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12th London City Races

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20th 21st 22nd September 2019

VERSION 3 of FINAL DETAILS – published Monday (16th) evening.

Contains extra information on the News items below, plus a detailed explanation of the mapping of stairs in the Barbican for Saturdays event.

Startlist on SiEntries

FRIDAY

Details about Friday’s EOD and number of maps and start blocks can be found here: http://londonorienteering.co.uk/events/middlesex-university-friday-20-september-2019/

SATURDAY, City of London – TRAVEL

There are extensive closures on the Underground on this date and the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines will not be running through nearby stations. There is more information in the latest version of the Final Details but in particular note that Barbican Station will be closed all day.

Refer to the TfL website for travel updates

Unfortunately, it has not proved possible to arrange for the on site café to be open for the event. Bring your own refreshments or make use of the large number of nearby venues

SUNDAY, Greenwich Park

Due to timing constraints imposed by the Royal Parks the maximum number of competitors on each course is restricted to 136. As a result, for EOD we have:

  • Course 1 – 19 maps available
  • Course 2 – full
  • All other courses; between 5 and 12 maps available per course

EOD will be welcomed on a first come, first serve basis at the Event Centre on Sunday, so come early!

A previous map of Greenwich Park can be found here: http://www.dfok.co.uk/index.php?limitstart=8&oo=312

Greenwich Park is also out of bounds to competitors for parking. There is limited parking in the residential streets north and south of Greenwich High Road accessed from Norman Road (SE10 9QZ) and Egerton Drive (SE10 8UH) respectively but check carefully where you park as many places are for residents only. The Sainsbury’s Local on Greenwich High Road has parking at £2.50 per hour and there is a car park behind Greenwich Picture House and metered street parking nearby, both at £1 for each 20 mins. Wardens monitor the parking restrictions closely including on Sundays.

EOD Prices – All Days

Friday: Senior £12.00  Junior £6.00
Saturday: Senior £16.00  Junior £6.00
Sunday: Senior £13.00  Junior £6.00.

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Event Bulletins

Chilworth MBO SCORE EVENT SUNDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2019

The fifth and final event in the SLOW MBO Score 2019 Series takes place from Chilworth on Sunday 13th October.

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This is a public event – all are welcome.

Event Centre

LocationSurrey Hills
AddressPercy Arms, 75 Dorking Road, Chilworth, Guildford, GU4 8NP
Latitude/longitude51.2155, -0.5259
OS grid referenceTQ030473
MapsGoogle Maps, OpenStreetMap

Getting there

  • Please park in the road near the pub, not in the pub car park.

Alternatively you can post for lift shares on either the SLOW Members (for SLOW members) or London & Southeast Adventure Racers (public) Facebook pages.

Event Details

Online entry is available on the BMBO website. General information about entering is available on the  MBO Score 2019 page. The closing date for online entries is shown in the BMBO event details. Please enter online if possible but Entry On the Day (EOD) is available.

Adult Day Rider£8 In advance  / £10 EOD
BMBO / SLOW Members£7 In advance / £9 EOD
Under 21 (on 31st DEc)£4 In advance / £5 EOD

A standard dibber is included free of charge.
Contactless SIAC dibber £2.
Lost dibbers will be charged at £29 for standard ones and £63 for contactless SIAC dibbers.

The event will be run under British Mountain Bike Orienteering rules, which competitors are advised to read in advance. BMBO also has some helpful MBO Score tips.

All riders must wear a helmet and carry a whistle and first aid kit (a minimum of plasters & dressings). The following equipment is also recommended:

  • Mobile phone for use in an emergency
  • Waterproof top
  • Compass and map board or cardboard to support an A4 map on your handlebars

There will be series prizes for top senior male/female, veteran male/female and youth categories, based on the best 3 results over the course of the year.

Registration9:30 – 10:00 (3 hour), 9:45-11:00 (2 hour)
START TIMES 9:30 – 10:00 (3 hour), 9:45-11:00 (2 hour)

Event duration is 2 or 3 hours and the course will close at 13:30.

Two participants who are looking after children may start early and both ride 2 hour events one after the other.

Maps will be 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps. The event will use Sport Ident electronic punching at all controls.

All competitors take part at their own risk.

Results will be available on the SLOW and BMBO websites shortly after the event.

