Assembly           Macclesfield Rugby Club, Priory Park, Priory Lane,                                               Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4AE

                           O/S Grid SJ89420, 75058                                                                                       What3words https://w3w.co/sports.test.sunk

Location

Nearest town: Macclesfield

• Grid Ref: SJ894751
• Postcode: SK10 4AE
• Latitude: 53.27326
• Longitude: -2.16047
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Directions / Parking

Parking will be free in the Rugby Club grounds.

Registration & Start Times

Registration and collection of hired/borrowed dibbers will be in the Rugby Club

Registration will open at 10:00

There will be one start location 300m walk from the assembly with no climb. Follow the tapes.

Start times will range from 10:30 to 12:30. 

Courses will close at 13:30

 

If you think you will take more than 60 minutes, please consider a start time of 12:00 or earlier.

 

The walk back to assembly will be 800m with no climb.

Course Information

Standard urban classes over eight courses 

Course No	Men's classes	Class name	Women's classes	Class name	Optimum Distance	No of controls
1	Open (M18-35)	MO			8.4k	26
2	Veteran  (M40+)	MV Open 2	Open (W18-35)	WO	7.3k	28
3	Super Veteran (M55+)	MSV Open 3	Veteran  (W40+)	WV	6.4k	23
4	Ultra Veteran (M65+)	MUV Open 4	Super Veteran (W55+)	WSV	5.6k	23
5	Hyper Veteran (M75+)	MHV Open 5	Ultra Veteran (W65+)	WUV	4.0k	19
6		Open 6	Hyper Veteran (W75+)	WHV	3.0k	16
7	Junior  (M16-)	MJ Open 7	Junior (W16-)	WJ	3.5k	21
8	Young Junior (M12-)	MYJ Open 8	Young Junior (W12-)	WYJ	2.0k	25

 

Juniors under 16 on the day can only enter course 7 or 8

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

Pre enter at Racesignup. Enter by your urban class (or optionally any of the Open courses.) and you will be asked to select your own 15 minute start time block.

Fees are  Adult £10, Junior £5

Entries close 23:59 on 9th Oct.

Late entries and EOD are available (subject to map number limits)

Terrain Description

The event will take place in a residential district on the western outskirts of Macclesfield.The area is a complex network of residential roads, walkways, and public green spaces and largely flat.

Map 1:4000 (courses 1 - 3); 1:3000 (courses 4 - 8)

Facilities

Toilets are in the Rugby Club at assembly or at the nearby Leisure Centre.

First Aid will be at assembly

Dogs allowed?

No dogs to be taken on the courses.

Contacts / Officials

Enquiries to

Officials:

Organiser Trevor Roberts MDOC

Planners Trevor & Hazel Hindle MDOC

Controller Peter Gorvett SYO