Scottish Champs & Jubilee5

[Big Jon]

Entries close for the Scottish Champs and Jubilee5 events on 20th May - just a week away.... Get your entries in for some of the best technical and running orienteering in Britain this year:
Individual Champs at Glen Feardar - fast runnable forest with fast open moor (limestone)
Relays at Creag Choinnich - tricky, technical forest
MTBO at Scolty - route choice galore, with going ranging from forest roads to technical single track
Sprint Race in Banchory - fast running, route choice and hills!
Middle Race at Inchmarnoch - lovely morain terrain, fast and runnable

Campsite at Braemar Games field with on-site showers.
Socials - Ceilidh, Quiz & film night
Enter at:
https://www.oentries.com/multi/events/2 ... e-/details

[AnneH]

And don't forget that immediately following the Jubilee5 comes...
The World TrailO Championships. Give yourself a full fix of all sorts of orienteering over 9 days by entering both events.

Entries for the WTOC public events close on May 27. Check out the website and get your entry in.

[Big Jon]

Entries now at over 630 for individual, 350 for sprint and nearly 400 for middle - get your entry in while you still can! Best orienteering in GB in 2012.

[AndyC]

But still only 8 in the Public event of the World Trail O that follows immediately after ( I know closing is later but....)

[andy]

But still only 8 in the Public event of the World Trail O that follows immediately after ( I know closing is later but....)

because it's not a holiday... I live an hour away and can't make it
I get the feeling WTOC needed to be alongside another event, not after...

[frog]

The monday of the Scottish isn't a holiday either. Sadly I'm having to return after the relays.

[andy]

The monday of the Scottish isn't a holiday either. Sadly I'm having to return after the relays.

boo. I assumed both the Monday and Tuesday were national holidays. I don't get any of them so I just took both as holiday!

[AndyC]

I'm in the position of being without employment (not by choice) and having family in Dundee -hence my decision that WTOC is essential. I'll point out that two people are doing the Saturday of the event only -which is the day the elite have the same controls as the mortals and so could be embarassed by one of us actually beating them (icon of flying pig required perhaps)

[mappingmum]

I think you'll find that the Monday and Tuesday of the Scottish are Bank Holidays. However, whether you get them as public holidays depends on your employer and your T&Cs of employment.

[Big Jon]

Tuesday is a national "bank holiday" (I think), certainly all schools I know of have the day off, Monday - most Aberdeenshire schools have day off - though not Peterhead Academy area (hotbed of republicanism?). Time of sprint chosen as late afternoon to help with those who have to work (at least those who work in NE Scotland). Seeing as entries are nearly 360 for the sprint and over 400 for the middle I guess many people have the day off or have taken a holiday... pulled a sicky??

[frog]

Which holidays the bank chooses to have bare little relation to when we are closed. We do get the Tuesday off though.

[AnneH]

But still only 8 in the Public event of the World Trail O that follows immediately after ( I know closing is later but....)

because it's not a holiday... I live an hour away and can't make it
I get the feeling WTOC needed to be alongside another event, not after...

Just come along on the Saturday if you can't manage the weekdays... That will be the most challenging course.

I won't go into all the details of why the dates were picked, but the requirements of the Championships had to take priority, we couldn't just plonk it down alongside another event. I'm enormously grateful to all those orienteers and other friends who have volunteered their time to come and work at WTOC. (I could still do with a few more on the Saturday, please get in touch if you can help - helpers can do the public events too.)

[ba-ba]

I'm presuming we can just ruck up to the campsite and pay on the gate? Or am I missing something (details hold little interest now I only have to organise myself and not a rabble of stoodents).

If the top 150-odd GBR orienteers are struck down with a mystery illness the day before WOC, do I get in on a technicality?

[eddie]

No.

[Big Jon]

Entries closed at 746 for Scottish Individual, 395 for sprint and 444 for middle distance - a big event in any terms. Forests are looking fantastic (courtesy of recent cold that has restricted growth of grass bracken etc. Weather now warming up nicely to make the streams & marshes less cold for crossing.
Looking forward to welcoming many of you to glorious Deeside.