The Australian Orienteer – March 2019

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Rankings

2019

Round 1

2

3

4

5

6

Event

Date

Location

1. Relay

30 March

Hill End, NSW

2. Long Distance

31 March

Hill End, NSW

3. Sprint Relay

19 April

Perth, WA

4. Sprint

20 April

Perth, WA

5. Long Distance

21 April

Beverley, WA

6. Middle Distance

22 April

Beverley, WA

7. Sprint

26 April

Narrogin, WA

8. Middle Distance

27 April

Narrogin, WA

9. Middle Distance

18 May

Cowra, NSW

10. Ultra Long Distance

19 May

Cowra, NSW

11. Sprint

28 September

Wagga, NSW

12. Long Distance

29 September

Cootamundra, NSW

13. Relay

30 September

Cootamundra, NSW

14. Long Distance

5 October

Wangaratta, VIC

15. Middle Distance

6 October

Beechworth, VIC

NOL events 1 - 6 will be selection trials for the 2019 JWOC team.

NOL events 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 - 10 will be selection trials for the 2019 WOC team, with particular focus on events 9 & 10.

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

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

The President’s Page BLAIR TREWIN

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elcome to a new Orienteering year. For some of you, the Orienteering year is already well under way – especially those of you who have been involved in the numerous junior and senior training camps over the summer – whilst others are looking forward to the first State and National events.

It is going to be another exciting year for Orienteering in Australia, including a trip over to Western Australia early in the year for the Australian 3-Days – in a new format this year – and two national championships. Putting these events on is a big commitment for Western Australia’s orienteering community and we hope that as many of you will be able to support them as possible. Later on in the year, we host the Oceania Championships in south-eastern Australia; this is an event which has been getting progressively bigger over recent years, and we hope to attract a large crowd from New Zealand (and perhaps elsewhere – about 200 Europeans went to the North American Championships last year) in addition to the Australians. We expect that it will be one of the biggest events, numbers-wise, to be held in Australia.

Orienteering is also growing well in other parts of our broader region. Like most of you, I knew barely anything about Orienteering in China before venturing there last year, so it was an eye-opener to see a well-established scene and State-level events with well over 1000 people taking part in them. Their idea of Orienteering terrain is a bit different to ours – runnable forests are in short supply in that part of the world – but the chaotic laneway patterns of a traditional Chinese village make for some of the most technical urban terrain I’ve ever been in, Venice included. We hope that Australia will have a strong presence there at the World Cup in October; we have had some excellent results in the past when Asia has hosted international events and look forward to doing so again.

The Orienteering Australia annual conference happened in December, as did some meetings with Sport Australia (the old Australian Sports Commission) which gave a clearer sense of their future direction. Whilst at times the Conference seemed to involve more talking than concrete outcomes, we did move a

step closer to updating our strategy. We also acknowledged that there is a need to revitalise our committees; States see one of the big roles of OA as being to facilitate communication between the States about initiatives and best practice, and the committee structure is the best thing we have in place to do that. If you have an interest in contributing to OA in a specialist area, whether it be technical, mapping, schools, IT or something else, we would love you to get involved; most committees meet formally at Easter, but we hope that they will move much more to a continuous mode of operation with the capacity that modern technology gives us to communicate. (The OA Board holds almost all of its own meetings by Skype).

One clear outcome from the Conference was the endorsement of the structure for the Australian Schools Championships and the Schools Committee that will be responsible for it, now that the event is our sole responsibility. There is a recognition that the event has been very successful in its current form (and that expanding it significantly would create a lot of logistical issues), which is reflected in the fact that we will only be making fairly minor changes for 2019.

Whilst we’re still looking for more clarity around what Sport Australia have in mind, something which is already clear is that they will continue to push very strongly for sports to act in a unified manner and a consistent national direction – National and State bodies pushing in opposite directions (something they see quite a bit of) is something they definitely don’t want.

It looks like most of their funding going forward is going to be project-based (rather than block grants to national sporting organisations), and we would expect that their focus on consistent national directions will be reflected in them seeking to fund projects which are national, or have national applications – such as doing national roll-outs of activities which have been successful in one State. Most States have had at least one idea which has worked really well and I would urge all States to think about: if you’ve got something which works in your State, would it work elsewhere?

I look forward to seeing many of you at Easter, if not before.

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Winning PartnershiP

The Australian Sports Commission proudly supports Orienteering Australia The Australian Sports Commission is the Australian Government agency that develops, supports and invests in sport at all levels in Australia.

Orienteering Australia has worked closely with the Australian Sports Commission to develop orienteering from community participation to high-level performance.

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Orienteering Australia is one of many national sporting organisations that has formed a winning partnership with the Australian Sports Commission to develop its sport in Australia.

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A U S E A S T E R C A R N I V A L 2 0 1 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 “J E F F ” C O M I C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 JUKOLA 2018......................................... 10 RED CENTRE ORIENTEERS.......................... 14 2 0 1 9 M O N A S H I N D O O R O .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 2019 MELBOURNE CITY RACE..................... 17 M A G N E T I C N O R T H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 2 0 1 8 V I C S P R I N T .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 SUMMER SPRINTS................................... 24 A U S T R A L I A DAY H O N O U R S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 M T B O N E W S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 OCEANIA 2019........................................ 37 2 0 1 8 S I LVA M E DA L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 2 0 1 8 N O N - E L I T E R A N K I N G S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 9 O - S P Y.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 TOP EVENTS........................................... 45 S P O T T H E D I F F E R E N C E .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 The JUNE 2019 edition of this magazine will be published on June 14 – a little later than usual due to Easter being late and the Editor being overseas.

Cover photo: Marina Iskhakova (ACT) at full speed in the ACT MTBO Championships.

Photo by Roy Meuronen.

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AUSTRALIAN EASTER CARNIVAL 2019

2019 EASTER CARNIVAL

Umuna Grass tree.

NICOLE DAVIS

April will see the Australian Orienteering community head to Western Australia as Orienteering WA hosts the Easter 2019 Carnival, including the popular Easter 3 Day plus two Australian Championships.

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here will be Australia’s best elites, juniors and master’s competitors battling it out, but the beauty of National Carnivals is their inclusive nature, with entry to every event open to all orienteers. There are courses to suit every level of skill and fitness across all age groups. You can enter every event, or you can take your pick. It is even possible to enter individual days of the Australian 3 Day Championship.

With the Australian Sprint Distance Championships and the Australian Middle Distance Championships in Narrogin on the Friday and Saturday after the Easter weekend there is plenty of quality Orienteering on offer. Plus, on Thursday, there is a mid-week Wandoo Wander Score event to keep you “map fit” and orienteering-ready at the Lions Dryandra Woodland Village.

Umuna Start area.

Hill Park Dale.

Entries for all events close on 24th March 2019

DAY by DAY EVENT PREVIEW Good Friday sees the Easter Carnival 2019 kick off at the picturesque and historic University of WA Campus on the banks of Matilda Bay, with a Mixed Sprint Relay for elites (2 women and 2 men per team) and a Family and Open Relay (3 legs). The grounds of UWA include beautiful gardens, limestone architecture and plenty of the usual navigational challenges competitors face in urban environments. After the event, enjoy a picnic across the road at Matilda Bay, with views of Perth City, the Swan River and Kings Park. In the evening head to Optus Stadium and watch reigning premiers West Coast Eagles take on Port Adelaide in the AFL Easter round.

The Australian 3 Day Championships is structured to provide the challenge of Sprint, Long and Middle Distance orienteering for all age classes, over 3 events with Day 1 a Sprint event at Scotch College. Located in Perth’s western suburbs close to Claremont Station, for easy train travel to the event, this compact area is sure to surprise. The college map offers challenges around school buildings, some with multiple levels, open field areas and parkland. If it’s a warm day you are close to the coast for an afternoon dip in the Indian Ocean.

Day 2, the classic Long Distance day, is located south west of Perth near the township of Beverly at Hill Park Dale.

The Alex Tarr 2006 map is excellent West Australian granite terrain with extensive rocky features and subtle contour details. With 18 courses there will be challenging courses to suit all orienteering ability. Fast run legs across semi-open paddocks are combined with detailed navigation in forested areas. The courses will utilise complex areas not used in 2006, when the area was last used for a National carnival.

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Easter Carnival 2019 EVENT SCHEDULE Good Friday Sprint Relay 19th April

Elite Sprint Relay & Family teams event, University of WA Campus, Perth

Australian 3 Day Championship 20th – 22nd April Day 1: Saturday – Sprint event Scotch College Campus, Perth Metro (west) Day 2: Sunday – Long Distance event Hill Park Dale, Beverley Day 3: Monday – Middle Distance event Umuna, Beverley

Wandoo Wander – Thursday 25th April

Dryandra Lions Village & Woodlands, Dryandra

Australian Sprint Championship – Friday 26th April Narrogin, school campus, afternoon starts

Australian Middle Distance Championship – Saturday 27th April Narrogin, Foxes Lair, morning starts

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NOL sprint relay and Family Teams event

AUSTRALIAN SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS & MIDDLE DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS, NARROGIN - WORLD RANKING EVENTS A complex campus, fast running bush and a fox’s lair await in Narrogin. Home of the woylie and host to these two world ranking events that will provide a quality orienteering experience for all.

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wa.orienteering.asn.au/easter-2019 Umuna, first mapped by Alex Tarr in 2004, hosts the final day of the 3 Day event. The competition area lies across a moderate to steep-sided ridge of generally open to lightly wooded, boulder-strewn granite terrain with areas of fallen timber. The map will be 1:10,000 scale and the event conforms to Middle Distance format in terms of course length, frequent changes of direction and generally short legs; care will be required to avoid mis-punching as many controls will lie in close proximity. Times are likely to be fast, with winning times expected to be around 30 minutes.

variety of topographies, whilst demanding full concentration and challenging route choice decisions. Sprint orienteering at it best.

For the Australian Sprint & Middle Distance Championships the Carnival heads to Narrogin, south of Perth after the chance to explore the nearby Dryandra woodland.

Don’t delay. Enter now via Eventor. And enjoy seven high quality orienteering experiences in just nine days. Make 2019 an Easter to remember.

Mapper and course setter for the Australian Sprint Championships, on a newly completed map at Narrogin, is Tony Simpkins. He believes the area selected will be much appreciated for allowing high-speed running through a wide

The carnival concludes with the Middle Distance Championships in lovely undulating bushland at the edge of the Narrogin town. Although generally open and fast running, there are also complex areas of granite, occasional laterite breakaways, a complex track network and a beautiful Finish amongst rocks in a farm paddock - all the ingredients for a challenging and exciting finale to the carnival.

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NATIONAL ORIENTEERING LEAGUE AUS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hill End NOL Weekend – 30-31 March IAN JESSUP (MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, ORIENTEERING NSW)

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rienteering is returning to the awesome goldfields of Hill End for the first round of the 2019 National League and NSW State League.

extra day to explore. There is accommodation at the Royal Hotel Hill End, Hill End Lodge, Hill End Ranch or one of the two campgrounds. There are also cottages and B&Bs.

The area is complex gold mining terrain with many erosion gullies and runnable spur/gully forest. It made its O debut in September 2017 for the Australian Championships Carnival and attracted around 900 entries. Garingal Orienteers now welcome you back to this stunning region for more.

Whether you are coming for the first time or returning after the Australian Championships come along and enjoy this great orienteering area. You never know, you may strike gold!

Saturday will see elites running the Australian Relay Championship at 1:30pm, after everyone else competes in a Middle Distance event (queuing starts from 11am). This will allow plenty of time to warm down and refuel in time to watch the best in the business do their stuff.

Clothing: Leg cover and shoes with studs or metal spikes are recommended.

Sunday is a Long Distance event for all competitors, with starts from 9:30am.

There will be a limited number of Enter-on-Day maps; but not all hard courses will be available.

It will be compulsory to carry a whistle – no whistle, no start.

String courses will be available at both events.

Entries close on March 15.

Both NOL events are selection trials for WOC and JWOC, and on both days the assembly area is in town – where we were for the 2017 Australian Middle Distance Championships.

Hill End is about 75km north of Bathurst (65-minute drive), 285km from Sydney Airport (allow 4 hours), and 360km from Canberra Airport (allow 4 hours).

The village of Hill End is steeped in history and to walk around it is a step back in time. It is well worth staying an

For further information contact: Warwick Selby, Garingal Orienteers, warwicks@sydney.edu.au

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Australian WOC, JWOC and MTBO teams are outfitted by

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JUKOLA RELAY

A supposedly fun thing that I’d gladly do again - Jukola 2018 JOCK DAVIS (BIG FOOT ORIENTEERS – NSW)

Last year I travelled to Finland for a holiday and some Orienteering; this is an account of the Jukola Relay event I’d always wanted to run.

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ukola is a 7-person Relay of varying leg lengths (8 to 15km). It’s held in mid-June at different locations in Finland each year. The first leg for Jukola starts at 11pm, but with the long summer days, only the first three runners need headlamps. Men or women can run Jukola, but only women run the 4-leg Venla Relay which starts at 2pm the same day. Quite a few women run both. The word “Jukola” comes from the earliest novel written in the Finn language: “Seven Brothers”. The seven legs of the Relay refer to an episode when the brothers managed to burn down their house in midwinter, far from any help.

More tragically for the Finns, they also burnt down their sauna. They had to run to shelter overnight to avoid freezing to death. Venla was a young woman unimpressed with all the brothers.

