The 2016 East Anglian Championships were held on Sunday 14th February at Tunstall Forest.
Barbara George receiving her trophy from Paul Beckett (EAOA Chairman)
Congratulations to our NOR champions:
Our thanks go to SUFFOC for hosting the event.
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Note: Routegadget uses the map from 2013. There are a few differences that should not affect putting up your routes. The main changes are that on the map used for the event:
This was the first NOR event at which people could use the new SIAC cards (contactless punching). We are the first club in East Anglia to run an event that supports this new technology. No problems were reported, so it was a successful trial.
There will be an opportunity for club members to try the new SIAC dibbers as Sportident UK are going to provide us with 30+ of the new dibbers to trial at our event at Hockham on 6th March.
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This years East Anglian Championships will be held at Tunstall Forest on Sunday 14th February, 2016. For more information see the SUFFOC website.
Please can 2015 champions (Ella Gilbert, Leanne Bailey, Kim Eden, Sam Nicholls, John Ward, Jonathan Gilbert & John Harvey) remember to get their trophies engraved and if not attending personally, arrange for it to be taken to the event. The EAOA Chairman will hold the prize giving – weather, finishers and results permitting – as early as possible, hopefully starting before 2pm.
There is a list of 2015 Champions on the EAOA website.
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Lynford is a mostly pleasant but not particularly technical area, with little contour detail, so my main aim on the senior courses was to reward accuracy, good route selection, and concentration, all at speed. As usual in a working forest, the existing map was considerably out of date and at some point will need a complete overhaul. On this occasion a partial update had to suffice, so I can only apologise for any inaccuracies. Forestry work in the two days preceding the event led to one clear felled area unexpectedly changing from very slow rough open to super-fast!
I had originally intended to use the far Northern part of the wood, but needed only one look at it to realise that that should be saved for another year, following more surveying than time permitted on this occasion. This probably led to a reduction of variety on the longer courses, although I was able to test the Brown course runners with a sprint section around the Arboretum area towards the end instead!
Many thanks to Controller Graham Wardle for spotting my many errors, and for his helpful suggestions, and to the usual club stalwarts for all their help and support.
Phil Brown