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Wed 14 Aug 5:30 pm
Moonlight Madness #5 Glebe
Glebe - Jubilee Park, Victoria Road, Glebe.

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Sat 17 Aug 1:00 pm
2024 NSW School Forest Championships and State League #12
Howson Oval (39A Howson Ave), Turramurra. The event will be contained within the adjacent Twin Creeks Reserve.

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Sun 18 Aug 9:30 am
2024 NSW School Sprint Championships and State League #13
Macquarie University

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Sun 18 Aug 10:00 am
Waggaroos Local event (Sprint), Victory Memorial Gardens
Victory Memorial Gardens, Wagga.

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Sun 18 Aug 1:00 pm
NSW School Relay Championships and Bold Horizons Relay Championships
Macquarie University

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Wed 21 Aug 4:00 pm
2024 Sydney MapRun #5 North Rocks
North Rocks Park, North Rocks Rd, North Rocks

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Sat 24 Aug 9:30 am
SOS Northside - St Ives
Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Gardens, 420 Mona Vale Rd, St Ives (meet in Dampier's Clearing)

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Sat 24 Aug 9:30 am
SOS Hills District - Rydalmere
Upjohn Park, Kirby St, Rydalmere (look for us near the car park)

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Sat 24 Aug 11:00 am
ACT Middle Championships: ACT League #11, NSW SL #14, Wild Deer Sands
Wild Deer Sands (Birkenburn).

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Sun 25 Aug 12:00 am
ACT Long Championships: ACT League #12, NSW SL #15, Birkenburn

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.


Chatswood a vision at night

moonlight madnessFive of the 68 entries in Wednesday's Moonlight Madness are clearly very happy in the dark as they sprinted around the course set by NSW Junior Toby Wilson in record times, scoring the full 600 points on offer. The largest field of the season so far, runners were treated to a street map around Chatswood, which took in darkened residential streets as well as the bright lights of the main shopping areas. Summer Series veteran Glen Horrocks managed to hold off Garingal's Matt Hill and Big Foot's Patrik Gunnarson, to take 1st place but there was less than a minute in it. It was a high scoring event with many runners improving their previous scores by significant margins such as new Uringa member Eric Charpentier who improved his score by 110 points, and NOSH organiser Darren Slattery adding 60 points to his previous score.

Average scores for the three events so far have been MM#1 373, MM#2 419 and MM#3 447. Theories will abound as to why there has been such improvement, around prosaic reasons like numbers of hills and placement of controls. Surely however the fact that carrots are in season must be having an impact on night vision.