Sunday, 19th May 2019

Warranine, near Bakers Hill

After a rather cool start to the day (minus 2c driving through Wooroloo) the day turned into a sunny autumn day and 81 people enjoyed the ideal conditions. The map area used was part of that used for the 2014 Australian Champs and provided a mix of technical terrain and open running.

Thanks to Helen & Ken Post as organisers and for collecting and towing the caravan to the event and Dan Greig for the return. Ken with Dave McCauley also had the task of digging the loos into the “concrete” soil, still unsoftened following about 10 mm of rain on Thursday. Thanks also to Gary Aitken for his assistance and Dave & Daisy for erecting the shelter with the assistance of Hubert Day.

Anne Austin, Carol Brownlie and Helen Post shared the instruction duties. Control collecting was borne by Helen & Ken Post, Dan Greig, Carol Brownlie, David, Rosalie & Daisy McCauley and special thanks to both Jenny & Peter Komyshan for venturing back into the “jungle”.
Also thanks to Gina for T/A duties in the rain on Thursday and Cassie for driving me out close to the water control sites.

Russell Wade
course planner

Results:
available in Eventor >>

Check out the awesome photos on the day on the OWA Facebook page

The Annual OWA Award and Volunteer Dinner on Saturday 29th October is a celebration of the year and a chance to acknowledge our champions, volunteers and achievements over the past year. And a chance to leave the gaiters off and put on the glad rags!

Once again, we had the chance to see the year in review with a wonderful photo show collated by Rob West. This year a “what were they thinking” game complimented the photos, making use of some of the fun photos over the year.

After dinner and onto the presentations with Lily MacFarlane and Luan Swart thanking Rob and Lois West and Daisy McCauley for their work as Team Coaches and Managers at the recent Schools and National Championships in South Australia.

We recognised our Volunteers of the Year who represent all the many others who do so much to keep the association running. Be it setting events, managing the equipment, running coaching courses, keeping on top of the finances and many more tasks everyone contributes. This year Volunteers of the Year were:

This year Volunteers of the Year were:

With a catered dinner complimented by desert from willing helpers the evening moved on to the presentation of trophies for individuals and clubs. This year the overall club trophy was taken home by LOST

ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION OF WA TROPHIES AND AWARDS – 2018

Mountain Bike Orienteering

With a catered dinner complimented by desert from willing helpers the evening moved on to the presentation of trophies for individuals and clubs. This year the overall club trophy was taken home by LOST.

All importantly who got the Golden Gumnuts? For those of us being caught doing something rather silly or slightly embarrassing. our efforts were rewards in front of our fellow Orienteers. Memorable blunders focused on forgetfulness this year from forgetting where e-tags and compasses and events were, forgetting the right control descriptions and even forgetting to take team members to events!

As ever our thanks go to the Perth Weavers Society for the use of their Hall and to Sue Grieg and her helpers for setting up the venue. Helen Bailey and Carol Brownlie for overall organisation, Nicole for stocking and managing the bar, dessert and nibbles platters, Jan collecting the trophies and organising the engraving and the host of other willing hands to tidy up the hall.

See you all next year!

All the photos from the night on our Facebook page

See you all next year!

Sunday 21st October 2018

Leeming Senior High School

Following on from the inaugural event last year, Leeming Senior High School was the venue for the UltraSprint this year. Three courses shoe-horned into a smallish campus, lots of twists and turns and head scratching. The school gardeners had been enthusiastically removing trees in the lead up to the event (unbeknown to the setter until the day before!) and it would seem they even relocated some trees (or was that the mapper’s slightly dodgy mapping?). The courses appeared to be challenging enough and were well received and I don’t think anyone found themselves inside a Year 8 Maths class.

With no control descriptions you needed to be ultra careful to select the correct control as all were located very close together often on similar features. Perfect control picking skills at speed were rewarded while each mispunch accrued a 30 second time penalty. Was it faster to ponder or punch wrong and run?

A big thank you to the helpers on the day. Rosalie McCauley for organising such a smooth computing system and to Melinda Richards and Nicole Davis for their efforts on registration.

Thanks go to Sten and Ruben Classens, Kate, Lachlan and Rohan Braid for collecting controls.

Thanks to the Admin staff at Leeming SHS for allowing us access to the site – very much appreciated.

Finally, thanks to Ceri Pass for setting up the assembly area and organising the morning.

Graham Braid
Setter - UltraSprint 2019

Results:
There is a PDF on Eventor with the combined results of all 3 courses.
https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Documents/Event/5069/1/Combined-Results---all-3-Courses

The times in the PDF are per course and they are the adjusted time per courses so include the time penalties for wrong/missing controls by courses.

Splits

For those interested in the splits via course, these can be found for this event at;
Course One
https://attackpoint.org/racesplits.jsp/race_29567

Course Two
https://attackpoint.org/racesplits.jsp/race_29568

Course Three
https://attackpoint.org/racesplits.jsp/race_29569