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A number of our best athletes and upcoming juniors travelled to Victoria this weekend to compete in the opening NOL races. Matthew Parton, Josh Blatchford and Rob Preston were all racing in the Men's Open Elite and brought in some good results in a competitive field. Matthew Parton had the best result amongst the men with his 3rd place in the Sprint race, but they were all on their game with Rob Preston's very consistent 5th in both Middle and Long Distance races, and Josh Blatchford bringing home a 7th in the Sprint, 8th in the Middle and 10th in the Long Distance. Alex Massey and Kasimir Gregory were racing in the Men's Junior Elite but never quite got on terms with some of the other Junior Elites who were on fire. Oscar McNulty won the Sprint in a blistering 12:44, missed winning the Middle by a mere minute and won the Long Distance comfortably in 76:24 ahead of Ian Lawford's 82:46.
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Entrants to the first State Leagues of the 2012 season received an email from Big Foot organisers last weekend which read: 'After a site visit this weekend, Big Foot have reluctantly had to postpone State League 1 & 2. Access to the area by 2WD is impractical, and it looks as though this will remain the case for several weeks.
We apologise for the inconvenience that this will no doubt cause.
We will attempt to reschedule the event and will be in touch as soon we have a date. This may take a while, since we have to negotiate with a few land owners, consult the relevant orienteering calendars and sacrifice something to the weather gods.'
Big Foot plan to retain entry fees pending the setting of a replacement date for the events.
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Orienteering NSW launched its new website today and the team at Orienteering NSW are delighted with it. 'It will be much easier to maintain and update, helping us use our time to get the message out to orienteers across the State rather than struggling with infrastructure,' said ONSW Communications officer Maggie Jones. ONSW Promotions Director Barbara Hill agrees. 'The old website was designed in a different era when we did not have a team dedicated to the promotion of the sport in quite the same way. The new website brings new functionality, is much easier to use and we hope will be more stable as we continue to grow as a community.'
Users of the website are reminded to update any bookmarks they may be using.
SHOO held their club event on Sunday at Lake Alexandra, Mittagong. It was the first event after their initial training session for some of the people who are on the new SHOO coaching course and they were keen to have a go at a real event. Uringa came with their exercises on 'Control Flow and Exit Direction' and SHOO joined in to make for a lively pre-event training session.
It is best to adopt the mantra 'Never underestimate a SHOO club event' and course setter Neville Fathers made sure that the Hard course was testing, and a great warm up for the bush season ahead. Ian Jones (Uringa) was on fine form, whistling around in 35:10, well ahead of the next competitor Stephen Wagner (SHOO) some eight minutes behind. SHOO runners John Russell, Val Hodsdon and Corinne Fulford had a good run coming in under 60 minutes. Corinne, who won the SHOO Summer Saturday Series, was mentored around the course by Michael Davis, a great way to develop her orienteering skills as she progresses on bush courses.
SHOO's next bush event is at Appin on April 22.
