Kent Night Cup – Round 17 –Benenden

Wednesday 21st January 2008

By kind permission of the Benenden School

 

45 takers, including a number of KNC newbies consisting mainly of Benenden School staff and Steve Burtons ACTIV crew. We hope to see you all again soon! Also a few new SAX members, so welcome to you too.

Firstly, can James Burton and Pete Broom mail me with how many controls you visited so we can get you in the results. You downloaded once but I needed a second copy of the splits to do the results. Then I can do the KNC points.

So the rain held off until later while we were in the very nice pub, The Bull at Benenden. It was wet in places underfoot however but fairly mild out of the wind. 41 seemed to cause a few problems. The hedge in the filed to the north east goes all the way to the forest. An error I forgot to correct on the original map, but it is passable where the hedge meets the forest there. Some people thought this was the edge of the field…  

I had decided to go for a using the map once, being a small area, rather than going for a 2 part score, or using odds/evens, or a dumbbell approach. This meant that quite a few people would get them all, many of whom would not have ‘got them all’ before, which should have been an interesting new experience. Then, in order to use up the remaining time, I thought a map memory exercise would be interesting. I would have certainly copied my route I ran the first time I think to some degree, but the trick is to get back in time. Without a map, this is the tricky part I think. Alan H won having got 8 extra. Neil S was second having gone for 9 extra but was 89 secs late. Good to see a new name in the top 3 – Justin Mills from SO. First lady was Rachael. Well done all.

The top 2 had nearly identical route – AH went 49-52-53-37-54-36-50-51-45-44-46-47-42-43-39-55-41-38-40-48-F with NS doing, from 43-41-38-55-39-40-48-F 

Extra Map Mem – AH – 49-53-37-54-52-46-47-48-F.  NS-49-52-53-37-54-36-50-46-47-F

So it was good to see 13 people get all the controls and head out for some more. Do check the results to see if any errors have crept in. I don’t think we’ll use this format again in a hurry but it makes a nice change. Results become more complicated and time consuming, and unless it is an ‘easy’ area like Benenden, map memory at night could be an issue!

Many thanks to the ever useful Martin Brice who sorted the printing of the maps for FREE and helped early set up of the event, Phil Craven for results help in the pub, and our lovely bunch of control collectors – Steve W, Becky K, Jerry P, Sean C, Martin S – I think that was all. Also thanks to Susan Bosher, our liason lady at Benenden who took part as well. Great stuff.

Next week we venture over the river into Essex for a HAVOC area special at Thorndon. Let me know if you are coming if you haven’t already, to reserve a map – I have 45!

NOTE – those travelling from the South and SE - 1.50gbp for Dartford Crossing (without a Dart Tag) but it is free after 10pm, so stay to the pub and save the toll fee on the way back!!

Good luck those running at the weekend.

 

Pos.

Name

Age

 

