Pl Name Age Clas Club School Time
White (8) 1.600 km 10 m 9 C
1 N Lawson M10 DVO 10:45
2 Bryn Wilkinson M7 SUFFOC 13:11
3 Catherine Hemingway W5 WAOC 15:19
4 Sonia Chaplin W40 IND 19:46
5 Carol Dolan W50 IND 24:51
6 Elian Shipp M4 IND 26:12
7 S. Warland W40 SUFFOC 28:40
8 Heather Craig W6 BAOC 30:22
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Yellow (9) 2.400 km 10 m 9 C
1 Thomas Hemingway M10 WAOC 18:28
2 H Lawson W10 DVO 20:26
3 Sushruta Chandraker W12 WAOC 26:16
4 Eleanor Turner W10 IND 54:16
5 Emma Williams W10 IND 54:18
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6 David Chenery M6 IND 1:00:23
7 The Price Family SUFFOC 1:07:11
8 Michael Hampel + Family M8 SUFFOC 1:11:42
nc Sonia Chaplin IND 54:18
Orange (24) 3.400 km 10 m 10 C
1 Rowen Elliot M12 SUFFOC 39:09
2 Clive Bentley M40 IND 40:46
3 Aaron Caley M12 St Alban 44:13
4 Tony Biggs M55 HAVOC 44:18
5 Carmel Johnson W60 SOS 47:14
6 Kazaya Gota M21 IND 51:05
7 Alex Ware M12 SOS 51:27
8 The Dale Family IND 53:55
9 Tamsin Elliot W14 SUFFOC 55:22
10 Michael Park M12 SOS 1:00:22
11 Sue Lowther W21 SUFFOC 1:00:48
12 Robnette + 3 M? IND 1:06:15
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13 Rhiannon Ware W10 NOR 1:11:37
14 P. Williams W10 IND 1:15:00
15 Emma Sealy W21 NOC 1:15:09
16 Hannah Small W13 IND 1:19:11
17 Alex PD + Samuel Taylor M11 IND 1:29:35
18 Joel Tatham M42 IND 1:30:55
19 Ellen Sanderson W14 St Mary' 1:37:48
20 L. Chandler + Family W35 SOS 2:13:07
21 Rachel Hope W50 IND 2:13:43
Shiona Hardie W65 IND mp
D Andrew M12 IND mp
nc Hannah Newton W12 IND 43:45
Lt Green (20) 3.600 km 30 m 11 C
1 Graham Elliott M40 SUFFOC 46:13
2 Clarrissa Napier W65 NOR 48:17
3 Barbara George W70 NOR 59:12
4 Yvonne McLean W65 SUFFOC 59:17
5 Edwin Morrison M16 NOR 1:08:22
6 Nicky Elliott W45 SUFFOC 1:09:02
7 Ben Woolnough M10 IND 1:13:16
8 Adam Last M9 IND 1:13:19
9 Mat + Debs Blacoe M35 IND 1:14:20
10 Todd Last M7 IND 1:14:39
11 Simon Chandler M40 SOS 1:21:37
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12 Hannah Newton W12 IND 1:22:42
13 Rhiannon Gray W IND 1:27:52
14 Jill Wickson W45 SUFFOC 1:43:48
15 J Sherwen W18 NOR 1:48:33
16 Mason + Mew + Kelly SUFFOC 2:00:23
17 P. Bullent + V. Cone W50 NOR 2:18:05
18 Susan + Brian Savage W55 NOR 2:21:25
19 Stanhope Family W10 IND 2:47:43
Sally Wilkinson W40 SUFFOC dnf
Green (46) 5.100 km 40 m 14 C
1 Martin Rigby M50 BAOC 51:28
2 Katie Sellens W20 SOS 52:51
3 Barry Pilgrim M60 NOR 56:03
4 John Collyer M60 SOS 59:35
5 Jenny Collyer W60 SOS 1:02:02
6 Richard Barker M50 SOS 1:08:16
6 Bill McLean M65 SUFFOC 1:08:16
8 P. Warland M40 SUFFOC 1:09:53
8 James Park M14 SOS 1:09:53
10 Jack Isbester M70 SOS 1:11:44
11 Frederick Smith M45 GO 1:12:32
12 Ian Taylor M40 SUFFOC 1:13:01
13 Alan Bedder M60 NOR 1:13:35
14 Wendy Welham W45 SOS 1:14:30
15 Ted Johnson M60 SOS 1:14:33
16 Peter Heybrock M40 WAOC 1:14:45
17 Maria Marshall W50 WAOC 1:15:57
18 Rakesh Chandraker M40 WAOC 1:16:15
19 Colin Curtis M70 WAOC 1:17:54
20 Rob Coulter M55 SUFFOC 1:18:33
21 Geraldine Russell W60 SOS 1:22:09
22 Gillian Pilgrim W60 NOR 1:24:58
23 Nancy Powell Davies W55 SOS 1:28:59
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24 John Adams M50 IND 1:29:45
25 Andrew Pilkington M55 IND 1:30:19
26 Ruth Saxl W60 WAOC 1:31:58
27 Mark Powell Davies M45 IND 1:32:02
28 Jon Batten M55 WAOC 1:35:34
29 Peter Swanston M50 BAOC 1:50:49
30 Pat Bedder W60 NOR 1:52:06
31 Doug Candler M55 IND 1:52:13
