Aire Valley Long-O (inc UK Cup)

[awk]

Just a heads up that the pre-entries for this close this weekend. If the previous event a few years ago is anything to go by, it promises to be an interestingly varied course, including deciduous and coniferous woodland, open moorland, and a bit of urban all along and around the very green Aire valley to the north of Bradford. Starts and finishes adjacent to the World Heritage village of Saltaire, which also hosts the Saltaire Festival that day, so plenty to see, do, eat and drink as well!

[ba-ba]

irritatingly happening on the same day as the Mountain Trial (or vis versa)

[ifor]

I would of thought Aire would know better some of there members have very good Mointain trial pedergree.

[Ali Wood]

'have' and 'their' and 'pedigree' I assume?

[seabird]

I would of thought Aire would know better some of there members have very good Mointain trial pedergree.

It's hard enough squeezing an O event into the Fixtures List without taking into consideration other (albeit related) sports. The Long O has been on the Aire calendar for more than 2 years. None of those with pedigree spotted the clash.

Nevertheless an unfortunate clash - and only two Aire names spotted in the Mountain Trial entries. Pedigree ain't what it was.

[mykind]

Two whole years eh? Not quite the 50+ of the LDMT then. And by the way the LDMT can reasonably claim to be the first event in Britain to be organised along orienteering principles so maybe not just a related sport.
Aire still has plenty of Mountain Trial pedigree it just hasn't yet got completely passed on to the next generation but if Hector carries on doing well it won't be long...

[awk]

Two whole years eh? Not quite the 50+ of the LDMT then.

You've missed the point of what seabird was saying. He as not comparing the histories of the events, simply saying that in the two years it has been on the club fixtures list, nobody in the club spotted the clash. Nor did the UK Cup organisers.

And by the way the LDMT can reasonably claim to be the first event in Britain to be organised along orienteering principles so maybe not just a related sport.

I think the phrase is fair enough. The LDMT is a superb race and event (I used to run it fairly regularly), but it is 'related', both in terms of governance (and thus where it fits into fixtures lists), and, indeed, in the skills etc involved.
And browsing through the entries for the LDMT, whilst there are a fair number of those competing who might have been at the Long-O, we're not talking meganumbers. Plenty of orienteers who don't do the LDMT.

[King Penguin]

Fixtures congestion means that clashes are inevitable.
Tomorrow BOK have a Long-O near Monmouth and WRE have one on the Long Mynd. Living equidistant from both, it was a tough decision on which to go to. BOK won because its an area not used for decades and which I have never been to, whilst I have done two Long-Os on the Long Mynd in recent years.
Were neither of these two events happening I would have been heading back to Lincoln.

HOC changed the originally-mooted date for Castle Vale urban to avoid clashing with London, which would have been plain silly. Congestion meant there were not many options, which means it now clashes with Venice, the date of which was not confirmed at the time (though I admit we should have been able to take a pretty good guess). At lease it means those urban addicts who find Venice a bit too far can get their fix in this country.

[denbydale]

HOC changed the originally-mooted date for Castle Vale urban to avoid clashing with London, which would have been plain silly. Congestion meant there were not many options, which means it now clashes with Venice, the date of which was not confirmed at the time (though I admit we should have been able to take a pretty good guess). At lease it means those urban addicts who find Venice a bit too far can get their fix in this country.

Don't know when you fixed the Castle Vale date but I received confirmation of the 2012
Venice date (11 Nov) on 19th of November last year from Stefano Cordella

It's a pity it clashes, would have loved to do Castle Vale

[swat]

Looks like some cheap UK Cup points available for any women that want to enter the Aire Long-O.

[Wendles]

Some photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wendles56/sets/72157631486722940/

[Duncan]

UK Cup results now updates with this race: http://www.ukcup.org.uk/.