Spooks in the Park launched
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 04 September 2012 12:07
Spooks in the Park is an exciting new joint venture between ONSW and Centennial Park in Sydney to raise funds for both organisations.
Spooks in the Park is a Halloween themed orienteering course on 27th October from 1200-1800hrs for children where at each control site there is a spooky game to play. Some of the games include a coconut shy where the coconuts are skulls and the balls are eyeballs, a zombie run, a ‘test of terror’ and a giant spiders web to crawl through. As well as drawing together two great partners to deliver the event, local schools are also getting involved, with some of Ascham School's Duke of Edinburgh scheme students joining in the fun to help on the day.
Tickets are available online now
Patrik and Tracey find their turns of speed to win the Big Foot Sprints!
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 04 September 2012 11:51
Another cracking Darks Common event under the guiding hand of Richard Lauder was won by Big Foot Patrik Gunnarrsson going one place better than last year and leading in Lee Coady, who overhauled Paul Marsh on the second sprint, but couldn't keep up with Patrik despite catching him at the first control.
Read all about the fleet feet at Big Foot Sprints with Big Foot President Andy Simpson's report here.
Waggaroos triumphant in 2012 Interclub Series against Albury
- Last Updated: Monday, 03 September 2012 18:40
WaggaRoos has won the 2012 Interclub Series against Albury. In the final event conducted at Connorton last Sunday WaggaRoos had a narrow 12 point to 8 victory bringing the overall scores for the four event series to 72 points to 52.
Briohny Seaman (W) had an excellent run on the 5.9km Red course which looped around three large hills. Participants needed to make careful route choice decisions to avoid the hills and rocky areas. A number of controls required fine reading of the underlying contour features which was difficult given the prevalence of black symbols indicating rocky features. On some hillsides the Stypandra was very pretty but also difficult to traverse.
For the Interclub series points are awarded according to places for an equal number of participants from each club on each course.
Briohny gained maximum points for WaggaRoos finishing almost 7 minutes clear of Albury’s Leigh Privett. John Oliver (W) was third in just ahead of Wayne Bajenoff (A). This gave WaggaRoos a useful 6:4 point lead.
Debbie Davey had a brilliant run on the 4km Red course finishing almost 20 minutes ahead of Norm McCann (A). Wes Campbell (W) finished in third place. Albury’s John Trevivian missed a control giving WaggaRoos 6:4 points for this course.
Kath Oliver had the fastest time on the 3.2km Orange course. The course wandered across more open areas and followed a pretty stream before heading back along some power lines. The Wetherspoon and James families enjoyed the wander even stopping for a short picnic lunch on the way. There were no Albury participants on this course so no points were allocated.
2 year old Hannah Holland and mother Catherine were the only participants on the 2.3km Green course.
Many thanks to John Oliver for this report.
Waggaroos combine training and racing to good effect at Willans Hill
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:56
Starting from the Music Bowl at the Botanic Gardens the emphasis of the day on Sunday 26 August was on skills development and a feature was a 3.1km self-help training course. Participants were provided with written instructions on how to do particular legs including extending the control, aiming off and running –on-the-compass, all navigational techniques that assist in simplifying complex legs.
In addition to the training loop there was a 4.5km course for the more confident orienteers and a 2km course for beginners. The courses primarily zigzagged along the hillside up to Captain Cook Drive utilising various point and linear features.
Catherine Holland, who was the top performer of the day, initially completed the 2km Green course ripping around in slightly over 13 minutes. Wanting a bit more exercise she then chose to tackle a few of the controls on the self-help course. However, she enjoyed it so much she just kept going and not only completed the entire course but also recorded the fastest time.
Julie Gooding spent a bit more time reading and recorded second fastest time. The James and Wetherspoon families combined as a group to enjoy a pleasant Sunday morning’s exercise.
Handicap honours for the day went to Edward Stow on the 4.7km course, which comprised two figure-of-eight loops;despite a couple of small errors he recorded a very good 48 minutes.
Thanks to John Oliver for this report