32 Chris Skrimshire M55 IND 1:52:20
33 Alan Turner M35 IND 1:52:52
34 Paul Turpen M40 IND 1:54:00
35 Neil Dalley M21 IND 1:58:09
36 Matt + Anthony Skimshire M15 IND 1:58:43
37 Estella Ward W55 NOR 2:03:06
38 David Crebar M60 IND 2:06:18
39 Robert Farthing M50 SUFFOC 2:09:37
40 Stephanie Lock W13 IND 2:15:35
Anne Elvidge W45 SUFFOC mp
Gillian Powell Davies W40 IND mp
Helen Turley W50 IND mp
Ian Wickson M45 SUFFOC Lost Card
nc Richard Newton M40 IND 46:58
nc Barbara Fothergill W45 HAVOC 1:18:55
Blue (45) 7.300 km 40 m 19 C
1 Rob Hickling M50 Gramp 58:29
2 Sarah Wright W21 NOR 1:05:07
3 Martin Hore M55 SUFFOC 1:09:21
4 K. Robisow M40 SOS 1:12:32
5 Mike Bickle M55 WAOC 1:12:54
6 John Ward M60 NOR 1:14:34
7 Peter Duthie M45 WAOC 1:14:51
8 Steve Nobbs M45 NOR 1:15:13
9 Stephen Cartwright M45 SOS 1:16:38
10 Cameron M45 BAOC 1:17:07
11 Paul Lowe M45 SUFFOC 1:20:17
12 Clive Wilkinson M40 SUFFOC 1:20:49
13 Julia Wotton W35 WAOC 1:22:15
14 Brue Marshall M50 WAOC 1:24:01
15 Mike Sherwen M50 SUFFOC 1:25:30
16 Chris Childs M55 IND 1:25:46
17 Jules Stenson M35 SLOW 1:26:19
18 Stephen Cone M50 NOR 1:26:24
19 Hally Hardie M65 WAOC 1:27:01
20 T Sherwen M15 SUFFOC 1:27:40
21 Karen Goldsworthy W40 NOR 1:29:21
22 Laurie Rudling M55 NOR 1:32:00
23 Nigel Farthing M40 IND 1:32:36
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24 Barry Parker M55 NOR 1:34:08
25 Saxl M55 WAOC 1:35:40
26 V Lawson W35 DVO 1:36:04
27 Adrian Cole M40 IND 1:36:43
28 Andrew Childs M45 IND 1:38:02
29 Andrew Breakwell M55 SUFFOC 1:38:05
30 Kay Fowler W21 NOR 1:39:29
31 Lindsey Freeman W50 WAOC 1:39:55
32 Simon Hooten M45 SUFFOC 1:41:09
33 Robert Mann M60 SOS 1:41:34
34 V Baldwin M50 SUFFOC 1:51:18
35 Ian Price M40 SUFFOC 1:55:01
36 Richard Punchard M40 IND 1:57:19
37 Stephen Gray M45 IND 1:58:28
38 Clive Coles M60 SUFFOC 2:10:09
39 Nigel Wall M IND 2:10:13
40 Pamela Hemingway W40 WAOC 2:15:18
41 Graham Ward M60 NOR 2:42:26
Maurice Hemingway M50 WAOC mp
Carol Fowles W40 IND mp
M Ellwood M21 IND dnf
John Russell M60 SOS Lost Card
Brown (26) 9.100 km 50 m 23 C
1 Rolf Crook M21 WAOC 59:51
2 Robert Frost M35 NOR 1:01:28
3 Glen Richardson M21 NOR 1:06:13
4 D. Goldsworthy M35 NOR 1:07:17
5 D Lawson M40 DVO 1:08:13
6 Jon Coles M35 CROC 1:09:48
7 Phil Stuart M45 SOS 1:10:38
8 Bert Park M40 SOS 1:11:24
9 Martin Sellens M50 SOS 1:16:36
10 Mike Capper M50 WAOC 1:21:01
11 Andrew Elliot M21 SUFFOC 1:21:29
12 Ian Wells M50 LEI 1:24:21
13 Paul Price M40 NOR 1:28:15
14 M Brooke M55 SUFFOC 1:32:29
15 Noah Gins M21 IND 1:35:53
16 Marcus Misson M35 WAOC 1:37:58
17 Perry Mole M40 SUFFOC 1:38:32
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18 Oliver Cooper M21 SUFFOC 1:42:36
19 Peter Beale M40 WAOC 1:44:36
20 Nigel Berry M40 NOR 1:46:24
21 David Birkett M45 SOS 1:48:47
22 Rob Hammond M35 SOS 1:57:46
23 Mark Lowther M35 SUFFOC 2:07:57
24 Hector Pottie M21 IND 2:18:00
25 Andrew Flack M21 IND 2:18:06
26 Neil Carter M21 SUFFOC 2:54:52
Working with Simon Peck, planner and mapper of the area, was a pleasure. Instead of the usual map from the Planner of with the Start and Finish marked I received 3 maps – a mini road map of the Forest including the village of Tunstall, a mini extract of the road through the Forest advising of crossing points and then a large scale map of the parking ride with suggested areas for registration and download tent. These were extremely helpful as I signed posted the event on the day. Organising the event was fairly routine with the