• Bendigo Orienteers would like to acknowledge and pay respects to the traditional owners, the Dja Dja Wurrung people, whose country we are on and extend our respect to their Elders, both past and present.

Start of New Year

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2015 is now upon us, and so are the next round of Meetings

January Club Meeting

On the 27th Jan, there will be a Club Meeting at the Aths Track, starting at 1930 (7:30).
Main items on the agenda are the the 2015 Calendar, and discussion re fees for the coming year.
We cant set them at this meeting, but can take a recommendation forward to the AGM on the 1st Feb

2015 AGM

This will be on the 1st Feb with the season opening Chicken and Champagne, information on Eventor.
Notice of Meeting, and last years Minutes will be emailed to all members

2015 Membership are due

Already, in 2015, we welcome back pass members, Matt Schepisi, and Judy & Peter Hill. Also new members, Tony & Alison Radford

Please renew your membership on Eventor

And finally

Good to see one of our Club members, helping out another sporting event with a photo shoot.

Wonder if there was a fee involved

Jim Russell

WUFT

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Warm up for Tassie results

Day 1, Green Gully, Results, Splits, by Class, by Course

Day 2, Mt Beckworth, Results, Splits, by Class, by Course

Day 3, Mt Tarrengower, Results, Splits, by Class, by Course

Overall Results

Please note that because of a misplaced control on day 2, which affected the men on course 1 only, we have posting revised results which exclude the leg leading in to the misplaced control, and the leg leading out of the misplaced control. This control was relocated to its correct position before the women on course 1 were affected and hence no alteration to the women’s results will be required.

Merry Christmas

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The year is nearly over, and the New Year isn’t that far away, so while we enjoy the end of the year – and another Orienteering season – I want you to help Peter Galvin out, he is organising the Rockhopper points for the club.

The claim form is on the VOA website, and can be found here Please go to page 3, and send any relevant claims to Peter at pmg41@bigpond.com

While we are recovering from the last years Orienteering, we are also getting ready for next year, both in planning events, and getting fit to do the best we can. The calendar is here Please take some time to see what event you are going to help out at.

On the fitness side of things, you may want to work on your core. Here is a Video showing you the benefits of core strength and orienteering, thanks to Andrew Cameron of N8 Health

And another video about base core strengthening exercises for Orienteering

See you all in the New Year

Bendigo Orienteers

Jim’s Golden Leg Goes Global!

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The Golden Leg award was last week awarded to Jim for his 47th control at the Kooyoora ultra-long event earlier this year. Makes me glad I’m not an M21!

World of O picked up the story (aided, perhaps, by a little birdie bardie), and did an analysis on it. Read the full article here: http://news.worldofo.com/2014/12/15/route-to-christmas-day-15-2014/.

Louise.

Issue 44/14

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The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Special 10 December, 2014

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

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

If you wish to unsubscribe from this bulletin, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of this email. If you would like this Bulletin to be emailed directly to you, please email bendigo.orienteers@gmail.com.

Warm Up for Tassie Enter HERE

They say that not enough sunlight in winter can cause a shortage of vitamin D and lead to depression ….

But it’s certain is that not enough orienteering in summer leads to depression!

We’re going to help you through those long bleak orienteering-free summer days. Whether you are heading to the World Cup carnival in Tasmania or not, make sure that you come to the Warm-Up for Tassie events. All the pleasure of orienteering in the bush, served up in chunks that won’t melt you down if it’s hot.

Evening 26th December Green Gully gold mining sprint

Morning 27th December Mt Beckworth granite middle distance

Morning 28th December Mt Tarrengower granite middle distance

PRE ENTRY CLOSES 15th DECEMBER

SHOES for sale, contact Ben Goonan bengoonan at hotmail dot com

I recently purchased a pair of the new standard fit Inov-8 X-Talon 212’s (the shoe of champions) that are just a bit too small. If you would like them they are for sale (unused). They are size 8.5 (UK) and $125.00 (no delivery fee). If you are interested please contact me asap via email to make arrangements.

Follow these links to find out all the tech specifications and see sizing guide

“The most popular off road shoe in the inov-8 range and the winner of more world championships than any other off roader, the 212 continues to deliver!”

