Wellington MTBO Series 2009

Consult the Calendar for details of the next event.

Since 2000, Orienteering Hutt Valley has coordinated a series of MTB-Orienteering events in the southern North Island, and been a leader in creating MTB-specific maps. It works with other clubs which run events for bike-navigators: Wellington OC; Red Kiwis OC; and particularly Hutt Valley MTB Club. Four dates have been selected for 2009; some introductory events scheduled; and an end of season finale which might just be an area championship.

If you haven't tried MTB-Orienteering before, download some general info about how we do MTBO around Wellington. This doesn't change much from year to year. The rest of this page covers information specific to the current series and will be added shortly.

2009 Programme

Date	Type	Venue	Chief Planner	Assistant Planner	Terrain
Sat 28 Mar	Brownie Event	Upper Hutt	Gavin Scott		Flat, Hutt riverbank
Sun 26 Apr	Brownie Event	Lower Hutt	Tom Clarkson		Flat, Hutt riverbank
Sat 23 May	Familiarisation Event	Wellington	Jim Sutherland		Steep, Mt Victoria
Sun 21 Jun	Series #1	Wellington	Ant Bradshaw	Craig Starnes	Steep, Long Gully
Sun 19 Jul	Series #2	Lower Hutt	John Randal	Simion Kennett	Prov. Belmont Regional Park
Sun 16 Aug	Series #3	Waitarere North	Russell Higham		Flat Coastal Forest
Sun 13 Sep	Series #4	Upper Hutt	Bill Brierley	Barryn Westfield	Prov St Pats Forest
Sun 18 Oct	Finale Event

Series Conventions

• Entry: Enter on the day. The calendar will have the registration time. The registration window may be as little as 30min or as much as 2 hours.
• Entry fee: Snr/Jnr $20/$10 with $5 discount for orienteering club members. OHV has a half-price introductory subscription only $24/$12 and family concessions.
• Course Type: Events may be fixed-time score or fixed-order time events, according to the decision of the planner.
• Recreational Rider? If you're recreational or would like to ride in a group classes are irrelevant. Just seek the organiser's advice on what course or part-course would suit you.
• Series Rider? If you wish to accumulate points over the series, you need to nominate your class when you register, and ride the course set down for your class: Men and Women, subdivided into School, Open, Veteran (40+ years), and (Mens) SuperVeteran (55+ years.) Age is as at 31 December. No problem with swapping classes, but you don't carry points across.
• Courses: There will generally be 3 or 4, labelled as follows:
  • Course 1 for OM. Expected fastest time usually 90-120min, distance 20-25km
  • Course 2 for VM, SM, JM, OW, VW, JW. Expected fastest time (usu VM) 80-100min, distance 13-18km. Note that the juniors this is designed for are very capable!
  • Course 3 is a recreational course with easier navigation and riding. Expected fastest time 40-60min, distance 5-10km. On some venues there might be a shorter Course 4 suitable for younger juniors. What is done here will depend on the terrain.
  • Course 99 is another recreational “course”. There is no fixed order, you just get as many controls as you can in 60 minutes. We can give you guidance as to which ones would suit your riding level.
• Scoring:
  • Winner's Time in class divided by Your Time, multiplied by 25.0
  • For score events, Your Score divided by Winner's Score in class, times 25.0
  • If a rider in a score event gets all the controls and finishes early, they have their score factored up to the full time for the purpose of series points.
  • To nearest one decimal place
  • To reward those who put in this work, a score of "best other score" will be awarded to up to two course planners.
  • Best THREE results count, so max possible is 75.0
• Results: will be posted on the web, target within 24hrs. Access them through the OHV website or the MTBO website