Next event
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Sunday May 20 - Mountain Bike Orienteering - Munday Brook - 9am
We've had some rain, so we're looking forward to reasonably firm surfaces and lots of mountain biking fun.
Courses - short, medium and long - approximately 10, 20 and 30km respectively.
Remember to bring your bike and helmet - limited map-board hire available.
Directions - take Canning Road to Pickering Brook Road and continue towards PIckering Brook. 1km after the junction, follow the orienteering signs into Carinyah Road and continue as the road changes to gravel. After about 800m, follow the road around a right bend and then continue straight ahead at the Y-junction (the main road veers to the left at this point). Assembly area is 300m further. Competitors may be on Carinyah Road after 9.30am.
Autumn Classic
The two day autumn-classic event will be on the Sunday and Monday of the long weekend June 3/4 at Lovers Lane. Day 1 is a badge event with pre-entry strongly preferred and now available online at events/Online_entries/. Entries for the badge event close on 25 May and NO LATE ENTRIES for badge classes will be accepted. You will of course be able to enter on the day on one of the smaller number of EOD courses.
Congratulations
To Ricky Thackray, who was selected for the Australian team for the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships, taking place in Hungary in August this year.
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Like it off-road?
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Want to get further off the beaten path?Results | Splits | RouteGadget
Next Sunday our orienteering event at another old favourite location – Jorgensen Park (Kalamunda) – includes a special event for trail runners, directed by Perth Trail Series Half-Truth Champion Steve Fletcher. Some orienteers will no doubt want to test themselves against the trail runners, and show them some real cross-country running, but all the full range of normal orienteering courses will also be offered for the traditionalists. Naturally this includes the usual easier courses for beginners.
The trail race is an easy orienteering course of around 8-10km, with several control points which must be visited in order. It will be possible to run the whole course on trails, but there will be multiple options to save distance by venturing cross-country. Choosing when to go cross-country and staying in control through these sections will be vital components of the race.
Full electronic timing will be used, and split times between control points will be given to every competitor at the finish. Entry fee of $15 (or $10 if you bring the race flyer) includes hire of compass and Sportident timing chip. Registration will be open from 9.00am, there will be a race briefing at approx. 10.00am, followed by the Race start at 10.30am. See below for directions.
Jorgensen Park is always a popular orienteering venue, and beginners will be catered for with short easy courses of around 2-3km, while there will be moderate and difficult courses of up to 8km for experienced orienteers. Registration will be open from 9.00am – 11.00am.
Travel to Kalamunda, and enter Mundaring Weir Rd at the roundabout with Railway Rd and Mead St. Drive for approx. 500m and turn left into Crescent Rd which leads after 100m into a car park. Continue through a gate and park on the grass as directed. Please leave the paved parking area for locals.
John Forrest National Park NavDashEvent report, results, photos, and Routegadget are available at the navdashorienteering.com website.
School Orienteering Championships
A reminder that the WA School Orienteering Championships are coming up. Information and entry forms are available on our Schools page.
Also a reminder that two of the selection events for the WA Schools Team to compete at the Australian Orienteering Schools Carnival in Tasmania in September have already been held. The remaining selection events are at Jorgensen Park (Sunday 6th May), Malmalling (27th May), Lover’s Lane (4th June), and the WA School Championships on Wednesday 20th June, and nominees must complete 3 events, one of which must be the School Championships.
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