Issue 43/14

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The weekly e-newsletter of
Bendigo Orienteers Inc.
Issue 43/14: 3 December, 2014
Contact (for this publication): Bendigo Orienteers: bendigo.orienteers@gmail.com
Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

If you wish to unsubscribe from this bulletin, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of this email. If you would like this Bulletin to be emailed directly to you, please email bendigo.orienteers@gmail.com

Bendigo presentations day are this weekend, Sunday the 7th December at the Axedale Golf Course

What is on? The day will start at midday, with a 1 hr score event, (12 – 1) with a twist. The Golf course will be closed to golfers for this hour, so its important that you get there in time, as we cant run late. You may also need to turn up early, to work out the best way for you to get the 20 controls that are on offer, because if you get them in the right order, you will be awarded with a higher score. Enough said, find more out on the day 😉

Then it will be time to have something to eat. Please bring salads and drinks (non-alcoholic) to share, the club will be providing the BBQ and sausages, as well as bread.

To make it easier for us to cater, can you please indicate on Eventor if you are coming

After lunch has been done, we will end up with presentations.

One of the presentations we do is the ‘golden leg’ This is the leg that challenged the best of us, or had the best variations of route choice, or for whatever other reason you were challenged by it. If you have a ‘leg’ that you believe fits this category, please get back to us by return email, with the date, course and leg you want to nominate. The judges will then decide from the nominations, the reciprocate of this years ‘Golden Leg’

After this is all over, you may want to have a round of Golf. Green Fees are $15 for 9 holes and each person will be required to have their own set of Golf clubs

Next Bulletin in the New Year

Issue 42/14

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The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 42/14: 19 November, 2014

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

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

If you wish to unsubscribe from this bulletin, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of this email. If you would like this Bulletin to be emailed directly to you, please email bendigo.orienteers@gmail.com

Three Hour Twilight. Results and Write up are on the Website

Coming events. Saturday Nov 22th.

Night Orienteering “Champs”. Nillumbik Emus OC (See important note below)

Area: Mia Mia
Start: 9 00 pm mass start.
Entry: Pre entry on Eventor
Event format: 3 hours or 90 minutes.

Come early and bring your BBQ (subject to fire restrictions)

Overnight camping is available in the assembly area.

Control cards will be used for manual punching – bring a card holder.
Bring a torch or headlight if you intend to go into the dark.

Free soup and refreshments at finish.

Sunday 23 November: 2 hour “Morning After”

Start: Two mass starts at 9.00 am and 11.30 am.

To enter one or both events either use Eventor, contact the organiser or enter on the day.

Entries are due by Wednesday 19 November.

Organiser: Ron Frederick. Ph. 0418 994 841; e-mail: ronfrederick29@icloud.com
Directions: From Castlemaine take B180 towards Maryborough and Newstead. 2 kms after passing through Green Gully and approx. I km before Newstead turn right (north) onto Mia Mia Road and follow O signs north to assembly area.

Note: As indicated in the OV Bulletin this morning: The organisers are considering cancelling this event and also the Sunday morning due to lack of entries. If you haven’t entered and intend to do so,then either immediately enter via Eventor or email Ron (ronfrederick29@iclould.com) or tel 0418994841 before midnight on Wed 19/11

Next Bulletin 26 November

Grand finale event

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On Saturday night the grand finale event on our local calendar was held in the Break ‘O’ Day area in Kangaroo Flat. John Wilkinson was the course setter. He chose to use both sides of Lockwood Road so runners could experience variety in both terrain and level of detail on the maps. Areas of the map were marked as out of bounds as the area had recently been blackened by DEPI planned burn offs. Thankfully the rain held off until after packing up.

Although there was a mass start at 7.00, there was a choice to complete a 1, 2 or 3 hour score event. Those choosing the one hour were able to complete the course in daylight, however cloud cover restricted light to a degree. There was no need to cross the busy road but runners had the option if they wanted to. Michael Loughnan, Tavish Eenjes and Tony Radford all found 12 controls in the hour.

The orienteers who selected the two hour course were able to experience both daylight and darkness. Charles Brownridge did well to find 17 controls and Chris Creely found 16 with time to spare. Five people were able to locate all controls well within the given time. The fastest was Bran Keely who completed the course in 86.35mins. Craig Feuerherdt, Jim Russell, Laurina Neumann and Paul Leicester came in well within the time limit.

Tea, coffee and Mars Bars were available after the run but we did miss Peter Creely’s yummy cheese toasties. Thank you to John for the hard work involved in setting a 3hr event and to Lorraine Leversha who came back on Sunday morning to help us pick up controls.

Results are HERE. Follow a replay HERE of Laurina (Purple), Bryan, Jim (Blue) and Craig.

Will include others once they put their courses up on DOMA.

