Meet Director: Oivind
Naess
Course Setter: Oivind Naess
Schedule:
9:30 a.m. |
Registration |
10 a.m. |
Mass start |
11:30 a.m. |
Courses close, control pickup starts |
(Maximum time on course: 90 minutes)
Cost: (per individual or team)
CAOC members |
$7 |
non-members |
$10 |
additional maps |
$3 |
rental compass |
$1 |
map cases |
$1 |
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Details:
The Jan 25th Madnaess event will take place on the Swallow Cliff.
This area features some of the best terrain the Chicago area has to
offer with lots of hills, contour detail, trails and great runnability
with beautiful open woods.
For adventure racers this is a great opportunity to come out and
hone your navigation skills while competiting head to head with
many of the top orienteerers in the state.
This is the second year of the Winter Madnaess Series which features
four individual races over the winter months. The format is very
different from traditional orienteering as the race is a mass start.
The race is broken into three parts. The first is a set of common
controls where the runners go head to head. They then enter the
Madnaess box which features 7-8 controls. The intent of this box
is to equalize the race for all levels of skill and as such each
runner gets to skip a certain amount the controls based on their
age and sex. Elite racers will have to cover all of them while younger
or older runners will do less. Coming out of the box they then cover
a number of common controls once again and if planned out properly
most of the runners should finish very close to one another.
Racers will count their best three out of four results to determine
overall 2008 champions. For runners who are unable to get to at
least three of the races to count for the total, this is not an
issue as each race is a seperate competition so if you can only
make one then come out a try.
For beginners and kids we will have seperate novice courses so
bring them out.
If there is a good amount of snow make sure you bring your tobaggons
as they have recently renovated the old luge runs into a giant tobaggon
hill -- great for the whole family after the race.
The competition will go ahead through rain or snow.
Hot drinks and snacks will be served at the finish.
Hope to see you all out on the 25th.
The Winter Madnaess Rules
- All events will have a mass start at 10:00 on the event day. You may start
without penalty up to 20 minutes after the official start time.
After that, your start time may be adjusted back to 20 minutes.
- The time limit is 90 minutes—all controls will be picked up
after this time.
- At each event, every participant must sign an event waiver prior
to the start, at registration time.
- Pre-marked maps are guaranteed to all who pre-register.
- Map cases may be purchased at pre-registration or on-site for $1.
- To ensure competitiveness for all participants, each event will
use a handicap system called The Madnaess Box. Using their creativity,
course setters will attempt to choreograph that elusive mass finish.
The Madnaess Box
Each race will feature the infamous Madnaess Box, which consists
of a set of controls labeled with letters (A,B,C, etc) somewhere
on the course. Participants may attack the controls in the box in
any order. Additionally, participants may drop controls equal to
their handicap point total. Handicap points are awarded as follows:
Category |
Handicap |
Female |
add 2 |
12 or younger |
4 |
65 or older |
4 |
14 or younger |
3 |
55 or older |
3 |
16 or younger |
2 |
45 or older |
2 |
19 or younger |
1 |
35 or older |
1 |
Examples:
- A 46-year-old female may drop 4 controls in the box.
- 19-year-old male may drop 1 control in the box.
- A 28-year-old male must visit all the controls in the box.
Directions:
Public Transportation: Take Pace bus #381 from
the 95th Street Terminal (in the middle of the Dan Ryan Expressway)
on the Red elevated line at 8:30 a.m. Get off the bus at Moraine
Valley Community College and walk west to La Grange Road. Follow
La Grange Road south across the Sag channel and Hwy 83 to the forest
preserve entrance just south of 119th street. On the return, ask
someone in the parking lot to drop you at MVCC where return buses
depart every 30 minutes all afternoon.
Driving: Take LaGrange Road-South from Stevenson
Expressway (I-55). Go south on LaGrange Road past Hwy 83. Immediately
after 119th street, turn right (west) into the forest preserve --
signs will be posted at the entrance.
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