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20 PROGRAMME O-RINGEN VÄRMLAND 2017 Competition Instructions O-Ringen Trail-O What is Trail-O? Trail-O (or Pre-O in Swedish) refers to precision orienteering, where everyone can participate, regardless of gender, age, and disability. Participants move through gentle and easily passable terrain, usually on trails and roads. Trail-O at O-Ringen is organized as a separate 5-day competition. Middle distance. Steep, open forest terrain of park-like character. Distance from O-Ringen City to the arena is approximately 3km. Road signs start from the intersection of roads 61 and 175 (Gaterondellen roundabout). Distance from parking to the arena: 400m. Parking for vehicles with handicapped tags adjacent to the arena. Stage Start At each stage participants can sign up for the direct entry courses Open Pre-A and Open Pre-B. Registration takes place at the arena. Start times are between 1-3pm during stages 1-4 and 10am-12pm during stage 5. Try Trail-O On activity day, Tuesday, July 25, you can try Trail-O at the Falleberget arena. Two courses of different difficulty levels are available. You can start between 10am-12pm. Competition area Stage 1 goes from the Styckåsen arena, stages 2 and 3 from the Falleberget arena, stage 4 from the Ingestrand arena, and stage 5 from the Minneberg arena. O-Ringen does not organize any joint transport to the Trail-O arenas. Private transport is recommended. Route and stage descriptions Stage 1: Sunday, July 23 Arena Styckåsen Stage 2: Monday, July 24 Arena Falleberget Long distance. Steep forest terrain. Distance from O-Ringen City to the arena is approximately 3km. Road signs start from the intersection of roads 61 and 175 (Gaterondellen roundabout). Parking adjacent to the arena. First regular start at 1:00pm. Start adjacent to the arena. Stage 3: Wednesday, July 26 Arena Falleberget Middle distance. Forest terrain with occasional steep slopes. Distance from O-Ringen City to the arena is approximately 3km. Road signs start from the intersection of roads 61 and 175 (Gaterondellen roundabout). Parking adjacent to the arena. First regular start at 1:00pm. Distance to the start approximately 800m. Stage 4: Thursday, July 27 Arena Ingestrand Long distance. Moderately steep forest terrain. Distance from O-Ringen City to the arena is approximately 7km. Road signs start from 5km south of the intersection of roads 61 and 175 (Gaterondellen roundabout), along road 175. Parking adjacent to the arena. First regular start at 1:00pm. Distance to the start approximately 200m. Stage 5: Friday, July 28 Arena Minneberg Middle distance. Very steep deciduous forest terrain. Distance from O-Ringen City to the arena is approximately 4km. Road signs start from the intersection of roads 61 and 175 (Gaterondellen roundabout). Parking adjacent to the arena. First regular start at 10:00am. Distance to the start approximately 200m. Course setters and controllers Stage 1: Eva Björkman Stage 2: Nils-Olov Andersson Stage 3: Nils-Olov Andersson Stage 4: Rudi Olvenmyr Stage 5: Nils-Olov Andersson Controller: Owe Fredholm Classes Pre-Elit (very dfficult), Pre-A (difficult), Pre-B (medium) and Pre-C (easy). Stage information Detailed information for each stage will be available at oringen.se and at each arena. Maps Scale 1:5000 for stages 1, 2 and 4, scale 1:4000 for stages 3 and 5. Contour interval 2m for stages 1 and 5; 5m for stages 2 and 3; and 2.5m for stage 4. Competition rules The Swedish Orienteering Federation’s competition rules and guidelines for Trail-O. Competition Chiefs Rudi Olvenmyr, Eva Björkman, Nils-Olov Andersson and Owe Fredholm. Orienteering School Have you never tried orienteering but want to give it a shot? Or have you already tried it but feel that you need a refresher of some of those map-and-compass skills? It doesn’t matter what skills and experience you already have: we at the Orienteering School have the time and desire to help everyone. You can decide yourself how much help you need. Our hope is that after a visit with, you will feel the confidence and interest to set out into the woods on an orienteering course. At the Orienteering School, we will cover all the basics of orienteering and what happens at an orienteering event. We will explain to you how a map is created and how you can use it. We will also help you learn to use the compass to orient yourself in the woods. We