Sprint orienteering — Anderson Park, July 21
Join us on Sunday, July 21 for a fast and fun “sprint” event at tiny Anderson park in Carrboro. Starts will be between 10:00 AM and noon, with control pickup starting promptly at 1:00. Map handout and starts will be at the park’s small shelter (GPS =35.924136, -79.106044 ), with restroom facilities and ample parking nearby. Please read below for details about this event, After reading about the event, register for it here:
Venue: Anderson park is a 55 acre municipal park owned by the Town of Carrboro. The southern half of the park is mostly open woods, and includes an 18-hole Frisbee golf course, a paved trail around a pond, and a fenced dog park. The latter will be out of bounds for our event. The northern half of the park consists of open baseball and soccer fields. There are significant patches of poison ivy, especially in the north, where the forest meets the open land.
Courses: Two short “sprint” courses will be offered, as well as a third course that combines the two. Sprint1 (Shade) will be approximately 2.2 km and Sprint2 (Sun) will be approximately 1.9 km. You may register for one or both of these courses. Competitors may also run a longer course, doing both sprint courses (in a random order) back to back, without a break in between and with a map exchange between courses. All courses will be “runners’ courses”, as they will be relatively easy navigationally — approximately at an intermediate or “yellow” level. Because the park is small and the courses are less challenging navigationally, people with little orienteering experience are welcome to register. If you don’t have much experience, there will be a beginner’s class offered at 10:15, and beginners are encouraged to view our beginner’s videos before coming out.
Map: Scale is 1:4000, with a 2.5m contour interval. Unlike almost all of the club’s other maps, it is a ‘sprint’ map and as such uses a slightly different symbol set than typical forest orienteering maps. This link displays sprint orienteering symbols; and you can comapre them with forest symbols here.
