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THE PUNCH June 2001 |
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Editorial I've tried to adapt this online version so that you can follow the links from where I found the information to put in the printed version of The Punch.I I've included information about the types of orienteering events
available. If, like me, you wondered what the local club’s abbreviations
stand for, click on this link .
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Chairman’s Chat My contribution in the last edition of Punch swiftly became irrelevant with the arrival of Foot and Mouth and the consequential cancellation/postponement of just about every orienteering event in the Country. With both Rendlesham and Shrublands needing to be called off our Spring/Summer event calendar was effectively ‘zapped’. The next scheduled event in Suffolk at present is at Sutton Common on November 4th ! Do spare a thought though for John and Bert , our Rendlesham organiser and planner and for Paul who had just started to plan the Shrublands courses. Event officials put in many hours in the months running up to these events in order to ensure that we get a good fair competition. It is so frustrating after all the effort not to have the satisfaction of staging the event – thanks guys for your commitment in dovetailing these tasks around normal family life. There is still little point in trying to anticipate when we may be allowed back into areas to plan and run serious events. All clubs in the East Anglian region have agreed that we needed to follow the guidance coming from BOF – the fixtures will be curtailed for the foreseeable future until such time that MAFF lift restrictions regarding access to the countryside and the respective landowners are happy to invite us back. Realistically there will probably need to be a 6 week gap between being given the green light to hold an event and getting an event staged. Sadly it now looks as if it will be August at the earliest before we can orienteer in Suffoc land. We are approaching land owners of some of the parkland areas around Ipswich to see if they will allow some low key orienteering for club members. If we are successful we will post details on our web site and circulate details via our email distribution list. If you are not on email please ‘phone a friend’ who is. So for the next two months we will probably have to fall back on previous Summer pass times – the garden, the beach, home decorating, even shopping. Have fun – see you in the autumn ! Clive Coles |
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PICOVER The club now has PICOVER, a computer suite which is an aid to course planning and controlling. The software links the map to the courses to produce description sheets, in either international hieroglyphics or plain English, including course lengths and climbs, master maps if needed, and punch checking sheets if you are using pin punches. Alternatively it will load the course and class information into SportIdent if you are using electronic punching. The great thing about it is that if at a late stage you decide to change a course, it changes everything that matters in one go, reducing the chances of silly errors. Once you have found your way about the software and the logic it uses, it is quite simple, but it is a bit of a struggle the first time. I am therefore proposing running a hands-on course for half a dozen or so people in September or thereabouts. If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible, so that we can sort out a suitable time and date. If the places are oversubscribed, preference will be given to people who are already committed to planning, organising or controlling an event in the near future. Each person on the course will be given a map on which to plan a couple of courses. They will then be guided through the complete process for setting up their courses for either a conventional pin punch event or a SportIdent electronic one. John Webb |
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