Event Details
Club: | SLOW MBO |
Event Name: | Thursley iOrienteering Practice Event |
Date: | 12/12/21 |
Format: | MBO Score |
Mapping: | Ordnance Survey |
Time Limit: | 3 hours |
National League: | - |
League: | SLOW MBO Score Series 2021 (Round of 4) |
Electronic Punch: | No |
Event Report
This was a practice event to try out the iOrienteering app and revisited the course from Feb 2020. It’s a great area to ride, mainly off road and good for riding all year round. Congratulations to Mark Humphrey for winning the solos and Rachel Clay / Mark Henrick for leading the pairs. This time the course was set as a standard format instead of the SAF course it was last time. This meant a few clearances were likely and 3 people managed it with Mark taking only 2 hours 10 minutes. Overall the app worked well with the majority of riders registering all the checkpoints they visited. iPhones needed to be set to grant location permission to the app. Older Androids worked best (v8/9). Battery management in newer Androids (v10 onwards) needs tweaking to make sure the app runs frequently enough to keep up with the actual location.