Therfield Heath - Try-O Sunday, 28 September 2008
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Organiser's Comments

It was rewarding to see so many newcomers at Therfield - this is after all the purpose of our "Try-O" event. We were pleasantly surprised by just how many of you turned up to enjoy the glorious weather. This high turnout is the reason that some of you had to wait a little while for extra maps to be printed "on demand".

As always, the success of an event like this depends on the team of helpers at registration, start, and finish, and I'd like to thank them all again for their efforts in making the event run smoothly.

Less visible but crucially important is all the effort put in ahead of the event in designing and checking the courses. In this case, planning was complicated at a late stage by the imminent but unpredictable relocation of a sheepfold to the middle of where the courses were originally expected to run. I'd like to thank the planner, Rachel Pocock, and the controller, Graham Louth, for taking this in their strides and producing courses that produced so many positive comments from finishers. Thanks also are due to Ursula Oxburgh for producing the maps in addition to running a club training session on the same day.

WAOC's next event is at Warden Warren on 2nd November, which will use electronic punching. Warden Warren is in the Shuttleworth estate which is also home to the Shuttleworth aircraft collection, and is an ideal venue for anyone who enjoyed the Therfield event looking for another chance to try the sport. You can find more details here on our website in due course, as well as a calendar of future orienteering events in the region organised by WAOC and by other clubs in the East Anglian region.

We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Peter Woods

String Course
Name                         Age    Club        Time (minutes)
Alex Wetherill               5      WAOC        4
Kyle Masterson               7      IND         4
Hannah Barnes                3      IND         7
Lucy Warland                 5      SUFFOC      5
Alex Wetherill               5      WAOC        4  (2nd run)
Alex Wetherill               5      WAOC        4  (3rd run)
Sophia Sapsford              2      IND         7
Ros Johnson                  4      IND         6
Sean Johnson                 4      IND         6

White Course
Pos  Name                         Class  Club        Time
 1   Flora Timney                  W5    St Matt     14:43
 2   Sam Robotham                  M10   WAOC        15:46
 3   Edward Benfold                M10   Ind         16:24
 4   Hannah & Molly Pocock               WAOC        17:02
 5   Blackwell family                    Ind         19:34
 6   McMenamin family                    Ind         20:21
 7   Lucy Warland                  W5    SUFFOC      21:04
 8   Webb family                         Ind         21:08
 9   Vojta Körner                  M8    Ind         23:24
 10  Turner family                       Ind         24:05
 11  William Pritchard                   WAOC/Bourn  24:38
 12  Goncalves family                    Ind         24:48
 13  Reader family                       Ind         25:12
 14  Addison family                      Ind         25:35
 15  Sohn +1                       M10   Ind         25:58
 16  Warburton family                    Ind         26:01
 17  Barnes family                       Ind         28:04
 18  Robin Peters                  M10   Ind         28:55
 19  Alex Wetherill +1             M6    WAOC        29:32
 20  Askja Combe                   W3    Ind         30:48
 21  Gurleen Gawera                W11   Ind         33:54
 22  Baines family                       WAOC        35:06
 23  Forrester family              M5&M7 Ind         38:47
Par time - All finishers

Yellow Course
Pos  Name                         Class  Club        Time
 1   Dev Chaterjee                 M16   WAOC        22:07  
 2   Hannah Pocock                 W10   WAOC        25:56  
 3   Molly Pocock                  W10   WAOC        30:46  
 4   Josh Nibbs                    M8    Ind         30:52  
 5   Alf Timney                    M7    St Matt     32:19  
 6   Blackwell family                    Ind         35:21  nc
 7   Allen family                        Bass' VC    35:40  
 8   Matthew Nibbs                 M6    Ind         40:02  
 9   Oliver Armitage               M7    WAOC        41:37  
 10  Alex Turtill                  M7    Ind         41:54  
Par time: 50% of finishers (excluding nc)
 11  Ben Warland                   M10   SUFFOC      48:07  
 12  Gawera family                       Ind         50:47  
 13  Hills family                        Ind         51:28  
 14  Wood family                         Ind         53:51  
 15  Swanson group                       Ind         54:43  
 16  Wheatman family                     Ind         55:43  
 17  Pritchard family                    Ind         55:45  
 18  Chamberlin                          Ind         60:23  
 19  Sapsford family                     Ind         63:16  
 20  Sally Crane                   W60   Ind         66:30  

     Addison family                      Ind         43:46  mp: missing 12

Orange Course
Pos  Name                         Class  Club        Time
 1   Phil Armitage                 M45   WAOC        35:57  
 2   M Benfold                     M45   Ind         49:16  
 3   Matthew Nibbs                 M6    Ind         54:21  nc
 4   B Benfold                     W45   Ind         61:20  
 5   Josh Nibbs                    M8    Ind         62:07  nc
 6   S Warland                     W40   SUFFOC      63:45  
 7   Ben Armitage                  M16   WAOC        66:44  
 8   Suzanne Armitage              W45   WAOC        68:45  
 9   Jitka Sengerova               W55   WAOC        70:15  
 10  Allen family                        Ind         76:06  nc
 11  Simons                              Ind         76:14  
Par time 50% of finishers (excluding nc)
 12  King                                Ind         78:03  
 13  Anne Duncumb                  W75   WAOC        78:40  
 14  Masterson                           Ind         80:45  
 15  D Gawera                            Ind         95:19  
 16  Ruth Durrant                  W35   Ind         98:28  
 17  K Ingram                      M40   Ind         101:40 
 18  M & J Burr                          Ind         105:28 
 19  Mike & Sue Skinner                  Ind         168:44 

Red Course
Pos  Name                         Class  Club        Time
 1   Ian Murray                    M21   Ind         32:06  
 2   Jonny Cronk                   M16   WAOC        34:42  
 3   M Murray                      M60   SLOW        34:43  
 4   P Warland                     M40   SUFFOC      38:48  
 5   Joe Aslin                     M15   Ind         44:17  
 6   Stephen Borrill               M35   WAOC        46:34  
 7   William Louth                 M10   WAOC        49:59  
Par time - 50% of finishers
 8   David Carter                  M50   WAOC        52:07  
 9   Sushruta Chandraker           W16   WAOC        57:19  
 10  John Wickersham               M65   WAOC        59:40  
 11  Andrew Vanbeck                M40   Ind         61:48  
 12  Alice Rigby                   W16   WAOC        74:40  
 13  Lorraine Houghton             W50   WAOC        85:59  
     
     D Carter-Williamson           W40   WAOC        54:07  mp: wrong 3