Riga Autumn Legends rogaining
Regulations Programme How to get there & competition centre Map
LEGEND OF ĶENGARAGS AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
Ķengarags, once known along the Daugava bend for its fishing hamlets and river-mist-hidden roadside paths, has for decades preserved stories about old mill ditches, boat piers and vanished manors, in whose place now rise multi-storey housing blocks. Legend has it that in the late hours of the night, when the river is calm as glass, you can still hear the hum of old ships and the voices of merchants who seem unwilling to abandon their ancient routes. In this maze along the Daugava riverbank, the rogaining also gains a special character — a game between present and past, where participants run along the same paths once walked by fishermen, workers and city border guards, searching for control points in places where legends still whisper beneath their footsteps.
competition schedule and programme
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| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Race number and map distribution starts |
| 11:00 | Start of the 6h rogaining (Rogaining hike participants may start between 11:00 and 13:00) |
| 11:30 | Start of the 3h MTB rogaining |
| 12:00 | Start of the 4h rogaining |
| 13:00 | Start of the 2h rogaining, 2h rogaining run and 2h rogaining hike |
| 14:30 | Finish time limit for the 3h MTB rogaining |
| 15:00 | Finish time limit for the 2h rogaining and the 2h rogaining run |
| 16:00 | Finish time limit for the 4h rogaining |
| 17:00 | Finish time limit for the 6h rogaining and the Rogaining hike |
| 17:10 | Awards ceremony for all courses and INTERVALS.LV lottery with Garmin and other prizes |
Competition centre location and terrain
The competition centre will be located in the Ķengarags area.
GPS TRACK RECORDING AND POST-RACE ANALYSIS
If you want your supporters to follow you live on the big screen in the competition centre, or if you’d like to analyse your own (or your competitors’) wandering around the real control point locations after the race, use the MapRun smartphone app:
- 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 app > Name > Enter your first name, surname, gender, age > Accept > Select Event > Latvia > Pilsetas_legendas > “Event name” (scan this QR code or click the link) > Ok (it may take ~20 seconds to load) > Go to Start
- Switch on the GPS function on your smartphone shortly before the start signal.
- When you come within a 15-metre radius of the start, control points or finally the finish, they will turn green (registered), and your phone will beep/vibrate (you can then keep the phone in your pocket or backpack until the finish, as long as you hear the beeps at each control point — that means the app is working correctly).
- You can also use your GPS watch instead of a phone by uploading your GPX track after the finish here: https://console.maprun.net/#/gps_track_upload_without_rg (use the keyword “Jaunciems”).
- Routes will be available in the GPS route analysis or RouteGadget interfaces.
- If the MapRun app did not register some control point for you, press: Show Results > select the rogaining you just ran > Review Results (HITMO) and indicate the missing control points!
Map symbols
Since this year all stages can also be done by bike in the MTB class, for the convenience of cyclists the map distinguishes asphalt roads (brown) and unpaved fast/medium/slow/very slow roads and paths (the more “wiggly” the symbol, the slower). Narrow rides/tracks drawn with the narrow ride symbol represent tractor tracks that are unsuitable for cyclists, but runners may try to squeeze through.
Vegetation is shown as close as possible to the gradual transitions observed in nature from very young to young, to middle-aged and old stands, using four different colours: green, lighter, very light and white — as orienteers are used to in their maps. But unlike classic orienteering maps, these colours do not indicate runnability, only the age of the forest. This more detailed forest representation is possible thanks to the laser point cloud data published by the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency, which anyone can download for free and use to generate map layers.
Please note that areas coloured olive green according to standard orienteering symbols are out of bounds for participants. Closed roads are coloured red. Even if something is not marked on the map, but you see a sign in the terrain saying “Privātīpašums” (Private property) or “Ieeja aizliegta” (No entry) (unless it is clearly very old and no longer valid), please respect it and choose another route. Of course, first and foremost the organisers will try to plan control points so that access to them does not infringe landowners’ rights.
Contour intervals will be a relatively detailed 2 m.
COMPETITION MAP AND TERRAIN
Participants will receive the competition maps on race morning when registering at the registration tent. The maps will be laminated for moisture resistance; however, moisture may still enter at the edges, corners and damaged spots. Long-course participants, the most enthusiastic swimmers and marsh crossers can tape the map edges with transparent tape for extra durability or even place the maps in special transparent, waterproof map holders. The map scale is 1:20 000, i.e. 1 cm on the map = 200 m in the terrain. Size 62 x 43 cm (take this into account when choosing a bike map holder).
Most of the area is covered by well runnable pine forests, with sandy dunes in places. As a result, almost all roads crossing dunes turn into sandy tracks that are unrideable for cyclists (although there may be parallel micro-paths ridden in). On the map, many such unrideable sections are shown with the narrowest ride symbol (and not the thick road/path symbol), but, as with all general rogaining maps, some imperfections are possible. In the lowest relief areas there are wide, marshy flats with shrubby, hard-to-cross vegetation. However, after prolonged dry periods, the marshes can be fairly dry. Water levels in ditches are also often lower than usual.
Control point descriptions
Familiarise yourself with the control point descriptions! Although you always have to look for the feature located in the centre of the circle, the descriptions explain more precisely whether to look on the north or south side of a building, etc. Some of the control point locations are so legendary that we had to encode them so as not to give away the answers too early. Still, you can try to decipher them even now. You’ll find out the correct answers on race day before the start, when you receive the map with control points.
