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The final of the Sydney Summer Series will be visited by the Hon Graham Annesley, Minister for Sport and Recreation. Stay behind after your run to see the winners of this highly popular series receive their laurels. The event will be at Macquarie Park. More details here
Orienteering NSW and Orienteering ACT are teaming up for present the next race in the DuO Adventure Series. Round 4 will be run at Mount Stromlo Park on Sunday 14th April in the ACT. Entries are now open - click here!
Run, ride and navigate as an individual or as a team - the choice is 
yours. If you don't want to bite off more than you can chew you can always enter on the day just for the Foot O or MTBO O sections. More details on the flyer here.
Never raced in a DuO? Have a read of the last race report here by organiser Greg Bacon. Held at Belanglo Forest it was a fast blast through plantations, and a tricky rocky navigational challenge - find out you can expect from this innovative and exciting race format!
State League 1 & 2, set by Central Coast Orienteers were held over the weekend just outside Lithgow in Ben Bullen State Forest. Day 1 was a classic Middle Distance race, highly technical with lots of changes of directions, and a good sprinkling of short legs amongst the longer. The towering rock features were both a help and a hindrance- easy to spot from a distance but confusing up close. Rockfall mixed with leaf-fall made for very slippery conditions without any water, and times were perhaps a little longer than normally expected for a Middle Distance race. Australian golden girl Hanny Alston made short work of the W21A course finishing well ahead of the rest of the field in 44:28. There were similar gaps between board leaders and the rest of field in many of the classes, as some hit the race season in great form whilst others struggled to warm up to the technical difficulty.
Day 2 was faster and wetter, with the course set on Long Swamp. Longer legs on ground which, in general, was easier underfoot, resulted in much quicker times per km than the Middle Distance races. Lachlan Dow had a great race, clocking up 6:41mins/km to win the M21A. With less rock, and more classic spur gully terrain with limited undergrowth, the runners could stretch out and indulge their need for speed.
The Stinger of the Month is.... Andy Hill. Long term member of Western Hills Andy is well known for his devastating turn of speed. Always featured towards the top of the leaderboard he has been having a great season in the Sydney Summer Series. At the date of award, Andy had won the Open Men class in the most recent 6 events, and in the Sprint series, he had won two races and was 2nd in two more. But Andy is not just in it for the glory - last season he ran high quality training for Stingers and NSW Juniors.
Well done Andy - enjoy your Endura pack and use it to give you the energy you need to prevail at the State League races which kick off this weekend in Lithgow.
