Compass sport cup round 1

[CHS]

THe NE round was also good fun- nice weather and some good courses. I certainly enjoyed it and had a cleaner run than I've had for a while.

[tokoloshe]

I thought the WM round at Croft Castle was well planned and despite two significant errors really enjoyed it. Didn't count but then never do.

[OCM45]

Didn't count but then never do

Don't do yourself down, Tokoloshe. Had you been a member of NGOC, WRE, SWOC or COBOC you would have been a points-scorer!

And yes I too thought our course made the most of the area.

[Rich R]

In the south-east round, Southdowns were 1st, about 60 points ahead of SLOW in 2nd - both qualifying for the final. It was a great fast and furious race at Wisley, with the Brown course winner going round in just over 5 mpk's (although not quite as fast as the South Central round by the looks of things!).

I must be missing something. How have SLOW qualified for the Final? SO weren't top three in last years final so surely only they go through from that round?

[Paulo]

I must be missing something. How have SLOW qualified for the Final? SO weren't top three in last years final so surely only they go through from that round?

The rules say that if any qualifying round has 8 or more teams competing, the top 2 will qualify. Thanks to Wimbourne for coming to our heat rather than the South Central one to make up the required 8 teams!

[bendover]

SN event, brown course:

12 248 Matthias Mahr 1:02:33

TVOC event, brown course:

16 Matthias Mahr SLOW 54:17


impressive.....

[johnloguk]

The EAOA heat at Lynford was great fun. We were in the trophy and it was incredibly close between all 4 teams, less than 100 points I think, and we missed out on 2nd place by 1 point so everyone is now examining splits browser very closely!

The forest wasn't the most technical on the planet but it was very open and lightning quick. Some of us were perversely hoping for some grot as an excuse to stop and walk, but we couldn't find any! The run in down the big avenue of trees looked similar to the finish of the Aldershot long-O, but with mucho confusion caused by a whole cluster of penultimate controls in the holly bushes off to the side, great entertainment once you'd negotiated them successfully yourself !

As a small club taking part for only the 2nd time we didn't take much notice of the Cup competition going on, but it seems that NOC just won through despite a lot of big names missing on the day.

We love this competition!

[Arnold]

Re bendover:

Well, the events were only 40 miles apart so I couldn't resist doing both. I did do the right one first though.

Great fun to do multiple O events in a day, I'd recommend it if you ever get the chance. I managed 3 once, but 4 must be doable surely

[Simon E]

I managed 3 once, but 4 must be doable surely

Beginner's stuff. The SEOA used to have the famous M25 O-Ringen with four events spread around the M25 in a single day. But even this was surpassed by the fabulous one-off CROC O-Ringen on 6 October 1996 when they managed to put on eight events on eight different maps on the same day. A handful of us managed all eight (total distance 16.3km, 350m climb, 63 controls).

[guessed]

Relays in EM on Saturday morning, Harvester in Wales Sat/Sun night, C4 back in EM by Sunday lunchtime after driving 350 miles and little sleep and little nourishment. Remember standing on earthbank trying to understand map, and suddenly snapping out of falling asleep as I stood there.

All three courses were longer than 2km each though, Simon !

I've also seen people do all 7 legs at Harvester back-to-back. VLong-O.

So go on, I bet someone's done further apart geographically than that in a weekend.

[Rich R]

For people in the East Mids they have the chance on 10/11 June to run an early leg in the Footpath Relay, a short drive across to West Notts for a NOC summer league event. They can then drive up to Scotland maybe catching a late start in the Scottish spring champs(not sure when starts are). They'll then have chance to have a rest in front of Englands opening world cup game before running the Harvester and then the regional event the following morning.

[SIman]

Starts for the Scottish Sprint Championships are 14.30 to 16.30. There is a 90 minute drive from there to the Harvester so it should be possible to miss the football
More details here

[Adventure Racer]

Round here, it's almost normal to do 3 events in 24 hours. Saturday afternoon low-key event followed by a Western Night League on Saturday night, then a normal C4 or C3 on Sunday morning. No short courses like Simon's version either - for me at least it's Blue on Saturday, followed by an hour score and then Brown or Badge course on Sunday, with others I know possibly running shorter courses appropriate to their age. That's a grand total of about 25k. I'd never thought of trying to do another event on the Sunday - will have to check the fixture list next autumn for possibilities for 4 events in 24 hours!

Rich's suggestion sounds interesting, but you won't presumably even make the 4 O events within the 24 hour period. I'd be curious to know who has managed the most normal (ie separate events that aren't designed as part of a connected series) orienteering events in a day/24 hours, with Mathias's 3 in a day, and several candidates for 3 in 24 hours being the current benchmarks.

[Roger]

How about some versatility: 10km road race followed by O event followed by cricket match (all in daylight on same day)?

BTW Simon, at the last M25 O-ringen Paulie and I managed to do both the long and the short courses at each of the four venues.

[johnloguk]

Watch this space, as nothing is finalised yet, but in January 2007 there just might be the opportunity to run a relay on a new area, followed by a night-O on a new area, then wake up to a Park Race round a beautiful historic city and a Long-O from the same assembly area to finish. All within 25 miles of a central point. Bits might be confirmed earlier, but expect final confirmation in the fixture list in a couple of months at the most.