The winning team gets to recite a passage from the novel, and usually it’s a Finnish team who win the honour. I’m not sure what happens if the Swedes or Norwegians win.

In 2018 it was held in southern Finland and attracted the biggest ever entry: over 1600 Jukola teams and another 1600 Venla teams. It was held at an army base near Lahti, with most of the participants camping in the forest adjacent to the assembly area. The organization and logistics are awesome: from the car parking for thousands of vehicles to the provision of food, showers & entertainment as well as the orienteering itself. The event even has its own app, with WiFi allowing spectators and team mates to follow competitors’ radio splits and progress.

It attracts both experienced, fit orienteers as well as others. There are plenty of “corporate” 10 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2019

Jock Davis

Venla Relay start.

Jukola Relay start.

teams with members who have barely orienteered. The night before the race, we stayed with a couple of university lecturers who had assembled a team with their work colleagues and started Orienteering about six months prior. There are also O club teams from Norway, Sweden, Russia, the Baltic countries and the rest of Europe. But mostly, there are lots of Finns. At the beginning of the year, my club had wanted to form a Jukola team. I wasn’t keen, as I knew who might have to run the long last leg of 15km. Eventually, everyone else found something else to do instead of travelling to Finland. I expected to find a team that would let me run a short leg more suited to my fitness and age.

We were generously offered places in a Helsinki club of a recent NSW orienteering scholar. My wife Nicky joined one of their 22

Venla teams and I was offered a place in one of their 20 Jukola teams.

On the day, we parked in one of the massive official parking areas, a mere 2.5 km walk from the arena and camping spots. Some young families carried tents, gear and kids on push carts. There were also farmers ferrying mounds of gear in trailers on the back of their tractors. Most participants camp in the forest adjacent to the arena. There was probably a square kilometre of tents, plus all the portaloos, temporary showers and saunas. This year it was at an old army training base, so they did warn everyone about unexploded ordnance: old bullets & grenades, that sort of thing.

Sure enough, when we went to set up our tent in our alloted campsite, we found a rusty old grenade on the ground. Would the organizers mind awfully removing this please? Sure, not a problem, they looked it over, decided it was an expired smoke grenade and took it away.

It seems you can never have too many army tanks at Jukola. There was a pair flanking the main entrance to the arena, one guarding the Start and three more parked next to the children’s creche.

Finnish kids must be a bit over jumping castles. I joined some 4 to 5-year olds clambering over and inside a tank on display. At 190cm, crewing a tank is something I’ve outgrown, but kids have plenty of space. Not to worry, even though we weren’t allowed to drive the tank and all the shells were removed, it was still great fun.

Starting the first leg of Venla and Jukola is astonishing. 1600 orienteers wait in neat rows of 20 overlooked by

a tank ready to signal the start with its cannon. Three minutes before the start they remember to hand out the maps & over a hundred volunteers issue them, walking along the rows to hand them to each runner. There are repeated warnings not to look at your map and the machinegunner on top of the tank glares at the runners. Nobody looks at their map. The countdown ends, the tank fires its cannon and the machine-gunner puts in a short burst. The Venla start is apallingly fast, but Jukola is even worse: some men look like they run a 2:30 min first kilometre.

Without much rain for two months, everything was unusually dry, so the first leg runners literally departed in a cloud of dust. A huge screen (10x15m) relayed footage from controls, and later showed excerpts of the map. The Venla Relay continues throughout the afternoon, with teams having until 8pm to finish their courses, with plenty of light at that hour.

Someone of my acquaintance accidentally skipped a control. When she downloaded, an official politely asked her to move to a separate area. The organizers always set aside a special zone literally known as the “Wailing Wall” to deal with delinquents. Miscreants are offered a drink, gently interrogated about their run and receive a quiet explanation of their infringement. They are asked whether they wish to challenge the finding. My acquaintance admitted her error, was asked to sign a confession and this was immediately countersigned by an official.

She also waived all future rights to appeal.

Everyone agreed she should come again to a future Jukola to find all her controls and she was then allowed to leave. It was

an impressive display of firm but very courteous management. With 20,000 participants you need to be tough at the “Wailing Wall”.

In the evening, before the Jukola starts, varied entertainment is offered on a large stage at one side of the arena.

Unfortunately, there was a scheduling mishap. Just as the Finnish Army Conscripts band started their performance, an airforce fighter jet turned up to show off. While the band played bravely on, the jet flew overhead; upside down at an absurdly low height and speed. It scooted off for a half minute, then returned for a vertical pirouette, the jet engines drowning out the band. Not that they were getting much help from their conductor; he was vaguely waving his baton at the musicians while watching the aerobatics over his shoulder.

The Jukola start is around dusk at 11pm. The first leg runners need headlamps, even though it’s still quite light. At a minute before the start they switch their headlamps on; collectively, the effect is dazzling from a hundred metres away. Some of them are bright enough for a car’s headlights. I had hoped to run a shorter leg without needing a headlamp. I was given the 15km last leg.

Wonderful. 15 km was further than the total amount of orienteering I’d done in Finland. I couldn’t even remember the last time I’d run further than 10km.

The teams are running all through the night, but I slept from about midnight through to 6am. I slept reasonably well, and met some of my team mates who’d run early legs and now could barely walk.

I returned to the arena, passing some at

Venla spectator control - count the punch units.

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JUKOLA RELAY

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Nicky Nygh in pink and black.

a well-stocked bar set up by some young men who may or may not have finished their runs.

The top teams’ last leg runners finished at about 7am; 8 hours after the start. For the rest of us waiting on our 2nd last runner, there’s a mass start at 9am (for any remaining 2nd to 6th leg runners there’s a mass start at 9:20am: it’s bigger than the first leg mass start).

Once again, the organization was outstanding, as they processed about a thousand of us for the last leg mass start in about 30 mins (and then started preparing for the next mass start 20 mins later).

We all lined up next to our maps on the boards and then set off in a surprisingly ordered fashion.

So began my Jukola run. I’d never even been in a Relay start with a hundred runners on my course, let alone a thousand. There was a vehicle track to follow for the first few hundred metres before we came to a large felled area that had been slow run up until 15,000 competitors had run over it. It was trampled into a network of paths with at least 10 different lines of last leg runners snaking across it.

This was disconcerting for someone who gets queue anxiety in supermarket checkouts. One of the other lines had to be moving faster than the one I was in. The ground was rough enough to discourage stepping off the newly made track, but

the line I was in wasn’t moving fast enough. I then decided that with 14 km to go, I could afford to be patient. Not only that, someone at the head of my line navigated straight to my first control! Another line formed and found its way to my 2nd control.

Somehow I avoided the fate of those who ran up to the flag, checked the code and turned away without punching. Searching for the right control wasn’t going to be easy. At the first few controls there were 10 punch units at each flag, and I never saw a control with less than 4 punches.

The race continued like this through many controls: choose the line of orienteers you wanted to run with and keep an eye on the map. Several times I wondered what proper etiquette should be?

Do I run up to the head of the line and offer to help navigate? Should I offer encouragement? Tell them what a great job they’re doing? They really didn’t need my advice.

There was quite a few young women running the long leg too. Presumably they were on a 15km recovery jog after their Venla race the day before.

That would explain why I could keep up with them.

After 10 km we reached a critical point. Before the start I’d watched live coverage of the winning teams’ last leg runners on the big screen. The map was projected onto the screen and it showed split controls #19 & #20 in a large patch of light green.

The commentators thought that it would be tough.

No kidding.

Altogether the sadistic course setter had placed 8 controls in that thick vegetation.

By my 18th control, all my companions had abandoned me: I would have to face the scary green on my own. I could be bold and run straight, or run around the edge, avoiding the saplings and thickets of lost orienteers. As usual, gross cowardice paid off and I found the control nicely by ducking into the green at the last possible moment. Then another short leg in green before a long stretch heading back to the Finish.

Before the race, I’d been told that if I was on my own at Jukola, I was probably lost. There was still some company, but I was navigating all by myself and it felt very strange. Fortunately, I found my last few controls cleanly; it had been nearly two hours and I was ready to finish.

My wife saw a figure run up the chute wearing my O suit, with my ponderous loping stride, but completely the wrong hair colour. After a couple of hours in the dry dusty forest, I was covered in dirt, with dust all through my hair. It was even on my teeth. At the download, all the officials’ laptops had a thick coating of dust too and I wonder how long those lasted?

The course doesn’t close until 3pm, 16 hours after the Jukola start. Even though the top teams have long finished others are trickling in for the rest of the day. You have to admire people who assemble a team of 7 non-orienteers to run a total of 80 km through really demanding terrain. It would have been nice to have an Australian club team. After all, who’s going to run the last long leg?

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2018 MASTERS GAMES

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n October 2018, Alice Springs held the Masters Games, an event that sees the town swarming with athletes from all over Australia. Included here, and only for the second time, was Orienteering – a mammoth collection of Orienteering events including mountain bike, bush, sprint and night, organised by Susanne Casanova and Kay Haarsma. These well-run events ignited significant interest in the Alice Springs community, and culminated in a casual gathering to plan a calendar of events out to the next year.

One festive evening in mid-December, the Alice Springs community gathered in the park for the East Side twilight event.

Serenaded by the sounds of the musical Gosse Street Christmas party, also making the most of the rather warm evening and lovely green lawn beside Spencer Hill, around 15 people gathered to undertake a 45-minute-long course.

At 6:30pm they were off: a mix of speedy runners, a group of scouts, an enthusiastic group of children, and some experienced long-timers. With 17 controls scattered across the suburbs, as well as a couple of bush controls (including one control painfully located at the top of a hill), only one orienteer managed to clear the course – congratulations to Oliver Johns, with a blistering time of 40 minutes.

Thanks to Lachlan Hallett for the map, Susanne Casanova and Kay Haarsma for their guidance on running of events, and Bec Strickland for her excellent attention to detail as co-organiser.

For those in Alice Springs, keep an eye out for the next couple of events – at Flynns Grave and the Telegraph Station.

Keep in touch via our Facebook page, Red Centre Orienteers.

Orienteering - the family sport.

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Peter and Ilze Yeates from DROC-V attended the 2018 Alice Springs Masters Games and competed in the Orienteering events. In the current edition of their club magazine Pete wrote :“as we gathered in the cool of a Central Australian evening and watched the surrounding ranges glowing in the sunset, we were a little nervous. Night Orienteering on a Golf Course, who had thought of such a thing? There were bemused looks from the players on the adjacent bowling green as we gathered at the Start, particularly when we took off in all directions into the night.

In a few strides the nerves had gone and the hairs were standing up, this was simply glorious. Under a clear sky and with half a moon, soft grass under foot (“keep off those greens Pete”). Sand traps to avoid but great navigational aids. Controls near bunkers and then out onto the wilds of the open fairways, running, always running, avoiding the rough and watching the fairy light dance as others converged on a “bridge over sand trap”.

It was the best time of my life, I even managed to win the Gold in M70 but I would have gladly given it back to be able to go around again. My favourite night orienteering event is and probably always will be, Venice. My greatest disappointment was in 2012 when we went to the Istanbul 5 Day and they changed the night event away from the Grand Bazaar. Was this event as good as those? Probably not, but my goodness it was bloody wonderful”.

If it’s 12 noon this must be south.

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Two big firsts for MELBOURNE … and AUSTRALIA!

DEBBIE DODD (DANDENONG RANGES ORIENTEERING CLUB)

We are beyond excited to be introducing two new race formats to the Australian orienteering calendar this year – Indoor Sprinting, and City Racing.

In 2018, we did some field research in Europe (well, someone has to ……) and experienced them first hand. Peter Dalwood and Pam King competed in the much talked about Naerum Gymnasium Indoor Sprint in Denmark as part of the World Masters (as featured in The Australian Orienteer magazine’s September 2018 edition, pp35-37), while Ian and I took part in the London City Race, which has been attracting up to a thousand competitors for the past 10 years.

It’s time to bring these races to Australia. Melbourne is ready to be the first – are you?

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ver since we first laid eyes on Monash Uni’s incredible new Learning and Teaching Building, we’ve had designs on it for an indoor Sprint. Would they let us race around their shiny new showpiece, or would they deem the risk too great?

We’re delighted to say that the Monash team is on board as partners, and are as enthusiastic about the idea as we are!

Drawing on the mapping technique used so effectively in Denmark by Mikkel Kaae-Nielsen (former Coach-in-Residence in Victoria) and his compatriots, and the amazingly detailed base map provided by Monash, Peter is now working on a very different type of puzzle – how to translate multiple levels, numerous stairs (some of which don’t seem to go anywhere), and all sorts of oddly shaped spaces, into a readable map? Here’s a sneak peek – but you’ll have to come to the event to see the finished product for yourself!

The Indoor Sprint will take place in the morning, followed by a classic Outdoor Sprint using the rest of Monash’s Clayton Campus, in the afternoon. There’ll be a range of courses to suit everyone; though you’ll need to be fit enough to climb the many stairs(!). More information, and online entry, will be available in Eventor after Easter.

Ground 1st Floor

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MELBOURNE CITY RACE WEEKEND, OCTOBER 11-13 www.melbournecityrace.com.au

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ondon, Paris, Rome, Barcelona – now Melbourne !! City Races have taken Europe by storm recently, with a rapidly expanding calendar, and an ever-growing fan base.

The first-ever MCR weekend is timed perfectly to fit in with the Oceania Carnival.

Continue your Orienteering road trip from Beechworth, down the Hume, and discover Melbourne from a new point of view, with three days of top quality urban racing. What a great way to extend your holiday!

