The Australian Orienteer - March 2016

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Location

1. Sprint

Sat 12th March

NE Melbourne

2. Sprint (WRE)

Sat 12th March

NE Melbourne

3. Sprint

Sun 13th March

Geelong, VIC

4. Sprint

Sun 13th March

Geelong, VIC

5. Elite Prologue (WRE)

Fri 25th March

University Canberra

6. Easter Day 1 - Middle Distance (WRE)

Sat 26th March

Isaacs Ridge, Canberra

7. Easter Day 2 - Long Distance

Sun 27th March

Primrose Valley, ACT

8. Easter Day 2 - Relay

Mon 28th March

Primrose Valley, ACT

9. Middle Distance

Sat 23rd April

Wilpena Pound, SA

10. Ultra Long Distance (WRE)

Sun 24th April

Wilpena Pound, SA

11. Middle Distance

Sat 28th May

St Helens, Tasmania

12. Long Distance (WRE)

Sun 29th May

St Helens, Tasmania

13. AUS Champs - Sprint (WRE)

Sat 24th Sept

Griffith Uni, Southport, QLD

14. AUS Champs - Relay

Sun 25th Sept

Beaudesert, QLD

15. AUS Champs - Long Distance (WRE)

Sat 1st Oct

Stanthorpe, QLD

16. AUS Champs - Middle Distance (WRE)

Sun 2nd Oct

Stanthorpe, QLD

WRE = World Ranking Event

All race details can be found at www.orienteering.asn.au

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

The President’s Page Blair Trewin

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t is the time of year when many of us are looking forward to the start of a new season. Without a January national carnival this year, if you didn’t go to the Xmas 5-Days it’s quite a few months since much has happened in the bush (in most States) and I know I’m itching to get out there again. We will be back into the swing of things quickly, with an early Easter this year. It is pleasing to see about 600 entries for Easter at the time of writing with a month still to go to the final closing date, continuing a positive trend from last year’s major events.

Whilst there hasn’t been much Orienteering in the bush in the last couple of months, we have had another successful Sprint Canberra weekend, allied with a training camp for national squads with an impressively good turnout, especially at the younger end of the squad spectrum. With the loss of high performance funding last year, the event also provided a good opportunity to raise funds to support the program (as I understand it, the proceeds from the event essentially paid for the training camp). We are looking at further fundraising options, and in particular will be looking to raise many more donations through the Australian Sports Foundation, a process which is a lot easier than it used to be now that donations can be taken online.

There weren’t a lot of concrete decisions taken at the OA Conference late last year, but a lot of conversations were started on some big issues. Always at the forefront is what we can continue to do to build participation in Orienteering in Australia, continuing the growth which we have seen in recent years. One of the most worthwhile parts of the Conference was a presentation from Gareth Candy, whom most of you will know as an orienteer, but is also the president of “parkrun” (he emphasised it has a small ‘p’). “parkrun” has seen phenomenal growth since its introduction in Australia a few years ago; for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it is a series of relatively informal and relatively noncompetitive 5km runs which take place every Saturday morning at a multitude of venues around Australia. They have grown from nothing to an average of 18,000 participants per week (and 250,000 on their mailing list). There are a number of keys to their success – part of it is that it’s free, but I think much more important is their non-threatening nature to those who aren’t competitive, and their effective communication (including results sent out on the same day and a weekly national e-mail). We’re

looking to see what we can do to introduce their participation base to Orienteering (there are obvious potential links with our park-street programs), but they also offer a lot of valuable lessons as to how to build participation.

There are certainly plenty of ideas around for State-level projects to boost participation. We had $157,000 in Australian Sports Commission funds available to distribute for next year, and had bids from States covering more than double that amount.

We hope that many of these ideas will bear fruit, as earlier projects have done. I’m particularly interested by the possibilities of an initiative Peter Effeney is leading in Queensland to have something akin to permanent courses where the control locations are shown on a smartphone.

We’ve also started the process of rethinking how we are structured as a sport – both the formal structures within Orienteering Australia, and the relationship between the national body, states and clubs works. Part of the background to this is the financial imbalance between the three levels of the sport; Orienteering Australia has many spending responsibilities but in our current structure has very limited income of its own (most of our income either comes through State Associations, or in the form of Australian Sports Commission grants, most of which are distributed to States), something which is made up for with large transfers of money from State to national level (and in some States, from club to State level). One of the ideas we’ve decided to explore is whether it is feasible to collect memberships at a national rather than State level, and use the revenue to get rid of many of the payments that States currently make to OA (as well as relieve the States of the work of maintaining seven separate membership databases).

There is a lot to look forward to in the season ahead. Easter in Canberra and the Australian Championships in Queensland will be the obvious highlights, but there are also many other interesting events. Two smaller events which I think will be of particular interest will be the Anzac weekend in the Flinders Ranges – even if the National League Ultra-long is not to your taste, orienteering in the Flinders Ranges is something everyone should do at least once in their lives – and the first major-event outing of one of our newest clubs when QB111 takes place in the Coffs Harbour area of NSW. MARCH 2016 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 3

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w w w. o r i e n t e e r i n g . a s n . a u Orienteering Australia PO Box 284 Mitchell ACT 2911 President Blair Trewin Director High Performance Lance Read Director Finance Bruce Bowen Director Technical Jenny Casanova Director Special Projects Robert Spry Director Media & Communications Craig Feuerherdt Director International (IOF Council) Mike Dowling Executive Officer John Harding National MTBO Coordinator Kay Haarsma National Head Coach Nick Dent Badge Applications John Oliver

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STATE ASSOCIATIONS Orienteering Queensland: PO Box 114 Spring Hill QLD 4004. Admin Officer: Tim McIntyre admin@oq.asn.au Orienteering NSW: PO Box 3379 North Strathfield NSW 2137. Admin Officer: John Murray, Ph. (02) 8736 1252 admin@onsw.asn.au Orienteering ACT: PO Box 402 Jamison Centre ACT 2614. Secretary: John Scown, Ph. (02) 6162 3422 orienteering.act@webone.com.au Orienteering Victoria: PO Box 1010 Templestowe VIC 3106. Secretary: Carl Dalheim, voa@netspace.net.au Orienteering SA: State Association House 105 King William St Kent Town SA 5067. Sec: Erica Diment (08) 8379 2914 secretary@sa.orienteering.asn.au Orienteering Western Australia: PO Box 234 Subiaco WA 6094. Secretary: Peter Komyshan o_map@iinet.net.au Orienteering Tasmania: PO Box 339 Sandy Bay TAS 7005. Secretary: Peter Cusick secretary@tasorienteering.asn.au Top End Orienteers (Northern Territory): PO Box 39152 Winnellie NT 0821. Secretary: Susanne Casanova topendorienteersNT@gmail.com

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CONTENTS T H E P R E S I D E N T ’ S PA G E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SPRINT TO THE FUTURE ........................... 6 IOF PRESIDENT REPORT ......................... 11 COACHES-IN-RESIDENCE......................... 12 B L U E S PA R K S T R A I N I N G C A M P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 N U M B AT S TO N O M A D S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 2016 QB111 ........................................ 28 SUNSHINE ORIENTEERS .......................... 30 MAP SCALES ....................................... 32 H Y D R AT I O N F O R E N D U R A N C E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 NUTRITION & LIFESTYLE ......................... 36 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE ........................... 37 NZ MTBO CHAMPIONSHIPS...................... 38 MTBO NEWS & RANKINGS ....................... 40 2 0 1 5 R A N K I N G S & S I LVA M E DA L I S T . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 O-SPY ............................................... 44 TOP EVENTS ........................................ 47

Cover photo: National Sprint Champion, Rachel Effeney, tussles with W10 Sophie Arthur in a Sprint Canberra event at Radford College. Photo: John Harding.

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SPRINT O

SPRINT to the FUTURE Michael Hubbert

Is the Sprint format the most exciting future for Orienteering?

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he IOF seems to think so with plans for the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) program to be split into a Forest WOC and a Sprint WOC in alternate years. The first Sprint WOC will take place in 2020. And certainly the events which were the most enthralling for spectators at the World Championships last year were the Sprint Relay and the individual Sprint Final. Closer to home, we’ve had Melbourne’s “Sprint into Spring” series culminating in the 2015 Victorian Sprint Championships. Then, more recently, “Sprint Canberra” and the “Melbourne Sprint Weekend”, all of which were very well attended and provided excitement for spectators and participants alike.

It’s a popular trend in several sports – short, sharp and exciting. Just look at the record sell-out crowds attending Cricket’s recent Big Bash League and the unexpected popularity of the Women’s BBL. In past years BBL was regarded as just “hit & giggle” but now the spectators are flocking to see it. Soon we’ll see more sports getting in on this trend.

Where does this suggest Orienteering should focus? Clearly we’re not a spectator sport – we’re a participation sport. But at Sprint events our participants are also our spectators. That seems to be the best of both worlds.

The 6-event Melbourne “Sprint into Spring” series attracted an average entry of 139 per event and 173 for the Victorian Sprint Championships, while the 5 events making up “Sprint Canberra” averaged 200 per event.

Sprint O is growing in popularity in Europe and the UK too.

The “UK URBAN LEAGUE 2016” offers 18 races across the UK starting in Edinburgh in January and ending in Norwich in November. The catch phrase is “Fast exciting urban orienteering … “. The first race has been run in Edinburgh and 356 participants took part.

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Head-to-head racing.

Comparing times.

Sprint Canberra – Tara Melhuish.

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SPRINT O

As well, the London City Race is billed as “the world’s largest dedicated urban Orienteering event”. In 2015 it was won by Ralph Street (familiar name?) with 943 participants on 15 courses.

Clearly, Sprint O is coming of age.

How can we improve the Sprint format?

More head-to-head racing, particularly but not only for the Elites, with substantial butterfly loops to prevent following.

There’s nothing like tension and urgency to help focus the mind and butterfly loops early on any given course would allow 2 or 3, or even 4, runners to start off together on the same course but with each having to navigate a different sequence of loops. And, a common last loop or route to the Finish would raise excitement even further with the potential for head-to-head tussles right to the end. This head-to-head racing will help hone both fitness and navigation skills.

We need to create many more maps suitable for Sprint. Use of several butterfly loops on courses will allow more smaller complex mapped areas to be used and, if we place common controls within sight of spectators at the arena, we will create more excitement for participants and spectators alike. And the common last loop to the Finish creates even more spectator involvement.

Seed the Elites To add to the excitement and entertainment entrants in the four Elite classes at major Sprint events could be seeded by the National Head Coach. Other sports (like Tennis) seed competitors to ensure the top seeds don’t meet each other in the early rounds.

In Sprint O we would do the exact opposite with the top seeds starting together in groups. Seeds #1, #2, #3 and possibly #4 would start together in a group with each having to run the

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Sprint Canberra – Ralph Street.

Hill climb to The Echidna.

butterfly loops in a different order. Seeds #5, #6, #7 and #8 would start off together in a second group, and so on. If the seeding is correct the top seed in each group should leave the last common control in the lead – but will they? And by how much?

Group starts, butterfly loops and common spectator controls will create far more excitement than the individual timed runs we use today, and our radio commentators at major Sprint events will have something really entertaining to cover. And also, a largish field of competitors can be started off in a very short time span.