equipment collected and orange squash bought a week in advance of the event. Ringing around for volunteers was left slightly later than planned. We were slightly short on the day for the later stints but the steady flow competitors allow us to cope with this. A big thank you to all the SUFFOC helpers for their hard work on the day and to Paul Lowe for running the SI equipment. Thank you to Tony Biggs from HAVOC for the use of his generator. An organiser's car seems to get fuller at every event so I don't know how I would have fitted a generator in. It was a pleasure to see so many people coming to event from across East Anglia and beyond to the event. I hope you enjoyed and the sunny Suffolk weather. The next SUFFOC event is at Daisy's Woods on Sunday 6 th March. Lost Property 1 purple glove Please ring 01359-230221 if you have lost this. |
| Andrew Elliott - SUFFOC |
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After the dreadful weather of the previous Tunstall event we had just about perfect conditions, though a stiff northerly breeze did get up around lunchtime, by which time most of you will have finished your run. This encouraged a good turnout. I hope you all enjoyed your courses, even those who spent quite a long time in the forest. When I first started mapping Tunstall I had always hoped to get at least two good events on the area, and this has proved possible. Although there was some overlap with last year's map I managed to find 49 completely new control sites. My plans were always based on the parking / assembly areas used, though the original start was to be to the west of the forest road. However I was never really happy with the courses, especially the junior ones and when the shooting tenants' dates were published the whole area north of lane became available. This allowed me to use the start I did, giving the juniors woods with good line features and the seniors a couple of short legs to make sure they were switched on from the start. (The splits show that a few were not ). After that the Seniors went in an anti-clockwise loop, with an extra twirl for the browns. This allowed them to experience the variety of vegetation types the forest offers, including the heathlands of Blaxhall and Tunstall Commons. As everyone is running in roughly the same direction it allowed a bit more control sharing and makes control collection at the end easier (yes - I was also trying to ease the planner's burden). As an EAGAL, the courses were generally planned at the top end of recommended lengths, with the physical challenge coming from the roughness of the forest floor and low visibility rather than the climb. On the senior courses I also tried to mix up short and long legs, with several legs around a kilometre long. I hope that the courses did give some route choice, and certainly some people found good routes I had not foreseen. For a strong runner, as I generally avoided the greenest parts of Tunstall, straight would still probably have been quickest. Unfortunately Forest Enterprise began to harvest of some of the most runnable bits of the forest. They take out every fourth row and leave the brashings to rot. I did experiment with mapping each new “ride” and thought about using the slow undergrowth symbol but they did not help map clarity and in any case I was uncertain as to which blocks would be thinned before the event. In the end I decided to still use the blocks but