Download Sprint Planning Competition files (zipped folder)
Closing Date 5th July
- The competition is open to all and is to plan courses on the sprint map (see attached). The start and the finish are marked, as is the final control.
- There are three courses to plan, M21, W50, Yellow (TD2). Competitors can plan any or all of these courses. Winners will be selected in each class with an overall champion.
- The challenge is entirely a desk bound exercise. You are not expected to visit the area. Indeed, you are specifically instructed not to do so.
- All trafficked areas are assumed to be safe for these courses.
- Please download free Purplepen software from their website (purplepen.golde.org) to prepare your course(s).
- The winners will be selected by the judges based on the following criteria:
- Appropriate technical difficulty.
- Appropriate length. Noting that we’re looking for a 12-15 minute winning time for a top runner on each course.
- Interesting aspects of the courses, mixture of leg lengths, good route choices, courses that require you to keep in contact with the map.
- Please email your PurplePen file to Ed Chester () labelled with your name in the file title. Entries close at midnight Sunday 5th July.
- Please don’t put your name on the map or the courses.
- Please name the PurplePen file with your name.
Judges will receive unnamed maps.
Judges are:
Peter Hornsby was winner of the Chichester Trophy for his 2013 Loughborough University Map & he redid it for 2019 Championship
Iain Phillips was the planner for the British Sprint Championships 2019