have a little training course at the Orienteering School that you can try out and test your newfound knowledge on. If you then feel ready, you can register for an O-Ringen direct entry course. We will help you choose the best course that matches your skills. Start personnel will be available to help you through the start procedure, and to head in the right direction to the first control. Once you finish, please come back and tell us how it went, show us your routes, and maybe get a few more tips for improving your orienteering technique. The Orienteering School can be found in a tent at each stage of O-Ringen and is open between 9am-3pm. Look for the sign that says “Orienteering School”! The Orienteering School is open for anyone over the of 9 and is free of charge. Do you want to try O-Ringen and the Pole Hunt? We are offering a Pole Hunt class at every stage of O-Ringen Värmland 2017. In that class, there are 20 controls of varying difficulty placed in the beautiful wilderness of Värmland. You can decide which controls you want to visit and in what order. You can also choose whether you want to run one or more stages. This is how it works The Pole Hunt is available at each of O-Ringen’s five stages. Stages 1 and 2 are at the Skjutsbol arena, stages 3 and 4 at the Boda arena, and stage 5 at the Rackstad arena. At each of the arenas you can find experienced officials who can take care of you if you want to try the Pole Hunt class. You will get instructions on the spot about how everything works, as well as help with registration, maps, and the Punching Card used for electronic punching. We also have our own, well-marked, assembly area at the arena where you can hang out during the day. All participants must have an Punching Card so that the organizers know that no one has been left behind in the forest. Your start is at one of the regular O-Ringen starts. When you are done Pole Hunting, download at the finish, so that we know that you have come back. There is no time being recorded in the Pole Hunt class, and you can decide how many of the 20 controls you want to visit. The poles are located at existing controls that are also visited by competitors in other O-Ringen classes. Each control has a letter combination that you can note and a QR-code which you can scan on the Pole Hunt app. You can drive your own car to the arena or take a bus from O-Ringen City in Arvika. If you choose to drive, you must pre-purchase a parking ticket via oringen.se. If you choose to park at O-Ringen City and ride the bus, then both the parking and the bus ride are free. It might be a good idea to bring some food and drink with you, but there are also many choices of refreshments for sale at the arenas. Everyone is welcome, and we will take care of you! Childcare Child care will be available at the main arenans at all stages of O-Ringen 2017. You are very welcome to drop off your kids with us while you orienteer. Our goal is to make both parents and children feel welcome and comfortable, and to make sure the children are safe and have a good time in our wild, wonderful Värmland. Registration If your child is not pre-registered, you can buy a ticket via the Registration Portal or at Competitor Services at O-Ringen City or at the arenas. A receipt/confirmation of registration must be shown at child card. Take a screenshot of your confirmation in case the network in the arena becomes overloaded. Child care cannot be paid for with card or cash. Check-in When you check in your child for child care, you will be asked to fill in a form describing the child’s allergies and other useful information. You can get this form at Competitor Services ahead of time, or on the spot. (It can also be printed out from our homepage, see the link below.) After check-in, your child will be given a vest with a bib number, name, and other information. Every child will be provided with a bag, in which you can leave additional clothes and toys. We then show you and the child the various available activities and locations. and eventually leave him or her with our child care officials. Activities The child care area will contain a number of different activities and experiences. We have a puzzle station, a woodshop, toy cars and legos, a quiet tent with story time and rest, and an outdoor playground. This year’s child care area is divided into five themes: Stone Age, Wizards and Trolls, Sandberg’s