Open24 - Event Details

A few more details for the adrenaline junkies. As with the Open12 some of this might change as the content of the event develops but it should give you a flavour of what we have planned.

Minimum distances (it is possible to reduce these further if special stages are not completed)

Maximum distances are whatever you can archive in the 24 hours (don't worry there will be plenty to do), remember its not who travels the furthest but who scores the most points. For 2006 some competitors covered over 200km in the 24hrs.

Timetable

28th June After this day the entry price goes up from £240 pair to £280
13th July (Friday) Closing date for entries, please call 0845 056 0040 to check for availability after this date.
14th July (Saturday) Final details posted on internet including start location and maps required for event.
23rd July (Monday) Anquet Open24 Maps available for download (see Anquet Map offer).
25th July (Wednesday) At midday the list of control locations and an Anquet waypoint file will be published on the website, these need to be pre marked on your maps prior to the event.
27th July (Friday) Registration Open at 19.00

28th July (Saturday)

8.00 Registration opens
10.00 Race Briefing mandatory for all competitors

Competitors must pass kit boxes to event staff prior to collecting control values - no access to kit boxes will be available till the first transition.

11.00 (1.5 hrs before start time) control values issued for the entire event
12.30 staggard starts every minute until around 14.00

29th July (Sunday)

12.30 - 14.00 competitors finish
15.00 prize giving

Sportident Scoring

For those of you who have not competed in similar events, we use the Sportident system of scoring - you can find out more on their website here www.sportident.co.uk The entry form for this event, provided an option to hire an SI card, for this event we require that competitors use the higher capacity SI-6 cards - if you have not selected to hire a card yet do not have an SI-6 please contact us. If this all confuses you don't worry, just make sure you have card on hire and we will explain all at registration.

Maps

Two weeks prior to the event we will release details of the maps required for this event. Two Lake District explorer maps will be required (1.25) or if you prefer for the MTB two landranger maps (1:50). The cheaper and arguably better option is to purchase Anquet electronic mapping for the Open24 at an event price of £15, for which we will supply a file that will put the waypoints in the exact locations on the maps for you. You can find out more details on this offer here.

Control Locations

For last years Open24 things got a little stressed for a few people in the days leading up to the event as they found that they were unable to view the control locations document. Well if you have printed off an endurance series entry form in theory you should not have a problem but just in case we have placed an empty control locations file on the website so you can make sure you can open it rather than leaving it till the day before the event.

Example Control Locations file click here (500Kb)

Likewise similar problems occurred with Anquet as people struggled with saving and opening files. Its a pretty simple process and we have put some instructions up here so you can see what you need to do. Again we have also placed a dummy Anquet waypoint file here for you to try out, it lists previous Open5 locations AND ones we are considering for 2008!

Open5 locations - Anquet Waypoint File click here

Just to note as Anquet are providing a really cheap service with maps we won't be providing Version 1 waypoint files, it takes us an age to create them right at a time (3 days before the event) when we are pretty busy. To check out which version of Anquet you have go to Anquet - Help - About.

Any questions

OK we have put together a list of commonly asked questions from previous years, as new ones are asked we will add them to the list you can find them here.