BOSS 4 - "Another Day on The Farm"

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

The fourth events of the highly popular Bike Orienteering Summer Series (BOSS) was held at "The Farm" last Sunday.  This small map was well utilised by course setters Andrew and Nicole Haigh with numerous controls - creating a challenging, fun sprint course feel on the 75 minute score course design.  Thank you!

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And don't forget, if you want to get some last minute MTBO practice in before the start of the SuperSeries season (and the first of the National Series events), the final BOSS #5 is on in 2 weeks at Stanford Merthyr.

From course setter Andrew Haigh......

And another mud free BOSS event. The area dried out really well after all the rain we had a couple of weeks ago.

David Simpfendorfer cleared the course with 6 minutes to spare easily winning the mens category, Damian Welbourne was the only other competitor to clear the course but arriving back 7 seconds late cost him a point. Mel Simpson won the female category by 4 points over Mary Fein. That gives them two wins each heading in to the final event.

The farm area is a little over 1 km Square but proved to be just about big enough to give even the faster competitors plenty to think about. 39 controls Scattered throughout the area made for a multitude of route choices. Unfortunately large mine subsidence cracks appeared south East of control 2F early on the Saturday morning. They where monitored Saturday and Sunday by mine representatives. Fortunately they didn't worsen over night and I was able to danger flag the area and provide a bypass route early on the Sunday.

Thanks to Alan McCarthy the friendly land owner who not only lets us use his property, but spent a good portion of Saturday out on the course lopping latana and mowing grass for us. This is first time that I have carried secateurs during course setting, many of todays tracks where unrideable a couple of weeks back.

Thanks to everybody who came - Many people commented on how much they enjoyed it and that makes it all worthwhile.

Thanks to Greg Bacon, Greg Scott, Paul Griffith, Emily Harper & Brock Smith for Control Collection.

Thanks to Geoff Peel and Dennis Lyons for help on the Start/Finish Desk. and of course to Mick Kavur for being there at 6.30am ready and willing to help - Much appreciated today as I was dealing with mine subsidence and Nicole would have been setting up alone.

Oh, I had better thank Nicole too as always she deserves half the credit. Andrew

Location: Wakefield
Weather: Mild.
Setter: Andrew Haigh
Rego: Nicole Haigh
Start: Andrew Haigh
Finish: Denis Lyons, Geoff Peel
Setup: Mick Kavur
Control Collection: Greg Bacon, Greg Scott, Paul Griffith, Emily Harper & Brock Smith
Entries: 64