Category Orienteering in Australia
Oceania and World Cup Sprints and Relays
The action got underway at Cataract Gorge, with the World Cup sprint qualifier. The fastest 40 men and women would go through to the A final, leaving a handful to the ignominy of the B final. Sixteen countries were represented included a full Aussie contingent; the top half dozen men and women orienteers in the […]
Easter Ends
After a very welcome rest day, we steeled ourselves for the Dungaree Challenge. This involved head to head loop racing in some supposedly fast open spur-gully terrain. Turned out to be not that fast as there was a lot of fallen sticks and branches on the ground, but it was very much like Bendigo. Pete […]
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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