City Races are medium-long distance events in Sprint style – complex urban areas, short legs, lots of direction changes and route choice – but with courses 3-10 km in length.

They feature colour maps at 1:4,000 or 1:5,000 scale, and Sportident/SI Air punching.

Locations are carefully chosen to showcase the host city and its landmarks. While ours are still under wraps, the Melbourne City Race venues will be easily accessible by public transport (and it’s free in the CBD).

Enjoy all that Melbourne has to offer – fabulous food, amazing shopping, and accommodation for all budgets.

Preliminary program: Friday October 11 – Sunset Sprint.

An evening urban Sprint to get you revved up and ready.

Saturday October 12 – Sprint Into Spring Race 1.

A classic Sprint distance campus race, part of Melbourne’s massively popular Saturday afternoon Sprint Series.

Sunday October 13 - the big one! The inaugural Melbourne City Race on Sunday morning is a long distance urban event that will take you to places old and new.

Don’t miss the chance to say: “I was there in 2019”. Make a trip (or two) to Melbourne!

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HEADING NORTH

Magnetic North is on the Move (extracts from an ABC Science article by Genelle Wuele)

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ver the past 40 years the north magnetic pole has been drifting northwest from Canada to Siberia at the rate of 50 kilometres a year. The pole’s recent speed up is just one of a number of anomalies that have unexpectedly thrown the world’s magnetic field map slightly out of whack and prompted an earlierthan-scheduled update. Since GPS doesn’t rely on the magnetic field only people who use compasses to navigate around are affected and most of them are used to making corrections.

So, why do the poles wander?

There are three different kinds of north and south poles on Earth, which are all in slightly different locations. The geographic poles are the points of the Earth’s spin axis. They are directly opposite each other.

The geomagnetic poles are points where Earth’s magnetic field is vertical based on mathematical modelling of a global average.

They are directly opposite each other and haven’t moved that much in the past 100 years.

The magnetic poles are the points on Earth where the compass needle is vertical. They are not directly opposite each other, and they constantly shift at different speeds.

European explorers embarked on gruelling expeditions in the 19th century in search of the magnetic poles. James Clark Ross reached the north magnetic pole in 1831. Roald Amundsen found the pole again in a different spot in 1903. Ernest Shackleton claimed to locate the south magnetic pole in 1909, but the location was disputed, and both poles have moved on since then.

While the north magnetic pole has made a beeline across the International Date Line towards Siberia over the past 119 years, the south magnetic pole has moved 580 kilometres and now sits 220 kilometres off the coast of Antarctica in the Australian economic zone.

The reason for the wandering is because the Earth’s magnetic field isn’t based around a perfect bar magnet stuck through the Earth’s core. Instead, it’s created by a layer of molten iron in the Earth’s outer core, which is constantly moving.

As a result, the magnetic poles also move. And they do it independently of each other — which bizarrely means the north and south poles aren’t even directly opposite each other.

CSIRO senior geoscientist Clive Foss said: “People get excited when it appears to speed up or slow down, but it’s unlikely we’re seeing anything that’s part of a more substantial swing.”

Why does the magnetic field move?

The lion’s share of the protective magnetic bubble surrounding us is created by swirling molten iron in the outer core 3000 kilometres below our feet.

As the Earth rotates around its axis it creates twisted vortices of iron particles that carry a current, which in turn, generates a magnetic field. The unpredictable rise and fall of these turbulent underground systems causes constant changes in the magnetic field.

Earth’s magnetic fields are created by a combination of rotation and convection currents in the molten outer core.

Movement of North magnetic pole World Data Center for Geomagnetism Kyoto University.

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“Decade to decade you get variations as you might in the weather day to day in the atmosphere”, said geophysicist Louis Moresi of the University of Melbourne. “If one gets a little stronger than the others it pulls the magnetic field in that direction.”

Orienteering maps show magnetic North, so should we be changing them to cope with this movement of the magnetic poles? The short answer is No. The long answer is that the rate of movement is quite slow in our time scale and the east coast of Australia sits at around longitude 145 degrees E which makes the rate of angular movement very small – so, again No. It might be a different matter for European countries at around 20 degrees E.

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A Tale of Two Sprints Editorial reprinted from CompassSport (UK), October 2018 NICK BARRABLE, EDITOR

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his year I decided to embrace the CRET series. CRET stands for the City Race European Tour. I write this having just done one of the UK rounds, followed the weekend after by a Spanish round. Both were enjoyable, but quite different, and with my UK spectacles on, it took me until after the Spanish Race to see what we British were good at and they were lacking in, and where we were letting ourselves down, and they were excelling.

Which weekend was better or more enjoyable will vary, depending on a multitude of factors, but we should nevertheless not rest on our British laurels and learn from other nations. It isn’t just the sunshine which make southern Europe events appealing.

It is very British to focus on the technical side of the event.

The controls must be in exactly the right place, perfectly described descriptions with accurately measured course length and climb. The map should be printed from an accredited printer and conform to specific ISSOM norms. A wall is a wall and not a crag. But how big a deal is it if my

rootstock is described as a ‘ruined tree’, or my flag is on a fence end rather than wall end? Maybe the climb is very inaccurate. The flag is still in the centre of the circle.

People should know what they are getting. SIAC punching stated at the point of entering. City racing is park and urban, not forest. Courses not too long and not too short. Routes to the Start are clearly marked. One weekend had issues with all of these.

When I finished my races on one weekend, I was greeted with friendly smiles and a choice or Coke, Fanta (two types!), Sports Drink or water, cake, various fruit, nuts and the like.

On both weekends I was a sweaty mess at the Finish, but the other weekend I got nothing but a congratulatory “Well done Nick” when I reached the Finish (Thanks Ian!).

At the end of the weekend at one race we gathered to honour those who conquered the courses best. Local produce of sausages – OK, not great for the vegetarians – were handed out to the top 3, along with a certificate, and the Elites got small headlamps too. There were also spot prizes to random finishers. At the other weekend we just drifted away to travel home as and when.

It is important to reflect on these differences and on which event might be more or less appealing to different types of Orienteer – beginner to expert, young to old. As a sport for all we must appeal and cater for all! And that includes getting in vegetarian sausages ….………

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2018 VIC SPRINT Championships

Sprinting the School of Mines PHOTOS – IAN DAVIES (DROC)

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nyone that was at the Ballarat Aussie Championships Carnival in 2015, and who attended the mid-week Score course event, will remember the small section of the course in the Federation Univ School of Mines buildings. Tightly packed, historical, challenging - with passages, bridges, stairways, canopies, and garden beds, adding the icing to the hillside building ‘cake’.

Although small, it looked like a great place for an orienteering Sprint race.

So, when notice of this came up as the finale to the Melbourne Sprint into Spring series (and also as the OV Sprint Championships for 2018), it became a must do – proving to be every bit as exciting as first thought. Roch Prendergast did the mapping and set the courses, the Eurekas hosted the assembly, and deflected the questions about the chilly weather. But when you see Blake Gordon and Roch on the team sheet, you know you are in for a treat – no matter what the weather.

In summary - one of the greatest Sprint O challenges in the country. Fast, furious, confusing, discombobulating. You ran, you stopped, you ran again. There was little time to scratch your head and wonder, there was no time to think. It was a madness of navigation, decision making and execution at high speed – with many leg options only revealed at a post race coffee debrief! It was an event well worth a bit of reporting for those that missed it.

Blake Gordon.

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Amber Louw.

The campus comprised two building groups. The assembly area was in the midst of the smaller western, and level, building group – with run-through taping greeting our arrival. Competitors already knew the scale was 1:3,000 and there would be a map flip – at the run-through as it turned out. The Start was around the perimeter road with a 50m run from the map boxes to the triangle. Around a corner out of sight of those that arrived, nervously early at the clock – and stood wondering. A beautiful beginning.

To give readers a flavour of the event, several legs across a few of the courses are worth a closer look.

The beginning often sets the scene, and Roch didn’t disappoint.

Of the opening legs, all downhill amidst the eastern or hillside buildings, Course 5 might be the pick, with the seemingly more direct passageway and stair drop option hiding the probably faster ‘round the road and in’ alternative. A classic leg to open the account. The Course 1 & 2 openers ended slightly higher up and didn’t invite this wider route choice, although the alleyway entries, canopies and stairways needed careful reading – and at the 1:3,000 map scale, easy to overshoot.

Continuing with Course 5, leg #1-2 was a really difficult one to decide on, with walls and olive green to the east, much climbing back up to the west, and the mid-level through route hard to initially decipher. The second leg on the M21 course (Course 1) was also brilliantly conceived, with a reverse engine option (always difficult), a mid-leg rise, or a double-sided option around the final building. Much twisting and turning amid height reclaiming.

Courses then looped back upon themselves, entering and exiting semi-closed courtyards and negotiating garden beds and pathways in a press of runners in often quite confined spaces.

COURSE 1 OV Sprint Champs 2018 M21, M35, M20 1 3.5 km 68m 60 m 1 31 2 32 Feuerherdt-Evan Gavens-Mia Gavens.

Joshua 3 111 4 34 5 54 6 37 7 38 8 39 9 40 10 41 11 48 12 52 13 101 75 m 14 42 15 44 16 45 17 35 18 46 19 47 20 55 55 m Course Setter: Roch Prendergast

www.condes.net 9.7.8 Bayside Kangaroos Orienteering Club OV Sprint Championships 2018.wcd

Caitlyn Steer.

The short low to high leg #4-5 (both Courses 1 & 2) offered puzzled as they were suddenly ‘lost’ – especially on the shorter Mapper: nothing short, with the northern stair/passageway route involving courses, where (in contrast to the short ‘Part 2’ beginning for November 2018 constant map attention, and the (slightly southern option the longer courses), they plunged back down in a welter of alley, Roch longer) Prendergast needing greater speed. If you hadn’t planned this on the way canopy, stair and longer leg indecision. Leg #9-10 on Course 5 in to #4, you’d be struck dumb in indecision.

A great leg.

The a great example.

A few ran back past the OVlonger Sprint Champs 2018 - 1 - 3.5 km - 1:3,000 - 7/01/2019 8:33 PMArena and those tricky courses then crossed Grant Street via the aerial footbridge, “easy” controls. Once into Part 2, Roch had runners again going in adding length (and puff) as height was lost and regained, before circular fashion, the climbing and dropping an unrelenting feature returning to the main campus and intensive thinking. The #9-10 of the map – and his courses. Leg #12-13 on Course 5 another legs for Courses 1 & 2 a huge trap if you didn’t turn instantly good example, with the two stair/garden bed options bisecting the right on exiting the footbridge. Both these courses then demanded building, or a fast road route to the south a very viable option for intensive stairway reading (and climbing) to get back to the map the speedsters. One many wouldn’t have seen. change. Exhausting legs.

The event concluded with an exhausted ‘release’ uphill from As competitors ran towards the spectator run-through they the eastern building group intricacies and a final flog to the tree encountered two “easy” controls just before entering the Arena. and the chute home. Courses 1 & 2 both finished uphill around Several must have relaxed a little when they saw one control but the northern road outskirts, but in reaching that penultimate street failed to notice the other or to check the control code. The result corner fence control, Course 2 runners were forced into making a – a dreaded mispunch as they flogged around the second loop classic route choice decision amidst the visual map ‘noise’ leaving all for nought. Tricky course setting by Roch to catch out some of control #16 – stairs, passageways (two ways), shorter - or round those who weren’t concentrating. the road edge, longer. Brain speed vs leg speed - everything Sprint Orienteering should involve.

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For most, it was all over too soon. Course lengths and winning times were close to the <15min mark, with maybe the climbing slowing things a touch. One thing apparent after the event was how difficult it was to read the contours ‘through’ the dark grey building colour on the run. It looked almost a flat area until you began, but then contours are not such a planning factor in sprinting, just something to cope with once underway. Another interesting reflection on the courses, was the intensity and close cropping of controls. No let up, with many, many legs sub one minute, and few if any going beyond two minutes. How it should be when the terrain allows.

Despite the small map size (the campus only filled about half the A5 sheet!), the cartography was beautifully done, with good clarity to the OOB and non-crossable features – an absolute delight to run with. The small nature of the School of Mines didn’t allow for the long ‘quality 3’ (David May notation) legs possible in bigger Sprint environments (Monash Univ, UNSW, etc), instead demanding the constant control intensity (‘quality 1 & 2’) in course planning so well delivered by Roch.

The campus is well worth travelling for if a return gig is ever on offer.

M-W 75s.

COURSE 2 OV Sprint Champs 2018 M45, W21, W20 2 3.2 Km 67m 60 m 1 51 2 49 3 111 4 34 5 54 6 53 7 38 8 39 9 40 10 41 11 46 Mason Arthur.

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Milla Key-Sammy Love-Luke Feuerherdt-Ashley White.

Jensen Key.

Dennis Mews.

Tash Key discovers a glass door.

COURSE 5 Victoria Greenhan.

William Davey.

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FUTURE SUMMEROFSPRINTS O

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he series of five Sprint events was run in Adelaide over the Australia Day long weekend, forming a training event for the elite orienteers from SA and interstate as well as lots of fun for other orienteers. There was even two overseas entrants – orienteers from Macau – Jenny Kam (currently studying at Uni SA) and Kong Chak Lon. The event was conceived by Bridget Anderson and Jim Russell, the OA Head Coach, who also ran all the SI each day.

