British Middle Distance Championships – Stanton Moor (UKOL8) Sunday 21st April 2013

Final Details Version 5 (changes in blue)

Travel As before, the event will be signed from the junction of the A6 and B5056 near Haddon Hall, and from the junction of the A5012 (Via Gellia) and B5056 at Grangemill. All traffic must approach and leave via the village of .

Please let the Organiser know if you are bringing a coach ([email protected]).

Parking Parking is now 400m from Assembly - no need for busses (due to dry weather). The parking field is approached via a quarry road which forks right from Birchover Road at SK 243 636 (53 deg 10.189 N, 1 deg 38.209 W or 53 deg 10' 11" N, 1 deg 38' 13" W), post code DE42 LR. £2 per car. Strictly No exit before 12:30. It is a 10 minute walk from the furthest corner of parking to Assembly.

Directions for camper vans Follow directions for other traffic – you will be parked on the quarry road or in the field close to the entrance.

Assembly (see page 5 for plan) Next to the competition area, 400m from the quarry road drop-off. There will be views of the Start, Finish and spectator leg. Traders (UltraSport, CompassPoint and Saddleworth Outdoor), toilets, commentary and results will be available. Podium Catering and O-Nosh are attending and the local Guides will be selling hot drinks and cakes to raise funds for their trip to Denmark. First aid is provided by Derby Mountain Rescue and will be located next to Download.

Dogs permitted in the Assembly area on leads only. If we need to use the wet weather parking arrangements, dogs will be allowed on the shuttle busses.

Map An ISOM standard map re-surveyed 2012 by Oli Johnson. Scale 1:10000 for M/W Open classes (18, 20 and 21) and 1:7500 for all other courses. Contour interval 5m. Printed on waterproof paper.

Warm-up area A small warm-up map can be collected at the exit of Assembly to the Warm-up area (to the south-east of Assembly) where there are some practice controls. Maps are available at both 1:7500 and 1:10000.

Race Numbers/Bibs We will be using video-based back-up timing and to aid this please wear your race number from the Sprint Championships on your front. Any competitors only running in the Middle Championships should collect a race number from the wall on the left as you enter Assembly. No race number, no go!

Your bib number is your Fabian entry number. You MUST use the same bib as the Sprint race unless:  You ran Open in the Sprints  You entered the two events separately on Fabian  You ran a different class at the sprint  You only entered the Middles.

Courses Course details are given subject to final controlling:

Eligibility for British Championship trophies To be eligible for a British Championship trophy, an individual competitor will on the day immediately preceding the day of competition in question be a member of British Orienteering and either be a British citizen or have been a member of British Orienteering in each of the three membership years preceding the year of the competition. Eligibility has been declared via the online entry process.

For Under 13s who are not British citizens, see the detailed rules on the British Orienteering website (Documents/Events/Competition Rules).

The event is part of the new UK Orienteering League.

Registration for Recreational Courses Yellow and Orange colour coded courses will be available for entry on the day at a cost of £4 per map. Registration for these is in the Marquee and will be open between 10 and 12. Starts are available between 10:30 and 12:45. A free String Course will be available next to Assembly between 10 and 1pm.

Shadowing Please note that competitors on Championship courses may only shadow others after their own competitive run. Anyone who needs shadowing on a course may only enter the Yellow or Orange courses and not a championship course.

Start The single Start for both Championship and Colour-coded courses is located in the Assembly field. Championship courses will have a timed start, so competitors must arrive in time for their allocated slot. Colour-coded competitors have a punching start with open times. Call-up for both is at –5 minutes.

Anyone arriving late for their start should report to the Late Start Official and you will be allowed to start as promptly as empty slots will allow. You may have to go through the same 5 boxes and will be timed as if you had started at your allocated Start time. Neither Start nor Download officials are authorised to change Start times. If you feel that it is the fault of the event that you are late, please lodge a written request at Enquiries.

For Courses 1–11, IOF pictorial control descriptions will be printed on the front of all maps and available loose in the Start lanes. For Courses 12, 13, Yellow and Orange, map and loose control descriptions will be in English.

Whistles and Race numbers compulsory!

Finish The Finish is in the Assembly field. Water will not be provided, please bring your own. There is plenty of room for Club tents.

Map Collection To ensure fairness, competitors must leave their map in their Club bag at the Finish. Bags can be reclaimed at approximately 13:30 when the last competitors have started.

Commentary Commentary will be given by Chris Poole and Andy Monro supported by radio controls provided by Ian Marsden. The spectator leg will be visible from Assembly.

Safety Because of hazards from steep cliffs and vegetation, whistles and full-leg cover are compulsory. Waterproof jackets may also be compulsory depending on conditions on the day. The area is an exposed hill top at 1000ft, you are advised to dress warmly! If it is wet and cold, you should consider wearing hat and gloves. Competitors are reminded they area responsible for their own safety (Rule 1.7.1).

Any competitor with a known medical condition that could be a risk to their safety should write these details on the reverse of their Race Number.

Courses close at 15:00, please report to Download even if you retire.

Terrain The area is divided diagonally in two, offering very different styles of orienteering & all courses visit both.

In the north-west intricate wooded former quarries will prove a technical challenge. From the 16th century and possibly since Roman times, gritstone has been quarried from the moor for use in building and as mill stones. Competitors should beware of sheer cliffs in this area.

In the south-east, exposed heather moorland scattered with Bronze Age features, and some tracks will make for interesting route choice. Courses have been planned to avoid the , but the route back to Barn Farm passes by it.

The steep slopes on the extreme south-east edge of the map are visited only by Courses 1–3.

All fences must be crossed at mandatory crossing points only. Fences will be over marked with the purple 'uncrossable' line and connecting lines between controls will be bent through the most appropriate crossing point.

Prize-giving The prize-giving ceremony will start as soon after 14:30 as possible. Trophies will be presented to the winners of the Men's and Women's Open classes and the top three finishers in non-Open classes will receive medals.

On Courses 1 and 2 (Men and Women's Open, Under 20 and Under 18), trophies and medals will be awarded to any eligible competitor regardless of their actual age class.

Officials Entry enquiries/changes: Mike Godfree (DVO) [email protected] Co-ordinator: Sal Chaffey (DVO) [email protected] 07740 181590 Planner: John Duckworth (DVO) Controller: Tony Carlyle (AIRE) Safety officer: Ranald Macdonald (DVO) Jury: Simon Errington (HH), David May (SLOW), Dick Towler (LOC)

Acknowledgements Thanks are given to Stanton Estates and tenant farmer Mr Henry Holland for allowing us to use the area and facilitating access to Assembly. Also to Haddon Estates for the use of the Warm-up area, and to the National Park Authority and the National Trust, both of whom manage the monuments on the competition area. We are most grateful to Blockstone Quarries for allowing us to use the quarry road for camper van parking and drop-off.

Members of DVO have put in many hours of preparation for the event and some are missing their runs on the day and in the Sprint in order to help – thank you all!

Saturday evening eating options The Druid Inn at Birchover open 6-9pm – menu and other details available at http://www.themobilefoodguide.com/select/menu15505.php The Flying Childers in Stanton-in-Peak is open from 7pm, see their website at http://www.flyingchilders.com/