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A reminder that the standard entry fee period for Gold’n Ponds Easter 2013 finishes on Sunday 3rd March. That is less than one month away. There will be a further week where we accept final entries but please be warned that the fees will be significantly higher from 4-10th March. After the 10th March there will only be limited Enter on the Day courses available. We strongly advise everyone to read the “Entry Guide” pdf available from the Gold’n Ponds website prior to entering in Eventor. Five minutes of your time spent reading the guide could save you a lot of time otherwise.
Lastly, a reminder that event merchandise is available for sale on-line until 28 February with any orders placed before Sunday 10th February going into a draw to refund the cost of the order. Go to the event website for the link.
Orienteering NSW has joined forces with the NSW Rogaining Association for the “Spectacular Sydney Harbour SSS-Minigaine” and entries are now open. This increasingly popular 3 hour event is on Sunday 3 March at Mosman High School, with rolling starts from 1pm to 3pm.
Two orienteering maps have been combined to give a mix of street and bushland navigation, featuring Sydney’s scenic harbour foreshore around Mosman and Cremorne. Scores count in the Sydney Summer Series (this is SSS23), but only if you enter as an individual. You get quadruple the time of a normal 45-minute SSS event and 4 times the fun.
As over 500 entrants are expected, many without a personal SI Stick, NSWRA’s Navlight recording system will be used. The entry fee covers rental of a Navlight punch tag.
Entry Fees are Full $20; Concession $15; Child under 14 years $free, provided you enter on or before Wednesday 27 February. Entries can be made after 27 February and on-the-day, but will incur a $10 additional charge (to minimise queuing). So get in early.
Entries can be made on-line at www.nswrogaining.org/AboutEvents/Events/13MI/13MI.htm.
Enquiries: Ted Woodley 0419 663 539
Endura Sports Nutrition has come on board as sponsor of the Stingers, our elite orienteers that represent NSW. Endura is a world leader in Sports Nutrition providing sport supplements to help athletes get the best out of their performance in both training and racing and Orienteering NSW is very excited to have them join us in our bid to produce the best orienteers in Australia.
In early January a number of NSW Stingers represented Australia in the World Cup events in New Zealand. Congratulations to Julian Dent, Felicity Brown, Joshua Blatchford and Rob Preston who all represented Australia in style. Based on some great results at this international competition, the Endura Stinger of the month for January is Felicity Brown. Not only was this Felicity’s first appearance at this level for the Australian team but she also produced the goods, performing consistently with top 30 performances in every race in world class fields.
Thanks to Stingers sponsor, Endura, there is a prize pack now winging its way to Felicity (who has already returned to Sweden for more training). With Endura products aiming to ‘help you train harder, race faster and recover quicker’ we know that she will be racing even faster at the next round of World Cup events.
Congratulations also to other NSW Stingers that performed strongly in elite classes in the Oceania Carnival. Athletes included Aidan Dawson, Lawrence Jones, Matthew Hill, Kas Gregory, Eric Morris, Andrew Brown, Ian Meyer, Nicola Blatchford, Michele Dawson and Emily Prudhoe. We also had good results in the following events at Hawkes Bay with Lisa Grant impressing in the Sprint the Bay competition.
Briohny Seaman held off all comers to take the win as the WaggaRoos Summer Series resumed last Thursday evening but it wasn't just the competition that was hot. High temperatures were a cause for concern so organisers limited the race to a 30 minutes score event.
Starting in Churchill Ave participants had a variety of directions to go. Most headed across Rocky Hill Reserve towards Simkin Cres and Fay Avenue towards the Kooringal High School before heading back along Kilpatrick St or Lake Albert Rd. Others chose to head west along Warrawong and Grove Streets towards Kooringal Mall. Briohny Seaman's winning route took her on the Rocky Hill route scoring her 105 points. Alex Davey and John Oliver also headed across Rocky Hill Reserve taking almost identical routes but ending up with 95 points each to fill the minor places; Alex was awarded second place on technical considerations - his elapsed time was 12 seconds faster.
Other runners fell foul of the time limit, chasing down points at the expense of coming home on time. Jonathan Holland ran and ran and collected a massive 135 points but ran for too long finishing 8 minutes overtime and incurring 40 penalty points. Trent Seaman was another incurring 10 penalty points to finish in fifth place with 90.
The next event in the Summer Series of Orienteering will be held next Thursday 7 February at Kessler Park near Lamber St starting from 6pm.
Thanks to John Oliver for this report
