Venice street race

[Arnold]

For the Park Race I reckon if you ask nicely on the day they should give you a new start time. By the way did you take into account that the first start is 13:30, and you should add your start time to that? So if the start list says "02:05" that is actually 15:35.

For the main race I would try to be there on time as I doubt they'd make any changes..

[Taybank]

Helen Gardner 2nd (elite W) Murray Strain 4th
http://www.orivenezia.it/OrigareASP/MovLive.asp

[Wendles]

Moto Bello! Everyone should do the Venice Street Race at least once! Fantastico! I am in the middle of uploading some photos of Brits but we've been on foot, on the waterbus, in the air twice, on the train, on the bus, on foot again and I'm stopping now and going to bed! There will be a few more tomorrow and a very few from the Park Race. The link is http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendles56/sets/72157628137186112/ please feel free to download them. If you are going to use them in club mags etc. I would appreciate knowing. Bueno notte!

[Angry Haggis]

Thanks Wendles, these are great!

[Tatty]

Fantastic photos Wendy. Regret not going this year. already pencilled in for 2012!

[Mrs H]

What a fantastic weekend brilliant weather from start to finish, amazing races, I can't quite believe it all happened now looking outside at the greyness Thoroughly enjoyed the social side and tea and biscuits on the finish line.

Great pictures Wendy - you see if I hadn't spent so much time posing on the run in I might have caught up those 7 seconds

Thanks to Epocian for all his very useful advice - great to see him and Mrs E on the podium along with so many other Brits. Fantastic win by Mike Hampton (mapper for the Great Malvern Urban Race).

[andypat]

Great pictures Wendy - you see if I hadn't spent so much time posing on the run in I might have caught up those 7 seconds

The difference between the two pictures is quite remarkable!

[Freefall]

I echo the thoughts of others who have been in Venice. What an amazing event. The event website and details were not that clear but once you worked out where to go and what time you ran it seemed to work. The Park-O was enjoyable but for me 4.3 km wasn't a sprint race but was a short(ish) race. The legs were pretty tired especially as we had been doing the touristy things as well wandering the back streets. The main race itself was superb - apart from the penultimate leg and run in it was full on concentration all the way. I cannot think of many races in the forest where I have had to think so hard. Pretty pleased with a result just outside the top half in M55.

[jtc]

Congrats. to all the Brits. who managed medals at the worlds premier street O event.
Names I spotted:
Geoff Ellis M35 RAFO
Mike Hampton M65 RUGBY
Guy Goodair M75 EPOC
Judith Goodair W70 EPOC
Alice Bedwell W50 SUG
Helen Gardner WElite SLOW
Linda Pakuls W50 GO
Chris Kiddier W55 GO
James Crawford M55 GO

[epocian]

Don't forget Jean Lochhead W65 EPOC!

[Arnold]

By popular demand, Winsplits and Splitsbrowser is now also available on the results pages.

Routegadget was one step too far for this year but I'll try and convince the organisers for next year!

[awk]

Absolutely loved the event - it has long been one of the biggest highlights of the year for the whole family, and remains so: weather was fantastic, atmosphere tremendous, organisation as good (and relaxed) as ever, and good course. Have to say though, it was good not great though, at least by Venetian standards: whilst OH and offspring had great ones, mine (M50) didn't quite reach the heights of the last couple of years (tough though, as two years ago was outstanding). I think that this was primarily because the signature long leg (taking over 20% of the time) was of limited interest, with only one obvious, and pretty straightforward, route from the Stazione Marittima over to the other side of the Grand Canal just south of the top end of the Strada Nova. Offspring had the same leg on M20/M35, but it was a smaller proportion of his course which had other challenges to compensate. For me, quite a few of the other routes were pretty straightforward too - although there was some excellent stuff too, including a good leg E-W across the Grand Canal (which led to my biggest mistake since starting going to Venice, losing a good minute minute going the wrong direction).

But, good by Venetian standards is great by any other, and not every course can be at the pinnacle. This remains the ultimate in urban orienteering for me (although those urban races at Puglia last year looked pretty amazing), and we're already hoping to make the trip again next year!

[Wendles]

If anyone is still unsure about going to Venice for the street race despite being bored to tears with their friends' superlatives (especially after running round brambly, muddy, murky Black Carr Woods today) then http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendles56/?saved=1 here are my tourist photos taken over the weekend. Also, thankyou to Si for sending this linkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d6J8p7-8p3U taken by a foreign competitor. He is following Mr Wendles at the beginning - watch out for the Lagganlia top!

[Roomungous]

Don't know what you do for a living Wendles, but Venice Tourist Board might appreciate your services; your pictures are exceptional. We were blessed with epic weather though, as we still are here in sunny Moray (15 degrees running around Lossie Forest this morning). I hope you don't mind, but RAFO and MOR have borrowed some of your pictures.

[Wendles]

Thankyou Roomungous and don't mind at all if you use them.