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Our partner organisation Bold Horizons took adventure racing another step further with a superb event at Raging Waters on Saturday morning.
Orienteers were granted special access to the Western Sydney theme park (formerly known as Wet n Wild and before that Australia's Wonderland), with a very early start window of 7.30-8.30am and everyone out by 9.30am.
Courses ranged from 1-4km, the highlights of which were the occasional forays into the water features (marked with a blue asterisk).
One of these was a huge bucket that tipped its contents when full (see pic bottom left of Garingal's SI guru Colin Burnett getting dumped on).
Duncan Currie, back from Canberra on uni holidays, sped around the 3.5km Breaker course (actual length closer to 4.9km) in just 22 minutes. Fellow Stinger Toby Wilson blitzed the 3.4km (actual ~4.6km) Cyclone course in 20m37s.
Lyn Malmgron's awesome map contained far more intricacy than was first apparent, using the many cabanas and shade shelters to great effect and the garden beds to create puzzling route choices.
You can see Tony Hill's great photos of the event on Facebook here.
Thanks to Bold Horizons, Raging Waters, the 80+ participants and especially Barbara Hill who conceived and designed the event. This was so much fun.
We're getting very close to being back to normal after the NSW government further relaxed coronavirus restrictions in time for Christmas.
We are now allowed to have up to 3,000 people at outdoor gatherings such as community sport.
Technical Director Andrew Lumsden has revised the ONSW covid-19 safety plan to provide a template that clubs can amend as need be. You can see the pdf version here - but all clubs have the Word doc version for easy editing.
The changes mean we can once again hold presentations.
You can read more in the latest NSW Public Health Order.
(1) Our next Level 0 coaching course will be on Thu Dec 10 from 1-4pm at Sydney Olympic Park.
Level 0 is for people coaching newcomers / children, and will include a brief intro in how to use Purple Pen to set courses.
For people wishing to coach in the Sporting Schools program, it will include the OK-GO kit.
Some parking can be arranged.
(2) Our next Purple Pen course setting workshop will be on Tue Dec 22 at 6.30pm via Zoom.
Please email Jim Mackay (development @ onsw.asn.au) if you are interested in either of these. They are free for orienteering club members.
December is here - which means it's time to renew your membership for 2021- or join one of our friendly clubs.
Members receive discounted entry fees, a subscription to the quarterly Australian Orienteer magazine (opt-in for hard copy is still available) and a range of other benefits - not to mention the collegiality of being a member of a club.
Current members must renew by December 31 or Eventor will add the non-member levy to each entry fee.
If you are not a member but are thinking of joining a club in 2021, you can get the rest of 2020 for free - and thus access members' rates from the moment you join.
If you are upgrading your membership from Casuals NSW to ONSW Club Membership then follow this guide.
Click on the blue links for the benefits of membership, a list of our clubs, how to join, and how to renew.
Family renewals in particular can now be done in a few short steps: see the link for more Renewing Family information. See other Eventor guides at the bottom of the membership web page for details.
