The Australian Orienteer – June 2019

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2019

Round 1

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Event

Date

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1. Relay

30 March

Hill End, NSW

2. Long Distance

31 March

Hill End, NSW

3. Sprint Relay

19 April

Perth, WA

4. Sprint

20 April

Perth, WA

5. Long Distance

21 April

Beverley, WA

6. Middle Distance

22 April

Beverley, WA

7. Sprint

26 April

Narrogin, WA

8. Middle Distance

27 April

Narrogin, WA

9. Middle Distance

18 May

Cowra, NSW

10. Ultra Long Distance

19 May

Cowra, NSW

11. Sprint

28 September

Wagga, NSW

12. Long Distance

29 September

Cootamundra, NSW

13. Relay

30 September

Cootamundra, NSW

14. Long Distance

5 October

Wangaratta, VIC

15. Middle Distance

6 October

Beechworth, VIC

NOL events 1 - 6 will be selection trials for the 2019 JWOC team.

NOL events 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 - 10 will be selection trials for the 2019 WOC team, with particular focus on events 9 & 10.

All race details can be found at www.orienteering.asn.au

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

The President’s Page BLAIR TREWIN

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e’re now well into the 2019 season. Many of you will have been to Western Australia for Easter, and experienced an excellent series of events – it may have been a slightly different format to the usual Easter but everyone seemed to enjoy it (except perhaps for those who came to grief in the Sprint). Putting on a national carnival is a big job for any State, but especially so for Western Australia, one of our smaller State Associations; as far as I could tell the week went off almost without a hitch. It was also a chance for those of us from the eastern States to appreciate the interesting terrain to be found on the western side of the Nullarbor (and there didn’t even seem to be too many of the type of souvenirs that one sometimes ends up extracting from one’s legs for weeks or months after returning from the region’s forests).

One of my more pleasing tasks of the year is to be able to make awards recognising outstanding service to Orienteering in Australia, and this year’s group were fine examples of the positive things which have been happening. Richard Matthews, this year’s winner of the SILVA Award for Services to Orienteering, has been a stalwart of Western Australian orienteering for decades, and has been instrumental in the organisation of most major events in the State since they first hosted national events in the late 1980s. Ted van Geldermalsen and Margi Freemantle were recognised for their role in establishing Sprint Orienteering as a major part of the Victorian program through the “Sprint into Spring” series and the “Melbourne Sprint Weekend”, whilst Bridget Anderson’s contribution to revitalising junior Orienteering in South Australia over the last few years has been outstanding; the presence of three South Australians in this year’s Junior World

Championships team is only one of several tributes to her efforts.

We welcome Steve Craig to the Board as the new Director (High Performance). Steve has many years of experience in Swedish orienteering before his recent return to Australia, and the benefit of that experience will be very valuable to us. A major objective of ours is to get good coaching structures in place at all levels of the sport, not just the highest, and Steve’s leadership will be very important in steering this, although a lot of the work will need to be done at the State and Club level. Craig Feuerherdt has stepped down from the Board after several years of major contributions, especially in implementing the Eventor project, which is now beginning to realise its potential in providing us with much better information about the sport while reducing the administrative burden on States. Several States have also had changes in leadership in the last few weeks; I thank the outgoing Presidents for their service and welcome those who are taking on new challenges.

In the second half of the year, our major focus will turn to the Oceania Championships at the end of September.

We are hoping that this will be amongst the largest events, numbers-wise, to be held in Australia; there will be some great terrain and I encourage all of you, even those who haven’t been to a major national event before, to put the dates in your diary (or the electronic equivalent thereof ).

After more than a year of work, we also formally adopted the new Strategic Plan for Orienteering in Australia at the Easter Annual General Meeting. Developing this has been a slow process, but I think the engagement with States on getting it into place has been worth the wait. It reinforces that increasing participation in Orienteering is our central objective, which fits well with what the Australian government’s objectives are in their new National Sports Plan, although a lot of balls are still in the air at the government level (I must admit to feeling a bit envious at times in the last few weeks of those sports who have bits of infrastructure that can have money thrown at them during election campaigns ……).

