Delaware Valley Orienteering Association

Topic created by whirlpoolM51 on Tue May 19, 2015 at 11:33 am

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I am looking at the event schedule and see French Creek on June 27.  I am not familiar with the special ultra long-O events.  Can someone please explain?  I have only ran yellow and orange courses (4 or 5 total).  Will there be an orange or similar course on June 27?

Reply by yoyonateo on Fri May 22, 2015 at 10:28 am

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The courses are about a week away from finalizing. I have designed a full set of course white through blue and will have a mass start for all courses at 10:30. The difficulty of the advanced courses is intermediate to advanced. All courses will be mostly on French creek central while blue uses both French creek central and French creek north. Also if you wish not to participate at the mass start you may start your course any time until the last start at 1:00pm. The orange course will also be long and focus heavily on route choice so expect a fun course for orienteers of intermediate difficulty

Reply by markwalsh on Thu May 28, 2015 at 1:02 pm

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How much time to complete the 20+k course before controls start to get picked up?

Reply by yoyonateo on Thu May 28, 2015 at 5:05 pm

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Some of the woods limited me to completeing a half marathon course with a trail run. So the long course will be 13+ Km blue and will havea 4 hour time limit.