Club Championships 2016

20 July 2016
Peter Hambleton
News

SARUM CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

The last few years have seen Sarum adding variety to the Club Championships by offering novel race formats in compact areas, such as the Moot at Downton, that support micro-sprint type events. This year the Championships were held in Churchill Gardens as part of the Sarum Summer Series midweek evening events.

Planner Joan Hambleton, last year’s Veteran Ladies Champion, came up with a different form of challenge – two line courses created out of straight lines only. Each course had an undeclared number of controls placed somewhere on the line, not necessarily on a feature, there were no control descriptions or codes given, some controls were common to both courses and controls might be visited more than once on a course. There were time penalties (30s) for controls missed or punched incorrectly (out of sequence or not on the course).

Gwyn and Freda at the top of their game. — Gwyn and Freda at the summit of their game.

Competitors enjoyed a lovely, if cool, summer evening thinking their way round the courses. Many found the lack of information on control location and identity a bit unnerving at first but ran the second course with greater confidence, if not accuracy. Everyone seemed to have enjoyed the experience and all found the format challenging and interesting. Working out the results was certainly a challenge but provisional results were available on the evening and the final list was confirmed the next day.

In addition to a good turnout from club members we were visited by a Beaver Colony. The bright blue shirts turned out to be Beavers from the 10th Salisbury Scouts out for an evening’s navigation training in the park. Having spotted some controls, the Leader came over to enquire about what was going on and soon leaped at the idea of her small charges having a go. So equipped with a map of the novice course off they went, rather like a swarm of locusts, hoovering up controls and gradually learning that not all were on their course. After half an hour or so of fun the Colony returned to take on calories kindly provided from the Leader’s biscuit tin. We took the opportunity to provide all sorts of information about future training in parks – you never know, they may return.

Mark models his new design for the Club running strip.

Coming back to the ‘professionals, congratulations to Hazel Cutler and Jeff Butt who are this years Senior Champions and also to our Vets. Champions, Charlotte Thornton and Ian Peirce, who will share the Muriel Ley Bowl. Next year it will be the new Champions’ responsibility to plan and deliver the 2017 Championship event. What will they come up with?

As ever, thanks go to Shane Wilkinson for finding time to take some great pictures as well as running the A & B courses.

RESULTS

SARUM CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 12^th JULY 2016

COMPETITIVE

Pos’n	Name	Class	Club	CourseA	Penalty	CourseB	Penalty	Total time
1	W.White	M21	IND	6.42	1.30	8.52	2.00	19.04
2	J.Butt	M50	SARUM	11.23	0.30	11.35	0.30	23.58
3	M.White	M55	“	9.42	3.00	10.18	1.30	24.30
4	C.BromleyGardner	M55	“	9.12	4.00	10.24	1.00	24.36
5	H.Cutler	W18	“	10.33	0.30	16.35		27.38
6	R.Perry	W21	“	13.46	0.30	13.20	0.30	28.06
7	I.Peirce	M70	“	13.01	0.30	13.22	1.30	28.23
8	K.Cutler	M50	“	13.30	1.30	13.54	1.00	29.54
9	G.Davies	M60	“	11.14	3.00	16.20	1.30	32.04
10	C.Thornton	W70	“	15.33	1.00	17.06		33.39
11	D.Battison	M70	“	12.41	1.00	18.55	4.30	37.06
12	L.Yeadon	W70	“	23.10	0.30	22.16	0.30	46.26
13	R.Thornton	M70	“	20.54	2.30	22.24	1.00	46.48
14	F.Peirce	W75	“	41.18	2.00	31.40	0.30	75.28
n/c	L.Wilkinson	W14	“			24.48	2.00	26.48
n/c	S.Wilkinson	M50	“			24.54	2.00	26.54

NON-COMPETITIVE

Name	Class	Club	A with controls	C with controls
S.Wilkinson	M50	SARUM	10.43
L.Wilkinson	W14	SARUM	11.10	16.09
A.Yeadon	M80	SARUM		15.51
10^th SalisburyScouts	Beavers	IND		29.51

Senior Ladies Champion Hazel Cutler

Senior Mens Champion Jeff Butt

Senior Lady Vet Charlotte Thornton

Senior Mens Vet Ian Peirce