Group starts are needed.

UK Urban League.

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SPRINT O

Other classes would not be seeded but they can still be started off in similar groups.

Where can we find these smaller complex areas?

We don’t have the smaller villages and towns with complex lanes, alleyways and cul-de-sacs that the Europeans find so useful for their Sprint events. But, perhaps some of the schools maps being created in the Sporting Schools program can be used as a base for re-mapping with greater complex detail to Sprint map standard to become suitable for Sprint events. Though most will be small areas, careful course setting with butterfly loops and common controls for spectator viewing could well provide what we need for an expanded Sprint program. And the more of these Sprint maps that we create the less familiarity participants will gain with the maps and terrains.

That’s important – Sprint will fail if participants get too familiar with the maps on offer.

Sprint into Spring jersey winners.

Sprint Canberra: Milla Key, Rachel Effeney & Sophie Arthur.

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IOF PRESIDENT

2016 Australian Orienteering Championships Carnival

A Truly Global Sport

Gold Coast to Granite Belt South East Queensland

Brian Porteous (IOF President)

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K, I confess, as I look out of my window at the snow in the garden, I do find it difficult to remember that for parts of the world it is the middle of summer. Equally, I do believe I would find it difficult, as one of my sons did, to tuck into Christmas turkey on Bondi Beach with the temperature over 30! What a great world we live in – a world with huge potential for the sport of Orienteering.

Our cherished ambition in the IOF is for us to get into the Olympic Games, winter or summer, and we can only do that if we are fully recognised as a global sport.

The globalisation of the sport of Orienteering from its European roots has been an important personal focus and mission of mine since I became a senior IOF official back in 2002. Consequently, it has been really exciting for me to see the family grow to 80 member countries on all continents (excluding Antartica) and it has also been exciting to see the four disciplines developing according to the geographical potential of different countries. Your considerable activity and success in Mountain Bike Orienteering is an excellent example of the potential of our sport beyond our foot Orienteering foundations.

The commitment of Australian Orienteering to the global growth of the sport has been of real importance. Not only do you support world level events by, on most occasions, travelling huge distances to participate, not only have you provided many senior officials to support the IOF Council, Commissions and major events activity but you have also committed to hosting many major IOF events in Australia showing that we have world level events activity beyond Europe. All this activity and support is vital to our globalisation goals and I thank you for all that you have done and will continue to do in this respect.

I am very grateful indeed to receive The Australian Orienteer on a regular basis and I do read it with great interest especially because it shows so well the strength and vibrancy of the sport in Australia.

May I wish you all a successful and enjoyable 2016.

September 24 to October 2 For more information and updates visit www.auschamps2016.com

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COACHING Photo: Tony Hill

Coaches-in-Residence The idea for offering scholarships to visiting coaches began in the ACT several years ago and in 2013 Orienteering ACT provided a coaching scholarship to young Swiss orienteer Lukas Funk. The success of this initiative encouraged OACT to continue the programme and in 2014 they hosted another young Swiss Lukas Frei. Other States took up the idea and a number of other applicants found coaching position around the country.

In 2015-16 OACT is hosting two coaches-in-residence - Theo Fleurent from France and Emil Granqvist from Sweden.

Orienteering Victoria has followed the trend with Ralph Street and Peter Bray, both from Britain, spending around six months in that State and Orienteering Tasmania is hosting Christoph Prunsche from Germany.

We asked these visiting coaches-in-residence to briefly describe their coaching programs.

In ACT, Theo and Emil arrived in September/October and plan to stay until Easter. Providing host families was a major exercise with OACT looking for around 15 families to welcome the visitors into their homes for 2-4 week periods. It was described as a fantastic opportunity for orienteering families to polish their French or Swedish language and culinary skills combined with top in-house coaching sessions.

Theo Fleurent takes up the story: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coming to Canberra for our northern winter was a great idea so far. After finishing my bachelor degree in Sports Science & Coaching in June, I was looking for a first job experience as well as an 12 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2016

opportunity to travel. This ACT scholarship was just the perfect opportunity. I arrived there in mid-September, and had a first touch of Australian orienteering at the AUS Championships Carnival in Ballarat while being welcomed by lot of people. In October the work started in Canberra.

I was busy a lot but with plenty of great activities for an orienteering addict as me. A bit of mapping, workshops for beginner or moderate prior to club public events, orienteering training during the weekend, a training weekend in the beautiful Namadgi area, and lot of interventions in schools with the Sporting Schools program. Time was left to discover beautiful Canberra surroundings by foot, by bike, by car, or with a compass in the hand. End of October Emil arrived from Sweden.

Sporting Schools and trainings were still on, and we also helped organizing SC-ORE, a small relay event for kids, ACT Primary Schools Champs, Blue Sparks Weekend near Braidwood, NSW, and holding some armchair courses about mapping, GPS analysis or course setting. On top of that, the intervals training group on Tuesdays was successful, training maps were prepared for Twilight events every Wednesday evening and couple of promotional events for orienteering organized.

Emil at Majura.

Beside this first job experience, it was also a good way to discover more about Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s educational system, orienteering development, and lifestyle. Indeed we were hosted by club families during these months, a great way to confront Australian lifestyle thanks to them. So far it has all be great.

A great promotion for Orienteering in schools with happy teachers and students, successful trainings with more than 30 people sometimes, and a lot of fun for us. I hope for Canberra orienteers too!

February 2016 will be the beginning of activities again, with Easter Carnival to train for. Plenty of good trainings in sight for sure.

Example of training: Keep it simple in Honeysuckle Creek

Theo & Emil explain some points.

The aim of this training is to navigate with a simplified map.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good way of practising compass skills, to get used to not reading everything and to figure out that you can still find controls pretty easily with only big features. For this training I just left the important features that I thought would be important to find the controls. Then the runners had the opportunity to do another course where they would draw what they thought was important for them while simplifying the map.

Training group at Rowdy Flat

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Peter Bray at Sprint into Spring;

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Ralph Street at Sprint into Spring.

Maze-O training.

In Victoria, Ralph Street and Peter Bray arrived in September. Ralph ran the Relay for GB at WOC in August last year and has been coaching in Sweden for two years. He recently ran a PB of 31:07.6 for 10,000 metres on the track.

Peter is a dynamic 23 year-old who got a top-20 at JWOC and is a passionate and articulate coach. Ralph and Peter take up the narrative: We arrived in Australia just before the carnival at the end of September. This was a really great set of races and allowed us to meet many useful contacts for the months ahead. We also got to talk to the Victorian Schools Team and give them some help and encouragement for their races.

Once back in Melbourne we began with our coaching programme. We organised a series of six weekday evening activities that involved physical as well as technical challenges.

These were for all age groups and we did some “normal” orienteering as well as some specific exercises. We measured the progression of people over the course of the training sessions using a test called O 400s which is also used by the Swiss National Squad for talent identification. Everybody who took part improved.

So far we have also organised three training days, a training camp lasting six days, and three training sessions after some of the Sprint into Spring races. We got a range of ages and abilities

to these which is exactly what we were aiming for. Each session had a specific aim for people to try and achieve - including sprint corridors and simplification challenges.

One of the most fun and rewarding experiences we have had was doing a day of coaching for primary school children who had recently started orienteering. The children invited to this day were selected from the Primary School Championships that we also assisted at. We had two sessions during the day, one in a park and one in a school. It was great to see so many new families enjoying orienteering.

Our first three months, prior to the Christmas break, culminated in a six-day training camp in Beechworth, northeast Victoria. The camp was open to all and included a range of specific exercises. Saturday and Sunday saw our most attendees and they were treated to some tough exercises on “Rowdy Flat” and “Kangaroo Crossing”. With help from Warren Key, we focused upon breaking down navigational techniques to the basics as well as exit directions and down-hill diagonal legs. We had a good core of JWOC and WOC hopefuls as well as a couple of interstaters.

In February we shall be changing our base from Melbourne to Bendigo. This will allow us to work more closely with the many orienteers that live there and mean that more Victorians benefit from our time here. We have been staying with and surrounded by really passionate Orienteering families and it has been great to have them around to tell us all about Australian orienteering and for us to help them out with different training ideas.

So far we’ve loved being a part of Australian Orienteering and will be very sad to leave in March. We look forward to packing in as much as possible in our time remaining.

Peter Bray explains a training exercise.

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COACHING

Christoph Prunsche at WOC 2015

Christoph Prunsche arrived in Tasmania after running for Germany at 2015 WOC in Scotland. Christoph gives us his impressions of Tasmanian Orienteering: The work as an Orienteering coach here in Tassie is amazing – not just because of beautiful terrains like “Pittwater” and the breathtaking landscape, but also because of all the young and keen runners and all the friendly orienteers in general. Compared to Germany, which is a very urbanized country, the Tasmanian landscape is just breathtaking and so is doing Orienteering here.

My tasks as an Orienteer-in-Residence in Hobart cover different areas: the main focus is on organizing weekly Orienteering training (and also some running training, like intervals) for the juniors which is planned to help them develop different Orienteering techniques. Therefore the focus of each training is different and ranges from corridor-O to sprint intervals or relaytrainings.

Moreover I do Orienteering courses at some of the Hobart schools in order to get the school kids used to Orienteering and maybe even get some of them to join one of the Orienteering events every week. At these events, organized every Wednesday, I am helping as well, e.g. by collecting controls or giving some advice to newcomers. Sharing some of my experiences in Orienteering, especially when it comes to running a JWOC or generally doing Orienteering in Europe is part of my job here as well.

Besides that I helped to organize a training camp together with Brodie Nankervis for the Tasmanian Juniors in St. Helens, another great experience! We had some very good training days and a lot of fun together. Once again it is hard to not be jealous of all the beautiful Tasmanian forests, especially up in St. Helens. Back home in Germany most forests are not as technically demanding as here, because we have heaps of roads going through them, while during our training camp I was running on a road maybe twice – just like it should be!

Training group at Bicheno.

Pittwater Corridor.

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As I really enjoy my time here in Tasmania I hope that the trainings I organize help the juniors to develop their Orienteering skills and that some of them will make it into this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JWOC team â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they really deserve it! To give something back to the Tasmanian orienteers I will organize a competition weekend in February with different kinds of relay competitions, including a sprint relay, some team competition at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pittwaterâ&#x20AC;? and a (hopefully) legendary beer relay.

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COACHING

Blue Sparks Training Camp Theo Fleurent, ACT Scholar & French Coach, (with David Poland, ACT)

Microsprints Rally’O How to offer different training levels at the same event.

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he location was picturesque but the task I was given was a real coaching challenge.

The 9th annual ACT Blue Sparks Camp was attracting the usual mix of families from ACT and NSW with some flying from as far as Coffs Harbour to attend. The setting near Braidwood, NSW, was magical – a peaceful valley with a spectacular gorge. The challenge however was to set a training event suitable for all standards – young kids, teenagers, parents and even elite orienteers!

MicroSprint night tournament.

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Group prepares.

Having recovered from the previous eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awesome Microsprint Night Tournament, it was time on Sunday morning to confront the Rallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;O. As in a car rally you have untimed connections between short special sections: the Microsprints.

Fern Gully Diggings Microsprint #1.

