Bedwell Bayfront Park
Date: (Sun.) Jul. 14, 2013
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.281.5280
Course Setter: Dennis Wildfogel
Type: C; Beginner courses, and Middle Distance courses with lots of controls
Course Setter's Notes
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The White, Yellow, and Orange courses will use a standard map of the park, but Brown and Red will use a "trail-less" version, that is, a map where all of the various types of roads and paths that are represented in black have been removed. We've done this because the extensive trail network at Bayfront makes navigating too easy. Without the trails on the map, you will have to rely on contours, vegetation, and point features.
The Bayfront map uses some non-standard symbols and uses some standard symbols in unusual ways. Be sure to read about this in the separate Map Notes (60KB/PDF). In particular, boulder clusters and knolls are much smaller than one would expect, and thus are often difficult to see until you are very near them; vegetation is very well mapped in terms of location and extent, but it takes some practice to distinguish forest from distinct trees, light green from dark green, etc. Again, see the Map Notes (60KB/PDF) for details.
Here are the details of the courses:
Course Length Climb Controls
White 1.6 km 24 m 10 Yellow 2.3 km 36 m 12 Orange 4.6 km 84 m 24 Brown 4.6 km 84 m 24 Red 7.9 km 154 m 40 (See the Note below!)
Top Blue runners should be able to complete the Red course in under 50 minutes. Good Green runners should be able to complete the course in under 80 minutes. Brown is mostly a subset of Red, with a few variations. Orange is essentially the same as Brown, but uses a map with trails on it.
Note: As was noted in the event announcement, you need a high-capacity E-stick if you are going to run the Red course. If you are not sure if yours is sufficient, read the event announcement or check with the people at registration.
The Red course will have a map exchange. The first 25 controls (and "clues" for those controls) will be on the map you get at the Start; separate control description sheets for those first 25 controls will also be available at the Start. Do the following after punching control #25:
- Drop your map for Part 1 into the designated box;
- Pick up a control description sheet for the controls on Part 2 (optional, since those descriptions are also on the Part 2 map); and
- Pick up a Part 2 map, which has the rest of the course from control 25 to the Finish.
There is one water stop on Orange and on Brown, two on Red. For all three of those courses, the first water stop comes at just over 3 km in. If you feel you'll need water sooner, please carry your own. There are no water stops on the White or Yellow courses.
Note: Some controls are closer to one another than is usual; be sure to check control codes to make certain that you are at the correct one.