Summer Series Results 24Nov04

Summer Series Results from Ellerslie Racecourse
November 24, 2004
Results from courses: One Two Three Four

Next week, on Wednesday the 1^st of December, the event is in Auckland Domain starting at the band rotunda. See you there.

It was great to be back with you this week but it wasn’t as warm, or relaxing, as it was for us last week. We were sitting back watching the sun setting, hoping a whale might pass by, while you were dashing all over the place. We were at a lovely resort (Popao) in Vava’u, the northern island group of Tonga (www.popao.com if you are looking for a lazy holiday – we can very strongly recommend this place and especially Lisa cooking – a real treat). Snorkelling by day and relaxing and fine food makes a real treat. Only a few contours in sight and not a fence to cross. Who's turn is it next??

The new AOC campermatic made it's first appearance tonight. Just before it is off for it's final preparation.

Controllers Report (Craig Pearce)

The Ellerslie racecourse map this year proved to be quite challenging for a number of reasons. Competitors clearly were not expecting a line course, which obviously caused the runners of course 1 to have to think about what they were doing. This fact clearly slowed the winning time from what would have otherwise been expected from a 10 km run. The second change or difference from earlier summer series events was that the map was premarked. Vee Smirnov the setter is an experienced operator of Ocad and is able to produce maps as required. He has the skills to create maps from scratch, rather that just placing course marking on an existing map. Course 1 runners benefited from this as the Michael's Ave map was produced especially for this event at short notice. He was able to produce an upgraded map which was not only premarked but which had all the control descriptions on it as well.

The line course in course 1 proved very challenging based on the comments from runners. The line course meant that runners had to be continuously aware of their current position and be on the lookout for controls that could have been anywhere on the line that they were following. Reports suggest that runners looked very serious while they concentrated on following this line. I'm pleased to say that the feedback was generally favourable with this line course. A line course is probably not likely to be repeated in the summer series this summer. Course 1 also had to contend with a missing control in the Michael's Ave area of the map, it was not where I placed it when I went to collect it. This probably only disadvantaged later runners, a timely reminder that the summer series takes place in public parks.

The feedback regarding course 2 was generally favourable, the only comment was that one of the gates that we had expected to be open was not, and so people were choosing to jump over the fence. This is not a desirable situation, but we're at the mercy of the landowner as to whether gates are open or locked based on our request for access. The possibility of Gates not being open was considered for courses 3 and 4 and changes made for this eventuality. Just as well as this would have caused us some major problems on the day had we not done this.

The number of controls placed out at tonight's event was larger than most other events. Normally you do not need to use 2 cards at a summer series but due to the relatively close and intricate nature of the race course, there was plenty of opportunity to place controls in interesting places. I hope that everyone found that their experience at Ellerslie tonight was enhanced by the number of controls needed to be found, rather than having to run long legs.

The forecasts suggested that the weather would be poor for this evening; I'm pleased that the weather turned out to be quite excellent in fact. No doubt this would account for an excellent turn out this evening. I was worried for a while that I had not printed enough maps but this fear proved unfounded.

I hope to see you all next week in the Auckland domain, where I hope to run an interesting course. I leave this challenge up to the setter and controller, Malcolm and Pete.

Course 1 10 km

1    Martin Peat               0:57:43                    
2    Rob Jessop                1:00:00                    
3    Simon Jager               1:00:24                    
4    Tim Renton                1:04:50                    
5    Dave Crofts               1:08:55                    
6    Gus Grey                  1:09:36                    
7    Mark Lawson               1:12:46                    
8    Jeff Greenwood            1:13:45                    
9    Hugo Webb                 1:15:05                    
10   Malcolm Gawn              1:23:20                    
11   Wayne Oxenham             1:24:20                    
12   Thomas Reynolds           1:24:39                    
13   Darren Gosse              1:26:19                    
14   Debbie Chambers           1:27:00                    
15   Rob Kingston              1:31:52                    
16   Nic Harris                1:34:12                    
17   Phil White                1:35:25                    
18   Debbie Bevins             1:36:00                    
19   Kane Alward               1:36:50                    
20   W Thompson                1:37:50                    
21   Claude                    1:55:07                    
22   Sandra Toppin             2:01:00                    
23   Nicholas Booth            2:05:00

