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Organisers Comments

Thank you all for joining us in this year’s Sheffield City race a few weeks earlier than originally scheduled so thank you to the YHOA clubs for letting us move it forward. I hope you all enjoyed Colin’s Courses. Thank you to my amazing helpers who volunteered their time to enable the event to go ahead. It’s always hard when there is a distance between assembly and the Adult Courses start to gauge how things are all going, I know the junior start were busy playing football for some periods of the event and still managed to set those on the yellow and light green off in their courses. But I think it went smoothly, thank you all for safely crossing the dual carriageway (I hope you all used your 3 minutes wisely).  For the juniors there was a small error in one control’s location but thanks to their prompt informing of this mistake the control was relocated to its correct position.

Apologies to those running later who couldn’t find control 49 and a special thanks to Stephen Reynolds for sourcing it from some overzealous Student Hall of Residence Security guard who had been concerned it was a suspicious timing device and had taken it into the building! You may have noticed Clive and Colin were located at the Magistrates court as the original control location had fallen foul of the security guard on duty who said it was not allowed to be there. Clive has checked the area out on previous Saturdays during the competition time and no one was present, I hope this didn’t spoil anyone’s runs and you enjoyed their greetings.

Orienteering needs it helpers and volunteers, I was fortunate to have so many offers of help not just from SYO members. The success of the day is down to them so thank you all.

Susan Guy

Controllers Comments

I hope you all enjoyed your runs at today's Sheffield City Race. It was put together at very short notice after Susan saved the event by volunteering to be the Organiser. I thought Colin planned some good courses with plenty of route choices. I was away for 10 days just before the event so thanks to Peter Gorvett for acting as assistant controller in my absence. Thanks also to Peter for helping out with the OCAD / CONDES issues. 

There were a few issues on the day but I hope these didn't affect things too badly. Control 42 at the Magistrates' Court was a problem as an over zealous Security officer objected to us using the planned control site - hence the manned control 30 meters south instead. Control 67 on Yellow and Light Green was hung incorrectly by me but corrected quickly - apologies for this. Control 49 was removed very late in the day by another Security officer but retrieved and reinstated by a competitor - many thanks for this. The map also had a few inaccuracies - part and parcel of being in a constantly changing urban environment.

I thought the organisation ran smoothly - thanks to everyone involved here - and comments seemed generally favourable. And the rain held off!!

Clive Wilson

Planners Comments

I hope you enjoyed your coures on the north side of Sheffield city centre. I believe the courses had a good mix starting with the streets of trendy Kelham Island and ending with the complex housing around the Ponderosa.

As per Clive comments we had a problem with a number of controls. While 67 was clearly on the wrong path junction we thought the area in front of the magistrates court was public access. The comprise of a human control 42 seems to work well.

Thanks to Susan for organising and to her team of helpers including those who collected controls. Thanks to Clive supported by Peter for the supportive controlling. Most of all thanks to all of you for participating which together with your positive comments on my courses made all my work worthwhile. 

Colin Lynch

Information

Join us for a urban orienteering race in the challenging terrain of the Ponderosa and Kelham Island. This forms part of the YHOA Urban League.  Entries are open on Fabian4 and close on 30th June. Entry is also available on the day.

Travel & Parking

By Tram: The nearest Tram stop is Infirmary Road (Yellow and Blue Route), Park and ride options are available at Middewood (S6 1TQ), Meadowhall (S9 1EP) and Nunnery Square (S2 5DH).

By car: There are many routes to the area, and lots of one-way streets in the immediate vicinity. Please park on the streets around the Ponderosa, obey traffic signs and be courteous to residents. Nearest postcode S6 3DP, What3words: maple.famed.lots. The nearby Tesco Superstore has plenty of parking which is free for 3 hrs (please purchase something if you do park there). Access the Tesco car park from Montgomery Terrace Road or Albert Terrace Road - postcode S6 3BU.

Courses

This event is part of the YHOA urban League. Adults are free to enter whichever course they'd prefer, but to score in the league must select the appropriate course detailed below. Juniors who have not yet reached their 16^th birthday on 2^nd July can only run courses 6 and 7. Course 6 is only appropriate for M/W 14 and above due to road crossings. Course 6 will have a mandatory marshalled crossing point.

Please note courses 1-5 are subject to using a 3-minute timed out MANDATORY road crossing via 2 pedestrian crossings over a very busy dual carriageway. THIS MUST BE OBSERVED. The return legs towards the final controls are via an underpass this is the only route to be used and no-one is allowed to cross over the dual carriageway by any other means. This is for your own safety so please observe this.

Course	Course Length (Straight Line, expect running distance about 40% longer)	YHOA Classes
1 Black	7.2 km, 230m climb, 27 controls	Men Open (M18-M35)
2 Brown	6.6 km, 210m climb, 25 controls	Women Open (W18-W35) Men Veteran (M40+)
3 Blue	5.1 km, 145m climb, 20 controls	Women Veteran (W40+) Men Super Veteran (M55+)
4 Green	3.9 km, 135m climb, 19 controls	Women Super Veteran (W55+) Men Ultra Veteran (M65+)
5 Short Green	3.3 km, 110m climb, 14 controls	Women Ultra Veteran (W65+) Men Hyper Veteran (M75+) Women Hyper Veteran (W75+)
6 Light Green	3.1km, 120m climb, 16 controls	Men Junior (M16-) Women Junior (W16-) Adult Novices
7 Yellow	1.6 km, 85m climb, 12 controls	Men Young Junior (M12-) Women Young Junior (W12-)

Map Scale

1:4000. Updated March 2022 by Tim Tett and June 2022 by Steve Dempsey.

Entries

Entries open on Fabian4 with self-selected start times.

Normal entries close on Sunday 26^th to guarantee a map with late entries subject to map availability. EOD is subject to map availability and will be very limited for courses 1-5. There should be plenty of maps for courses 6 & 7.

£8 senior BOF members, (+£2 non-members) for MO, WO, MV, WV, MSV WSV, MHV, WHV.

£4 Juniors/Students. Adults on Novice Course.

We welcome helpers from any club. Please enter on Fabian4 using SYOHELPER to receive a 50% discount.

Assembly

Assembly including registration, enquiries, download and the finish, are situated on the Ponderosa close to Upperthorpe Rd. Nearest postcode S6 3DP, What3words: maple.famed.lots.

A tent will be available to store kit.

Toilets

Available at Tesco Supermarket, Montgomery Terrace S6 3BU

Starts

13.00 – 15.00 

There are two starts: Ponderosa for courses 6 & 7 and a Kelham Island start approx 500m (10-to-15-minute walk) from assembly. The route to the start crosses a busy dual carriageway - please take care.

Courses Close: 16:30

Terrain

The terrain is predominantly urban (no brambles!) with a few areas of park, open ground and small patches of woodland.  Full leg cover is not required, though be aware there may be some summer undergrowth around some of the controls in the open areas.

Officials

Organiser: Susan Guy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Planner: Colin Lynch
Controller: Clive Wilson