State League 11 & NSW Schools Champs

Uringa fielded 5 competitors in the NSW Schools Championships held at Belanglo State Forest. The chilly wind made life a little uncomfortable whilst waiting to start but the runners soon warmed as they headed into the forest . The pine forest sections within the map contained some very beautiful and well defined rock features. The eucalypt sections tended to be a lot scrappier where lots of dead fall timber slowed progress and made control hunting a lot harder than usual.
Our Schoolies also competed in State league 11, thus the two placings in the table below.(Schools/State league
M10N Nicholas Radonjic   1st /1st
M11A (12A)  Jared McKenna  1st / 1st
M16A  Laurence Jones  2nd /4th
W10A  Sophie Jones  1st / 1st
W14A  Georgia Jones 2nd / 2nd

Now whilst the kids were out having fun the oldies were also out enjoying the forest.
W21AS  Jane McKenna  2nd
W35AS  Gayle Shepherd 3rd
W45A  Maggie Jones  4th
W50A  Lisa Lampe  2nd
W65A  Jitka Kopriva  3rd
            Angela Murray  4th
           Mary Jane Mahony 6th
W70A  Maureen Ogilvie  2nd
M35AS  Dave McKenna  1st
M40A  Anthony Nolan  4th
M45A  Ian Jones  3rd
M45AS  Ron Pallas  5th
M50A  Ian Mckenzie  7th
M55AS  Dick Ogilvie  4th
M65A  Dave Lotty  3rd
M75A  Brian Cleland  2nd

Not bad results all round from Club Uringa. So now it is just two weeks to the NSW Middle and Long Distance Champs being held west of Bathurst. The ever popular and challenging Kali's Rocks is the venue for the Middle Distance and then off to Molong for Mumbil for the long distance champs.
For many this will be a fine tuning for the Australian Championship carnival being held around St Helens in Tasmania and what a carnival that is shaping up to be.

Now you may be wondering what this has to do with orienteering. On Saturday night a number of Uringans gathered at the Mittagong RSL. Once mains were consumed there was a temptation to head to the Dessert Bar. Karen (The Athlete) Blatchford when quizzed on what would be a good dessert handed over the photographed dish claiming that it was a fruit salad ( tomatoes are after all a fruit). So after that suggestion - no dessert was consumed out of shame in thinking that finely tuned athletes such as Uringans would dare to consume a cheesecake or mud cake style dessert.
It was rather ironical that part the way around her course "The Athlete" was bewailing the lack of energy- which she would have found had she had had she consumed a cheesecake delicacy at dinner the night before!