Macclesfield Harriers E Group: Saturday 1st March - Dorchester Loop

Saturday 1 March 2014

Saturday 1st March - Dorchester Loop - with a twist

The Start

Yet again we were lucky - the 1st of March and a lovely spring morning for the first E Group Street-O.

20 group members came out and gave this new type of session 100% - it was interesting that most people said that they ran further and faster than usual - I wonder why that was.

After a short session about which way up the map should go and what the strange wiggly lines were all about everybody seemed keen to get going. We have a brief (!) warm-up everybody grabbed the maps and headed off to find the 21 controls on the course (nobody managed to get them all by the way).

We managed to get a few pictures from the course (below) but it was hard to keep track of everybody! ... the course and results are shown below as well.

There seemed to be a sense of achievement as each group returned (pretty much on time) and the general opinion was that it is something that we should do every so often (if anybody wants to get involved just shout out!).

The winning team

The team that won this first session was Catherine Walton and Louise Brown (it must be the new shoes...)

If anybody wants to know more about creating the maps and clue sheets then please visit the Open Orienteering website at www.oomap.co.u k

Well done everybody!

Neil and Alison

ps Please forgive us that a couple of 'controls' could have been better explained - it was a bit of a learning curve for us!