WOC 2015 Bulletin 2

[Freefall]

Bulletin 2 now available from website http://www.woc2015.org/

[greywolf]

what is "a non-linear track network"?

[Freefall]

It is a phrase inserted into a document to check that it is being read carefully. I also think it is meant to mean squiggly lines rather than a regular grid pattern.

[parallelerror]

Interesting blog post by WOC Sprint Bronze Medallist Tue Lassen http://tuelassen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08 ... on-ii.html

In particular:

Since my last blog WOC 2015 Bulletin 2 has been published and now everyone knows in which towns the Sprint-relay and Individual Sprint will be. The areas are different than Venice and even though the Google Streetview is quite good in both towns, making accurate maps would be more difficult. But "luckily" the organizers (or IOF) have permitted access to the towns (why?), and even though you are not allowed to carry a map in the embargo, my guess is that I can still memorize most of it with some touring around. And making a map should be quite easy even though it would take some time...

I don't understand why they organizers are making it so easy for us to prepare and know exactly what the challenges will be.

First of all, why are they permitting access to the towns? I have no idea why it's necessary. Anyone who knows? And can you go anywhere, or is it just on paved roads? You don't really know because it doesn't say in the bulletin. Like in Palmela (EOC 2014 sprint town), my guess is that someone will stay on paved roads, others will just go everywhere, eventually others will find out that someone went everywhere, and so on. Even some nations lived inside the embargo at EOC, getting a possible advantage of others..

[Lard]

Sprint should be a free-for-all - it's usually best runners that win sprint, it's relatively simple orienteering at high speed and presumably it's designed to be closely contested and tv friendly - not my kind of sport but very different from the forest. So be it. The Danes didn't cheat in any way in Italy - IOF rules are outdated (designed for a previous set of disciplines). The best prepared nation came up trumps. Good on 'em.

WE might be arguing that because the Swedes have tough terrain on their doorstep they have an unfair advantage in the forest races next!

Suck it up.

[greywolf]

And making a map should be quite easy even though it would take some time... I don't understand why they organizers are making it so easy for us to prepare and know exactly what the challenges will be.

Rather than make a map of the sprint area he might be better off using the one available on routegadget / WOC website of course it won't tell him which of the alleyways will have their gates closed and which otherwise private areas will be accessible on the day..

Freefall: is Inverness still embargoed? website says yes, bulletin doesn't mention it

[Freefall]

Greywolf

Thanks for pointing that out - Inverness embargo will be lifted once I have run it past authorities. Note Strathfarrar embargo is lifted for WOC (but not for Scottish 6 Days)

[awk]

it's relatively simple orienteering at high speed and presumably it's designed to be closely contested and tv friendly - not my kind of sport but very different from the forest.

That's one version of sprint, and fortunately I've only ever come across it once, at WMOC in Switzerland, which is a contender for the most boring sprint race I've ever done.

[Freefall]

Embargo lifted from Inverness (thanks Greywolf). Bulletin 2 now shows all remaining embargoes including my back garden in Nairn.

[Rosine]

I suppose it helps with travel and accommodation if you do not have to avoid all major towns in the area!

[mikey]

Embargo lifted from Inverness (thanks Greywolf). Bulletin 2 now shows all remaining embargoes including my back garden in Nairn.

Great opportunity to have a World Championship control in your garden - not to be missed

[Freefall]

All they need to do is find out where I live and that's the courses compromised (BTW Tess I moved house!)