2018 NSW Xmas 5 Days
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- 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 | |
| 2 | Dec 28 | Loops | Here | Here | Centennial Park | |
| 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.
Further details will be posted on this site as they are finalised.
There are many accommodation and tourism options in and around Sydney.
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Updated 23 November 2018