2004 Archive

Ayrshire Orienteering Club

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JK 2004

Assembly Area JK Day 2

Phil speeds in

Finally the last control Day 2

Apres Relay

Vicky in flight

Sporting duo Bill and Katharine Melville bring to a close their 30 year association with Ayrshire Orienteering when later this month they head up north to Perthshire. They leave in the knowledge that through Cunninghame Orienteering Club they have introduced the sport to countless people in Ayrshire. Both have been keen drivers of the sport holding various posts in administration, organising numerous events both locally and nationally over the intervening years.

Like many orienteers Bill came into the sport from athletics. In the seventies following the first ever staging of the World Championships in Great Britain (held in Morayshire), he took over the presidential role and guided the club through a formative five years. Fife born Bill is an internationally known Sports Journalist covering athletics and curling in addition to orienteering. Never afraid to be controversial, his in-depth knowledge and his familiarity with the sporting "stars" gives new perspectives and makes for informative reading.

Katharine took up orienteering around the same time going on to be secretary for a number of years. Her infectious enthusiasm for the sport coupled with her commitment to young people’s education led her to found the very successful Ayrshire Schools Championships which sees hundreds of primary and secondary schoolchildren train and compete every year. Launched in 1989 and first staged at Irvine Beach Park, it became an immediate success and continues to attract throngs every year.

The farewell dinner and presentation held recently in Loans was a fitting tribute to two giants who have contributed so much to Ayrshire sport

ARCHIVE 2004

South Ayr Track Event 29th Feb 2004

Thanks to everyone who came along to Belleisle on Sunday and ran around Alloway, Doonfoot & South Ayr. I hope you enjoyed it - I tried to include a few places that you may not have come across before . It's always tricky running on a map like this when you're used to running on an O map with so much more detail so sorry for those of you who met with terrain, fences, tunnels etc that you weren't expecting !

I was concerned about using our controls and punches in some very public areas - I used a mixture of lockable ones and conventional ones on canes. All the controls were recovered OK although 2 punches were broken - one of which was obviously vandalism and the other may have been an accident. That's probably a fairly good result for an event such as this.

Attached are the results - congratulations to winners Dougie Condy (Short) and Mel Perry (Long) . And to Chris Smith who's given me an idea about a new class for next year.

Andrew Armstrong

		Points	Penalty	Net Score
1	Dougie Condy	160	20	140
2	Fiona Smith	100	0	100
3	Pat Flanagan	90	0	90
4	Brigid Flanagan & Dervla Corrigan	80	5	75
5	Charlie Woodward	80	15	65
6	Catherine & Jane Cherry	30	0	30

	Cara Dooley / Renata McGuiness			Unranked
	Jude Smith & family			Unranked

		Points	Penalty	Net Score
1	Mel Perry	210	0	210
2	Phil Smith	230	30	200
3	Bob Cherry	200	5	195
4	Tommy Begley	210	35	175
5	Pam Clelland	130	30	100
6	Stewart Durham	130	35	95
7	Trish Woodward	100	15	85
8	John & Scott Dooley	80	0	80
9	Ross & Dougie McKeith	100	30	70