Results here.
Route Gadget here (you can plot your route).
Photos from Neil Gostick
Organiser’s comments
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the 2024 Trent Park Boxing Day Score Event. The weather was cooler and mistier than in the last two years, but fortunately not as wet under foot.
For the first time in several years we were able to place controls in the North Lawn, the showpiece public space in front of Trent Park House, adding a bit of variety for our many regular competitors.
The winner was Ben Gostick of HH, M20, recent joiner to the GB Development Squad and son of the planner (so an early riser to hang out controls), who was one of two of the 92 competitors to win bonus points for getting back early having collected all the controls. Ben earned 600 plus 20 bonus points for being over 2 minutes early. The highest scoring woman was Rachel Sequeira, also of HH, who scored 360 points in just under the hour.
Many thanks to the event team drawn from HH and LOK. In particular, thanks to Neil Gostick, planner for the second year running, and his team of control hangers who were out shortly after dawn – Jenny and Ben Gostick, Ian Byford and Sebastian Flesch (all from HH). Thanks also to Ronan and Julie Cleary (LOK) for controlling and running the start for the umpteenth year running, and Kevin and Laura Parkes (HH) who ran the IT as smoothly as ever. Thanks also to other members of the event team Hedley Calderbank, Daniel Figg, Peter Errington, Charles Spence, Marion Shipman, Clive Hillier, Anthony and Elise Flick.
The only blips were the public toilets, which were unexpectedly locked shut, and a herd of overly friendly cows that initially prevented Neil from placing control 112.
All going well we should all be able to be back for more in 2025.
Catherine Galvin – Trent Park 2024 Boxing Day Event Organiser
Event details
London Orienteering Klubb
Pre-entry only – limit 120
Brief details below – see the FLYER for full information
Car park adjacent to Southgate Hockey Centre at the northern end of Snakes Lane.
Post code EN4 0PS; grid reference TQ 289 969. Please note that car park closes at 13.30.
Newcomers Newcomers are welcome. Instruction offered to newcomers after mass start. The planner has made sure that there are a number of easier to locate controls suitable for newcomers.
If you have any queries beforehand, please contact the organiser.
Entry Pre-entry via SIEntries.
Closing date: 10:45, Thursday, 26 December 2024.
Electronic Punching SPORTident (SI) electronic punching – contactless punching for those with own SIAC card.
It will be a timed (no need to punch) mass Start and punching Finish for everybody.
Public transport Oakwood Underground station on the Piccadilly line – a direct connection from Central London every 5 minutes.
1.2 km walk from station along Snakes Lane, to the car park. Allow 15 minutes.
Tube trains are scheduled to run to Oakwood on Boxing Day.
Terrain Mixture of gently undulating open parkland and wooded areas with some brambles.
Review the 2023 map on Routegadget.
Map 1:10,000, 5m contours, updated November 2024 including the North Lawn (to which we have access again for the first time since 2017). Controls will be pre-marked on waterproof paper.
Competition format Score event – collect as many points as you can within 60 minutes.
Controls 110 to 119 will be worth 10 points each
Controls 120 to 129 will be worth 20 points each
Controls 130 to 139 will be worth 30 points each
Penalty of 20 points for each minute, or part thereof, late
Bonus of 10 points for each complete minute early provided all controls have been visited.
Shortest time taken will be used to rank finishers with the same points
Start within 5 minutes’ walk from car park.
Finish very near to car park – courses close at 12:30.
Start procedure 11:00 am mass start
Toilets The park toilets are 800m from the car park.
Organiser Catherine Galvin (LOK) – 07968 162 273 or equipment@londonorienteering.co.uk
Planner Neil Gostick (HH)
Controllers Ronan and Julie Cleary (LOK)
