Mixed Sprint Relay & Urban events, PerthLetham & Hillyland, 19 January 2014
ESOC’s urban enthusiasts took part in Scotland’s first mixed Sprint relay and also ran the associated Urban courses.
TAY and FVO collaborated to present 2 events on a new urban map that included Perth College. There were Urban orienteering courses available, and also a Sprint relay.
This was the first event to use a new mixed Sprint relay format, with 4 legs – female, male, male, female, and it was also a trial of touch-free SI punching. The Sprint relay courses were all around 3km in length and had a lot of gaffling, involving multiple loops and using double-sided maps, giving plenty of scope for confusion. The courses stayed within the college grounds, which were fairly hilly, with varied terrain including open parkland, scrub and the college buildings. The weather was quite wet, and underfoot conditions were often muddy. The Urban courses started in the college grounds and explored the housing estate to the west and south, which was also hilly, and had many alleyways and open areas amongst the houses.
ESOC had 2 teams in the Sprint relay:
Express (Claire Ward, Chris Lewis, Mark Wood, Heather Thomson) came 6th overall.
Extra (Sally Lindsay, Ian Pyrah, Terry Johnstone, Crawford Lindsay) were unfortunately disqualified after a missed control.
ESOC members in the top half of the results on the Urban courses were:
Short (22 competitors) – Ian Pyrah 5th, Roger Scrutton 6th
Medium (26) – Mark Wood 4th=, Crawford Lindsay 7th, Alastair Lessells 10th
Long (26) – Claire Ward 10th, Jonathan Ellis 12th
Full results and other details are available on the event page of the TAY website.
Some photos from the event are in the Mixed Sprint Relay album in ESOC's Google album archive.
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