BOK & UBOC Club Champs

Sat 7th Dec 2024

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Venue: Bristol University Veterinary School

Nearest town: Langford

Club: BOK

Association: SWOA

Level: Local

Location

Venue:	Bristol University Veterinary School
Nearest town:	Langford
Event centre:	above Source Café
Postcode:	BS40 5DU
Grid reference:	ST456608
Parking information:	In selected car parks within the grounds of the Campus. Unless you are a helper or event official please do not arrive before 9am. Enter the grounds at the main entrance to the Campus at GR ST 456608 https://what3words.com/encounter.bond.permanent and follow the signs to the parking
Dog rules:	Dogs must always be kept under control and on a lead throughout the site. Bristol Veterinary School is both a working animal practice and a veterinary school. We must respect the safety of all the animals on site and the school’s biosecurity arrangements.

Details

Description:	Assembly at the Source Café approximately 300m from the car parks: https://what3words.com/feel.formless.bachelor Follow the signs from parking to assembly. The start and finish are both approximately 100m from the Source Café (and from each other). After downloading, you are most welcome to stay on in the Centaur Arms (which is upstairs from the Source Café) to enjoy socialising over a drink and festively themed buffet. During this get together, David Faulkner (BOK Chairman) and George Anderton (UBOC Captain) will present the awards for this event and other member achievements over the past 12 months. The buffet will open from around 12:30. The buffet will be free at the point of delivery, but the Centaur Arms will be a cash bar. Furthermore, please note that to comply with Licencing requirements, as the Centaur Arms is a private members club, anyone wishing to be served drinks will be required to provide their name and contact details. Details of how this will be done will be available on the day. Our sincere thanks to the University of Bristol for letting us use the Langford Campus and Centaur (the student society that represents the students of the School of Veterinary Science) for the use of their facilities for this event.
Type:	Cross Country
Physical difficulty of terrain:	Easy
Entry times:	10:30-11:45 (course close 12:45)
Punch type:	SI
Hire fee:	£2
Event number:	82878
Event website:	Click here
Final details web page:	Click here

Courses

Course description:	Senior orienteers may enter the course that takes your fancy but please note that the Event Awards assume that the LottO (Long) Course will be an open competition, whereas the MagnificO (Medium) Course is targeted at over 65s (W65/M65 and older). The SpeedO (Short) Course is targeted at the W14/M14 and younger age groups and juniors are only permitted to enter this course as it remains within the Campus area. For each course, a prize will be awarded for the best female performance and the best male performance (so 6 prizes in total). For the LottO (Long) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female performance, best UBOC female performance, best BOK male performance and best UBOC male performance. For the MagnificO (Medium) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W65 performance and best BOK male =M65 performance. For the SpeedO (Short) course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W14 performance and best BOK male =M14 performance. The event will take place around the Campus and also, for some courses, in the urban area to the west of the Campus. The Campus is basically a collection of buildings and small car parks, densely packed, accessed by a network of paths and minor roads and surrounded by several fenced grass fields. These fences should not be crossed, instead you must use the passable gates that service them. These gates should be left as you find them. The long and medium courses will include an urban area to the west of the Campus which includes built up areas and a small area of woodland. The short course will remain within the Campus area. Any climb will not be significant, but please wear shoes that are suitable for sloping wet paved areas and grass fields. No spiked shoes please. Depending on route selection most, if not all, orienteers will encounter the garden around Langford House. This garden is separated from the rest of the park by a “ha-ha”. A ha-ha is a sunken ditch and retaining wall that should not be crossed except by the marked paths across the feature. The ha-ha itself is marked as an Uncrossable Feature. Areas marked as Out of Bounds (OOB) on the map have not been physically marked as such on the ground and should be obvious from the map and the terrain. Orienteers must be aware of these OOB and, of course, should not enter them. This especially applies to a couple of paved areas between the Small Animal Hospital and the Small Animal Veterinary Practice to the north of Assembly. The Long and Medium courses will cross the B3133 twice. There will be a timed-out crossing (1 minute) with a control either side of the road. Please dib the first control, carefully cross the road when traffic allows, and when safely on the other side of the road dib the second control and continue the course. Map: ISSprOM 2019-2 map by Trevor Crowe in August 2024. The maps will be A4 double sided at scales of 1:4000 and 1:3000 and printed on waterproof paper.

Course description:

Senior orienteers may enter the course that takes your fancy but please note that the Event Awards assume that the LottO (Long) Course will be an open competition, whereas the MagnificO (Medium) Course is targeted at over 65s (W65/M65 and older). The SpeedO (Short) Course is targeted at the W14/M14 and younger age groups and juniors are only permitted to enter this course as it remains within the Campus area. For each course, a prize will be awarded for the best female performance and the best male performance (so 6 prizes in total). For the LottO (Long) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female performance, best UBOC female performance, best BOK male performance and best UBOC male performance. For the MagnificO (Medium) Course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W65 performance and best BOK male =M65 performance. For the SpeedO (Short) course, a prize will also be awarded for the best BOK female =W14 performance and best BOK male =M14 performance. The event will take place around the Campus and also, for some courses, in the urban area to the west of the Campus. The Campus is basically a collection of buildings and small car parks, densely packed, accessed by a network of paths and minor roads and surrounded by several fenced grass fields. These fences should not be crossed, instead you must use the passable gates that service them. These gates should be left as you find them. The long and medium courses will include an urban area to the west of the Campus which includes built up areas and a small area of woodland. The short course will remain within the Campus area. Any climb will not be significant, but please wear shoes that are suitable for sloping wet paved areas and grass fields. No spiked shoes please. Depending on route selection most, if not all, orienteers will encounter the garden around Langford House. This garden is separated from the rest of the park by a “ha-ha”. A ha-ha is a sunken ditch and retaining wall that should not be crossed except by the marked paths across the feature. The ha-ha itself is marked as an Uncrossable Feature. Areas marked as Out of Bounds (OOB) on the map have not been physically marked as such on the ground and should be obvious from the map and the terrain. Orienteers must be aware of these OOB and, of course, should not enter them. This especially applies to a couple of paved areas between the Small Animal Hospital and the Small Animal Veterinary Practice to the north of Assembly. The Long and Medium courses will cross the B3133 twice. There will be a timed-out crossing (1 minute) with a control either side of the road. Please dib the first control, carefully cross the road when traffic allows, and when safely on the other side of the road dib the second control and continue the course. Map: ISSprOM 2019-2 map by Trevor Crowe in August 2024. The maps will be A4 double sided at scales of 1:4000 and 1:3000 and printed on waterproof paper.

	XS 0-2.5km	S 2.6-5.0km	M 5.1-7.5km	L 7.6-10km	XL 10.1km +
Very Easy	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Easy	✓	✘	✘	✘	✘
Medium	✘	✓	✓	✘	✘
Hard	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Very Hard	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Course Technical Difficulty and Length (Km) are a guide to the standard of the courses offered.

Entry

Fees:

Payment date	Junior/student	Senior	Family/group
01/12/2024	£8 (£8)	£10.5 (£13)	£0
05/12/2024	£10 (£10)	£12.5 (£15)	£0
Non-member fees shown in brackets.

Online entry via:	https://pre-entries.co.uk/
Online entry closing date:	01/12/2024

Contact us

Club:	BOK
Association:	SWOA
Contact:	Andrew Tindal