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Wed 17 Jul 5:30 pm
Moonlight Madness #4
Artarmon Reserve, Burra Road, Artarmon
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Orienteering Participation and Engagement Network July Meeting

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2024 NSW State League #10 - Poppethead, Kitchener
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2024 NSW State League #11 - Barraba Lane, Quorrobolong
“Barraba Lane” - Ian Dempsey, 2021, Barraba Lane, Quorrobolong -32.9630219, 151.3384693

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Waggaroos Local event, Wolfram
Livingstone State Conservation Area.

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Tue 23 Jul 7:30 pm
Orienteering NSW July Board Meeting

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2024 Sydney MapRun #2 Putney
Putney Park Toilets (South), Pellisier Rd, Putney
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Vision Valley, Arcadia.
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SOS Hills District
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Sat 27 Jul 10:00 am
Learn to Orienteer - Port Macquarie
Mackillop College Oval.

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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.

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Scout park no obstacle for MetrO frontrunners

The MetrO League picture is much clearer after the favourites dominated in Round 4 at Cataract Scout Park on Sunday.

The leaders in Divisions 1-2-3-5 remained unbeaten and thus sealed spots in the final at Nurragingy in late August.

The many open campsites around the middle of the park appear to offer simple navigation, but it's easy to stray off bearing if you're trying to run at speed. Likewise, the dozens of small tracks can present parallax errors for those in a hurry.

The standout feature of the park is the obstacle course in the far western sector of the park. Control #230 (No. 6 on the Division 5 course) was at a flying fox. Did anyone take the aerial route here?

Numbers were down a little on the previous round at Centennial Park, but SHOO arrived with a small army and donated a handful of runners to other teams. Thanks SHOO!

The tightest race is in Division 4 where KNOX, Uringa-Central Coast and WHO are all on six points, followed by the Garingal Legless team on 4. The North Sydney Boys High squad who make up the GO Legless team squandered their chance against KNOX by having two runners mp. In the final round it's WHO v KNOX - with the winner into the final - while UR-CC have the GO Monitors and the Legless face last-placed Bennelong needing other results to go their way.

At the pointy end of the comp, the Division 1 looks like being a Big Foot-Garingal, although WHO's second placing on Sunday gives them a remote chance of finishing second overall.

In Division 2 the GO Dragons pipped Bennelong 28-27 to make it four straight wins, while Big Foot ( a runner short) tied with SHOO 26-26 after Dean Williamson mispunched. The last round again has many permutations.

Unbeaten IKO appear set to face UR-CC in the final barring a major upset in Division 3, while in Division 5 UR-CC, WHO and SHOO are on 8, 6 and 4 points respectively and should finish in that order.

The MetrO League web page has been updated with results, scores, points tables and individual scores.

A big thanks to IKO for their organisation. The next round is on July 26 at Manly Dam.