Orienteering NSW - 2018 NSW Xmas 5 Days

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.

2018 NSW Xmas 5 Days

Details: Last Updated: Wednesday, 02 January 2019 23:21

Urban orienteering at its finest - see Sydney, run Sydney

Final standings - click here.

Bulletin 2 - click here.

Thanks to everyone who participated - we had 1438 entries across the 5 days.

Run the sights, then see the sights - the Harbour Bridge, the Opera House, Manly and Bondi beaches, the Blue Mountains, Luna Park, Taronga Zoo and much much more.

Spend Christmas at the beach and enjoy the world-famous New Year's Eve fireworks.

The following information is preliminary and provided to assist you to make your travel plans.

Classes (Men and Women): Hard 1, Hard 2, Hard 3, Hard 4, Moderate, Easy (combined Novice class)

Entries: pre-entry is strongly recommended as only a limited number of enter-on-day maps will be printed. All pre-entries are eligible for daily prize draws at the events.

Results: your best 4 results count toward the overall winner in each class. Points are based on placings.

Day	Date	Format	Results	Splits	Location + Link	Routegadget
1	Dec 27	Score	Here	Here	Milsons Point	Here
2	Dec 28	Loops	Here	Here	Centennial Park	Here
3	Dec 29	Mass start score	Here	Here	Beacon Hill	Here
4	Dec 30	Sprint	Here	Here	Manly	Here
5	Dec 31	Long sprint	Here	Here	Sydney Uni	Here

General information

Day 1 (Thu Dec 27) - a 45-minute afternoon score course, with the assembly area at Milson Park right near the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (This will also be part of the Sydney Summer Series). Million-dollar views of the harbour, CBD, the Opera House... and just a stone's throw from Luna Park and the famous North Sydney Swimming Pool.

Day 2 (Fri Dec 28) - at Centennial Park, Sydney's great urban park, just a few minutes from the city centre. Courses will go through some rocky hillsides, open forest and fast flat parkland. Three short loops adding up to one morning of fun.

Day 3 (Sat Dec 29) - the Clay Pan map is notorious for its fiendish network of tracks and typical coastal scrub. The NSW Stingers are putting on a mass start score course to tantalise even the most careful of navigators.

Day 4 (Sun Dec 30) - a sprint on a new map of the former St Patrick's seminary on Manly's eastern hill. Public transport is capped at $2.60 all day, so catch the ferry and make a day of it: Manly Beach, Shelly Beach, Little Manly (protected harbour beach), explore North Head.

Day 5 (Mon Dec 31) - the carnival finishes with a long sprint at Sydney Uni, one of the best campus maps anywhere. Country visitors will be able to hit the highway by lunchtime. For those people staying in Sydney, you an have lunch and maybe an afternoon nap before the 9pm and 12 midnight New Year's Eve fireworks.

The events are scheduled to be easily reached by public transport, avoid the heat and provide you with time to explore the local area.