Another celebration of Australian-Swiss relations

Callan Park CATI and Schools Final

The perfect Sydney early spring day saw a good turn out of Uringans to run a Come-and-try-it together with the Schools series final under the direction of Jan Sargood. There are always jobs to do for both the unskilled and the skilled, and it's a good chance to get to know club members and how orienteering works.

NSW Champs

For those who stayed at home and missed the NSW Champs at Tumbarumba you certainly missed a great event. Whilst the weather was very chilly and we were indeed fortunate to be in the cars heading for Tumbarumba when a large storm hit, flooding roads and making driving a little interesting.
The get together at the pub great although Sarah's lamb cutlets were just plain crumby. Mind you we indulged in a very nice bottle or two of local red...

Anyway the Burngoogee maps are good running and certainly had a more than one trick up their sleeve to catch the unwary punter.
Saturday Middle Distance Championship
W40A Jane McKenna 4th
W45A Lisa Lampe 4th
M60A Dave Lotty 5th
M65A Dick Ogilvie 3rd
M45AS Rick Steele 1st
Ron Pallas 3rd
W70A Maureen Ogilvie 1st
W35AS Gayle Shepherd 2nd
W50A Sarah Garnett mp

Sunday Long Distance Champs
W21AS Jane McKenna 3rd
W45A Lisa Lampe 4th
M60A Dave Lotty 3rd
M65A Dick Ogilvie 3rd
M45AS Rick Steele 2nd
Zuzu 5th
Ron Pallas 6th
W70A Maureen Ogilvie 1st
W35AS Gayle Shepherd mp
W50A Sarah Garnett 4th
M35AS Dave McKenna 1st

Dave McKenna was running injured after winning their soccer grand final on Saturday.

NSW Champs Tumbarumba

Good weekend of running from an elite group of Uringan members.

Here you see the planning meeting at the Tumbarumba Pub on Saturday night.

Note the energy supplements in hand.

Guess who is a Grandmother?

No need to guess just check out the smiling faces

Roy was born on Monday 10th August 23.12 hrs and weighed in at 3.460kg

Jo and David are on cloud 9 and Gayle can't stop smiling

WMOC

Well folks as the closing date for entries slides off the calendar the entry lists reveals a healthy dose of Uringans competing in the World Masters Orienteering Championships in October.

In no particular order we have:
Dick Ogilvie M65, Dave Lotty M60, Sarah Garnett W50, Angela Murray W60, Lisa Lampe W45, Linda Sesta W40, Rick Steele M50, Jan Sargood W55, Maureen Ogilvie W75, Margaret Wilmott W50, Nick Wilmott M55 and Mark Darvodelsky M50.

Along the way we have Dick Ogilvie who is controller for the Sprint Qualifier and Nick Wilmott who is planner for the Sprint Finals ( Macquarie Uni and Sydney Olympic Par respectively).

There are a number of Uringans who will be on board to assist either in Sydney on 9th, 10th 11th or around Lithgow later in the week 14th - 17th.
With entries over 1000 in both the Sprint and the Long it will be the largest entry event in NSW that I can remember.
Naturally if you haven't let me know you are available to assist on any or all of the days contact me.

Northern Territory Orienteering Championships

The Top End Orienteers (TEO) put on a terrific 3 day event at the beginning of the month. I was the top ranking Uringan in all events...as I was the only one of us there. (This is a corollary to my long term strategy of orienteering until there is no one left alive in my age class.) The good news for me though was that I actually came first in my age class in the sprint around Charles Darwin University - the 'practice' run around Newcastle University as part of QBIII was clearly good training.

TEO provided not only orienteering, but also airplanes, history, music and great food. The photos http://www.topend.nt.orienteering.asn.au/NTchamps09/photos.html tell the story. (Photo above thanks to TEO.)