Microsprint is a very short course on a large scale detailed map. No control descriptions are provided, just a dot in the middle of the circle to indicate where the control is. The map which covered an area only 75m by 75m is made especially for the occasion. The difficulty varies with your speed. Fast is hard,

Fern Gully Diggings Microsprint #2.

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COACHING

Navigating by aerial photo.

Aerial MicroSprint #3

slow is easier. So the Microsprint can be an excellent exercise for elites working at high speed to fine tune map reading and understanding on the go. It is also good for kids with a small area and short courses – challenging but not difficult when done at your own pace. And for both groups it was lots of fun for sure! This small exercise is used a lot by the French teams, often at the end of a technical training.

Six Microsprints were scheduled on three different maps and an aerial photography all linked together by “connection courses”. The “connections” between these Microsprints were exercises - corridor, simplified map, following a line, contours-

only, or windows. These “connections” could be run in a small group, whereas the timed Microsprint sessions were done solo.

Extra loops during the “connections” were available for those who wanted longer training. To increase the difficulty parts of the map were “faded” to different degrees – beginners’ maps had minor fading, moderate maps had significant fading and elite maps had blank sections. For the common loop the navigation was easy which gave kids as young as 8 a nice introduction to the concept of training exercises such as the corridor or simplified map.

Microsprint #4

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Microsprint #5

Advanced orienteers (parents and teenagers) really enjoyed the Microsprints for the confrontation and the funny format.

Kids had a buzz from running on the same course as the adults and for finding lots of controls in a short period.

Use of aerial photography as an alternative Orienteering map is fun and can easily be done in open and semi-open areas. It is useful when there are no maps from the area and you still want to do some Orienteering training. It gives the runner something new, forcing him/her to look up at the terrain and not focus always on the paper.

The training session lasted a couple of hours, offering fun and challenge to both beginner and confirmed orienteer! And definitively we had a good reason to take a well-deserved swim after that! The Finish was located at a waterhole known locally as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sydney Harbourâ&#x20AC;?.

Microsprint #6

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Group bonding.

Young mappers.

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JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT

Numbats to Nomads Jan Fletcher

Lily McFarlane

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he Numbats are the latest incarnation of Orienteering WAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Junior Development Squad. Participation in this squad will prepare our juniors for national events and help them learn the skills they will need when they step up to become Western Nomads. The formation and naming of the group came about through a different process than that used with earlier groups.

In late 2013, after a singularly unsuccessful attempt to arouse interest in the formation of a squad for school aged orienteers in the 9-17 age range through general advertising, and with the number of junior orienteers in WA worryingly low, we decided to use a more personal approach. All coaches provided the coaching convenor with the names of junior orienteers who showed motivation and promise and whom they knew through club groups or work in schools. The convenor then wrote a personal letter to each. The letter indicated that they had been nominated by a coach for the squad and invited them to a BBQ to discuss what this could involve. Thirty-five letters went out and thirty juniors responded indicating interest. The rest is history.

The group came up with six possible names for their squad, and voted on these. While suggested names of Junior Nomads and Dugites (a snake well-known in WA) were favoured by some,

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Jo Anna Maynard â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1st, 2015 AUS Senior Schools Sprint

AUS Relay-M12-Shaun Richards, Riley McFarlane, Kynen Neill

they were equally hated by others. The name Numbats was the second choice for nearly all who voted, and so the Numbats they became. They chose a racing shirt over other possible clothing items to be their identifying gear and chose the distinctive shirt that is now associated with our top Juniors. In 2015 the school team that represented WA in the Australian Schools Championships was comprised entirely of Numbats.

At the Schools events most of our Juniors wore their State Schools shirt, not their Numbats shirt. There are some similarities as both have yellow and black as major colours. The Numbats

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shirt does, however, have what looks like an orange flame moving up the shirt and has the Numbats logo on the left breast.

There is kudos in being a Numbat as any junior who wants to be a member has to be able to complete their age-appropriate course successfully and independently as well as be nominated by a coach. The distinctive shirts also help Numbats from across clubs, including our country members, identify someone easy to approach for social interaction after events. With what appears to be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;critical massâ&#x20AC;? of juniors we are hopeful that the Numbats will continue to prosper.

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Numbat achievements at the 2015 AUS Championships are: Jo Anna Maynard

1st - AUS Schools Senior Sprint; 1st - AUS Schools Senior Long Distance; 8th - AUS Sprint W16; 9th - AUS Middle Distance W16

Rianna Pocsidio

16th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AUS Schools Senior Sprint; 24th - AUS Schools Senior Long Distance

Bo Davie

19th - AUS Schools Senior Sprint; 19th - AUS Schools Senior Long Distance; 19th - AUS Sprint W17-20E; 2nd - AUS Middle Distance W17-20A

Michaela Maynard

7th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 10th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 1st - AUS Sprint W14; 8th - AUS Middle Distance W14; 8th - AUS Long Distance W14

Hannah Schnell

21st - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 30th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 16th - AUS Sprint W16

Lily McFarlane

25th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 29th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 12th - AUS Middle Distance W14; 22nd - AUS Long Distance W14

Sarah Richards

27th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 33rd - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 8th - AUS Sprint W12 8th - AUS Middle Distance W12; 11th - AUS Long Distance W12

Skye McMullen

33rd - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 32nd - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 5th - AUS Sprint W12; 4th - AUS Middle Distance W12; 10th - AUS Long Distance W12

Oliver Martin

23rd - AUS Schools Senior Sprint; 35th - AUS Schools Senior Long Distance; 18th - AUS Middle Distance M16; 22nd - AUS Long Distance M16

Joel McMullen

18th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 26th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 2nd - AUS Sprint M14; 9th - AUS Middle Distance M14; 6th - AUS Long Distance M14

Edward Finnie

25th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 31st - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 25th - AUS Sprint M16; 33rd - AUS Middle Distance M16; 30th - AUS Long Distance M16

Shaun Richards

32nd - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 40th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 6th - AUS Sprint M12 12th - AUS Middle Distance M12; 8th - AUS Long Distance M12

Jordan Neill

35th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 38th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance

Mason Eves

36th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 39th - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 13th - AUS Middle Distance M12

Kane Moore

39th - AUS Schools Junior Sprint; 41st - AUS Schools Junior Long Distance; 16th - AUS Sprint M14; 24th - AUS Long Distance M14

Riley McFarlane

8th - AUS Sprint M12; 7th - AUS Middle Distance M12; 7th - AUS Long Distance M12

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Jo Anna Maynard.

Joel McMullen.

Rianna Pocsidio.

Bo Davie.

2015 AUS Sprint - Joel McMullen(2nd M14) & Michaela Maynard (1st W14).

Michaela Maynard.

Jo Anna Maynard - 1st Senior Schools Long Distance.

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hen our young family moved to Coffs Harbour eight years ago, we felt that it had everything … mountains, forests, rivers, beaches, climate, rainfall, lifestyle, schools, work, waterfalls, everything … except Orienteering! Which, at the time, we decided we would just have to do without.

However, we were unaware that Orienteering NSW was making plans, and just over two years ago, Orienteering arrived in Coffs Harbour … so now Coffs Harbour, officially, has “everything”!

Our club was formed by an assortment of individuals and families, from orienteers with decades of experience, to those who had never heard of it before but put their hands up anyway. We have run two winter and two summer seasons, with all sorts of events: line, score, scatter, street, wheelchair-friendly and mountain bike events. With enormous support from ONSW, we have introduced over 400 people to Orienteering in our region. Now, we are coming of age, and warmly invite you to join us, and see what is so fantastic about Orienteering in Coffs Harbour!

Our Team and Maps We have combined an experienced team of mappers – Andrew Lumsden, Alex Tarr and Rob Vincent, and a great team of course setters and controllers – Bruce Meder, Tony Howes, Tony Woolford, Andrew Lumsden, Rob Vincent and Jenny Hawkins, with some exciting new terrain – a university campus, very runnable State forest with tricky detail in the gullies, and intricate sand dunes within ‘cooee’ of our historic Jetty.

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June is one of our “colder” months, yet we can still offer you mean daytime temperatures of 19.4 degrees, with the minimum at 9.1 degrees. We average 6.6 hours per day of sunshine, and usually less than 6% of our annual rainfall falls in June. You will find our vegetation lush green, our skies blue, our sands golden and our smiles sunny.

Things to do and Places to Stay Coffs Harbour is a tourist destination in its own right. There are unique tourist attractions such as the Butterfly House, the Bunker Cartoon Gallery, the Big Banana Fun Park, Dolphin Marine Magic and the Solitary Islands Aquarium; natural beauty in abundance with 40km of stunning beaches, 11 national parks and 37 State forests and nature reserves brimming with wildlife and waterfalls, and mighty rivers offering white water rafting, sedate canoeing, fishing, photography and bushwalking. We have the complete range of accommodation options: camping, cabins, self-contained family units, B&B’s and luxury resorts. There are a couple of great restaurant strips with family dining, fine dining and international cuisine.

Queen’s Birthday 3 Day Our carnival will start on Saturday with a Sprint event at the Coffs Harbour Education Campus (CHEC), a 5-minute drive from Coffs Harbour airport, so if you are flying in from Sydney or Melbourne, this will be easy to coordinate. CHEC is a lovely campus, with buildings radiating out at all sorts of odd angles, surrounded by some sizeable hills and a little bushland. In a first for the QBIII, we will be offering a wheelchair-friendly course on this day.

On Sunday we move 50 minutes north to the Bom Bom State Forest, just south of Grafton. The Grafton contingent of our club will be out in force to help with this event. The

Tony Woolford.

Alex Tarr.

Long Distance event will include some long legs over the broad runnable spurs and gullies of this area, some of it crisscrossed with mountain bike tracks. There will be activities on offer in the afternoon and evening for families, younger juniors, older juniors and seniors – watch for our social functions.

Why Come to QBIII this year?……

The jewel in the crown will be on Monday, when we return to the heart of Coffs Harbour’s Jetty area, and test our navigation in the Boambee Dunes – a narrow strip of forested dunes adjacent to a stunning 6km long beach. The Start area will have a most magnificent view, before sending you off into this “unmissably good” terrain (according to Rob Vincent, our overall controller).

• Enjoy the company and camaraderie of an Orienteering carnival;

• Support our young club; • Support the promotion of Orienteering on the Coffs Coast; • Come and see this beautiful part of the world;

• 3 high quality events in 3 days; • …it’ll be fun !!!

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Combine this with a young and enthusiastic orienteering club, some new top-class orienteering maps, and you have your perfect winter getaway.

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SUNSHINE ORIENTEERS

Sunshine Orienteers Club Inc! Deb Gordon

Who are we? A diverse group of people with a common interest in Navigation.

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ur backgrounds, ages and walks of life are so varied that conversations are never dull. The atmosphere at an event is quite vibrant. There are kids, families, singles and competitors with differing agendas. There are snags on the BBQ, well earned cakes or strawberries and cream. There are big smiles on faces at the end of an event even if they’re covered in mud.

Sunshine Orienteers was originally just a foot-O club but as the environment lends itself more to cycling, we now have a heavier lean towards MTBO events. We still have a strong contingent of foot competitors attending events elsewhere.

