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NiteNav Results Summer 2014 |
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NiteNav 1 Results - The Black Bull,
Yarm.
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1st Race (Bref O'Rourke) 29th April 2014 - Black Bull, Yarm |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
Total Pts |
Pts Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
5:52:00 |
6:46:48 |
0:54:48 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
30 |
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2 |
Trevor Symonds |
5:49:00 |
6:57:00 |
1:08:00 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
28 |
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3 |
Martyn Hudson |
6:01:00 |
7:13:22 |
1:12:22 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
26 |
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4 |
Bill Pennell |
5:44:00 |
6:57:00 |
1:13:00 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
25 |
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5 |
Bob Howe |
5:47:00 |
7:13:29 |
1:26:29 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
24 |
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6 |
Mark Edwards |
5:55:00 |
7:24:25 |
1:29:25 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
23 |
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7 |
Steve Hutchinson |
5:53:00 |
7:44:00 |
1:51:00 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
22 |
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7 |
Mick Power |
5:53:00 |
7:44:00 |
1:51:00 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
22 |
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7 |
Glyn West |
5:53:00 |
7:44:00 |
1:51:00 |
18 |
0 |
18.0 |
22 |
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On a fine evening a hardy core of Nitenavvers set off from
the rear of the Black Bull in Yarm. Unbeknown to any of them
a 2 map course lay ahead based mainly on the north side of
the river Tees. After briskly completing map 1 (This is too
easy what's the catch?) most seemed unimpressed when handed
map 2 on the bridge in Yarm high street, especially Bob who
I'm sure whispered an expletive under his breath when handed
the second map! Dreams of an early pint instantly shattered!
I decided on a two map course so as to reduce the risk of
someone getting run over by using John Wood to control
runners crossing the Yarm Road bridge. As for the route? I
found the area naturally lends itself to a figure eight
course so it was easy to map out two loops based mainly on
the Teesdale Way, on the Durham side of the river Tees, with
the start and finish on the Yorkshire side at the rear of
Yarm's best pub, the Black Bull. As expected, Dave Allison
romped home well ahead of the rest. Not surprising on his
current form plus the fact the course was literally in his
own back yard; he ran past his own house en route. So well
done to all who took part and a special mention to my right
hand man last night, John Wood. Without his assistance I
would have struggled to use the planned route - Bref |
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NiteNav 2 Results - Clay Bank
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2nd Race (Ian Hodgson) 20th May 2014 - Clay Bank |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
Total Points |
Pts Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
18:18:30 |
19:59:50 |
1:41:20 |
28 |
0 |
28 |
30 |
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2 |
Vince Connolly |
18:15:50 |
20:21:40 |
2:05:50 |
27 |
0 |
27 |
28 |
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3 |
Bob Howe |
18:06:45 |
20:05:40 |
1:58:55 |
25 |
0 |
25 |
26 |
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4 |
Bill Pennell |
18:01:00 |
20:06:00 |
2:05:00 |
25 |
0 |
25 |
25 |
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5 |
Martyn Hudson |
18:09:40 |
20:07:00 |
1:57:20 |
24 |
0 |
24 |
24 |
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6 |
Mark Edwards |
18:13:00 |
20:23:00 |
2:10:00 |
24 |
0 |
24 |
23 |
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7 |
Ged Webster |
18:07:50 |
20:23:00 |
2:15:10 |
24 |
0 |
24 |
22 |
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8 |
Mike Quinn |
18:52:00 |
20:50:00 |
1:58:00 |
23 |
0 |
23 |
21 |
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9 |
Mark Johnson |
18:17:10 |
20:23:00 |
2:05:50 |
23 |
0 |
23 |
20 |
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10 |
Mick Garratt |
18:10:10 |
20:06:00 |
1:55:50 |
22 |
0 |
22 |
19 |
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11 |
Bref O'Rourke |
18:02:15 |
20:06:00 |
2:03:45 |
22 |
0 |
22 |
18 |
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Mick Power |
18:02:15 |
20:06:00 |
2:03:45 |
22 |
0 |
22 |
18 |
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Steve Hutchinson |
18:02:15 |
20:06:00 |
2:03:45 |
22 |
0 |
22 |
18 |
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14 |
John Smith |
18:15:15 |
20:22:15 |
2:07:00 |
21 |
0 |
21 |
15 |
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15 |
Trevor Symonds |
18:14:20 |
19:45:45 |
1:31:25 |
19 |
0 |
19 |
14 |
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16 |
Dave Thompson |
18:15:00 |
20:03:00 |
1:48:00 |
17 |
0 |
17 |
13 |
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17 |
Steve Anderton |
18:07:30 |
DNF |
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I was surprised when I turned up to see so many of you all
ready to start, sorry for that and reducing your time in the
pub. I planned the course to cross the valley road a few
times with hopefully exploring paths that you weren’t too
familiar with. For me it’s not the finding of the
checkpoints, it’s the exploring of new areas and seeing
familiar areas from a different perspective. I tried to make
the checkpoints simple with hopefully not too much scope for
going off-piste and upsetting the local landowners.