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Winning PartnershiP

The Australian Sports Commission proudly supports Orienteering Australia The Australian Sports Commission is the Australian Government agency that develops, supports and invests in sport at all levels in Australia.

Orienteering Australia has worked closely with the Australian Sports Commission to develop orienteering from community participation to high-level performance.

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Orienteering Australia is one of many national sporting organisations that has formed a winning partnership with the Australian Sports Commission to develop its sport in Australia.

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w w w. o r i e n t e e r i n g . a s n . a u Orienteering Australia PO Box 3379, North Strathfield, NSW 2137 eo@orienteering.asn.au President Blair Trewin president@orienteering.asn.au Director High Performance Stephen Craig stephen@orienteering.asn.au Director Finance Bruce Bowen finance@orienteering.asn.au Director Technical Jenny Casanova technical@orienteering.asn.au Director Media & Communications vacant

Director International (IOF Council) Mike Dowling international@orienteering.asn.au Director Bill Jones directorbill@orienteering.asn.au Director Prue Dobbin secretary@orienteering.asn.au Executive Officer Paul Prudhoe eo@orienteering.asn.au National MTBO Coordinator Kay Haarsma mtbo@orienteering.asn.au OA Head Coach Jim Russell headcoach@orienteering.asn.au High Performance Administrator Ian Prosser hpadmin@orienteering.asn.au Manager Coach Development vacant National Sporting Schools Coordinator Jim Mackay sportingschools@orienteering.asn.au Coach & Controller Accreditation Jim Mackay accreditation@orienteering.asn.au Badge Applications John Oliver 68 Amaroo Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650

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ISSN 0818-6510 Issue 2/19 (no. 194) JUNE 2019

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AUS EASTER CARNIVAL 2019...................... 8

50TH ANNIVERSARY – TOM ANDREWS........... 6 AUS TEAMS........................................... 15 “ J E F F ” C O M I C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 AUS SCHOOLS IN 2019 ............................ 18 MONASH INDOOR SPRINT.......................... 19 STOCKHOLM INDOOR CUP.......................... 20 QPOOLEN INDOOR.................................... 22 MELBOURNE CITY RACE WEEKEND............... 24 NSW MTBO CHAMPIONSHIPS...................... 26 M T B O N E W S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 SWISS TRAING MAPS............................... 32 YVONNE CASPARI.................................... 34 HUMAN MAGNETIC SENSE......................... 36 B O O K R E V I E W – O R I E N T E E R I N G P O T - P O U R R I .. 3 8 N U T R I T I O N .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 0 O-SPY................................................... 42 N O L U P D A T E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 TOP EVENTS........................................... 45 S P O T T H E D I F F E R E N C E .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 Cover photo: Oskar Mella (M16 – Newcastle) at the Easter Carnival in WA. Photo: Josie Duncan JUNE 2019 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 5

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ORIENTEERING IN AUSTRALIA

The 50th anniversary of regular orienteering in Australia is on us. How did this keynote event come about on Sunday 23 August 1969 at Upper Beaconsfield, near Melbourne? The key figure in the launch and in the growth of Orienteering was

State. He anglicised his surname from Andrasiunas to Andrews, easier to pronounce for the natives.

Tom Andrews

Discovering Orienteering

BY IAN BAKER

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om Andrasiunas was born in 1938 in Lithuania at a time of tensions in Europe. The Baltic States were squeezed between an expansionist revolutionary Soviet Russia under Joseph Stalin and Germany under Adolf Hitler, also expansionist and bitterly opposed to the spread of Bolshevism from the east. As Russia gained the upper hand in the military war and advanced steadily, many residents fled westward to escape.

“An early memory is being one of several children sitting on the top of a cart, pulled and pushed by my mother and father. It took a long, long time till we reached Dresden, south of Berlin, and found accommodation in a refugee camp.”

Hard though this was, it was better than the Russians’ forced deportation of Lithuanians in railway cattle trucks to gulags in Siberia to become forced labourers, as was the fate of Tom’s uncle and family.