We are based on the northern side of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. The Glasshouse Mountains feature on our jerseys because the majority of our events are held in and around this area. The pine forest plantations offer an intricate network of tracks, trails and roads that are ideal for mountain biking and often the views of the Glasshouse Mountains distract you from the job at hand.

Putting an event on is an onerous task both on the day and particularly in the months leading up to it. A few years ago the burden of bringing events together fell on the shoulders of just a few. Club membership was low, so this was addressed and since then there has been a steady increase in members.

Sunshine Orienteers are embracing the challenges 2016 will bring. A couple of our members are the event organisers at the Australian foot-O Championships. It is our club’s turn to host the Queensland MTBO Championships and another member from our club is an organiser for the World Rogaining Championships.

Increased Participation: Recreation Course Three years ago the club identified that “Come and Try” events were inefficient so it was decided to offer a shorter, less physically and navigationally challenging line course.

It was called the “Recreation Course” and was run in conjunction with a normal race day. It was integral in attracting more women, children and novices. It has since became apparent that novices come in all different ability levels so we have been trialling a 90min Score course with extra controls for this group. This also offers competitors with a lower level of fitness a satisfying option. This is proving to be very popular. This course is 90mins and is a blanket $25 for members and non-members. A family discount does apply.

The increased participation is mostly due to the friendly and welcoming nature of the Sunshine Orienteering team plus the introduction of a Recreation course and lately the 90min and 3-hour Score events.

Last year we had 125 members, we ran four State MTBO events, two Foot events and helped out at the QLD MTBO Championships.

The past and current team are meticulous operators who take a lot of pride in putting forward exceptional events. This year our aim is to spread the load wider to give the current committee some well-earned breaks.

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Filming for Totally Wild TV feature.

Grace Ker, Teague & Luke Dang.

Luke Dang showing off.

3-Hour MTBO Nav Challenge One of our members, after competing in a Cyclegaine event, realised that when we run a MTBO event we have a lot of controls hanging randomly in the forest. This waste was put to good use and the 3-hour MTBO Nav Score was born. This has proven to be a masterstroke as we are getting a good name amongst the adventure race fraternity for providing

Jennie Hill & Bernie Nichols.

them with a good quality training exercise. Competitors in this event can join a club and only pay $25 to compete in a 3-hour race.

“Totally Wild” One hot December morning last year, twenty of our club members joined the Channel 10 “Totally Wild” crew and host Kellyn Morris to showcase the sport of Mountain Bike Orienteering. Although tiring, most of the kids really enjoyed the experience. The shows’ target audience is for kids who love animals, enjoy action and have an adventurous spirit.

The episode will be shown in March this year.

Christmas party Every year we have a break-up party, which seems to be getting bigger and better each year. This last Xmas we were put into teams, armed with a water pistol and had to find poker cards which had been strategically placed in the Wooroi State Forest. Lots of fun, great food and good times were had by all.

Happy Anniversary

Jo Rogers & Mike Moynihan.

Two of our life members who have been integral in the inception and running of our club since 1999 are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary in January this year.

Congratulations to Gordon and Cath Howitt.

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Neil Ker after heavy rain at the 2015 Queensland Champs.

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MAPPING

Map Scales Eric Andrews – Chair, OA Technical Committee

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he topic of larger scales for Bush Orienteering maps has been discussed at workshops and in Orienteering circles in Australia for a long time. I have even found an Orienteering Australia (OA) Technical Paper distributed in February 2006 in which larger scales for maps were discussed and supported.

The IOF published a document a few years ago, titled Check List for Controlling the Map Making of Major Events. In part, it stated that the need for LEGIBILITY is above ALL other requirements. After all, Orienteering is about running navigation, not stopping to peer at the map trying to read the detail. This document was distributed to all IOF Event Advisers at the time.

Also, the following excerpts from the IOF publication, International Specifications for Orienteering Maps 2000 are relevant;

Generalization and Legibility “Selective generalization is the decision as to which features should be presented on the map. Two important considerations contribute to this decision, the importance of the feature from a runner’s point of view and its influence on the legibility of the map. These two considerations will sometimes be incompatible, but the demand for legibility MUST never be reduced in order to present an excess of small details and other features.”

Scale “The scale for Bush Orienteering maps is 1:15,000. Terrain that cannot be field worked at a scale of 1:7,500 and legibly presented at a scale of 1:15,000 is not suitable for major Orienteering events.

A 1:10,000 map is an enlargement of a 1:15,000 map.”

In my 28 years of making Orienteering maps, I have only ever encountered a couple of small areas that would fit into the category of being unmappable. Of course, there are terrains which are unsafe but that is a different issue.

Selecting An Area to Map For major events, such as the Australian 3-Days or the Australian Championships, where several of the races are considered to be World Ranking Events (WRE), an experienced mapper should be involved in the selection of the terrain. Even if using an old map, the decision whether to remap or not should be based on the advice of an experienced mapper.

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If the advice given is to remap part of, or all of an old map, then this MUST be done. Short circuiting this process can be the start of mapping problems.

These decisions must be made at least two years in advance of the event, so that mapping can be completed and, if proposing to use digital printing, then a trial print of each map can be printed and sent to the OA Mapping Officer, who may have to send it on to the IOF Mapping Commission when the map is to be used for a WRE. The IOF Mapping Commission is asking for at least one year’s notice for such a request.

Once a draft map has been made, the organising club should arrange for thorough field checking. This is a good chance for the course planner and controller to check on the legibility, runnability and most interesting parts of the map and even make early decisions where the best areas are for the junior and senior courses.

I received these comments in a recent Event Controllers Report for a National Event: “A very legible map of high quality was produced by the mapper through appropriate generalisation and careful cartography and the willingness to check any suggestions for improvements made by the course planner and controller in time for their incorporation into the final map.”

If concentration was focused on the end product in plenty of time to fix up errors, our events would usually end up with quality maps.

Where the terrain is quite detailed, then a trial print should be arranged to check the legibility. Could the cartography have been done better? Maybe the solution is to find a better cartographer to do the job. You might consider that this is too severe an action.

A small portion of three well known granite maps in Australia are depicted. The first two require more generalisation and less clutter, because many of the mapped features cannot be described, or clearly read on the run, especially Map 2. Map 3 is saved by having some good contour options as control sites.

Map 4 is shown with a few controls overprinted to demonstrate how careful course planning can overcome some of the problems created by the field work.

Now, after all that, is there really a need to rush off and change the map scale when there are alternative strategies that could be applied to make maps more legible. Because, on current evidence in Australia, we produce readable and well printed maps for most of our events, with even international competitors being very happy with these and our general technical standards.

We can fix this ourselves without having to ask the IOF Map Commission for permission to change map scales, as they are most likely to refuse our request.

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However, a strong decision at this point could ensure that you have a clear and legible map as the end product, provided the fieldworker/cartographer is open to mentoring.

Once courses are progressed, then it is time for the Event Controller to ensure that the interests of the orienteers are given top priority. As well as checking that the courses meet the standard principles for course planning, courses for juniors must be feasible and safe. Courses for senior orienteers should keep them away from too much climb (max 3.5%) too much thick vegetation, broken ground and controls sited in a sea of detail.

Regular courses should avoid unnecessary climb, unsafe areas and attempts at trickery. Remember that foot Orienteering is about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;running navigationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Next comes the map printing. Either the Course Planner or the Event Controller should attend the printing of the maps. During the map printing, maps should be taken outside into the daylight to check their readability.

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COACHING

Hydration for Endurance Performance Hanny Allston

We have all heard that our bodies are comprised of mostly water. A 60kg individual is composed of around 48kg of water in which all their body’s biochemistry will take place. Water has a number of other functions in the body - evaporative cooling, glycogen storage and maintaining electrolyte balances. The loss of even a small proportion of this fluid (ie. 2% of body weight) can significantly reduce body functions and for athletes, performance. It can also be life threatening. When we consider that this is only 1.2 litres in our 60kg athlete, we begin to realize how significant the process of optimal hydration is.

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60kg adult at rest will consume around 0.2 litres of oxygen per minute, generating 70 watts of heat output. However, when running at threshold, oxygen consumption can increase 16 times and heat output rises to 1100 watts. The only way that this heat can be lost rapidly is through evaporative cooling, otherwise known as sweating. Sweating involves the loss of large amounts of fluid from the skin’s surface, which is then wicked away by air resulting in body cooling. In hot conditions it would take our 60kg individual around 1.5-2.0 litres of sweat to remove this excess heat.

Glycogen Storage Replacing fluid lost through sweat and urine is not the only justification for the importance of hydration. Glycogen or stored muscle carbohydrate is the body’s main source of energy.

However, fixing 1gm of carbohydrate into the muscles in the form of glycogen requires 3gm of water, ie. a 3:1 ratio of water to carbohydrate. This is one reason why you can often feel thirsty following a carbohydrate-rich meal. With this in mind, fluid is critical during times of recovery and taper. If you are focusing on carbo-loading but not drinking adequate amounts you can actually risk pulling extra water from the blood stream into the GI Tract. This can result in dehydration. Therefore, fluid is critical for replacing sweat and urine losses, but also for glycogen storage before and after exercise.

As you heat up, the body begins to enter survival mode.

Are there other reasons important to remain hydrated?

As you heat up, the body begins to enter survival mode. Rather than shunting blood to the working muscles, your blood stream prioritizes blood flow to the skin and vital organs. The reduced blood flow to the GI Tract makes the digestion of complex drinks and nutrition difficult, and as a result people often begin to experience stomach upsets and nausea. During such periods of stress, your breathing and heart rates will increase, and your general efficiency takes a dramatic nose-dive. Under these additional stressors, your body temperature will start to rise, resulting in stress to the brain. Clarity of thinking will decrease, 34 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2016

your ability to assess your body state becomes compromised (runner’s often complain of feeling cold when they overheat) and you may begin to feel disorientated. All sound like great things to avoid when racing!

So should I just guzzle water?

When we sweat and excrete urine, we don’t just lose fluids but also vital minerals. The main ingredient in sweat is sodium that is lost at a rate of 1-2gm per litre. Other minerals that are lost are calcium, magnesium, potassium and chloride, although these are generally lost in much, much smaller quantities. Therefore, to replace fluid losses an electrolyte drink is far better than drinking pure water and the focus should turn to sodium.

Why not water?

Are you putting the energy gels in but not receiving the ‘kick’?

Over prolonged periods of heavy sweating, an individual can lose significant amounts of sodium. The combination of drinking pure water and sweating can cause a dilution of the concentration of sodium in the blood. This can begin to impair many of our normal physiological processes, including the transport of fluid and glucose across cellular membranes. That’s right, a lack of sodium can inhibit the transport of glucose into the working muscles’ cells.

Conversely, a cool, damp day will require lower fluid quantities to be consumed. The best way to determine how much you should drink is to monitor your body weight before and after training runs under a range of different weather conditions. For example, on a 20-degree day you may find that in 1 hour of exercise you loose 1kg. This then equates to 1litre/hour of exercise under such conditions. On a hot, humid 30-degree day this may increase to 2kg during the hour. Therefore, you would be losing 2litre/ hour. The most important rule of hydration is to drink what your stomach can tolerate and the best way to find this out is to know your losses then practice, practice, practice!

