SROC Night Street League 2008-9
	25/02/2008
	Event 9:  Helmshore
	75 Mins						Points
Pos.	Name	Club	Age	Score	Time	Pen	Net	per hour	Shadow
1	Steve Lang	MDOC	M35	820	73:17	0	820	656
2	Chris Reade	BFR	M45	770	74:08	0	770	616
3	Mike Johnson	SROC	M45	830	77:58	60	770	616
4	Mark Seddon	SELOC	M45	760	75:40	14	746	597
5	Paul Turner	SELOC	M50	730	73:54	0	730	584
6	Fran Davies & Gareth Cooper	RossH	W21 / M21	720	70:38	0	720	576
7	Steve McLean	SROC	M45	790	79:17	86	704	563
8	Darren Baker	DEE	M40	690	74:46	0	690	552
9	Ed Mellor	SELOC	M40	650	74:03	0	650	520
10	Mark Jesson	PFO	M40	600	71:10	0	600	480
11	Chris Rostron	MDOC	M60	590	74:15	0	590	472
12	Mike Hill	SROC	M50	560	69:08	0	560	448
13	Tony Marlow	SROC	M40	500	74:28	0	500	400
14	Clare Kenny	CalderV	W45	430	65:32	0	430	344
15	Davina Raidy & Jane Adlum	RossH	W40	450	77:15	45	405	324
16	Nick Harris	RossH	M50	380	73:12	0	380	304
17	Albert Sunter	Horwich	M45	370	77:24	48	322	258
18	Neil Smith	Lostock	M45	300	75:30	10	290	232
	60 Mins						Points
Pos.	Name	Club	Age	Score	Time	Pen	Net	per hour	Shadow
1	Karen Nash	SROC	W45	620	60:28	10	610	610
2	Paul Thompson	PFO	M35	600	57:10	0	600	600
3	Simon Halliday	CLMH	M35	560	57:14	0	560	560
4	Rowena Browne	SROC	W45	540	60:00	0	540	540
5	Matt & Chris Nash	SROC	M16/M14	590	63:12	64	526	526	Bob Nash
6	Chris Roberts	SROC	M50	530	60:45	15	515	515
7	John Britton	MDOC	M55	490	57:42	0	490	490
8	Peter Stansfield	RossH	M50	450	57:24	0	450	450
9	Helen Yeomans	RossH	W45	440	53:43	0	440	440
10	Norman Hall	DEE	M60	420	55:15	0	420	420
11	Anthony Crier, Viv & Sam	-	M60/W21/M16	410	58:24	0	410	410
12	Glenys Ferguson	SROC	W55	380	N/A	0	380	380
13	Richard Bellaries	CLMH	M50	400	61:20	27	373	373
14	Jon Carberry & Sarah Watkins	SROC	M45/W21	370	59:16	0	370	370
15	Elaine Sutton	DEE	W40	350	53:50	0	350	350
16	Lawrence & Graham Adlum	RossH	M45 & M10	320	55:19	0	320	320
17	Bill Lock	SROC	M65	280	59:20	0	280	280
18	Steve Round	SELOC	M55	400	66:40	134	266	266
19	Sam & Lewis Clare	CTK	M10 +1	340	65:22	108	232	232
20	George Thompson	CLMH	M55	250	62:08	43	207	207
21	Ian Roberts	BFR	M55	200	56:57	0	200	200
22	Dawn Lock	SROC	W60	280	65:50	117	163	163
23	Katy Thompson	CLMH	W55	270	67:22	148	122	122
	40 Mins						Points
Pos.	Name	Club	Age	Score	Time	Pen	Net	per hour	Shadow
1	Andrew Sidley	PFO	M45	250	39:04	0	250	375
	Organiser's Thanks and Comments:
	Thanks to everyone for turning up and making the event worthwhile.  Special mentions:
	Helpers - Thanks to Maureen and John for manning the start/finish and Cath for doing a highly creditable job of managing registration.  Also John for checking the controls
	Venue - Haslingden cricket club proved to be a very good venue for the event.  Beforehand, we sensed they were not sure what to expect but by the end of the night they seemed to understand orienteering that little bit better!  Hopefully we’ll be back in the near future for another event.
	Competition - As a new area, there were a lot of unknowns associated with the event.  Was the area suited, was it too big, etc.  The event was the outlier of the series (furthest from SROC centre) and it was also only 3 days before the British Champs.  This claimed a substantial number of event regulars.  But it was great to see that half of the competitors were new to street-o.  Let us know what you thought of the event on the messageboard and also tell your running club mates about the format.  It’s incredibly easy to organise these things once you have the map produced.
	Baby - The main unknown for us organisers was the baby that had a due date of 27th Feb.  We did toy with swapping the event with any of events 7-10, but figured that “sods law” would find a way of applying itself if we tried to be too clever.  Instead we relied on good old statistical probably in that first babies have a 70% likelihood of being late.  However, I did have to ask Cath not to up her dose of raspberry leaf in the run-up to the event (one for Sue Roome)…
	Controls - Out of the 50 controls, only 2 had more than one person recording an error.  Of these, number 33 seemed to be the main source of contention with 3 instances out of 17 recording 916 instead of the desired 915.  There were a number of telegraph poles in the area but both John and myself recorded 915 in checking (I visited it both in daytime and at night).  The number was in black ink, so I am afraid it is ‘close but no cigar’ on that one!
	Apologies - The main problem on the night was the blocking off of the dual carriageway crossing near number 18.  This was due to a repair to a gas mains following an explosion before Christmas (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7795427.stm for background).  This was not going on when both John and myself checked the controls.  Glenys was the only person to suffer badly from this, having had this as her intended route to get back.  To allow for this, her time penalties for the event have been waived.
	Future Use - I think this area is a far better summer area than winter with a large path network, particularly in the south of the area.  For this event, I ‘disincentivised’ using these parts by putting in low control values but in summer it would increase the map area by 30-50% and add a lot more interest to the courses.  The area could easily take a 90/120 minute score or a challenging cross-country event.  We might look into putting an event(s) on in the June-August period if enough locals (or others) are interested.
	Steve & Cath Wilson
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