SSS13 - Warabrook

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Event: SSS13
Location: Warabrook
Weather: Fine with a cooling breeze
Organisation: Malcolm Roberts
Start: Malcolm Roberts
Finish: Josh Roberts, Rhiana Roberts
Entries: 95

Well we're getting toward the pointy end of the season and the main contenders seem to be holding there places. Is there still time left for a challenge?

This week's event may have been listed as being at Warabrook but we were lucky enough, if you so chose to do so, to run on the fringes of Newcastle University. This coupled with the nice areas that is the Warabrook lakes made for a pleasnat area for our afternoons activities.

Malcolm made a great job of setting ensuring plenty of route choices, although a few argued that you had to go out in an anticlockwise direction from the Uni side.

Next week we are at Acadia Vale and the organiser is encouragin us to bring along our swimming trunks. Does this mean a swim leg option?

Random notes from the scorer's desk ...
This week saw Russell and Carolyn Rigby join the 30's club in the attendance stakes, having reached the milestone of attending 30 consecutive events to date. Notably also, none of the 18 competitors with 100% attendance for this series as of last week, were prepared to give up their position on the attendance ladder and were all present this week.

Andrew Haigh has stamped his authority on the consistency competition, again collecting points in that category. His nearest rivals are still within reach. Mick Kavur is the highest placed chaser having launched a massive attack in recent weeks.

Andrew Morris has held the crown in the rookies competition for many weeks. However, this week Paul Griffiths decided Andrew had been at the top for too long and grabbed the #1 spot. Toy Martin is the best placed female rookie and will be very hard to beat.

At the business end of the season in the open individual men's comp, Stu Adams is showing that he means business. While Steven Todkill has held a solid lead from the very start of the season, Stu has recorded maximum points for the past four events entered, and closed the gap on Steven to be less than 10 points in arrears. The next four events are crucial for both Steve and Stu, and the stage is set for a battle to the end. Alex Massey is keeping them both honest and is poised to pounce if either Steve or Stu drop their guard.

The open women's comp is extremely well supported this year, with 15 individual women already having attended at least 10 events. Along the way, Kim van Netten has endured some heavy assaults on her dominance this season, but has kept bouncing back to further cement her position in the lead, well ahead of last year's winner, Nicole Haigh.

For those serious about finishing events on time (most of the time), Daniel Orr is the man to beat. If you can finish on time in most events and get your average (on time) time above 44:24 then Daniel is going to start losing sleep. Emily Harper thinks she can. Currently averaging 44:21, Emily has Daniel firmly in her sights. 

How about handicap rankings? This year a new comp was introduced to try to get a bit more value out of the handicapping system. What you need to do is gather up your six best placings in events, based on your handicap result for those events. Add these six placings together to get your handicap ranking tally (lowest tally wins). Callum Roberts did this and found he was leading this new competition, with an outstanding ranking tally of just 50. If you want to knock Callum off his perch, start by winning the handicap category at next week's event (meaning your placing, or handicap ranking for that event will be 1, reducing your best 6 tally considerably).  

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