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The full 2011 NSW Orienteering calendar is now available under the NSW Calendar 2011 tab on the Events page or click here. Get those dates in your diary and start planning your 2011 orienteering adventures now!

MTBO training camp

A national MTBO training camp will be held in the Ballarat-Bendigo region in Victoria from 18-23 January. Any interested MTB orienteer is welcome to join in, as are coaches. Riders can participate for part of the camp, if all is not possible. If interested please send your details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. including your name, email, home and mobile telephone numbers, and postal address by 23 December.

Call for nominations for Australian MTBO squads 2011

Each State MTBO contact has been　requested to nominate Elite Senior and Junior riders, male and female. It is important that the riders nominated are of a high standard in MTBO, that they have a geniune interest in MTBO and have and will be competing in State, National events in 2011 and have a desire to gain selection in either the WMTBO or JWMTBO Teams in 2011. The deadline for nominations is Friday 17 December 2010. Interested riders from NSW should contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as soon as possible.

Warm weather greeted all the runners who competed in the inaugural running of the "Rumbalara Fun Run" which was organised by Central Coast Orienteers.

There were about 120 entries that were split evenly between the shorter 13 km course (won in about 58 mins) and the longer 16km course "The Rumble" (won in about 77 mins). Competitors seemed to have enjoyed the challange of the mountain and there were several comments that the difficulty and heat were great training tools for the Six Foot Track next year.

The enthusiasm and comments of competitors have been recorded and we look forward to an even better event in 2011 ( with an earlier start time).

Congratulations to the winners, placegetters and all who competed. NSW Elite Orienteers, Ian Meyer and Tracy Bluett, were the first male and female finishers.

Results are available at www.ccorienteering.org

Photos to follow.

Colin Price

The 2010 Xmas 5 Days kicked off today with a sprint around the University of New England Armidale campus.

With some Queensland competitors being delayed by the recent rains, the first day's field was lower than expected, but the competition was still challenging.

The results from Day 1 can be found here, while the Day 1 splits can be found here.

In the men's elite (MA) competition Julian Dent showed he has not lost anything in speed or technique since the Australian Championships in early October to win the 3.1Km event in 13m 57s, while in the women's elite (WA) event visiting Swede Johana Oberg took out the women's 2.8Km race in 16m 57s. Victoria's Aislin Prendergast was the best of the home contingent in fourth place in 18m 07s, with NSW's Tracy Bluett close behind in 18m 42s.

Tomorrow sees the first of the bush events head south of Armidale to Banalasta.

The event website can be found here.