Planner/Organiser: Julian Hemsted

Event Bulletins, Street-O

Hampton Wick Street-O & 2019-20 Schedule

Hello and welcome

You are all very welcome to the new season of evening Street Orienteering Races. These are friendly, easy events open to everyone and based at a pub around London. You have one hour to find as many clues as you can – race, run or walk as you wish! A specially produced street map will be provided, as well as a timing chip, so all you need to bring is some running gear, a watch and a pen. This guide provides general information about street orienteering.

2019-20 Series Schedule

The events take place in the evening, on the second Tuesday of each month from September to April. The full schedule for 2019-20 is set out below, with a few gaps still to be filled in.
DateVenueOrganiserDetailsResults
10 September 2019Hampton WickFran & Dave KendenDetailsResults
8 October 2019Turnpike LaneAlex Owen (LOK)
12 November 2019BatterseaEd Catmur
10 December 2019BrentfordRalph Dadswell
14 January 2020TBDJames Fraser
11 February 2020TBDDavid Rosen (LOK)
10 March 2020TBDTBD
14 April 2020TBDTBD

10 September Season Opener

Our season opener this year will be held on Tuesday 10 September in Hampton Wick, just across the Thames from Kingston. The venue for the event is The Lion Pub at 27 Wick Road, Teddington TW11 9DN. It’s a 5-10 minute walk from Hampton Wick train station (direct trains from Waterloo every 15 minutes) or buses 285, 281, 33, R68, 481 stop nearby. The Lion does food, drinks and bar snacks so do stay for a post-race chat afterwards!
LocationHampton Wick
AddressThe Lion, 27 Wick Road
Latitude/longitude51.4181, -0.3181
OS grid referenceTQ170701
MapsGoogle Maps, OpenStreetMap
Entry is £3 for SLOW and LOK members, students and juniors and £4 for others. This includes a hire chip card to record your time, or if you have your own you get a £1 discount. Depending on when you start, you might want to bring a headlamp (for poor visibility areas) and some hi-visibility clothing.
RegistrationBetween 1800 and 1930
Start TimesBetween 1800 and 1930
Like all our Street-Os, this a public race – all are welcome. Please RSVP to the event via Facebook to let us know you are coming – you can also see who else is coming here and post queries. 
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All competitors take part at their own risk, and because of our insurance any under-16s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. If you have any questions, do ask them on Facebook or email the series coordinator Matthias Mahr on or the September organisers Fran Kenden & Dave Wright on

Event Reports

Elthorne Park Results

Thanks to everyone who came to the final park race of the series.

The two areas used are maybe not the most challenging technically but with the bends of the river, and the depth after a bit of rain, the skill level required increases. Also a unique feature of both parks is how close you are to major transportation (M4 and Piccadilly Line) and yet in a navigational world of your own!

Boston Manor House is well worth a visit once renovation work is complete and we have to thank Linda Massey for her support in using the area.

Additional thanks from me go to our helpers on the night: Don McKerrow, Sue Carter, Steven Clelland and Ralph Dadswell, as well as Vicky Whaley, my neighbour Chris, Gordon Parker and John Owens for ensuring I was able to get the equipment to the right places at the rights times without a car. Of course Fiona Tam also put in a power of effort on the night making sure that the series results were correct and updated and of course managing to coordinate another successful park race series.

Park Race Series – Nine Summer Evening Orienteering Races

Look forward to seeing everyone either at the City Race of for the start of the night and street-o series.

You will see some bizarre numbers in the splits files, sorry. Some of the controls were out due to me synchronising them to the wrong master station.

Long Course Results
Short Course Results
Elthorne Park Results – including links to splits

Event Bulletins

Boston Manor; Elthorne park event

Watch out for the pedestrians next Wednesday!

The final race of South London Orienteers’ nine event 2019 Park Race Series takes place close to Boston Manor station on the Piccadilly Line on Wednesday 14th August 2019.

This event is a special one because it will combine two parkland area with the historic River Brent to form a grand series finale, both of which were last used in 2016. There will be a long course for more experienced participants as well as a short course suitable for beginners.

Race Centre

The race centre is The Harvester in Boston Road, Hanwell, W7 2AX and will be serving food suitable for all budgets. The nearest station is Boston Manor on the Piccadilly Line, 5 minutes walk away.

LOCATIONBoston Manor and Elthorne Parks
ADDRESS The Harvester, Boston Road, Hanwell, W7 2AX
LATITUDE/LONGITUDE51 ° 25’09.8″N 0°07’41.6″W
OS GRID REFERENCETQ162790
MAPSGoogle maps, OpenStreetMap

Race Details

The entry fee is £5 for seniors plus a £1 hire charge for hiring a SIAC and £3 for members of SLOW, LOK, DFOK and MV and for students and juniors with no hire charge for a SIAC. The race will use SIAC contactless punching.

