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West Anglian Orienteering Club

Park-OMilton Country ParkSat 15 February, 2025

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

Results

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Thanks to everyone who came along to an increasingly cold and wet Milton Country Park this afternoon. The early starters definitely had the best of it! Entry numbers were down on recent events, perhaps because of the weather, but probably because of the re-scheduled date clashing with half-term. Tom's courses were excellent - as hoped, a fresh pair of eyes found new areas in the park not previously used. The score course was very competitive!

Some people's final scores are lower than on their original printouts. This is because on the odds/evens score course, you can only change from odds to evens (or vice versa) once, so any controls not fitting this rule have been deleted.


Pre Event Info

Location Info

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

This event has been rescheduled for 15th February 2025 after it having to be postponed in December. Existing entries will be kept.

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

Milton Country Park has its own pay and display car park. Parking charges can be found here.

Milton Country Park, Milton, near Cambridge.  Postcode for Sat Nav: CB24 6AZ  

From the A14: Take junction 33 signed Milton/ A10.  Take the Milton exit from the A10/A14 roundabout down into the village. At the Tesco roundabout turn right to drive through a small industrial estate.  The car park entrance can be found at the end of this road. 

Follow signs from the car park to find us.

Course Information

Courses available

  • 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.

Entry Details

For entry fees, See Park-O page.

In order to ensure an entry, you should pre-register to take part in this event, which you can do at WAOC entries at oentry.uk (until end of Thursday 13th January). You will be allocated a hire dibber, if you do not have one. No payment is required until you turn up for the event.

We also accept entries on the day!

If you haven't been before, please read the information on our Park-O page so that you know what to do - we will have officials around to help if needed. Please bring a credit or debit card for cashless payment.

Registration and Start Times

Starts will operate between 1pm and 3pm.

Please note that courses close at 3:30pm. If you wish to do the long course, you need to start by 2:30pm, unless you have sufficient experience that you will be able to finish before 3:30pm.

Terrain and map details

Course maps will be A4 sized, printed on waterproof paper.

Facilities

There is a Café at the visitor centre. Toilets are available near the car park. You must pay the normal car parking charge if using the car park.

Guidance for beginners available from Registration. First Aid will be located at Download.