Beginner course kicks off

Linda Sesta and Maggie Jones, with the two Jones girls to help out, ran the first session of the new 5 week Beginner Orienteering Course at Centennial Park today. There was a good turn out which means that we have some new members! We welcomed the Briganti family, with parents Roslyn and Riccardo and children Beniamino and Therese, Matthew Nicol, Chris Barraza and Catherine Taylor to Uringa. Gillian McCartney who also came on the course, has signed up to Big Foot as she lives over the bridge, as will mother and son Jen and Rory, who came to say hello and said they will come along to some of the later sessions as they have orienteered before. Lucky Big Foot! Thanks to Sarah Garnett for the excess maps of Centennial Park from the recent CATI - they were appreciated as we took the team on a map walk around the Green course she had set, looking at terrain to map, and map to terrain. The basics covered, next week we are onto techniques - lets hope the weather is as kind!
Results for the example SSS event (25min score - 150 pts)
1 Georgia 150pts
2 Catherine 120pts
2= Chris 120pts
3 Sophie 110pts
4Matthew 90pts
4= Therese 90pts
5Beniamino 60pts
6 Gillian - but then she did lose her pencil - maybe she actually won!