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How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the EOC Tour 2008? EOC Tour 2008 – staged from May 31st until June 1st in Latvia – is one of the events featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – giving you event presentations with a special twist! Read more about the “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ feature articles here – including information about how to submit your event. The content in this article is written mostly by the organizers, and World of O is not responsible for any inaccuracies.
The terrain – and how to master it!
… you should simplify your distance by identifying the most noticeable objects …
The terrain around Ventspils is dominated by pine tree forests with small and middle dune forms. The terrain of the middle distance is also characterised by lot of marshes with small islets. The most characteristic feature of the terrain in EOC Tour 2008 is a lot of contour details, which will make the distances challenging ones. Since the runnability is mostly good, it will be difficult to read all the details, so you should simplify your distance by identifying the most noticeable objects – big hills, roads, paths, also marshes.
Typical routechoice challenges
There are 3 route choice alternatives in this leg:
- Red: This is quite safe and easy choice for most of runners. You just have to move along the hill until you see a noticeable re –entrant. On the top of the hill you will probably see the check point downhill and just have to move down to get it.
- Green: This is the longest route, but you can choose it if you like to run on paths and be sure where your are and do not like climbing very much. You should be careful with the path, which sometimes disappears, but you can use the big hill on the left side as a safe orienteer.
- Blue: The shortest route. But you should be self-confident on your orienteering skills and in good shape, if you choose this route.
Why choose EOC Tour 2008?
… a great possibility to feel the atmosphere of one of the world’s top orienteering events …
EOC Tour is an orienteering event organized as a satellite race of the European Orienteering Championship 2008. So it’s a great possibility to feel the atmosphere of one of the world’s top orienteering events and to cheer your national team as well as experience the same terrains and maps as the EOC races. Besides the exciting orienteering races you can enjoy recreational facilities located in Ventspils – modern European city on the sea with a wide range of available entertainment and tourist sights.
You can find all information about EOC Tour 2008 through World of O Calendar:
EOC Tour 2008: More than only orienteering!
In Aqua Park you can relax in Jacuzzi or have fun on slides
Ventspils – Latvia’s newest tourist destination! A city on the move!
Ventspils is proud of the cleanest streets and smoothest driving surfaces in the country. During the summer months attractive water fountains and flower arrangements will please your eyes and uplift the soul. Ventspils also is known with its cow sculptures. Besides attractive look of the city, you can enjoy a lot of leisure activities in Adventure Park, where you can try rope track, inner tube slithering track, kiiking swings and do a lot of other crazy things.
Your kids will love the Children City which is the largest park of this kind in the Baltic countries. In Aqua Park you can relax in Jacuzzi or have fun on slides.
After exhausting races you can just lie down in the beach or have a walk on the South mole, which is wonderful place where to watch sunset and sea swell.
