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Sunday 11 November 2012

Kinniside Common

Results and Splits

Winsplits and Splitsbrowser are available from the WCOC Results page.

The 2012 Copeland Chase will take place on Sunday November 11th on Kinniside Common. Parking and assembly will be signed from the minor road between Ennerdale Bridge and Calderbridge. For those that don't know the area it is great for running with mostly grassy fells and was in part used for this years Saunders MM...we used it for the Chase back in 2008. Once again we have a specially produced map which will be A3 and (probably) 1:15000 thanks to Pete Nelson...significant additional survey has been carried out since its last use. There will be the usual 3 courses (20k, 15k and 10k), starts will be 9-11AM and the usual refreshments after your run.



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Kinniside Stone Circle. Photo by Jan Fialkowski



The Copeland Chase

The Copeland Chase is a 'long' orienteering event (Long-O) held in West Cumbria every autumn. The event follows a traditional format of short (~10k), medium (~15k) and long (~20k) cross-country courses, each having a number of 'controls' which are to be visited in the specified order. Therefore some navigational skills are required. The controls are generally easier to find than in traditional orienteering events, but a bit less obvious than in normal fell races (i.e they are not all on the tops of hills). Control sites are similar to those used in a typical mountain marathon event, and we aim to supply quality, pre-marked and bagged orienteering maps on a 1:20,000 scale or better. We use SPORTident electronic punching.

In 2007, the event was resurrected by members of the West Cumberland Orienteering Club (WCOC) after an absence of 7 years.

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Competitors enjoying the cake and discussing route choice at Kinniside 2008

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