The events were: Friday 25th – night event on the Belair Golf Course part of Belair NP. Course planner – Adrian Uppill. This proved challenging for many to be certain which fairway or which group of trees you were in at night.

Saturday 26th – AM – elites ran a time trial on the North Adelaide University loop; fastest was Martin Dent, who has previously represented Australia in athletics and cross country, and more recently focussed on Orienteering.

Saturday 26th – PM – Heathfield – the Sprint map of the high school has been extended into Woorabinda by Olly Williams, who also planned the courses. The combination of bush and urban proved challenging.

Sunday 27th – AM – Flinders University South – courses by Patrick Jaffe and Jim Russell. Here the elites ran heats, followed by a semifinal mass start knockout on courses with looping. This decided the Final for the evening’s event. Others ran a normal course (Medium and Short). Locals Simon Uppill, Dante Afnan and Bridget Anderson made the A final.

Sunday 27th – PM – Flinders University North – courses by Jenny Casanova. The elite A Finals were mass starts on a course with no looping. A bunch of six men with Martin Dent leading ran past the Finish, however a decisive route choice by Simon Uppill on the second last control #13 - #14 gave him the overall win. Those who went the other way had to negotiate several stairs and do a 180 degree turn into #14. Simon took 46sec for this leg compared with 52sec for Joe Woodley, 58sec for Aston Key and a fast 59sec for Tara Melhuish.

Apart from that leg, Simon won only three others, but it was enough to cement a course win and the win overall.

Simon Uppill in the knock-out Final.

Monday 28th – AM – the final event was at Mt Barker – with courses by Jim Russell. Presentations to the overall winners (best 4 of 5 races) were given with successful SA Orienteers being.

Open Men................. Simon Uppill Medium Men............ M ax Grivell, just ahead of Steve Cooper Medium Women...... Zara Soden Short......................... Jan Hillyard

All results are at: https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/ Events/ResultList?eventId=7566&eventRaceId=7854 &overallResults=True&groupBy=EventClass

Max Grivell.

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Flinders University North OPEN COURSE

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Belair Golf Course Scale 1:5000 Contour Interval 5m

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EVOC Summer Cup 2019 12 to 20 January

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n 8-event Series in nine days with mostly Sprint formats and a Long Distance and Middle Distance to finish off the Series. Quite a brave undertaking for a smallish regional Tasmanian club like EVOC (Esk Valley Orienteering Club).

Fortunately EVOC had the services of their two Coaches-in-Residence, Russians Katya Savkina and Ksenia Torganova, who set the courses for five of the eight events. Congratulations to everyone who took part in the EVOC Summer Cup. Eight fantastic events over nine days in Northern Tasmania.

Orienteering Tasmania’s website report added: “Thank you to Rod and Jo Bissett, Paul Pacque and Katya and Ksenia for the course setting, to Paul Pacque for overall organisation, to Dirk Nankervis for results and for all those members who assisted in promotion, organisation and assistance at events. Prizes were awarded to winners following each event, culminating with Major prizes, special awards and spot prizes. We thank the generous support of Coronea Olives, Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm and EVOC for the Tasmanian Produce used for prizes.”

Russian Coach in Residence Katya Savkina.

Overall Winner of Long Distance Paul Pacque (EVOC).

Lynnda Coffey (EVOC).

Jon McComb (ALT).

King and Queen of the Mountain - Euan Best (EVOC) and Eleanor McLean (EVOC).

Overall Winner Short Janet Bush (ALT).

Russian Coach in Residence - Ksenia Torganova.

Carlin White (EVOC).

Russian Coach Ksenia Torganova helps Alice Patten (EVOC).

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2019 AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS

Order of Australia Medal to Geoff Hudson Details in the Governor General’s citation read: Mr Geoffrey Drury HUDSON, Box Hill South VIC 3128 For service to youth through Scouts.

Scouts Victoria • Founder, Scout Adventure Racing, since 2011 • Examiner, Pursuits, Queens Scout Award, since 2011 • Adult Helper, since 2017 • Office Bearer, Scouts Victoria, 2011-2017 • District Rostered Parent, Whitehorse District, 2011-2017 • Scout Leader, 9th Box Hill Scout Group, 1993-2000 Awards and Recognition include: • Meritorious Service Award, Scouts Australia, 2016 • 10 Year Service Award, Scouts Australia, 2014 • 5 Year Service Award, Scouts Australia, 1998

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eoff founded the Scout Adventure Racing Series in Melbourne suburbs in 2011 and has since staged 22 or more events each summer, producing high quality colour maps, a low-cost electronic punching system (now with proximity punching), as well as a web-based and email results service with commentary, photos, route-choices and coaching advice, all within 24 hours of each event.

The outcome has been well over 4,000 participants during the season, averaging 160 – 190 attendees at each event and ranging up to more than 300 at some. Initially, new attendees are Scout troops accompanied by parents, siblings and friends. But when Scouts are on holiday there is a core group of some 150 participants who have ‘caught the bug’ and attend every week.

Thus the program has morphed into Suburban Adventure Racing.

Most of this core group were new to Orienteering at the start and some have liked it so much that they have joined Orienteering clubs to take part in Orienteering Victoria events, including last year’s Victorian Sprint Championships.

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Scouts at Shepherds Bush.

Each Tuesday of the summer, a new course is set at a different venue, with a small group of Scout leaders putting out electronic controls in the morning. Late afternoon sees a slightly larger group arrive to set up Registration tables, Start & Finish chutes, electronic results systems and the all-important water table, all under the direction of Geoff’s wife Schon. It’s become a well-oiled system.

When Scout troops are attending they advise expected numbers ahead of time and, if numbers are large, a group of coaches and helpers are on hand to guide the excitable and excited Scouts, Cubs, Joeys and Venturers through the starting process, often with map-reading advice to the many first-timers. When the venue is a Scout Hall the host troop will often put on a sausage sizzle as a welcome feed for tired finishers and a fund-raiser for the troop.

The Victorian Rogaining Association should also be congratulated for providing logistical backing from inception of the program.

Geoff commented “Let’s do what we do as well as we can - and hopefully others will see that they can copy some of the ideas that have worked for us. At the moment, we’re just one tiny series reaching about 1200 Scouts in Victoria. There are 75,000 Scouts in Australia - we need to work out how we can reach them all”.

Girl Guides.

Orienteering Victoria Vice-President David Jaffe posted: A huge congratulations to Geoff Hudson on receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on Australia Day. Geoff has been an extraordinary contributor to Orienteering and Scouts events as an organiser, mapper, course setter, coach, leader and innovator (among many other roles). He is renowned for his immense passion and the tireless effort he puts in. Thanks to Geoff’s involvement, hundreds (if not thousands) of people of all ages have had a fantastic introduction to the sport, making him thoroughly deserving of this recognition.

Finish control

Blackburn Lake Scale 1:4000 Printed here at 90%

Other orienteers who were awarded OAMs on Australia Day were: Gwennyth Baker (BK-V) for service to community health; and Margaret Dunbar (BK-V) for service to athletics.

Volunteers help scouts register.

Download table.

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2019 AUSTRALIA DAY HONOURS

In a press release acknowledging the valuable assistance of the volunteer helpers, Geoff wrote: “The ability to read maps and use them to navigate from one point to another is still important in our modern world. Since its beginning in 2010, the free activity that we run each Tuesday evening (in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs) has entertained and educated almost 10,000 children and many local families – and is now the biggest navigation series in Australia.

In 2010 we approached the Scout Association with a proposal to bring some cross-country navigation techniques into local scouting. As a leader in scouting and subsequently a coach in navigation sports, it seemed that both of these groups could benefit by working together more closely. We agreed at the time to run a series of training events over summer each year for a trial period of three years.

We started in 2011, with a miniscule turnout of 15 people per event – but with regular promotion and help from some wonderful volunteers, we’ve grown to an average attendance of about 200 per week. In 2018 – our 8th year, we trained more than 1200 children in how to read maps and provided a one hour activity for them to try out their new skills.

The series is sponsored by the Victorian Rogaining Association – a body that runs a range of navigational activities for teams of 2-5 people. The Rogaining focus on teams is ideal for families or friends that want to participate together and is a good fit with the Scouting Association’s team based approach.

We’re immensely grateful to the Scout Association for allowing us to contribute in this way and accept this award on behalf of our volunteers and helpers that pitch in each week to provide an activity for local families.

For anyone interested in joining us, our series runs every Tuesday evening during summer from 6:00 – 8:00pm in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne. It’s inexpensive – entry is only $2 per adult and kids are free. For this, we provide participants with a one hour walk or run through some of the wonderful parks in and around the City of Whitehorse – to support the activity we provide colour maps, electronic timing, instant results and entertaining web reports.

See our website at suburbanadventure.com.au for more information.”

Map printed here at 67%.

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MOUNTAIN BIK E

NSW MTBO Championships

TEERING IEN OR

AUSTRALIAN SELECTION TRIALS APRIL 6-7 – NEWCASTLE, NSW Photos: Rob Prentice

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he 2019 NSW Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships will be held in Newcastle on April 6-7 and will double as the Australian Selection Trials for the World Championships and Junior World Championships (to be held in Denmark July 28 - August 3).

They will also be Round 1 of the National MTBO Series.

The NSW Championships will revisit the Holmesville area, much of which was updated for the recent Port-to-Port MTB endurance event.

Program: •S at 6th April - NSW Sprint Championships Kevin Evans Oval, Holmesville

Age classes M12, W12, M14, W14, M16, W16, M17-20, W17-20, M21, W21, M40, W40, M50, W50, M60, W60, M70, W70, M80, W80, Recreational, e-bike.

Competitors riding in the recreational class (nonchampionship) may ride in pairs.

Entry Fees Event

Senior*

Junior*

Recreational & e-bike

Sprint

$30

$15

$15

Middle

$30

$15

$15

Long

$30

$15

$20

•S at 6th April - NSW Middle Distance Championships Fairley Dams, O’Donnelltown

These entry fees apply to members of Orienteering clubs.

•S un 7th April (am) - NSW Long Distance Championships Holmesville/Killingworth

* Non-members add $5. Non-members may enter any of the Senior or Junior age classes but are not eligible for trophies.

Camping is available at Sugarloaf Pony Club opposite the event assembly area, Kevin Evans Oval, for $6 per head per night but you must book - email: gregbacon63@gmail.com.

Australian MTBO competition rules apply to all events. All maps will conform to current IOF specifications. Maps will be on waterproof paper.

Enter-on-Day will only be available in Recreational and e-bike classes.

Read the event Bulletin and enter via Eventor.

Entries close on Sunday March 31.

The event director is Greg Bacon (gregbacon63@gmail.com or 0401 889 688).

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

Newcomers in MTBO CAROLYN JACKSON (BK-V)

Heading off at the You Yangs, VIC.

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ictoria and New South Wales have recently been enjoying some success with a large boost to the number of newcomers coming to their low-key summer series MTBO events.

In fact, in early February at Lysterfield in Victoria, there was a record turnout of 100 people, over half being newcomers.

This followed another great turnout at the You Yangs a fortnight before. Both these areas are fantastic and well known mountain biking areas, with plenty of fun single-track suitable for both beginner riders and the experienced.

Similarly, the Newcastle club in NSW has capitalised on improvements to their large Killingworth single track network, which had a huge boost through the iconic Port to Port MTB race being run through there in May last year. Rave reviews from all who rode ensured word gets around. A lot of work in track maintenance and building has gone into, and continues, from local MTBO stalwarts.

Queensland has also run targeted beginner-friendly events relatively close to their cities.

Thor Egerton hitting the You Yangs trails.

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Post race debrief at Hawkemount, NSW. Preparing for the start at the You Yangs, VIC.

Hawkemount junior.

None of this happens on its own and, as is well known, social media can play a big role in getting yourself noticed. Newcastle has tapped into the Facebook pages of local mountain bike clubs, posting videos, articles and links to upcoming events.

What’s more, they have really pursued this, keeping up a constant exposure to these clubs and orienteers in general.

In Victoria, there has been a campaign of targeted posts on their Facebook page which in turn gets more ‘likes’ and ‘shares’, which then generates the event getting noticed within other sporting groups, such as rogainers, adventure racers and mountain bikers. Reaching out to people in obvious cross-over sports seems to be very successful.

Another key ingredient is to keep these targeted events local so that travel time is not too long. The ‘score’ format is also very popular as there is no such thing as a DNF, plus you get a valid time and score no matter how long or short a time you are out. This is also perfect for little kids who will get a result even if they become tired.

As is done at urban foot O events (such as the very successful MelBushO), free SI stick hire is provided, and additionally at the MTBO events mapboards are loaned for free.

However, due to such unexpected numbers at Lysterfield, we ran out of both mapboards and SI sticks, highlighting a need to investigate finding a cheaper version mapboard to source so we can always provide them to the newcomers.

Some suggestions are cheap plastic clipboards from Officeworks with Velcro straps, or A4 corflute boards with Velcro, which would be fine for beginners.

Most cities have relatively close mountain bike parks and suitable pockets of bush to create more maps suitable for these low key events. Also, many clubs have found some of their local foot O maps can be turned into MTBO maps.

So with great success at the local events, the challenge is getting the newcomers to become regulars at our higher level State events which are further afield ………

Assembly at Hawkemount.

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

Rideable areas on MTBO maps PETER CUSWORTH – VICTORIAN MTBO COORDINATOR

Working out where you are allowed to ride at an MTBO event can sometimes be problematic. You would think that something as basic as this should be pretty straightforward, but a number of issues have clouded this part of the sport which has resulted at some events of riders gaining an unfair advantage, and at other events, of riders being disqualified for an unintended transgression.