Arrival in Australia In 1949 the family was brought to a new world, Australia. At first they were in a migrant resettlement camp at Bonegilla near Wodonga on the border of Victoria and New South Wales; it is estimated that one and a half million Australians are descended from ex-Bonegilla migrants. From here Tom’s father was directed to move with his family, bonded to work in the zinc works at Hobart in Tasmania.

Later he was at Cadbury’s chocolate factory.

Tom went to Hobart High School and grew up in Hobart, joining Sandy Bay Harriers and excelling in the javelin; in 1954 he was State champion in Under 17, Under 19 and Senior classes as well as being a keen participant in other track and field events.

In 1957 Tom moved to Melbourne to work in advertising; his athletics interests continued with Richmond Harriers athletic club where he became one of the top decathlon athletes in the

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A work colleague had a small parttime business representing Sweden’s SILVA compasses in Australia. Tom helped him in this and eventually took over the agency.

In 1968 Tom had a business trip to Sweden so took the opportunity to meet with the SILVA company. They invited him to Uppsala, north of Stockholm, where the Swedish Orienteering Championships were taking place. “I’d never imagined anything like it. Thousands of people of all ages running around in the forests and up the Finish chutes, all having a good time. I could see the potential for Australia.

“Once home I learned that the family of a fellow Richmond Harriers’ member, Peter Wills-Cooke, had a farm at Upper Beaconsfield, south-east of Melbourne. We found a government black and white map of the area and then spent three months planning the courses and getting landowners’ approvals for the event; we had to amend some of the route legs to avoid places with beehives.

“In 1969 the main sources of participants were Richmond Harriers and Melbourne University students plus their friends.”

Media to spread the word “From my work in advertising, I knew that if Orienteering was to expand, we needed regular publicity to promote it widely to attract newcomers. Big-selling Truth tabloid newspaper did us proud with a spread on page 3, ‘The girl with the lacerated legs!’ about Annabelle Roth who wore short shorts and got her legs scratched in blackberries. Turn to page 5 and read ‘A hot shower was her reward.’

“Ron Carter, a sports journalist at The Age newspaper was a regular help in publicising the new sport. Soon we had developed our regular promotion schedule to include listings of coming events as well as top place results in the major Melbourne newspapers as well as a slot in ABC radio sports programmes every week with up-to-date news and a plug for the next event.”

The first Victorian Championships were run the same year (1969) at the You Yangs National Park near Geelong.

The number of events and participation grew steadily. Major influences came from Sweden. Peo Bengtsson was an orienteering missionary through World Wide Orienteering Promotion which organised tours for Scandinavian orienteers to visit, help train, instruct and develop the sport around the world. He visited several times.

Map development Roland Offrell, a professional forester from Sweden, spent some time in Australia preparing maps; up to then the maps were published government ones of forest areas, very incomplete in terms of tracks and most other detail. In 1973 Roland mapped an area at Bostock Reservoir near Ballan, between Melbourne and Ballarat; this was the first specially surveyed colour Orienteering map in Australia.

“We printed the map on waterproof plastic paper; up to now you had to put your paper map into a clear plastic bag to keep it clean and prevent tears. We covered the printing costs by selling three advertisement panels on the map.”

Early orienteers included several famous athletes: Herb Elliott, gold medallist and world record breaker in the 1500 metres at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome; Ron Clarke, holder of seventeen world distance running records – “Ron ran very fast but all too often in the wrong direction”; Derek Clayton, marathon world record holder and a regular orienteer until leg injuries meant he could not continue distance running.

The first orienteering event in Australia However, this is not the first event in Australia to have been described as “orienteering”. Some events using the term were staged in South Australia in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

There were also events prior to 1969 that could be considered to have had more in common with rogaining (such as the 24 Hour Walk staged by the Melbourne University Mountaineering Club and the Paddy Pallin Orienteering Contest in NSW).

The point though is that regular structured Orienteering in Australia grew from the event on 23 August 1969. The MelBushO event on Sunday 25 August 2019 is the day of the 50th anniversary commemorative event at Cardinia Reservoir, the nearest terrain to that of the original event.

Herb Elliott, Ron Clarke and Derek Clayton.

Herb was sponsored to go to Sweden for the 1974 5-Days O-Ringen, he was a major hero. Ron Clarke helped sponsor the new sport by donating tracksuits to the Australian team; he was the boss of Adidas in Australia.