Regulations Programme How to get there & competition centre Map
LEGEND OF ĶENGARAGS AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
Ķengarags, once known along the Daugava bend for its fishing hamlets and river-mist-hidden roadside paths, has for decades preserved stories about old mill ditches, boat piers and vanished manors, in whose place now rise multi-storey housing blocks. Legend has it that in the late hours of the night, when the river is calm as glass, you can still hear the hum of old ships and the voices of merchants who seem unwilling to abandon their ancient routes. In this maze along the Daugava riverbank, the rogaining also gains a special character — a game between present and past, where participants run along the same paths once walked by fishermen, workers and city border guards, searching for control points in places where legends still whisper beneath their footsteps.
competition schedule and programme
Add the event to Google Calendar, or Add the event to Apple Calendar
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:30 | Race number and map distribution starts |
| 11:00 | Start of the 6h rogaining (Rogaining hike participants may start between 11:00 and 13:00) |
| 11:30 | Start of the 3h MTB rogaining |
| 12:00 | Start of the 4h rogaining |
| 13:00 | Start of the 2h rogaining, 2h rogaining run and 2h rogaining hike |
| 14:30 | Finish time limit for the 3h MTB rogaining |
| 15:00 | Finish time limit for the 2h rogaining and the 2h rogaining run |
| 16:00 | Finish time limit for the 4h rogaining |
| 17:00 | Finish time limit for the 6h rogaining and the Rogaining hike |
| 17:10 | Awards ceremony for all courses and INTERVALS.LV lottery with Garmin and other prizes |
Competition centre location and terrain
The competition centre will be located in the Ķengarags area.
GPS TRACK RECORDING AND POST-RACE ANALYSIS
If you want your supporters to follow you live on the big screen in the competition centre, or if you’d like to analyse your own (or your competitors’) wandering around the real control point locations after the race, use the MapRun smartphone app:
- 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 app > Name > Enter your first name, surname, gender, age > Accept > Select Event > Latvia > Pilsetas_legendas > “Event name” (scan this QR code or click the link) > Ok (it may take ~20 seconds to load) > Go to Start
- Switch on the GPS function on your smartphone shortly before the start signal.
- When you come within a 15-metre radius of the start, control points or finally the finish, they will turn green (registered), and your phone will beep/vibrate (you can then keep the phone in your pocket or backpack until the finish, as long as you hear the beeps at each control point — that means the app is working correctly).
- You can also use your GPS watch instead of a phone by uploading your GPX track after the finish here: https://console.maprun.net/#/gps_track_upload_without_rg (use the keyword “Jaunciems”).
- Routes will be available in the GPS route analysis or RouteGadget interfaces.
- If the MapRun app did not register some control point for you, press: Show Results > select the rogaining you just ran > Review Results (HITMO) and indicate the missing control points!
Map symbols
Since this year all stages can also be done by bike in the MTB class, for the convenience of cyclists the map distinguishes asphalt roads (brown) and unpaved fast/medium/slow/very slow roads and paths (the more “wiggly” the symbol, the slower). Narrow rides/tracks drawn with the narrow ride symbol represent tractor tracks that are unsuitable for cyclists, but runners may try to squeeze through.
Vegetation is shown as close as possible to the gradual transitions observed in nature from very young to young, to middle-aged and old stands, using four different colours: green, lighter, very light and white — as orienteers are used to in their maps. But unlike classic orienteering maps, these colours do not indicate runnability, only the age of the forest. This more detailed forest representation is possible thanks to the laser point cloud data published by the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency, which anyone can download for free and use to generate map layers.
Please note that areas coloured olive green according to standard orienteering symbols are out of bounds for participants. Closed roads are coloured red. Even if something is not marked on the map, but you see a sign in the terrain saying “Privātīpašums” (Private property) or “Ieeja aizliegta” (No entry) (unless it is clearly very old and no longer valid), please respect it and choose another route. Of course, first and foremost the organisers will try to plan control points so that access to them does not infringe landowners’ rights.
Contour intervals will be a relatively detailed 2 m.
COMPETITION MAP AND TERRAIN
Participants will receive the competition maps on race morning when registering at the registration tent. The maps will be laminated for moisture resistance; however, moisture may still enter at the edges, corners and damaged spots. Long-course participants, the most enthusiastic swimmers and marsh crossers can tape the map edges with transparent tape for extra durability or even place the maps in special transparent, waterproof map holders. The map scale is 1:20 000, i.e. 1 cm on the map = 200 m in the terrain. Size 62 x 43 cm (take this into account when choosing a bike map holder).
Most of the area is covered by well runnable pine forests, with sandy dunes in places. As a result, almost all roads crossing dunes turn into sandy tracks that are unrideable for cyclists (although there may be parallel micro-paths ridden in). On the map, many such unrideable sections are shown with the narrowest ride symbol (and not the thick road/path symbol), but, as with all general rogaining maps, some imperfections are possible. In the lowest relief areas there are wide, marshy flats with shrubby, hard-to-cross vegetation. However, after prolonged dry periods, the marshes can be fairly dry. Water levels in ditches are also often lower than usual.
Control point descriptions
Familiarise yourself with the control point descriptions! Although you always have to look for the feature located in the centre of the circle, the descriptions explain more precisely whether to look on the north or south side of a building, etc. Some of the control point locations are so legendary that we had to encode them so as not to give away the answers too early. Still, you can try to decipher them even now. You’ll find out the correct answers on race day before the start, when you receive the map with control points.