Fairlands

Saturday 07 May 2022

Welcome to our Saturday Series event. Beginners are very welcome and there are courses for all standards.

Fairlands Valley , Stevenage SG2 0BL

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Welcome to one of our Saturday series events. Beginners are very welcome and there are courses for all standards.

TERRAIN Open parkland with some runnable woodland.
PARKING Car park N of Six Hills Way, nearest postcode SG2 0BL, grid reference TL254236.

Access only from Six Hills Way.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT Stevenage railway station is 2.2km away, on the East Coast main line. There are several bus services bringing you most of the way.
COURSES Courses for everybody from beginners of any age to experienced orienteers.

Course Straight line Distance Difficulty
White 1.7 km Easy – all along paths. Control flags when you need to decide whether to turn.
Yellow 2.1 km Fairly easy – navigate along line features such as paths, walls, streams.
Some turns with no control flags.
Orange 3.2 km Moderate – start cutting across country, some controls a bit away from line features.
Light Green 4.2 km Harder – a range of navigational skills needed to find controls on any mapped feature.
Short Blue 6.0 km As hard as we can make it on the area.
BEGINNERS First timers are very welcome. Look for our greeters in hi-vis jackets who will give you socially-distanced help.

If you’ve not run before, we suggest most people start with yellow. Young juniors, say primary school age, and family groups are better on white. People confident with a map and compass may start on orange.
ENTRY & FEES Entry is open via SI entries, there will be no entry at the event.

British Orienteering members: Adults £4, Juniors £2, HH juniors free.
Non-members: Adults £6, Juniors £3.
Dibber hire £1. Charge for lost dibbers £30.

You may enter online even on the day, provided there are maps, and if necessary dibbers,  available.
STARTS You can choose a 15 minute start block between 10:00 and 11:30.
Start and finish are within 200m of the event centre and car parking.
Courses close 12:45
TIMING SportIdent punching will be used. SIAC will be enabled but the Start and Finish controls must be punched.
CONTROL DESCRIPTIONS Control descriptions will be on the map
MAP 1:7500 maps with 5m contours, pre-printed on waterproof paper. Control descriptions only on the map. For map of a previous event see here.
FACILITIES Café  and toilets near start and finish.
DOGS Please keep under control at all times and deposit waste in a poo bin.
SAFETY Orienteering is an adventure sport. You take part at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety. A full risk assessment will have been carried out.

Take care near lakes, the water is deep.

Please take care near other park users.

You should abide by the British orienteering Covid-19 Code of Conduct. In particular:

  • You should not come if you have symptoms of COVID-19, are required to isolate, are awaiting the results of a non-routine COVID-19 test or are serving a quarantine period after travel. You’ll get a full refund.
  • Before, during and after your run, maintain appropriate distance from other runners and other park users.
  • Hand sanitiser is available – please use it.
RESULTS Interim results will be published direct to the club website every few minutes during the event. There will be no printed results (apart from your own splits) or WiFi available.

Full results will be published to the same location and to Routegadget; we aim to do so on the day of the event.
OFFICIALS
Planner Oliver Bardsley
Organiser Penny Parkes
Controlling Laura Parkes
The small print

This event is registered with British Orienteering, number 80843

Orienteering is a great sport for youngsters. If you bring children, please help us to keep to our safeguarding policy and British Orienteering’s photography policy.

Your personal data is used for results and insurance, see our privacy policy.

If you have to cancel for a COVID-related reason, write to entries@herts-orienteering.club and we will give a full refund. If we have to cancel the event we will offer a choice of a full refund or a voucher for use at a future HH event. That choice will be sent to the email address used for the original entry. If you do not reply by the deadline, the default is a voucher.