6-Days run in competition

[redkite]

From a personal point of view sub category should be

Over 50 and over 90 kgs.

sounds much fairer to me

[Dave]

why not do seconds/km down to about 3dp then score points for position. then the elites can still score with their seperate control etc etc. and it should definitely be all 6 (or 7) days to count....

not that it really concerns me, will be forced into allowing someone else to win this one...and like Mharky I'll go for oban

[Spookster]

why not do seconds/km down to about 3dp then score points for position. then the elites can still score with their seperate control etc etc. and it should definitely be all 6 (or 7) days to count....

Sounds too complicated . Keep it simple, so that we don't need a computer to work it all out! Cumulative time for 6 days is the simplest, but seconds behind fastest with 5 of 6 to count allows for helpers who can't run every day.

[mharky]

how about fastest time wins?

[Kitch]

how about everyone stop trying to invent your own little rules and categories and just do the flipping competition.
Such orienteers !

[EddieH]

Why make it difficult? - total time an be done with it.

Spookster - your idea isn't fair as it is obviously much better to miss the day with a 60 second run in than that with a 7 second one.

You could of course require everyone to register their bmi, measure the climb on each run-in ..... and have a straight handicap result

[Spookster]

Why make it difficult? - total time an be done with it.

Spookster - your idea isn't fair as it is obviously much better to miss the day with a 60 second run in than that with a 7 second one.

My preference is cumulative time for 6 days, and you and Mharky agree. The "5 from 6" was someone else's idea, and only works if you do time behind the winner, not cumulative (obviously).

You could of course require everyone to register their bmi, measure the climb on each run-in ..... and have a straight handicap result

Measuring the climb is what you do in the polka dot (king of the mountains) jersey competition (fastest split on the steepest leg determined by amount of climb divided by leg length). This is the green jersey competition, so let's not confuse people...

[mharky]

in the event of a tie there will be a 1 furlong sprint-off held at the campsite race course

[ba-ba]

Edinburgh Uni 1
Sheffield Uni 0

I'm working at Hallam at the moment - something must have rubbed off on me
I was thinking about a different method being used in this race series: http://www.gritstoneseries.co.uk/cgi-bin/download.cgi Where they've managed to get the winner getting 100% and everyone else a lower %

Otherwise, I think that interval training over distances of <500m is the order of the next 8 days!

in the event of a tie there will be a 1 furlong sprint-off held at the campsite race course

in tweed jackets?
how long is a furlong anyway?

[Dave]

bout 210m or something like that

[mharky]

220yards, 201m

short enough to be a sprint, but long enough not to be worried by 50 year old 14 stoners

[Gross]

WMOC 2000 in New Zealand on Millenium night they had a race off between a horse and rider & horse (some Kiwi Olympic Medalist) and one orienteer (Janne Salami)... it was a draw... (it was based at a horsey track at Fielding)

Later that night Big Jon and me had a 'sprint' series along the length of the upstairs Grand Stand... unlike indoor sprinting where there is a run off lane... the only thing to stop us was the wall No comments who always won those encounters

[mharky]

Were gherkins the punishment???

[Gross]

I think the horsey person was called McDonald

[Big Jon]

Gross- remember the 6-Day campsite 1995 (I think) a certain sprint star had to hobble off injured........