WOC 2009

WORLD ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009

Hills, depressions and parallel errors.

The terrain for this year’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) to be held near Miskolc, Hungary, in August should prove to be hilly but quite fast if the training camp held there late last year is anything to go by. Big rounded hills and enormous depressions are likely to be typical, with some areas of quite thick undergrowth. The map and competitors’ routes come courtesy of Orienteering North America magazine, and show just how easy it might be to make parallel navigational errors in terrain which seems to be made up of many ‘copy and paste’ features. Keeping in precise contact with the map whilst running up and down hills at high speed will be an absolute essential for the members of our WOC team if they are to conquer the Hungarian terrain and courses. We will have coverage of the Team members chosen to represent Australia at WOC in the June’09 edition.