SARUM Orienteers competed in the three-day Tamar Triple festival over the bank holiday weekend.
Day one was an urban race through the City of Plymouth. For Sarum, Gary Sawyer took seventh place in the men’s open race with Carolyn Dent placed fifth in the women’s veteran’s race.
Charlotte Thornton was fifth and Liz Yeadon ninth in the women’s ultra veteran category. Club chairman Ian Peirce sped home in 12th in the men's ultra veteran category.
Sarum Star Ben Chesters (M35) won the highly competitive brown course on day two, which was raced on Davidstow Moor, with Lucy Butt (W21) in a fantastic fourth place on the same course, running mostly against men.
Adam Walker took third place on the green course and Liz Yeadon (W70) 12th place on the short green course.
The third day’s races were used for the South West Orienteering Association’s middle distance championships.
Courses were set in the grounds of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park taking runners through parkland and pockets of woodland and offered stunning views across the Tamar
estuary. The views did not distract Sarum runners from putting in some great performances and five Sarum runners came away as SWOA Champions: Lucy Butt (W21), Ben Chesters (M35), Carolyn Dent (W50), Charlotte Thornton (W70) and Freda Peirce (W75).
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