Newcastle are blessed with dozens of great bush maps and we enjoyed two of them at the weekend as our State League season wound up in glorious spring sunshine.
Stephen Craig set short but physically demanding courses at Mt Sugarloaf on Saturday, where you needed one leg shorter than the other on the steep hillsides.
On Sunday at Southams Road, Ian Dempsey set some cracking long legs that offered a direct route in fast runnable forest or longer running on the many tracks and firetrails.
Emily Sorensen from South Australia took out W20A on both days, while Damien Welbourne (Newcastle, M50A) and Ian Jessup (Garingal, M45AS) had their first wins of the year.
Please fill out the very brief Course Setter surveys. Our State League page and the OY point scores will be updated over the course of the next fortnight, as our regular human abacus Col Bailey is on a well-earned overseas holiday.
Thank you to all our organisers, course setters, controllers, results people and participants for a great year.
Our 2019 SL season starts with a NOL round in conjunction back on the awesome mining maps of Hill End on the last weekend in March.
