The Metro League is the Autumn/Winter/Spring orienteering series in Sydney, so it was a bit of a shock to run in 30 degree conditions. It was also clearly a bush orienteering experience for everyone, with close attention to navigation and route choice required. This provided a real learning experience for newcomers to the sport such as Adrienne Kirby and an opportunity to show they still had their substantial orienteering skills for newcomers to the club Paul and Bronwyn Batten. (Paul and Bronwyn are returning to the sport now that their family of three children is well established, and have joined Uringa this year.)
Division 2: UR-CC Harriers beat the Go-Frill Necks resoundingly, with Ian Jones posting the fastest time in the Division.
Division 3: UR-CC Kites lost to the GO Skinks. It was a fairly close result and as the UR-CC team only fielded four runners it was a very good result.
Division 4: UR-CC Falcons lost to GO Geckos. Well, it was hot and technical out there, and Dave Lotty was carrying an injury.
Division 5: UR-CC Kestrels lost to GO Legless. Only two runners in this team. Paul Batten was the fastest in the Division and will be running much further up in future.
The Sydney Metro League is in somewhat of a transition this year. One aspect is a hand-over of coordinators.
Another seems to be a rethinking of how it is run. Rumored is that in future events clubs with empty slots in their teams may select from a list of orienteers (from all clubs) who turn up to run Enter-on-the-day. Stay tuned.
Next Metro event: Metro #2 at Callan Park, run by Uringa on Sunday morning, April 21.
Division 2: UR-CC Harriers beat the Go-Frill Necks resoundingly, with Ian Jones posting the fastest time in the Division.
Division 3: UR-CC Kites lost to the GO Skinks. It was a fairly close result and as the UR-CC team only fielded four runners it was a very good result.
Division 4: UR-CC Falcons lost to GO Geckos. Well, it was hot and technical out there, and Dave Lotty was carrying an injury.
Division 5: UR-CC Kestrels lost to GO Legless. Only two runners in this team. Paul Batten was the fastest in the Division and will be running much further up in future.
The Sydney Metro League is in somewhat of a transition this year. One aspect is a hand-over of coordinators.
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| Ian Jessup (new Metro Coordinator) and Frank Assenza who started it all (previous Metro Coordinator) |
Next Metro event: Metro #2 at Callan Park, run by Uringa on Sunday morning, April 21.
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