ONSW and NSW Rogaining team up for spectacular Minigaine
- Last Updated: Thursday, 07 February 2013 21:51
Orienteering NSW has joined forces with the NSW Rogaining Association for the “Spectacular Sydney Harbour SSS-Minigaine” and entries are now open. This increasingly popular 3 hour event is on Sunday 3 March at Mosman High School, with rolling starts from 1pm to 3pm.
Two orienteering maps have been combined to give a mix of street and bushland navigation, featuring Sydney’s scenic harbour foreshore around Mosman and Cremorne. Scores count in the Sydney Summer Series (this is SSS23), but only if you enter as an individual. You get quadruple the time of a normal 45-minute SSS event and 4 times the fun.
As over 500 entrants are expected, many without a personal SI Stick, NSWRA’s Navlight recording system will be used. The entry fee covers rental of a Navlight punch tag.
Entry Fees are Full $20; Concession $15; Child under 14 years $free, provided you enter on or before Wednesday 27 February. Entries can be made after 27 February and on-the-day, but will incur a $10 additional charge (to minimise queuing). So get in early.
Entries can be made on-line at www.nswrogaining.org/AboutEvents/Events/13MI/13MI.htm.
Enquiries: Ted Woodley 0419 663 539
NSW Stingers welcomes Endura
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 05 February 2013 19:53
Endura Sports Nutrition has come on board as sponsor of the Stingers, our elite orienteers that represent NSW. Endura is a world leader in Sports Nutrition providing sport supplements to help athletes get the best out of their performance in both training and racing and Orienteering NSW is very excited to have them join us in our bid to produce the best orienteers in Australia.
In early January a number of NSW Stingers represented Australia in the World Cup events in New Zealand. Congratulations to Julian Dent, Felicity Brown, Joshua Blatchford and Rob Preston who all represented Australia in style. Based on some great results at this international competition, the Endura Stinger of the month for January is Felicity Brown. Not only was this Felicity’s first appearance at this level for the Australian team but she also produced the goods, performing consistently with top 30 performances in every race in world class fields.
Thanks to Stingers sponsor, Endura, there is a prize pack now winging its way to Felicity (who has already returned to Sweden for more training). With Endura products aiming to ‘help you train harder, race faster and recover quicker’ we know that she will be racing even faster at the next round of World Cup events.
Congratulations also to other NSW Stingers that performed strongly in elite classes in the Oceania Carnival. Athletes included Aidan Dawson, Lawrence Jones, Matthew Hill, Kas Gregory, Eric Morris, Andrew Brown, Ian Meyer, Nicola Blatchford, Michele Dawson and Emily Prudhoe. We also had good results in the following events at Hawkes Bay with Lisa Grant impressing in the Sprint the Bay competition.
Briohny racks up another win as Waggaroos Summer Orienteering resumes
- Last Updated: Monday, 04 February 2013 19:58
Briohny Seaman held off all comers to take the win as the WaggaRoos Summer Series resumed last Thursday evening but it wasn't just the competition that was hot. High temperatures were a cause for concern so organisers limited the race to a 30 minutes score event.
Starting in Churchill Ave participants had a variety of directions to go. Most headed across Rocky Hill Reserve towards Simkin Cres and Fay Avenue towards the Kooringal High School before heading back along Kilpatrick St or Lake Albert Rd. Others chose to head west along Warrawong and Grove Streets towards Kooringal Mall. Briohny Seaman's winning route took her on the Rocky Hill route scoring her 105 points. Alex Davey and John Oliver also headed across Rocky Hill Reserve taking almost identical routes but ending up with 95 points each to fill the minor places; Alex was awarded second place on technical considerations - his elapsed time was 12 seconds faster.
Other runners fell foul of the time limit, chasing down points at the expense of coming home on time. Jonathan Holland ran and ran and collected a massive 135 points but ran for too long finishing 8 minutes overtime and incurring 40 penalty points. Trent Seaman was another incurring 10 penalty points to finish in fifth place with 90.
The next event in the Summer Series of Orienteering will be held next Thursday 7 February at Kessler Park near Lamber St starting from 6pm.
Thanks to John Oliver for this report
Points scores close as SHOO head towards season finale
- Last Updated: Monday, 04 February 2013 19:57
Sandra Stewart seems to tempt the elements with her course setting, and with the cold change having come through on Friday there was every possibility some of her controls would be under water, but wily Sandy made sure that this time she put the controls well away from any rapids. Her 'Gunnarsson' control, cut off by some building construction, was seen as a challenge to be overcome by the top runners.
The cool weather tempted a large group of runners to SHOO's penultimate event of their Summer Saturdays. The allocation of points means that next week the challenge will be on. Patrik Gunnarsson (BF) will hold first place in the Men's Score with Steve Cooper (SH) and Paul Davey (SH) hot on Luke Robertson's (NC) tail. An even closer competition will be between Lachlan Brooks (SH) and Jai Cooper (SH). They are currently on identical points. A sub-competition is taking place between James Wilkinson, Dean Williams and Ben Cummings. Only 4 points separated the three of them this week.
Next week's event on 9 February will be the last in the series at Harrington Park East, Fairfax Reserve of Sir Warwick Fairfax Drive. Prizes will go out to the top 3 places in men's, women's and boy's and girl's divisions. The places will be decided on the best 5 out of 6 runs.
Thanks to Lyn Malmgron for this report