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Course 2 5 km

1    Rob Jessop                0:15:38  2nd run           
2    Stuart Lynch              0:27:28                    
3    Brian Johnston            0:32:07                    
4    Bruce Peat                0:34:37                    
5    Shane Blackett            0:35:34                    
6    Mike Beveridge            0:35:45                    
7    Anne Lowerson             0:36:03                    
8    Allan Janes               0:36:21                    
9    Nick Monteith             0:36:36                    
10   Ben Balmforth             0:36:38                    
11   M Jones                   0:37:03                    
12   Toby Scott                0:37:20                    
13   Richard Webb              0:39:21                    
14   Norm Jager                0:39:35                    
15   Fiona McBride             0:40:00                    
16   Jamie Munro               0:40:31                    
17   Annette Orchard           0:40:40                    
18   Jennifer Trinick          0:40:49                    
19   Mark Frazerhurst          0:41:00                    
20   Jourdan Harvey            0:41:03                    
21   Martin Spencer            0:41:20                    
22=  Gene Beveridge            0:41:35                    
22=  Anne Mortimer             0:41:35                    
22=  Joanna Fitch              0:41:35                    
25   Imogen Scott              0:41:56                    
26   Leo Cheng                 0:42:08                    
27   Carey Stevens             0:42:09                    
28   Melvina Wise              0:43:00                    
29   Gary Farquhar             0:43:18                    
30   Jill Dalton               0:43:26                    
31   Kevin Williams            0:43:59                    
32   Natalie Mathews           0:44:00                    
33   Miles Paver               0:44:01                    
34   Louis Carlyle             0:44:37                    
35   Rob Holland & Sai Clark   0:45:00                    
36   Judith Burnie             0:45:08                    
37   Stephen Reynolds          0:45:25                    
38   Suzanne & Tess            0:45:26                    
39   Oram                      0:45:54                    
40=  Alister                   0:46:00                    
40=  Carey Dobbs               0:46:00                    
42   Dave Hey                  0:46:50                    
43   Stephen Kestle            0:47:30                    
44   Mark Wilson               0:47:57                    
45   Janet McLeod              0:48:00                    
46   Owen & Carole Means       0:48:01                    
47   Irene Smirnova            0:48:15                    
48=  S Battesby                0:48:40                    
48=  Sharon Osman              0:48:40                    
50   Lost Souls                0:49:00                    
51   Bronson                   0:50:52                    
52   Alina Smirnova            0:51:05                    
53   Reuben Wilson             0:51:13                    
54   Wayne Munro               0:51:39                    
55   Janice Little             0:53:00                    
56=  A A                       0:54:00                    
56=  Tracey Davies             0:54:00                    
58   Kirsty Mayhill & mum      0:54:30                    
59   R & P Wakeman             0:54:58                    
60   Bruce Lydiard             0:55:00                    
61   Helen Murphy              0:56:00                    
62   Kelvin Russell            0:58:29                    
63   Ben Soh                   0:58:32                    
64   A Germann                 1:00:00                    
65   Snails Inc                1:02:00                    
66   Danielle Hey & Megan     
     Miller                    1:05:00                 
67=  Liz Sampson               1:07:00                    
67=  Mike Sampson              1:07:00                    
69   Sam Jenkins               1:07:45                    
70   Tim Jenkins               1:07:54                    
71   Shaun, Andrew & Nick      1:08:00                    
72   C Giles                   1:10:00                    
73   Wendy Drok                1:13:00                    
74   Anon                      1:28:00                    
75   Geoff Chizuru             1:35:00

