Issue 10/14

The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 10/14: 26 March, 2014

Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)

Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

 Important! If you don’t want to receive the bulletin, or if, at any time, you wish to discontinue receiving it, please advise me by return e-mail and your name will be taken off my list.

 The Black Crow is awarded each year to the club member who is responsible for the most spectacular misadventure of the year.

A new nomination. It was at Fiddlers Green when one of our more senior people started to take the trailer to bits to try and extract the container with the results slips in it that was (seemingly) stuck in the bottom. Someone else came along with (thankfully) a bit more nous and let the trailer tailboard down and just – took them out!!

I’m trying to remember something else about a download unit – what happened there Warwick?

 For those older members of the club, I caught up with Noel Schoknecht last night – he’s still going strong, still very much involved in WA orienteering. He was in Bendigo for a conference.

 Sedgwick.A great event, a good turn-up, great courses – Bendigo Orienteers bringing high quality local events to local people – as we should! Thank you Catherine! It was good to see so many of the people who attended our CATI’s turning up to try out the real thing in real forest on our doorstep — but what pleased me most was the number of families and lots of kids. It is vital that we push ‘reachable’ events after our CATI’s – Sedgwick proved this!

Results.

Organiser : Catherine Creely

1 Course (1): 10 KP 6.6 km ^

 1.     0 Chris Creely              BGV        00:59:56

 2.     0 Leisha Maggs              BGV        01:23:39 +23:43

 3.     0 Colin Walker              BGV        01:25:57 +26:01

 4.     0 Anitra  Dowling           EUV        01:39:51 +39:55

 5.     0 Paul Leicester            BGV        02:03:07 +63:11

 6.     0 Andrew Wallace            BGV        02:24:17 +84:21

2 Course (2): 8 KP 4.6 km ^

 1.     0 Louis Cameron             BGV        00:37:44

 2.     0 Andrew Cameron            BGV        00:44:20 +06:36

 3.     0 Nigel McGuckian           BGV        00:45:31 +07:47

 4.     0 John Wilkinson            BGV        00:49:32 +11:48

 5.     0 Brett Houlden             BGV        01:00:35 +22:51

 6.     0 Stephen Bird              BKV        01:00:50 +23:06

 7.     0 Rob Clark                 BGV        01:04:14 +26:30

 8.     0 Nic Cherry                BGV        01:04:37 +26:53

 9.     0 John Chellew              BGV        01:09:19 +31:35

10.     0 Han Perry                 BGV        01:11:42 +33:58

11.     0 Jenny  Ball               BGV        01:13:37 +35:53

12.     0 Rowan Goffin              BGV        01:27:00 +49:16

        0 Bob Leicester             BKV        DNF     

3 Course (3): 9 KP 3.5 km ^

 1.     0 Peter Forbes              BGV        00:42:20

 2.     0 Jimmy Cameron             BGV        00:49:31 +07:11

 3.     0 Lorraine Leversha         BGV        01:02:47 +20:27

 4.     0 Matt Jackel               BGV        01:09:14 +26:54

 5.    30 Ian  Johnson              BGV        01:25:46 +43:26

 6.     0 Katherine McMillan        BGV        01:27:36 +45:16

        0 Bob Cameron               BGV        DNF     

        0 Vivienne McMillan         BGV        DNF     

        0 Zac McDonald              BGV        DNF     

        0 Terry Gavaghan            QLD        DNF     

4 Course (4): 12 KP 3.5 km ^

 1.     0 Jarrod&Angus  Martin      BGV        00:45:26

 2.     0 Amos Walz                 BGV        00:49:45 +04:19

 3.     0 Shannon&Oliver Martin     BGV        00:49:52 +04:26

 4.     0 Carol Coad                BGV        01:03:43 +18:17

 5.     0 Jason Carter              BGV        01:12:04 +26:38

 6.     0 Roland Cauka              BGV        01:15:42 +30:16

 7.     0 Larelle McDonald          BGV        01:16:49 +31:23

5 Course (5): 13 KP 2.6 km ^

 1.     0 Michelle Alston           BGV        00:30:31

 2.     0 Bowman Family             BGV        00:37:13 +06:42

 3.     0 Solomon Cameron          BGV         00:41:09 +10:38

 4.     0 Family Wigney             BGV        00:41:18 +10:47

 4.     0 Jack Wigney               BGV        00:41:18 +10:47

 6.     0 Heather Robson            BGV        00:58:20 +27:49

 7.     0 Bendigo Hire              BGV        01:00:06 +29:35

 8.     0 Cunningham + Terry        BGV        01:24:13 +53:42

 State Series events. There were two SS events last weekend. The Bendigo people who traveled up went pretty well mostly — full results can be found on Eventor or WinSplits.

A few mentions: Day 1: Course 7W Karina Cherry,: 1st.  Caitlyn Steer 5th Day 2: Course 7W Caitlyn Steer 1st., Karina Cherry 2nd., Course 1M: Chris Naunton 1st.; Course 2M: Lachlan Cherry 3rd. Course 2W: Leisha Maggs 5th.; Course 3M: Don Cherry 3rd.; Course 3W: Louise Hall 4th.;Course 4M: Michael Loughnan 1st.; Course 6W: Judy Fitt: 4th.

 Whispers: Word on the street is that a long time member of the club who used to wear only KT-26 shoes, has taken himself down to Sports Co in the Mall, and bought a pair of Inov-8 X-Talon 212 shoes, just like those on the Club website. 

Heard on the weekend (he was a controller), saying how much grip they had

 JSquad. I will start the separate JSquad e-Bulletin next week.

 Victorian Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships 2014

Entries for this event are now being taken!

All event information and entry forms are available on the Orienteering Victoria website 

The championships are open to all secondary school students and will be held on Friday 16th May atPlenty Gorge West, Hawkstowe. Within each course there are age categories for inexperienced and experienced competitors of varying abilities and ages: All juniors planning on trying out for the Victorian State Team should attend as it is one of the two selection races held in deciding the team to compete at ASOC in WA during the September Holidays.

Deadline for entries is Thursday 1st May.  Peta Whitford, Event organiser

 Coming Events. Saturday 29 March.

Map: Diamond Hill Organiser: Peter Forbes

Course Setter: Peter Forbes  Start: 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm

Comment: Diamond Hill is a wonderful area. It has many pieces of old gold mining and erosion, making it a very interesting place to wander around. The easier courses will be suitable for beginners so come along and taste the forest!

Courses: Courses 1, 2 and 3 difficult navigation, 4 moderate nav. And 5 easy.

Directions: From Bendigo: From the Fountain travel south along Mitchell Street, over the railway bridge. Continue through the traffic lights (where the street becomes Carpenter St.), through the roundabout and past the Cemetery. Ignore the Spring Gully turn off and a couple of hundred metres further on turn right into Paterson Street, then again right into Burnside Street. Look for the assembly area. From Melbourne: travel via the Calder to the centre of Bendigo, then as for Bendigo.

 NOTE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A DAY OF TOTAL FIRE BAN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRY REGION ANY EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY WILL BE CANCELLED.

 Next Bulletin 2 April

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