| The combined area of Halliday Hill and Brompton Dale gave a big entry an excellent evenings orienteering. Despite the areas long narrow shape, planner Andy Houlden produced some excellent courses through very runnable terrain for the time of year. The advantages of SI punching was very evident in this small area although the mystery of box 54 remains unsolved. With just three events to go some of the trophy categories are cut and dried but most are not yet resolved. Juniors were well to the fore on the Short course occupying five of the top nine places with Caistor Grammar entrants packing well with three in the first nine spearheaded by the improving Sam Offler. At the opposite end of the age spectrum four super-vets figured in the top fifteen on the Long course with HALO's Mike Smith highest placed in an excellent eighth. Running speed generally was swift and many have noticed how the standard has markedly improved compared to a few years ago (verified by reference the Poacher results archive here on the web site). Next week Poacher includes a new area: Brocklesby Park, a mixture of woodland and grassland. |