Congratulations to SLOW athlete Ralph Street, who finished in 7th place at the Middle Distance Final event at the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2010 in Aalborg, Denmark. With a time of 25:27, Ralph was just 17 seconds behind the Bronze medal, and one second off a podium position.
Ralph Street at the opening ceremony (source: British Orienteering.)
Chris Fry has put together an operations manual for running SLOW park races. You can download the manual (PDF format) here.
Please contact Chris Fry (see the Contacts page on the website) if you would like to contribute to or update the manual.
South London Orienteers present Race 3 of the 2010 FROLICS (London Inter-Club) Series. Entry is on-the-day only.
Parking – Oxshott railway station, grid reference TQ141609.
Courses
Map – Updated 2010. 1:7500 or 1:5000 for shorter courses.
Registration – 0930 to 1130.
Starts – 1000 to 1200.
Facilities – Toilets. SportIdent (SI) electronic timing.
Fees
Public transport – Oxshott station is served by trains from Waterloo via Wimbledon and Surbiton.
Enquiries – Andy Robinson (fixtures (@) sloweb.org.uk) 020 8255 7176.
FROLICS – is a friendly inter-club competition run on the Light Green course, with a fiendishly complicated handicap scoring system which favours the less experienced – all courses are open to all-comers, whether beginners or experienced. See more details of the FROLICS series.
There will be a SLOW pub social at The White Hart, 29 Cornwall Road, near Waterloo East, on Friday 2 July from 6pm. Hope you can make it!
Photo by Ewan-M on Flickr
The third in the Park Race series of events was held in Battersea Park on Tuesday 8 June 2010. Over 100 people turned out in the dry, but not too hot evening, to run around the ornamental park in south-west London.
Yehuda’s course was a course of contrasts, mixing middle-distance style short legs in tricky terrain with some long legs along the various paths in the park, ensuring people were challenged right to the end and almost nobody had a fault-free run.
Congratulations to Todd Oates from Wellington Orienteering Club in New Zealand, who won the long course in 25:07. John Owens and Ed Catmur were in second and third place respectively. Congratulations also to Helen Gardner of SLOW, who was the leading woman (and 12th overall), posting a time of 30:43. Eva Wheeler and Becky Kingdon were second and third women.
Thanks to Yehuda Alon and Andy Robinson for planning and organising, Chris Robinson and Peter Huzan for managing the registration and downloads, Don McKerrow for manning the start, the control hangers and collectors, and the Prince Albert pub for providing an excellent venue.
The next race in the series is organised by LOK, next Thursday evening on Hampstead Heath. It is a mass-start score, starting at 7pm.
Last weekend, a small SLOW contingent was at Whippendell Woods, near Watford, for the South East Relay Championships, organised by HH. One team of three was entered in each of the Open (Blue, Green and Blue, run by Phil, Charlie Turner and Ed respectively) and the Handicap (Blue, Green and Orange, run by Yehuda, Libby and Heather).
It was a tight race in the Open event, with CHIG and SLOW neck and neck after Phil and Charlie’s run – just five seconds separated the leading two runners after two legs. Ed, as last leg runner, was able to pull away in the latter part of his run, giving SLOW the win for the third time in a row – SLOW becoming only the second club to have won the trophy three times consecutively. In the handicap race, solid runs ensured the team came home in 11th place out of 18.
South London Orienteers are organising orienteering for children and families, on Saturdays during June and July 2010 at the Hawker Centre (YMCA Kingston), between Kingston & Richmond.
The events take place on 12 June, 19 June, 26 June, 3 July and 10 July, from 2:30pm – 4:00pm.
See http://bit.ly/aWg2vh for the location.
An A5 flyer for the series is here.
For further information, please contact Development Officer, Christine Robinson, on 020 8255 7176 or development (at) sloweb.org.uk
Three SLOW members took part in this year’s Edinburgh Marathon. The course was fast and flat, looping out of Edinburgh along the coast to the east, but it was, for the second year in succession, a hot and humid day, and the sun took its toil on many people.
Ed Catmur raced around in 2:48:40, finishing 22nd out of a field of 9500 in his first marathon. On the way he ran 1:17:12 for the first half, recording a half-marathon PB. Ed was pictured on the evening TV news report featuring the race. Oliver O’Brien finished 1003rd in 3:34:22, also his first marathon, and Vicky Whaley finished 7930th in 5:17:26.
Race 1 – Bushy Park 2010 The first race of the 2010 season is over, the weather held and a good night was had by all.
Ed Catmur came home in 1st place on the 10k in 34:00, closely followed by Adam Stirk in 34:17 and Rob Blair in 34:38.
Louise Sylva won the 6k race in 29:54, with Phillip Craven a close second in 30:32
Full results are at http://www.sloweb.org.uk/results/20100511/
Entries are now open for Race 2 of the 2010 season
The next race will be on Tuesday 22 June 2010 – Ham Riverside
Start from The Hawker Centre (KT2 5BH)
Go to http://www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?eventid=320 to enter
For full details on the series go to http://www.sloweb.org.uk/trail/2010/
