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After the popularity of the Maprunner Guide to IOF Control Descriptions, you can now download three more items to help with your orienteering. These are guides to orienteering map symbols. Click on the images to see a full-size version. The files are jpg images that are designed for printing at A4 size. If you are having trouble then try right clicking and select "Save Link As...." to copy the file to your computer first. The ISOM 2000 Map Symbols are those used for normal orienteering maps, generally at 1:10,000 or 1:15,000. The BOF School Map Symbols are those used for school orienteering maps in Great Britain. The ISSOM 2007 Map Symbols are those used for sprint orienteering maps at 1:5,000 or 1:4,000. 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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 You might think that sprint race planning is just more of the same, but experience has shown it probably needs a lot more care, certainly when looked at in terms of effort per kilometre of race! Fairness is a concern for any orienteering event, but the problems are made much more apparent for sprint races. What follows is based on my experience as a controller at several recent big sprint races (British Sprint Championships at Milton Keynes, World Cup sprint races at the University of Surrey in Guildford and at Battersea Park) and as a spectator at sprint World Championships and Park World Tour events. (Reproduced from CompassSport, December 2006)
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(A brief history of electronic punching in Great Britain, reproduced from the January 1999 CompassSport.)  Electronic punching is now an established part of major international events, and is beginning to extend into mainstream orienteering. The concept is simple: the traditional pin punch and control card are replaced by an electronic control marker and control card. The result is instant punch checking, your own printed split times, and even full timing of the event. CompassSport over the past two years has carried a number of articles on electronic punching. By now many of you will have had a chance to try it for yourself at one of the test races in Britain, or at major events abroad. The World Masters in the Czech Republic, the Shamrock O-Ringen in Ireland and the Italian 5-Day all went electronic in 1998, to name just three events. So what is happening in Britain, and why?
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 During the recent World Championships whilst trying to review WOC history I found out just how difficult it was to find full results for previous WOCs. It also struck me that the commentary team were struggling to determine quite how significant some of the results were. Had a Chinese runner ever qualified for a final before? I've managed to obtain nearly all results from WOCS (no B Finals yet), and have got everything in a single database. Please try out the various queries available and see what you find.
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An embarrassing number of the general orienteering public have been doing silly things in the woods for a very long time. For those who weren’t there in the 60s and 70s, or who have now forgotten, here is my list of orienteering things that are no more. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 98, May 2006. The article also appeared in CompassSport in June 2008.) |
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