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O Articles

IOF pictorial descriptions The complete IOF Control Description specification is available from the IOF web site .

After a long debate on Nopesport about how people learn these symbols I have produced a one or two page summary. Please feel free to distribute these files unchanged or print them out for non-commercial use. Please contact me to discuss any other usage.

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Landscape Page 2 (JPG format,0.7Mb)
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Top 10 - Events not to miss

So you’ve done a few events around Hertfordshire, and you’re ready to venture a bit further. Here is the “not to be missed” list to aim for. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 97, January 2006)
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Venice Street-O 2005

Here's the video I made to give you an idea of what it's like to run in the annual Venice street-O event. Definitely an event to try if you ever get the chance.

Whilst checking the link to the results I also found this great animation of the course, plus a good write-up of the M40/W21E course (which happens to be the one I ran).

Esher Micro-O

A few thoughts about the Micro-O that was part of the M21L course at the OK Nuts Trophy at Esher Common. There is a copy of the map here.
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Top 10 - Animal Sightings

The final details for the Queensland Championships 2005 included information about what to do if you encountered snakes on the course. Read on for further details of wildlife encounters from orienteering events around the world. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 96, September 2005)
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Top 10 - Things you didn't know about the World Cup

Just some of the things that went on behind the scenes at the World Cup races in 2005. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 95, May 2005).
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Controlling The World Cup Sprint Races

My normal experience with controlling is that the planner has a first go at the courses. There is then a reasonably short discussion between planner and controller, and the planner comes up with a second set of courses that are pretty close to the final thing. With these two events it didn't work like that, for many reasons. Planner Andy Jones and I probably went through at least five iterations of course shape to determine start, finish, spectator controls and course flow, before even more detailed reviews of exact courses. Read on to see just some of the problems we had to overcome.