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The QBIII carnival hosted by Garingal Orienteers and Western & Hills Orienteers over the long weekend was a great success. Entrants enjoyed a new map at Lithgow High School ‘Land of the Lithgow Flash’, a refreshed Mt Piper Hills South on day 2 and although mining is continuing to chip away at the Baal Bone Junction map (Day 3) there was still plenty of forest to go around. Course setters provided some interesting elements such as an indoor start on Day 1 and a start through a tunnel on Day 3. Australian men’s champion Julian Dent and Australian Bushranger Mace Neve raced alongside club runners. See the race reports and results on the QBIII website.
Challenging running conditions at Pomingalarna Reserve on Sunday 19th June were provided by fog and wet conditions underfoot in the normally fast open areas. President John Oliver showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels winning the 5km Red course in 43 minutes. Amongst the competitors Waggaroos welcomed experienced rogainers Rob and Eloise Matthews who had travelled up from Albury to participate in their first orienteering event.
Uringa Orienteers hosted a Come and Try it event which doubled up as the second in the 2011 Junior League on Sunday 19 June in Centennial Park. Recent rain had turned parts of the courses marshy but that didn’t deter a record number of nearly 90 runners coming along on the day. New Uringa club member Adam Garner is showing some great potential, winning the Short Orange course in the League whilst another Uringa junior, Lawrence Jones, took out the Long Orange course.
The CATI attracted a number of entrants who competed as groups, including the Killara Scouts in their second appearance at the Junior League this year.
Junior League results are available on the Junior League page.
Routegadget is a free web utility written by a Finnish orienteer Jarrko Ryypo, which is designed to give orienteers the opportunity to draw and share their routes. On his web-site Jarrko has an index which links to Routegadget sites around the world: 32 countries, 188 organizations, 9048 events (the number of routes is not tallied but must be in the hundreds of thousands).
Routegadget for NSW is hosted on the Garingal web-site because of a clash with the operating system on the OANSW web-site. Bigfoot and Northern Tablelands also have Routegadget available. The latest events loaded are the 3 days of the QBIII carnival at Lithgow - have a look at where people went (or think they went) and add your own route as well. Help is available on the page for each map, and the split times are taken directly from the SI splits file. If you have a GPS unit you can download your track too. The software has been updated recently so that the GPS track should now need almost no adjustment.
In addition to the drawn routes up to 10 "runners" can be animated to show their positions on the map as if in a mass start, or a normal spread start.The (splitalyser) option in the event listing gives access to graphical display of the split results (similar to Winsplits) as well as a table of splits results.
Bendigo Club has started an annual Noodle Award for the best "spaghetti" track on one of their maps - not here yet but...
If you have any questions about using Routegadget, or how to load your club events, contact
Routegadget on Garingal web-site: http://garingal.com.au/cgi-bin/gadget3/reitti.cgi
Routegadget - access to an index of 32 countries, 188 organizations, 9048 events (put a country or place in the ( search ) box).
If you want even more maps to look at: World of O maps - (routegadget collection + thousands more).
