We love Callan Park

What a great map Callan Park is. It offers everything, occasionally including some gentle rain but fortunately assembly areas with good shelter. For the last Sunday Sprint of the season we were tucked in behind The Writers' Centre buildings.

Course setter Dave Lotty used nearly the whole map, providing route choice and some up-hill and down-dale running. Brian Cleland held the computer system fort. Club members present pitched in, as usual.

Junior Men
5 Lawrence Jones
7 Finn Mackay
10 Jakob Doyle

Junior Women
1 Sophie Jones

Open Men
4 Matt Westwood

Open Women
1 Alice Westwood
2 Catherine Murphy

Veteran Men
3 Ian Jones
8 Jim Mackay

Veteran Women
2 Linda Sesta
5 Margaret Jones

Super Veteran Men
1 Matt Peters

Super Veteran Women
2 Lisa Lampe

Legends Men
5 Terry Murphy
6 Keith Goode

Legends Women
3 Helen Murphy
4 Mary Jane Mahony

Immortal Men
3 Dick Ogilvie

Easter in South Australia

Having lost, through bush fire, their original areas for the 2015 Easter Carnival, Orienteering SA has worked tirelessly to put together an excellent series of events based around Jamestown just north of Burra and the magic wine region of Clare.

 That magic number 12 re-appears as there will only be 12 Uringans at the carnival. It will be an interesting 3 days in the bush and we wish all competitors 3 (4 in the case of Georgia and Lawrence) great runs.

Name		Class
Georgia Jones		W17-20E
Ian Jones		M45A
Lawrence Jones		M17-20E
Margaret Jones		W45A
Sophie Jones		W14A
Dave Lotty		M70A
Finn Mackay		M14A
Jim Mackay		M45-54AS
Dick Ogilvie		M70A
Maureen Ogilvie		W80A
Ron Pallas		M55-64AS
Gayle Shepherd		W45-54AS

Blood Spilt in the grounds of Parramatta Hospital

There was a nice neat dozen Uringans who took part in the penultimate Northern Sydney Summer Series event at Parramatta last Wednesday.

Run in the grounds of Parramatta Hospital now  Cumberland and Westmead Children's) The myriad of buildings made life interesting and the flat terrain made life fast. So much so that the Open men winners= ran the full 600 points in a tick over 35 minutes.

Now orienteering became a true blood sport when Janet Morris (Western and Hills) had a slight altercation with the power box attached to the light pole at control 3. Despite blood cascading from the wound Janet picked herself up and ran off to the finish and took no assistance until she punched the finish. Fortunately Dr Ian Cameron was on hand to take care of the wounded warrior.  It was Janet's birthday and I am sure she will remember the many stitches required to close the wound.

 

Any way enough blood. There were some good results from Uringans with Catherine Murphy almost taking all 600 points in finishing 2nd in Open Women being the highlight.
Overall results

Class	Name	Points
OW	Catherin Murphy	580
OW	Alice Westwood	470
LM	Terry Murphy	290
LW	Mary Jane Mahony	240
VW	Linda Sesta	520
VW	Lisa Lampe	460
IM	Brian Cleland	370
SVW	Helen Murphy	320
SVM	Ron Pallas	220
VM	Jim Mackay	430
Groups	Matt & Cassius Westwood	230

The final round of the series will be held at Macquarie University.

It was fun until the rain came- and then it got better

My desire to venture out of the "Shire" to attend the Stinger's Sprint at Middle Head was well, besides exercise, a chance to visit somewhere that has been on my list for a while.

The 50 minute drive across the bridge ( Tom Uglys that is) was well and truly worth it. The harbour views from the assembly were beautiful despite the grey day.

As we lined up to start we were told that there were two inserts on the map at 1:2000 to assist.
Well when I set off I did not see the insert for the first 4 controls and my eyes struggled to make head nor tail of the detail. Mind you once focussed it was okay.