“Our group of twenty four to O-Ringen were members of Richmond Harriers and some orienteers from other States. To attract some publicity I telephoned the Swedish Ambassador to Australia, Per Anger, seeking sponsorship for a film about Herb Elliott and our group’s visit to Sweden. He agreed and filmmaker Bob Talbot joined us on the tour to shoot a 25 minute film, ‘Finding the Controls’. He managed to get it screened as a supporting feature in a number of cinemas throughout Australia.”

WOC’85 in Australia Having been the driving force behind the introduction of Orienteering to Australia, Tom did not rest on his laurels. He worked to successfully outbid Canada in 1980 when the IOF awarded the 1985 World Championships to Australia, becoming chairman Car stickers helped of the organising committee. promote the bid by This WOC, based on Bendigo, Australia. was marked by an innovation, an associated Orienteering carnival open to all orienteers, young and old, elite or beginners. This was an enormous success, widely copied since.

After WOC’85, Tom’s active involvement in Orienteering reduced.

“I’d been working at it for sixteen years or so, and was beginning to feel a bit burned out.”

He did continue to support the sport through his ownership of the SILVA compass agency in Australia, which he had built up to a fulltime business; important customers included bushwalkers, the military and forestry.

Tom is retired now, with his wife Val, three sons and eight grandchildren. A knee replacement operation has slowed him down but he keeps fit by regular visits to the gym and walking near his home in Port Melbourne.

A long way and many adventures since 1938 in Lithuania.

Ian Baker has known Tom Andrews since 1979. Ian was the founding editor of The Australian Orienteer; at press date he had 2352 Orienteering events to his credit as competitor, course-setter and organiser.

Next edition, September 2019. “I won the first event”. Ron Frederick, a university student in 1969, and still active in the sport, remembers that event at Upper Beaconsfield in August 1969.

Sport Australia Hall of Fame In 1992, Tom Andrews was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame with the following citation: Tom Andrews OAM – Administration – Orienteering Tom Andrews founded orienteering in Australia. He organised the first orienteering event in Australia (Victoria) in August 1969, and produced the first Australian coloured Orienteering map in 1973 of Mt. Egerton, Victoria. He co-founded the Victorian Orienteering Association and the Orienteering Federation of Australia (now Orienteering Australia) in April 1970 and was Chairman of the OFA Promotion and Development Committee from 1970 to 1986.

Andrews was Chairman of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) Promotion and Development Committee from 1980 to 1982.

Andrews organised the first international competition for Australian orienteers, the 1971 Australia-New Zealand Challenge, and organised the 1985 World Orienteering Championships in Bendigo. This was the first time that the event had been held outside Europe and Andrews was instrumental in obtaining the Championships for Australia.

Andrews was the recipient of the 1986 SILVA Orienteering Award for his contribution to the development of orienteering in Australia, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1981.

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AUSTRALIAN EASTER CARNIVAL 2019

2019 Easter Carnival THE TREWIN REPORT PHOTOS: JOSIE DUNCAN

Sprint and Family Relays, 19 April

Australian 3-Days, 20-22 April

he Easter weekend got under way with the Sprint and Family Relays at the University of Western Australia, on an atypically cold day for Perth.

The format of the Easter weekend was new for most, having been rearranged due to losing access to the originally planned competition areas. The weekend started with a technical Sprint at Scotch College in the western suburbs of Perth on the Saturday, before moving on to Long and Middle Distance races in the rocky terrain of Hill Park Dale and Umuna near Beverley.

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Victoria had the best of the senior Sprint Relay from the start.

Aislinn Prendergast gave them a lead of 1:21 over Bridget Anderson on the opening leg. Simon Uppill closed most of that gap on the second leg to bring the South Australians within striking distance, but any chance they had was short-lived as Patrick Jaffe, in his first year as a senior, pulled well clear on the third leg. Matt Doyle brought the ACT through into second on that leg, and they had the fastest final leg through Belinda Lawford, but not by enough to make much of an impression on Natasha Key’s lead.

The junior Sprint Relay was in a state of flux for the first two legs.