Conclusion

Another good reason for opting for an electrolyte drink is that the use of sodium is known to promote thirst. This is often the reason why pubs serve salty, greasy food as it will generate greater drinks sales. And finally, when electrolytes, particularly sodium, are present in appropriate concentrations, the rate of fluid absorption from the small intestine into the rest of the body is enhanced. This is particularly important to consider when we are racing at intense levels with few possibilities to drink.

Are electrolyte drinks made equal?

The simple answer is NO!! Many sports drinks market themselves as the best on the market, and yet are made by soft drink companies such as Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Beverages such as Gatorade are literally pumped full of simple sugars that are very foreign to the small intestine under stress. In fact, the presence of the sugar that remains dormant in the GI Tract can create a net movement of fluid from the blood stream back into the gut, resulting in stomach distress and dehydration. Therefore, sports drinks based around the medical principles for oral rehydration are perfect. Complexes such as Shotz Electrolyte that are tablets dissolved in adequate water are proven to initiate rehydration even under the most stressful environments. These beverages contain a high concentration of sodium and minimal traces of the other elements. This is important because often sports drinks are pumped full of magnesium which also happens to be the first ingredient in all laxatives! Watch out for the heavily marketed brands, as these tend to be the worst for tummy-disrupting ingredients.

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Hanny Allston – 5th 2015 WOC Sprint Final.

The good news about running in hot weather is that you can teach your body to adapt. Learning about how much sweat you lose during training and beginning to replace these with an advanced electrolyte formula will make a world of difference to your training & racing performances. Recently I conducted a sweat test for Shotz at the Australian Institute of Sport. I had been complaining about taking on energy and water without feeling like I was getting anything back. When I did my sweat test they found I was losing over 1.5 litres of fluid each hour on a 20-degree day! Further to this, in each litre of my sweat I was losing 1.8gm of sodium. As you can imagine, this knowledge has significantly impacted the way I approach rehydration. In fact, sitting here writing this article after my morning run, I have a cup of tea on one side of me and a bottle of electrolyte on the other.

In summary, all I can say is that if you get hydration right, it is like putting rocket fuel into your system.

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NUTRITION & LIFESTYLE

Five Interesting Breakfasts – to Keep You Healthy and Satisfied

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reakfast is hugely important. Starting off the day with a nutritious protein-packed breakfast will help you perform better during the day, ensures you won’t reach for sugary snacks before lunch, and helps keep your nutrition and health in tip-top shape.

Contrary to what many think, we generally don’t eat enough protein for breakfast. The average breakfast is usually rich in carbohydrates and includes toast, a muffin or cereal, which on average weighs in at about 10 grams (or less) of protein. Protein helps keep us feeling satisfied longer and our blood sugar more stable – so that we’re not hungry soon after breakfast with no ability to concentrate. The goal should be about 20 grams of protein for each meal, including breakfast.

Here are five ways to think about a breakfast that will keep you satisfied and interested!

Big Breakfast Probably not such a good idea, but if you love to start the day with a big meal, how much is enough … or too much? An omelette loaded with veggies and a pinch of cheese plus wholewheat toast or a sweet potato is a good choice. Nitrate-free breakfast sausage, roasted veggies and a scrambled egg might also do the trick. Big breakfast eaters should spend at least 30 minutes to sit and eat breakfast. The more time you have to eat, the more time you have to notice when you are actually full – being mindful helps prevent overeating.

Fruit Fresh fruit is a great option because it’s full of vitamins, minerals, and fibre … but fruit doesn’t have much protein. Adding some dairy products like cottage cheese or plain yoghurt gives fruit more staying power. Also, making a smoothie with fruit, some veggies and plain yoghurt will please the palate and give you longer-lasting energy.

Light, “Healthy” Breakfast You might be tempted to skip breakfast – but as we know, skipping breakfast and healthy do not belong in the same sentence! Many of us are familiar with what happens when we haven’t eaten for hours … bad choices! If you prefer to eat light or not at all in the morning try to get in at least a little protein.

A hard-boiled egg and a piece of fruit, a scoop of cottage cheese or plain yoghurt and some fresh berries, grated cheese and an apple or whole grain crackers. A small smoothie or some protein powder would also do the trick.

Vegetarian Vegetarian can be tricky for protein, but here are some great ways to get what you need to start the day. Oatmeal or muesli (not the toasted variety) with flax or chia seeds plus berries, raisins, sultanas or half a banana should be filling and satisfying. Looking for something different? If you eat eggs, try some scrambled eggs and whole grain toast.

Savoury Consider a grilled cheese sandwich on whole wheat (or sprouted grain) toast or muffin with a few thin slices of tomato or an apple. Still hungry? Add a cup of fresh berries or a mug of veggie chicken soup. Last night’s leftovers are also a great option and can be heated up in a minute. Even better, portion out leftovers into individual servings, so they are easy to grab and reheat – or even take for lunch!

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Young people with ‘old eyes’

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rowing numbers of people in their 20s and 30s are reporting vision trouble. The cause is spending too much time staring at small screens. Staring too much at tiny details in the confined space of a small screen results in a condition known as presbyopia, a term derived from Greek words meaning “old eye.” The condition may soon need a new colloquial name, perhaps “smartphone eyes.”

Eye clinics report an increase of young people suffering from such symptoms as difficulty focusing on nearby objects and switching focus on objects at different distances. Another problem reported is lack of peripheral vision.

In some countries the number of people in their 30s with presbyopia more than doubled over the past five years, as smartphones, tablet and laptop computers, electronic books and car navigation systems proliferated. Though an exact causal connection has not been proven, concentrating on a smartphone screen can cause the ciliary muscles that focus the crystalline lens to lose function.

It is too simplistic to say smartphones directly cause presbyopia. However, doctors and clinics have found that the onset of such symptoms, which generally used to be in the mid40s, is now starting much earlier. Other reports have found that other eye troubles, such as dry eye, fatigue and pseudomyopia (temporary nearsightedness), have also increased. As more young people acquire smartphones, and use them for longer periods, such symptoms are likely to increase. Overusing them in variable or poor lighting can make the effects even worse.

It’s not just smartphones either. Other devices such as tablets and small computers can have a similar detrimental effect on eyesight. Young people in particular need to understand that overusing small gadgets can have serious effects on their eyesight over the long-term.

The good news is that the remedy for relieving screen-related eyestrain is simple — reduce the time spent staring at such devices. When that’s not possible, then short breaks should be taken to relieve the tension in the eyes caused by reading small screens. Doctors recommend releasing it by focusing on distant objects every 20 minutes or so. Workplaces should encourage employees with computer-intensive jobs to take such breaks. In addition, blinking frequently to keep the eyes moist, enlarging text size, keeping device screens clean to reduce glare and adjusting their brightness to match the surrounding light can also help to reduce eyestrain.

Parents in particular should make efforts to ensure their children do not to spend too much time staring at their phones and computers since studying already exerts significant eyestrain.

(JT)

SPOT the DIFFERENCE

Another Sprint map for you to brush up on your fine navigation and map reading. This one is quite complex and puzzled many who competed on it. The scale is 1:4,000 and there are 25 differences in the two otherwise identical map sections CAN YOU FIND ALL 25 ???

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

New Zealand Championships Carolyn Jackson

Photos: Bill Vandendool

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he Taranaki MTBO club knew they had great areas and the ability to conduct a New Zealand MTBO Championships. The rest of New Zealand wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite so sure, but their doubts were soon laid to rest.

New Plymouth was certainly a pleasant surprise. Mt Egmont (or Mt Taranaki) is a towering presence, although we only actually spotted it briefly a couple of times. The 2-hour Rogaine all around the town was a real eye opener and a great warm-up event, plus a wonderful way to explore New Plymouth.

The Sprint and Middle Distance Championships shared the same area and clever course setting made fantastic use of an enormous cemetery, a high school, an adjacent University campus plus a few fields thrown in. Our first foray into the cemetery saw us all scratching our heads and riding very carefully as it was so incredibly complex. This was most definitely one of the best MTBO areas I have ever ridden on.

The Long Distance event made excellent use of the Mountain Bike park only 8km out of town. We had a map change, with the added difficulty of different scales. Another complex area, tricky single track, and many direction changes and crossovers made for a tough and challenging event. Luckily the forecast late morning rain held off or the degree of difficulty would have increased tenfold (as many Aussies in NZ two years ago can attest).

Four events in three days was a big undertaking for the small club. However they did a really fantastic job with exciting and well mapped areas, great courses and seemingly seamless organisation. They also made our small contingent of Aussies feel incredibly welcome.

Full results at mtbo2015nz.weebly.com

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NZ Middle Distance MTBO Championships Map: Te Henui Scale: 1:4000 Course 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; M20, M40, W Open

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

2015 Australian MTBO Series Results & National Rankings Tables compiled by Blake Gordon. Full tables can be found at: orienteering.asn.au/index.php/mountain-bike-national-league

Chris Firman

M-16

W60Kathy Liley Andrea Harris Peta Whitford Helen Edmonds Ronice Goebel Julie Fisher Anthea Williams Carolyn Cusworth

VIC NSW VIC VIC VIC QLD SA VIC

147 87 84 73 69 67 52 27

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

4

W70Dale Ann Gordon Jenny Sheahan

VIC VIC

87 48

1 2

1 2 3

W80Joyce Rowlands

VIC

90

1

M40Craig Steffens Hamish Mackie Michael Ridley-Smith David West Neil Ker Stuart Gordon Andrew Haigh Colin Kessels Nick Wilkinson Damian Welbourne

QLD NSW NSW NSW QLD QLD NSW QLD NSW NSW

Pts 123 122 114 102 90 87 78 71 70 63

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Even Fossum

VIC

90

1

Thomas Wigney

VIC

27

2

W-16 Jessica Law

VIC

60

1

Jack Wigney

VIC

90

1

Brody McCarthy

VIC

78

2

Magnus Fossum

VIC

75

3

Oskar Mella

NSW

30

4

Teague Norbert

QLD

30

150 87 51

M-14

M21- Elite Chris Firman Ricky Thackray Steven Todkill Greg Barbour Fedor Iskhakov Ori Gudes Steven Cusworth Joel Young Tom Walter Patrik Gunnarsson W21- Elite Carolyn Jackson Marina Iskhakova Natasha Sparg Cath Chalmers Debbie Gordon Jennifer Enderby Thor Egerton Kim Beckinsale Kate Gavens Kathryn Preston

QLD WA NSW NSW NSW WA VIC QLD ACT NSW VIC NSW WA

NSW QLD NSW VIC QLD VIC VIC

Pts 144 138 120 104 101 101 87 81 62 61

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 10

150 129 108 106 95 70 59 57 53 44

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Angus Robinson

W-14 Rhiannon Prentice NSW Arabella Phillips TAS Karina Cherry VIC

Rhiannon Prentice

W40Joanne Rogers Nicole Haigh Jennifer Enderby Monica Dickson Emily Walter Nicole Sellin Julie Sunley Melissa Biviano Mariann Fossum Petrea Rogers