Photo: Roy Meuronen

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n Australia it is almost always the case that riding off mapped tracks is not permitted. In fact it is a condition of most permits from land managers that competitors are only permitted to ride on tracks in the forest or park, but in several countries in Europe, off track riding or walking cross-country carrying your bike is permitted. Depending on the vegetation, riders can navigate in a similar way to foot orienteers.

The MTBO Commission later formed a ISMTBOM review group and they published their findings and proposals in January 2016. These proposals contained some very useful suggestions as to how to solve some of the on-going mapping problems, but these have not yet been passed by the Map Commission either.

After lengthy discussion, the Review Group summarised: If off-track travel is generally forbidden in the terrain, symbol 839 may In recent years I have competed in a number of events in be used to show areas where off-track riding is temporarily allowed. waterof feature 405 Fore Europe where this was 314 theSpecial case. Most the time though, the off-track travel is allowed in most of the terrain, but only smaller Typically Aspecial small water feature. The definition of the symbol must If always be given in the 0.18 0.8 vegetation is so slow that is much quicker riding around sections are not allowed symbol 709 (out-of-bounds area) shall be used.too dens mapitlegend. on tracks than trying toColour: cut through.

But not always, and the blue. the map.

So the 2019 update of the Australian Rules for MTBO opportunity to cut through does not always appear so obvious Colour: w Competition recommendation is to use the orange symbol (839). to riders from Australia when symbols that are usually “non4.4 Vegetation Rule 16.2 Riding off the track or trail except across open areas406 Fore rideable” change to “rideable” and new route options appear. mapped as item 839 (open land permitted to ride – orange An area The current IOF International Specifications for MTBO colour) is Any variation to this, as agreed with30% forest pu The representation of vegetation is of importance to the competitor only for navigational purposes, notdisallowed. for route mapping (ISMTBOM) is dated 2010 and doesn’t say what symbols event choices.

For example, if the is dense of on the one different side of thesituation path and sparse on thethe other, thisadvisor, presents must be specifically advised by the event traverse. are rideable and what areforest not because organiser inunlike the final navigation and positioning information.

It is not necessary to grade the forest for “speed” purposes, in Bulletin. Planners should design courses Colour: g in different countries. There was an appendix section in the back so as to minimise maps for foot orienteering, only for visibility. In order to meet the demands for highest possible legibility, the 30 % any benefit gained from infringement of this with four suggested ways of mapping an area where off-track rule. The penalty for breaking this rule is disqualification from 412 Orch green colour used for symbol 406 (forest: reduced visibility) has been judged optimal. ø 0.45 0.8 riding is permitted. These were supposed have been decided upon the event.

Land pla by the IOF Commission by 2012, but nothing has416 happened.

It should alsoMap be noted that the foot orienteering symbols 414 and (cultivation boundaries) should be omitted direction since they with someofofhandling the symbolsoff-track used for tracks and paths. From the MTBO Commission ISMTBOM review – 2016 One ofmay thecause four confusion suggested ways riding instead o YELLOW GREEN Colour: y was the way we had done it in Australia for many years. We used 839 – Open land, permitted to ride COLOUR the Land symbol (401) and also the Open Land scattered An area of grassland that is permitted to ride, when TheOpen basic principle is as follows: 413 Vine trees to signify rideable areas. However, the most favoured off-track riding is otherwise forbidden. white(402) represents forest with good visibility, 1.3 The gree suggestion has been usedivided a newinto Orange yellow represents open to areas several coloured categories, symbol (839) 0.6 offOften the organiser needs the athletes to cross open fields even when areas be green represents the density of the forest according to its runnability. to signify “permitted to ride” areas. This orange symbol (839) is track riding is forbidden. For example at arena passing, through a park or to Colour: y 0.2 0.85 now commonly used in major European events. the finish line. Symbol may be used as an area symbol or line symbol such 401 Open land as 509.1 Cultivated land, fields, meadows, grassland, etc. without trees.

If yellow coloured 0.18 418, 419 0.8 From ISMTBOM 2010 Symbols 100% areas become dominant, a screen (75 %) instead of full yellow may be used. The ø 0.5 definition areas that are presented with the symbol 415 (cultivated land) in the foot orienteering 401 –map Open land It may take shall be presented with this symbol in the mountain bike orienteering map.a while to bring all maps up to standard, but doingColour: g Cultivated land, fields, meadows, grassland, etc. this will give riders a better chance of matching regulations in Colour: yellow. without trees. other countries, particularly for our Aussie team riders. We don’t 4.5 Man-made features 402 Open land with scattered trees want them suffering DNFs at world championships due to our with scattered trees or bushes, with grass or similar ground cover.

Areas Australian practices.

402 –Meadows Open land with scattered trees The track and path network provides 2 smaller than 10 mm on the map are shown as open land (401).

Individual trees may 50% Meadows with scattered trees or bushes, with I can remember a discussion many years also agoimportant after anboth for map reading besimilar added (418, 419, 420). grass or ground cover.

Australian Championships event about whether being allowed to Colour: yellow (20 lines/cm). ø 0.4 0.5 ride on yellow included every shade of yellow or not. If riding is 501 Moto 34 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2019 A road w 403 Rough open land Heath, moorland, felled areas, newly planted areas (trees lower than ca. 1 m) or other 0.18 not small 50%

only permitted on ‘orange’, then such discussions will be a thing of the past.

In some circumstances, using the orange (839) symbol is impractical such as with the 2018 Victorian Sprint Championships which included a golf course. The rideable areas were so large that such big chunks of orange would have made the contours impossible to see. Also, there is no suggested symbol for a “permitted to ride” area containing scattered trees, and there was plenty of those around the golf course. We decided to revert to using the Open land (401) and Open Land scattered trees (402) symbols for this event and notify competitors in the bulletin that these rules only applied to that particular event.

The orange (839) symbol is perfect for smaller areas such as grassy rides, or areas where jumping across from one single track to another is allowed, or areas where there are too many tracks to map in an open area.

The bulletin for each event is the place where organisers indicate which symbols are “permitted to ride”. However, I know from experience in organising events, that many competitors never get around to reading the bulletin and assume they know what to do from past events or just rely on listening to the many instructions read out on the start line in Australia. I can tell you that all event starts in Europe are silent. No instructions at that point. If you haven’t bothered reading the published bulletin, that is your problem. Having consistent and well-understood rules avoids these issues.

Many mappers have now taken to showing the rideable and non rideable symbols in the legend on the event map, which is good practice too. But getting consistency across all MTBO events in Australia should be our aim so that competitors know where they can legally ride.

A section of map from the 2017 World Masters Championships in France, where the rules for “off-track” riding are the same as in Australia, showing the orange “rideable area” symbol 839, the Open land symbol 401 (non rideable), plus the Rough open land scattered trees symbol 404 (non-rideable).

15-21 May 2019

Be inspired by the Swedish Orienteering Federation

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he Swedish Orienteering Federation has decided to take a more active role in World Orienteering Day 2019. Moa Olsson, newly appointed Children and Youth developer at the Swedish Orienteering Federation, says that they want to make the event more visible and that they will work hard with the marketing of WOD in the weeks before the event.

Further Moa says: ”If we succeed in this, I absolutely believe we can contribute to increasing the number of WOD activities around the country”.

The Swedish Orienteering Federation plans to advertise WOD on their website, in their social media channels and newsletters, and in the Swedish orienteering magazine “Skogssport”.

The Swedish Federation will send out letters to all the districts in Sweden with information about World Orienteering Day and encourage the districts to spread the information to local clubs.

In order to give some inspiration to new clubs and also to those who have been more active in previous years, the Swedish Orienteering Federation intend to produce a collection of fun and creative activities from previous years’ WODs. Moa says: “I believe that the message with WOD becomes more clear and noticeable if the WOD event is on a different day than on a “regular” event or training day”.

Concerning school activities, the Swedish Orienteering Federation hopes to be able to spread the message to clubs that they encourage each club to contacts a local school in the nearby area and adjust its WOD activity according to the knowledge level of the participants.

Moa says: “I will of course think about what the Swedish Orienteering Federation and I can contribute with. I will talk to clubs and hear what they think, they certainly have many good ideas!”

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

20 19 AUSTRALIAN MTBO CHAMPIONSHIPS F rid a y 2 5 to Su n d a y 2 7 O c t o b e r – M a r y b o r o u g h , Vi c t o r i a

Incorporating: • 2019 Victorian MTBO Championships • 2020 World Masters MTBO Series, Round 1 • 2019 National MTBO Series, Round 3 • 2019 Australia-New Zealand MTBO Challenge

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his year’s Australian MTBO Championships will be held in Victoria and centred around Maryborough over 25-27 October.

The Championships will also comprise the final round of the 2019 National MTBO Series, the first round of the 2020 World Masters Series, an Australia-New Zealand MTBO Challenge and the 2019 Victorian MTBO Championships.

Maryborough is approximately 170km from Melbourne or a bit over 2 hours drive.

The Mosquito Flat map at Maryborough was the scene for the relay in the 2004 World MTBO Championships, where Australia won bronze medals in both Men’s and Women’s races, and will be updated this year to host the first ever Australian Mass Start Championship. This exciting new format is now part of all World Championships, Elite, Junior and Masters, so it’s certainly time for us to incorporate the event into our Australian MTBO Championship program. The extra race means we need to use the Friday, so hence 3 days of racing.

So, there will be FOUR championships events contested over the 3 days – Sprint, Middle & Long Distance, and Mass Start, plus a training event, the Championships Dinner and an IOF-run Workshop for Organisers, Course setters and Controllers.

The Sprint, Middle and Long Distance events will all use new maps for these championships mapped by Andrew Slattery.

Apart from the Long Distance championship, which will be held near Dunolly, 20kms from Maryborough, all other events are

with 4km of central Maryborough, so competitors will have an opportunity to ride to these assembly areas, if they wish.

All map areas are typical of the Maryborough region with an excellent network of tracks on mostly gentle to undulating terrain.

The tracks are mostly vehicle tracks but range from slow to fast.

So riders will need to make sure they don’t go too fast for the navigation required as many of the areas have a very similar look if you’ve lost track of exactly where you are!

The event website www.ausmtbochamps.com has been updated with the latest information and Bulletin 1 is now available there. Check out the website during the year as more information will be posted there over coming months.

Competitors are advised to make accommodation bookings sooner rather than later. There are two caravan parks and several motels and hotels in Maryborough. Otherwise you’ll need to explore options in Dunolly or further afield in Ballarat, Bendigo or Castlemaine. It’s best to get in early. Check out www.visitmaryborough.com.au With 5 events over 4 days, this is sure to be a feast of MTBO. But if you want to stretch that out to 8 events over 10 days, the ACT MTBO Championships will be held the weekend before – 18-20 October, and includes 3 races; Mass Start, Middle & Long Distance. The always large Kiwi MTBO group will be taking in both of these carnivals to get themselves into fine form for the AUS-NZ Challenge, so make sure we have plenty of Aussies there as well so they don’t get too confident :). Check out the events in Eventor.

LONG 20km

EVENT SCHEDULE Thursday or Friday

afternoon morning

PRACTICE EVENT

Maryborough

Friday 25 OCT

afternoon

MASS START CHAMPIONSHIP

Maryborough

morning

SPRINT DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

Maryborough

afternoon

MIDDLE DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

Maryborough

evening

PRESENTATION DINNER

Maryborough

morning

LONG DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

Dunolly

afternoon morning

MTBO WORKSHOP for Organisers, Course Setters, Controllers

Maryborough

Saturday 26 OCT

Sunday 27 OCT Sunday to Monday

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MIDDLE

SPRINT

MASS START Training event

Oceania 2019: Seeing the Bigger Picture STEPHEN GOGGS – CARNIVAL DIRECTOR Matthew Purcell shows a LED panel.

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rienteers are accustomed to seeing images of elite-level athletes on screens either at events or online, but in our own way we are all working just as hard out there, right?

The biennial Oceania Orienteering Carnival is arguably the biggest series of world ranking and associated events in the southern hemisphere and only comes to Australia every four years. So this year at Oceania 2019, Orienteering ACT is taking the rare opportunity of putting everyone up in lights.

Whether you are running in the M/W 20 or 21E class, or your own age class, or just turning up to enter on the day, here is your chance to shine; whether you use it to study the form of other runners, to monitor the progress of your competitors, or just to experience all the colour and movement of the festival, have we got an experience for you!

Over the summer the clever young Code Cadets at Canberra Grammar School have been developing a big screen facility that they will be making available at a series of sporting events in the ACT this year as well as every day at Oceania 2019 in/near Cootamundra, Wagga Wagga, Wangaratta and Beechworth (see our back page advertisement for details).

Orienteering ACT intends to continue the drive to modernise our sport, not only through the now increasingly customary use of contactless electronic punching, O-Lynx radio controls and GPS tracking, but also through deployment of on-course cameras and display of footage on a big screen at the events and streamed live on-line.

Further innovation being pursued this year is expected to include: • f eeding data about all participants’ on-course progress through to commentators in real time to enhance spectator engagement during the day; •u pdating and comparing competitors’ progress at designated on-course intervals on screen for the benefit of spectators at event Arenas (as is done at cycling and skiing events, for example); • r eading from the OE event system database so that after a competitor downloads the system can immediately email and/or text their splits times to them; • delivery of aerial footage by commercially licensed drone operators – both through all-day transmission via state-of-the-art wireless technology to the big 5m x 3m LED screen onsite with zero latency, as well as in the form of daily highlights packages, which can be screened at the event and made publicly available online.

