miklcct wrote:rf_fozzy wrote:I thought that BOF EWTs for elite had reduced to match IOF?
But those only apply to JK long and BOC long.
I was referring to the EWT for a top elite on a black course at regional events of 67mins. Which I think is still the case.
It should be possible to plan a 67min course.
I aimed for about 60ish min at whinmoor last year, which was 14km/100ish m. Jonny Crickmore won it in 54, so I was 10% too short, suggesting i needed about 15.5km.
That should have been easily doable on this particular area as there is more mapped terrain to the SE than shown on RG (https://www.aire.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#256&course=1) and also to the W, but this would have involved negotiating the ring road.
There would also have been a challenge to fit it on the map, but for 1.5km, I'd have been able to do it - I used a back to back A3, so just going to SA3 would have done it.
For 20km, I'd have needed a map exchange - which very few events consider too.
The only IOF standard on urban is 12-15 minutes winning time. Middle and long are forest races.rf_fozzy wrote:Well just do sprints then and don't bother with the urbans.
Sprint is the only standard in urban.
Well, don't do urbans then. Simple
BOF *does* do urbans.
Not everything is about international competition.
Given that urbans are the only area of orienteering that are showing growth and, from a anecdotal perspective at least, seem to be the best events for attracting newcomers to the sport, we NEED them. And finding luddites whinging about them is depressing to say the least when the sport is on life support.