South East League - Chelwood
Sunday 16th January
Entries are closed!
Come and enjoy running in a beautiful part of Ashdown Forest with a rich mixture of runnable forest, open areas, streams, an attractive lake with an old bridge and plenty of earth features.
Final details available on the DFOK website
Any surplus from this event will be donated to The Orienteering Foundation to assist with the development of the sport of orienteering
White 2.1km 25m climb
Entered: 0 of 10
Controls (checkpoints) are entirely on or adjacent to paths. No route choice or decision points other than at control locations. Suitable for young children, accompanied or unaccompanied.
Yellow 2.3km 30m climb
Entered: 0 of 10
Controls are very easy to find, mostly on paths, ideal for younger children and complete beginners.
Orange 3.0km 60m climb
Entered: 0 of 15
Controls are on or near paths with some route choice. Good for progressing juniors and adults who are reasonably confident reading a map.
Light Green 3.6km 75m climb
Entered: 0 of 15
Controls are away from paths and require good navigational skills to find them. Aimed at experienced orienteers
The following courses are as difficult technically as we can make them. Controls are usually well away from paths and in some cases there may be no logical path route between them. Suitable for experienced orienteers only.
Very Short Green 2.7km 65m climb
Entered: 0 of 3
Short Green 2.9km 75m climb
Entered: 0 of 30
Green 4.0km 90m climb
Entered: 0 of 80
Short Blue 5.6km 95m climb
Entered: 0 of 45
Blue 6.4km 160m climb
Entered: 0 of 80
Short Brown 7.5km 185m climb
Entered: 0 of 35
Brown 8.1km 200m climb
Entered: 0 of 15
Black 10.5km 230m climb
Entered: 0 of 20
Group participating together with parking (late entry)
Entry Fee: £20.00
Entry Fee Chip hire: £1.00
Entry Fee Enhanced Chip hire: £2.50
Individual without parking (late entry)
Senior: £13.00/£0.00
Senior Novice: £6.00
Addition if not a member of British Orienteering: £2.00
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Senior Enhanced Chip hire: £2.50
Junior: £5.00
Junior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior Enhanced Chip hire: £2.50
Individual with parking (late entry)
Senior: £16.00/£0.00
Senior Novice: £9.00
Addition if not a member of British Orienteering: £2.00
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Senior Enhanced Chip hire: £2.50
Junior: £8.00
Junior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior Enhanced Chip hire: £2.50
Juniors are under 21 on 31st December.
You must not attend if you or a member of your household has COVID-19 symptoms, or if you have been asked to isolate by NHS Test and Trace.
The event centre including Download is at Cats Protection, Chelwood Gate, Use postcode RH17 7DE in satnavs; w3w harmony.sprouting.thorax. Parking is mainly hard standing. Please follow the red/white arrows and directions from our marshals
Enquiries is in the entrance foyer of one of the buildings with the tall blue DFOK sail banner outside. Toilets are available in the same building. No muddy shoes or spikes inside the building please.
You do not need to come to Enquiries before your run unless you are hiring a dibber. Hired SI and SIAC's will be in envelopes in alphabetical order of surname for collection by you the competitor.
Tom's will be present and located close to the Event Centre serving a range of hot and cold food. RJK Medical Services will be near there too.
Seniors on Yellow and Orange pay the Senior Novice fee of £6 at all entry dates.
If you are a family or group who will walk/run together round your course, you can use the "group participating together" entry rate to pay a reduced family rate. You will be issued with one map, one SI card and show as one entry in the start list. So we know how many will be in the group, please add the number in the group to the surname e.g. for a group of 4, the surname would be "Name +3" in the entry system
The above fees apply until midnight on Sunday 9 January. Entries may be allowed beyond this date subject to the availability of maps and at an additional cost.
Mixed forest and open moorland with heather and dead bracken. Some mainly runnable forest, some marshy areas and a good path/ride network.
Start times 10:30 to 12:30. Please refer to the course closing time under the Finish heading. Two minute start slot intervals on most of the courses.
It is a Punching Start.
Please make every reasonable effort to arrive at the event in time for your selected start time
Electronic punching will be used and the controls will be activated for contactless punching for those who have their own contactless SI card. You must manually punch (non-contactless) at both the start and the finish.
Control descriptions will be printed on the map. Loose control descriptions for those who prefer not to keep opening and refolding the map will be available in the start lanes.
It is a Punching Finish. After finishing, please proceed directly to Download. Download will largely be by the competitor, with assistance provided. Your splits print out will be handed to you. Hired SI and SIAC dibbers should then be deposited in a pink container nearby.
Courses close at 2pm. Please ensure you finish by this time and report to download within a few minutes later.
Results will not be on display at the event but we hope to be providing a QR code link to live results at the event. They will also be on the DFOK website www.dfok.co.uk after the event.
The presentation of certificates to the eligible 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed runners in the South East Individual League for 2021 will be made around 13:30 near to Enquiries.
All net proceeds from this event will be donated to The Orienteering Foundation for their use towards the development of the sport.
