48 took part in TAY's local event on a beautifully sunny day, quite a contrast from TAY's 2010 event here when deep snow almost forced cancellation. There was a very healthy TAY entry, plus friends from INT, ESOC and CLYDE and some very welcome guests, including one from Sussex!
The wood was looking fantastic with the first of the spring flowers and the fresh green of the leaves coming out. This was the first event to be planned using a small new section of map which was added so as to take people down to the road. This allows for a circular course without having to cross the river, although of course in the present low water conditions it would have been fine to cross! Folks were apparently wondering how they would negotiate the railway as it was quite hard to see the underpass on the map, but it was very obvious once you got there. Sorry about control 171 which was too low in the re-entrant.
Congratulations to Alastair Dunlop of CLYDE, who completed his 50th orienteering competition in less than one year at this event, thereby completing the Scottish Orienteering Association's 50 years, 50 events challenge!
Many thanks to all the helpers, especially Moira Laws and Laura Nicoll for handling registration and Davie Frame for helping bring in the controls.
Lost property: found after the event a navy, Nike running jacket. If it's yours, contact the organiser to arrange its return, e.g. at the JK this coming weekend. Email g.nicoll @ virgin.net
Grahame Nicoll, planner & organiser.
Blue: 4.7km, 250m climb
| Position | Name | Club | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben Hartman | INT | 38.16 |
| 2 | Davie Frame | TAY | 42.28 |
| 3 | Grant Carstairs | TAY | 46.47 |
| 4 | Steven McHarg | INT | 47.13 |
| 5 | Alastair Dunlop | CLYDE | 47.33 |
| 6 | Derek Jamieson | TAY | 54.46 |
| 7 | Mel Nicoll | TAY | 58.10 |
| 8 | Julian Blow | TAY | 59.27 |
| 9 | David Anderson | TAY | 61.36 |
| 10 | Bill Melville | TAY | 61.54 |
| 11 | Les Dalgleish | ESOC | 62.27 |
| 12 | Elaine Simpson | TAY | 68.53 |
| 13 | Elaine Gillies | TAY | 69.28 |
| 14 | Robert Findlay | ESOC | 71.46 |
| 15 | Jane Anderson | TAY | 71.56 |
| 16 | Graham Tough | TAY | 74.10 |
| 17 | Bill Gauld | ESOC | 76.50 |
Green: 3.7km, 220m climb
| Position | Name | Club | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heather Hartman | INT | 37.38 |
| 2 | Margaret Dalgleish | ESOC | 52.45 |
| 3 | Andrew McHarg | Ind | 54.35 |
| 4 | John Anderson | TAY | 58.23 |
| 5 | Alan Bothwell | TAY | 59.49 |
| 6 | Laura Nicoll | TAY | 60.45 |
| 7 | Fiona Findlay | ESOC | 62.10 |
| 8 | Ceri Vincent | CLYDE | 66.19 |
| 9 | Dave Prentice | TAY | 66.41 |
| 10 | Ian McCubbin | TAY | 67.36 |
| 11 | Hazel Sutherland | Ind | 73.02 |
| 12 | Liz Fraser | TAY | 79.40 |
| 13 | Moira Laws | TAY | 80.33 |
| 14 | John Lewis | TAY | 83.42 |
| David Combe | TAY | DNF |
Orange: 2.5km, 130m climb
| Position | Name | Club | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Jenkins | TAY | 24.49 | |
| 2 | Michael Jamieson | TAY | 26.06 | |
| 3 | James MacCallum | Ind | 27.49 | |
| 4 | Katarina Blow | TAY | 40.05 | |
| 5 | Finlay Downie | TAY | 40.21 | |
| 6 | Nikolaus Blow | TAY | 41.33 | |
| 7 | Margaret Blow | TAY | 41.37 | |
| 8 | Alice Nicoll & Euan Crowther | TAY/Ind | 59.59 |
Yellow: 1.7km, 80m climb
| Position | Name | Club | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Hartman | INT | 18.24 |
| 2 | Craig Sloan | TAY | 23.58 |
| 3 | Finlay Sloan +1 | TAY | 24.45 |
| 4 | Borland family | Ind | 31.20 |
| David Downie | TAY | Missed control #4 (35.12) |