Controls 1-4 done and off into the course the next few controls 5-12 were reasonably straight forward although the little track heading to 11 was just that little and like many I reached 11 via 12.
Then the challenge of 13-19 was on. The catacombs of tunnels made it very interesting and great fun. By now a little rain was falling and one enjoyed the chance to spend a few seconds out of the rain. These are all gun pits- circular concrete walls with a central concrete base for the guns that protected the harbour. (reading this area without the insert was a real trial- ask Gayle)

Out of the guns emplacements and into the various buildings. Control 23 was a hoot as it was on the veranda of the building but the pathway leading to it was obscured by overhanging palm fronds. The little pathway leading from 24 to 25 was another pathway that made you work to see it.

Great runs by Georgia and Helen saw them in 1st place. Ian and Maggie were just off the pace in 2nd with Sophie and Catherine grabbing 3rd place along with Dave and Lisa.

Now the rain was really heavy and despite two weathermen Blair and Terry there was no truth to the forecast that it would stop soon. Felt sorry for Terry who had to make a dash with computer gear to a veranda that offered some protection from the rain.

Event done and so it was back over the bridge- read the traffic congested Sydney Harbour Bridge. (Curse the car that caught fire in the Domain Tunnel)

Plac	Name	Class	Time	Diff
1	Georgia Jones	Junior Women	18:10
1	Helen Murphy	Legends Women	32:55
2	Ian Jones	Veteran Men	18:08	+0:05
2	Margaret Jones	Veteran Women	27:34	+3:20
3	Sophie Jones	Junior Women	28:36	+10:26
3	Catherine Murphy	Open Women	17:56	+1:22
3	Lisa Lampe	Super Veteran Women	28:30	+1:41
3	Dave Lotty	Immortals Men	33:41	+6:48
4	Serena Doyle	Junior Women	32:38	+14:28
4	Ian Bilmon	Masters Men	26:16	+9:24
5	Maree Doyle	Junior Women	33:16	+15:06
6	Zara Doyle	Junior Women	34:04	+15:54
6	Matt Westwood	Open Men	19:48	+3:47
6	Alice Westwood	Open Women	20:54	+4:20
8	Jakob Doyle	Junior Men	34:31	+19:23
9	Ron Pallas	Super Veteran Men	33:24	+11:33
14	Shane Doyle	Veteran Men	31:24	+13:21
	Gayle Shepherd	Super Veteran Women	mispunched

The next sprint event is being run by Uringa at Callan Park on Sunday 22nd.

Sydney Sprint Weekend

It is not often that we get the chance to compete in 2 State League Events right on your doorstep
The Sydney Sprints weekend commenced bright and early on Saturday morning in the scenic grounds of Sydney University.
The run at Syd Uni started with a NOL 4 person relay 2 boys / 2 girls in each team
Catherine Murphy had a great run and her team finished 2nd overall. Also running NOL were 3 of Uringa's up and coming juniors. Georgia Jones, Sophie Jones and Finn MacKay. These 4 Uringans did really well especially Finn and Sophie who were competing well above their normal classes. Unfortunately for both Georgia and Finn other members in their teams mis-punched whilst Sophie's team finished a very credible 14th place.
After the NOL Relay a 2 person relay was on for the non NOL runners. Fastest home from Uringa was the team of Ant and Jim in 9th place. in 18th was Linda and Karen Blatchford. Maggie Jones, running with Hilary Wood finished in 31st and Lisa running with Sue Key was in 39th place. Ian ran in a relay but unfortunately I cannot find his team result.

Relay individual results.

Place	Name	Class	Time
22	Georgia Jones	NOL Relay - Leg 1	13:18
67	Sophie Jones	NOL Relay - Leg 1	17:50
74	Finn Mackay	NOL Relay - Leg 3	26:37
31	Catherine Murphy	NOL Relay - Leg 4	14:04
20	Linda Sesta	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:06
21	Ant Nolan	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:07
28	Ian Jones	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:31
74	Lisa Lampe	Open Relay - Leg 1	20:09
97	Serena Doyle	Open Relay - Leg 1	29:00
34	Jim Mackay	Open Relay - Leg 2	15:55
63	Margaret Jones	Open Relay - Leg 2	18:22

