Ultrasprint or how to create hectic orienteering!

Well, all of you who didn't turn up for this event, missed out on a very new form of orienteering with fun being at the centre of the whole affair. This form of orienteering has been run in other countries, I believe mainly in the UK, and Matt was the master minder of creating this event in Australia. This new idea coupled with some IT challenges which Ron solved marvellously, and a few savvy members getting on the job - et voila - here you have a fun, cool, challenging, fast event. So here are the details:

-it's essentially a 3 leg relay
-every runner runs each leg
-legs can be run in any order
-no control descriptions
-no control numbers
-some or should I say a lot of controls were mere metres apart
-1:1500 map, which meant every tree was mapped
-each leg was about 900m - 1.1km in length
-21-23 controls on each leg
-a maze through which you had to navigate to get controls
-if you mispunch, you don't get DNF, you just get a 30 sec time penalty added to your final time.
-neuroplasticity at it's best!!!

If you weren't there to experience this novel event, I can highly recommend the next Ultrasprint event which will take place on 31 December in the Moore Park area as part of the Xmas 5 Day. See Eventor   for registration.