LOGO 2008


Welcome to Croeso 2008

A 6 day Orienteering festival taking place between August 3rd - 9th 2008 around Tredegar in South Wales

The detailed information on the event can be found on the Event Information link on the left.


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day 1 area

.Croeso 2008 co-ordinator:

Judith Powell, 22 The Willows, Raglan, USK, NP15 2HB. Phone: 01291 690702

All correspondence and emails etc should be sent to Judith Powell, the Creoso 2008 coordinator.
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An old oak on day 4 area

Let me know what information you would like to see on this site and I will see what I can do.

Competition Information

6 day event with courses for

  • A & B courses for M/W 10, 12, 14, 16
  • Long and short courses for M/W 18, 20, 21, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70
  • M/W21V (Very short approximately 2/3 of the short course)
  • M/W 75 and 80
  • The short courses are approximately 2/3 the length of the long, but of the same technical difficulty.
  • Colour coded courses: White, Yellow, Orange and Light Green which may be entered on the day or on-line in advance. There is no overall competition for colour coded courses.
  • String Course. There will be a free string course each day with badges for each competitor

Competition Areas

Terrain varies from the complex limestone areas to the intricate former mining wasteland of Pwll Du on the World Heritage Site at Blaenafon. One day is mainly woodland.

More detail on the Event Information pageDetails of event centre, event camp site and other accomodation options can be found on the accommodation page

Daily Travel

Average distance from event centre < 16 km

Social Programme

A warm welcome to Wales will be ensured by a full social programme.

Entry Forms will be distributed at all major UK events. Entries are now open, either on line or by downloading an entry form from this site.

News and updates

Route Gadget can be found here for days 1 and 2.

Rsults days 1 and 2 available on results page.

Detailed details of the scoring system for those who want to understand the maths.

Sports massages will be available each day. .

It's the Big Weekend in Cardiff 1-3 August. Well worth a visit if you like live music and white knuckle rides. Plenty of other events going on as well.

A slightly revised final details can be found here. It includes grid references for the car parks for all days but day 6, when you must follow the signed route. Pdf version here

The old severn bridge (M48) will be closed 2100 Friday 1st August to 2100 Sunday 3rd August. Suggest you use the M4 instead.

Start times available

The correct M50 control descriptions for day 5 can be found here.

M50 control descriptions sent out with the final details for day 5 are wrong. The correct ones will be posted here shortly and made available at the event. Please watch this space for further details.

Final details available

If anyone is in south Wales on 30 July, SBOC are holding an evening fixture on a superb sand dune area. Full details here.

Training day details included with Final details

Route gadget will be available for each day

Location map of areas

 

DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

DAY 5

DAY 6