URINGA AGM

A large excited crowd of Uringans turned out for the 2011 Uringa AGM

Elected Officers:
President: Linda Sesta
Vice President: Lisa Lampe
Secretary: Mary Jane Mahony
Treasurer: Dave Lotty
Blogmaster: Rick Steele
Social Secretary: Gayle Shepherd
Equipment Officers: Matt Peters - Local
Nick Wilmott / Ron Pallas - bush events
Club Captain: Dave McKenna
Training Coordinator: Maggie Jones
Mapping Officer: Dave Lotty
Medical Officer: Lisa Lampe
Membership Coordinator: Lisa Lampe
Delegates to OANSW: Linda Sesta & Ron Pallas

SKINNY LATTE SUMMER SERIES

Chief Finisher Aldo

Matt and Helen discussing local coffee shops

The crowd

The view (1)


The View (2)

164 competitors were on hand for the Summer series Event at Birchgrove. Matt had prepared a new map which took in some of the most outstanding scenery of the Balmian / Birchgrove peninsula.

Despite the hot weather and the Australia day Holiday there were some hot times.

45th Catherine Murphy Open Women 420 points
67th Dave Lotty Legends Men 380 points

72nd Dick Ogilvie Legends Men 360 points

77th Linda Sesta Masters Women 350 points

89th Terry Murphy Super Veteran Men 330 points
91st Angela Murray Legends Women 320 points

108th Lisa Lampe Veteran Women 310 points

123rd Brian Cleland Legends Men 290 points
131st Helen Murphy Super Veteran Women 280 points

140th Michael Tomkins Masters Men 270 points
141st Mary Jane Mahony Super Veteran Women 260 points
160th Maureen Ogilvie Legends Women 140

Still has me beat when i go to a summer series events how some people arrive at 4.30 and do not run until 6.30 and spend a lot of time hanging around. I wonder if they are listening in to gain clues.

I reckon you should get your map and then have 1 hour to complete the course. If you spend 20 minutes planning then you have 40 minutes running... Easy to implement as you go to the table and register and your time is written on your card then. You must finish within the hour or face the penalty!

Thanks to all Uringans and especially Matt for a great event

SUMMER SPRINTS

The Summer Sprint series moved to Sydney Park on Monday 24th January. Unfortunately the weather decided that it was time to heat up and the temperature was in the mid thirties when most competitors went out.
Despite the heat there was a great turnout of 75 runners and a few extra helpers.
Dave Lotty set the course and was rewarded with some glowing comments on his use of the area.
Uringans performed quite well on the 3.3km course
29 Linda Sesta 23.38
36 Dick Ogilvie 25.33
41 Clare Murphy 27.27
51 Terry Murphy 31.06
52 Michael Tomkins 31.20
53 Angela Murray 32.23
54 Lisa Lampe 32.43
61 Helen Murphy 38. 48
69 Brian Cleland 50.36

A special welcome to Michael Tomkins who has just joined our club. Michael began orienteering in ACT running in the mid-week events and has recently moved to Marrickville.

Thanks to Sarah, Matt and Aldo who lent a hand on the day. With the use of sportident this event is a very easy one indeed.

Reunion in Snowy Switzerland

As some of you may know, Aldo and I spent the Christmas/New Year period in Europe. We had a great time, although at times we Aussies found it freezing, in particularly Aldo! He found it quite exhausting having to gear up every time you left the house. It's quite a procedure; longjohns, ski pants, hat, gloves, scarf, warm jacket etc....! We spent 4 days sightseeing in Berlin, thankfully we had packed the ski pants which saved us from turning into icicles. However the pretty Christmas lights and markets, and the interesting sights made up for the cold!!

We also spent a few days in the Swiss ski resort of St Moritz where we had the most magnificent weather and enjoyed some skiing and cross country skiing.

One of the highlights of the trip was our reunion with the Swiss-based contingent of Uringa: Sibylle, Matthias, Noel and Corsin. We had a scrumptious breakfast at their place and wished we could have spent a bit more time together. They are all doing very well and the boys are involved in a sport called biathlon. It combines cross country skiing and shooting, and if you by chance have ever come across it, you will know that it is a very though sport, and it's definitely quite thrilling to watch a competition (they show it on Eurosport here in OZ if you have Foxtel!).

Anyway, here are some photos.

Popularity of orienteering in print

A little bit of fun. Go to:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=orienteering&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=0&smoothing=3

(Then you might want to play with other words of interest.)

More Christmas Five Day photos from the northern tablelands

Sophie makes it through the long grass

Half the fun is hanging comparing notes (Sophie)

Mates take turns winning their class (Jarrad)

Shadowing is a challenge when the children are fast, the grass is long, and the dad is injured - coming in behind, a fair way behind (Dave M)

I'm sure the control is around here (Brian)

Gayle finishes

Georgia takes the high ground

The control is obvious from the Finish, but not from any of the directions from which the runners are coming. (Dave L.)

Sophie runs in with the best of them

Brian on the home stretch, just before the trip rock

 Lawrence 

Debriefing (Lawrence and David)

Jarad collects his last prize from Master of Ceremonies Dick.

5 DAYS IN IMAGES

It wasn't raining however Brian and Mary Jane sort shelter from the extra strong Armidale sun.


David, Ian and Lawrence had fingers crossed during the prize draw hoping to hear their names called out

Maggie all smiles after another consistent run



Ron and Nick at work in the tent!

After so much rain grass was growing wildly. Never seen so much grass that even the cows are sick of it. For orienteers it was a case of pick off the grass seeds! It could be worse as the seeds will change later in the season into those spiky things that penetrate even armour plated o gear

Sophie powers into the finish on Day 4. On her course Sophie was dwarfed by the grass in places.

Brian was extremely happy with surviving Day 4 the most complex navigation days

Jane, put on a brave face whilst she was being patched up!