Pre-entry on https://www.orienteering.ie/fixtures/kilcoran-woods-and-moorland/
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A separate entry form will be circulated for JWOC and EYOC selection after candidates have registered their interest in those competitions. Candidates need not use the above pre-entry.
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No entry on the day will be accepted.
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Park on old Cork-Dublin road on the Cork side of Kilcoran Lodge Hotel
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Start is about 750m distance/ 80m climb along a good forest road (from main road / registration / download) so allow 15 minutes.
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Start times are from 10:30 to 13:00 for Orange, Red
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Start times are from 10:30 to 11:30 for JWOC and EYOC selection candidates
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Start times are from 11:30 to 13:00 for other Green, Blue and Brown competitors
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All courses will use SI cards . Rental SI cards (but not SIACs) will be available on the day.
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SIAC will be active on controls for Brown, Blue and Green courses.
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Brown 1:15000 10.0 km, 305 m, 20 c Woods and Moorland
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Blue 1:15000 or 1:10000 7.2 km, 175 m, 15 c Woods and Moorland
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Green 1:10000 4.9 km, 135 m, 11 c Woods and Moorland
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Red 1:7500 4.4 km, 150 m, 12 c Woods and some Moorland
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Orange 1:7500 3.0 km, 80 m, 7 c Woods only
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The course mapping for JWOC selection candidates is as follows
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M20 Brown
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W20 Blue
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The course mapping for EYOC selection candidates is as follows
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M18 Brown
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W18 Blue
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M16 Blue
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W16 Green
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This is not a selection event for JHI in October but JHI candidates running for the training should run the above courses for their age class and M14/W14 should run Green as well.
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Courses have a mixture of open moorland and plantation forest.
The open moorland is well grazed by sheep and is quite fast.
The braken areas in the moorland are marked as vegetation-walk-with-good-visibility.
The forest has been totally remapped in the past few weeks due to extensive thinning over the past few years.
The runable-in-one-direction areas have a lot of brashings in the extraction rides. Extraction rides have been marked individually only where they are neither parallel nor evenly spaced.
The small clearings/rough-open areas in the forest are mostly covered in braken at this time of year.
Some large areas of forest are marked with broken ground (brown dots). There is very good visibility in these areas but running speed is equivalent to slow run due to uneven ground.
All fences can be crossed but 2 specific crossing points have been marked between the moorland and forest where they are easiest to cross. These are to facilitate less agile competitors.
There are deer in the forest so please check for ticks afterwards.
