Congratulations to all OO Trophy winners and runners-up.
The Trophies and certificates will be distributed to recipients as soon as possible.

Senior Women	Name	Age Class	Club	Points		Junior Women	Name	Age Class	Club	Points
1	Jane Morgan	W50	SOC	107.6		1	Fiona Bunn	W12	TVOC	81.3
2	Kirsty Staunton	W55	WIM	95.6		2	Shona Masson	W16	SO	73.8
3	Diane Leakey	W55	SLOW	92.6		3	Maria Pereverzina	W16	HH	64.9
Senior Men	Name	Age Class	Club	Points		Junior Men	Name	Age Class	Club	Points
1	Colin Dickson	M55	BAOC	104.0		1	Peter Hodkinson	M20	OUOC	94.2
2	Axel Blomquist	M55	BAOC	101.8		2	Alan Cherry	M20	OUOC	90.2
3	Gavin Clegg	M55	WSX	100.5		3	Nicholas Jarvis	M16	SO	74.7

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Planner comments

Redlands is actually quite small in area, but with a great variety of vegetation. There is also very little of it that is flat; therefore courses tend to be on the physical side. It is one of the few areas in the south that begin to resemble Lake District or Scottish terrain. I set out to make the brown courses hard and physically challenging; also the blue, though I was cautious about sending ‘blue’ runners gratuitously over the hill again, making the last couple of controls pretty easy. I had mixed comments on this, though the majority felt they had ‘had enough’ by the end! I tried hard with the green courses to plan them through as great a variety of terrain as possible, without too much climb and also avoiding the very wet northern end.

Light green and orange are in some ways the trickiest of all to plan, to make them challenging and to avoid demoralising. I put in a couple of hard legs but also that easy but spectacular leg down hill along the west-to-east crest of the escarpment. I’d watched the sun rise from here and is a reason why I love that forest.

Some runners mis-punched in the depressions on the west side of the road. In retrospect, I should have noticed that 246 and 249 close together could lead to confusion and made the numbers more dissimilar. I have done this myself, so apologies for that.

Many thanks to Mike for controlling the event and for his advice, help and assistance, especially through the dark days of no land permission. Thanks to Linda, Ian and Keith for help in placing controls and to the GO team during a wet afternoon. Finally, thanks to the Coldharbour Plough for hot mulled cider.

Neil Harwood

Organiser comments

As ever a most enjoyable day made better by the happy crowds. TeamGO were as friendly and efficient as ever and Neil surpassed himself with courses that have drawn universal approbation for their quality of route choice and intensity of terrain! It was also nice to welcome a number of GOphers to their first GOrganisational duties: the Szarvas family on Strings, Nick collecting Brass on Parkour (dig that pointy sticky action, see photo), Bryan on Results flapping in the Wind and Kier & Scott banging the Download Drums.

The Surrey Wing of the Air Cadets were out in force for their inter-Squadron competition, and many of the staff and cadets contributed to the event organisation - many thanks for their help too, as well as their tentage, generator and Land-Rover-towing out of the mud.

Congratulations to the OO Trophy winners and runners up. Several exceeded 100 points, which means going faster than the SEOA minutes/km for your age class, which is impressive on the sort of terrain we had here. Trophies will be distributed to the winners. Second and third placed people can download their certificates above, and I will also be sending them out to those of you I can track down.

I have already mentioned Neil's courses, the very heart of the success of the event. I would also extol the forbearance of Neil and Mike Murray our Controller, when the land permission all fell apart back in January and we thought we were going to have to completely replan everything on adjacent land. Neil and Mike kept smiling and were all set to do whatever needed to be done, though luckily the Forestry Commission found a way through, and we all live happily ever after. But it was a sticky moment, and we are also very grateful for the speed with which LOK and the National Trust responded to our pleas for alternative land permissions and maps, which would have saved the day had that been necessary.

Jeremy Wilde

Controller comments

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Mike Murray (SLOW)