Mountain Devils Orienteering Club

 

SuperSeries Event #6 - 22 September 2007

Wingello State Forest - The LONG Sprint

 

The Official Report

Advertised as a sprint event, but planned as a middle distance event, SS6 was held on the south western end of the Wingello map, in an area only visited by long course riders and the Highland Fling in the last few years. Mass starts were combined with a combination of free choice and line course – the first few controls were free choice, followed by a line course to the finish.

A relatively small turnout – with only 50 riders registered – meant that there was plenty of parking space, and the starts weren’t too crowded. Rik Eagles had the laptop setup outside the little shed a local had kindly left by the side of the road some years before, and Carolyn Chalmers lent a hand with registrations.

Leanne Hart blitzed the short course, beating all the men home, whilst several newcomers had fun out in the forest – welcome to MTBO!

Jill McNaught made it a double for the women by winning the medium course, and beating the men’s winner, Graeme McLeod, by a bare five seconds, with Steve Richardson another nine seconds further back.

Katrin Van der Spiegel tried valiantly to make it an all female winning list, but our World Championship representatives would have none of that, with Paul Darvodelsky winning the long course from David Simpfendorfer, and Richard Mountstephens a few minutes further back. Katrin finished 5th overall on the long course, and 1st in the women’s category.

The Singlespeeder Perspective

Off to the event and we ended up at Forest Camp without a soul in site ... s***. Should have read the instructions on the entry form! Frantic phonecalls and Simon Nott finally got in touch. With some garbled code we managed to get to the event centre and start. Thanks Dave S for kindly starting to drive back to rescue us too!

The Mass start to the Long was fun. David West donned his Huw Kingston voice and sang out clear and bold instructions for those with the sense to listen (not the author). The flag was dropped and a blast up the fire trail. Lead out man was yours truly showing off on his singlespeed acceleration closely followed by our World Champ reps Larry and Darvo. By the time the tempo got up the geared guys rushed by and it was off to a long afternoon of pain and struggle.

Bill Kaloudis, on his first event, had an even tougher event having his Miry mapboard fall off within minutes of the start (I told him to get an R4 from Huw!) and riding a strategically difficult event with map in hand. To his credit (and his wife for telling him to "get back out there") he did not DNF and ended up with a 6th in Mens.

Jill started in typical post Oxfam trailwalker style with a bad sleep, a sore lower back and weak legs. But being a strategic event, she soon forgot her ailments and relished in blowing all medium riders away with an overall win of just 2 seconds over the best navigator in our group - Graeme McLeod. There is a rumour going around that Graeme has been training on the bike now in order to achieve his life’s MTBO dream - to beat Jill!!

For a 'sprint' event we were all knackered - all taking well over an hour to complete. I left everything out on the hills with the big gear and was grateful to get home, shower and eat anything.

Credits
Planning: David West
Organisation: David West, Rik Eagles
Registration: Carolyn Chalmers, Chris Eagles
SportIdent: Rik Eagles
Setup/Packup: Michael Roylance, Rob Prentice, Phill Frisardi
Control Collection: Huw Kingston, Chris Bayliss, Kate Chown, Jiri Cech, Simon Nott

 

Long Course - Women - 18.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		van der Spiegel	Katrin	BFN	1:27:25
2		Simpson	Melanie	NCN	1:49:14
3		Thomas	Sandra	BNN	2:23:55
4		Poulis	Parissa	RRA	2:45:00
		Bouttell	Margaret	GON	DNS
Long Course - Men - 18.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		Darvodelsky	Paul	BFN	1:17:06
2		Simpfendorfer	David	RRA	1:18:39
3		Mountstephens	Richard	BFN	1:22:34
4		Cech	Jiri	MDN	1:24:47
5		Kingston	Huw	MDN	1:30:06
6		Mackie	Hamish		1:32:46
7		Welbourne	Jeremy	NCN	1:33:34
8		Prentice	Robert	SHN	1:37:27
9		van Schie	Marcel	MDN	1:41:01
10		Bayliss	Chris	MDN	1:43:50
11		Behrens	John	MDN	1:53:34
12		Nott	Simon	MDN	1:56:56
13		Robinson	Steve	MDN	2:11:16
14		Harding	Phillip	BNN	2:16:42
15		Davis	John	SHN	2:20:14
16		Jones	Peter	MDN	2:36:57
17		Huempel	Kurt	MDN	2:47:19
Medium Course - Women - 12.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		McNaught	Jill	MDN	1:26:27
2		Chown	Kate	MDN	1:41:57
3		Mein	Rita	MDN	1:56:00
4		James	Betty	MDN	2:08:03
		Baker	Dympna	MDN	DNF
		Clarke	Petra	MDN	DNF
Medium Course - Men - 12.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		McLeod	Graeme	MDN	1:26:32
2		Richardson	Steve	MDN	1:26:41
3		Hackney	Tim	MDN	1:31:16
4		Hart	Lindsay	MDN	1:33:09
5		Weiss	Larry	GON	1:35:01
6		Kaloudis	Bill		1:39:18
7		Anderson	Jim	MDN	1:42:12
8		Currie	Peter	MDN	1:48:28
9		Bajenoff	Wayne	AWV	1:50:25
10		Davis	Paul	SHN	1:51:42
11		Filson	Bill	MDN	1:55:34
12		Whitton	Barry	MDN	1:55:54
13		Roylance	Michael	MDN	2:00:53
14		Davis	Matthew	SHN	2:06:02
15		Fonsny	Pierre	MDN	2:09:27
16		Oddy	Graeme	MDN	2:26:56
		Clarke	Bruce	MDN	DNF
Short Course - Women - 8.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		Hart	Leanne	MDN	0:49:57
2		Vero	Catherine		1:11:46
3		Little	Sue	MDN	1:17:45
4		Mortensen	Kate	MDN	1:25:22
Short Course - Men - 8.0km
Pl		Name		Club	Time
1		Vesey-Wells	Andrew	WHN	0:54:30
2		Spry	Robert	BNN	0:56:40
3		Perrott	Craig		0:57:21
4		Chalmers	Bill	NCN	1:02:40
5		Hughes	Lloyd		1:05:40
6		Bramma	Keith	MDN	1:25:24
		Isaac	Chris		DNF
Total Entrants 56