Teamapp

An app for club members to communicate and share. Not designed to replace our other media (Facebook, email or website), but to add and extend it for mobile devices. Available in Android and iOS versions, install it on your phone, tablet or home computer.

Members can receive posts on News and Events, share and comment on photos, join a Chat room, get access to Club minutes and the VOA website. Also has links to Eventor, Winsplits and many other features.

For more information visit : Team App Install the app, search for Bendigo Orienteers and register for access.

Jenny B.

Issue 41/14

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The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 41/14: 12 November, 2014

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

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

If you wish to unsubscribe from this bulletin, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of this email. If you would like this Bulletin to be emailed directly to you, please email bendigo.orienteers@gmail.com

Twilight Event – Guys Hill Battunga Park November 8th Results are on the website.

After many days of cloudless evenings, the twilight of Nov. 8th was darkened somewhat by impending rain (which didn’t come). However, reading the map for competitors who were out towards the end of the one hour was made harder. Another factor was finding the smaller ‘Space Racing’ SI plates on the trees in the built up Battunga Park area.

While every competitor had one hour max allowed for the event, the idea was to allow people to have different competition ‘targets’ with three Divisions of sought-after points. So someone like Karina Cherry was able to record a win in Beginners Division with her target of 100 points achieved in 27.42 minutes.

Most competitors for the night were in the Elite Division with its target of 220 – 300 points and nine competitors got all 30 controls (15 controls in the Guys Hill bush area and 15 in residential Battunga Park). Anyone interested in looking at three very interesting approaches to completing the full 30 controls should go to see the actual courses of Lachlan, Craig and Jim on http://doma.orienteering.asn.au (go to ‘Last Map’ and look for Twilight). Not only will you see the various routes that these three orienteers chose but you will notice kilometre rates of around 5 mins/km. Many other very good times. Not to mention, Newcomers/very first timers John, Jo and Elsa Honey who scored their 100 points in just over 52 minutes.

Michael Loughnan will remember this event for being in the vicinity of a large-ish tree, tired possibly by old age and by the heat of last Saturday, crashing down to earth some 30 metres away. Said Michael – “I’m getting out of here”. Luckily this is a very, very rare event in orienteering!

The number of competitors for the event was an increase in the number compared with entries for the last two year’s One Hour Twilights.

Coming events.

TWILIGHT 3 HOUR EVENT Saturday Nov 15th.
Final Bendigo Orienteers event for year.
Area: Break O Day map 1:15,000 (west of Kangaroo Flat).
Time: 7 00 pm mass start, SI timing.
End: 10 00pm
Entry: $8 enter on night.
Event format: Get as many controls as you can in either 1 hr, 2 hr or 3 hr. Each control is worth 10 pts, penalty for late finish is 2 pts/min.
Note: You must choose your course time limit – no changes.
Bring a torch or headlight if you intend to go into the dark.
Directions: Start; Go to Kangaroo Flat and head west along Lockwood Rd. When you get to a sign saying Goldfields Way prepare to turn left into bush.
Start is on the south side of Lockwood road after Break O Day hill (if you are doing a 1 hr event you will most likely stay on this side of Lockwood Rd.)
Course setter: John Wilkinson Ph 54706349 or johnwbmw@gmail.com

Night O Champs and morning after score events. 22 and 23 Nov.

A chance to practice your night navigation in friendly open forest near Maldon.On the Sun. Morning do your course again in daylight and sought out any problems you had in the dark. Hopefully we will have mild weather ,so why not camp at the assembly area and socialise with other Orienteers.

Full details now on Eventor. Book early to  help organisers.

Any further questions contact Ron Frederick  ronfrederick29@iclould.com or 0418994842.

Next Bulletin 19 November

Twilight 1 a success!

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Terry had a vision in 2010 to run an event with part in the bush and part in an urban setting. That vision was realised on Saturday when about 30 orienteers took on the Guys Hill-Battunga Park twilight event.

With a one-hour score event to finish before it got too dark, the competitors HAD to start in the bush and finish around the streets of Battunga Park. But there was another catch… you also had to match the number of controls collected from the bush area with that you would collect in the urban. That was fine if you intended on getting all 30 within the hour, however if you couldn’t manage that, then careful counting was required.

We had some interest from the local residents as they wandered out of their houses wondering who these people were running along their streets. There were a few puzzled looks and many asked what was going on. And it was encouraging to see some new comers too trying out the sport for the first time.

Results are HERE Follow a replay HERE of Lachlan, Bryan, Jim and Craig. Click on 41, and replay from there, such a close race

Don Cherry