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Sat 6 Apr 9:00 am
Forest Orienteering and Navigation Skills Day
Smiths Creek Reserve, Campbelltown (meet at Waminda Reserve, Macquarie Av, Campbelltown.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Willan's Hill plus LTO Training session
Lord Baden Powell Drive, Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
2024 Metro League #1 - Appin
Scout Hall, Burke St, Appin

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
NOY1 - Archery Ridge (Elrington)
Archery Ridge (1:10,000)

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Mount Brown
4.5 km on Torryburn Road

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Goldseekers Bush Series #2 - Bridal Track Reserve
Clifton Grove (only a few minutes' drive out of Orange).

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Sat 13 Apr 1:00 pm
Highlands Forest Series #1 - Penrose State Forest
Penrose Forest North, 1:10,000

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Sun 14 Apr 9:30 am
2024 NSW State League #4 - Snow Hills (ACT Classic Series; ACT League #3)
Snows Hill . Mayfield Cross Road, Mayfield. About 1 hour drive south of Goulburn and 1.5 hours east of Canberra

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Sun 14 Apr 2:00 pm
Bluebottles April Camp at Belanglo
Belanglo State Forest.

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Sun 21 Apr 9:30 am
NOY2 - Redgum Ridges (Freemans Waterhole)
 Redgum Ridges 1:10 000

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.


JWOC competition update

Our Junior Elites have been battling through the heat at the JWOC in Slovakia in their first races.  The Sprint on Sunday was around Kosice city centre in 33 degrees of heat which caused some of the runners more problems than what they described as a disappointingly easy course.  Ian Lawford (ACT) had the best of the Sprints for Australia coming 20th in 14:59 but the quality of the field was such that even our lower placed runners were less than 3 minutes behind the winner. Heather Muir (QLD) had a solid effort coming in the top 100 only 3:15 behind winner Tove Alexandersson from Sweden.

Monday saw the Long Distance races contested where weather once again provided more challenges.  Overcast and humid conditions greeted the early runners, whilst later runners had thunder, lightening and heavy rain to contend with.  The Australian juniors fared better in the Long Distance than they had in the Sprint with 7 out of the 10 runner team placing in the top 100.  This was due to the fact that there were few major errors made by the Australians and indeed looking at the splits the team were well prepared with steady starts and generally improving speeds across the latter half of the courses.   This strength and poise in their runs belies the fact that there are a number of new faces on the team this year, and bodes well for future Australian international competitions as these young Elites gain experience at this level.

Long results

Men Women
41 Brodie Nankervis 70 Heather Muir
53 Oliver Poland 82 Amy Buckerfield
59 Ian Lawford 106 Lillian Burrill
75 Oscar McNulty 108 Michele Dawson
95 Alex Massey  
117 Kasimir Gregory  

Sprint results

Men Women
20 Ian Lawford 83 Heather Muir
52 Oscar McNulty 106 Lillian Burrill
64 Oliver Poland 122 Amy Buckerfield
86 Kasimir Gregory mp Michele Dawson
114 Alex Massey  
126 Brodie Nankervis  

The competition continues today with the Middle Distance qualification races - follow the action on-line at http://www.jwoc2012.sk when the races start at 6pm AEST.

 

Intrepid Space Racers not deterred by cold weather

Space Racing at Bicentennial Park this week attracted a set of hardy souls not put off by a little cold weather and a touch of drizzle.  A  group of over 40 children from Maroubra kept the ONSW busy as they helped the youngsters tackle the score course around the park.  Bicentennial Park is a perfect place for Space Racing with it’s beautiful parkland, path networks, lakes and streams and even the odd statue to navigate around.  Quickest around the course was Aidan Dawson, Junior Squad member, in a zippy 18 minutes. With juice still in his legs he joined the efforts of the fellow Junior Squad members, Lawrence  and Georgia Jones, and Daniel Hill as they went out again to shadow and coach some of the younger racers in groups.

 

NSW Junior honoured at PLC, Croydon

Girls receive Australian colours at PLC, CroydonMichele Dawson, newly promoted to the Australian team for the 2012 JWOC in Slovakia was honoured at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney, Croydon, where she is in Year 12.  At a special full school assembly Michele was presented with the school blazer in Australian colours, which she will be entitled to wear to all major school functions.  Michele leaves for Slovakia at the end of June and we wish her and the team the best of luck.

One other girl at PLC was also honoured this year; Josie Nichol is representing Australia in Athletics in the Triple Jump.  Both girls are pictured here (Michele on the right) with Headmaster Dr Paul Burgis. Thanks to PLC for this photo

 

Big point scores at Western Sydney Summer Series opening event

Sydney WestA crowd turned up at the first in the Sydney West Series on Sunday 8th January to enjoy a cool morning run around the scenic suburb of Crestwood.  Chris Crane's carefully planned 45 minute score event gave both experienced and newer runners a chance to gain some big points, and although no-one managed to get all 600 points on offer, there were many who scored over 400.  This was a thinking man's event with even clear decisions about route choices made at the start, being re-evaluated as the 45 minutes ticked away.

The next event in the Sydney West Series is on the 22nd January at Breakfast Creek, Marayong.

 

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