QLD NSW NSW Vic ACT NSW ACT VIC VIC QLD

Pts 90 90 84 62 57 54 48 37 37 27

Rank 1 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 10

Kay Haarsma

M-20 Elite Angus Robinson

VIC

150

1

Tim Jackson

VIC

144

2

Fergus Mackie

NSW

111

3

Jack Allison

SA

72

4

Nic Cherry

VIC

70

5

Lachlan Cherry

VIC

46

6

Konrad Norbert

QLD

27

7

W-20 Elite Gabrielle Withers Lucy Mackie

QLD NSW

90 57

1 2

W50Kay Haarsma Norah Skilton Heather Leslie Carolyn Matthews Amanda Mackie Jennifer Strack Kathy Petrie Susie Blissner Jenny Hill Julie Sunley

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SA QLD VIC NSW NSW QLD QLD QLD QLD ACT

124 120 90 90 89 81 71 60 43 40

1 2 3 3 5 6 7 8 9 10

Andrew Power

M50Andrew Power Eoin Rothery Tony Howes Robert Vincent Murray Withers Malcolm Roberts Ben Coetzer Geoff Todkill Gordon Bossley Stephen Hanlon

NSW NSW QLD NSW QLD NSW WA NSW QLD VIC

144 135 133 100 94 91 87 69 63 59

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Rob Prentice

M60Robert Prentice Paul Haynes Greg Bacon David Firman Richard Robinson Peter Cusworth Rudi Landsiedel Reid Moran John Gavens Bill Vandendool

NSW NSW NSW QLD QLD VIC NSW QLD VIC VIC

150 126 110 109 81 81 66 61 60 55

1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 10

M70Graham Fowler Leigh Privett Andrew Campbell Tim Hackney Barry Huntington Bernie Nichols Blake Gordon David Tilbrook Keith Wade Ray Sheldon

NSW VIC QLD NSW QLD QLD VIC SA VIC VIC

147 141 135 129 122 87 63 57 45 19

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

M80Graeme Cadman

VIC

60

1

State Champion Plaque Staged over three races at the Australian MTBO Champs.

Victoria New South Wales Queensland Tasmania South Australia ACT Western Australia

231 96 41 16 14 9 0

Elite Teams M21-Elite WA Nomads QLD Storm NSW Stingers

Points 61 50 48

Rank 1 2 3

W21-Elite VIC Nuggets NSW Stingers WA Nomads

71 48 39

1 2 3

M-20 Elite VIC Nuggets NSW Stingers SA Arrows

81 31 19

1 2 3

W-20 Elite QLD Storm NSW Stingers

27 18

1 2

Windchill mapboard updates

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2016 Australian MTBO Series

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he first round of the series is the Victorian MTBO Championships to be held around Beechworth on the weekend of 16-17 April. Sprint, Middle and Long Distance races will be contested and will also be selection races for the Australian team to go to the World Championships in Portugal in July.

The Queensland MTBO Champs will be the second round of the series and will be held at Beerburrum on 13-14 August.

Again, Sprint, Middle and Long Distance races.

ocal mapboard manufacturer Ralph Koch has made several good refinements to his Windchill mapboards. The boards have new “tool free” clamps that easily attach to your handlebars – no more fiddly bolts and allen keys. The base is all aluminum now with a new aluminum support ring which is much stronger and more robust than the previous design.

The actual board material is new too made from a thinner more flexible plastic material. All up the board is lighter, more robust and much easier to fit. All good.

Boards are available online from Orienteering Service of Australia www.osoa.com.au or from Ralph himself at most Victorian MTBO events.

The final round will be the Australian MTBO Championships to be held in Western Australia based at Dwellingup on 14-16 October. Bulletin 1 is already available on ausmtbochamps.com with preliminary information for competitors to make early plans for their trip to the west. For those wanting to add the most popular MTB stage race to their WA plans, the Cape to Cape MTB 4 day race starts nearby three days later. If you want to do this race, you’ll need to enter early as it generally books out during the year.

The latest version of the Australian-made Windchill mapboard.

NSW hits cycling

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arolyn Jackson (VIC) has been appointed the new Australian MTBO Coach.

Carolyn has represented Australia at WOC level in both foot and MTB Orienteering with good results. More recently she has done tremendously well on the international scene, completing the triple crown in Masters MTBO World Championships by winning all three individual gold medals in W50 at the 2013, 2014 & 2015 Championships.

Carolyn will have heaps of coaching expertise to offer our MTBO riders.

2015 Australian MTBO Annual

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e’ve put together a compilation of the MTBO pages that have appeared in The Australian Orienteer over the last year or so. Use this link if you’d like to view it. issuu.com/ausmtboannual/docs/ auso-mtboannual2015

MTBO annual – 2015

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

2015 Rankings Darryl Erbacher – OA Statistician

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ankings in non-elite classes for 2015 have been determined based on results in each of the days in the Australian Easter 3-Days (E1, E2, E3), Australian Championships (AS, AM, AL) and the Oceania Championships (OS, OM, OL).

Points are awarded for each event completed on the basis of 100 points for first place and a lower score for other competitors. An orienteer’s best 3 events count towards their ranking. The first 10 orienteers in each class are published here. State Association secretaries have lists of all orienteers ranked between 50 and 100 points inclusive.

Where more than one orienteer in a class achieves the maximum points, orienteers are ranked based on the average of their best 3 winning margins.

M10 1 Lachlan Feuerherdt BG.V 100. AMOMOS18 2 Oliver Freeman BF.N 100. OLE2E3 10 3 Jamie Woolford BB.N 90.86 E3E1E2 4 Jamie Marsh BF.N 87.95 E2AME1 5 Dylan Bryant EN.Q 87.17 ALASAM 6 Charlie Cooper AL.T 70.59 AMOLOM 7 Makhaya Talbot-Hogg PO.A 68.86 E3E1E2 8 Luke Feuerherdt BG.V 66.24 AMALOL 9 Liam Dufty BO.W 54.27 OLOMOS M12 1 Torren Arthur MF.V 100.00 OMOLE2 2 Remi Afnan YA.S 91.96 E2ALOM 3 Sam Woolford BB.N 87.58 E1E3E2 4 Max Grivell TT.S 86.90 E2E3E1 5 Oskar Mella NC.N 76.78 E3E2E1 6 Jack Marschall TT.S 70.91 ALASAM 7 Leith Soden OH.S 69.09 E2E1E3 8 Ryan Cates YV.V 68.43 E1E3E2 9 Lachlan Brooks SH.N 67.32 ASALAM 10 Riley McFarlane BO.W 57.94 ALASAM

Dante Afnan

Some points of interest in the 2015 rankings: • The winners with a ranking of 100 and the largest percentage margins were: Helen Alexander (BK.V) 10.68; Aston Key (MF.V) 09.79; Torren Arthur (MF.V) 08.04.

• In 9 classes, 2 runners earned maximum points (separated by winning margins): M10 - Lachlan Feuerherdt (BG.V), Oliver Freeman (BF.N); M14 - Dante Afnan (TA.S), Noah Poland (BS.A); M35 - Craig Feuerherdt (BG.V), Fedor Iskhakov (BN.N); M45 - Eric Morris (BN.N), Rob Jessop (PO.A); M75 - Clive Pope (UG.Q), John Sutton (RR.A); W14 - Zoe Melhuish (PO.A), Michaela Maynard (BO.W); W16 - Rachel Allen (AL.T), Tara Melhuish (PO.A); W50 Su Yan Tay (UG.Q), Nicola Dalheim (MF.V); W55 - Carolyn Jackson (MF.V), Jenny Bourne (EU.V).

• 32 clubs had members in the first three placings of their respective classes: MF.V (8); BF.N (6); YV.V (5); AL.T, BS.A NC.N (4); BG.V, BN.N, GO.N, PO.A, RR.A, WH.N (3); BB.N, BK.V, BO.W, EU.V, EV.T, LO.W, OH.S, SH.N, UG.Q, WO.W, YA.S (2); AW.V, GS.N, NE.V, NT.N, TJ.S, TT.S, UR.N, WA.S, WE.A (1).

• Families with members in the first 3 places were: Feurherdt (Lachlan M10, Craig M35); Afnan (Remi M12, Dante M14); Key (Aston M16, Warren M55); Arthur (Torren M12, Sophie W10, Bruce M40); Bourne/Lawford (Jenny W55, Geoff M55); Woolford (Jamie M10, Sam M12); Uppill (Adrian M65, Robyn W60); Brownlie (Ken M70, Carol W60); Hodsdon (John M75, Val W65); Enderby (Erika W10, Mikayla W12, Jennifer W45); Maynard (Michaela W14, Jo Anna W16); Melhuish (Tara W16, Zoe W14).

• NSW orienteers filled all 3 placings in W35 and W45; Victorian orienteers in M40.

• Orienteers ranked in the top-10 in two classes were: Tracey Marsh (W35, W40); Nea Shingler (W10, W12); Sue Key (W55, W60).

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M14 1 Dante Afnan 2 Noah Poland 3 Tristan Miller 4 Joshua Allen 5 Mason Arthur 6 Joel McMullen 7 Jensen Key 8 Jaidyn Gluskie 9 Ewan Shingler 10 Ryan Gray M16 1 Aston Key 2 Luke West 3 Alastair George 4 Oliver Martin 5 Angus Haines 6 Jimmy Cameron 7 Duncan Currie 8 Glenn James 9 Even Fossum 10 Lachlan McCarthy M35 1 Craig Feuerherdt 2 Fedor Iskhakov 3 Matthew Cohen 4 Dion McKenzie 5 Toby Cooper 6 Tony Bryant M40 1 Bruce Arthur 2 Blair Trewin 3 Dion Keech 4 Craig Dufty 5 Tate Needham 6 Matthew Sherlock 7 Greg Morcom M45 1 Eric Morris 2 Rob Jessop 3 Scott Simson 4 Ruhi Afnan 5 Paul Marsh 6 Mark Freeman 7 Richard Parkin 8 Ian Jones 9 Shane Trotter 10 Rohan Hyslop M50 1 Greg Barbour 2 Michael Burton 3 Jemery Day

YA.S BS.A BS.A AL.T MF.V BO.W MF.V AL.T BF.N UG.Q

100. E2E3E1 33 100. AMOLOS 15 95.71 ASALAM 84.19 OMASOS 82.88 ASOSOL 82.51 ASALAM 81.81 OSASAL 78.59 OMASAM 77.03 ASE2E1 66.68 ASAMAL

MF.V 100. AMOME2 AL.T 90.21 ASOME3 BF.N 89.45 OSOME3 WOW 85.89 OSOLOM OH.S 83.85 ASE1E3 BG.V 79.99 OMOSAM GO.N 79.07 OSE3E1 BG.V 77.38 ASALAM BK.V 75.91 OSASE1 OH.S 73.64 ASE3E2 BG.V BN.N AL.T AL.T YV.V EN.Q

100. OMOLOS 18 100. E2E3E1 00 96.57 AMALOM 81.00 OSOMOL 65.16 ASOSAL 62.91 ASAMAL

MF.V YV.V MF.V BO.W RR.A BF.N TJ.S

100.00 OMOLOS 99.28 E3E1E2 94.48 E2E3E1 93.69 OLOMOS 91.16 E1E3E2 87.77 OMOLOS 87.19 E1E2E3

BN.N PO.A NC.N YA.S BF.N BF.N AL.T UR.N NC.N PO.A

100. OMOLE2 15 100. AMASAL 03 91.62 ASE2AM 88.43 E2ASE1 81.31 ASE2E1 80.71 ASOSE2 80.31 OSOLOM 79.56 ASAMAL 74.14 E2E3E1 72.21 ASOMOS