Zoe Melhuish gave the ACT the early lead but the top five were covered by only a minute and a half, close enough for Alvin Craig to pull NSW through from fifth to first on the second leg. Their challenge disappeared as quickly as it arrived when Alastair George mispunched. By the end of the third leg, the contenders for the lead had been whittled down to two, Dante Afnan running the fastest third leg to send South Australia out with the ACT, but Tara Melhuish was too fast for Emily Sorensen and saw Canberra through to an ultimately comfortable victory.

The new format meant that the family teams were stronger than in some recent years (if not quite back to the event’s glory days when the Wilmott, McComb or Simson brothers would sweep all before them).

Bruce, Mason and Torren Arthur were comfortable winners, ahead of the Stocks and Feuerherdt teams.

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This format introduced all age classes to something which had previously been the preserve of the elite classes: the concept that you can’t win Easter on the relatively short first day, but you can certainly lose it then, especially if you were in one of the three age groups where favourites mispunched in the Sprint (and then won the next two days). The long second day was central to the overall result in many classes, but some were not decided until the closing controls of the Middle Distance event, with six classes seeing the lead change on the final day.

For the senior women, the lead group was largely the same as it was last year (minus Krystal Neumann who was troubled by illness).

Bridget Anderson is having a good year and got off to a good start by winning the opening day. Both she and Belinda Lawford stayed in the mix through the three days, but it was the evergreen Natasha Key who worked her way to a narrow lead on the Long Distance day. The top three were covered by less than two minutes going into the final day, but Key held her nerve and slightly extended her lead in the end, with Lawford second and Anderson third.

The men ended up in a two-way duel, in which Henry McNulty and Simon Uppill were separated by less than a minute on all three days.

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M16 was another class with wild fluctuations, although that was partly due to mispunches, with David Stocks winning the last two days after coming unstuck in the Sprint, and Toby Cazzalato coming to grief after holding the second-day lead. Oskar Mella was in third place after two days, but a second place on the last day was enough for him to take the overall win despite not winning any individual days (a feat matched by Paul Pacque in M65).

W55 started out very close with five within 24 seconds of the lead in the Sprint, and Sue Hancock and Jenny Bourne tied at the front.

The event evolved into a duel between the pair. Bourne looked set for yet another major event win when she took a lead of 38 seconds into Monday, but dropped two minutes at the second control, and was not able to get back to the front as Hancock held her nerve for a narrow victory. Also coming from behind on Day 3 were Eckart Bosman (M12) and Oliver Freeman (M14).

The most dominant performances of the weekend were those of Steve Craig in M50 and Bruce Arthur in M45. Both won all three days easily and had overall margins in excess of 20 minutes; Craig was the most dominant of all, winning the Sprint by 3:50 and then following up with a 16-minute margin in the Long Distance race (coincidentally matching his margin on a previous visit to Western Australia 31 years ago, the M20 Australian Championships in 1988). On home ground, Rachel West’s margins in W40 were not as enormous but she still did the clean sweep, the only other competitor to do so in a contested class. Warren Key (M55) and Eoin Rothery (M60) each dropped a day but still had big wins, Basil Baldwin ended up with a double-digit margin in M80 with wins on the last two

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days, and Clare Hawthorne did likewise in W45, running away from the field on the third day after a close contest with fellow Tasmanian Cathy McComb for the first two.

W16 was one of the weekend’s deeper classes, with five within nine minutes. Mikaela Gray dominated the Sprint with a lead of nearly three minutes, but the Long Distance day was where Justine Hobson set up her eventual victory, mostly by avoiding disaster on the challenging section from #4 to #7 where her four nearest rivals all had major time losses. Erika Enderby (W14) was another whose overall victory came mostly due to a big result on Sunday, when she was six minutes clear of the field, but perhaps the most impressive Long Distance day dominance was from Craig Feuerherdt (M40), who was 20 minutes ahead that day to set up an overall win by a similar margin.

