SROC     Street League Results              Wednesday   30th  November  2005

 

Event   3                                                          Freckleton & Warton

 

 

75  Mins        Long 

                          Score   Time  Pen Net   /hr

 

1  John   Britton   M55  MDOC   780   75.00     780   624

2  Paul   Ferguson  M55  SROC   770   73.37     770   616

3  John   Ashton    M57  SROC   690   72.08     690   552

4  Glenys  Ferguson  W56  SROC   590   73.43     590   472

5  Chris  Rostron   M59  MDOC   650   77.59  89  561   449

6  Jim    Doherty   M42  PH    560   72.22     560   448

7  Roy    Parkinson M42  PH    430   75.46  23  407   326

8  Ian    Roberts   M56  BFR    390   79.55 147  243   194

   David  Hargreaves M56  SROC     Retired -  torch failure

 

Self-timed runs

   Paul   Turner    M48  SELOC  770   74.01     770   616   

   Edward  Mellor    M37  SELOC  630   73.46     630   504

 

60  Mins        Standard

 

1  Karen  Nash     W45  SROC   620   59.59     620

2  Steve  Wrigley   M43  SROC   600   60.08  4  596

3  Rowena  Browne    W44  SROC   510   57.14     510

4  Moz    Kitching M47  SROC   500   59.55     500

=5 Jon C.&  Sarah W.  M45/W32 SROC  450   58.13     450

=5 David  Whitaker  M53  SROC   450   56.44     450

7  Mike O. & Mary W.  M63/W55 SROC  470   60.53  26  444    

=8 Bill   Lock     M64  SROC   400   58.49     400

=8 Brian  Looker    M67  SROC   400   59.06     400

=8 David  Johnstone M63  SROC   400   59.58     400

11 Richard Catlow    M57  PFO    440   60.56  58  382

12 Dawn   Lock     W61  SROC   370   59.56     370

13 Janet  Vials    W46  SROC   300   58.30     300

        

 

30 - 60 Mins        Short / Novices / Visitors   ( Scores adjusted to 60 minutes equivalent )

 

Novices on   30 – 60   need not declare a target time,  but are penalized if over 60mins

                     Cat/Tgt    Score Time  Pen Net  /hr

J1 Chris/Matthew  Nash M10/M12 SROC J   490  59.24    490  495

1  Martyn & Sue Roome M54/W54  SROC 52  420  50.16    420  484

2  Frances Watkins   W48  SROC  45  310  42.30    310  438

J2 Liam   Greenwood M10  SROC  J   350  55.42    350  377

3  Joanna G & John Roberts W37/M  FMC   N   330 59.12    330 334

4  Les    Ward     M71  FMC   N   320  58.00    320  331

J3 Leonie  Greenwood W15  SROC  N   230  44.40    230  309

5  David  Ellis    M60  PFO   45  370  63.03 541   0   0


Organisers Comments

 

Many thanks to my helpers, Ian Evans and Cherith Knott, and to all of you for a good turnout.  I hope you enjoyed the special challenge of Freckleton and Warton, and the excellent facilities at The Ship.

 

I checked all the controls that anyone got wrong, the following night in the dark.  Of these only No 42 was unfair ( not sufficiently visible in the dark ), so all 3 competitors who visited this have been awarded the 40 points.

 

I also gave the Nash boys 10 points for No 16.  The H fraction was not quite right but was near enough to be sure they were there.  I’m afraid the rest of you with mistakes were not quite in the right place !

 

Peter  Knott

 

 

Ex Co-ordinators  Comments

 

As you will have noticed on the last NWOA Fixtures List  Peter Knott has taken over as Street Co-ordinator for the remainder of this Street Season.  I will distribute the set of Templates to the remaining event organizers, and the Organiser will then arrange with David Kesby for the Results to be displayed on the Website, as for all other SROC events.   You will thus in future get your results and information from the Website and not E-mailed from the co-ordinator.   Please address all queries to Peter  on 01772  683072, or write to him at 17 Westbourne Avenue, Wrea Green, Preston PR4 2PL  and note Peter does not do e-mail.

 

Lots of best performances for the season at Freckleton, including John B., Karen back to top form, Steve W., Rowena, Glenys, John A., Moz, Team Roome, David W., Jim D., and Liam and Leonie, plus several others.  Everyone seems to have enjoyed Peter’s courses.

 

One of my excuses for the lateness of these results is that I keep losing the bit of paper that has the details of the birth of a second son to Catherine and Moz Kitching in September.  Catherine tells me that both mother and son Thomas? are doing well.  Our congratulations and best wishes to all.  Perhaps Moz can give Karen the appropriate full information in time for the News of Members in the next SROC Newsletter.

