HVO and WCOC are holding a weekend of orienteering November 9-10, 2019.

 

On Saturday November 9th WCOC will organize a national ranking event (NRE) at Ansonia Nature Center

 

All courses will be available with starts between 10 and noon. See WCOC web site for more details. https://www.wcocorienteering.org/spring-2019-schedule or the latest announcement on Attackpoint: https://attackpoint.org/discussionthread.jsp/message_1363803

 

 

On Sunday November 10th HVO will hold an orienteering meet at Mountain Lakes, North Salem

 

Meet Director:  Geof Connor

Course Setter:   Niels Lyng-Olsen

 

• All courses available.Brown, Green, Red and Blue courses will be organized as Chase Start races for those runners who compete in the WCOC event the day before, with individual start times based on the results from WCOC’s NRE event at Ansonia.

• Competitors who do not have a result from the WCOC event can participate in the mass start that will take place 5 minutes after the leader on the respective courses or start at any time between 10.30 and noon.

• There will be no chase starts for White/Yellow/Orange, competitors can start any time after 10:00am.

• Classic distance courses.Indicative course details (subject to change)

 

Course  Distance Climb    Map scale

Blue     8.7 km   330 m   1:10,000

Red     7.8 km   305 m    1:10,000

Green  5.5 km   205 m    1:10,000

Brown  3.9 km   150 m    1:7,500

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1:7,500 map scale for Orange

1:5,000 map scale for White/Yellow

 

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• First chase start at 10.00am.

• Pre-registration required for people participating in the chase start. Preferably one week in advance - see WCOC website, but latest at the WCOC NRE registration on Saturday November 9th.Runners that are not pre-registered will start after 10:30 am.

• Cost: $7 for OUSA/HVO or WCOC members/$15 non-members, $5/$10 for juniors and $10/$20 for groups.

• Depending on interest, Greg Ahlswede is willing to organize an open training event at Mountain Lakes Sunday afternoon.When/if you pre-register, please indicate if you are interested in joining a post-race training session.

 

 

Chase Start format. 

• For the competitive courses, this event is organized as a Chase Start where the order and timing of each participant’s start will be determined based on the final results on each course from the WCOC NRE event the day before.

• To make the chase start a bit more exciting, the start intervals for each course will take place within a five-minute window: 

  1. The course winner from the WCOC NRE event starts first, and

  2. The remaining runners start in the order they finished at the WCOC event with a time interval equal to 50% of the time behind the course winner. 

  3. Mass start for all remaining runners 5 minutes after the first runner started.The mass start will include  the remaining participants from the WCOC event.

• The plan is for Brown course to start first at 10.00am.The Green course start will be approximately 10.15am, and finally, Red and Blue will start at around 10.30am. Depending on the number of participants on the Blue and Red courses, the two courses may potentially be combined into one group/course.  

• The results for each course will be based on the finishing order. 

• There are overlapping legs between the advanced courses, so runners should expect to see plenty of fellow competitors out in the woods.

• All advanced courses will have a ‘diamond forking’ on the course.  Essentially, this forking consists of four controls with five legs in total.  All competitors will run each of the five legs in the same direction, but in different order.  Such ‘Diamond Forking” was used at the JWOC 2019 Long Course in Denmark. 

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• Meet Director:  Geof Connor

• Course Setter:   Niels Lyng-Olsen