Carolyn Jackson and Jenny Bourne have had many good contests over the years, but with Bourne running up, that left the way open for Jackson in W60. Anthea Feaver would have been a formidable rival for overall honours, but had to settle for two day wins because of her Sprint course-setting commitments. Also winning two days without the overall title were Jean Baldwin in W75, another who came unstuck on the Sprint in a class won overall by Penny Dufty, and Rose Kullmann in W70, who climbed to third behind Kathy Liley in W70 with two forest wins after a slow start. Canadian Robyn Rennie was the weekend’s one overseas winner, finishing a bit over two minutes clear of Robin Uppill and Carol Brownlie after a wellfought contest.

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Venla-Linnea Karjalainen (VIC) Zoe Melhuish (ACT) & Joanna George (SA)

Vanessa Smith (WA)

Michal Hubacek (WA)

Australian Sprint Championships, 26 April The action moved to Narrogin for the Australian Sprint Championships, combining a well-built-on school campus with some patches of bush, of which the long courses saw more than everyone else.

Both Easter senior winners backed up their results with wins in Narrogin. Natasha Key got off to a bad start, dropping 24 seconds at the first control, as Bridget Anderson led through most of the first half and looked like she might repeat her result from the previous Saturday. The Victorian eventually got to the lead and pulled away over the closing stages for a 22-second win. Krystal Neumann was also in the mix for a long time but dropped away at the end, leaving Belinda Lawford to move into the placings after recovering from dropping 40 seconds at #4.

Henry McNulty’s win over Simon Uppill was once again narrow, but a little more straightforward. He led throughout and got his lead out to 30 seconds in mid-course. This narrowed over the next part of the course, with Patrick Jaffe closing to within 2 seconds at #15, but McNulty was never headed and edged away to a 14-second break over Uppill, with Jaffe next in line.

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Tara Melhuish dominated, running away from the field in the last third of the course after a slightly wobbly start. Her sister Zoe was her closest rival and briefly led at times before having to settle for second, while Mikayla Cooper was never in the hunt to repeat her Easter win after an early mistake but recovered enough to rise to third. M20 was also close for the first half but blew out later on as Angus Haines, a formidable Sprint orienteer on his day, turned a small lead into a big one, with Duncan Currie and Dante Afnan best of the rest.

As usual, the Sprint had plenty of close finishes. The two closest both featured younger members of the Feuerherdt family, with Luke taking M12 by four seconds from Eckart Bosman but Lachlan two seconds behind Oliver Freeman in M14. W70, which had a blanket finish at last year’s Australian Long Distance Championships, had another one when Kathy Liley led five within 41 seconds, whilst Alex Tarr reversed the Easter result in M75 with a 22-second win over Darryl Erbacher. Bruce Arthur and Steve Craig were as dominant in M45 and M50 respectively as they had been at Easter (though by the standards of Easter, Ruhi Afnan did well to get within two minutes of Craig), and Jennifer Enderby, who had run elites at Easter, was over three minutes ahead of Cath Chalmers in W50, but there was an upset in M55, where Kenneth McLean won by 22 seconds and Warren Key only managed fifth.

AUS Middle Distance – W20E

Simon Uppill (SA)

Natasha Key (VIC) Easter setters and controllers.

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Australian Middle Distance Championships, 27 April The week concluded in a small forest area on the edge of Narrogin.

When you looked closely at the map it didn’t actually have that much rock on it, but the course setters made good use of all the rock that there was, making a good technical challenge. Even more than the Sprint, close finishes were the order of the day, with five classes decided by single-digit margins and six more by less than a minute.

Closest of all was M21. Matt Doyle had a good Middle Distance race at last year’s World Championships (even getting to spend a reasonable stretch of time on the leader’s couch), and although he had been just off the pace during Easter, this was his day. It was a close contest throughout with Simon Uppill and Patrick Jaffe, with Uppill getting to the front for the last time with four controls to go; from there it was a case of who was going to be in front when the siren sounded, and the answer was Doyle, by five seconds over Uppill and Jaffe. Andrew Barnett continued a good season with fourth, ahead of Henry McNulty who was never really in the contest on the day.

