• NW Sprints - Final Details (as a PDF)

Medals to first NW Club member in M/W 10-85.

Trophy to first male and female NW Club member in Men's and Women's Open classes.

• Please read the Regulations for Awarding Medals and Trophies for clarification.

Location

Nearest town: Offerton, Stockport

• Grid Ref: SJ923886
• Postcode: SK2 5LB
• Latitude: 53.39426
• Longitude: -2.11823
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Directions / Parking

Dial Park Primary School, Half Moon Ln, Offerton, Stockport SK2 5LB
Parking at school and on surrounding roads. Toilets, Registration, Download at school.

Registration & Start Times

Registration open 10:00 - 11:30.

2-part Sprint: 

Part 1: starts between 10:30 and 12:00; Part 2: starts between 12:30 and 14:00.

No allocated start times. Run Part 1, download, then run Part 2.

Both Starts and Finishes are within 5 mins of school.

The tightness of this scheduling means that people expecting to take a long time on their course should ensure they start early!

Course Information

2-part Sprint, usual urban classes:

Course number	Men's classes	Women's classes
1	MO (Men's Open)	-
2	MV (M40+)	WO (Women's Open)
3	MSV (M55+)	WV (W40+)
4	MUV (M65+)	WSV (W55+)
5	MHV (M75+)	WUV (W65+), WHV (W75+)
6	MJ (M16-), Orange	WJ (W16-), Orange
7	MYJ (M12-), Yellow	WYJ (W12-), Yellow

Explanation of colour courses

• White are very easy with all controls on paths. They are mainly used by 6-10 year olds and family groups.
• Yellow use simple linear features like paths, walls and streams. They are mainly used by under 12’s and family groups.
• Orange progress to basic use of the compass and route choice. They are ideal for novice adults or experienced youngsters.
• Light Green are ideal for improvers as the navigational difficulty begins to increase and uses simple contours and point features.
• Green are used mostly by experienced under 18’s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with a very hard navigational difficulty.
• Blue are a longer, more physically demanding course in comparison to the green. The distances are more varied between controls and the course attracts experienced orienteers.
• Brown & Black are very physically demanding and have a very hard navigational difficulty. They are for experienced orienteers only.
• Score means visiting as many controls as possible in any order in a specific time, like 45mins.

Entry Details

Entries via RaceSignUp until 10:00 Sat 23rd (subject to map availability).

Limited EOD (subject to map availability).

£10 Adults, £5 Juniors (with £1 discount per day if entering the UK Urban League event at Birchwood on Sunday as well); SI card hire (not SIAC) free.

Terrain Description

The Offerton Estate is a complex area of similar-looking buildings, grass areas, paths, alleys, garages, access to garages, and minor roads. There is no through traffic. There are a few distributor roads which have light traffic and speed bumps.

Parents of potential Junior entries should be aware of, and comfortable with, the following:

Both Course 7s stay within the areas of the buildings and garages except for a marshalled, timed-out (1-minute) road crossing in the morning. Moving cars may be encountered around the garages and access roads to them.

The morning Course 6 crosses one of the least busy distributor roads without a marshalled point. Both Course 6’s also have a marshalled, timed-out (1-minute) road crossing across a slightly busier distributor road.

The nature of the area means that speedy wiggling through while keeping map contact will be a key skill. Almost all controls are on trees or lampposts (usually described as side of open area, paved area, road or path).  Courses may visit the same control more than once. Controls may be close together, so be careful to check your codes and sequencing.

Facilities

Toilets at school.

Contacts / Officials

Contact: Alison Doyle, MDOC

Planner: Rebecca Glen MDOC

Controller: John Britton MDOC