Central Coast women dominate O'Shea weekend

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 21 February 2017 11:42

Ladies first - that's how it panned out at the annual O'Shea 2-Days carnival at the weekend.

This pairs event features 3 races in 18 hours - testing speed, endurance and mental faculties. Saturday afternoon is a relay, Saturday night requires a headlight or torch, and Sunday morning is a team score event.

When lunchtime rolled around on Sunday, locals Georgina Macken and Kirsten Ambler had taken out the Long Pairs, while Julia Prudhoe and husband Paul claimed the honours in the short pairs.

Georgina is a former JWOC and WOC rep originally from Wagga, while Kirsten finished second in the women's section of the recent Central Coast summer series. Their combined time of 2h26m50s was 15 minutes clear of Garingal veterans James Lithgow and Warwick Selby.

Aidan Dawson (GO) was ruing a mispunch in the first race, otherwise he and Big Foot junior Ewan Shingler may have won the cakes.

Their first grandchild has obviously energised the Prudhoes: they pipped clubmates Hilary Wood and Robyn Pallas by four and a half minutes after comfortably winning the opening relay event.

Central Coast also presented 5 people with life memberships. Congratulations to these wonderful servants of orienteering:
Hugh Cameron who founded CCN in 1976 and was Senior Vice-President at the IOF.
Graham Fowler who has made many maps for CCN and continues to do so.
Frank Anderson who initiated the Toukley 2-Day (now the O'Shea 2-Day) as well as the Xmas 5-Days.
Ron Pallas who has always been involved in event organisation at CCN and continues to be prominent in the finish tent at many events.
Robyn Pallas is the only person who is still a member of Central Coast (she joined in 1983). Robyn has done a lot for the club and was very involved with NSW juniors when her daughters were involved.