Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Uringa training course - Week 2

This week saw our intrepid participants tackle some of the key orienteering techniques to make their navigation more secure. Jane and Jared McKenna came along to say hi, climb some trees (well Jared did anyway) and help talk through some of the finer points with the team in training. After a quick map matching exercise to get the blood flowing to the brain we were off looking at lots of lovely maps and spotting the handrails and catching features of past events. Then it was onto some distance estimate, an explanation of attack points and another squint at some old maps and the competition of the day - the Star Relay!
Using last week's scores we matched up the teams for the adults course - Therese and Dad Riccardo were paired with Catherine, Chris with Roslyn and Matt with dark horse Gillian. Beniamino decided to try the children's star relay by himself, and did a great job, making Ian's shadowing of him a mere formality. He was up against stiff competition with Sophie determined to show him how it was done, and Georgia on good form despite having just returned from some training with the Stingers in the morning. In the end Chris and Roslyn won the adults course by a couple of lengths ahead of Matt and Gillian (who is clearly rather good at all of this when she doesn't have to carry a pencil) with Therese, Riccardo and Catherine very close behind. Next week - contours!

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