 

This season the Blackpool Tower Trophy will be competed for at the Fleetwood Event on January 11th.  This is especially appropriate as Dawn and Bill were the donors of this special trophy,  originally celebrating a Blackpool Promenade Event during the Illuminations Season, until the traffic congestion convinced us this was no longer a viable proposition.  It is now awarded for the best age-scaled result at a specified Blackpool area event, by someone who has not previously won this trophy.  Based on last years Blackpool East performances the people to beat are the Team Roome, Brian Looker, and Glenys Ferguson.

 

You will notice Paul Turner and Edward Mellor have done private self timed runs at Freckleton.  This option is open to all regulars who cannot make a particular event.  Ideally send an A4 SAE envelope and your entry fee to the organizer on the night, and return your answers and time-taken before the next event.  League points are normally allowed, but of course you are not allowed a higher score than that of the on-the-night winner.

 

The next event is on Wednesday in Longsands and Fulwood, Preston, organized by John and Sue Denmark.  John is due for investigative surgery on Tuesday, and we all send him our best wishes, and hope to see him on Wednesday in his Managerial Role keeping his support team on the straight and narrow.  Note the availability of earlier than usual starts.

The Next Street Events:

 

Wednesday  14th December.     Street League   Event 4 Preston East    Longsands with Fulwood

 

Venue:   ‘The Sherwood’ pub, Sherwood Way.      GR   542 332

( the road linking Eastway and Sharoe Green Lane )

Please note John’s  flyer with map and travel guide as distributed at Freckleton or see Website.

 

Travel:  From  N & W  leave M55 J1  onto A6 towards Preston. Immediately turn L , then R at roundabout onto Eastway.  After nearly a mile take 3rd exit at roundabout No 2 into Sherwood Way.  The pub is on R after 400 yds. Please use side door on SW side of pub, and use that park instead of the one next to the church.

       From  S & E  , leave M6 at J31A, follow signs for Preston East. At second roundabout when going NW turn L into Sherwood Way as above.

 

 

Food:    Only available until 7.00pm.

 

Courses:  Usual short, medium and long score events.

 

Start times:  6.00 pm – 7.30 pm

Note this is a special early start time to allow FMC members and anyone else interested to see a presentation of ‘Kachenjunga Revisited’ by noted photographer Boyd Harris, in The Raikes Hotel Blackpool.

 

Contact:      John & Sue Denmark     Home     01772   700 327

 

 

 

 

Wednesday  11th January.     Street League   Event 5   Fleetwood

 

Venue:   ‘The Stawberry Gardens pub,  Poulton Road.       GR   331 478

 

Meals available up to 8.00 p.m. (order before 7.50)

 

Courses:  Usual short, medium and long score events.

 

Start times:  6.30 pm – 7.30 pm

 

Organisers:       Bill & Dawn Lock,  01253 721514, billdawnlock@hotmail.com

 

 

Other forthcoming  SROC Events:

 

Sun 1st Jan       ‘The Cracker’, Ulpha Wood, Lindale.

Sat   21st Jan     ‘Handicap & Social’, Eaves Wood, Silverdale

 

2006 Dates Repeated for your new Diary

 

Note the normal pattern has been varied to fit in with half-term and the SROC National Event.

 

Event 6      Jan 25th  Longridge         Team:  Johnstone / Carberry / Watkins

 

Event 7      Feb 8th   Hest Bank         Team: Ferguson

 

Event 8      Feb 15th   Preston – Cottam   Team Nash

 

Event 9      Mar 8th   Bispham          Team:   Welsh / Kitching

 

Event 10     Mar 22nd Leyland          Team:   Hargreaves / Looker  + Including Presentation Supper Maurice Dean

 

An extra helper(s)  for some event would be helpful for Registration & Start Timekeeping,  especially for Events 6 & 10 where David J. and Brian L. respectively are not available on the evening.

 

Ali Welsh has suggested Event 10 should start earlier than the usual ( say 6.00 to 7.00pm ) so that the prizegiving can be completed a little earlier for the benefit of those who have to rise early for work on the Thursday.    Would this inconvenience anyone ?

 

 

And Finally: 

 

Thanks to everyone for your support over the part 12 years in making the Street League having been such good fun to take part in, and for your work in doing all the hard stuff of mapping, organising, checking, and running the events.  I hope that  ‘The Street’  continues to attract such a quorum of good sporting characters, and that ‘The Street’ remains strictly a fun event, but with ‘a special difference’, keeps up its technical standards, and does its best to meet the training needs of such a wide range of ages and abilities.

 

I am going to miss being in the middle of it all, but hope at least I will now find the time for some gentle OCAD practice,e and try and bring some of our older hand-drawn maps to the excellent hight standard achieved by, Brian Looker, John Denmark, Paul Ferguson, Mike Ormerod and others.

 

Thank you again,  have a great Christmas and festive season,  and I wish you successful enjoyable Orienteering in 2006 and beyond.

 

Cheers   

 

Ian