I am in Southampton Orienteering Club in my second year of M55. By chance my photograph appears on the cover of the (June/July 1995) issue of Compass Sport. How Ned Paul managed to choose the split second I was stationary I do not know. It was taken at the last control of the National Event at Winterfold and I was about to achieve a relatively rare Championship standard.
Here is my first attempt at a picture on the web, taken at the British Relays at Mytchett.
I am a grade 3 controller, but have little desire to go beyond that as I feel that I can contribute more as a planner or controller than as an organiser and I have not organised a big event. Nevertheless I have controlled a badge event, been assistant controller at a National Event and controlled the British Student Championships in the New Forest a few years ago.
I only started running in the late seventies (my late thirties) when I discovered O so my speed is lacking. Complex open terrain is my preference; my nearest to perfect run was at the Torver National Event.
Biggest error: on Pembrey, 35 minutes on a 200 m leg, which I reckon as a 150 min/km error. Most recent significant boob: forgetting to take my compass on the second leg of the British Relays on Mynydd Cribiau.
Major achievements: winning 4 badge events; in a team that won the M/W55+ class in the 1997 JK, and the 1997 and 1998 British Relays, after a 2nd and 3rd in previous JK relays and a 3rd in an earlier British relay; winning the KIMM in 1985 (this is the truth, nothing but the truth, but of course not the whole truth).
Link to British Orienteering Federation.
Link to Compass Sport.
Link to my Peak Bagging Page
My work home page is here.
All opinions are my own.
Last update 17 April 2000