The way I’d numbered the controls seemed to set most people
off down the west side of the valley skirting all the farms
and ending up at Seave Green before they knew it and getting
short of time for the run back up the valley which wasn’t so
straight forward. Dave Allison (Scottish over 50 score
champion) flew round in an amazing time of 1:41 and the only
one getting all the checkpoints. If my scoring was right
Vince was second who went to all the checkpoints but
couldn’t find the lock on the gate and a very fit Bob Howe
blasting round in 3rd. Thanks for all the appreciative
comments, it makes it all the more worthwhile, Cheers, Ian.
Good to see a couple of newcomers, Ian's mates, from Esk
Valley, Bill P |
Please note that there were no
penalties as Ian hadn't scored the the controls. |
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NiteNav 3 Results: - Gribdale
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3rd Race (Bill & Steve) 10th June 2014 - Gribdale |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
C.P. Pts |
Pts Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
18:01:00 |
19:32:00 |
01:31:00 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
30 |
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2 |
Mark Edwards |
17:58:00 |
19:44:35 |
01:46:35 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
28 |
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3 |
Keith Wilson |
18:04:00 |
19:47:30 |
01:43:30 |
645 |
0 |
645.0 |
26 |
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4 |
John Smith |
18:05:00 |
19:49:30 |
01:44:30 |
645 |
0 |
645.0 |
25 |
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5 |
Ged Webster |
17:57:00 |
19:47:30 |
01:50:30 |
645 |
0 |
645.0 |
24 |
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6 |
Martyn Hudson |
17:55:00 |
19:55:00 |
02:00:00 |
635 |
0 |
635.0 |
23 |
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7 |
Bref O'Rourke |
17:59:00 |
19:59:00 |
02:00:00 |
510 |
0 |
510.0 |
22 |
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Mick Power |
17:59:00 |
19:59:00 |
02:00:00 |
510 |
0 |
510.0 |
22 |
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9 |
John Wood |
18:06:00 |
19:42:00 |
01:36:00 |
140 |
0 |
140.0 |
20 |
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This was an evening of very mixed weather. On the way up
Dykes Lane the rain began to bounce down with even some hail
stone thrown in for good measure. Once parked up no one
appeared too keen to get going! However, in a very short
time the sun came out and we had a lovely evening from then
on with only an odd cloud that 'threatened'. We were a bit
thin on the ground with only 9 runners and walkers probably
due to a few recovering from the weekend's LAMM and perhaps
some on holiday.
Due to the size of the area there was plenty of scope for
controls so both sides of Gribdale were used, i.e. Great
Ayton Moor/Newton Moor to the north and Coate Moor to the
south, linked by Lonsdale/Percy Rig. A couple of controls
had been recycled from previous NiteNavs and fortunately
nobody managed to remember the answers. Sorry about the
missing padlock near Lonsdale farm. It was there on Monday
night - honest gov.......
Once again, in true fashion, David (the machine) Allison
absolutely blitzed around the course in an astonishing 1hr
30m over 15 minutes ahead of second place Mark Edwards,
fresh back from injury. Third man home was newcomer (a
veteran but new to our NiteNavs) Keith Wilson. Only the
first two managed to bag all the controls, worth 700 points,
and everyone managed to return 'penalty free' (just).
