the rosy glow on Chris’ face on their return, and it was good enough to edge past Lady Vets winner Glenys to take the Ladies trophy. ( Does anyone have a spare trophy we can recycle for Veteran Ladies ? )
John Britton’s second win took him equal on points to Brian Looker on the Veteran Men.
It is good to see such good competition in the close scores at the top of each class. Mary & Mike, and Team Roomes, though have a hard job next season to close up to the outstanding score in the pairs of Team Ashton.
Thanks to Maurice Dean for setting up the Prizegiving, and to SROC Honorary member Roy Woodcock for presenting the prizes. I should have brought a few of Roy’s pioneering maps for circulation, but several of you saw Blind Pews map of the Ginnels of St Annes produced by Roy’s friend the late Bob Stride. Several of us remember the pioneering days of SROC Street O where the star event started from Bob’s house in Shepherds Road, St. Annes, and ended in their kitchen where Lesley had a hot-pot waiting. We then had competitions on an early BBC computer with the original Forest orienteering game. I think Bob was chairman of the original BAe O Club, and after his retirement Bob and Lesley moved out to Ariege, France, where their daughter supplies tasty British goodies to the local ex-pats.
I am still open to offers to take over running the league. When Brasher and Disley set up BOF in the 60’s they wanted to avoid the classic AAA problem of all jobs were for life and held by non-competitors. I am now ever more non-competitive, and have rather more senior moments than bright new ideas. I will circulate a list of suggested venues after JK & Blodslitet are behind us. The 10 or 11 events needs almost everyone to share organizing an event, and I thank our SELOC & MDOC guests who have offered to help. I thought the hot-pot went particularly well this time, so does anyone else know a place, or have sports club contacts, where we can get a private room at a rock bottom price. Any other bright ideas are always welcome to keep our format fresh, but they need to keep the priorities on useful training, and friendly competition and socializing.
Peter is keen we tidy up our risk assessment and safe procedures to protect both the competitor and the organizer. If you have relevant experience please let us have your suggestions. As a minimum, we need to have signing in to accept you will follow safety guidelines, always display a map showing any hazards and a copy of the risk assessment, and for organizers to stick closely to recommended safety procedures.
Ian Evans
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