Colchester Urban

Event location
Leisure World, Cowdray Ave, Colchester CO1 1YH
Leisure World has a large car park and we have negotiated a reduced price of £1, but to get this you must pay at reception and then enter your car registration on the ipads provided.
We have a room upstairs for First Aid, Enquiries, Download, Clothing dump. Helpers will guide you there but please do not have spiked shoes (also known as Dobbs) and clean shoes if wet weather has them muddy.
Start will be on open area behind Leisure World adjacent to car park.
Toilets available in Leisure World

Timing
Enquiries open from 10:00 am
Start times 10:30-12:30
Courses close 2:30pm
SIAC enabled but all competitors must punch start and finish

Terrain
Urban event including parkland, river meadows, town centre streets and historical sites of Roman Colchester
The event takes place in a public area. Please be courteous to other users to avoid jeopardising our future use.
Courses 1-5 will encounter traffic which is generally slow moving. Please take care crossing roads. The busy Balkerne Hill is marked out of bounds and should only be crossed at mapped crossing points.
All courses will have some parkland grass. Courses 1 & 2 have a section of rough terrain which may be muddy if there is rain.

Classes
Classes are in line with UK Orienteering League
Juniors under 16 on the day can only enter Courses 6 & 7
Course 1 Men Open
Course 2 Veteran Men (M40+), Women Open
Course 3 Supervet Men (M55+), Veteran Women (W40+)
Course 4 Ultravet Men (M65+), Supervet Women (W55+)
Course 5 Ultravet Women (W65+), Hypervet Men (M75+), Hypervet Women (W75+)
Course 6 Junior Men (M16-), Junior Women (W16-),
Course 7 Young Junior Men (M12-), Young Junior Women (W12-)

Please note that Course 1 has more than 30 controls. SI-card 5 & 8 do not have capacity for more than 30 controls. An exchange hire card will be available at enquiries.

Dogs
Strictly no dogs allowed

Officials
Organiser: John Collyer
Planners: Colin & Lyn West
Controller: Bruce Marshall (WAOC)