Meet Director: Rich Gaylord
Course Setter: Eric Olson
Schedule:
| 9:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 10 a.m. |
Mass start |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Courses close |
(Maximum time on course: 1.5 hours)
Cost: (per individual or team)
| | Event Day
Registration | Online
Pre-Registration |
| CAOC members | $10 | $7 |
| non-member | $15 | $10 |
| additional maps | $3 |
| rental compass | $1 |
| purchase e-Punch | $35 |
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On-line registration is open thru
noon Saturday December 6, 2019.
Details:
We'll be offering a white course for beginners and a Madnaess
course for everyone else.
Madnaess Details
The Madnaess 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.
For beginners and kids we will have seperate novice courses so
bring them out.
The competition will go ahead through rain or snow (sleet, hail,
etc. You get the picture).
Points will be awarded in each Madnaess race of the 2017-2018 season
to determine a overall champion. Stay tuned for additional details.
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.
- A 19-year-old male may drop 1 control in the box.
- A 28-year-old male must visit all the controls in the box.
Driving Directions:
Take I-55 (Stevenson Expwy.) 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Exit
at LaGrange Road (aka US-45, Exit 279A), and go south 5.5 miles
to 107th St. Turn right and go west just over a half mile to parking
the entrance to the forest preserve. Turn right and look for the
orange and white orienteering signs to direct you to the registration
area.
Public Transportation:
Take Pace bus #381 from the 95th Street Terminal (in the middle
of the Dan Ryan Expressway) at the south end of the Red elevated
line at either 8:30 a.m. or 9:30 a.m. Stay on bus to end of line
at Moraine Valley Community College and walk west on 107th Street
to Country Lane Woods (1-1/2 mile, on north side of street). On
the return, ask someone in the parking lot to drop you at MVCC where
return buses depart every 30 minutes all afternoon.
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