Thanks to all who turned up and for the positive comments -
Bill & Steve.
The next NiteNav will be on July 8th from the Lion, Blakey,
courtesy of Martyn Hudson. See you there. |
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NiteNav 4 Results: - Lion Inn
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4th Race (Martyn Hudson) 8th July 2014 - The Lion, Blakey |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
C.P. Pts |
Pts Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
18:05:00 |
20:09:00 |
2:04:00 |
460 |
20 |
440.0 |
30 |
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2 |
Mark Edwards |
17:50:00 |
19:27:00 |
1:37:00 |
250 |
0 |
250.0 |
28 |
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3 |
Dave Thompson |
17:54:00 |
19:35:00 |
1:41:00 |
250 |
0 |
250.0 |
26 |
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Aaron Wilkinson |
17:54:00 |
19:35:00 |
1:41:00 |
250 |
0 |
250.0 |
26 |
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5 |
Steve Hutchinson |
18:11:00 |
20:29:00 |
2:18:00 |
335 |
90 |
245.0 |
24 |
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Glyn West |
18:11:00 |
20:29:00 |
2:18:00 |
335 |
90 |
245.0 |
24 |
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7 |
Mick Power |
18:08:00 |
20:14:00 |
2:06:00 |
265 |
30 |
235.0 |
22 |
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8 |
Bref O'Rourke |
18:08:00 |
20:31:00 |
2:23:00 |
335 |
115 |
220.0 |
21 |
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9 |
Bill Pennell |
17:55:00 |
19:54:00 |
1:59:00 |
185 |
0 |
185.0 |
20 |
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Ten runners turned up for the Rosedale Nav which is usually
down on numbers because of the distance to get out there.
The Nav was designed as a circular with the points thought
about careful in order to challenge runners to think about
strategy. The central challenge seemed to be to evade irate
farmers however. The course was planned on both sides of the
Rigg in Rosedale and Farndale. Most runners chose the
Farndale route although the right of way from the pile of
stones near the old railway into Farndale was further to the
North West leading to some rather creative route choices.
Most of the points could have been picked up in Rosedale and
only Dave Allison made the most of both valleys going out to
the war memorial at Hilltop. Although he was late back he
clearly picked up most points. Other runners also accrued
penalties for late returns. The weather held off but the
cloud formations on the evening were amazing for the time of
year and in such lovely places as Farndale and Rosedale.
The next NiteNav will be on July 29th from Toft Hill,
Kirkby, courtesy of Trevor Symonds. See you there. |
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NiteNav 5 Results: - Toft Hill,
Kirkby
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5th Race (Trevor Symonds) 5th August 2014 - Toft Hill,
Kirkby |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
C.P. Pts |
Pts Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
18:09:00 |
19:34:40 |
1:25:40 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
30 |
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2 |
Mark Edwards |
18:02:00 |
19:35:36 |
1:33:36 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
28 |
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3 |
Bill Pennell |
18:00:00 |
19:55:41 |
1:55:41 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
26 |
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3= |
Keith Wilson |
18:00:00 |
19:55:41 |
1:55:41 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
25 |
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5 |
Bob Howe |
17:50:00 |
19:46:33 |
1:56:33 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
24 |
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Bref O'Rourke |
17:50:00 |
19:46:33 |
1:56:33 |
200 |
0 |
200.0 |
23 |
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7 |
Steve Hutchinson |
17:55:00 |
19:53:20 |
1:58:20 |
170 |
0 |
170.0 |
22 |
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8 |
Richard Tait |
18:11:00 |
20:18:01 |
2:07:01 |
160 |
14 |
146.0 |
21 |
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A fine and dry night saw 8 hardy soles attempt a course that
included a fair amount of climb. This was deliberate as the
next nite nav is on the beech so wanted to mix it up a bit.
Starting from the Toft Hill scout camp eliminated any road
work from Kirkby and saw competitors hitting the climbs
within a few hundred yards. It was good to see competitors
heading off in different directions and attempting the route
both clockwise and anti clockwise. It was also great to see
Dave and Mark appear from different directions to race each
other for the line. The route was obviously evenly biased,
either way, as they had started very close together. Thanks
to everybody for turning up and for the good comments both
on the night and via email, it makes organising a pleasure,
Trevor.
