Come & Try Orienteering

Saturday 22 June 2019
Registration from 11.30am, 12noon - 2pm

Start from Queen's Park Cafe
Queen's Park Road
Heywood
OL10 4UY

Details:

Hosted by SELOC - South East Lancashire Orienteering Club, this is open to everyone, come and give orienteering a go!

Ideal for all ages and abilities, with courses from 1km to 5km, for runners and also families and children. Loads of help is available from our friendly Welcome Team and no experience is necessary.

Certificates will be available for all juniors and if you attend more than one of the series there will be prizes to collect.

TERRAIN - Queens Park is a park with a spacious field, playground & trails through wooded areas and a boating lake.

PARKING - Parking is at Queens Park, Heywood, OL10 4UY, Rochdale

REGISTRATION - Is by the cafe in the park. Registration on the day from 11.30am. Start a course any time from 12pm up to 2pm. Courses close at 3pm.

COURSES

YELLOW - easiest and shortest with control points along paths - ideal for families, children or as a novice orienteer.

ORANGE - longer with more route choices - ideal for runners, families and confident juniors.

TECHNICAL - navigation skills needed, more route choices - for improvers or confident newcomers.

ENTRY FEES
£4 solo adults / £2 solo juniors / £5 family

Your entry fee includes a special waterproof orienteering map of the park, with your course printed on it to keep as a souvenir, hire of a timing dibber to register at each control point around your course, and a print out of your result and splits at the finish.

New to orienteering? It's a trail run (and often an off-trail run!) with a difference - an orienteering race doesn't follow a set route. Instead you have to visit a series of checkpoints and register each one with an electronic timing chip. The checkpoints are marked by flags on the ground and may be along paths, earth banks, streams or anywhere in the woods or around the woods. The challenge is to race between each one, choosing your own route between the checkpoints, using a special orienteering map (which you get to keep too).

Entry fee: £4 solo adults / £2 solo juniors / £5 family

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