With the Oceania 2019 carnival incorporating the Australian Schools Championships, it is only fitting that this IT value is being added for everyone’s enjoyment by a school-based team. This page shows pictures of team leader Matthew Purcell at work on assembling the componentry for the big screen (60 of these LED panels) for the purpose-built trailer to transport it safely to all our events.

Entries for Oceania 2019 are open on Eventor now, so come along and be part of the big picture!

Website: oceania2019.orienteering.asn.au

Cable for the cable guy.

Reverse of LED panel.

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2018 SILVA MEDAL

Jennifer Enderby wins 2018 SILVA Medal The SILVA Medal has been won by Jennifer Enderby NC.N for the second time. Congratulations Jennifer.

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he SILVA Medal competition for 2018 is based on points for participating and placing in the Australian Championships (Sprint, Middle & Long Distance), the Australian 3-Days Championships (each day considered as a separate event) and the South Australian Middle Distance Championship (Elite and A classes in M/W16 and above).

One’s best 6 events counts towards this award.

Points are scored for completing a course as follows: 1st – 4; 2nd – 3; 3rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters. Jennifer won six of the seven events scoring a maximum of 24 points. Marina Iskhakova and Jenny Bourne also won six of the seven events but Jennifer has won on a countback based on average winning margins: Jennifer Enderby 8.81% Marina Iskhakova 8.23% Jenny Bourne 7.40%

S: You won this event in 1986 (called Orienteer-of-the-Year then). That’s a long time between drinks?

Full results are below: Jennifer Enderby

NC.N

W50A

24

8.81%

Marina Iskhakova

RR.A

W40A

24

8.23%

Jenny Bourne

EU.V

W60A

24

7.40%

Warren Key

MF.V

M55A

23

Mikaela Gray

UG.Q

W16A

22

Simon Uppill

SW.S

M21E

21

Matthew Cohen

AL.T

M35A

21

Carol Brownlie

WO.W

W65A

21

Ann Ingwersen

PO.A

W75A

21

Natasha Key

MF.V

W21E

20

J: Yes. Raising a family slows one’s training down a bit. But I was lucky. I started orienteering when I was 8 and loved it. Into my adult life I went off Orienteering a bit and started doing triathlons which I enjoyed. The coming WMOC in Australia in 2009 galvanised me into action and I found a love of Orienteering again. I loved the bush and was not all that good at the Sprint discipline at first but now I enjoy that form as well.

S: When I started orienteering I was in awe of your father’s performances. Was he a good mentor for you?

J: Yes, it is important to have a mentor/coach to perfect your skills and fitness. I learnt a great deal from him. I was lucky to have been born into such a good Orienteering family.

S: I presume that Damien has taken over that role now.

Orienteering Australia Statistician, Darryl Erbacher, interviews Jennifer.

Statistician: Jennifer, you have had a fabulous year. Six wins and a third from seven starts and two bronze medals at the WMOC in New Zealand to go with your silver and bronze in 2009. Congratulations!

Jennifer: Thanks. I was pleased I ran well in almost all of my races this year.

S: We all make mistakes. Yours must be tiny. How do you maintain such consistency?

J: The biggest contributor for me this year was having full health for the first time in a long time, as well as being fit.

For a long time I’ve battled with Chrones disease. It is not a question of picking up your training rate but whatever level of training you do must be consistent and regular. This also helps with reduction of injuries. I have a strict regimen and wear orthotics so all is well for the moment.

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J: Well not exactly. Frank still gives me advice about different techniques for different maps. As for Damien, we do some training together which helps to maintain the discipline and discuss Orienteering techniques and past mistakes. Damien is more of a rival than a mentor. He is younger, male and faster than me, but I had such a good start that I could keep ahead of him due to navigation. Lately, his orienteering has improved in leaps and bounds and he sometimes beats me.

When he doesn’t, he compares splits and counts how many legs he beat me on.

S: Anything else contributing to your success?

J: I should mention what a wonderful club Newcastle Orienteering is. They have many events in varied terrain and the club is supportive of orienteers at all levels. We would also like to thank our sponsor THULE Australia for all their amazing support, and also Moxie Gear and Rudy Project.

S: I will have to make the trek up there sometime and you can give me some pointers. Once again, Congratulations Jennifer.

2018 NATIONAL RANKINGS

2018 National Rankings – non-elite DARRYL ERBACHER – OA STATISTICIAN

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ankings in non-elite classes have been determined based on results in the Australian 3-Days Championship (31, 32, 33), Australian Championships (AS, AM, AL) and the South Australian Middle Distance Championship (SA).

Points are awarded for each event completed on the basis of 100 points for first place and lesser points for other competitors. When more than one orienteer in a class has 100 points, the first ranked orienteer is determined by the average of their three best winning margins.

Some points of interest in the 2018 rankings: 1. I n four classes two orienteers earned maximum points (separated by winning margins): Matthew Cohen (AL.T), Matthew Patten (EV T); Bruce Arthur (MF.V), Craig Feuerherdt (BG.V); John Scown (AO.A), Tim Ashman (LI.S); Tony Mount (AL.T), Kevin Paine (BS.A).

2. 3 6 clubs had members in the first three places of their respective classes: AL.T, MF.V, NC.N (7); RR.A (6); BG.V, PO.A (4); BB.N, BF.N, EV.T, TJ.S, UG.Q, UR.N (3); BK.V, BN.N, BO.W, BS.A, SH.N, TT.S, WR.T, YA.S, YV.V (2); AO.A, EN.Q, EU.V, DR.V, GO.N, KO.W, LI.S, NT.N, SO.Q, SW.W, WA.S, WE.A, WH,N, WO.W, WR.N (1).

3. T he most successful States for first places were: NSW (10) and Victoria (6).

4. F amilies with two or more members in the first three places were: McComb (Zali W14, Cathy W45), Enderby (Erika W12, Jennifer W50), Arthur (Sophie W12, Torren M14, Bruce M40), Iskhakova (Ariadna W10, Marina W40), Woolford (Alex M12, Sam M14, Tony M55), Dent (Elye M10, Kathie W35), Key (Milla W12, Warren M55), Gray (Mikaela W16, Ryan M16).

5. V ictoria orienteers filled the first 3 placings in the M40 class.

W85 Maureen Ogilvie

UR N

100.00

ALAMAS

W80 Helen Alexander

BK V

100.00

ALAMAS

W75 Ann Ingwersen Valerie Brammall Ann Sutton Helen Smith

PO A EV T RR A TT S

100.00 93.29 73.95 73.40

3132AM AS33AL 333231 33AM32

W70 Jenny Hawkins Val Hodsdon Ruth Goddard Libby Meeking Robin Spriggs Carol Jacobson Judi Herkes Pat Miethke Kathy Liley Janet Bush Pauline Moore Penny Dufty Helena Griggs Ann Baylis Rosemary Kullmann Dorothy Kane Joan Sheldon Janet Fletcher Bryony Cox Rose Campbell Janet King Mary Jane Mahony Dianne Searle Sandra Hogg

NT N SH N YV V YV V UG Q GO N BK V PO A YV V AL T WR N BO W AL T RR A LO W WR T UG Q LO W GO N AW V BK V UR N BG V PO A

100.00 97.44 97.42 95.65 91.59 87.79 86.87 85.59 82.67 80.16 79.83 79.33 79.30 75.88 75.14 74.75 72.42 71.70 69.52 69.46 68.64 67.12 63.80 60.69

3133AM SAAS31 32ALAS ALAM32 ALASAM 323133 ASAMAL ASSAAM AM31AS ASAMAL AS31AL ASALAM 31SAAL AM3133 323133 SAALAM ALSAAM ALSAAS 323133 ASSAAM ALASSA AS31AL 3132AM 31ASAL

W65 Carol Brownlie Lynn Dabbs Judy Allison Alison Radford Lynda Rapkins Ann Scown Jan Hardy Jacquie Rand Robyn Pallas Valerie Barker Kerryne Jones Robyn Chapman Helen Post Barbara Tassell Pamela King Jan Candy Barbara Martin Lois West Jenelle Templeton Leila Henderson

WO W WH N RR A BG V EN Q AO A AL T UG Q CC N BS A RR A AL T WO W AL T DR V KO W PO A BO W BK V YA S

100.00 98.59 91.75 89.69 89.31 87.39 85.19 84.67 80.42 79.39 78.29 76.06 75.79 74.90 67.36 67.08 64.30 62.77 56.67 55.90

33AMAS 32ALAM AMSAAS 313233 333132 SAAMAS SAALAS ALSAAM 333132 32ASAL 31SAAL AL32SA ASAMSA 31AS33 ASAMSA 313233 ALASSA ASAMSA AS3233 ASSAAL

W60 Jenny Bourne Carolyn Jackson Debbie Davey Hilary Wood Liz Abbott Sue Key Mary McDonald Julia Prudhoe Kathy Petrie Margi Freemantle Prue Dobbin Geraldine Chatfield

EU V BK V WR N CC N PO A MF V AO A CC N SO Q YV V BK V UG Q

100.00 96.68 84.16 82.11 80.47 79.19 76.26 74.53 69.83 63.91 60.80 60.37

3133AL 32AMAS ASALAM ASALSA 323133 32SA31 AMASAL ASAM32 32AL31 ASAMSA AMASAL 323331

Meredith Rasch Sarah Garnett Evelyn Colwell Kate Lucas Rosie Rutledge Diana Cossar-Burgess

WA S UR N OH S AL T AL T AL T

59.29 57.07 56.63 55.83 55.61 54.40

ASSAAL 323331 ASALSA 323133 AL32SA SAASAL

W55 Paula Shingler Toni Brown Gayle Quantock Ana Herceg Anthea Feaver Chris Brown Carolyn Matthews Joanna Parr Vanessa Smith Sally Wayte Juliana de Nooy Andrea Schiwy Erica Diment Monika Binder Julie Flynn Marion Burrill Felicity Crosato Jane Saye Juliana de Nooy Rosalie McCauley Airdrie Long Liz Bourne Jane Harding

BF N BS A NC N PO A LO W EV T NC N BF N KO W AL T UG Q AL T TT S PO A BG V BB Q RR Q AO A UG Q WO W GO N BB Q WR T

100.00 98.37 98.34 95.58 93.11 92.67 91.06 88.46 81.34 76.65 74.80 70.91 69.73 69.68 66.09 66.05 62.60 58.66 58.42 58.33 57.92 54.82 52.27

31ALAS 3233AL AMSAAS SAALAM SAALAS AMSAAL ALSA32 SAAM33 323133 SAAMAL ASSAAL ASSAAL SA33AS 323331 313332 ASAL33 323331 SAAL31 323331 SAALAM 313233 AM31SA ASAMAL

W50 Jennifer Enderby Nicola Dalheim Sue Hancock Karen Wild-Allen Barbara Hill Wendy Read Tara Sutherland Alison Inglis Su Yan Tay Zara Soden Liz Canning Anita Scherrer Janine Steer Tania Kennedy Sue Garr Margaret Peel Heather Smith Kirsten Wehner Sharon Lambert Susan George Donelda Niles

NC N MF V WR T AL T GO N UG Q BS A BS A UG Q OH S WR T BS A DR V GO N PO A NC N TT S WE A BN N TT S EV T

100.00 96.83 91.80 90.98 87.43 87.10 82.50 82.41 81.88 75.18 74.86 74.46 72.50 69.16 66.90 64.74 64.49 63.20 57.43 54.97 53.14

313233 323133 323133 3233AL ALASSA ALASAM 333231 ALSAAM ASALSA AS32AL 33ALAS 323133 AS3332 AS33AL ALAS32 33ALAS 333231 ASAMSA ASALAM ALASAM ALASSA

W45 Cathy McComb Cath Chalmers Clare Hawthorne Martina Craig Miriam Whittington Silke Speier Alexa Troedson Nic Plunkett-Cole Helen O’Callaghan Edith Gray Chris Stocks Andrea Eves

AL T BF N WR T NC N WR T BS A BF N BS A BB N AO A BS A BO W

100.00 99.91 91.84 91.79 78.61 69.80 69.25 69.04 67.49 58.71 58.10 55.77

3133SA ALAMSA ASAMAL 323133 ALSAAM ALASAM SAALAM ALAMAS SAASAL ASSAAM ALASAM AMASSA

W40 Marina Iskhakova Leida Williams Ceri Pass

RR A AL T KO W

100.00 91.57 90.34

313233 333231 ASAMSA

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2018 NATIONAL RANKINGS

Cathy Hogg Meredith Gray Jen Graham-Taylor Sussan Best Hania Lada Kate Marschall Kim Carroll Heather O’Donnell Kim Enkelaar Helen O’Callaghan

PO A UG Q AD W EV T YV V TT S AL T YV V AL T BB N

88.83 83.56 81.94 81.76 78.04 75.37 72.53 58.37 57.67 57.41

33ALAS 313233 ALASAM AS31AL 323331 ASSAAM 313332 ASAMSA AS3231 313332

W35 Samantha Howe Melissa Gangemi Kathie Dent Fern Hillyard Lucy Hawthorne Helen Walpole

