British Sprint and middle closing date

[frog]

I want to go to a pancake relay! What happened at it? I love pancake day. Combining orienteering with pancakes sounds excellent, if you ignore the risk assessment!

[NeilC]

I want to go to a pancake relay! What happened at it? I love pancake day. Combining orienteering with pancakes sounds excellent, if you ignore the risk assessment!

A star relay, up to 7 teams of three, one map, 13 controls (Baker's dozen - all 50-200m away). At each control 7 sets of an ingredient (egg, 1oz/25g flour, milk, lemon, etc). Teams had to send one member out at a time to a different control until they had visited enough to make pancake mix. A minimum of 6 controls had to be visited to collect all the correct ingredients since there was duplication - except for the egg which was only at one control (the furthest one away).

I had originally planned to use actual ingredients but logistics got in the way so there was just a strip of paper with the ingredient written on. A team of 14 year old boys got all the required ingredients first but had no idea what they actually needed so were beaten by the team of middle-aged mothers who did.

[frog]

Sounds fun, I was visualising a relay with the returning member having to make and eat a pancake in a trangia before the next one could set off. Your way sounds less messy.

[EddieH]

I,ve just been onto the weekend website to see where the middle distance event is going to be. The only reference seems to tell us that it is at Tulley's Farm with a link to their website.
It is clear that Tulleys are no orienteers like the Tullies. Their location map has no scale and appears to lack any accuracy. It does not correspond in any meaningful way to an OS map of the area to such an extent that I couldn't guarantee finding it.

[IanD]

I,ve just been onto the weekend website to see where the middle distance event is going to be. The only reference seems to tell us that it is at Tulley's Farm with a link to their website.
It is clear that Tulleys are no orienteers like the Tullies. Their location map has no scale and appears to lack any accuracy. It does not correspond in any meaningful way to an OS map of the area to such an extent that I couldn't guarantee finding it.

No doubt all will be made clear in the Final Details.

In the meantime, I'm fairly confident that the link on the Mole Valley http://www.mvoc.org Events Calendar points to the car park, and that the "car park" in the events details on the BOF web site is in the middle of the competition forest.

[Urban]

What else would you like? We know where the car park is, how far it is to the start, start times, terrain description, a section of the map and the grid reference. There are map links on the SO website aswell as BO and event website. Tulleys Farm looks interesting too. Looks fine to me.

[EddieH]

Please don't get me wrong. I am not complaining. I am though amused at the abysmal quality of the map on the Tulley's Farm site.

I have no doubt all will be clear with final details.

[pete.owens]

I guess this is the spot:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=r ... 64.21,,1,5

Presumably the postcode is shared with the farm next door.

[NeilC]

Yep, that's the entrance to the car parking area. I was there last night discussing logistics with the owner. The plan is to post more details on the website on Sunday or Monday including full size copies of old maps for download, class/course combinations etc etc.

A visit to the farm website will inform you that this will be the first weekend of their Easter activities so in addition to orienteering you can have a go at ice skating, meeting the Easter Bunny in his secret Burrow, Farmers Golf etc etc.

[Mrs H]

Plant centre, tea room and a middle distance race - three of my favourite things - we just want a lovely soft spring day to enjoy it all - can't wait

[NeilC]

Entries for these events close at midnight tonight - seeding starts tomorrow.

Rockaldo's entry yesterday means that there should be at least one person running the Men's Elite C-final at the Sprint Champs. Place your bets now....

[Street]

Rockaldo's entry yesterday means that there should be at least one person running the Men's Elite C-final at the Sprint Champs. Place your bets now....

Kris Jones

[Dave]

Nah, it won't be Kris.he won't have got out of bed in time for the C Final.

So you should be alright Neil C, don't need to bother printing the lone C Final map

[Rockaldo]

Yvette probably hasn't entered. He's concentrating on the British relay again this year.

[King Penguin]

Seems unreasonable to have just one person running the C final. Why not have one extra runner in the B final ? Sometimes common sense says rules should be bent .....