Venice Street Race

[Niall]

Morning folks,
Anyone got a copy of the Venice map that they could kindly load onto Nopesport?
Much obliged.
Niall

[Paulo]

Check out the route animation on this site
http://users.skynet.be/sky40411/parcour ... n51113.htm

There's also an event write up with a copy of the map here:
http://www.barebones.ca/2005%2011%20Ven ... eeting.pdf

[LostOldTimer]

Only 4 days to go to venice - anyone flying from East Midlands (easyjet), on friday or Saturday?

Anyone yet know where park-o is, or the main start?

Anyone got any tips for the race?
or essential things to do / see whilst there?

[Matt L]

Dad and I are competing. We're flying out from East Mids on Thursday morning. You'll recognise us; we'll be the ones remonstrating with staff about dangerous items of baggage like SI cards.

"Anyone yet know where park-o is, or the main start?"
No, sorry.

Have you managed to find any start times yet? Doesn't appear to be anything on the website. Seems to be the Italian way; did you notice the entries more than doubled the day of the closing date?

[LostOldTimer]

Start times are now on main website - at least for the main Sunday race - no park-o details.

I think all the Italian entries were added to list on the closing date.

Anyone any last minute tips on what else to see / do whilst there?

[Arnold]

Having been there a few times I thought I'd share some thoughts:
- It's the most brilliant race in the history of the world.
- The finish is always in the same place (same as on the map that was linked in a post above)
- The start moves around from right next to the sports palace (which is the bit of jagged road NW of the finish), to 500m away, to even a boat ride away across the grand canal to the tip of the island to the West of the finish. But they don't usually publish that until the day before the race. So, don't know for sure this time
- I wouldn't get overly excited about the park O. It's basically a short version of the main event, with only 10% of the people taking part, and usually on the more boring bit of the east side of the map. Having said that, it's a good warmup. Don't think there will be allocated start times for that.
- Definitely wander over to the event center on Saturday, it's open all day. Pay the fees, get some bumpf, soak up the atmosphere.
- Otherwise I'd just wander around town and wouldn't worry too much about museums etc if it's your first time in Venice. It's more about the atmosphere. Having said that the Guggenheim is worth a quick trip though quite pricey.

Enjoy!!

[Tatty]

Can someone put up a link to the event site so we can get results please?

[Matt L]

Hi all,

Iàm in Venice. Looking online to try to get start times.

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

(btw)

It has times for both park O and the main sunday race. I am 00.28 eg, but whatòs base time???

[Matt L]

Answers:

parkl first start 2pm

main fs 10am

[mat-d]

man that was awesome! One of the best and fastest o-races I have ever done! St Marc's Square, Per Accademia and the rest...utterly brilliant!

Bring on Scarborough!

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[Nails]

Today I ran the men's prologue at Scarborough -nice eyeballs out but also really technical. Nearly got swept away in a big wave too -will have to make sure the tide is out next time!

More info sometime......

[awk]

Matt, you are so right. That was one of the few occasions when the word 'awesome' is completely right. In fact, almost inadequate. Quite the most fantastic event I have ever done, bar none.

Only 364 days to the next one!

[Matt L]

Fantastic.

A really great event.

The sprint on Saturday was good fun too. Despite being in the much less technical area of the map, it still offered a good challenge owing to the speed you were running at.

[mat-d]

Results are now up at: http://www.orivenezia.it/mov/movbase.asp?lang=eng&page=risu

Some good GBR Results in there!

[epocian]

Here's the Men's Elite Course winner's route - blimey it's tired me out just trying to follow it on the map never mind actually running it - glad my course was only about 25% of this one

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