NC N YV V RR A WA S AL T DR V

100.00 95.75 93.73 91.93 62.59 61.74

ALAMSA 313332 32SAAL ASAMSA 333231 333231

W16 Mikaela Gray Serryn Eenjes Venla-Linnea Karjalainen Julia Gannon Rani Brennan Mena McLeod Eleanor McLean Phoebe Davis Lucy Jarrett Nina Gannon Niamh Cassar Jemima Bradfield Smith Serena Doyle Caitlyn Steer Sarah Richards Maxine Lovell Tiia Marsh

UG Q BG V MFV RR Q RR Q AL T EV T AL T KO W RR Q WH N CH V UR N BG V WO W RR Q BF N

100.00 97.98 94.74 92.86 84.53 84.39 83.50 83.25 79.76 79.24 79.21 76.93 72.23 70.19 69.13 68.36 55.22

31ALAM 3233AL SAALAS ALSAAS ALASAM 32AL31 SA3132 31ALSA ALASSA SAASAL ASALAM SAASAL AMASSA 3233AS SAASAL ASALSA AS3231

W14 Iida Lehtonen Zali McComb Ana Penck Nea Shingler Mikayla Enderby Ella Rogers Sophie Taverna Zali Dale Natalie Miller Julia Powell-Davies Zoe Terrill Jemima Lloyd Louise Barbour Sara Garbellini Abbie Faulkner Amber Louw Emma Cates Lucy Burley Sophie Best Claire Adams Justine Hobson Julia Barbour

GO N AL T YA S BF N NC N RR Q CH V LO W BS A AL T BS A TT S BF N EN Q TJ S DR V YV V YA S EV T BK V BS A BF N

98.51 97.62 96.09 95.50 92.79 92.65 88.63 88.43 85.87 81.85 81.23 78.97 77.57 77.15 74.97 72.28 63.84 58.46 54.81 54.08 52.08 50.70

AMASAL 33SA32 31ALAS 32ASSA 32SA33 ALSA32 32ASAL SAASAL SAAMAS 32ALAS ASAMSA 32ASAL SAAMAL ALSA32 SAALAM ALASAM 3132AM SAASAL ASAL32 ASALAM ASAMAL ALSAAM

W12 Sophie Arthur Erika Enderby Milla Key Lyra Simpson Kate Braid Aoife Rothery Mali Brennan Sammy Love Ingrid Shelton Agar Hannah Adams

MF V NC N MF V BF N KO W BF N RR Q DR V AO A BK V

100.00 97.47 97.30 83.89 80.28 78.92 62.75 60.57 56.32 54.30

3233AL 31AMAS AMSAAL ASSAAM ASAMAL ASAMSA 323331 SAASAL ASALAM AMASAL

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Matilda Fogarty

OH S

53.68

SAAMAS

W10 Luca Hogg Amy Dufty Ariadna Iskhakova Lucinda Fogarty Cate Nemeth Annabel Lloyd Kiana Batters

PO A BO W RR A OH S TF Q TT S OH S

100.00 97.36 89.44 74.72 61.06 56.43 54.78

3233AL ASSAAM 31SAAS ASSMSA AMALSA AL32AS SAALAM

M90 Hermann Wehner

WE A

100.00

ALAMAS

M85 Tony Mount Kevin Paine

AL T BS A

100.00 100.00

313233 ALAMAS

M80 John Lyon George Reeves Brian Cleland Peter Cutten

TT S TT S UR N WA S

100.00 98.74 98.53 96.36

313233 ALASAM SA32AS AMSAAL

M75 Trevor Sauer Darryl Erbacher John Le Carpentier Ron Junghans Mike Howe Peter Searle David Hogg John Hodsdon Jim Bowling Peter Meyer Frank Tomas Peter Kreminski Christopher Spriggs Terry Cavanagh John Sutton Wayne Griggs Ken Jacobson Frank Ingwersen John Such David Hancock

SO Q PO A SH N GO N LO W BG V PO A SH N EN Q SH N WA S WA S UG Q AL T RR A AL T GO N PO A OH S WR T

96.45 94.73 91.98 89.92 89.67 88.28 85.66 79.41 73.75 71.95 69.09 68.37 67.92 65.37 60.57 58.53 57.33 54.78 50.89 50.12

31AMAL 32SA31 ALASAM AMASSA 33AS31 3133AM 33ALSA AM33SA 33AM31 AS3133 ASALSA SA31AL ALAMAS 313332 323331 333231 323331 333132 SAALAM 313332

M70 Steve Flick Greg Chatfield Tony Radford Leigh Privett Terry Bluett Ross Barr Tony Simpkins Neil Kane Jim Merchant Peter Dalwood Robert Allison Dan Greig Ian Fletcher Ken Brownlie Dennis Mews Hugh Moore Bob Hawkins Eric Wainwright Phil Dufty Ron Frederick Graham Sargison Paul Elam Peter Yeates Keith Fifield Andrew Campbell Clive Arthur

BN N UG Q BG V AW V BN N GO N LO W WR T GO N DR V RR A WO W LO W WO W BK V RR A NT N RR A BO W NE V AL T TK V DR V RR A AW V TT S

99.09 98.57 98.56 96.00 95.09 93.90 88.66 85.84 85.83 82.76 82.34 81.68 81.52 81.19 81.11 81.10 80.83 79.09 78.11 74.49 74.02 72.28 71.95 71.16 70.78 70.55

32ALSA 333132 ASAL32 SAAL33 3132AL AMALAS ASSAAM ALASSA AMAS33 AS3332 AMSAAL ALAMSA ASSAAM AMAS31 ALASAM AL3132 ALSAAS 33AS32 ALAMAS ALAM32 333132 32ALSA SAAS33 31AS32 ALASAM ASSAAM

Kevin Williams James Laver Alan Thompson Reid Moran Dick Ogilvie Murray Hanna Ewen Templeton John Meeking David Tilbrook Bob Healey David Goddard Barry Wheeler Ross Kelly

WH N AL T RR A TF Q UR N BK V BK V YV V OH S EV T YV V TT S AL T

70.15 69.41 68.08 67.36 67.30 66.84 65.71 56.94 56.38 55.80 54.74 51.05 50.49

31AM32 AL3231 AS3133 ASAMAL ASAMSA ALASAM ASAL32 333132 ALASAM 323331 ALAS31 AS3231 323133

M65 John Scown Tim Ashman Paul Hoopmann Bruce Bowen Gordon Wilson Nick Dent Robert Preston Adrian Uppill Richard Matthews Paul Prudhoe Rob West Rick Steele Peter Shepherd Robert Tucker Bill Jones Russell Wade Ian McKenzie Robert Rapkins Bert Elson Keith Jay Murray Haines Russell Candy Bob Hawkins Ken Post Warwick Selby Geoff Hudson Mike Calder Lindsay Pender Peter Komyshan Martin Bicevskis Matthew King Ian Rathbone John Harding Chas Lane Neil Hawthorne

AO A LI S TJ S PO A BN N CC N NC N OH S LO W CC N BO W UR N IK N YA S RR A WO W UR N EN Q AL T IK N SO Q KO W NT N WO W GO N NE V AL T AL T WO W TAS BK V WR T PO A LO W AL T

100.00 100.00 98.00 97.09 95.89 91.10 87.23 86.20 85.74 85.07 84.97 84.77 84.13 82.79 82.20 82.13 81.93 81.74 78.21 76.46 76.08 75.20 74.81 73.50 72.34 70.24 68.95 68.37 67.84 64.32 63.32 61.25 60.98 60.15 53.56

313233 ALAMAS SA32AL 33AM31 AS3231 AMSAAL ALAMAS ALSAAM 32AMAL ASAMAL ASALAM 323331 33ALAS SAALAS 32AS31 323133 AS3233 313233 ASALAM AS31AL 333132 323133 323133 AMSAAL ASALAM 323331 AS31SA 33ASAM ALAMSA AS31AM ASAMAL 323331 ASSAAL 323331 323331

M60 Robert Vincent Melvyn Cox Jeff Dunn Ted van Geldermalsen Rod Gray Geoff Todkill Eoin Rothery Paul Pacque Roch Prendergast Malcolm Roberts Nicholas Wilmott Warwick Davis Grant McDonald Neil Barr Ian Dempsey Ian Davies Alex Davey Mark Petrie Cliff Howard Rudi Landsiedel James Lithgow

NC N BN N AL T YV V EU V NC N BF N EV T EU V NC N UR N TK V AO A BG V NC N DR V WR N SO Q EN Q NC N GO N

99.35 98.76 98.32 96.52 95.45 95.16 95.01 91.92 90.95 90.84 89.29 88.40 84.87 82.36 81.49 80.17 79.82 79.09 77.84 76.32 75.16

SAAMAL 3231AL 33AMAL ALAMAS 31AM32 313332 ASALAM AL31AM AM3332 3231AL 3132AL AL31AS ASALSA 323331 323133 313332 ALAMSA 33AMAL 323133 AMAL31 AMASSA

Andrew Lumsden Stephen Collins Tony Garr Craig Colwell Robert Carmichael Geoff Peel Andrew Cumming Thom David Knight Michael Burt Philip Burrill David McCauley Lewis Carter Peter Crofts Peter Cusick Antonio Garcia Couce Digby Mercer Charles Dragar

BF N BK V PO A OH S AL T NC N ACT BK V RR A BB Q WO W TJ S AL T AL T TT S WO W AL T

74.97 74.95 74.88 74.66 73.05 71.52 71.28 69.67 69.14 66.87 66.41 64.55 62.83 57.35 56.84 55.06 53.13

ASAMAL ASAL31 3132AS AMALSA 323133 3133AM 333231 333231 313233 3331AM AMALSA ASALSA 323133 313233 313233 323133 ASALAM

M55 Warren Key Tony Woolford Jim Russell Geoff Lawford Mark Nemeth Jemery Day Ian Prosser Tim Hatley Bjorn Mella Greg Barbour Tim McIntyre Mark Shingler John Whittington Steve Cooper Simon George Carl Dalheim Bernard Walker Russell Blatchford David Poland Nigel Dobson-Keeffe Cormac McCarthy Stephen Bird Kenneth McLean Sebastian Burgess Nick Melhuish Graeme Dawson Bruce Barnett Mick Cooper David Jaffe Greg Terrill Martin Kozma David George Bill Butler Trevor Diment Mark Overton Peter Hopper Maurice Patten Dave Nicolson

MF V BB N BG V EU V TF Q AL T AO A BK V NC N BF N UG Q BF N WR T YA S BF N MF V WR T PL Q BS A YA S YV V BK V EV T AL T PO A GO N BS A AL T MF V BS A BK V TT S AL T TT S WA S BN N RR A YA S

100.00 95.68 94.62 93.89 91.90 91.37 89.81 88.97 88.37 87.10 85.54 83.92 82.50 80.09 78.85 78.28 76.47 75.25 75.11 73.80 73.21 72.99 72.51 71.71 69.81 69.69 67.13 63.79 62.82 62.17 61.64 59.24 58.41 58.38 56.73 56.41 54.12 51.78

313233 ASAMAL AM3132 AM3132 AMALAS AMSAAS 313233 AMAS31 AM3132 AMASAL SAAMAS AMAS31 33SA31 AMAS31 AMAS33 AS3231 313233 ASAM31 SAAMAL ASSAAM AMASSA AMALAS 313233 ALAS32 AS33AM 333132 313233 AS31SA ASAM32 AMASAL AS31AM ASAMAL 313332 AMASAL ASAMAL ASALAM ASAMAL SAALAM

M50 Shane Doyle Ruhi Afnan Andy Simpson Mark Freeman Paul Marsh Tony Hill Michael Warlters Bruce Paterson Hugh Fitzgerald Neil Simson Peter Annetts Kenneth McLean Nick Dale Lance Read

UR N YA S BF N BF N BF N GO N UR N AR V WR T TF Q GO N EV T LO W UG Q

100.00 99.93 98.51 96.72 92.35 88.92 84.98 83.45 83.43 81.04 80.14 79.68 79.01 78.48

AMASSA 31AL33 323331 AL32AM 333231 SAALAS 313332 AS3132 SA3332 SAASAL ASSAAL ALSAAM ASSAAL ASALAM

Simon Allen Bruce Barnett John Shelton Agar Jamie Kennedy Andrew Brennan Eric Louw

AL T BS A AO A GO N RR Q DR V

75.48 74.77 73.72 71.60 65.11 55.20

SAALAS ALASAM ASALAM ASAMAL 323133 ALASAM

M45 Scott Simson Craig Dufty Greg Morcom Jonathan McComb Eric Morris Matthew Stocks John Toomey Anthony Stoner Graham Braid Blair Trewin Paul Enkelaar Brenton Gray Glen White Andrew Stocks Ben Cazzolato Miles Ellis Peter McConaghy Greg Wilson David Nahrung Edward Plummer Joseph Garbellini

NC N BO W TJ S AL T BN N BS A AD W AL T KO W YV V AL T UG Q YV V TAS TJ S BF N GO N BS A TT Q LO W EN Q

99.83 97.10 96.56 96.31 94.23 93.97 93.44 89.88 88.09 87.86 82.92 77.43 74.50 72.69 71.02 69.65 61.19 61.12 60.24 59.01 58.09

3133SA ALAMAS 3133SA 32AS33 AMASAL ASSAAL SAALAS 31ASAM ASDSAAL 3133AM 33ASSA ASAMAL ASALSA 333132 ASAMAL 313332 ASSAAL ASSAAM 333231 AS3331 AS31AM

M40 Bruce Arthur Craig Feuerherdt Simon Rouse Ben Rattray Angus Shedden Tate Needham Damien Enderby

