Venice Street Event 15 Nov

[epocian]

For anyone interested entries for the Venice event are now open at
http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/movbase.as ... &page=info
I see this year there will be a boat ride to the start at Rio Terà dei Catecumeni alla Salute.

[Spookster]

I see this year there will be a boat ride to the start at Rio Terà dei Catecumeni alla Salute.

The courses don't normally get into the part south east of the Academia bridge, so that'll be interesting. Disappointed to be missing it this year...

[Arnold]

Online registration for Venice is now open.

I'm planning the courses this year so really it's a shameless plug for more people to sign up - but the courses will be amazingly good, so it'll be worth going

Don't miss it!

[awk]

Just got back from this. We both agreed - this was probably the best we've been to (third one now). The Italians did a great job organising, and Matthias Mahr's courses were excellent, even by Venice standards, culminating, on the M45 at least, in a monumental 2.2k leg right across the city! Not a moment's let up the whole way.

[Tatty]

Can you put up a link to maps and results Andrew?

[Arnold]

They're not usually the fastest with results but will be on http://www.orivenezia.it soonish.
GG came 4th or 5th on ME with Ed Catmur an impressive 8th or 9th. Mikhail Mamleev won from Oystein Kvaal Osterbo and Jan Troeng.

And they don't do routegadget so it will have to be a scanned map somewhere. I'll see if I can scan in the Elite course, but one of the Elite guys who ran it (many of whom have blogs) might beat me too it.

Oh and thanks Andy for the compliments. It was great fun to plan and it's hard not to plan a good course on that map..

[awk]

I'll try and scan my map in somewhere (can I put it on nopesport?).

[pyrat]

@awk best bet would be to submit an article from the front page and include your map as one of the article images.

[Tatty]

Thanks everyone. Hopefully I'll be there next year (Once I can peresuade ~~hubby it's a good race to do!)

[Arnold]

Results now up:

http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/griglieRisultati/classifica_rossi.pdf

GG 5th, Ed Catmur 7th on Men's Elite
Catherine Odell 1st on W70
Guy Goodair 2nd on M70
Roger Thetford 4th on M45
Carol Edwards 4th, Linda Pakuls 5th on W50

Next year it's on the 14th of November 2010. Don't miss it!

[ba-ba]

Osterbo tends top be pretty swift in getting maps up on his blog. No sign as yet from WOO though.

[mikey]

http://punakone.com/maps/show_map.php?user=floho&map=47

Looks amazing. Maybe next year

[Roger]

Looks amazing. Maybe next year

Yes, it was amazing, and considerably harder than my first attempt last year. M45 had essentially the same long leg, and Matthias said that he deliberately gave people no time to relax and plan it. I thought that it was a choice of two bridges, and didn't even notice until he pointed it out that the northernmost bridge over the Grand Canal was also a decent option. So a 2.2km leg, with routes that diverge by up to 1.4km. Wow.

The splits are confusing as some of the controls appear to have stopped registering: cumulative and leg positions are wrong in the second half. But it seems that my decision to tackle the crowds on the central Rialto Bridge and then the waterfront cost 1½ minutes, with another 90s lost when I overshot at the end. And I was less than 3 minutes down...

Still, nobody who's racing is likely to choose all the perfect options in an area like this, and with both Hans Melin (whom I watched win his WOC relay medal in 1987) and Peter Bonek behind me , I really shouldn't feel downcast.

[Tatty]

Looked at he map, read the reporst. When do entries open fpr 2010??

[awk]

But it seems that my decision to tackle the crowds on the central Rialto Bridge and then the waterfront cost 1½ minutes...

I did see both the other routes, but decided that the straighter line was still best, as it was possible to find a straight(-ish!) line. Rather than go down to the waterfront from the Rialto - that looked too far round to me, and along either busy streets or across the grain - I continued straight, through the Campo Mari Formosa (the square to the W of no. 11 on the punakone map, and next to 5 on the M45 course). Obviously can't tell without knowing other people's routes, but I don't think I lost time through route choice - complete inability to run fast enough was my handicap!