Street-O
event Lambeth
Tuesday 16 September 2008
The first street orienteering event of the 2008/09 SLOW Winter season will be
held in Lambeth (bounded by The Thames, Blackfriars Bridge, Elephant &
Castle, the Oval and round to Vauxhall Bridge) on Tuesday 16th September.
Location Registration/Start/Finish will
be outside the Duke of Sussex pub on Bayliss Road/end of Coral Street,
250m SE from Waterloo Station (close to The Old Vic theatre) postcode SE1
7AY. Map link here
Format 60-minute score event, with a mass
start at 7.00 pm; latecomers can start individually up to 7.30 pm, or
even later if you ask me nicely (however it gets dark around 7.50 pm, so you
will be more and more disadvantaged).
Area Lambeth is characterised by
open plan housing estates, with an extensive footpath network; often roads and
paths end in dead-ends, all of which (well, 99.9%) will be shown on the
map. You will experience a wide variety of urban architecture, pre-WW2 as
well as modern. Unfortunately the area is also intersected by some major
roads, which will have to be crossed with care. The major railway lines
and their bridges, except where bounding the area, will not be included on the
map (because it gets too congested, as well as removing an obvious linear
feature).
Equipment A4 paper maps will be bagged
in transparent sleeves, bring your own plastic bag if you want something more
robust. Dont forget a pen/pencil to write down your results, a watch (unless
you can count with consistency to three-thousand- six-hundred), a compass (if required),
a fluorescent vest/band (recommended) and a head-torch (recommended) as the
light fades.
Changing/Showers regretfully no changing room
is available, so please come ready to run/participate, at least under your
over-clothes. Bags can be stacked in the pub throughout your run.
Public facilities are available at Waterloo Station.
Social at The Duke of
Safety take care crossing all roads,
but particularly the major ones, for which liberal use of the double-width road
symbol has been applied to the map.
To
assist with predicting numbers for map printing, please email cbg @ ukonline.co.uk in advance (by Monday evening)
if coming.
Charles
Bromley Gardner
Full
details of the 2008/09 SLOW Street-O series can be found here.
Posted 9 September 2008