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The second DuO Adventure Race in the 2011/2012 series was held at Western Sydney Regional Park on Saturday 11 February. With numbers almost double that of the first race in the series held at Killingworth last December it turned out to be an epic adventure.
The Newcastle Summer Series has run the length of its seventeen event calendar, finishing with a race in Mayfield.
With streets laid out in a standard grid, planner Andrew Morris had a challenging job to set the course. 'My aim was to offer as much route choice as possible. Often the quickest runners will take the same routes. I wanted to have the top ten runners potentially all have different route choices. For some controls that meant that I had to resort to doglegs but that was important to make it difficult to link controls in an obvious fashion.'
Read more: Newcastle Summer Series is over. On with the Park Series!
The new ONSW initiative for our younger orienteers, the Wildfires, is up and running. After a highly enjoyable camping and training weekend with the ACT Blue Sparks at the end of 2011, Salme Fuller, Wildfires coach has a full schedule planned for the 2012 season. Salme outlined her plans for the State League season to ONSW Promotion Director Barbara Hill and ONSW Communications Officer Maggie Jones today in a strategy meeting in Miranda. With string courses for the very youngest, and orienteering fun and games for the under 12's at each State League, the Wildfires are going to be having a great time this season.
Anyone thinking of joining in with the O'Shea 2 days should warm up their computer and get their email entries in. Map numbers will be finalised on Monday and whilst there will be some opportunities for entry on the day these will be limited to the Saturday afternoon event and the Sunday score event. There is no EOD for the night event.
The O'Shea is a great event to start your winter season and you can do it with a buddy. This is a Pairs Event with three races over 2 days, including a Pairs Relay, a Night Line Course and a Score event
- Saturday afternoon is a Pairs Relay with a long and a short leg.
- Saturday night is a Line Course for both or one of the pairs (best time to count) and,
- Sunday morning there is a Score Event
With great prizes on offer you'd be mad to miss it. Get your email entries in now - more details here.
