Programme   Getting there and competition center   Map and legends

DESCRIPTION

For centuries, Riga was protected from the south by huge swamps, which the enemies could only cross in the white and fluffy winter snow. However, in 1898, the forest manager of the city of Riga, Eižens Ostvalds, decided to drain the Medema swamp, digging an 8 km long canal and draining its waters into the Daugava. In 1947, the peat factory "Baloži" was established in the drained swamp, around which a workers' village was built in the style of Stalin's classicism. Peat was transported from the swamp to the Jelgava railway by a small farmer. The length of narrow-gauge roads reached up to 28 km, of which only 2.5 km have survived today. as well as a wide collection of locomotives and wagons, which is maintained by "Bānīša Draugu klubs".

EVENT SCHEDULE

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Time	Actity
10:30	Begins issue of competitor bibs and maps
12:00	Start for 6h rogaining (participants of the Rogaining hike can start the distance from 11:00 to 13:00)
12:30	Start for 3h MTB rogaining
13:00	Start for 4h rogaining
13:30	Start for 2h rogaining, 2h rogaining run un 2h rogaining walk
15:30	Control time end for 3h MTB rogaining
16:00	Control time end for 2h rogaining un  2h rogaining run
17:00	Control time end for 4h rogaining
18:00	Control time end for 6h rogaining un Rogaining hike
18:10	Begins prize giving for classes. INTERVALS.LV lottery withr Garmin and other prizes.

COMPETITION CENTER LOCATION AND TERRAIN

Competition center will be located near Balozi Secondary School.

Getting to the competition center: 

GPS ROUTE RECORDING AND ANALYSIS AFTER COMPETITION

If you want fans to follow you during the race, watching on the big screen in the center of the race, or after the race to analyze your (or your competitors') wandering around the right checkpoint, use the MapRun smartphone application:

• iPhone version: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maprun/id1634949963
• Android version: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=maprun&c=apps
• Garmin version: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/05fa6a5e-e9e6-4865-8b3b-0b8a3c64eeba
• Open the application > Name > Write down your name, surname, gender, age > Accept > Select Event > Latvia > Pilsetas_legendas > "Event name" (scan this QR code or click on this link) > Ok (may have to wait ~20 seconds while loading) > Go to Start
• Turn on the GPS function on your smartphone just before the starting shot.
  When you get within 15 meters of the start or checkpoints or the finish at the end, they will turn green (counted) but your smartphone will beep/vibrate (after that you can keep your phone in your pocket or bag without pulling it out until the finish, as long as you hear your phone beep at each checkpoint - it means that the application works successfully).
• You can also use your GPS wristband instead of your phone by uploading your GPX route here after the finish: http://www.p.fne.com.au/#/gpsupload
• The routes will be available here: https://p.fne.com.au/rg/cgi-bin/SelectResultFileForSplitsBrowserFiltered.cgi?act=fileToSplitsBrowser&eventName=ScoreResults_Liepajas%20Dienvidu%20Fortu%20Rogainings%202024%20Start%20Anywhere%20PXAS%20ScoreP360%20PZ0820042024.csv
• If the MapRun app didn't count a checkpoint for you, then press: Show Results > select the rogaining you just ran > Review Results (HITMO) and indicate the missing checkpoints!

DESCRIPTIONS

Since this year in all stages you will also be able to ride a bicycle in the MTB group - for the convenience of cyclists, asphalted (brown) and unasphalted fast/medium/slow/very slow (the more bumpy, the slower) black roads and trails will be sorted on the map. The tracks of the tractor equipment shown with the narrow stiga symbol will be useless for cyclists, but pedestrians can try to get out.

Already last year, we tried representing the vegetation as close as possible to the gradual transitions observed in nature from very young to young, to medium and old forest, using 4 different colors: green, lighter, very light and white, which orienteers are already used to on their maps. But this time they will not represent the runability, but only the age of the forest stand. Such a finer representation of the forest is possible thanks to the laser point cloud data published by the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency, which can be downloaded for free and map layers can be generated from them.

