Blackrock Urban-O, Cork City, SUNDAY January 30th Event Info

Post date: Jan 20, 2022 11:2:14 PM

Cork Orienteering Club invite you to join us on SUNDAY JANUARY 30TH at our Blackrock Urban Orienteering Race. The event will start in Beaumont Park.

So be sure to add this date to your orienteering diaries.

In a change from our usual events which typically take place in forests, parks or on open mountain terrain, at this event competitors will be navigating their way around the streets, parks and estates in the Blackrock area of Cork City. There will be courses to suit all levels of orienteering experience as well as all ages and fitness levels.

Urban orienteering has its own set of unique challenges for orienteers to master. In particular the map will have a few different features to be aware of. The new map is drawn to ISSOM 2007 standards so it will be forbidden to cross any of the following features on the map:

    - Dark green: impassable vegetation

    - Thick black line: impassable wall or fence

    - Olive green: area with forbidden access

    - Hatched purple: out-of-bounds area

    - Water features outlined in black: uncrossable body of water

We would also ask all participants to refrain from entering private property or water channels, or hopping any walls higher than waist-height.

COURSE INFORMATION