Posted on Mon, 17th June 2019 by Jason FalconerHello Midsummer week! It might not feel like it but it is, and the events keep coming thick and fast in Orienteering world.
WSX runners were away again for the Bristol Orienteering Blast weekend, which was a double Urban Saturday and Sunday. Saturday Jolyon picked up a 3/ 36 in the Urban! Nice running. Lyra bagged the first again, her score shown here with the others on that Junior course- really shows how shes achieving at an early age. Well done Medlocks, Rob Hick also went along.
Sunday at Thornbury I cant see any WSX runners– correct me if I’m wrong.
Locally I was asked to put something on for part of the UK Cycling event for Bike Week In Blandford, using the Milldown we put out a score event for families. Lots of reasons for that as the Milldown School over the road was the last school I mapped, the SOC event at Peartree Bridge was cancelled, and also I could fundraise for Sustrans on the site, which was right on the Blandford- Stur Newton trailway National Cycle Network a 9 mile section of old railway, and you know how much I love trains and railways. As it went the rain came in at exactly the time of starting which meant low foot fall, however there was one family that were from Milldown Primary- and we had about 15 people out with a couple of WIM members showing up for a run- thanks for coming and to my helpers Dick Keighley and the Bridles, couldnt have done it without you.
Sunday there was also the Devon Relays in Tiverton, two WSX teams and the top time was our Wessex Raider, as with all relays the handicaps are applied and that took us to 3rd.
heres the team results- and individual results and report
| WSX Raiders | 10 | 00:34:40 | penalty | time after penalty | time after handicap and penalty 00:24:40 | Overall Positions
3 |
| Status QO | 12 | 00:34:41 | 00:22:41 | 1 | ||
| Devon Dreamers | 13 | 00:37:01 | 00:30:00 | 01:07:01 | 00:54:01 | 7 |
| Devon Drifters | 15 | 00:43:40 | 00:28:40 | 4 | ||
| Islington Flyers | 25 | 00:48:21 | 00:23:21 | 2 | ||
| WSX Wanabees | 28 | 00:56:57 | 00:30:00 | 01:26:57 | 00:58:57 | 8 |
| QOS Feet | 10 | 01:00:20 | 00:50:20 | 6 | ||
| QO Mumo | 23 | 01:06:06 | 00:43:06 | 5 | ||
| C Juniors Kids Pro Quo | 28 | 01:43:04 | 01:44:04 |
Rogers write up:- “On Sunday the Wessex Raiders and Wannabee teams headed to the Devon Relays near Tiverton. It was a Harris style relay with a handicap system that did not seem to favour teams of younger runners. The Raiders team consisted of Roger, James and Peter, and as Peter admitted to be rather tired after a 16 mile training run the previous day, he opted to tackle the more technical controls in the wooded section while James and Roger headed out to sweep up those in the open parkland. Roger and James were back first and seeing Peter approaching decided to hold open the last gate for him to save a few seconds. This proved to be very worthwhile because although they were third in the handicap competition (which counts for the SWOA summer series ) they won the trophy for the fastest actual time by just a single second !
This week we have a break from O. To return to racing the following weekend. Tuesday training again is ON. Enjoy the midsummer day this Saturday, it the only one this year