abandon some sites and put out warnings on the information sheets and as map corrections at the start. I hope the underfoot conditions were not too unpleasant. On the positive side the forest should be more runnable for the next event. Generally winner's times seemed to be in line with standards though on most courses several people took longer than I would have hoped. This was particularly the case on Light Green, which was planned more closely to BOF guidelines than is always the case. This means it is a short Green rather than a long Orange, and that there were few legs where a simple path route could be followed. This was reflected in the longer than recommended times for most runners. As long as you enjoyed your time in the forest then I don't really see it as a problem. I've done a quick analysis of the electronic splits which suggests that whilst several controls gave individuals problems there were no controls or legs that were totally unfair. The legs on which a significant number of people spent a disproportionate amount of time were where the technical challenge was at the top end recommend for the course (eg #6 on Yellow, #4 on Orange), or where the vegetation was especially complex or vague (eg # 9 on Light Green, #6 & #7 on Green, #7 on Blue, #6 on Brown – all on Blaxhall Common). My other observation on the event is leg 12-13 on the Green. An obvious route along the rootstock bank behind the cottages did unfortunately irritate the householder. Whilst you were on Forestry land , in retrospect I should have either used a feature that pushed you further north, or marked that route as out of bounds. Apologies to anyone whose run was spoilt. And finally, thanks to Paul for his sympathetic and helpful controlling (ably assisted by Barbara), to Andrew and his teams for the smooth organisation both before and on the day, to Forest Enterprise and Tunstall and Blaxhall Parish Council for land access and to Anne who came round all 50 sites on Saturday to help me place the controls. |
| Simon Peck - SUFFOC |
The event ran smoothly, helped by the beautiful winter sunshine and the efficient work of Andrew Elliott and his SUFFOC helpers. Some competitors may have been adversely affected by dog training taking place on Blaxhall Common. We did have permission from the parish council to use this area but sometimes local people are unwilling to change their habits to accommodate visitors. The dog trainers had departed by the time the event officials visited the area to explain our presence. Simon planned challenging courses to the colour-coded standards using his mapper's knowledge to make the best use of this working forest. Unfortunately last minute forestry work forced late changes to some courses and the resultant brashings and felled trees made these courses slower and more physical than was originally intended. This is reflected in the long par times found on some courses. Another significant cause of the long par times is the tendency for some
inexperienced independent competitors to attempt courses which are too
hard for them to complete in a competitive time. The colour-coded
course system is designed to provide for a progression through the
courses as competitors gain skills and experience. Competitors are
advised that they should not attempt the longer and harder courses until
they have achieved par times on the shorter, easier courses. Doing a |
| Paul Beckett - HAVOC |