Yet Another Record!!

Wow, OHV continues to generate more participation. With the final planned event the O-Max event at Stratton Street, a quick trawl through the results on the web shows 2286 participations for 2005. That's 27% up on 2004, which was up by a quarter over 2003 (which was up by an eighth over 2002:-)) And while these stats are at the mercy of the occasional major events we run, the growth is clearly the result of the ongoing programme of afterwork rogaines of which there were 13.

Altogether OHV ran 36 events this year, one third more than 2004. And while average attendance dropped from 66 to 63 this is insignificant in the light of changes in event types and the big/small mix. The important thing is that through innovative event formats to avoid over-burdening volunteers, we are able to expand our activities and have fun at the same time.

Here are some stats from those 36 events, alongside those from previous years. Our biggest participation since we've been counting in this way! And below is a list of the volunteers who made those events.

Year Traditional Events Park/Street/Trail Events Rogaines MTB-Orienteering Total
1999 478 (51%) 382 (41%) 76 (8%) 0 (0%) 936 (100%)
2000 97 (10%) 383 (40%) 317 (33%) 153 (16%) 950 (100%)
2001 611 (45%) 404 (29%) 44 (3%) 312 (23%) 1371 (100%)
2002 220 (17%) 422 (34%) 425 (34%) 186 (15%) 1253 (100%)
2003 374 (26%) 390 (27%) 433 (31%) 222 (16%) 1419 (100%)
2004 569 (32%) 414 (23%) 502 (28%) 314 (17%) 1799 (100%)
2005 208 (9%) 527 (23%) 1327 (58%) 224 (10%) 2286 (100%)

(A "participation" in most events is a person who starts. In 2003 we didn't count people in groups except for rogaines, so the figures for trad and park/trail events for that year are a bit low. Rogaines can be much more substantial efforts than orienteering, so one rogaine "participation" is counted for each person for each 3-hour block rounded to an integer. There were two rogaines with 6hr classes, but even if we counted each person at par instead of as 2, participation would still be 2146.)

Volunters 2005

List of volunteers who made these events happen. Taken from the results and committee list, so will be incomplete. Thank you to those listed and unlisted:-))
The page was written by Michael Wood and installed on 5 Dec 05.