| Course description: | Senior orienteers may enter the course that takes your fancy but please note that the Event Awards assume that the LottO (Long) Course will be an open competition, whereas the MagnificO (Medium) Course is targeted at over 65s (W65/M65 and older). The SpeedO (Short) Course is targeted at the W14/M14 and younger age groups and juniors are only permitted to enter this course as it remains within the Campus area. For each course, a prize will be awarded for the best female performance and the best male performance (so 6 prizes in total). For the LottO (Long) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female performance, best UBOC female performance, best BOK male performance and best UBOC male performance. For the MagnificO (Medium) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W65 performance and best BOK male =M65 performance. For the SpeedO (Short) course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W14 performance and best BOK male =M14 performance. The event will take place around the Campus and also, for some courses, in the urban area to the west of the Campus. The Campus is basically a collection of buildings and small car parks, densely packed, accessed by a network of paths and minor roads and surrounded by several fenced grass fields. These fences should not be crossed, instead you must use the passable gates that service them. These gates should be left as you find them. The long and medium courses will include an urban area to the west of the Campus which includes built up areas and a small area of woodland. The short course will remain within the Campus area. Any climb will not be significant, but please wear shoes that are suitable for sloping wet paved areas and grass fields. No spiked shoes please. Depending on route selection most, if not all, orienteers will encounter the garden around Langford House. This garden is separated from the rest of the park by a “ha-ha”. A ha-ha is a sunken ditch and retaining wall that should not be crossed except by the marked paths across the feature. The ha-ha itself is marked as an Uncrossable Feature. Areas marked as Out of Bounds (OOB) on the map have not been physically marked as such on the ground and should be obvious from the map and the terrain. Orienteers must be aware of these OOB and, of course, should not enter them. This especially applies to a couple of paved areas between the Small Animal Hospital and the Small Animal Veterinary Practice to the north of Assembly. The Long and Medium courses will cross the B3133 twice. There will be a timed-out crossing (1 minute) with a control either side of the road. Please dib the first control, carefully cross the road when traffic allows, and when safely on the other side of the road dib the second control and continue the course. Map: ISSprOM 2019-2 map by Trevor Crowe in August 2024. The maps will be A4 double sided at scales of 1:4000 and 1:3000 and printed on waterproof paper. The area mapped is the predominantly urban area of Langford that is north of the A38 and west of the B3133 plus the built-up area of the Langford Campus east of the B3133. A map entitled “Langford West” covers the westernmost 75% (approximately) of the mapped area west of the B3133, while one entitled “Langford Campus” covers the rest of the mapped area west of the B3133 plus the built-up area of the Langford Campus east of the B3133. The A4 Portrait, waterproof competition map shows “Langford West” (printed at 1:4,000) back-to-back with “Langford Campus” (printed at 1:3,000). Please note that: •“Langford West” and “Langford Campus” each have a blue border with a part removed to indicate where these maps very slightly overlap, • the overprinted control descriptions shown on a particular map are the descriptions that apply only to the controls on that map, and • leg lines between consecutive controls on different maps are shown leading to/from the edge of the map in the direction to/from the next/previous control. |
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XS 0-2.5km | S 2.6-5.0km | M 5.1-7.5km | L 7.6-10km | XL 10.1km + | |
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| Very Easy | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Easy | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Medium | ✘ | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Hard | ✘ | ✓ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Very Hard | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Course Technical Difficulty and Length (Km) are a guide to the standard of the courses offered. | |||||