Anyone have any opinions about the competition areas - biased or otherwise?
Can't deceide whether to use all my orienteering passes that Mrs PFB grants me in one go, or to save them for other events.
Croeso 2004
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Well Porky - I don't know what kind of orienteer you are and I don't know what Croeso is going to be like - but if I had just 5/6 days grace I'd go to the White Rose. the areas are usually rough as hell but the ambiance is simp-ly the best - and after that i'd head for the Caddihoe - just love those chasing starts
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Mrs H. - nope godmother
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they all appear to be moderately hilly open moorland areas. i've only ever run on one of the area (ogof ffynnon ddu) and it was great (though it was about 7-8 yrs ago so i was only running a little kiddies course). should all be fast, a number of complex technical bits of terrain. if the weather's crap, though, they might not be the most enjoyable of places to be on a wet and windy day.
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Supersaint - team nopesport
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days 1,2 & 6 (which are all interconnected areas) apparently have some patches of forest, the ither 3 days are all completely open.
for more info, see the croeso website http://www.croeso2004.org.uk/
for more info, see the croeso website http://www.croeso2004.org.uk/
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Supersaint - team nopesport
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I don't know what kind of orienteer you are
...the kind of orienteer whose first few events had Harlequins in the corner of the maps – nearly 23 years ago – stopped when I went to uni, but came back a couple of years ago.
Thanks for the advice. I’ve actually decided to go to Wales this year as someone else from our club is going – maybe the White Rose next, if I can’t get to the Scottish.
Any terrain will challenge me – for a start there’ll be contours, which we don’t have in Thetford “runnable in one direction” Forest.
Supersaint - Ogof Ffynnon Ddu was used as a photo ‘O’ competition in CompassSport, so I’ve spent ages looking at that map trying to work out the answers. It should be a scarily different kind of orienteering to my usual haunts and should have controls that rank as Tech Diff 5, which will be a new experience!
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