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 |