BAOC Shell Ridge 2010-02-14 Personal Note

I Liked the event very much. Lena went in the morning for a Brown run and I took Ada, Senya and our friends for a White. Even though it was no white by "stroller-can-do-it" standards, this was the most beautiful hikes I did in quite a while. After enormous hike up the hill

There were a lot of nice climbable trees

 

 and spectacular views.

  

Last down hill was almost scary...

  

 At the far end of the route we got to watch a lot of frogs in the pond.

Lena was on Brown, which was unexpectedly long and she decided to DNF to let me run. I started Green at 12:30, just before the course closing. It was great run, with a lot of tiny mistakes. One of the best technical courses I have run recently. Micro route choices, long legs with a lot of power required, runnable trails and creeks. Great Course overall.

BAOC Shell Ridge 2010-02-14

• Event site
• O-speed Table 
• O-scores  list
• Previous Event 2009-01-10
• Previous Event: 2007-05-06
• Golden Goat Here 2008-05-04

This year Shell ridge was very tough for intermediate runners.

( B : 7900, R: 6900; G: 6600; Br: 6400; O: 4200; Y: 2100; W: 1700)

Blue was on the easy side with GV = 7900, while Red, Green and Brown were about the same difficulty, varying from 6900 for red to 6400 for Brown. For Brown this is twice as usually expected!!!
Orange is 4200, Yellow is 2100 and White is 1700. White is twice more than usual also...


Compare event Y2007 here ( B : 9800, R: 7500; G: 4600; Br: 3800; O: 3200; Y: 2000; W: 1300)

Unexpected difficulty of Brown is mainly due to the terrain and not the length of the course.
Terrain difficulty for Brown is  almost 1500/km which means 100 point runner (Tapio) would spend 15 minutes per nominal kilometer of the race. Compare with 11 minutes per kilometer on Red and Blue.

Top Performers are marked with (!) and (!!) as usual

Most of the people performed as usual.

Speeders to be mentioned arer Piers Newbery, JOK (guest?)  second on blue
Rebecca Minty - first on Red
and William Folette - second on Brown.

White was tough and spread people along the time line. Julia and Hannah finished within a minute. with Hannah being relatively faster.


Extreme performers are below. Any error to be corrected?
Enjoy

Runner	Class	improve
William Follette	M	37.9%
Olga Seredenko	F45+	32.4%
Sasha Iakovlev	M	23.5%
John and Jeff Skinner	N/A	16.2%
Hannah Kopisch	F-10	16.1%
Jason Lorenz	M-21+	16.0%
Francois Leonard	M35+	13.8%
Natalie Kim	F	13.5%
Julia Doubson	F-10	12.5%
Gavin Williams	M-12	10.3%
Marina Keating	F45+	10.1%
Patty Clemo	F55+	-11.4%
Natalie Pelayo	F-10	-11.9%
Bob Cooley	M65+	-12.7%
Kate Tennant	F50+	-13.0%
Penelope Cox	F	-13.2%
Nick Giori	M45+	-13.6%
Marie-Josee Parayre	F35+	-13.7%
Scott Novotny	M50+	-15.0%
Angela Hunter	F50+	-18.3%
Nigel Killeen	M	-21.7%
Johanna Karras	F-12	-22.5%
Jonathan Hallsted	M	-23.3%
Masha Konkov	F-10	-30.7%
Cassandra Pelayo	F-12	-30.8%