In case anyone is interested
Twywell - By the side of the A14 near Kettering so easily accessible. Very complex ironstone workings.
http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/w ... 0flyer.pdf
British Trail O Championships 2014
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... and no - this isn't a typo above. It is indeed the *2014* champs. The *2015* champs will come along less than a month later ... so the title won't be held for very long.
http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/s ... o/fixtures
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http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/s ... o/fixtures
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Looking forward to helping on registration! Where are the 2015 Championships to be held?
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NFKleanne wrote:Looking forward to helping on registration! Where are the 2015 Championships to be held?
According to the link I posted above "Forest of Dean". I haven't looked that far ahead yet, but I think they are a few miles away from BOC 2015
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BTOC 2015 will be about 5k down the road from the BOC car park in Staple Edge Wood, a part of the Mallard's Pike area where I planned an event for NGOC in 1976 and where now in my dotage, I find myself planning TrailO courses.
Starts will be early to mid afternoon to enable people to do their FootO courses first.
The details have just gone up on the BOC 2015 website
http://www.boc2015.org.uk/page/272
and entries via Fabian4 will open in early Feb.
Starts will be early to mid afternoon to enable people to do their FootO courses first.
The details have just gone up on the BOC 2015 website
http://www.boc2015.org.uk/page/272
and entries via Fabian4 will open in early Feb.
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Well I had fun today. Any news of the results?
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After several attempts to make the results spreadsheets work correctly, the trophy was eventually awarded to JK. I think Ian Ditchfield won silver and Nick Barrable bronze. John Crosby retained the paralympic title.
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After the necessary checking process and now that I'm back home and can post on the website, the Results for the 2014 British TrailO Championships are now available on http://www.wimborne-orienteers.org.uk/wim/14%20BTOC/BTOC2014.htm
Good courses on a great little area. Congratulations & Thanks to the planners Anne Braggins & David Coton, the controller Anne Straube, and mapper Robert Dove and the various on the day helpers for producing an excellent event.
Good courses on a great little area. Congratulations & Thanks to the planners Anne Braggins & David Coton, the controller Anne Straube, and mapper Robert Dove and the various on the day helpers for producing an excellent event.
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Daughter and I had a great time - even though it was much too hard for us ...
For TempO specialists .. Note guessing Z to every question and taking 0 seconds to do so, would have put you 2nd in the TempO part of the event (13 wrong answers at 30s each = 390s). Even if there had been no Z answers, then this tactic would have put you about 12th out of 30 (20 wrong answers at 30s each).
Have I got that right? I'm not aware of the history of TrailO, but a 30s penalty for a wrong TempO answer seems too small.
For TempO specialists .. Note guessing Z to every question and taking 0 seconds to do so, would have put you 2nd in the TempO part of the event (13 wrong answers at 30s each = 390s). Even if there had been no Z answers, then this tactic would have put you about 12th out of 30 (20 wrong answers at 30s each).
Have I got that right? I'm not aware of the history of TrailO, but a 30s penalty for a wrong TempO answer seems too small.
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iainwp wrote:Daughter and I had a great time - even though it was much too hard for us ...
For TempO specialists .. Note guessing Z to every question and taking 0 seconds to do so, would have put you 2nd in the TempO part of the event (13 wrong answers at 30s each = 390s). Even if there had been no Z answers, then this tactic would have put you about 12th out of 30 (20 wrong answers at 30s each).
Have I got that right? I'm not aware of the history of TrailO, but a 30s penalty for a wrong TempO answer seems too small.
The Zero-Zero strategy was mooted as an argument against the IOF's reduction of the penalty form 60s to 45s to 30s, but their intent is to encourage people to answer faster and faster and while one might be able to get a reasonable position in a lower-key competition doing that you'd be unlikely to win and in top class competition you would be nowhere.
I reckon it took about 2-4s per problem to turn the map, point to an answer and wait for them to acknowledge it. So doing the maths:
3s x 20 = 60s + 390s = 450s so this would not have got you 2nd place.
Tip for planners: having 5 problems at a station invariably leads to more Zs and hence gives the ZZ strategy a better chance of working. 3 or 4 is more common. These stations were also on the hard side (although not as hard as WTOC in FIN - they were insane and yet the winner still got them all right).
BTW I'm glad you enjoyed it, maybe you'll try some more at the JK where the Temp will be 6 stations of 4 problems each.
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And on very much less complex terrain.
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So the British Championship is a lower-key competition
Will be at the JK, JK - daughter and I are one pair of your helpers ...
Will be at the JK, JK - daughter and I are one pair of your helpers ...
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It is lower key than world chamos.
Also i suspect this was the 1st ever tempo for many competitors
Quality of the coursrs and maps though were of the highest quality.
Also i suspect this was the 1st ever tempo for many competitors
Quality of the coursrs and maps though were of the highest quality.
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yes, first ever TempO for me ... very scary, very tough, heart pounding as i walked to the PreO start ...
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iainwp wrote:yes, first ever TempO for me ... very scary, very tough, heart pounding as i walked to the PreO start ...
Iain
Sounds like another convert/victim/fan.
PreO (traditional TrailO) is relaxed. TempO (speed TrailO) is periods of intense concentration followed by potentially long waits in queues. The queues at this even were condensed into a single one due to the proximity of each station so there was no chance to relax between stations.
JK (the event) is Park/Campus/Playingfields so not as compicated as those ones ... so you might have to answer faster ... so you might make more mistakes ... so maybe you should have gone slower ... that is the challenge of TempO - optimising accuracy vs answering speed.
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