LAMM 2012

[Freefall]

Looking forward to another rain lashed event as this year's LAMM location has been announced as Ben Cruachan. I am still recovering from the Jubilee Five and the last couple of days as a general dogsbody at WTOC2012 (yesterday had atrocious weather all day). Fortunately we had haar instead today at the Model event. Gales tomorrow I believe...
See some of you there - Duncan Archer is keen to defend his title.

[ba-ba]

Day 1 courses/results are available here: http://www.lamm.co.uk/

Overnight results (top 3s - plenty of other Orienteers dotting the upper reaches of the results sheet.):

Elite (38km/2050m)
1st Duncan Archer (2) + Jim Mann (1) M 07:10:28 that's a pretty handy lead
2nd Chris Burn (5) + Francis Blunt (3) M 07:53:36
3rd Alasdair Anthony (3) + Dan Gay (6) M 07:57:31

A (32km/1800m)
1st Andy Fallas (3) + Helen Bonsor (1) MIX 06:05:10
2nd Andrew Llewellyn (2) + Sarah O'Neil (2) MIX 06:21:58
3rd Richard Dearden (5) + Tom Gomersall (8) M 06:23:02

B (26km/1750m)
1st George Peplinski (7) + Jacques Penderis (3) M 05:35:02
2nd Ben Wallace (7) + Keri Page (5) MIX 05:40:13
3rd Jon Marsden (1) + Ian Webb (0) M 05:40:20

C (23km/1500m)
1st Donald Brown (8) + Ian Pledger (7) MV 04:44:30
2nd Tim Gomersall (2) + Jack Gomersall (0) M 04:48:52
3rd David Hunt (5) + Daniel Carrivick (2) M 05:13:02

D (19km/1500m)
1st Mick James (7) + Sam Guest (0) M 04:28:41
2nd Scott Elbourne (2) + Alistair Hearn (0) M 04:43:05
3rd Neil Campbell (2) + Andrew Campbell (0) M 04:54:03

Score
(25c/7hrs)
1st Kenny Leitch (8) + Keith Masson (5) MV 230
2nd Pat Bartlett (9) + Ben Stansfield (6) M 208
3rd Angus Davidson (3) + John Mitchell (2) M 200

Sounds like tough courses - Elite started high, then dropped down to sea-level before summiting a 1000m+ Monro before losing a lot of the hight again on the way into overnight camp.

It would also seem one competitor proposed to his partner. What fool carries around the extra weight of a ring...?!

[Paul Frost]

I've just put up the Day 2 courses.

[andypat]

Paul - Day 1 courses for Elite, A and B not showing up on RG for some reason.

[smf]

Paul - Day 1 courses for Elite, A and B not showing up on RG for some reason.

I can see them. Try zooming out, there are three different starts Elite+A, B and C+D.

[ba-ba]

Overall results:

Elite
1st Duncan Archer (2) + Jim Mann (1) M 07:10:28 (1) 05:49:43 (1) 13:00:11
2nd Chris Burn (5) + Francis Blunt (3) M 07:53:36 (2) 06:14:53 (3) 14:08:29
3rd Iain Whiteside (1) + Ondrej Mandula M 08:11:04 (4) 06:02:01 (2) 14:13:05
4th Alasdair Anthony (3) + Dan Gay (6) M 07:57:31 (3) 06:44:06 (4) 14:41:37

A
1st Andy Fallas (3) + Helen Bonsor (1) MIX 06:05:10 (1) 04:58:01 (1) 11:03:11
2nd Richard Dearden (5) + Tom Gomersall (8) M 06:23:02 (3) 05:11:39 (2) 11:34:41
3rd Andrew Llewellyn (2) + Sarah O'Neil (2) MIX 06:21:58 (2) 05:29:58 (3) 11:51:56

B
1st Ben Rowley (2) + Tom Rowley (4) M 05:55:16 (6) 03:58:51 (1) 09:54:07
2nd Ben Wallace (7) + Keri Page (5) MIX 05:40:13 (2) 04:16:41 (4) 09:56:54
3rd George Peplinski + Jacques Penderis M 05:35:02 (1) 04:31:42 (6) 10:06:44
4th Jon Marsden (1) + Ian Webb (0) M 05:40:20 (3) 04:36:03 (10) 10:16:23

C
1st Tim Gomersall (2) + Jack Gomersall (0) M 04:48:52 (2) 04:01:47 (1) 08:50:39
2nd Donald Brown (8) + Ian Pledger (7) MV 04:44:30 (1) 04:17:42 (3) 09:02:12
3rd David Hunt (5) + Daniel Carrivick (2) M 05:13:02 (3) 04:38:47 (10) 09:51:49

D
1st Mick James (7) + Sam Guest (0) M 04:28:41 (1) 04:12:24 (1) 08:41:05
2nd Scott Elbourne (2) + Alistair Hearn (0) M 04:43:05 (2) 04:29:36 (4) 09:12:41
3rd Neil Campbell (2) + Andrew Campbell (0) M 04:54:03 (3) 04:42:49 (7) 09:36:52

Score
1st Kenny Leitch (8) + Keith Masson (5) MV 230 (1) 181 (1) 411 13:02:12 99 13.5 466
2nd Pat Bartlett (9) + Ben Stansfield (6) M 208 (2) 175 (2) 383 13:01:20
3rd Peter Murphy (1) + Phil Vincent (5) M 165 (10) 165 (3) 330 12:06:50

[andypat]

Paul - Day 1 courses for Elite, A and B not showing up on RG for some reason.

I can see them. Try zooming out, there are three different starts Elite+A, B and C+D.

Thanks Simon - sorry Paul - not thinking laterally enough!

[Freefall]

Somehow sneaked into 6th place in the Veterans on the Score (out of 42). 28th out of 82 overall . Funny way to celebrate my 58th birthday today. I was going to give up this mountain marathon lark but there is obviously some life left in me.

[Paul Frost]

All the LAMM RouteGadgets are now up for both days.

[Duncan]

Any reason why the map used in Route Gadget isn't the actual map used in the race? There are a few paths and fences on the race map, presumably added for the race, but not on the map in RG.

[Paul Frost]

That was the map I was sent, as used in the Condes planning file.

[AncientFootsteps]

@Freefall
Yes well done - you pipped me by narrow margins at Scottish Champs last Saturday and Sunday and on Day 1 of the LAMM so it was almost a relief to see that you beat us by a clear 30 points yesterday.

[AncientFootsteps]

@Paul Frost
Apols if this has been asked many times before ...
For Score events/course is it possible to include the points value of each control on the RG map either as well as the control number or instead of it?
(Would this mean the organisers putting those values onto the map which is submitted?)
The effect would be to enable a more interesting comparison of Score strategies without continually resorting to a separate listing of control values (which got mushed in the rain anyway)

[Paul Frost]

@AncientFootsteps
The Condes planning file (which I used to generate the map image with the control circles and numbers) only had 10 points for every control which is why I didn't bother including them.
Looking at the control list spreadsheet it also has 10 points for each, it's only on the control descriptions per course that other points values are shown.
I hadn't picked up on it it this year (past years LAMM'sand OMM's do have the points shown) probably as the last few weeks have been very busy for me, so it was all done a bit last minute.
So apologies for missing it this time.

I've added a PDF of the control cards so that that people can see the points values per control, not ideal, but the best I can do after the event.

[AncientFootsteps]

Many thanks Paul