Welcome to Orienteering!
For coming events, check the Events page for the full list of events in 2009. The next Sunday bush Orienteering event will be listed as a news item below and the OAWA Newsletter will have full details of all events for the next month.
If you haven't done Orienteering before, have a look at the New to Orienteering page, or send an enquiry to OAWA.
While you're here, why not check out Event Results or some of the routes that people took using RouteGadget!
Bunbury Orienteering
Orienteering in the Bunbury region is conducted by the South West Orienteering Trekkers - SWOT. You can find more information on their club page here.
Metro Series returns to Burrendah this weekend
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
This weekend the Be Active Metro Series returns to Burrendah Reserve for the first time since 2002. This week's event will start from Willetton
Primary School on Saturday
28th November at 5pm.
Three courses will be available, including a short 2-3km
course suitable for walkers, and family groups, and two longer courses of 5-6km
or 7-8km for joggers and runners.
To participate, just come along and register by
4.45pm to attend a Newcomers Briefing.
There is a free entry coupon in the Local Focus section of this week’s
Canning Times/Melville Times.
For more information visit the Metro Series pages.
Members of the local orienteering club (Kulgun Orienteers) will be available at the event to answer questions about their club's
activities and membership. Congratulations to last week's winners at Kings Park - Craig Dufty and Rachel West on the Long Course, Ian Fletcher and Carol Brownlie on the Medium Course and Oliver and Michelle Martin on the Short course. Full results are now available.
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Metro Series Underway
Sunday, 15 November 2009
121 people ran and walked around the lakes, parks and streets of Carine between 5 and 6pm on Saturday, welcoming the start of the 2009/2010 Be Active Metropolitan Orienteering season.
Winning times ranged from 17 to 34 minutes for the short and long courses. Most took longer but still enjoyed the fun of exercising and navigating simultaneously.
There were lots of groups ( families and friends ) participating for the first time and their favourable comments mean they’ll be back for more at Kings Park next week. Many brought dogs on leads – maybe we should introduce a category for the loyal hounds and handlers, not to mention parents with prams!
Congratulations to the winners Oliver Martin (Short), Henry McNulty (Medium), and Steve Fletcher (Long). Steve just managed to hold off Oscar McNulty and avoid a clean sweep by the Juniors. The first women on each course were Cath Chalmers and Aoife Rothery (Short), Cathryn Baylis (Medium), and Kim Hazeldine (Long).
The full results have now been published.
The next Be Active Metro Series event is at Kings Park on Saturday 21st November at 5.00pm. The assembly area is near the corner of Saw Avenue and May Drive, and if this is your first event, make sure you register by 4.45pm and attend the Newcomer’s Briefing, where you will be shown what you have to do.
Come along and enjoy some late wildflowers in the Park, and take on the challenge to solve the usual route choice puzzle. Once you have worked this out, navigating around your chosen course should be easy!
The Be Active Metro Series is proudly sponsored by Healthway to promote the Heart Foundation’s Be Active message. Additional sponsorship is by Brooks and Runners World.
For more information contact Tony on 9228 0085 or 0417 919 513, or click here to go to the Metro Series pages.
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