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Although not an orienteering event, the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon is a race where many orienteers have achieved great success. This year was no different with class wins for Steve Birkinshaw on the Elite and Rob Little and Chris Sellens on the ‘B’, plus a great 4th place for Andy Middleditch and Oli Johnson on the Elite class.

The event took place in the north-east Lake District, with courses crossing the fells between Ullswater and Haweswater, including the steep sided High Street ridge. Courses on the first day were planned on the long side, as well as comprising huge amounts of climb, and many teams suffered as a result. Conditions were not great either, although one can’t expect to enter the KIMM and compete in fine weather! Even the top teams were overheard saying how tough they had found the courses.

After a very restless night thanks to the high winds, everyone was glad to hear that the wet-weather courses were to be used for the 2nd day. This was partly due to the severity of the previous day’s courses, but also the weather had slightly worsened for the early morning starts with continuous rain staying around the whole morning and high winds on the tops of the fells making it far from easy to make headway.

Despite the conditions, everyone much preferred the courses on the Sunday with times being much shorter than the previous day.

The free meal to all finishers (provided by Wilf’s and Fat Pigs) was greatly appreciated after a pretty gruelling weekend, though one which already has people looking forward to next year’s event to be held somewhere further north than this years' race.

Noted results by orienteers – please note that due to an inefficient results service the results for the Elite, A and B class are not final (apologies to anyone not included – send a PM if you’d like your result included)

Elite Class
1 Steve Birkinshaw & Morgan Donnelly 12h26m51s
4 Andy Middleditch & Oli Johnson 12h57m35s
8 Nick Barrable & Magnus Johansson 13h17m58s
9 Tim Higginbottom & James McQueen 13h27m31s
17 Tim Lenton & Claire Gordon 15h57m54s (1st Mixed pair)

A Class
1 Simon Richardson & Alan Billington 12h14m41s
2 Andy Lewsley & John Noblett 12h38m04s (1st Vets)
5 Richard Oxlade & Tim Nash 13h16m11s
6 Martin Sellens Stephen Jones 13h28m52s (2nd Vets)
9 Matt Scriven & Tom Horton 13h52m39s
15 Mark Saunders & William Darby 14h32m06s (3rd Vets)

B Class
1 Rob Little & Chris Sellens 9h31m10s
3 Chi Trinh & Ian Nixon 10h30m36s
4 Sarah Hague & Paul Hague 10h34m04s (1st Mixed pair)
6 James Williams & Jon Emberton 10h50m06s
12 Heather Monro & Dickie Jones 11h24m34s (2nd Mixed pair)
13 Roger Coombs & Duncan Coombs 11h34m48s (1st Parent/Child)
18 John Tullie & James Tullie 11h54m47s (2nd Parent/Child)
19 Jon Cross & Phil Marsland 11h58m21s
23 Joyce Marshall & Ian Marshall 12h16m40s (3rd Mixed pair)
30 Christine Currie & Cath Wilson 12h44m53s (1st Female)
42 Lucie Moseley & Sarah Fulwood 13h08m01s (2nd Female)

C Class
1 Jo Inge Fjellstad & Wendy Fjellstad 7h44m43s
2 Nick Green & Sean Radford 8h01m15s
11 Matt Franklin & Rhys F-Robinson 8h52m15s
20 Alice Bedwell & Alex Bedwell 9h07m05s (2nd Mixed pair)
44 Julia Leventon & Clare Leventon 9h41m01s (2nd Female)

Long Score
1 Paul Mackrill & Brendan Mackrill 982pts
2 Darrell High & Martin Stepanek 970 pts
3 Keith Masson & Kenny Leitch 894 pts
13 Karen Davison & Debbie Smith 738 pts (1st Female)

Medium Score
1 Remy Steinegger & Stefab Schlatter 730 pts
2 Andy Jackson & Dave Lawson 660 pts
3 Peter Huzan & Simon Evans 650 pts
5 Malcolm Campbell & Liz Campbell 602 pts (1st Mixed pair + 2nd Vets)
13 Chris Lates & Raymond Wren 570 pts
16 Steve Wilson & Loz Colyer 558 pts
20 Jes Dickin & Nick Clark 550 pts

Short Score
1 Darren Parker & Chris Pearson 664 pts
7 John Mursell & Les Hunt 584 pts (1st Vets)
10 Robin Orr & James Kellock 552 pts
11 John Britton & Lizzie Britton 542 pts (1st Parent/Child + 3rd Mixed pair)

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