Orienteering - Classy entry for Graythwaite Galoppen test (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Orienteering - Classy entry for Graythwaite Galoppen test

11:24am Thursday 28th April 2011 in Sport

A LARGE, classy entry of more than 400 contested Lakeland OC’s Cumbrian Galoppen event at Graythwaite Apart from the fine weather and school holidays, competitors were attracted from across the North of England and Scotland by the classic terrain and as a warm-up for the Easter weekend’s JK International event in Northern Ireland.

Lakeland competitors on the longest course, 8.2km brown, performing well against visiting elite runners were Heather Burrows (W21) fourth woman and 18th overall, 23rd Chris Heppenstall (M21), 24th Matthew Penellum (M18), 34th Nick Howlett (M40), 35th Carl Edmonds (M18), 37th Derek Ratcliffe (M50), 48th Malcolm Campbell (Warrior, M60) and 52nd Dorothy Pelly (W50).

Mike McIver (M21) was only seven seconds down to claim second fastest on the 5.9km blue with a fine run by Will Rigg (M16) at fourth. Adam Bartlett (M16) was second over the 4.5km green with Robert Browne (M21) third, Charlotte Somers-Cocks (W50) fourth, Natalie Beadle (W16) fifth and Steve Buckley (M50) eighth.

Injured elite standard Jack Wright (M18) “took it easy” on the 3.1km Short Green but was fastest by eight minutes over second-placed Dick Towler (M60) with Jackie Chapman (W50) third, Richard Lecky-Thompson (M45) fifth, Diana McClure (W60) seventh and Tim Field (M45) eighth.

Juniors in the top ten times were Hannah Cleary-Hughes (W14), fifth and Andrew Brockbank (M14) tenth on light Green. On orange, Hector Meanwell (Warrior, M12) was third, Ben Cooper (M14) fifth, Anna Clough (Warrior, W14) sixth, Lucy Ball (W12) seventh, Thomas Edmonds (M12) ninth and Grace Pugh (W12) tenth.