Huntingdon - nopesport urban league

[youngladdie]

Final details NOW available for Huntingdon urban race.

By the way, anyone travelling from South Yorkshire / Derbyshire able to offer lift?
pm me.

[youngladdie]

Didn't get offered a lift, but anyway...
A very enjoyable urban race, with a bit of a mixture - grassy areas, if a little muddy (tho the rain just about kept off), to start and finish; a small town centre area with short legs to keep you thinking; a longer leg for those that can run (not me), to reach the housing estate with its maze-like complex of roads and alleyways where a lot of the area looked very similar.
A good course tho, on a well-cartographed map (tho maybe not worth the extra 'premium' entry fee).
Thank you to all at WAOC. it prooves just about any town can have a town-centre urban race, with the chance to run on exciting new maps.
Roll on Pickering...

[Angry Haggis]

Thank you to all at WAOC. it prooves just about any town can have a town-centre urban race, with the chance to run on exciting new maps.

Absolutely, thanks to WAOC for having "the vision".

Roll on Pickering...

...and Nottingham, on the Sunday after Easter. Trains from London are currently £24 return - I've entered!

[Scott]

Awesome race. One of the best urban events I've done . Thanks to all involved.

[NeilC]

And running up and down busy high streets certainly adds to the atmosphere of these events. Twice I tried to explain what I was doing whilst on the run.

Looks like the software didn't spot your misdemenour AH.

[Mrs H]

Yes a really good event and so easily accessible and nicely and conveniently laid out - a little sunshine for us to sit out and picnic in would have been nice - but I guess that was being saved up for Belvoir - all in all a great SPRING weekend

[Spookster]

It was a great event. In fact, more fun than Belvoir on Sunday, which was just a muddy slog. I did find Huntingdon not as challenging as the other good urban areas - in other words there was very little opportunity to get stuck in dead ends. For technical challenge I'd rank it alongside Chester, Beverley, Stockport and perhaps York, but not as good as Cambridge, London, Guildford Uni or Venice.

[Scott]

Personally, I reckoned that Huntingdon (or at least the housing estate towards the end) was one of the trickier urban areas I'd run on recently - not up there with the Barbican, but definitely harder than Edinburgh, Cambridge, Nottingham Uni or Newcastle. As you say, there isn't the same potential for getting stuck down dead ends, but it needed a lot of concentration not to make parallel errors in those everything-looks-the-same alleyways - they caught me out .

I reckon you could have a awesome sprint race (ie 15min winning time) staying out of the town centre and just using those housing estates.

[epocian]

Are the courses on Routegadget anywhere?

[awk]

In fact, more fun than Belvoir on Sunday, which was just a muddy slog.

Nothing's changed there then! That's what my training notes say from the same event thirty or so years ago!

[Spookster]

Are the courses on Routegadget anywhere?

Not yet, because they have to manually fix the splits data, before it can be used with RG. There was a road crossing that was used twice, each time with a time-out, but the splits file apparently still includes those times.

[Red Adder]

I'm not sure if WAOC use Route Gadget - its not on their Web page and they aren't listed on the RG web-page.

Perhaps this should be another requirements for L2 events ??

[Marco Polo]

I'm not sure if WAOC use Route Gadget - its not on their Web page and they aren't listed on the RG web-page.

Perhaps this should be another requirements for L2 events ??

They do- Cambridge city race was on RG

[Clive Coles]

The 2009-10-17 Cambridge City Race was staged by CUOC

[Marco Polo]

The 2009-10-17 Cambridge City Race was staged by CUOC

indeed it was

http://www.waoc.org.uk/routegadget/cgi- ... 2&kieli=pt