Category Orienteering in Australia
Easter Part 3
Day 4 – Easter Day 3 It was another foggy start to what promised to be another sunny autumn day. The final event was on a new map, Cherry Farm. It promised more rock and more steep stuff. It was a long walk from parking down to the arena, which was set in a very […]
Easter Part 2
Day 2 – Easter Day 1 (yes I could write a book about the stupidity of the structure of the Easter 3 day carnival that runs for 4 days…) Morning dawned all too soon, and Ilze was very grumpy. The resident rooster had started crowing at about midnight, and continued at regular intervals all night. […]
Easter Part 1
Day 1 – Prologue Another year, another Easter come and gone. This was my last year in W45AS, meaning that next year I turn 55, and get to move into another age group. What with being one of the oldest in my age category, and my recent disasters, I had absolutely no expectations or ambitions […]
Capital O
Saturday Day 1 of competition was the Sprint Championship. The venue was Canberra Grammar, a stone’s throw from our apartment. Peter and Simon, running 21E, had late morning starts, with the rest of us spread between 1 and 3pm. We settled into the arena and got on with the important business of catching up with […]
Jungles of Ipswich
After my lovely relaxing break in Cairns, it was time to start making my way home. I got an early flight to Brisbane and was picked up at the airport by a lovely lady called Jennifer. We chatted about orienteering as we drove to the event site at White Rock Conservation Park, near Ipswich. I […]
Edge of Darkness
Winter in Melbourne means orienteering at night, donning a head torch to light up the road, and compression tights to keep my legs from freezing. According to a major daily newspaper, night running is the Next Big Thing in edgy adventure. News flash – we’ve been doing it every week for 25 years! We’ve also […]
Pete’s Recipe For Success
During nearly twenty years of bush orienteering, my successes have been few, and those handful that I prize have been largely due to factors beyond my control. An early success was a second place at Victorian Championship, run on that section of Mt Tarrengower that has been described as “the single greatest threat to orienteering […]
NavDashing
You can’t miss an opportunity to orienteer when you travel, so we were pleased to see a NavDash event on the WA calendar. NavDash events are sprints, held on Saturdays in parks or campuses in or near Perth. They use colour maps and SI and are 2-3 kms long. They get about 8o people per […]
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