Monthly Archives: April 2019
Looong Distance
Should’ve remembered that when the New Zealanders say Long, they mean LOOOOOONG! Everyone’s courses were very tough today, lots of big hills and thick scratchy forest mapped as white (we would map it as mid green). We were on farmland about 30 kms south of Oamaru, up on a hilltop which would have been very […]
Sprint
Our first race day dawned fine and sunny, but chilly. We all bounced out of bed at sunup … ok ok, we all dragged ourselves out of bed some time before 10 am. We began our intense preparations and routines, carefully fine tuning our bodies and minds for what lay ahead. Simon snoozed on the […]
Exploring Oamaru
So DipidyDoo has subbed in Simon for Ian for this trip (though Dipsdydoo doesn’t quite roll off the tongue as well, and sounds rather like I feel at the moment – yes, still got the vertigo) and here we are in New Zealand for their national orienteering champs in Oamaru, and some follow-on events in […]
“said Simple Simon to the Flyman”
“said Simple Simon to the Flyman, Please let me go there” Off on our next Orienteering across the ditch to Oamaru and Queenstown on New Zealand’s south island for their National Championship, the famous three, Debbie Ilze and Me, were waiting in the departure lounge at Melbourne airport for the arrival of the fourth member […]
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