UK Cities Cup 2008

[Wattok]

Find a some to tickle your taste buds for next year on the front page

[PorkyFatBoy]

Is that London as in "The City/Barbican" or London as in "West End/Hyde Park/Regents Park" ?

[Angry Haggis]

Is that London as in "The City/Barbican" or London as in "West End/Hyde Park/Regents Park" ?

The City of London Race will be in the The City/Barbican.

That is, definitely The City, and hopefully Barbican, if the latter is actually physically mappable - by no means certain at this stage!

[PorkyFatBoy]

Great, really looking forward to it

I think the Barbican should be mappable some how, as although it is multilevel, there is only one real route through it for the public, although it does change the levels. If you go to the Barbican, there is a map on the public "where am I?" sign boards that looks like how I envisage it. Let me know if you want someone to test run your maps - my office is between the Museum of London and St Paul's and the gym gets a bit boring sometimes.

[Mrs H]

Due to circumstances beyond our control nopesport have unfortunately had to cancel the UK Cities Cup for 2008.

No one seems to have commented on this - and as this thread is a sticky i don't know whether anyone will notice .
I'm so disappointed to read this - Mr H and I consoled ourselves when missing the Edinburgh city race due to impending family bereavement with the thought we would do the series in the autumn. We will hope to get our Urban series quota in - i hope we can have another bite of the edinburgh cherry next year.

[gg]

well in june you can head up to stockport to run on a brand new sprint 'city'/town map made by myself and mr fraser organised by mdoc

[Angry Haggis]

...and the City of London race is still on for October. Was mapping around St. Paul's Cathedral just last weekend.

[brooner]

Like folk say, there's plenty of races happening as part of the UK Urban League that should satisfy people's hunger for urban racing, hopefully we'll get the chance to put in place in Sheffield the sort of racing we were hoping the cities cup would provide... watch this space.

Mrs H: I do believe Edinburgh will be back again next year.

[Roger]

JK Sprint results have now been added to the Nopesport Urban League tables:
men, women.

As advertised (owing to the mismatch of classes between the JK courses and the Urban League categories), the results are based on minutes per (adjusted) km, with 10m climb taken to be equivalent to 100m distance. I've used the published straight-line distances: although they are of course nonsense for a race like this, they ought to be roughly proportional to the true minimum distances and that's good enough.

I have excluded the M/W10s on course 9. Their course was planned at a lower technical difficulty than the other courses, so their optimum route will tend to be closer to the straight-line measurement than the other courses. (And the lowest junior Urban League category is M/W18, which in the other races will usually be run on the streets. Encouraging M/W10 to enter the 'street' courses rather than the 'park' alternatives, simply on the basis of the Urban League scores, is probably a bad idea.)

I have also excluded competitors who are unlikely to score another race. These are mainly non-UK competitors. I've retained everyone who had either a BOF number or a UK club in the splits download file.

Despite these exclusions, the usual points scheme (start at 100 and work down) would have produced negative scores for the laggards in many classes, so, following the declared scoring system multiples of 10 have been added all the way down to ensure that the last scorer scores between 10 and 19 points.

Phew.

Roger

[greywolf]

Roger

good job, thank you!

(still think them M50s had it easy... )

[Angry Haggis]

Great, really looking forward to it

I think the Barbican should be mappable some how, as although it is multilevel, there is only one real route through it for the public, although it does change the levels. If you go to the Barbican, there is a map on the public "where am I?" sign boards that looks like how I envisage it. Let me know if you want someone to test run your maps - my office is between the Museum of London and St Paul's and the gym gets a bit boring sometimes.

Happy to announce that the Barbican now fully mapped for orienteering, and permission obtained, so will feature in at least the longer courses. Entries are now open at http://cityrace.org