Training in Pedreanes, Feb 24, 2008

In the region of Leiria, Marinha Grande and Figueira da Foz, there are many orienteering maps.

This is a central region in the country, at about half-way between Lisbon (130 Km) and Porto (180 Km), with excellent accessibility from any of these cities (A1 Highway from Lisbon and Porto and A8 Highway from Lisbon).

Located near the Atlantic Ocean, this region has a fair variety of vegetation types, but the famous Leiria Pinewood Forest is the predominating one, all along the seaside.

Beach, forest, field and mountain: four possibilities of choice, associated to a mild weather without a rival in Europe.

See orienteering maps

Let's look at some of the training locations:

Mostly, the type of terrain is mediterranean.

For a region with a 100 Km perimeter, there are about 50 Km2 represented in orienteering maps.

Over the last few years we could not ignore the increase of interest in Portuguese Orienteering and our terrains, especially during winter times.

As sign of the growth which orienteering has been having in Portugal, the Portuguese ability to organise sport events, the excellence of our forests and the quality of the maps and terrains, IOF assigned to Portugal the organisation of WMOC 2008, which will take place in region where the Training Camps will take place.

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Taking out the most of these regional natural resources, as well as from the several existent orienteering maps, the COC will organize Training Camps between January 25 and March 31, 2008.

These dates were scheduled in order to gather the interest of all of those planning to attend the next edition of the Portugal "O" Meeting (Feb 02-05, 2008 – 400 Km from Leiria) with WRE and/or the WRE that will be held in Portugal, as well, during the weekend of Feb 09-10, 2008 (Cantanhede, 70 Km north from Leiria).

French National team trained with us during 2006, and you can read what Tero Gueorigiou said about our Training Camp ( http://www.tero.fr/ - 02.03.2006).

Norwegian National team trained with us during 2007, and you can read what Øystein Kvaal Oster said about our Training Camp ( http://folk.ntnu.no/oysteios/ - 03.03.2007)

PRICE: € 45 EUR / Person / Day (minimum 5 days)

Includes:
- Lodging
- Rent-a-car (minimum 3 persons)
- 2 training events per day

The price also includes the participation in 2 stages of:

Portugal "O" Meeting (WRE 2nd day located in Algarve, 400 Km from the accomodation place, between February 02 and 05, 2008)

or

WRE in Cantanhede (located 70Km North of Leiria) at February 09 and 10, 2008.

Option 1 : Hotel Residencial Miramar ***
S.Pedro de Moel

Double room with breakfast - 45 € / person
Double room with breakfast and dinner - € 55 / person

S. Pedro de Moel

Option 2 : Bungalows

Minimum 3 persons

Lodging - 45€ / person
Lodging with breakfast and dinner - €60 / person

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The accomplishment of each training camp will depend on the registration of at least 10 persons.

Registration Deadline

December 31, 2007

For the interested clubs, there will be the possibility of interchange between athletes.

COC will take at its account the accomodation of certain athletes that will be visiting us and will send their athletes in the very same conditions.

To make your registration, or to obtain further information, send an email to info@coc.pt

CLUBE DE ORIENTAÇÃO DO CENTRO
VAT Number: 504 964 801
Edifício dos Bombeiros Municipais
Rua de Tomar
2400 Leiria
Portugal

Tel.: (+351) 917 645 378
Tel.: (+351) 914 764 931