The Newcastle Summer Series has run the length of its seventeen event calendar, finishing with a race in Mayfield.
With streets laid out in a standard grid, planner Andrew Morris had a challenging job to set the course. 'My aim was to offer as much route choice as possible. Often the quickest runners will take the same routes. I wanted to have the top ten runners potentially all have different route choices. For some controls that meant that I had to resort to doglegs but that was important to make it difficult to link controls in an obvious fashion.'
With the series at an end it was time for identifying champions. Alex Massey was the Men's Open winner with Kim Van Netten winning the Women's Open competition, but these were not the only championships being contested. The
Newcastle Summer Series also recognises winners for Series Attendence, Consistency, Time Management, a Handicap com
petition as well as successful Rookies. This year's Rookie winners were Liam Gibson and Anastasia Suchowebka. Particular mention must be made of Mick Kavur who won a special award for attending 100 consecutive events.
Newcastle now moves on its winter season of orienteering events, starting with the Park Series, the first event of which is at Stevenson Park on 22nd February.