MF V BG V DR V OH S SH N RR A NC N

100.00 98.12 96.19 85.34 80.24 75.84 69.40

313233 AMASSA SAALAM ASSAAM ASALSA ASSAAM AS32AM

M35 Matthew Cohen Matthew Patten Tyson Hillyard Simon Louis Fedor Iskhakov Stephen Still

AL T EV T WA S IK N RR A AO A

100.00 100.00 89.72 88.48 84.07 59.76

ALAMSA 313233 SAASAM 323331 AS3233 323331

M16 Alvin Craig Andrew Kerr Ryan Gray Ewan Shingler David Stocks Ethan Penck Jensen Key Grant Reinbott Blake Reinbott Toby Lang Mason Arthur Samuel Garbellini Jack Marschall Ben Poortenaar Max Grivell William Davey Oscar Woolford Leith Soden Will Whittington Dexter Canning Jack Wickham Archie Neylon Joseph Wilson Oliver Schubert William Cox

NC N PO A UG Q BF N BS A YA S MF V RR Q RR Q BS A MF V EN Q TT S AL T TT S MF V BB N OH S WR T WR T EV T BG V BS A RR Q RR Q

100.00 96.34 95.35 94.77 94.27 93.75 92.87 92.69 91.74 91.71 90.85 84.18 77.51 76.54 75.22 75.08 74.61 72.44 70.93 70.11 69.44 68.78 67.59 66.26 65.73

ALAMAS 333132 SAAL32 32AM33 AMSAAL ALSAAS 31AM32 ALASSA ASSAAL AM33SA 31AMAS AS3233 ASALAM ASAM31 AMALAS AMASAL 32ASAM 33SAAL AM3233 333231 33AS32 ASAMSA AMASSA SAASAL ASSAAL

Bayley Fisher Mason Eves Patrick Dufty Cayleb Fidge Shaun Richards

EV T BO W BO W BB Q WO W

62.97 60.13 57.16 52.76 51.13

SAAS32 ASSAAL ALAMAS ASAMSA ASAMSA

M14 Toby Cazzolato Sam Woolford Torren Arthur Aldo Bosman Callum White Oskar Mella Oscar Johnston Niko Stoner Riley Kerr Oliver Freeman Jett McComb Riley McFarlane Lachlan Feuerherdt Jamie Woolford Remi Afnan James Love John Steer Patrick Shelton Agar Charlie Cooper Ryan Cates Daniel Morcom Paul Garbellini Chris Nemeth Owen Mulcahy

TJ S BB N MF V SW W YV V NC N TJ S AL T EV T BF N AL T BO W BG V BB N YA S DR V BG V AO A AL T YV V TJ S EN Q TF Q AL T

100.00 98.86 98.05 89.89 88.88 87.81 85.06 84.20 82.65 82.43 80.25 80.04 79.05 77.91 76.87 74.76 72.84 69.59 68.93 65.30 59.07 58.09 57.82 56.89

ALAMAS 3132AS 3332AS ALSAAS ALASAM 3132AS ASAMSA AS32AM AMSA32 ASAMAL AMASAL ALSAAM SAASAL AS32AL 32AS31 SAALAS ASSAAL ASALSA AS32AL 32AS31 AS31SA 33AL31 SAASAL 333231

M12 Eckart Bosman Euan Best Alex Woolford Eddie Stoner Luke Feuerherdt Makhaya Hogg Mitchell Morcom Bodie Terrill Owen Radajewski Liam Dufty Timothy McConaghy Joseph Coleman Ashley White Tommy Mella

SW W EV T BB N AL T BG V PO A TJ S BS A PO A BO W GO N KO W YV V NC N

99.39 99.32 94.16 93.78 90.92 88.91 88.74 83.90 81.76 75.38 74.03 70.76 70.16 67.36

AMSAAS 33AL32 32AM31 31AM32 ASSAAL 32ASAM 32AMAL AMALSA ALAMAS SAAMAL SAAMAS AMALAS AMSAAL 333132

M10 Elye Dent Miles Bryant Will Enkelaar Lachlan Braid Joshua Feuerherdt Alton Freeman Adrian Garbellini Hayden Dent Connor Dent Ben Marschall Marcus Cazzolato Rory Shedden Ben McConaghy Edmund Toomey

RR A EN Q AL T KO W BG V BF N EN Q RR A RR A TT S TJ S SH N GO N AD W

100.00 93.85 88.61 82.30 80.73 79.09 76.88 76.46 74.82 67.30 66.07 63.96 57.78 54.78

313233 ALAMAS AMAL31 SAAMAL SAAMAL AMSAAL AL3233 SA32AM 31SA32 SAAMAS SAALAS ALAMAS SAAMAS SAASAM

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O-SPY

O-SPY Relics from WOC 1985 found

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hile clearing out his wine cellar Tom Andrews has found two bottles of what was once a very good red. The wine was a special bottling

by Yarra Valley Orienteering Club to promote the 1985 World Orienteering Championships which were based in Bendigo, Victoria – the first time that WOC had been staged outside Europe.

Sadly, the corks appear to have shrunk allowing air into the bottles and some wine out. The wine remaining would not even be suitable for cooking now. What a pity !!

Since parkrun’s inception as a lowkey local event in 2004, 1.8 million people in Britain have participated in what now number almost 600 events held for all ages on Saturdays and a further 256 2k junior parkruns for 4 to 14-year-olds on Sundays. The events have been parkrun at Bushy Park, London. supported by around 250,000 volunteers and have been widely praised for their sporting activity to their lifestyle. The contribution to improved public health. funding will boost parkrun’s digital “This important partnership with parkrun is part of Sport England’s ongoing strategy to help grow new and innovative sporting ideas and broaden their reach into the demographics in society who are least likely to be active,” Sport England chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said in a statement. “The funding will enable parkrun to reach females and people on a low income, who are less likely to be active than the general population.”

Sport England invests up to 300 million pounds each year to encourage projects that help people add a

platform for registrations, results and event information. “We know from our research that cost and a lack of local opportunities are real barriers in stopping people being more active, and what parkrun does brilliantly is offer free, community-based events for all abilities,” Hollingsworth added.

Parkrun events have seen a phenomenal growth over the last decade as they currently operate in 20 countries across five continents, with around 200,000 people taking part and a further 20,000 volunteering every week. (Reuters)

Japan Esports Union vows to promote video gaming with eye on 2020 Olympics

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apan Esports Union will accelerate efforts to enhance recognition of competitive video gaming in the country, eyeing possible exposure at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as an exhibition event. “The popularity of esports has grown from last year to this year and we will push it to a new stage in 2019,” said Hideki Okamura, the union’s chairman, at a news conference in Tokyo.

WM1985 wine bottles.

Sport England to fund 200 new parkrun events

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port England has announced a 3 million pounds investment to create 200 new parkrun events in the country over the next three years to increase participation among women and people from lower socioeconomic groups. Parkrun allows more than 800 communities in Britain to host free, “socially-focussed” 5km running events every weekend in public areas of open space.

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The union said it will create from regional branches across 11 prefectures nationwide to share know-how about organizing esports tournaments or assisting in developing and training local esports players. It will also seek to raise the level of esports players in Japan by dispatching them to international tournaments or organizing matches with competitive foreign players. “We think elevating the recognition of esports is one solution in making an approach to the International Olympic Committee or the Japanese Olympic Committee in pushing for an exhibition of esports at the 2020 Games”, Okamura said.

Growing in popularity, especially with the younger generation, esports debuted as a demonstration event at the Asian Games in Indonesia last year and will be a full medal event at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

Gaming industry publisher Gzbrain Inc. said in a report earlier this week that the esports market in Japan grew to ¥4.8 billion this year, a 13-fold increase from last year, and that it will swell to ¥10 billion in 2022.

The IOC, however, said at a recent meeting that discussion to make esports an Olympic medal event is “premature,” citing as one reason the fact that the industry is “commercially driven” while the sports movement supported by the IOC is “values-based.”

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will cost about ¥1.35 trillion, according to the third and most recent budget. (That’s about $AUD 17.2 billion.)

(The Japan Times)

POLAR VORTEX

W

ho remembers the book “The Sixth Winter”

by John Gribbin & Douglas Orgill? In it the jet stream becomes unstable and sections fall to ground level resulting in huge swathes of ice several kilometres long.

In north America last month the polar vortex became unstable and around 190 million people in northern States of the US suffered temperatures, including wind chill, of minus 40 degC or lower – that’s the temperature at which food is blast frozen. In Minnesota they suffered at minus 52 degC. Climate scientists blamed global warming saying that unusually large volumes of Arctic ice that melted during the northern summer had trapped so much heat that parts of the polar vortex had been forced southwards.

President Trump immediately tweeted “In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are The Sixth Winter cover. reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!”

Spread of Arctic weather.

A professor of climate change communications at George Mason University in Virginia responded, saying “Trump is cherry-picking cold weather to ignore the larger picture of a warming planet. This myth is like arguing that nightime proves the sun doesn’t exist”.

In his book, Douglas Orgill predicted six consecutive winters of jet stream anomalies would bring ice. How many Polar Vortex anomalies are needed? Or is it just that fiction is stranger than truth?

Ticks in the terrain

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here are ticks in most places where we orienteer. In mainly the north east of the USA, some areas of Europe including the UK and some parts of Asia there are some ticks which carry Lyme Disease which is a very nasty thing to get (just ask ACT’s Hugh Moore or Australian tennis player Samantha Stosur). In Australia there is no evidence of tick-borne Lyme Disease, but ticks in this country can carry other menaces.

There are around 70 species of ticks that live in Australia, but the paralysis tick is the one to watch out for. It lives on the east coast of Australia and accounts for more than 95 per cent of tick bites, according to the Department of Health.

An engorged female paralysis tick.

It’s also the tick that can cause paralysis in humans and animals.

When paralysis ticks bite, they inject their hosts with a dose of their saliva.

That saliva contains an anticoagulant to stop the blood from clotting and a toxin that researchers believe is designed to anaesthetise the victim. That toxin can cause paralysis in humans and animals, and even death.

“The paralysis tick once killed as many people as the red back spider and the funnel web,” Stephen Barker, a professor of parasitology at the University of Queensland said. “But since we’ve figured out how to treat tick paralysis, we haven’t had a death since the last century.”

The latest advice is to remove the tick as soon as possible using either finetipped forceps or a special tick “hook”, which can be purchased from some vets. If you have neither of those tools, Professor Barker said a pair of fine scissors were preferable over a pair of eyebrow tweezers. “If you have a pair of fine scissors and you open those so there’s a ‘V’, you can put those under the ‘shoulders’ of the tick and lever the tick out pretty safely,” he said. The main

Morning commuters in Chicago.

thing to remember is not to squeeze the tick, as you may squeeze more of the venom into the host.

The Department of Health says you can also spray the tick with an insect repellent before removing it, but “there is currently no evidence to suggest that this is of benefit”.

Park furniture from recycled plastic bags

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he equivalent of 15,000 plastic bags could be prevented from going to landfill by making just one seat and the products need little if any maintenance and will last more than 40 years.

Seat made from recycled plastic bags.

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Himalayan Glaciers

Glaciers below Mount Everest

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wo-thirds of Himalayan glaciers, the world’s “Third Pole,” could melt by 2100 if global emissions are not sharply reduced, scientists warned in a major new study issued in February.

Even if the most ambitious Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is achieved, one-third of the glaciers would go, according to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Glaciers in the Hindu KushHimalaya (HKH) region are a critical water source for some 250 million people in the mountains as well as to 1.65 billion others in the river valleys below, the report said. The glaciers feed 10 of the world’s most important river systems, including the Ganges, Indus, Yellow, Mekong and Irrawaddy, and directly or indirectly supply billions of people with food, energy, clean air and income.

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Impacts on people from their melting will range from worsened air pollution to more extreme weather. Lower premonsoon river flows will throw urban water systems and food and energy production off-kilter, the study warned.

Five years in the making, the 650-page report was published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal, one of eight countries on the front line. More than 350 researchers and policy experts, 185 organizations, 210 authors, 20 editors and 125 external reviewers contributed to its completion.

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VICTORINOX AWARD This issue’s Victorinox Award goes to Jock Davis for his fascinating account of running in the 2018 Jukola Relay which appears in this edition of the magazine. Jock will receive a Victorinox Handyman which includes 24 tools and features – retail value $139.

Nutrition Tips Victorian Institute of Sport Nutrition Tips - turmeric

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ou may have seen turmeric pop up around the place more frequently; in lattes, capsules, teas, rice and even beauty products. Let’s dig deeper into the claims of this popular ‘health food.’

Curcumin is the active component in turmeric and has been seen to interact with pro-inflammatory molecules, allegedly having a significant anti-inflammatory effect on the body. As with any new science, these claims have their limitations.

Most of the studies to date have been done on rats and mice, finding success with grip strength, improved muscle glycogen and reduced fatigue. The difficulty with curcumin is that it isn’t absorbed well by the human body and these studies are yet to be replicated in humans.

The best thing about curcumin, most commonly known as turmeric, is that it is very unlikely to be doing any harm. It can be added to foods to create vibrant yellow colours and enhance curries or rice dishes. So as far as the compelling research goes, the jury is still out, but it certainly won’t harm adding a bit of variety and colour to your food repertoire.

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SPOT the DIFFERENCE

This time we bring you a map from a recent World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships with a very detailed track system through complex contour terrain.

Here, in two otherwise identical map sections, we have created 25 differences. CAN YOU FIND ALL 25 ???

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