Pilsrundale Legends rogaining

Regulations Programme  How to get there and event centre  Map

LEGEND OF PILSRUNDĀLE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

The Pilsrundāle Legend Rogaining terrain links the splendour of the Baroque era at Rundāle Palace with the old manor roads of the surrounding area, rural farmsteads and the historically important trade routes that once led to Bauska and the heart of Zemgale. The nearby forests, meadows and canal lines hold traces of both ducal hunting grounds and Soviet-era collective farms and landscape changes. In the rogaining on 11.07.26, participants will run through places where Baroque grandeur meets the wide-open spaces of Zemgale and the changing human stories of past centuries that still live on in these parks, fields and forests.

EVENT SCHEDULE AND PROGRAMME

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Time Activity
09:30 Start of bib number collection and map distribution
11:00 Start of 6h rogaining (Rogaining hike participants may start between 11:00 and 13:00)
11:30 Start of 3h bike rogaining
12:00 Start of 4h rogaining
13:00 Start of 2h rogaining, 2h rogaining run and 2h rogaining hike
14:30 End of time limit for 3h bike rogaining
15:00 End of time limit for 2h rogaining and 2h rogaining run
16:00 End of time limit for 4h rogaining
17:00 End of time limit for 6h rogaining and Rogaining hike
17:10 Start of prize-giving for all courses and INTERVALS.LV lottery with Garmin and other prizes

EVENT CENTRE LOCATION AND TERRAIN

The event centre will be located next to Rundāle Palace.

Directions to the event centre: 

 

GPS ROUTE RECORDING AND POST-RACE ANALYSIS

If you want spectators to be able to follow you on the big screen in the event centre during the race, or if you’d like to analyse your own (or your competitors’) wandering around the exact control point location after the event, use the MapRun smartphone app:

MAP SYMBOLS

Since this year it will be possible to ride a bike in the MTB class in all stages, for the convenience of cyclists the map will distinguish between asphalt (brown) and unpaved fast/medium/slow/very slow (the more “broken” the line, the slower) black roads and paths. Tracks drawn with the narrow ride symbol represent tractor ruts 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 medium and old forest stands, using four different colours: green, lighter, very light and white – the kind of palette orienteers are used to seeing in their maps. However, unlike classic orienteering maps, these colours do not indicate runnability, only forest age. This more detailed forest representation is possible thanks to the publicly available LiDAR point cloud data from the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency, which anyone can download free of charge and use to generate map layers.

We remind you that areas shaded in olive green with standard orienteering symbols are out of bounds for participants. Closed roads are marked in red. Even if something is not shown on the map but you see a sign “Privātīpašums” (Private property) or “Ieeja aizliegta” (No entry) in the terrain (unless it is obviously very old and no longer valid), please respect it and choose another route. Of course, first of all the organisers will try to place controls in such a way that reaching them does not infringe landowners’ rights.

Contour intervals will be a relatively fine 2 m.

 

EVENT MAP AND TERRAIN

Participants will receive the event maps on the morning of the competition when registering at the registration tent. The maps will be laminated for moisture resistance, but moisture may still seep in at the edges, corners and damaged areas. Long-distance participants, the biggest swimmers and bog-crossers may tape the map edges with transparent tape for extra durability or even place the maps in special transparent and waterproof map cases. The map scale is 1:20 000, i.e. 1 cm = 200 m in the terrain. Size 62 x 43 cm (bear this in mind when choosing a bike map holder).

The terrain is mostly dominated by well runnable pine forests. In places there are sandy dunes. As a result, almost all roads that cross the 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 places are marked with the thinnest ride symbol (and not the thicker road or path symbol), but as with all general rogaining maps, some inaccuracies may occur. In the lowest relief areas there are wide, marshy plains with shrubby, difficult-to-pass vegetation. However, after a long dry period the marshes are fairly dry. Likewise, the ditches contain less water than usual.

CONTROL DESCRIPTIONS

Get acquainted with the control descriptions, i.e. the location descriptions! Although in any case you must look for the feature in the centre of the control circle, the descriptions explain more precisely whether to look on the north or south side of a building, etc. Some of the control locations are so legendary that we had to encode them so as not to give away the secrets too early. However, you can already try to guess them now. You will find out the correct answers on race day before the start, when you receive the map with control points.