BF.N 100.00 AME2E3 BF.N 99.19 OMOSOL AL.T 97.69 OSOME3

4 Tony Woolford BB.N 95.92 5 Andy Simpson BF.N 95.50 6 Kenneth McLean EV.T 93.46 7 Simon George BF.N 90.82 8 Mark Nemeth TF.Q 89.67 9 Lance Read UG.Q 89.06 10 Martin Steer DR.V 84.54 M55 1 Warren Key MF.V 100.00 2 Geoff Lawford EU.V 98.90 3 Eoin Rothery BF.N 93.76 4 Robert Vincent NC.N 85.93 5 Carl Dalheim MF.V 83.74 6 Jeff Dunn AL.T 78.21 7 Tim Hatley BK.V 77.68 8 Andrew McComb OH.S 77.55 9 Russell Blatchford NC.N 77.10 10 Nick Melhuish PO.A 74.85 M60 1 Ted van Geldermalsen YV.V 100.00 2 Paul Pacque EV.T 99.85 3 David Marshall AL.T 95.55 4 James Lithgow GO.N 93.33 5 Tim Ashman LO.S 88.95 6 Nick Dent CC.N 85.70 7 Gordon Wilson BN.N 84.72 8 Roch Prendergast EU.V 82.77 9 John Scown AO.A 82.21 10 Bert Elson AL.T 79.53 M65 1 Paul Hoopmann TJ.S 100.00 2 Adrian Uppill OH.S 99.84 3 Robert Preston NC.N 97.93 4 Tony Radford BG.V 97.89 5 Steve Flick BN.N 97.57 6 Robert Rapkins EN.Q 97.24 7 Hugh Moore RR.A 95.03 8 Tony Simpkins LO.W 94.87 9 Greg Chatfield UG.Q 93.36 10 Ross Barr GO.N 92.05

E2E3E1 OMOLOS OLASOS OMOLOS ALAMAS E3OME1 ASE3E2 AMOMOL OSE2AS ASOLOS AMASAL E2OLE1 ASAME3 ASALAM E2E1E3 OLE3E1 ASOLOS E2E3E1 OMOLE1 E1AME3 OSAMOL E2ALE1 OSALAM ASALAM OSE1OM E1E3OM E1E3AM E2OSE1 AME3OS OLE1AL ALOLAS E1ALE2 ALE2E1 ALE1OM OMASAL ALASOS OSASAL

Alex Tarr

M70 1 Alex Tarr 2 Leigh Privett 3 Ken Brownlie 4 John Le Carpentier 5 Dick Ogilvie 6 Jim Merchant 7 Barry McCrae 8 Tim Dent 9 Mike Howe 10 Peter Searle M75 1 Clive Pope 2 John Sutton 3 John Hodsdon 4 Basil Baldwin 5 George Reeves 6 Graham Galbraith 7 John Lyon 8 Barry Sampson M80 1 Pauli Piiroinen 2 Barry Hanlon 3 Eino Meuronen 4 John Dempster M85 1 Kevin Paine 2 Neil Schafer M90 1 Hermann Wehner

YV.V 100.00 AW.V 95.69 WO.W 90.18 SH.N 89.75 UR.N 85.49 GO.N 85.35 YV.V 83.60 YV.V 82.02 LO.W 81.41 BG.V 80.24 UG.Q RR.A SH.N GS.N TT.S BN.N TT.S YV.V

AMOME2 OLE1E3 OSASOL ASE2E3 OSASE2 ASOSE3 E2OLE3 E2E1E3 ASE2E3 OLE2E3

100. OLE2E1 10 100. AMOMOS 07 95.77 ALOLOM 87.46 E3E2E1 78.18 E2E3E1 64.01 E3E1E2 57.79 E3E1E2 52.14 E3E2E1

BS.A 100.00 AME2E3 WH.N 93.47 E1E2E3 BS.A 83.63 ALAMAS YV.V 61.70 ALE2AS BS.A 100.00 E2E1AS GO.N 93.39 AME3E1 WE.A 100.00 AME2E3

SILVA Medal Darryl Erbacher â&#x20AC;&#x201C; OA Statistician

Aston Key wins 2015 SILVA Medal

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he SILVA medal for 2015 has been won by Aston Key (MF.V M16). The SILVA Medal award is based on points for participating and placing in the following events: Australian 3-Days (each day considered as a separate event), Australian Sprint, Middle and Long Aston Key Distance Championships and Alex Tarr the Oceania Sprint, Middle and Eric Morris Long Distance Championships.

Points are awarded: 4 for first, Warren Key 3 for second, 2 for third and Greg Barbour 1 point for finishing. Each Jennifer Enderby orienteer who completes 6 or Ted van Geldermalsen more of the above events in M/ W16 and above in elite classes Tara Melhuish is eligible for the SILVA Medal.

Hanny Allston The winner is the orienteer who Craig Feuerherdt scores the highest points for their 6 best events.

Patrick Jaffe There were 6 orienteers who Carolyn Jackson scored maximum points (24) Su Yan Tay and a count-back system based Tracy Marsh on winning margins has been used to separate these. In effect, Jenny Bourne Aston has performed relatively Jenny Hawkins further ahead of the field in Rachel Allen his class than the others who gained maximum points.

Nicola Dalheim Val Hodsdon

W10 1 Sophie Arthur 2 Erika Enderby 3 Emma Cates 4 Julia Barbour 5 Nea Shingler 6 Louise Barbour 7 Luca Talbot-Hogg

MF.V NC.N YV.V BF.N BF.N BF.N PO.A

100.00 98.24 97.16 92.91 88.90 72.88 57.09

AME2E3 OLOMOS OMOSE2 AME2E3 ASALAM E2AMAL E3E1E2

Sophie Arthur W12 1 Mikayla Enderby 2 Jessica Madden 3 Serryn Eenjes 4 Tiia Marsh 5 Skye McMullen 6 Ana Penck 7 Nea Shingler 8 Zali McComb 9 Ella Rogers 10 Sarah Richards W14 1 Zoe Melhuish

NC.N 100.00 LO.W 95.51 BG.V 88.28 BF.N 73.52 BO.W 72.22 YA.S 70.67 BF.N 70.64 AL.T 69.56 RR.Q 59.10 WO.W 57.85

OME2OS E3E2E1 AMASAL E3E2E1 ASAMAL E2E1E3 E2E3E1 OLOMOS ASALAM ASAMAL

PO.A 100. OMOLAL 15

2 Michaela Maynard 3 Joanna George 4 Arabella Phillips 5 Abigail George 6 Mikayla Cooper 7 Ella Cuthbert 8 Emily Sorensen 9 Ellen Currie 10 Sophie Jones W16 1 Rachel Allen 2 Tara Melhuish 3 Jo Anna Maynard 4 Caroline Pigerre 5 Meredith Norman 6 Lauren Baade 7 Jess Rogers 8 Miho Yamazaki W35 1 Anna Fitzgerald 2 Marina Iskhakova 3 Tracy Marsh 4 Sussan Best 5 Cathy Hogg 6 Fern Hillyard 7 Samantha Howe 8 Tamsin Barnes W40 1 Tracy Marsh 2 Kim Carroll 3 Jenny Casanova 4 Belinda Allison W45 1 Jennifer Enderby 2 Barbara Hill

MF.V

24

0.16

YV.V

24

0.14

BN.N

24

0.10

MF.V

24

0.09

BF.N

24

0.07

NC.N

24

0.05

YV.V

23

PO.A

23

WR.T

23

BG.V

23

MF.V

23

MF.V

22

UG.Q

22

BF.N

22

EU.V

21

NT.N

21

AL.T

21

MF.V

20

SH.N

20

BO.W TT.S EV.T TT.S AL.T BS.A TT.S GO.N UR.N

100. E2E3AS 01 96.58 AME1AS 93.07 OSASAM 92.80 E1ASE3 91.98 AMASOS 91.30 AMALAS 91.03 E2E1E3 89.71 E1OSE2 84.02 AMALE2

AL.T PO.A BO.W UG.Q TJ.S UG.Q RR.Q WE.A

100. E2E3E1 17 100. AMOMOL08 90.90 ASAME3 90.54 ASAME3 83.59 ASALE3 79.69 OSOLOM 73.69 ASALAM 63.19 ASALAM

GS.N 100.00 AMOMOL BN.N 99.96 E3E1E2 BF.N 98.79 E2ASE1 EV.T 85.79 OSOLOM PO.A 80.16 E1E3E2 WA.S 71.01 ASE1AM NC.N 67.72 E1E3E2 RR .Q 57.44 E2E1E3 BF.N 98.86 OMOSOL AL.T 85.56 ASALOS WA.S 84.16 OSOLOM RR.A 81.97 AMOMOL NC.N 100.00 AME2E3 GO.N 98.25 OLOSE1

Aston Key, winner of the 2015 SILVA Medal.

3 Cath Chalmers BF.N 96.49 OMALAS 4 Anita Scherrer RR.A 95.39 ASE3OL 5 Cathy McComb AL.T 94.04 OLASAL 6 Sher Dorling UG.Q 92.46 ASAMAL 7 Wendy Read UG.Q 91.71 ASOLOM 8 Karen Wild-Allen AL.T 66.97 ASALE2 9 Susan George TT.S 60.74 ASE2E1 10 Margaret Jones UR.N 59.75 ASAMAL W50 1 Su Yan Tay UG.Q 100. OMOLE1 08 2 Nicola Dalheim MF.V 100. E2E3AL 03 3 Christine Brown EV.T 97.89 AME2E1 4 Karen Blatchford NC.N 97.08 OSE1OL 5 Ana Herceg PO.A 87.97 OSOLE2 6 Gayle Quantock NC.N 87.45 E3ASE2 7 Toni Brown BS.A 84.58 OSOMOL 8 Christine Marshall AL.T 84.40 E2E3AM 9 Sue Hancock WR.T 84.04 E2E1E3 10 Felicity Crosato RR.Q 83.61 OLASOS W55 1 Carolyn Jackson MF.V 100. AMOLE1 07 2 Jenny Bourne EU.V 100. OME2OS 06 3 Anthea Feaver LO.W 97.72 E3E1AL 4 Debbie Davey WR.N 89.79 E3E2AS 5 Liz Abbott PO.A 88.20 OLE1E3 6 Sue Key MF.V 80.65 ASAMAL 7 Hilary Wood CC.N 76.41 OSOLE1 8 Carol Harding BS.A 75.07 E3E1E2 9 Geraldine Chatfield UG.Q 74.51 OLE1OM 10 Sally Wayte AL.T 71.01 E3E2E1 W60 1 Carol Brownlie WO.W 99.44 E2ALE3 2 Lynn Dabbs WH.N 98.99 OME3E1 3 Robin Uppill OH.S 97.20 AMOSOL 4 Julia Prudhoe CC.N 93.48 ASE2E1

