Author: Alan Gartside

That’s “New Year’s O-Resolution”, by the way. The 2023 Colour Standards table is now available at “Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. It shows your colour standards achievement in 2022 (you can resolve to maintain or improve in 2023), the colour events currently in the 2023 fixture list (you can resolve to get to as many of them as possible) and your current membership status – if you’re clear or green it’s well done as you’re a paid-up member but if it’s pink then you haven’t yet rejoined for 2023 – you’ll have to pay non-member entry fees, you won’t score series Read More …

The Colour History table, showing the achievement of colour standards over the last 32 years, has been updated for the 2022 results. The capital letters show an improvement over your previous standards so you can see your progression (or, in the case of old codgers like me, regression!). Now is the time for resolving to climb the colour ladder and to get to as many colour events as you can in 2023. Furthermore read Ric Gamble’s post about the event roster and resolve to take on some organising duties next year – not only do those who can’t run because Read More …

The tables have been updated following the final colour event of the year, at Learmount, last Saturday. Go to “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” to see how you finished the year. The “2022 best” column will be transferred to the history table, the out-of date (over 12 months) results will be removed and, at the turn of the year, the membership status will be updated. The 2-yr lapsed (yellow) will be removed, the 1-yr lapsed (pink) will turn yellow (unless you can persuade them to re-join!) and the unrenewed will turn pink. So get your membership renewal off to Read More …

These can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then:- “Club Colour Series>2022AutumnTrophy.pdf”. The final places are in! It was best (lowest) two scores over the three events to count, with event organisers getting points equivalent to their best in the other two rounds. “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. With one colour event left (Learmount NISeries7) you need to get your entry in for your target colour. “hCOW>hCOW2022>” then:- “Event12.pdf”. The very negative event variance shows that, unlike Castlearchdale the week before, the many new gravel paths allowed folk to stay out of the tricky vegetation for much of the time. “Series Table.pdf”. Moiré Read More …

Various tables have been updated after last Saturday’s NISeries event. You can find them at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then – “NISeries>NISeries2022.pdf”. With one event to go there’s still plenty to play for in many of the classes. Congratulations to Jenny Orr for clinching the Orange Women title. Although Steven Linton has got a full house in the Brown Men class there is a mathematical (but highly improbable) possibility that he may not win; can you work it out? “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. Some activity here because of losing year-old results. With 2 colour events remaining this year you need to check your Read More …

Whilst preparing the tables for the Castlearchdale results, I discovered that Stephanie Pruzina and Lyle Fleming are misplaced in the Series Table. Although their points are correct they should have been assigned to the asterisk group at the head of the table as they have both achieved 7 scores, the number needed to contend for the title.

The tables can be found at “Resources>OneDrive Public>” then: for Colour Standards go “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. Very little movement, probably because no 2021 events fell outside the 12-month window over which your standard is achieved. for Autumn Trophy go “Club Colour Series>2022AutumnTrophy.pdf”. The tables are based on place points in the various categories, with your 2 (out of 3) lowest to count and with event organisers getting their best scores from the other events. Plenty to play for at Cairn Wood. for hCOW go “hCOW>hCOW2022> then for the Slievenagore results go “Event10.pdf”. This shows a bias towards the Green course Read More …

The table “Resources>OneDrive Public>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” carries a variety of information. Firstly it is a register of members as reported by the BOF membership system. New members (very welcome!) are highlighted in green – if you meet up with any your job is to provide advice and welcome; pink and yellow highlighting shows previous members who have not rejoined for 2022 – your job in this case if you know them is to plead, cajole or threaten them into rejoining, for the more members we have the wider the event staging load can be spread (and, incidentally, helping with event Read More …

Various tables have been updated. Go “Resources>OneDrive Public” then:- “>NISeries>NISeries2022.pdf”. This is a copy of the official table which will appear on the NIOA website. There are lots of notional scores for folk who couldn’t run their colour courses because of organising duties or JIRCs selection – well done to all of them. It’s also congratulations to James Ewart and Aran Power who, with 2 events to go, cannot be overtaken! “Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf”. With 4 colour events remaining it’s time to set your colour badge aims for the year and make sure that you enter the courses that will Read More …

Health and mobility issues mean that I get my O-kicks sitting at a PC, printing your event maps and post-processing your results. The latter activity brings you the NI Series, the Club Colour Standards, Spring Cup and Autumn Trophy tables and the hCOW Colour and hCOW WEE scores and handicaps. From elsewhere you can get the BOF Rankings, the monthly WEE winners and, presumably on-the-way, the NI Urban League tables. All intended to help you compare yourself with others and yourself and so improve your O-skills. Well here comes another one! The more senior (i.e. old!) members may remember, in Read More …