Kings Wood Challock; SE Middle Distance Championships

Kings Wood contains some beautiful undulating, runnable woodland and a plethora of line, point and other land features, making it a great area for orienteers of all standards.

Location

Nearest town: Challock

• Grid Ref:
• Postcode: TN25 4AR
• Latitude: 51.21667
• Longitude: 0.88673
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Directions / Parking

Parking will be on forest track. Details to follow

Registration & Start Times

Entry in advance by RaceSignUp. Start times will be from 11.00-13.00. Courses will close at 15.00

Course Information

Course lengths are provisional and subject to final controlling. 

Course	Male	Female	Length (km)	Climb (m)	Controls
Black	M18 M20-40		5.9	110	20
Brown	M16 M45-50	W18 W20-40	5.2	130	17
Blue	M55-60	W45-50	4.7	105	16
Green	M65-75	W16 W55-60	4.0	90	15
Short Green	M80+	W65-75 W80+	3.2	60	13
Light Green	M14	W14	3.2	60	11
Orange	M12	W12	3.0	70	9
Yellow	M10	W10	2.5	50	9

 

There will also be a 1.6 km White course suitable for younger children, and a Score course suitable for Adult beginners and Groups participating together.

Explanation of colour courses

• White are very easy with all controls on paths. They are mainly used by 6-10 year olds and family groups.
• Yellow use simple linear features like paths, walls and streams. They are mainly used by under 12’s and family groups.
• Orange progress to basic use of the compass and route choice. They are ideal for novice adults or experienced youngsters.
• Light Green are ideal for improvers as the navigational difficulty begins to increase and uses simple contours and point features.
• Green are used mostly by experienced under 18’s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with a very hard navigational difficulty.
• Blue are a longer, more physically demanding course in comparison to the green. The distances are more varied between controls and the course attracts experienced orienteers.
• Brown & Black are very physically demanding and have a very hard navigational difficulty. They are for experienced orienteers only.
• Score means visiting as many controls as possible in any order in a specific time, like 45mins.

Entry Details

Entry will be in advance only on RaceSignUp. Entries are now open on RaceSignUp

Fees:

Senior £10 member, £13 non member

Junior £5 member, £7 non member

Group £10 member, £15 non member

Terrain Description

King's Wood is, historically, a Royal hunting forest and fallow deer still run free in the woods. It provides probably Kent's best forested terrain. Comprising some beautiful undulating, runnable woodland and a plethora of line, point and other land features, it should provide for an exciting middle distance 'O' challenge.

Facilities

Portable toilets will be available on site

Contacts / Officials

organiser: Graham Denney graham 'at' edenmark.co.uk

planner: David Kingdon

controller: Andrew Evans