characters (Little Anna, the ghost Laban, etc.), Nils Holgersson, and Rally. Each day the children will be served a small meal. Toilets are available in the area. Other Keep in mind that the child care area is mostly outdoors. On a sunny day, please make sure to put sunscreen on your child and provide him/ her with a sun hat before leaving the child at child care. If it is rainy or windy, make sure to provide rain clothes, a warmer shirt, a hat, and mittens. If your child has dietary restrictions besides lactose-free and gluten-free, please provide it, and we will keep it separate from the other meals. Opening hours Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm You can leave your child with us for up to 3 hours at a time (while you race). Ages: 3-8 years. Cost: 100 SEK/day. Child care can only be booked via the registration service or Competitor Services at O-Ringen City or at the arenas. More information at oringen.se/barnpassning
PROGRAMME O-RINGEN VÄRMLAND 2017 21 Stage 1 - Klässbols Linneväveri Stage ARENA SKUTSBOL TO/FROM BUSES At the arena 1. Kiosks 2. Competitor Services/Stage start 3. Orienteering school 4. O-Ringen Academy 5. Miniknat / String course 6. Childcare 7. Massage 8. Medical care 9. Team Sportia sporting goods 10. Stage host 11. VIP/Press 12. Tent for DH21 Elite Distance to arena Bus stop: 300 m Bike parking: 500 m Car parking: 300-1000 m COMPETITION AREA Sit 2. 1. Club tents Sit 1. Sit 11. 12. Club tents TO/FROM: BIKE PARKING CAR PARKING Sit Sit 1. 1. 9. TO START TO/FROM:: SHOWERS CHILDCARE MINIKNAT COMPETITION AREA 10. 3. 4. 7. Remember to pass through the verification station on your way to start 6. 5. 8. Wilderness terrain with interesting route choices The competition area for Stage 1 can simply be described as beautiful Värmland wilderness. This is a place where roads and trails grow less and less distinct, and eventually disappear deep into the forest. And right in the middle of the great forest, on its highest hilltop, sits the large cairn “Storröset”. Several of the longer courses, in fact, have a viable route choice that would take them directly past the cairn. Starts Bagheera, CCS, Moelven, SIA Glass, Team Sportia, and Tork/SCA are located a ways up the hillside right where the nice pine forest begins. The courses climb in the beginning before getting to areas of open, runnable forest covering smaller and larger hills. Route choices can take runners across valleys with rather difficult terrain, and finding the best ways to climb up and down can be decisive. A number of larger swamps can be found in the lower parts of the terrain, while smaller and medium-sized marshes are located up on the hills, where the runnability is superb, and the blueberry and rosemary bushes grow dense. Competitors whose courses start at Starts Cramo and Volvo CE will encounter varied terrain with smaller hills in an area that is crisscrossed by trails. Some recently made trails connect the ancient paths that mostly travel from the southwest to the northeast, and all the trails are used heavily by the easier courses. The shorter difficult courses will reach areas of challenging navigation, and many class winners are likely to be determined by difficult controls along the final hillside. Stage 1 courses are designed in the classic tradition of long distance courses. On almost every course you are guaranteed to encounter at least one tricky longer leg, which will be analyzed a great deal in Livelox after the race. It will not be easy to determine whether going around and avoiding the climb was fastest, or whether you had enough strength left for the shorter route along the straight line. These courses do not suffer from the recent trend of inflation in the number of controls, and many runners will notice that their courses contained significantly fewer controls than what they are used to. During this stage, many competitors will finish feeling like they have orienteered really well. In this terrain, it is not hard to find good flow, following along on the map at full speed, without the navigation seeming too easy. Quite simply, a great feeling! This is Värmland’s wilderness at its best. Mapper: Per Bengtsson Course setter: Jan Olm Distances to start stage 1 Bagheera CCS Moelven SIA Glass Team Sportia Tork/SCA Cramo Volvo CE 2250 m 2150 m 1900 m 1750 m 1750 m 1750 m 700 m 400 m
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