Category Orienteering in Australia
A Wally Wander
Our dear friend and club member Wally passed away about a week ago, after having been ill for some time. He was approaching 90. Wally was the most influential person in street orienteering when we started, and for many years subsequently. It was inconceivable that one day he wouldn’t be around, but his health meant […]
Bling! Australian Middle Distance Champs
Anyone who knows me, knows that Middle Distance events are NOT my favourite. Not so much because of the navigation, but because they often involve lots of scrambling in and out of erosion gullies or sliding down rubble-strewn slopes. For years, I have toughed it out by entering my “A” age group for Middle Distance […]
On The Road Again
The Australian Champs carnival has rolled around again, as it is wont to do. This year it’s based around Bathurst in NSW. Pete and I left Ian and Ilze at home to ensure that streetO ran smoothly in our absence, and along with Pres Pete, pointed the Suby north and drove all day. The Holbrook […]
The Last Sprint
As is often the case, we were just getting into the swing of things, when it was time to come home. The final Sprint was at a TAFE college. The organiser had used some sort of dark art to come up with a chasing start list based on a handicap of some sort. We were […]
Three In One
Day 2 of our Launceston long weekend featured three races – a first for us. Even though sprints are short, they are also intense, and we weren’t sure how we’d pull up. We started at UTAS in Newnham, where we ran in 2015. We knew it would be complex and it didn’t disappoint. The map […]
Launceston Sprint Extravanza Weekend 1
Extravaganza might be an overstatement, but when I happened on this 6-races-in-3-days in Tassie, on Eventor, I was instantly up for it. Luckily Ian agreed that it sounded like fun. Most of the rest of the orienteering community headed to Wagga for the pseudo Australian 3 Days, but we decided sprint orienteering was a better […]
Doing a Bradbury at Bullengarook
My first bush event for 6 months … I expected to be a little rusty. But the map was not complex or technical, the weather was incredible, and I was set for a good day, hoping to be around my 2.8 km course in 60-70 minutes allowing for a couple of wobbles along the way. […]
Sprint Finish
I’m sure you are all in suspense for the outcome of the final race! Back at ANU, the car loaded for the drive home. Same arena, but this time we would be on the south end of the map. What a luxury to have such a complex area, large enough for 2 separate maps! The […]
Sprinting on Air
The third race was in the morning, and mercifully it was much cooler. We’d been told this was a bush sprint, in a mountain biking park, close to where the 2003 bushfires were. In fact the arena was at a moving memorial for those who lost homes, pets, and even lives. Apparently someone forgot to […]
Capital City Sprinting
On the road again … we’ve taken a short break to take part in Sprint Canberra, five races in four days in the nation’s capital. We made an unaccustomed early start, arriving early enough to settle in to our home for the next few days. We were greeted by our “host”, Miss Tiger Lily, who […]
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