Round 4 of the SE urban series takes place in the Medieval mile in Kilkenny on Sunday 2nd February.
Parking and registration at S504554 from 10 to 12
at the entrance to the City vocational school on lower New street.
Additional parking will be on the street outside the gate (no fee).
Toilets in St Kieran\'s college (within a short walk.)
Courses (straight line distances, 30% to get running length)
Long 6.8 km 29 controls
Medium 4.2 km 22 controls
Short adult 2.5 km 14 controls
Short 1.3 km 11 controls
Short B (non league) 1.3 km 12 controls
Anyone under 16 who is not under direct supervision of an adult whilst on the course may only run the short course. As this is a relatively small area of school grounds, we have added some extra controls to include a short B course which is non league but will keep younger orienteers engaged. Debbie hopes to set up a maze too.
The short adult course is almost entirely within the urban streets. The start for the top 3 courses will be on the east side of lower New street. Competitors will pick up their maps on the west side of the street, cross safely and then punch the start. All roads must be crossed with care especially around church times.
The terrain is mostly detailed urban streets with a multitude of alleyways and passageways, some green parks (which may be damp) and finishing with some quick controls in St Kierans college. The new map of the Medieval mile has recently been completed by Pat Healy, Andrew Cox and Eoghan Whelan at a scale of 1 to 5000. There should be plenty of route choice.
All maps printed by BML on waterproof paper.
It is not possible on this occasion to set the controls for SIAC so standard sport ident cards will be used.
There will be notices posted at the start of some special symbols used to make the map clearer (based on practice elswhere in Europe!)
Uncrossable roads will have a red line down the centre and mandatory crossing points (unmanned) are shown by two red dotted lines.
Fences have proved problematically because of the tags....solid black lines for unpassable walls symbol 515.000 at 50% have been used to make the visibility clearer where necessary.
The usual purple cross hatching has been used for out of bounds areas (particularly the lawn in front of the college)
Anybody using public transport should walk to the registration in 18 minutes from the railway station.
If bringing a group, please let me know in advance to check we have enough maps.
