{"id":1506,"date":"2015-03-22T00:21:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2015-03-22T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:21:01","slug":"golden-sandshoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/22\/golden-sandshoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sandshoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bendigo Orienteers took to the bush and streets at Guys Hill on Saturday for the Club\u2019s annual Golden Sandshoe Trophy. This is an aged based handicapped event &#8211; orienteering\u2019s equivalent to horse racing\u2019s weight for age events.<br \/>\nIn orienteering, younger and older competitors are given a weighting.<\/p>\n<p>12 year old Jack Wigney took out the Trophy for 2015. Glenn James was runner-up after a countback from Henry Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>Course setter Andrew Cameron awarded bonus points to competitors who completed the course by alternating between odd and even numbered control points. Only three were able to do it &#8211; Jim Russell, Craig Feuerherdt and Derek Morris.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 60 competitors the event is growing every year. Results are <a href=\"http:\/\/eventor.orienteering.asn.au\/Events\/ResultList?eventId=2353&amp;groupBy=EventClass\">HERE<\/a>, N<em>umber in the Club area, is your points<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For details on next week\u2019s event, go <a href=\"http:\/\/eventor.orienteering.asn.au\/Events\/Show\/2354\">HERE<\/a>. Newcomers are welcome to come and have a try at the beginner\u2019s courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To get the \u2018Bonus\u2019 20% extra, you had to go odd, even, odd even, etc. How would you do it?<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GS-All-Controls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Cameron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bendigo Orienteers took to the bush and streets at Guys Hill on Saturday for the Club\u2019s annual Golden Sandshoe Trophy. This is an aged based handicapped event &#8211; orienteering\u2019s equivalent to horse racing\u2019s weight for age events. In orienteering, younger and older competitors are given a weighting. 12 year old\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/22\/golden-sandshoe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendigo-orienteers.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}