Burgess ParkFri 13 Sept
Credit: Andrew Evans
City of London Weekend
Regional level event
What does this mean?
Local events are usually low key and in the 'localised' area, ideal for newcomers to try the sport and Training events are non competitive and used for training and coaching, aimed at members of the club, but they can attract people from neighbouring clubs, and are often ideal for newcomers to try the sport. Regional events attract participants from around the local Region, National events are high quality competitions that will attract people from far away, Major events are Major Events such as a British Championships. Virtual events are where there are no physical controls being used. Your presence at a control is registered using an App on your mobile phone, normally the free MapRun6 App.
Terrain type: Parkland
Results
Overview
This is the first of three events comprising the City of London weekend (Fri 13th - Sun 15th September).
The London City European Tour Race will be on Saturday and there will be an Ultra Sprint event on Sunday
There is a range of courses including an accessible course.
Getting to the Event Centre is easily done by a short bus ride from Elephant and Castle, which is well connected to central London via Thameslink and South Eastern rail services and it is also a stop on the Northern and Bakerloo underground lines. From Elephant and Castle Stop G, buses 136 and 343 run every 6 mins taking 12 mins to the St George's Way Burgess Park stop on Wells Way, which is a 3 mins walk to Trinity College Centre. Bus number 343 also passes London Bridge station earlier on its journey. Contactless card accepted on the buses.
Entries are open via SIEntries.
Location Info
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Near: Camberwell Lat,Lng: 51.48001,-0.08326 Postcode: SE15 6ED What3Words: ///wins.remark.fried
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Pre-event Details
Map / Terrain
The area includes Burgess Park and a small amount of the urban surroundings.
A music festival is being held in the park on Saturday and Sunday after the event. The set up is expected to have been completed by Friday evening. The festival uses a particular part of the park which will have temporary fencing erected around it and hence be out of bounds to orienteers. There is plenty of space in the park to accommodate both activities without compromising to any great extent the opportunities for good orienteering courses.
Course Information
| Course | Class | Straight line course length (km)* |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men's Elite Men’s Open | 6.0 |
| 2 | Women's Elite Women’s Open Men’s Vets (M40+) | 5.0 |
| 3 | Women’s Vets (W40+) Men’s Super Vets (M55+) | 4.0 |
| 4 | Women’s Super Vets (W55+) Men’s Ultra Vets (M65+) | 3.0 |
| 5 | Women’s Ultra Vets (W65+) Women’s Hyper Vets (W75+) Men’s Hyper Vets (M75+) | 2.5 |
| 6 | Junior Women (W16-) Junior Men (M16-) | 3.0 |
| 7 | Girls (W12-) Boys (M12-) | 2.0 |
| 8 | Accessible Course | 1.5 |
* provisional, minimum running lengths will be provided later
Entry Details
Entry fees are:
Seniors: Early/Standard/Late £7/£9/£11
Young adults (21 to 25 as at 31 December 2024): Early/Standard/Late £5/£7/£9
Extra £2 for Seniors and Young Adults who are not a member of British Orienteering
Early is up to 10th August; Standard is up to 7th September and Late is from 8th September
Young adults (21-25 as at 31 December 2024)
Juniors at all dates £3
Accessible course is for those in a wheelchair. There is no entry fee.
Chip hire SIAC £2, Standard SI card £1 for all competitors
All hired SIAC and SI cards will be collected in after the Burgess Park event and one will be reissued for the Saturday event if requested.
Registration and Start times
The event centre at Trinity College Centre, Newent Close, London SE15 6EF opens at 16:15
Burgess Park closes at 20:00. All competitors must have left by 19:30 so please select a start time block to ensure that you will achieve this.
It is a 400m walk from Trinity Centre to the start and from the finish. The start and finish are close to each other.
Start times are from 17:00 to 18:45. Please select your 15 minute start time block preference when you enter. We are allowing starts as late as possible within the constraints of the above closing times but please do not select the last start time block if you are able to get to the area in time to start earlier. This will be appreciated by those travelling to the event after work on Friday.
Courses will close very promptly at 19:30 and controls will start to be collected in at that time with a sweep around the park so that all controls have been collected by 19:50 ahead of the park closing time.
Facilities
There are toilets at the Event Centre, a large area to leave kit and a separate area for ladies changing but this is only available until 6:50pm.
There are no refreshments at the Event Centre but there are plenty of places to eat in the Elephant and Castle area.
Dog restrictions
Sorry, no dogs allowed on the courses at this event but they can be brought to the start and kept there whilst someone runs
Contacts / Officials
Organiser: Roman Bednarz
Planner: David Dawson
Controller: Andrew Evans (DFOK)
Nearest A&E Hospital
King's College Hospital SE5 9RS
NHS Urgent care search
Safety Notes
Respect the many other users of the park and please take care and allow for others coming towards you when turning sharp corners.
There will be signs whilst the event is on advising cyclists to slow down but please take particular care when crossing the paths as some cyclists can be travelling quite fast.
Miscellaneous
We are grateful to LB Southwark for permission to use the park.