| Meet Director:Janet 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)
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Day-of Registration |
Pre-registeration |
| CAOC members |
$10 |
$7 |
| non-members |
$15 |
$10 |
| additional maps |
$3 |
On-line registration is now closed. Please pay on-site. If you have a group coming, please contact the registrar.
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Details:
The second Madnaess event of the 2009-2010 winter season will be
held at Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve.
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 total results to determine overall 2010 champions.
For runners who are unable to get to all 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.
The competition will go ahead through rain or snow.
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:
Take I-55 (Stevenson Expwy.) 21 miles southwest of the Loop. Take
exit 271A and go south on Lemont road 2 miles. Turn left (northeast)
on Bluff Road, just past the large white temple (you can't miss
it). Follow the orange and white orienteering signs through the
forest preserve gate.
Parking is restricted. You must park on the West (exit bound)
side of the gravel drive. Violators will be towed. If parking is
full you must find a legal parking place on the public roadways.
Since parking is limited, please carpool with other participants.
Public Transportation: Bring your bicycle for
this one--they are allowed on buses and el trains now. Take Pace
bus #381 from the 95th Street Terminal (in the middle of the Dan
Ryan Expressway) on the Red elevated line at 8:30am. Get off as
the bus at Moraine Valley Community College (about 40 minutes later).
Bike west on 95th Street about 3-1/2 miles to turn left on Archer
Avenue. Follow Archer (Hwy 171) southwest to turn right (north)
and cross bridge on Hwy 83—Kingery Expwy. On north side of
bridge, turn left on Bluff Road, and after a mile, continue through
gates into forest preserve. Ride paved/gravel roads of forest preserve
southwest and west to Registration, near the model airplane field,
in the southwest area of preserve. On the return buses depart every
30 minutes all afternoon from MVCC. It makes carpooling sound pretty
good, no? Links to public
transportation for other CAOC meet locations.
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