Keyne-O 4: Willen

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Planner's Comments

Willen Lake in June was always going to lead to runners' courses. There were some controls further away from paths in the early drafts, but as the bushes grew they had to be removed one by one, with only one such control making it into the Run course which was a much tougher fight than planned for the first competitors. And in the few areas where I wanted the hedges to thicken, you could still short-cut straight between the controls in the Cathedral of Trees instead of facing an interesting route choice, and most of the vegetation boundary was deforested shortly before the event. Can't win!

So I'm grateful for so many positive comments by competitors who enjoyed their runs. The main control queried was the ruined stone wall (8 on Trot, 16 on Run.) The control was exactly where mapped and the description indicated it was to the south of the wall, but as it was on the tree next to the wall it was only seen when turning round at the wall corner if you came in the expected way. It could have been placed more obviously, but would have been a less interesting control as you'd have seen it well before the feature, so I hope it didn't spoil anyone's run where it was. Thanks to Steve with assistance finalising the courses and to Freya and Dorien for helping to collect controls after the event.

Ric Brackenbury

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Amble 3.2k
1	Lewis Muncaster	22:21
2	Team Rumsby	27:48
3	Team Nesb +1	28:15
4	Robert Easton	30:18
5	Hannah Freeman	30:38
6	Pears Family	30:40
7	Team GB	31:21
8	Tamar Hopkins	32:26
9	Diana Hailey	36:00
10	Isaac Hopkins	38:09
11	Alec Maldar	39:08
12	Alexander McCarthy	39:09
13	Liberty All Stars	41:40
14	Tasha Kent	43:21
15	STYLE	43:47
16	Richard Askham	44:00
17	Abbot Amblers	44:20
18	Grace Edwards	45:29
19	Conor Finan	45:35
20	Wendy Kent	45:40
21	Sunshine Stocktons	48:27
22	Sluggards	51:28
23	Nick and Tracey	51:50
24	Kathleen Begen	51:55
25	Amy and Jon	54:41
26	Paul Carr	54:50
27	Cheryl Liddiard	55:50
28	Nataliya Aleksieva + 5	66:40
29	Milly Askham	68:35
30	Tigers	69:40
31	Team Nash	84:00
Trot 5.3k
1	James Nisbet	32:54
2	Keith Downing	36:24
	Liz Phillips	39:48 (missed no. 16)
3	Ian McDonnell	41:11
4	Ian Byrne	41:50
5	Matthew Pembery	42:28
6	Deb and Jim Badgery	42:48
7	Rebecca Nisbet	43:46
8	Helen Nisbet	44:03
9	Ann Harris	46:13
10	The Marshalls	46:40
11	Dave Varty	46:59
12	Mark Salmon	49:02
13	Max Hornshaw	49:13
14	Roger Hailey	50:25
15	Team Ryan	51:22
16	David Easton	51:26
17	Luke and Arron	52:05
18	Emma and Izzy	52:44
19	Adrian Stainthorp	52:56
20	Tony Biggs	53:35
	Gideon Felton	58:36 (wrong no. 1)
21	Ros James	60:02
22	Hoopless Hikers	65:26
23	Viv Hodson	65:30
24	Richard Meredith	68:31
25	BDO Solo	69:25
26	June Fox	73:57
27	Slahuddeen	78:40
28	All Stars	79:55
29	Supercalifragilistic	83:05
30	Dave Matthews and Emma White	88:10
	Nicole Dunn	98:33 (wrong no. 1)
31	David and Maria Buckley	150:37
n/c	Steve Hardy	32:53
Run 7.0k
1	Richard Pownall	41:01
2	Ed Jones	42:15
3	Dorien James	42:18
4	Mike Capper	49:18
5	Daniel Hodson	50:01
6	David Hodson	51:23
7	Graham Pembery	57:04
8	Glyn Dimmock	57:51
9	Mike Shires	62:00
10	Catriona Buchanan	69:25
11	Eric Cooper	83:35
12	Ryan Cooper	87:32