The next and final NiteNav of this summer series will be
from Redcar, Coatham Sands, courtesy of David Allison. See
you there. |
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NiteNav 6 Results: - Coatham Sands
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6th Race (David Allison) 19th August 2014 - Coatham Sands,
Redcar |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Control Points |
Penalty Points |
C.P. Pts |
Pts Total |
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1 |
Vince Connolly |
18:10:00 |
19:55:04 |
1:45:04 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
30 |
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2 |
Trevor Symonds |
18:20:00 |
20:08:02 |
1:48:02 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
28 |
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3 |
Mick Garratt |
18:00:00 |
19:51:11 |
1:51:11 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
26 |
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4 |
Mark Edwards |
18:02:00 |
19:55:06 |
1:53:06 |
700 |
0 |
700.0 |
25 |
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5 |
Bob Howe |
18:04:00 |
19:59:22 |
1:55:22 |
680 |
0 |
680.0 |
24 |
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6 |
Keith Wilson |
18:01:00 |
19:57:55 |
1:56:55 |
650 |
0 |
650.0 |
23 |
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7 |
Paul Haydon |
18:03:00 |
19:56:54 |
1:53:54 |
600 |
0 |
600.0 |
22 |
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8 |
Mick Power |
17:02:40 |
19:03:19 |
2:00:39 |
580 |
0 |
580.0 |
21 |
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Steve Hutchinson |
17:02:40 |
19:03:19 |
2:00:39 |
580 |
0 |
580.0 |
21 |
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Glyn West |
17:02:40 |
19:03:19 |
2:00:39 |
580 |
0 |
580.0 |
21 |
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Rob Bailey |
18:22:30 |
20:24:02 |
2:01:32 |
570 |
5 |
565.0 |
18 |
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12 |
Bill Pennell |
17:54:00 |
19:59:37 |
2:05:37 |
550 |
25 |
525.0 |
17 |
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Ged Webster |
17:54:00 |
19:59:37 |
2:05:37 |
550 |
25 |
525.0 |
17 |
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14 |
Jackie Symonds |
18:20:00 |
20:24:02 |
2:04:02 |
340 |
20 |
320.0 |
15 |
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15 |
John Wood |
18:15:00 |
19:52:00 |
1:37:00 |
290 |
0 |
290.0 |
14 |
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16 |
Isla Mathieson |
18:22:30 |
20:24:02 |
2:01:32 |
290 |
5 |
285.0 |
13 |
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One summer’s evening a couple of years ago I parked up at
Majuba Road Car Park a went for a run along the beach and
onto the South Gare. When coming back through the sand dunes
and post industrial landscape I thought it would be a great
area for a night nav. A turnout of 16 people (in the summer
hols period) and everyone’s comments afterwards suggests
that you agreed with me. As an added bonus there was a
rainbow visible over Redcar at the start for some starters
and the later finishers also got To see a great sunset.
There is loads of detail and fascinating industrial
leftovers the area, particularly as you get further west in
amongst the ponds by the steelworks and onto the Gare. As I
was using a scanned map I tried to use obvious features –
several of which I added to the map myself – as well as
planting a plastic fork on a man made island in the middle
of the boating lake (control no.8).
