NSW-ACT training weekend on Feb 21-23
- Last Updated: Friday, 07 February 2020 16:47
Come and enjoy a fun weekend of orienteering training in the Southern Highlands on February 21-23.
This camp is being put on by our coach-in-residence Alastair George along with ACT counterpart Fryderyk Pryjma.
Everyone is welcome to attend. The camp will focus on the development of sprint and bush orienteering skills in preparation for the autumn season. The bush orienteering trainings will offer hard and easy courses - moderate level orienteers are encouraged to challenge themselves on the hard courses.
More details are in the information flyer. Please register on Eventor by Sunday 16 February.
Due to the bushfires, we are still awaiting final confirmation of locations, which will be roughly 1 hour 40 minutes from Canberra and Sydney.
Robertson, Schaefer win CC summer series
- Last Updated: Thursday, 06 February 2020 13:08
Melissa Robertson and Mark Schaefer have taken out the Central Coast summer series after the final event on a new map at Forresters Beach on Sunday.
Melissa bagged a perfect 600 from her six best scores, while Mark finished with 598 points.
There was again a separate table based on handicaps, and Garingal's Elizabeth Bulman tied with Suzanne Bramford (CC). The men's section went to Lachlan Harris (CC).
You can find the final tallies here and the results page here.
A big thank you to all the mappers, setters, controllers and organisers.
Central Coast's next event is the annual O'Shea 2-Days weekend on Feb 29-Mar 1. Details are in Eventor. This features three runs in 18 hours. Cake prizes are for the best-performed pairs, but you can also enter solo, and for 1, 2 or all 3 events.
SOS goes 3D in 2020
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 05 February 2020 09:51
Our popular Saturday Orienteering Series is going 3D this term to take navigation to a whole new level!
Run by our partner organisation Bold Horizons, the SOS is a big hit with beginners and experienced orienteers alike.
Term 1 starts at Killara High School this Saturday and the long course will have controls on all levels of the buildings. The challenge is to work out how to get from a control on one level of a building to the next control on a different level of another or the same building.
It's mind-boggling fun. See here for an example of a map (Facebook photo).
The following week (Feb 15) the SOS starts up a parallel series in the Macarthur region of south-west Sydney. First up is Mawarra Public School, the multiple champions at our annual Sydney South West Primary Schools champs.
Season tickets are available, and the SOS accepts Active Kids vouchers.
NSW orienteers take second at Sprint the Bay
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 04 February 2020 21:52
ONSW president Greg Barbour and Garingal junior Iida Lehtonen were the best performed of the small NSW contingent at Sprint the Bay at the weekend.
The event, revived after a hiatus of a few years, features six sprints in three days in vastly different terrains in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand's north island.
Iida, a member of our victorious NSW schools team in 2019, was just 26 seconds behind local Zara Stewart on aggregate in the senior girls division. Keeping it in the family, Iida's mum Miia was second in the women's Cruiser class for more recreational participants.
Greg, a member of Big Foot, finished just over six minutes behind Jon McComb of Tasmania in M50, while Julia Prudhoe (Central Coast) was third in W60.
Our best in the elites was Alastair George (BF, pictured), who was 14th overall.
The event had the Tour de France as its inspiration, with a yellow singlet to be worn by the stage leaders, a polka dot one for the best hill climbers and green singlet for best sprinters.
Among the locations were a campus, a golf course, a grassy hillside and a town centre.
