IMPORTANT VENICE 2012

[Jayne]

Stodgetta, I've done the same thing. I did email to see if they'd got it but haven't heard back. I'm sure it's probably fine - everything seems to be done at the last minute.

[awk]

Italians

I don't know, I'd more likely say Brits ! Seems to me that, if the Venetian system is anything like typical, we could learn a lot from the Italians.

[madmike]

I hope I have entered the Friday Lignano & Saturday Palmanova races by filling out the on-line form, but you don't exactly get much information or feedback?
Is this all I need to do?
Am I OK to just turn up & pay for this one, too?
Italians

Yes thats fine, welcome to my world

[madmike]

Stodgetta, I've done the same thing. I did email to see if they'd got it but haven't heard back. I'm sure it's probably fine - everything seems to be done at the last minute.

it will be fine lastminute.com is a way of life here

[Spookster]

Start lists for Sunday are published:

http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/movbase.as ... &page=grig
Base time is 9am.

[Arnold]

A couple of days ago it looked like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/3538914/Venice-under-five-feet-of-water-as-the-city-suffers-its-worst-floods-in-22-years.html

But for the next few days it's looking much better:

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2104

Otherwise, looks like it'll be the same as it's always been. Which is amazing. I can't wait.

[denbydale]

A couple of days ago it looked like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/3538914/Venice-under-five-feet-of-water-as-the-city-suffers-its-worst-floods-in-22-years.html

But for the next few days it's looking much better:

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2104

Otherwise, looks like it'll be the same as it's always been. Which is amazing. I can't wait.

[denbydale]

A couple of days ago it looked like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/3538914/Venice-under-five-feet-of-water-as-the-city-suffers-its-worst-floods-in-22-years.html

But for the next few days it's looking much better:

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/2104

Otherwise, looks like it'll be the same as it's always been. Which is amazing. I can't wait.

Don't be too sure - it's predicting very high tide on the 11th
http://www.tides4fishing.com/it/veneto/venezia

[awk]

Don't be too sure - it's predicting very high tide on the 11th
http://www.tides4fishing.com/it/veneto/venezia

It's predicting a very high tidal coefficient, i.e. difference between high and low tide. The actual high tide height is predicted to be c. 1m at 8.25 am, which affects about 4% of the city to a depth of a couple of cms.

[Spookster]

Latest forecast is 120cm high tide at 8.20am. That'll have St Marks square about a foot deep in water , and about a third of the city flooded in some way.

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By 10am it should be mostly gone (tide below 100cm), though a few classes have early starters off from 9am.

A pity that the weather forecast also has water coming from above, as well as the sea coming up from below.

[Tatty]

Oops! David is off just after 9! Where are the actual event details? I've not found any yet and we leave home tomorrow morning, early

[seabird]

A pity that the weather forecast also has water coming from above, as well as the sea coming up from below.

Forecast for Ogden is GOOD.

Suggest the EPOC contingent and other Yorkshire folk come home.

[Spookster]

Where are the actual event details? I've not found any yet and we leave home tomorrow morning, early

Everything they tell you is already on the website:

Event info: http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/movbase.as ... &page=info

Schedule and course lengths: http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/movbase.as ... &page=prog

The event centre is always the same place, and is the sports centre with the zig-zag wall just north of control 28 on this course. Entrance is by the zig-zags. That's where you go for registration, bag collection, changing, toilets, download, results. You can leave kit, but I wouldn't leave valuables.
http://www.syo.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bi ... eli=&pID=3

[Tatty]

Thanks Martin. Have obviously not searched the website hard enough!! See you there.

[Arnold]

If it really is 120cm, they'll have to either cancel it or postpone starts

There was one race in really deep water in c. 1997 and another one in c.2002 in medium water - neither went down at all well with the locals, who strangely didn't appreciate being splashed by runners as they were trying to sweep water out of their shops / not get too wet going to church

So at that point they decided they wouldn't have the race if the water was too deep, and 120cm if it's right is definitely too deep. Then would become a question of can the starts wait for long enough for the water to go, before everyone begins worrying about their travels home. Not sure about that one.

They're very experienced organisers so I'm sure they'll make the right decision (and you may think I'm a hypocrit given my comments in the Nov Classic thread, but that one was about danger to runners, this one's about community relations)