Join us next Thursday (11 July) for an urban orienteering race in Gloucester.
We’ll be meeting at the Gloucester College car park off Llanthony road, with starts from 6-7pm. Full details are available on the event page.
The format
Our summer evening urban events are open to all, and a great way to experience orienteering for the first time. We’ll have people available to advise you how to get started. If you’ve been to one of our Maprun events, there are similarities but also a few differences:
The maps
We use detailed 1:5000 maps for these events: this is twice the scale of the maps we use for Maprun, so there’s a lot more detail. You’ll see paved areas (tan), open grass (orange), individual trees, and various uncrossable features (olive green or black):
The courses
In these events, we’ll have a set of linear courses of different lengths. Unlike the score courses we use for Maprun (where you can visit control points in any order), on linear courses you must visit the control points in a specified order: 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the diagram below:
Visiting control points
We use an SI card, or electronic ‘dibber’, to record visits to control points. There will be a box at each control point with a hole to insert the dibber. It’ll bleep, to let you know it has registered. The newest dibbers are contactless, and you just need to wave them within 30cm of the box to register: both types can be used, and will be available for hire at these events.