We remind you that the areas marked with olive green in the standard orientation signs are closed to participants. On the other hand, we painted the closed roads red. Even if it is not marked on the map, but you see a "Private property" or "No entry" sign in nature, please follow it and choose another path. Of course, first of all, the organizers themselves will try to plan the checkpoints in such a way that reaching them does not affect the rights of private owners.

The height curves will be with a relatively fine step of 2 m, so that you don't accidentally jump to the highest "mountains" of Riga, but appreciate them from the foot to the very top.

COMPETITION MAP AND AREA

Participants receive a race card when registering in the registration tent on the morning of the race. The cards will be moisture resistant, but each participant is responsible for keeping the card in wet conditions. The scale of the map is 1:20,000 or 1 cm = 200 m in nature. Size 62 x 43 cm (take this into account when choosing a bike card holder).

CONTROL DESCRIPTIONS

Familiarize yourself with checkpoint legends or location descriptions! Although in any case you should look for an object located in the center of the circle, the legends explain more precisely whether you should look for the north or south side of the building, etc. Some of the locations of the checkpoints are so legendary that we had to decipher them in order not to remember them ahead of time. Tomer You can try to remember them even now. You will find out the correct answers on April 1 before the start, when you receive a card with checkpoints.

Nr.	Kontrolpunkta vieta / Checkpoint location	Nr.	Kontrolpunkta vieta / Checkpoint location
10	R ūdensbedre / W water hole	45	Piestātnes drupu gals / End of dock ruin
11	Drupu Z puse / N side of ruin	46	Koku ieloka Z pusē / N side of tree fold
20	Grāvju krustojums / Ditch junction	47	ZR koks / NW koks
21	ZR deguns / NW spur	48	Z grāvja D gals / S end of N ditch
22	ZA ieloks / NE fold	49	Ieplaka / Depression
23	R ieloks / W fold	50	ZR ieloks / NW fold
24	Ieplaka / Depression	51	Ieplakas DR gals / SW end of depression
25	A grāvī, 40 m no gala / In E ditch, 40 m from end	52	Grāvī, 40 m no gala / In ditch, 40 m from end
26	Bedre / Pit	53	Sekla grāvja ZA gals / NE end of shallow ditch
27	Zemākais deguns / Lower spur	54	DR ieloks / SW fold
30	ZR kokaudzes ielokā / NW wood fold	55	Krūms krastā / Shrub on bank
31	Grāvja ZA gals / NE end of ditch	56	Grāvja ieteka dīķī / Ditch exit into pond
32	Sekla ieplaka / Shallow depression	57	Dīķa DA stūris / SE corner of pond
33	Z koku rindas D gals / S end of N tree row	58	Zemesceļa gals / End of track
34	Ieloks / Fold	59	Klajuma Z stūris / N corner of open area
35	Pārliecies koks R krastā / Tree leaning over W bank	60	Purva saliņa / Islet in swamp
36	Koka konstrukcija / Wooden installation	61	Vaļņa viduspunkts / Midpoint of earth wall
37	Lēzena valnīša D gals / S end of gentle earth wall	62	Mikropaugura R nogāze / W slope of knoll
38	Z deguns / N spur	63	Krūmu puduris purvā / Scrub in bog
39	Priežu audzes A gals / E end of pine copse	64	Koku rindas R gals / W end of tree row
40	DA ieloks / SE fold	65	DA koks / SE tree
41	Grāvju savienojums / Ditch junction	66	Lielāks koks / Larger tree
42	ZA grāvju savienojums / NE ditch junction	67	DR dīķa ZR stūris / NW corner of SW pond
43	Taku DR savienojums / SW path junction	70	Tranšeju savienojums / Trench junction
44	Kupls krūms / Bushy shrub	71	ZA lielais koks / NE bigger tree
Finišs zem arkas / Finish under arch
* Z - ziemeļu, R - rietumu, A - austrumu, D - dienvidu / N - northern, W - western, E - eastern, S - southern