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The winner of the long course in August was Wilbert Hollinger who receives a £20 Ultrasport voucher.
The winner of the short course in August was Glenn Weir who receives a £15 Ultrasport voucher.

General

The Series

Welcome to the LVO WEE Series 2006 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 and 2005.

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 7:45pm sharp. No starts will be available after 7:45pm. Courses will also be closing at 8:30pm sharp and controls lifted from this time onwards. If you think you'll be out longer than 45 minutes please come along early. The reason for closing courses at 8:45pm is due to fading light and safety issues.

There will be helpful advice and coaching available for new-comers. Entry fee of £2.50 per person which will include purchase of a pre-printed map and also hire of a SportIdent dibber if required for the night. 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 1.0 - 2.0km distance. The longer and harder 'light green' type course will be approximatly 4.0 - 5.0km depending on the area. Points will be awarded depending on performance, and the best 3 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.

It is also intended to have prizes available for each of the two series (May and August) this year. Futher details will be available later, however, it is anticipated that prizes will be awarded for winners in each course, and also spot prizes.

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.

The aim of the handicapped points system is to enable everyone to compete on an equal footing. Each competitor will be allocated a percentage adjustment factor depending on their age class. Thus is your age class is an M40, the adjustment factor will be 90%. If you take 30 minutes to run a race, your handicap time is 30 minutes x 90% = 27 minutes. This handicap time' is what will be used to work out the order for points. If you do not indicate your age class on the registration slip, then the handicap time will equal your actual course time.

The Electronic Stuff

The Awards for All grant received during the second part of the WEE Series last year enabled us to use electronic punching and use also pre-printed maps. We will also be using pre-printed maps and electronic punching this year for the full 10 events.

For anyone who has not used electronic punching before - don't worry. There will always be someone available to explain what happens. The benefits are instant overall results, split time results for everyone, and a much more appealing overall experience for participants - new and old alike. We will be using the latest version of the SportIdent equipment. So, if you've got your own SI card - bring it along, if not - we'll lend you one for the night.

Similarly for the pre-printed maps. It will mean that all competitors will be issued with their own pre-printed map on the night, which they can then keep as their souvenir.

All that remains for us to do now is to encourage as many people as possible to come along on the Wednesday nights. The cost is only £2.50 per person (including map and free hire of SI cards).

As for all the new-comers who want to read up about the history of orienteering and understand a little bit more about the skills involved, there is a wealth of material available online. Two useful starting points are:

However, the best way to find out about the sport is simply to come along and we'll explain everything to you first hand.

Further Information

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

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