We reapeat the success with a team/patrol competition for children aged 8 to 12 years. The teams may have 3-5 girls and/or boys, from one er more clubs. There will be a mass start and the teams are free to to decide in wich order to visit the controls. They have to stay toghether for the whole course, and use only one EMIT tag per team. Some of the controls will offer special adventures!
Catch the opportunity to give the youngsters special orienteering experience!
For participants who have not yet arranged accommodation, there are still rooms available at Quality Hotel Mastemyr. They kindly offer a special “sports rate”: a room for two at NOK 795.
More about the hotel, and contact information, at the hotel’s home page.
Please use OFEST as a reference when placing an order.
By the entry deadline, 30th April, 127 runners had entered for World Cup rounds 4 and 5, being arranged as part of the O-Festival in Oslo. 53 women and 74 men have entered. We are pleased to see that we will have participants and guests from all over the world, including Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and Somalia, in addition to many European countries.
In total, 22 nations will be represented. It is particularly interesting to see Somalia amongst the entries – a completely new nation as far as orienteering is concerned. On the other hand, we lack entries from Russia and the Czech Republic, usually strong orienteering nations. For a detailed list of entries, click “Les mer” (=”Read more”) below.
The final deadline to enter names of runners is 10th June. For more information about the World Cup, read bulletin 3 under menu item: World Cup.
Sørmarka Conference Centre, situated 5 km from the arena at Siggerud, is no longer reserved only for World Cup participants. There are still rooms available. Clubs that have previously been turned down due to the reservation for World Cup, and still are interested, are kindly asked to contact Sørmarka again.
The orienteering recruitment foundation will repeat the success of the previous two years and hand out gift cards worth 500 NOK to all girls in the W14 class starting Saturday’s long distance in the O-Festival.
Six training sessions in relevant terrain in adjoining areas will be available from 13th June. Maps with course print will be offered for sale. More information here.
The following reminder regarding important information in connection with the World Cup 20th and 21st June has also been sent to the IOF member federations.
One of the biggest jobs associated with an event like the O-Festival is planning the courses. As in 2006, when the O-Festival was arranged at Gardermoen, Bækkelagets SK is the club responsible for making sure that the controls all end up in the right places.
- We are way ahead compared to last year. Then almost all the work was done in May and June - There was snow on the ground till the end of May and the work was really hectic. Now the courses are pretty well in place and there’s still over four months left, says the course boss Jørn Sundby, who has responsibility for planning the courses for all three competitions.
Invitation with detailed race information is now ready for download (sorry, but the dowloadable fancy pdf version below is at present only available in Norwegian, but you’ll find a translation here).
With 5 months left till the O-festival, the competition terrain is now at least partially covered in snow. Some of us could have hoped for even more of the white powder, to make better skiing conditions.
A few glimpses of what the terrain looks like without the snow can be found here.
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