Comments on: Grouping and following at “pre-WOC” races in Italy https://news.worldofo.com/2014/06/05/grouping-and-following-at-pre-woc-races-in-italy/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Jan Kocbach https://news.worldofo.com/2014/06/05/grouping-and-following-at-pre-woc-races-in-italy/#comment-110540 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:02:38 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=7531#comment-110540 @Graeme: This is assuming it would work, of course. You have to assume that the reasoning from the course setter and the IOF advisor was that it would work – if not they’d made a better course without it.

And assuming it would work, there was now only 16 minutes of running after the phi-loop and 73 minutes before the phi-loop. If you take a look at this report
http://news.worldofo.com/wp-content/uploads/div/separating_in_orienteering_main.pdf , the recommendation was as follows:

“For the classic course with individual start 45-50
minutes running before the butterfly and 25-30 minutes after seems to be a reasonable balance”

See also article here (I guess you know well about the report): http://news.worldofo.com/2009/12/21/extensive-report-separating-runners-in-orienteering/

]]> By: Graeme Ackland https://news.worldofo.com/2014/06/05/grouping-and-following-at-pre-woc-races-in-italy/#comment-110539 Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:40:40 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=7531#comment-110539 Why do you say the Phi is too late? If it comes earlier the packs will just reform anyway.
And since it doesn’t work, why would it matter where it is?

]]> By: Adrian https://news.worldofo.com/2014/06/05/grouping-and-following-at-pre-woc-races-in-italy/#comment-110528 Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:34:42 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=7531#comment-110528 Your conclusion is spot on. And very sad!

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