The Series

Welcome to the LVO WEE Series web site. The Wednesday evening events will run through out the month of May, with a second series planned for August. The events replace the old style wednesday outdoor training and expand on their success of the WEE Series in 2004.

The Format

This is an informal series of events aimed at providing some local mid-week competitive courses focusing on the social side. Starts will be between 7pm and 8pm sharp. No starts will be available after 8pm. There will also be helpful advice and coaching available for new-comers. Entry fee of £1.50 per person. The events can be treated as either a park-o series for the experienced orienteer, a come-and-try it for the new comer, or a simple walk in the park for anyone.

The plan is for two events to be available each night: a short and a long course. The short course will be of an easy 'yellow' type standard of 1.5 - 2.5km distance. The longer and harder 'light green' type course will be approximatly 4-6 km depending on the area. Points will be awarded depending on performance, and the best 4 results from each series will be used to determine the overall series winner. A seperate winner will be declared for both the May and August Series. In general control sites will be using the POC markers. However, a fixed course will be defined between the sites, and additional sites may be used to 'spice' up the courses.

The Points

A much simpler format will be used this year. The winner of each course will be awarded 100 points. Second place gets 99 points, 3rd place gets 98 points and so on. This has now been updated to enable everyone to compete on an equal footing once again. You will be allocated a percentage upon competing at your first race. This will depend on your age class and running speed. If you take 30 minutes to run a race, and your percentage handicap is 70%, your effective time is 30minutes x 70% = 21 minutes. This 'effective time' is what will be used to work out the order for points.

Awards For All Grant

Read all about how WEE Series 2005 has received a grant to go electronic in August.

Further Information

Contact Declan on 028 9068 1097 for any further information on the overall series.