30 Nov 2003
Event: Ambersham Common, Midhurst
OO Trophy at Ambersham Common (GO), 30th November 2003
The doom and gloom and hail and rain, predicted by the weather forecasters, failed to materialise for today’s colour-coded (or “district” to use the new terminology) event near Midhurst in the South Downs.
There were several hundred competitors for the Occasional Orienteers trophy, named after a now defunct club. The terrain was wet underfoot, but reasonably easy physically and technically. I made just one significant mistake – switching off and losing contact with the map in the easiest part of the course of all, causing me to overshoot – not more than a minute was wasted though.
It was nice to finish in the top half of the results list and run under 9 mins/km, but of course that was because all the really good people were running a course up…
Official results are here.
| Date | Event | Physical Difficulty | Technical Difficulty |
Weather | Mins/km (lower is better) |
Winner’s mins/km on top course |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2003 | SN Trophy: Long Valley South |
Moderate | Moderate | Rain | 9.8 | 6.7 |
| 16 Nov 2003 | The Mitre: Epping Forest East |
Easy | Hard | Sunny | 10.7 | 6.1 |
| 30 Nov 2003 | OO Trophy: Ambersham Common |
Easy | Easy | Sunny | 8.4 | 6.1 |