Thank you all for competing in the 2002 JOK Chasing Sprint. By-and-large it went very well: the courses were excellent; the chase was furious; and this year the excitement was enhanced by a superb commentary. There were, unfortunately, two hitches. First, the mass start for courses A and B was timed to include all those that had take 45 mins or longer on part 1. Since these courses, particularly A, proved to be more challenging than we expected, it was necessary to move the mass start back 15mins, to ensure there weren't too many people in the mass start. But this left only 45mins for mass starters before the SI units shut themselves off - apologies to those for whom this was not enough. Second, there was a mistake at the beginning of the chasing start which lead to a few competitors starting a minute earlier than they ought to have done. The results were adjusted appropriately, but it is impossible to know what effect this had on the competition. Again apologies to those involved. We will make sure these problems don't occur in the future.
I am extremely grateful to the many people who made the event possible. In no particular order thanks to, Jon Marsden for the superb courses, to Pete Huzan for handling postal entries, to Dave Currie for setting up the electronic entries and SI system, to Carol McNeill (LOC) for her help as controller, to the Marsden Family and Helen Pearce for their help with control hanging and organizing on the day, to Graham Walkden (LOC) for building the bridge and stile, to Richard Walker and Miles Sandys the tenant farmer and landowner of the car parking fields, to LOC and the Forest Enterprise for use of the area, to St. John's Ambulance, Wilf's and Compass Point for their services. Finally, and crucially, thanks to all the members of JOK who helped on the day and beforehand - you are too numerous to mention by name, but still remarkably few to have yet again carried off such a logistically complicated event.
The point of the JOK Chasing Sprint is to do something a little different from mainstream Orienteering and to have some fun. I therfore hope that you all enjoyed the day both as competitors and spectators as well as competing in the Sprint itself.
My thanks go to Carol for guiding us, the local knowledge and making sure the competition was fair. My thanks also go to the JOK and OUOC members, Helen Pearce and the rest of family Marsden for making it all happen.
You may run..........pigs might fly. I think this was pretty apt for Dale Park. You could run but only the few could orienteer fast. This was an excellent chance to practice.
Carol McNeill
Please send any queries to results@jok.org.uk
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