The sun blazed and members tackled a score event with thirty controls spread across the farm. Nobody managed to get to all thirty although Mark Lockett found 27 but incurred some time penalties. Most controls dibbed within the allowed sixty minutes was 22 by Gavin Henderson.
Despite careful synchronisation of the control boxes by Barry Olds we had some significant timing problems. There seems to be some mysterious interaction between the memory of the portable reader/printer and the dibbers/boxes which intermittently causes recorded times to jump forward by 6 or 12 hours or sometimes other amounts – or not! Not a problem for a social event but something we need to sort out before we get started on Night-O.  I used a couple of new control sites, both related to pumping water. In Lamb Park Wood (the one with the concealed pond) we visited the old Ram house which still contains the Victorian water pump used to drive water into the reservoir supplying the big house at Coldrenick. Down by the viaduct at the bottom of the farm we saw the pipe carrying water into a leat supplying another Ram, this one pushing water up to the quarry works. Search Wikipedia for ‘Hydraulic Ram’ to see how these ingenious pumps ran, powered only by a slow flow of water though a leat from a nearby stream.  Afterwards we enjoyed a barbeque and swimming. Pretty hard to beat Cornwall in august when the weather cooperates!
Rob Sneyd


Results

Score  Name
220    Gavin Henderson
214    Graham Pring
204    Arthur Boyt
203    Peter Clothier
202    Steve Beech
193    Mark Lockett
190    Nellie Clothier (NC)
188    Pauline Olds
181    Ken George
180    Peter Morton
170    Roger Hargreaves
157    Peter Heywood
147    Elsie Hargreaves
134    Sara Dowler
119    Hilde Anderson
110    Pat Shuttlewood & Sarah Middleton
100    Tim Andrews
100    Fiona Sneyd
100    Waters Family
90      Caspar Clothier
90      Xanthe Clothier
90      Barry Olds
90      Annabel Pring
80      Jim Boyd
80      MayLou George
80      Sue Morton
60      Kevin Goldsworthy
47      Greg Skinner
Rtd     Val Andrews
Rtd     Yvonne Stephens

After last week’s successful use of a train to get to the beginning of our run, we are going to do the same this week, on a different route.

 Meet at Bodmin Parkway Railway Station (pay and display parking) at SX110641 in good time to catch the 18.32 train to Lostwithiel. 

Bring some change to buy your ticket at the station before departure.  We will then run back from Lostwithiel, along the Fowey River valley to the Lanhydrock Estate.  Here the different route options diverge giving lengths ranging from 6km (no climb) up to 10km (with climb).  We will eat in Lostwithiel afterwards.

 Please reply to this message using the contacts page if you want to join in, telling me:

How far you want to walk or run and if you want to eat

 See you on Friday.

 Graham