Programme   Getting there and competition center   Map and legends

DESCRIPTION

Spilves are plants of the sedge family with white and fluffy flowers, which proliferated in the Spilve meadows after 1755, when the Lielupe river opened a new inlet into the sea, and the former inlet in the Daugava near Spilve became swampy. In dry weather, local farmers graze cattle and mow hay here. During the First World War, airplanes landed in Spilve meadows until the countryside was bombed. In 1922, it was renovated by creating the "Spilve air port", which was mainly used by the Latvian Post and Telegraph Department. At first, flights took place on the route Tallinn-Riga-Memel-Königsberg-Danzig-Berlin, but later also on the route Helsinki-Tallinn-Riga-Vilnius-Warsaw-Lviv-Bucharest-Sofia-Thessaloniki-Athens-Palestine.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Time	Actity
09:30	Begins issue of competitor bibs and maps
11:00	Start for 6h rogaining (participants of the Rogaining hike can start the distance from 11:00 to 13:00)
11:30	Start for 3h MTB rogaining
12:00	Start for 4h rogaining
13:00	Start for 2h rogaining, 2h rogaining run un 2h rogaining walk
14:30	Control time end for 3h MTB rogaining
15:00	Control time end for 2h rogaining un  2h rogaining run
16:00	Control time end for 4h rogaining
17:00	Control time end for 6h rogaining un Rogaining hike
17:10	Begins prize giving for classes. INTERVALS.LV lottery withr Garmin and other prizes.

COMPETITION CENTER LOCATION

TERRAIN

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	Žogotā laukuma DR stūris / Fenced area, SW corner	45	ZR paugurs / NW hillock
11	Z ieloks / N fold	46	Grāvja gals / End of ditch
12	DA nogāze / SE slope	47	D ieloks / S fold
20	Koks pie grāvja / Tree at ditch	48	ZA ieloks / NE fold
21	Pie ielas pagrieziena / At street turn	49	A ieloks / E fold
22	Pussaliņa dīķī / Small peninsula in pond	50	Z deguns / N spur
23	Nogāzies liels koks / Fallen large tree	51	Z pussaliņa purvā / Little N peninsula in marsh
24	Mežaudzes Z stūris / N corner of grove	52	Z krūmu pudura vidū / N scrub copse middle
25	ZR koks pie žoga / NW tree at fence	53	Klajumiņš mežā / Little open area in woodland
26	Žoga ZR stūris / NW corner of fence	54	Koka konstrukcija / Wooden construction
30	R žogu spraugas A gals / E end of W fence gap	55	Vecā meža R stūris / W corner of old forest
31	Grāvju krustojums / Ditch junction	56	DR bedre / SW pit
32	Grāvju krusta ZR krasts / NW bank of ditch junction	57	DA deguns / SE spur
33	Koks žogu stūrī / Tree at fence corner	58	Bedre / Pit
34	Ieloks / Fold	59	Virsotne / Top
35	Ielas D gals / S end of street	60	Grāvju sateces DA krasts / SE bank of ditch junction
36	Dīķa DR krasts / SW bank of pond	61	ZR tranšeju savienojums / NW trench junction
37	Ielas A gals / E end of street	62	Krūmāja Z gals / N end of scrub
38	Mūru stūrī / In corner of walls	63	Krasta līnijas stūris / Corner of bank line
39	Cauruļvada pagrieziens / Bend of pipeline	64	A deguns / E spur
40	DR grāvja DA gals / SE end of SW ditch	65	DA deguns / SE spur
41	Z paugurs / N hillock	66	Tranšejas DA gals / NE end of trench
42	D ieplaka / S depression	70	Krūms / Shrub
43	Grāvja R gals / W end of ditch	71	Asfalta laukuma Z stūris / N corner of paved area
44	Vaļņa ZR gals / NW end of earth wall	72	Atstatus kociņš / Standalone tree
Finišs zem arkas / Finish under arch
* Z - ziemeļu, R - rietumu, A - austrumu, D - dienvidu / N - northern, W - western, E - eastern, S - southern