Congratulations to Vince on getting around all the controls
just under 3 mins ahead of Trevor, who was just ahead of
Mick G and Mark. Special mention to John who burst into a
sprint finish (yes really!) at the end, David |
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Final Positions for Summer 2014
Series:
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Smelly Helly Summer NiteNav Series 2014 |
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Pos |
Name |
Race 1 |
Race 2 |
Race 3 |
Race 4 |
Race 5 |
Race 6 |
Pts. Total |
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1 |
David Allison |
30 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
120 |
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2 |
Mark Edwards |
23 |
23 |
28 |
28 |
28 |
25 |
109 |
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3 |
Bill Pennell |
25 |
25 |
23 |
20 |
26 |
17 |
99 |
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4 |
Bob Howe |
24 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
24 |
98 |
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5 |
Trevor Symonds |
28 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
23 |
28 |
93 |
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6 |
Steve Hutchinson |
22 |
18 |
21 |
24 |
22 |
21 |
89 |
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7 |
Bref O'Rourke |
20 |
18 |
22 |
21 |
24 |
0 |
87 |
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Mick Power |
22 |
18 |
22 |
22 |
0 |
21 |
87 |
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9 |
Keith Wilson |
0 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
26 |
23 |
75 |
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10 |
Martyn Hudson |
26 |
24 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
73 |
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11 |
Glyn West |
22 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
0 |
21 |
67 |
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12 |
Ged Webster |
0 |
22 |
24 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
63 |
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13 |
Vince Connolly |
0 |
28 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
58 |
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14 |
Mick Garratt |
0 |
19 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
45 |
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15 |
John Smith |
0 |
15 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
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16 |
Dave Thompson |
0 |
13 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
39 |
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17 |
John Wood |
0 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
34 |
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18 |
Aaron Wilkinson |
0 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
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19 |
Paul Haydon |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
22 |
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20 |
Mike Quinn |
0 |
21 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
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Richard Tait |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
0 |
21 |
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22 |
Mark Johnson |
0 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
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23 |
Rob Bailey |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
18 |
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24 |
Jackie Symonds |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
15 |
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25 |
Isla Mathieson |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
13 |
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26 |
John Anderton |
0 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
Best 4 results of 6 Races to count.
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Twilight
Special - Clay Bank (West Side)
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Twilight Special (Steve & Bill) 24th September 2014 |
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Pos |
Name |
Start Time |
Finish Time |
Total Time |
Controls |
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1 |
Ian Hodgson |
18:08:00 |
19:07:44 |
0:59:44 |
6 |
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2 |
Mark Edwards |
18:04:00 |
19:07:18 |
1:03:18 |
6 |
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3 |
David Allison |
18:01:00 |
19:06:50 |
1:05:50 |
6 |
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4 |
Wai Cheung |
18:06:00 |
19:16:50 |
1:10:50 |
6 |
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5 |
Trevor Symonds |
17:47:30 |
19:03:14 |
1:15:44 |
6 |
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6 |
Paul Haydon |
17:44:00 |
19:03:08 |
1:19:08 |
6 |
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7 |
Bref O'Rourke |
17:51:00 |
19:22:00 |
1:31:00 |
6 |
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8 |
Mick Power |
17:51:00 |
19:45:30 |
1:54:30 |
6 |
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9 |
Mick Garratt |
17:58:30 |
19:36:25 |
1:37:55 |
4 |
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10 |
John Wood |
17:59:30 |
19:23:00 |
1:23:30 |
3 |
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11 |
Julie Cheung |
17:56:00 |
19:39:00 |
1:43:00 |
3 |
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Claire Taylor |
17:56:00 |
19:39:00 |
1:43:00 |
3 |
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The last NiteNav of this summer was the twilight event and
was ran as a 'Norwegian Style' event with only the first
control grid reference supplied. The NiteNav was from Clay
Bank car park and covered the moorland area and woods on the
west side, around Hasty Bank, and Cold Moor. The route was
set out an a figure of eight with a long distance between
control 2 and 3 and gave the runners a decent run out -
about 5.5 miles. The night started out very wet but
eventually dried up and the midges came out in force,
especially at the car park! There was a little confusion at
first re: the concept but most finaly managed to grasp it
(this is the 5th time we've organised this style of event).
Paul was the first out and returned first, with Trevor
chasing hard. Mark Edwards was looking favourite to take the
crown having beaten reigning champion David Allison's time
only to find Ian Hodgson sprinting down the road from the
opposite direction a few seconds later, in less than an
hour. When Steve and I set out the controls we each took a
different route back from the last control. Steve opted to
return via the lower forest track and I climbed back up to
the moor edge path and Steve returned around 4 minutes
quicker and even admitted to having walked the long climb.
If Ian had stayed low and returned via the lower route we
probably would have finished around 55 minutes. Thanks to
everyone who turned up, despite the rain. The winter series
starts in October, the first one being on Tuesday 28th, from
Gribdale courtesy of Steve and Bill. See you there. (P.S.
Organisers required for the winter series). |
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