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Course 3 2.6 km

1    Rob Jessop                0:12:57  3rd run           
2    Jeff Greenwood            0:14:41  2nd run           
3    Owen Means                0:17:48                    
4    Malcolm Gawn              0:18:03  2nd run           
5    Terry Nuthall             0:24:02                    
6    Nigel Fitch               0:24:25                    
7    Matthew Ogden             0:25:01                    
8    C Landels                 0:26:00                    
9    Megan                     0:26:14                    
10   Bruce Cassey              0:26:35                    
11   Russell Howard            0:27:35                    
12   Catherine Crofts          0:27:55                    
13   Cath Heppelthwaite        0:28:00                    
14   Marie Fitch               0:28:19                    
15   Alan McPherson            0:28:22                    
16=  Lydia Scott               0:28:36                    
16=  Kate Smirnova             0:28:36                    
18   Daniela & Stephan        
     Timmermans                0:28:39                 
19   Richard, Natasha &       
     Benjamin Kestle           0:29:10                 
20=  Ross McCorquodale         0:32:00                    
20=  Graham & Andrew           0:32:00                    
22   Benjamin Reynolds         0:32:07                    
23   David Andrews             0:32:48                    
24   Sean McCarthy             0:33:00                    
25   Kilgour Family            0:34:00                    
26=  Cindy, Bruce and Kalen    0:36:00                    
26=  Alex Weir                 0:36:00                    
26=  Juliette & Bernadette    
     Phillips                  0:36:00                 
29   Katrina & Abbey Paterson  0:37:00                    
30   R Rameereau               0:37:57                    
31   Nikita Mahe & Matt Roach  0:38:00                    
32   Sam & Mark Phillips       0:39:00                    
33   Roger W                   0:39:30                    
34   Erika Mahe                0:39:38                    
35   Liz P & Ross              0:39:41                    
36   Nathaniel James Hood      0:41:24                    
37   Eileen Hood               0:41:36                    
38   R Bennett                 0:42:00                    
39   Carolyn Kestle            0:42:19                    
40   Keith Spencer-Edgar       0:45:45                    
41   Pooley                    0:46:00                    
42   Bronwyn Holcombe          0:49:00                    
43   Marcel St Amour           0:52:00                    
44   Ken Green                 0:53:08                    
45   Bob Lindop                0:58:00                    
46   T Ambler                  0:59:11                    
47   Stephann                  1:02:00                    
48   Simon & Harry             1:03:00                    
49   Oliver Wilson             1:08:10                    
50   Ash Family                1:11:00                    
51   Callum O'Brien            1:20:00

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Course 4 1.8 km

1    Rob Jessop                0:08:59  4th run           
2    Simon Jager               0:09:14  2nd run           
3    Jeff Greenwood            0:10:00  3rd run           
4    Malcolm Gawn              0:10:04  3rd run           
5=   Kate Smirnova             0:15:37  2nd run           
5=   Lydia Scott               0:15:37  2nd run           
7    John & Claire Chapman     0:24:56                    
8=   Samuel Veale              0:25:00                    
8=   Simon Veale               0:25:00                    
10   Gemma Scott               0:25:14  Aged 4            
11   Tiegan O'Brien            0:26:00                    
12   Hayley Smith              0:27:40                    
13   Marc Magerkorth           0:32:00                    
14   Caleb Maulder             0:32:50  Aged 3            
15   Thomas Powell             0:34:00  Aged 6            
16   Ben & Sally Mains         0:45:00                    
17=  David Larkin              0:51:00                    
17=  Shaun Larkin              0:51:00                    
17=  Nathan Larkin             0:51:00                    
20=  Alex Boyd                 0:54:11                    
20=  Tessa Boyd                0:54:11                    
22   Chris Paterson            1:02:00                    
23   James Sydenham            1:03:00                    
24   Natasha & Kirsty Wilson   1:12:00

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