Controls

Time

PP

TOT

1

Alan Hickling

M40

SAX

28

0:55:53

0

28

2

Neil Speers

M40

DFOK

29

1:01:29

-2

27

3

Justin Mills

M35

SO

25

0:53:27

0

25

4

Steve Waite

M55

SAX

25

0:55:39

0

25

5

Sean Cronin

M40

DFOK

24

0:57:11

0

24

6

Rachael Collins

W16

SO

24

0:59:05

0

24

7

Martin Skinner

M45

WCOC

23

0:56:55

0

23

8

Sarah Howes

W45

SAX

24

1:00:49

-1

23

9

Jerry Purkis

M50

SAX

22

0:57:58

0

22

10

Nick Gallavin

M21

SAX

21

0:58:10

0

21

11

Becky Kingdon

W21

SAX

24

1:02:06

-3

21

12

Anita Kingdon

W50

SAX

20

0:55:47

0

20

13

Dave Cave-Ayland

M55

DFOK

20

0:56:38

0

20

14

Richard Purkis

M16

SAX

19

0:50:21

0

19

15

Simon Holford

M35

SAX

19

0:50:26

0

19

16

Sarah Covey-Crump

W21

SLOW

19

0:52:50

0

19

17

Nick Freeman

M50

ACTIV

18

0:53:07

0

18

18

Mike Solomon

M60

SAX

18

0:55:48

0

18

19

Graham Thomas

M45

SAX

17

0:50:58

0

17

20

Thierry Valle

M40

ACTIV

16

0:50:43

0

16

21

Charlotte Lane

W35

ACTIV

15

0:51:18

0

15

22

Steve Hambling

M21

ACTIV

15

0:51:22

0

15

23

Dave Kingdon

M55

SAX

14

0:49:46

0

14

24

Jillian Holford

W35

SAX

14

0:56:34

0

14

25

Martin Brice

M55

SAX

14

0:56:53

0

14

26

Steve Burton

M50

SAX

14

0:57:48

0

14

27

Tony Hufflett

M40

SO

13

0:55:25

0

13

28

Michael Spice

M35

ACTIV

14

1:00:39

-1

13

29

Phil Craven

M50

DFOK

16

1:02:51

-3

13

30

Cate Slade

W21

SAX

11

0:51:57

0

11

31

Fiona Wilson

W45

SAX

11

0:52:12

0

11

32

Hayley Collins

W16

SO

11

0:54:00

0

11

33

Julie Collins

W45

DFOK

11

0:54:03

0

11

34

Mark Collins

M40

DFOK

10

0:53:53

0

10

35

Linda Broom

W45

IND

10

0:55:29

0

10

36

Mike Handley

M21

SAX

14

1:03:35

-4

10

37

Joris Crouzet

M35

BEN

9

0:54:31

0

9

38

Penny Hubbard

W35

BEN

9

0:54:54

0

9

39

Lucy Boyce

W40

BEN

9

0:55:58

0

9

40

Chris Fahy

M55

BEN

11

1:01:33

-2

9

41

Janet Fahy

W40

BEN

11

1:01:35

-2

9

42

Janet Harvey

W55

SAX

7

0:56:47

0

7

43

James Burton

M14

SAX

0

0:57:10

0

0

44

Pete Broom

M50

SAX

0

0:57:36

0

0

plus

Bosher Susan

W

BEN

?

 

 

 

 

 

NickBarrable (at) hotmail.com, 07720 952241

 

Next rounds….(and other Night O events)

 

JAN 2009

Thus        22            LOK Street-O – Historic Hampstead

Sat          24            British Nights – Mytchett - SN

Mon    26        KNC 18 – HAVOC – South Thorndon – NB

 

FEB

Wed    4          KNC19-DFOK - Mereworth: Mark Collins

Thus        5              SONiC 5 – Chichester – Michael Merritt

Tues        10            SLOW NSL - Kingston

Thus    12        KNC20 – Hargate, Tunbridge Wells – Holfords

Thus    19        KNC21 – Tonbridge Street O – Jerry Purkis

Thus    26        KNC22 – Blean – NB

 

MAR

Thus    5          SONiC 6 & KNC 23 – East Grinstead Street-O – Bridget Hooper

Tues        10            SLOW NSL - Surbiton

Thus    12        KNC24 – Brede High Wood – mid Kent. – Anita Kingdon

Tues        17            Army Night Champs, Mytchett www.baoc.org.uk

Thus    19        KNC25 – Southborough Street O – Peter Martin

Thus    26        FINALE - KNC 26 – Hemsted – Fiona Wilson/Mike Solomon

 

APR

Tues        7              SLOW NSL - Pimlico

 

Notes: SONiC = Southdowns Orienteers Night Cup (6 rounds, 3 are combined with KNC) see www.southdowns-orienteers.org.uk

SLOW NSL (Night Street League) – 8 races, best 4 score www.sloweb.org.uk

LOK Street-Os – a couple of one offs - www.londonorienteering.co.uk

DFOK at www.dfok.co.uk