Moving a few kilometres south and a world apart as far as terrain goes brought runners to Sir Joseph banks Park. This area has a very interesting history as a zoo, garden, athletics venue and now orienteering. Course Planner Matt Peters certainly set some very interesting legs in the fast park lands and complex sand dunes
This was a Uringa event and a large workforce descended on the park to set up for the event. As well as running the event Uringa has a connection with Zonta and a cake stall was a feature of the food consumption of the day.
2 X 1st placing's, 6 X 2nd and 4 X 3rd was a great result. Well done to Jakob Doyle who is showing sound improvement in his performances in recent times. New to orienteering Regina and veteran orienteer Helen finished in 2nd. Jim and Ant continued their fine relay form in notching 1st positions. There are many photos of the area on facebook both Uringa and ONSW pages which highlighted the picturesque nature of the park
Packing up was fantastic and the gear trailer was in the driveway just after 7 ( would have been earlier but a stop for two of life's essentials milk and beer slowed us down.

 

Plac	Name	Class	Time
1	Jim Mackay	M45AS	17:16
1	Ant Nolan	M40A	16:45
2	Sophie Jones	W14A	11:53
2	Regina Haertsch	W OpenB	20:17
2	Helen Murphy	W65A	25:36
2	Jakob Doyle	M21AS	29:50
2	Brian Cleland	M75A	29:29
2	Linda Sesta	W45A	19:17
3	Georgia Jones	W20E HB	17:43
3	Penelope Field	W OpenB	31:38
3	Shane Doyle	M45A	15:55
3	Mary Jane Mahony	W65A	30:57
4	Finn Mackay	M14A	15:36
4	Ian Jones	M45A	17:20
5	Lisa Lampe	W55A	24:29
5	Margaret Jones	W45A	23:26
6	Gayle Shepherd	W45AS	28:46
6	Paul McLellan	M45A	18:39
8	Dave Lotty	M70A	27:17
9	Michael Warlters	M50A	22:43
11	Alice Westwood	W21E HA	25:04
14	Terry Murphy	M65A	32:43
15	Catherine Murphy	W21E HB	19:18
16	Matt Westwood	M21E HA	16:20
	Lawrence Jones	M20E HB	mispunched
	Zara Doyle	W16A	did not start
	Serena Doyle	W14A	did not start
	Maree Doyle	W21AS	did not start
	Maureen Ogilvie	W80A	did not start

Sunday saw us once more in the hallowed halls of learning. this time University of New South Wales. This was indeed the first ever orienteering race in the grounds and boy oh boy you certainly had to maintain map contact as the map was very intense.
Brian, Helen and Jim were on the victory podium and in 2nd was Mary Jane, Linda, Penny and Shane. Finn and Ant were 3rd placegetters.
Our elites Georgia 5th in W20E, Lawrence 16th in M20E and Alice 24th in W21E and Matt 34th in M21E all did well. Sprints are all about seconds a minute covers 10 places at times.
The coffee shop which was open certainly did a roaring trade.

 

Plac	Name	Class	Time
1	Brian Cleland	M75A	20:56
1	Helen Murphy	W65A	21:26
1	Jim Mackay	M45AS	16:26
2	Mary Jane Mahony	W65A	25:58
2	Penelope Field	W OpenB	40:39
2	Linda Sesta	W45A	19:42
2	Shane Doyle	M45A	16:51
3	Ant Nolan	M40A	22:14
3	Finn Mackay	M14A	25:17
4	Margaret Jones	W45A	22:28
4	Dick Ogilvie	M70A	19:31
5	Lisa Lampe	W55A	18:41
5	Ian Jones	M45A	18:32
5	Ron Pallas	M55AS	26:59
5	Georgia Jones	W20E	18:20
6	Serena Doyle	W14A	34:29
7	Gayle Shepherd	W45AS	25:02
8	Dave Lotty	M70A	26:26
9	Michael Warlters	M50A	20:28
16	Terry Murphy	M65A	37:45
16	Lawrence Jones	M20E	22:47
23	Catherine Murphy	W21E	19:03
24	Alice Westwood	W21E	19:52
32	Matt Westwood	M21E	22:25
	Zara Doyle	W16A	mispunched

Great weekend for all. Well done Uringa for their efforts in running a fantastic event.