[roc-info] FW: ROC Meet Sunday 8/23 - Brighton Town Park

[Lyons, Michael C]

Greetings!

Please join us this Sunday, August 23, in Brighton Town Park for a fun
afternoon of orienteering. Course setter, Rob Stevens, has cooked up 2
Sprint courses, a White course, and a special Score-O done in Memory-O
format. Don't know what that is? Read on through the course notes below
for full details.

The White and Sprint starts will be from 1:00 to 2:15. The Score-O will
start promptly at 2:00 and last for 60 minutes.

Hope to see you there!

Mike Meynadasy - Meet Director

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Course Setter's Notes (Rob Stevens)

The orienteering meet this Sunday (8/23) will be at Brighton Town Park.
The meet will include a sprint A (2.3 km, 16 controls), a sprint B (1.6
km, 12 controls), a white course (1.8 km, 11 controls), and a Score-O.
Sprints and white courses starts will be between 1 and 2:15 pm.  There
will be a mass start for the Score-O at 2:00pm.  Brighton Town Park is
located at 777 Westfall Road, just west of Clinton Ave.  Parking is
limited.  Additional parking is available just West of the park entrance
in an adjacent office park.

We will be using a new map of the park with a scale of 1:5000.  There
are limited elevation changes in the park.  No contours are provided on
the map, although form lines are included for some features.  The park
consist of a mix of wooded area with a dense trail network, a lake, and
many open areas.  A base map will be provide for review.  There is
poison ivy in some sections.  The sprints feature a range of leg
lengths, a lot of direction changes, and crossing legs, so read your
maps carefully.  Epunching will be used for the sprint courses.

Because the park is small, designing a one hour traditional Score-O was
not an option.  So to make things more interesting the Score-O will be
done in a Memory-O format.  How this will work is at the time of the
mass start, 2 pm, each participants will receive a map which he or she
can review and memorize before leaving the start area.  Once a
participant is ready to head out he or she must leave his or her map in
the start area.  All maps must remain in the starting area at all times.
Participants can return and memorizing another set of controls
throughout the one hour Memory-O.  The scoring is as follows:

Controls 1-12: 1 point
Controls 13-21: 2 points
Controls 22-24: 4 points (These control locations will only be on maps
that can be found at three other designate controls.  These will
generally require greater distances.)

I look forward to seeing you out there,
Rob