Long and short courses are offered. They are both suitable for juniors but they must be escorted across the road and back between the pub and the start/finish.

·         Long: this will be approximately 5km and is primarily forest/grass based with some paths and tracks. There is some bramble in the forested areas but the courses are planned to avoid them as much as possible.

·         Short: this will be approximately 3km and is primarily grass based with some paths and tracks. There is some bramble in the forested areas but the courses are planned to avoid them as much as possible.

Time

RegistrationBetween 1745 and 1925
Start TimesBetween 1800 and 1930

Start (500m away across a road): 18:00 – 19:30
Finish (500m away across a road): closes at 20:15, so we can collect the controls by 21:00 when the park is locked.

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Other Details

All competitors take part at their own risk. Entries and results will be processed by computer, your entry will be taken as agreement to this. The competition is run under the rules and guidelines of, and sanctioned by, British Orienteering.

Results will be available on the SLOW website soon after the race.

Organiser/Planner: Duncan Grassie   

Event Reports, Member News

Scottish 6-Days

The Scottish 6 Days is by some margin the largest orienteering event in Great Britain. It has been organized every other summer since 1977. On each of the six competition days thousands of runners tackled one of 38 forest courses provided for 70 classes, and this year many chose sprint orienteering and/or Trail-O on the Wednesday “rest day” too.

Thanks to Wendy Carlyle for the image featured at the top of the post – one of our members entering the finish field on Day 3.

Races happen from Sunday one weekend to the following Saturday with Wednesday as the rest day – a chance to bag a Munro or go cycling perhaps, or to take part in a sprint race and Trail-O. And some folk even have a rest.

The competition is very well organized (almost entirely by volunteers) with six high quality forest races in different locations, with some areas often new to orienteering. Runners are allocated a variety of start times through the week in club “blocks” – this year SLOW had their earliest starts on the first day – the tough near wilderness forest of Auchengarrich.

Auchengarrich map extract – part of M55L course

The organization has already scheduled and begun planning the next competition: Lochaber 2021. They maintain a body of knowledge and store of equipment, whilst adding and changing in the light of trends and technology. This year featured two middle distance style races alongside the traditional long forest formats, livestreaming pictures and commentary to the internet, and GPS tracking of selected classes each day.

Scottish 6-Day 2019 Website

Overall Results – All Classes (single pdf, 33 occurrences of “SLOW”)

Sample Livestream – Day 3 World Ranking Race for M/W21E.

Sample GPS Tracking – M65 on Day 4 (includes Charlie and Don.)

You can find many photographs from the links on the 6-Day Website: we have picked out a few, some of which may be of our members. Many thanks to the photographers: Andy Johnson, Wendy Carlyle and Steve Rush.

The JOK top of a local club member (credit: Wendy Carlyle)
credit: Wendy Carlyle
Wendy Carlyle captures the holiday and family friendly nature of the week.
credit: Andy Johnson
credit; Andy Johnson
credit: Wendy Carlyle
credit: Steve Rush
credit: Wendy Carlyle
credit: Andy Johnson
credit: Steve Rush
credit: Andy Johnson
Club News, Event Reports

GLOSS

London OK’s GLOSS series for 2019 has wrapped up, with SLOW successfully fielding a full team at all five races.

Sunday 23 June Gunpowder Park   – Handicap results
Sunday 30 June Barnes Common    – Handicap results
Saturday 06 July Highfield Park    – Handicap results
Sunday 14 July Belhus Woods   – Handicap results
Sunday 21 July Nonsuch Park – Handicap results

After the final race at Nonsuch Park on Sunday, and once the arithmetic of the handicapping had been applied, SLOW were determined to be second behind the series winners HAVOC – Havering and South Essex Orienteering Club. The score in the final race was 528 – 524.

Thanks to Mole Valley for the Nonsuch Park race. With their kind permission and support Sarah Brown ran a flapjack stall for the Orienteering Foundation appeal to support the GB Team in the forthcoming World Championships. Sarah thanks runners for supporting the appeal to the value of £51.20.

A park on a nice summer Sunday morning can be quite busy, and several passers-by took an interest. It’s good to be able to talk about the range of our great sport.

Orienteering in London and Surrey. British Orienteering's Club of the Year 2013. Community Amateur Sports Club accredited.