Twin Peak weekend 2014Manchester, 14/15 June
A few ESOC members competed at the annual Twin Peak weekend, organised by Manchester & District Orienteering Club. This year’s event was 2 days of urban orienteering, and competitors came from far and wide.
Saturday’s event was the inaugural Northwest Sprint Championships: a 2-part sprint, with the Qualifier at Platt Fields and the Final at the Fallowfield Campus of the Univeristy of Manchester, both in the south of Manchester. Platt Fields is a city park with a lake and stream, areas of grass, small hills, gardens, trees and bushes and some buildings. Fallowfield Campus has student accommodation with many courtyards, passageways and gardens, as well as a sports centre and sports grounds. The top ten from each class of the 1st race qualified for the A final, where they ran in reverse order, and everyone else ran in random order in the B final.
Sunday’s event was the City of Manchester urban race, starting and finishing in Castlefield in the heart of Manchester – this area has many canals, bridges, and complicated multi-level features. The surrounding commercial and residential area has buildings from various different periods, and includes the Cathedral, Town Hall and Exchange Square. This event was part of the 2014 UK Urban League. There are more details about this league, including the league tables, on the UK Urban League website.
The overall Twin Peak results are determined by adding together each competitor’s times from all 3 races. In Men’s Open, Andrew Dalgleish came 8th overall and Terry Johnstone came 21st overall.
Janice Nisbet and Brian Yates competed at Sunday’s event, where Janice came 4th in Women’s Supervet, and Brian came 32nd in Men’s Ultravet.
Full results and more details about the weekend are available on the Twin Peak 2014 page of the MDOC website.
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