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West Anglian Orienteering Club

Park-OColdhams CommonSat 11 January, 2020

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Near: Cambridge
Level of event: Local
Type of event: Race

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We hope you enjoyed your runs on Coldhams Common today. Caroline managed to include a couple of tricky legs in her courses, to test you, even though the area is very open in the main.

We were very pleased by the turnout, and we would like to thank once again those who donated their maps for re-use when we ran short.

We look forward to seeing you again at our next Park-O, at Wimpole Hall on 22nd Feb, or at our forest events in Mildenhall Woods on 16th Feb and Rowney Warren on 8th March.

Pre Event Info

Location Info

* Postcodes are not very precise in some areas, so don't rely on them for an exact location.

First Park-O of 2020. Happy New Year!

Park-O Series Info

Our Park-O events are an easy way for juniors and adults to try orienteering. Based in parks around Cambridge, Park-O takes place on a Saturday afternoon 1pm-3pm. We schedule our Park-Os in the gaps between our full scale Sunday orienteering events and we hope that once you have tried Park-O you will come along to all our events.

What happens at Park-O? Click here to find out...

Park-O How-to Guide

Read more about this series

Directions / Parking

Our welcome/registration desk will be in Abbey Sports Centre in Studio 2. Cycle parking just outside the main entrance. Car parking is in the main sports centre car park (free, 200 spaces).

Postcode for Satnav: CB5 8NT.

Grateful thanks to Cambridge City Council for letting us explore the common in this way.

Course Information

We typically offer the following courses at a Park-O event:

  • Short  ~ 2km Easy (Comparable to a "Yellow" course at a regular Orienteering event)
  • Long  ~ 3km Medium difficulty (Comparable to an "Orange" course at a regular O event)    
  • Odds/Evens score course - intended for more experienced orienteers: visit as many controls as you can within a fixed time limit of 30 minutes. You can get odds and then evens or evens then odds, but once you switch you cannot go back.

If you want to know more about how we grade courses as "Easy", "Medium" etc., look for the "Colour Coded Course Standards" section in our beginners' guide.

Entry Details

You may enter on the day; just turn up and come to the registration tent! However, if possible, please pre-enter at https://waoc.oentry.uk/ to ensure we have enough maps and to speed things up on the day. Pre-entry will close at the end of the day on the Thursday before the event, but the earlier you can enter the better.

Children/Students£3
Adults (21ys+)£5
Family Groups£5
Second runs (when available)
£1

Registration & Start Times

Park-O events are on a Saturday, and run between 1pm and 3pm. Unless otherwise specified for an event, the entry details and available courses are as shown below.