It was an unusual leadup to the second sprint event of the season, with the remnants of Cyclone Narelle wandering across the south west late in the week. In the end the rain cleared by Sunday morning and we just had a bit of drizzle and even a bit of intermittent sunshine.
Lake Leschenaultia is one of our oldest areas, but the development of the picnic areas into something worth using for sprint has been much more recent. Sten Claessens’ shiny new map made for some interesting courses with a mixture of bush areas, old and new picnic areas, camping grounds and even the old railway station.
There was some tight consistent racing at the head of the field, with Rohan Braid taking line honours ahead of Ruben and Liam, with all three having very clean runs. Duncan Sullivan took a break from MTBing to win the Medium course, Max Li backed up his Easy course victory last week by taking out the Short and Christine Brown won the Easy. While the weather kept overall numbers down there was an impressive 26 multiple runs across the four courses, with a few people running all of them.
Special thanks to Sue for organisation, Sue, Jack and Liisa for setting up the start and finish, and Ricky, Tucker, Tash, Mike, Nicole, Jack and Hadrien for gathering up the controls in record time. Thanks also to Rachel West for setting up the Kid-O and String courses: the junior orienteers made good use of them. Finally, a big thank you goes to Paul Dowling for setting the event.
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Photo: Liisa on course, by Tash Thackray.
Ngalak kaaditj nidja Noongar Boodjar. Koora-Yeyi-Kalyakool.