5 Jacquie Rand UG.Q 6 Sue Key MF.V 7 Alison Radford BG.V 8 Lynda Rapkins EN.Q 9 Robyn Pallas CC.N 10 Debbie Byers BF.N W65 1 Val Hodsdon SH.N 2 Judy Allison RR.A 3 Kerryne Jones RR.A 4 Libby Meeking YV.V 5 Ann Baylis RR.A 6 Pat Miethke PO.A 7 Joan Sheldon UG.Q 8 Carol Jacobson GO.N 9 Christine Sinickas YV.V 10 Pauline Moore WR.N W70 1 Jenny Hawkins NT.N 2 Judi Herkes BK.V 3 Ruth Goddard YV.V 4 Ann Ingwersen PO.A 5 Robin Spriggs UG.Q 6 Sally Salier AL.T 7 Dale Ann Gordon EU.V 8 Janet Tarr YV.V 9 Valerie Brammall EV.T 10 Jean Baldwin GS.N W75 1 Helen Alexander BK.V 2 Janet Morris WH.N 3 Christa Schafer GO.N W80 1 Maureen Ogilvie UR.N 2 Joyce Rowlands NE.V

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E1E2E3 OLOMOS E2E1E3 E1E3E2 ASE1AL ASE1AL

100.00 AMOLAL 99.85 OMASAM 98.88 E2E3AL 95.75 OLALOM 91.89 E1AME3 88.76 E1OME2 86.14 OME2E1 84.71 OSOMOL 84.18 E2E3E1 83.83 ALASOL 100.00 AME1AL 97.71 OME2OL 91.23 E3E2AL 90.92 OLOSE3 86.01 ASALOM 84.64 ASOSOM 79.12 ALE2AM 67.22 ALE1OL 64.56 OMASE2 62.07 E1E3E2 100.00 AMOMOL 89.32 E1E3E2 64.96 E3E1E2 92.65 80.83

OMOSOL OLASAL

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staggered start. To prevent competitors following each other, various spreading methods are used. This is called “gaffling”, which is a Swedish word meaning “forking”. The key principle is that every team must run every leg (between each pair of two controls), but not necessarily in the same order.

O-SPY VICTORIAN GOVT ANNOUNCES TRAVEL GRANTS

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nder the Athlete Pathway Travel Grants Program, State sporting associations are eligible to apply for grants of up to $6000 for teams or $2000 for individual athletes for travel costs associated with competing at National Championships or selection trials. Clubs can also apply for up to two grants of $750 to assist coaches or officials with the travel costs of training or competition.

Minister Pulford said: “Climbing to the top isn’t easy, so we’re committed to removing some of the burdens athletes face as they strive to be the best they can be. Australia’s next generation of sporting champions is already playing at grassroots clubs across Victoria and all deserve every opportunity to reach for the skies, no matter where they live.”

Emit – an electronic punching system in competition with SPORTident. Emit requires users to carry a plastic “brick” in the palm of their hand and to place it over a unidirectional template on the control stand to record a punch.

The proximity version helps overcome this problem with geometry and direction of approach. Used in some countries but not very popular with most orienteers.

O-Lynx – O-Lynx Touch is used to quickly register competitors by means of their SI-stick. As well, O-Lynx software and hardware can provide real time results. The O-Lynx radio system is designed to send competitor information back to an event centre where it can be displayed using the O-Lynx software in a variety of formats for both live results and commentary. O-Lynx is used successfully for Orienteering and adventure events in New Zealand, Australia and North and South America at club, national and international level events.

Similar travel grants are also available in other States such as Queensland and West Australia.

O SPEAK

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e commenced this investigation of Orienteering jargon in the December 2015 edition of the magazine. Many sports have their idiosyncratic terms and sayings – what does a sports commentator mean by a sudden outburst of “yorked him”; or “he takes a screamer” ?

Orienteering is such a well kept secret that its idiosyncratic terms and acronyms are unlikely to be understood by the wider world and, perhaps, not even by all those who orienteer. So here’s a few more: Doing a 180 – this could be a new dance craze, but we use it to describe heading off in completely the wrong direction – at 180 degrees to the direction we should have taken.

The Middle – most likely suggesting “the Centre” of something, but some use the term when referring to a Middle Distance event. Middle Distance is a better and more correct term to use.

Re-entrant – (not to be confused with a revolving door), this term is used in some English-speaking countries to describe what we know as a small gully.

Parallel error – some terrains have similar linear features such as gullies, watercourses, spurs and even tracks, running roughly parallel to each other. And the feature you are on is not the one you think you’re at.

ISOM - International Specification for Orienteering Maps.

ISMTBOM - International Specification for MTB Orienteering Maps.

ISSkiOM - International Specification for Ski Orienteering Maps.

ISSOM - International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps. gaffling - a Relay is run by a team of individuals each running a course, and the result is based on the team’s total time. Relays usually employ a mass start instead of a 44 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2016

O-Lynx providing instant results.

mp (or mispunch) – there are many who still don’t understand the importance of punching at the correct control.

Occasionally a “mp” will be due to a technical malfunction, but much more often it’s due to competitors failing to check that they are punching at the correct control by comparing the control code on the stand with the one on their control description. “mp” means no result for your run.

That’s enough for this edition of the magazine, but there are so many more acronyms and idiosyncratic terms in our sport that we will be continuing this in future editions. Meantime, please send any you can think of to the Editor.

WHAT’S IN A NAME ?

Well ….. you decide.

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he Women’s national Cricket Team is named The Southern Stars, and the development squad is the Shooting Stars.

In the ACT, the Canberra Cockatoos are the elite team while the secondary schools development squad is the Blue Lightning and the primary schools squad is the Blue Sparks.

In South Australia, the elite team is the Southern Arrows, while the secondary schools development squad is the Junior Arrows and the primary schools squad is the Southern Darts.

In Queensland the squads are the Cyclones, Junior Cyclones and Mini Cyclones; while in NSW the elite team is the Stingers, the schools team is The Carbines, the primary schools squad is the Wildfires, and there is a secondary schools squad in NSW called the NSW Junior Development Squad.

In Victoria the elite squad is the Nuggets, while the junior squad is the Rebels. In Western Australia the elites are the Western Nomads and the juniors the Numbats; and in Tasmania the elites are the Foresters but juniors don’t appear to have a separate identity.

Some of these examples show a clear pattern of continuity in this squad naming game, whilst others are somewhat opaque. Perhaps some squad managers could consider these examples of giving name continuity to multiple squads to give their emerging talented athletes a clear view of their future progression in the sport.

IOF ATHLETES’ LICENCE

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he International Orienteering Federation (IOF) has decided to implement an Athletes’ Licence, starting with the northern hemisphere Ski Orienteering season 2015-2016. The IOF licence is an agreement between the IOF and the athlete, and contributes to the fairness of our sport by having athletes confirm that they will respect and follow the IOF rules.

Campiglio, Italy. “It was huge luck that Marcel Hirscher was not hurt,” Waldner said. “I am very angry.”

The drone carrying a TV camera came down and shattered on the icy slope just behind Hirscher, a few seconds after the Olympic silver medallist started his run. “I didn’t know what it was, but I felt something,” said Hirscher, who was unhurt and continued his run. “I thought it was a course worker behind me, or a gate.” Course workers slip through the gates shortly after each skier to smoothen the snow surface for the next competitor.

“I am very relieved that nothing happened,” Hirscher said.

“You don’t want to think about what could have happened when 10 kilograms are coming down 20 metres. That would have been a very serious, bad injury. There are a lot of cool things nowadays. But you have to guarantee the safety — and that was just insane.”

According to Waldner, FIS had agreed on the use of the drone but the pilot wasn’t allowed to fly the camera directly over the race course. “He did not follow our instructions,” the race director said. “He had to fly outside of the race track and follow the racer from a 15-metre distance. Then there would have been a margin and nothing could have happened.”

Drones have been used many times before at ski races.

The Ski Federation said the new technology was aimed at enhancing the experience for TV viewers as it provides moving pictures from an overhead angle which regular cameras can’t shoot.

The company responsible for the camera drone said “this incident is being taken very seriously and the circumstances leading to it are being examined.”

(AP)

The Licence fee will go directly to the IOF Anti-Doping fund, which is part of the IOF Anti-Doping plan. The licence is needed for athletes participating in Senior World Championships and World Cup competitions. The licence is annual and is valid for all Orienteering disciplines.

Drone crashes behind skier.

COFFEE CAPITAL

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he flat-white and latte sippers in our major cities would rank Australia high in the world of coffee drinking nations.

But they would be wrong. According to recent data Australia ranks 42nd with just 3.0kg of coffee consumed per person each year; only a little more than the 2.8kg in tea-obsessed Britain.

SKI FEDERATION BANS TV DRONES AFTER CAMERA NEARLY HITS RACER

Finland tops the ranking with 12.0kg consumed per person, followed by Norway (9.9kg), Iceland (9.0kg) and Denmark (8.7kg). It must be something to do with those cold winter nights. Even the United States ranks 25th with 4.2kg per person, despite the watered down and flavoured versions they mostly drink.

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n December last year, the International Ski Federation (FIS) decided to ban camera drones from its World Cup races after one of the flying objects crashed and nearly hit Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher during a slalom in Italy.

So, get in the coffee queue at the next major event and help Australia rise up the ranking.

FIS will prohibit drones “as long as I am responsible . . . because they are a bad thing for safety,” men’s race director Markus Waldner told AP a day after the race in Madonna di

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VOTING RIGHTS n Britain, idiots are not allowed to vote, and lunatics can only vote during their lucid periods. (That may explain decisions made at some AGMs.) MARCH 2016 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 45

Letters

The Australian Orienteer welcomes letters. Preference will be given to letters which are concise and which make positive points. The editor reserves the right to edit letters, particularly ones which are longer than 300 words.

The Editor,

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ould I request that course setters at Easter (and thereafter) try to include a long leg or two on the short hard courses.

Too often in the past short hard courses have been a series of short control-picking legs without real route choice, while longer courses are treated to a long leg or two, with good route choice.

It is not difficult to do this. I have set many short courses with long legs, and have had nothing but positive feedback from competitors tired of the usual menu of control picking.

Trevor Sauer (Sunshine Orienteers)

Vale Jennie Bourne 22/6/1946 – 20/11/2015

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ong time Treasurer of Orienteering SA, Jennie Bourne, passed away late last year after a short illness.

Jennie’s greatest love was Orienteering.

She took up the sport in 1985, joining Onkaparinga Hills OC, and in 1990 became Treasurer of the then Orienteering Association of South Australia. She held that position almost continuously, with only a break from 1993 to 1995 during which time she was President, until she passed away last November.

Jennie won at least two awards for Orienteering: the Anthony White Award in recognition of service to Orienteering at a club level, and in 2002 the prestigious John Hall Memorial Award which recognises outstanding contribution to the conduct of Orienteering in the State of South Australia. Jennie was the inaugural winner of this award. She will be sadly missed by the Orienteering community.

Jennie receiving the OH “Anthony White” trophy.

VICTORINOX AWARD This issue’s Victorinox Award goes to David Poland in Canberra for his work in developing the Coaches-in-Residence scholarship scheme. David will receive a Victorinox Handyman which includes 24 tools and features – retail value $119.

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