Results of Local Event at Kinnoull Hill, 6th September 2009

Organiser - Davie Frame

Yellow

Name	Club	Time (minutes)
David Downie	TAY	31
Breagh Kipling	Ind	37
Emily & Lise	TAY	38
David Kilburn + ?	FVO	43
McGuire Family	Ind	44
Nicholas Blow	TAY	67
Sukirti	Ind	67
Jack and Roos	TAY	69

Orange

Name	Club	Time (minutes)
Mike & Jamie Robinson	TAY	45
Laura Nicoll	TAY	46
Katarina Blow	TAY	51
Jennifer Williamson	TAY	51
Finlay Downie	TAY	55
Catriona Macintosh	TAY	59
Katherine Melville	TAY	83
Sasha Parkin	Ind	DNF

Light Green

Name	Club	Time (minutes)
Allan Downie	TAY	38
David Kilburn	FVO	44
Rob Thornton	TAY	86
Ian McCubbin	TAY	93
Chantelle & Pete	TAY	98
Ron Fraser	Ind	139

Green

46.29

Name	Club	Time (minutes)
Grahame Nicoll	TAY
Donald Smith	TAY	61.08
Bill Melville	TAY	68.41
Phil Smithard	KFO	71.32
Fiona Downie	TAY	77.32
Julian Blow	TAY	81.10
Angela Dixon	TAY	MP
Liz Fraser	TAY	MP
Mel Nicoll	TAY	DNF
nc Davie (Collecting contrls!)	TAY	44.45

See how they ran: Green course split times (Excel format)

Organiser's Comments

Around 46 runners turned up in various groups despite my pessimistic forecast of 'being lucky to reach double figures', so that made it well worth running the event. Great to see lots of TAY members and some of the local schoolkids enjoying a run as a progression from the schools programme.

Using the permanent markers makes for a slightly different planning experience. I found some of the posts quite hard to see initially, so I used kites for the shorter courses, but not on the green. They certainly make setting up in the morning dead easy as you dont need to put controls out, but they can also get buried in the undergrowth, so a bit of last minute panic gardening was required to ensure that small people could find them.

I did put out SI units on the Green, but using Dave Prentices new 'Mk 3 canes' with auxiliary custom formed SI attachment (fence wire and gaffer tape) made this a lot easier. I could still run fairly easily while holding 12 of the canes and carrying the SI units on a sort of bandolier which would have been an impossibility with T-bars.

Hopefully we will have the master maps sorted out in the near future allowing the permanent markers to be used at any time.

Thanks to Elaine for helping with registration and collecting the kites in after, and to Laura for helping out after her run.

Davie Frame

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David Sloan

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