SLMM
2007 Report from Jon
Carberry
So
the SLMM is over for another year, and the “if-only” tales will abound for
the next few weeks.
In the past, like all good fisherman’s tales, truth and fiction get
blurred, as it all personal recollection and estimates as to where teams made
mistakes, and how much time it cost them.
Now however, with e-timing and some very good analysis software used in
the orienteering world, anyone to look at their leg splits and decides which
were good legs and which were bad legs.
The
software is good but not clever … it looks at your time relative to everyone
else’s for that leg, as well as your “pace” for each leg.
It doesn’t know how far you ran nor how much climb there was.
The settings I have used are the defaults, and they were looking for 25%
more split time loss than normal & 0.20 split time longer than normal.
So
who did make a mistake or two, and so put themselves in pole position for the
navigation trophy this year … read on.
It
should be pointed out that a number of things can effect a split time.
For example, on day 1 teams start then are given their control
descriptions for that day, some teams mark only the first control, while others
mark the whole course.
On day 2 control descriptions are handed out to everyone 30 minutes
before the first start, so everyone can mark on the whole course (& decide
their route for the day).
On day 1 it is a timed start, potluck who goes first and who goes last.
A later start on day 1 can be an advantage as there are other teams ahead
of you (& they can also be a distraction); While on day 2 the leaders, and
anyone with 45 minutes of their time, go first in a chasing start, first over
the finish line is the winner, however there are fewer teams on the course for
the early starters, and the teams chasing you can follow your every move.
Kirk
Fell class.
Karen
Nash/Rowena Browne (9th overall, and 1st female team)
Day
1:
No time lost, but if the Muppets behind you could navigate as well as
you, you would have dropped to 12th overnight from an excellent 7th.
Day
2:
Leg 1 lost 10:53.
Without this mistake you would have been between 6th and 8th
on the day, as it was you were 19th.
Total
Overall Time Lost: 10:54
Peter
Carter/Roger
Taylor
(21st overall)
Day
1:
Leg 1 lost 14:01 & on the run-in 4:59, total loss on the day was
19:00.
Without these loses you could have been as high as 11th
overnight.
Day
2:
No time lost, and the worst you could have done was drop from 23rd
on the day to 25th.
Total
Overall Time Lost:
19:00
Jim
Doherty/Roy Parkingson (44th overall)
Day
1:
Leg 1 lost 22:56 & leg 7 lost 29:41, total loss on the day 52:37.
Without these loses you could have been as high as 9th or as
low as 14th overnight.
Day
2: Leg 4 lost 27:21.
Without this mistake you could have been anywhere between 15th
& 18th on the day, rather than 48th.
Total
Overall Time Lost:
57:02
Harter
Fell class.
Kevin
Hesketh/Marian Hesketh (40th overall)
Day
1:
Leg 3 lost 15:31 & leg 5 lost 8:59, total loss on the day was 24.29
minutes.
Without
these errors you could have would moved up from 49th place to 31st
place overnight.
Day
2:
No time lost on day 2, at worst you could have dropped from 41st
to 48th on the day.
Total
Overall Time Lost:
24:29
Wansfell
class.
Jon
Carberry/Sarah Watkins (67th overall)
Day
1:
Leg 1 lost 12:01.
Without this lost could have moved from 58th to 51st.
Day
2:
Leg 4 lost 13:08.
Without this lost could have moved from 75th to 66th.
Total
Overall Time Lost 25:09
So
clear leaders for the navigation trophy at the moment are Roy & Jim …
Jon
Carberry
Apologies to Jon for so many of
blogger's cock ups before this final beautiful view!
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