Saxons OC - Kent Night Cup at Blean Wood

Thursday 26th Feb

 

Firstly, a reminder - next weeks KNC organiser Bridget wants your menu choices by Monday.

 

51 people made it to Blean, beating last years round total by 5. Luckily, some people worked as a pair using one map and we did not quite run out of the 50 maps we printed. I managed to leave the stack of maps I had from the last event at home too – which was to be our fall back (with non-pre-registered people having to draw up their own map.) But luckily, we did not need them. Various people didn’t make it and I hope Hick Hopes motorbike feels better soon.

This is my third time planning at Blean so I tried to make the route choice decisions to get the controls as hard as possible. I think I did a good job, although many started with 36 to open.

It was Alan Hickling who was the star of the night getting all 20 with 11 seconds to spare. His route: S-36-49-54-38-47-46-45-53-37-48-51-39-55-40-52-41-42-50-44-43-F.

Neil Speers was at #54 with 5 and a half minutes left and #43 left to collect. He gambled and ended up 2:35 mins late and losing a top 3 result.

Best lady of the night in second place overall with all but one control, was former Australian International Sheralee Bailey. Her route again was different S-36-49-54-38-44-50-42-41-52-40-55-39-51-48-37-47-53-45-46-F.

As planner, I am still not really sure what I would have done!

Great to see so many DFOKers and John Butler, now based in the NE, in the top 4, and Gordon Wilson have a super veteran performance. Also great to see the Ashford Explorer Guides out for another helping of KNC action and PARC in the usual healthy numbers. ACTIV have a bike training session Thursday Nights so only 2 of them made it. Also good to see the Kendalls back and slowly working their way up the results list.

The pub food was excellent and the prizes were plentiful for those who could stay. Even the Rambo video went.

Many thanks to my good pal Ady who helped me on the day/eve and collectors of the controls: Dave C, Sean C, Martin S, Steve W, Pieter de K, Sam H & Martin B.

Now I am based in Stockholm, I won’t be at any more KNCs this season – which is a shame! It is great to see midweek O thriving. The atmosphere in the pub, aided by Simon Holfords handing out lots of maps, was hugely encouraging. It is great to see so many people enjoying themselves both inside and out of the forest.

Current total of runs after this, KNC22, is 855 – so we are on target to get over 1000. Last year we had 819 runs after 25 rounds, so about 15% growth rate!

Have fun out there…

 

NickBarrable ( at ) hotmail.com, 07720 952241,

 

Pos.

Name

Age

 

Controls

Time

PP

TOT

KNCpoints

1

Alan Hickling

M40

SAX

20

0:59:49

0

20

40

2

Sheralee Bailey

W35

DFOK

19

0:56:20

0

19

38

3

Steve Waite

M55

SAX

17

0:56:50

0

17

36

4

John Butler

M55

DFOK

17

0:58:11

0

17

35

5

Gordon Wilson

M60

DFOK

17

0:58:29

0

17

34

6

Neil Speers

M40

DFOK

20

1:02:35

-3

17

33

7

Simon Greenwood

M50

SAX

16

0:56:47

0

16

32

8

Rachael Collins

W16

SO

15

0:56:29

0

15

31

9

Sarah Covey-Crump

W21

SLOW

15

0:57:04

0

15

30

10

Mike Elliot

M55

MV

15

0:57:51

0

15

29

11

Simon Holford

M35

SAX

14

0:56:12

0

14

28

12

Clare Howes

W18

SAX

14

0:57:16

0

14

27

13

Sarah Howes

W45

SAX

14

0:58:02

0

14

26

14

Mark Collins

M40

DFOK

14

0:58:47

0

14

25

15

Sean Cronin

M40

DFOK

17

1:02:01

-3

14

24

16

Dave Cave-Ayland

M55

DFOK

13

0:58:43

0

13

23

17

Mike Solomon

M60

SAX

12

0:57:40

0

12

22

18

Phil Craven

M50

DFOK

12

0:57:51

0

12

21

19

Martin Beckett

M21

PARC

11

0:56:26

0

11

20

20

Jillian Holford

W35

SAX

11

0:59:48

0

11

19

21

Becky Kingdon

W21

SAX

18

1:06:59

-7

11

18

22

Rowan Purkis

W50

SAX

10

0:58:34

0

10

17

23

Nick Gallavin

M21

SAX

10

0:58:35

0

10

16

24

Simon Chapman

M45

SAX

10

0:58:52

0

10

15

25

Peter de koning

M35

PARC

10

0:59:17

0

10

14

26

Andy Pitcher

M40

DFOK

11

1:00:13

-1

10

13

27

Graham Thomas

M45

SAX

9

0:53:45

0

9

12

28

Peter Bell

M21

SAX

9

0:54:07

0

9

11

29

Fiona Wilson

W45

SAX

9

0:55:26

0

9

10

30

Paul Carrick

M21

PARC

9

0:58:32

0

9

9

31

Anita Kingdon

W50

SAX

9

0:59:40

0

9

8

32

Samantha Hughes

W21

PARC

11

1:01:20

-2

9

7

33

Nick Freeman

M50

ACTIV

8

0:59:08

0

8

6

34

Mike Handley

M21

SAX

8

0:59:33

0

8

5

35

Robin Kendall

M40

IND

8

0:59:47

0

8

4

36

Martin Skinner

M45

WCOC

11

1:02:13

-3

8

3

37

Troy Humphreys

M45

PARC

7

0:46:47

0

7

2

38

Janet Harvey

W55

SAX

7

0:46:48

0

7

1

39

Scott Kendall

M14

IND

7

0:59:01

0

7

1

40

Amy Kendall

W14

IND

7

0:59:45

0

7

1

41

Beth Kendall

W45

IND

7

1:00:00

0

7

1

42

Nicki Barron

W45

SAX

8

1:00:15

-1

7

1

43

Rosie Head

W14

AEX

6

0:51:26

0

6

1

44

Miriam Hill

W14

AEX

6

0:51:33

0

6

1

45

Heather Hale

W21

AEX

6

0:51:35

0

6

1

46

Laura Bazley

W21

PARC

6

0:55:52

0

6

1

47

Katherine Howe

W21

PARC

6

0:55:54

0

6

1

48

Tim Higgins

M50

NONE

6

0:57:30

0

6

1

49

Cate Slade

W21

SAX

5

0:50:09

0

5

1

50

Nigel Hills

M50

SAX

4

0:54:47

0

4

1

51

Steve Burton

M50

SAX

11

1:07:59

-8

3

1

 

 

Next Events – www.saxons-oc.org

 

MAR

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

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

 

 



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