Helping

TVOC members – PLEASE click on the link below and sign up to help. The sign-up sheet contains the discount code to use when you enter

Helpers

Directions / Parking

Directions / Parking

Please use public transport if at all possible. Buses on Banbury Rd stop near the park.

Some parking is in the Pay and Display car park at the end of Harbord Road, Oxford, OX2 8LH. Please note this car park is well used by Parkrun participants on a Saturday morning, but the majority of these generally leave the car park by 10am so there should be more space thereafter.

https://www.oxford.gov.uk/directory_record/337/cutteslowe_and_sunnymead_park_car_park_harbord_road
0 to 1 hour : £1.40
1 to 3 hours: £2.60
3 to 24 hours: £3.60
Coins at machines or by phone using RingGo

Terrain Description

Mostly flat city park with numerous man-made features, spread across both sides of the A40. There is also a maturing nature reserve.

The Map

Newly updated by Ben Green to ISSprOM standard.  Scale 1:4000.  Pre-printed, waterproof paper. A4.

The map is split by the Oxford Ring Road.
White, Yellow and Orange courses stay on one side.
Red courses use the southern part of the map, which involves crossing the A40 twice. You MUST use the bridge over the Ring Road.

There is a pond in the competition area passed by all courses. Please instruct any juniors you bring not to go near the pond.

Courses

All course lengths are provisional but a good indication of the final distance. Please note these are straight line distances between the control points, and you can expect to run at least 20% more than the stated distances!

Start Times

You must enter online via SIEntries – see link at the top of this page.

Starts will be from 10.15 to 11.45am. The Start and Finish are adjacent to the Harbord Rd entrance to the park, close to the pavilion.

IMPORTANT: Courses close at 1pm. You must report to the download tent by 1pm latest, even if you retire or have not finished.
The controls will be collected from 1pm onwards.

How To Enter

All entries are through SiEntries online only. Click on the link at the top of the page.

Entry to the event will be available up to 11am on the day of the event. However, please enter by Sunday 3rd if you can; entries after that date will be subject to map availability and a steep price increase.

You don’t have to be a member of an orienteering club to enter this event. On SiEntries, just show your club name as IND (for Independent)

Small family or other groups are welcome. You just need a single entry. Enter as a Senior. If you enter as a group, SiEntries will ask you for the name of your group to appear in results – eg Jones family.

Entry Cost

Entries up to and including Sunday 3rd May
– Red – BOF members £6, non-members and family groups £8, Juniors & Students £2
– White, Yellow, Orange- BOF members £5, non-members and family groups £7, Juniors & Students £2

Entries from Mon 4th May (assuming spaces and maps are still available)
– Red – BOF members £9, non-members and family groups £11, Juniors & Students £3.50
– White, Yellow, Orange – BOF members £8, non-members and family groups £10, Juniors & Students £3.50

Timing chip hire £1 (essential if you do not own one). Lost timing chips charged at £65.

Facilities

Toilets and café in the park.

Dogs

TVOC’s policy is that dogs are not permitted on courses.

Further Information

Coaching at Cutteslowe

This will be the second of our ‘Train 4 Trail’ coaching sessions covering essential orienteering skills. It does not matter if you have missed previous sessions as there will be a an initial review. This time we are getting to grips with the compass and how to use it in conjunction with the skills last time of map orientation. These sessions are free.
To ensure that sufficient resources are available please let Chris know you are attending at coaching@tvoc.org.uk  To allow most of the parkrunners to get away this session will start at 09:45 for 45-60 minutes.
Further details on coaching can be found HERE.

Junior League

More detailed information about the Junior League that runs in conjunction with the Saturday Series can be found here.

Any junior aged 18 or under who enters this event as an individual and who successfully completes a course on their own (or in a junior pair on the Yellow course only, or who is shadowed by a parent/carer on the Yellow or Orange courses only) will be automatically included in the Junior League standings. Please note that any junior who enters and participates as part of a family group, or other group, will not be eligible for the Junior League.

Officials

Organiser: Liz Cross + Ant Walker    email organiser
Planner: Liz Cross + Ant Walker
Controller: Ben Green, TVOC