Wet-O

I wondered what this could be, but I think it’s just a problem with calculating distances to Ireland. By the way, does the site look the same for other people using it in Internet Explorer?

More fun after dark

I’m not as keen as I used to be about street races, mainly because my knees aren’t brilliant, but (Famous last words) they don’t seem too bad at the moment and I got round the recent Wordsley race okay. Did quite well, in fact. I don’t want to say this too loudly, in case next time they host an event hundreds of people turn up, but the post-race refreshments that Kerstin and Martin provided were excellent!

(I think I was the only person to go that way from control 7 to the finish.)

I’ve also been to two traditional night-O events lately, at Shire Oak and at Dudmaston. I didn’t set the forests alight but within the hour I found 18 controls at the former and 17 at the latter, and I’m feeling more confident with orienteering in the dark than I ever used to be. It’s good too that these events are so popular.

HOC night-O page

Sutton Night 2

This butterfly format meant it only took just over an hour to put out all the controls needed for an event with 5 courses, the longest being 6.4 km with 18 controls. Some thought just needs to go into the siting of the common control and into the positioning of the loops in order to avoid doglegs and repeating legs.

Scores:

David Williams 180
Chris McSweeny 180
Richard Dearden 170
Mike Baggott 170
Alan Halliday 150
Alan Segar 140
Ian Gamlen 130
Barry McGowan 120
Peter Langmaid 120
Bob Scott 100
Sarah Williamson 70

Splits