Krystal Neumann had struggled for most of the week, but the first part of the Sprint suggested that she was back in shape, and that was proven on the carnival’s last day. She led for most of the course, although she had to withstand a late surge by Belinda Lawford, who came from 53 seconds down over the last third but fell eight seconds short at the Finish line. Grace Crane and Bridget Anderson both looked good place chances before dropping away over the closing stages, with Natasha Key taking advantage.

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Rebecca George (NSW)

Ella Cuthbert (ACT)

Tara Melhuish was the only elite class runner to win on successive days, getting into a comfortable lead by #4 and not seriously challenged thereafter. Iida Lehtonen, still a first-year W16, achieved her best result yet of an impressive season, overtaking Joanna George for second in the closing stages; unfortunately for Australian orienteering, her stay here will soon be coming to an end. Also making an advance after a good season was Alastair George, taking out M20 after a generally consistent race, although a 30-second wobble at the second-last reduced the margin. Dante Afnan and Alvin Craig were in a close battle for second, with the South Australian prevailing.

Of the other knife-edge results, M70 featured the two who had led into the last day of Easter, with Robert Rapkins five second ahead of Tony Radford. For the second day in succession, Martina Craig had a very narrow win over Cathy McComb – 11 seconds on Friday, six on Saturday – whilst the latest instalment of a series of close W65 races between Robin Uppill and Robyn Rennie was an eight-second win for the South Australian. At the other end of the scale, even by the standards of his week Steve Craig had a spectacular win in M50, finishing over 10 minutes (or 40%) ahead of the rest of the field. In total, 15 did the Sprint/Middle double, a list which featured many of the usual suspects, but also results such as Tim Hatley, with his best results hitherto in the Sprint, breaking through for a national title in the forest in a strong M60 field.

Bruce Arthur (VIC)

Amy Dufty (WA)

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

AUS Teams The Australian Bushrangers Australian team to travel to New Zealand on the first weekend of June for a test match against the New Zealand Pine Stars:

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Abigail George

Bridget Anderson

Dante Afnan

Arabella Phillips

Krystal Neumann

Duncan Currie

Brodie Nankervis (Manager and Coach)

Caitlin Young

Aislinn Prendergast

Thomas Garbellini

Simon Uppill

Alastair George

Toby Wilson

Daniel Gray

Jim Russell (Assistant Manager & Coach)

Angus Haines

Alastair George

Abigail George

Angus Haines

Toby Wilson Thomas Garbellini

2019 Australian JWOC team The Australian team for the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark in July.

Team Manager and Deputy Coach: Krystal Neumann. Team Coach: Brodie Nankervis

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Men

Angus Haines (SA)

Mikayla Cooper (TAS)

Tara Melhuish (ACT)

Dante Afnan (SA)

Aston Key (VIC)

Ella Cuthbert (ACT)

Caroline Pigerre (QLD)

Duncan Currie (NSW)

Patrick Miller (ACT)

Joanna George (SA)

Caitlin Young (ACT)

Alastair George (NSW)

Noah Poland (ACT)

Patrick Miller

Dante Afnan Ella Cuthbert

Mikayla Cooper

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As an example, it is interesting to ponder Course 8 (W60,M65,M70).

With a total of 16 legs involved in the 2.4 km course, over half the 80 course panels noted on WinSplits were ‘earned’ in just the four (4) bush legs, with the initial excursion to the bush controls (2 legs) resulting in most of the damage. The #3 – #4 leg in particular (#126 shallow gully to #137 knoll) had close to 40% of the 54 W60, M65, M70 competitors going coloured – and in the regal M70’s, over half of them (the author included!). Other age classes/courses also ran the #126 - #137 leg, again with significant ‘panelling’ of their WinSplit logs. W75 writing half their field.

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Although most competitors’ WinSplit logs contain the odd ‘colour panel’ (indicating a leg 20% below the runner’s average), what stood out at Narrogin was the preponderance of colour panels in the bush legs as opposed to the building legs. Especially for the midto-older age classes. One wonders if the built campus environment used in almost all Sprint orienteering, and now well understood, has spoiled us – with Tony’s mixture in Western Australia suddenly discombobulating runners as they were sprung free from built canopy and paving, from building corner, stairway and ramp, from fence and OOB garden bed - and into the dry crunch of white and green bush canopy, and the surprise of contour. And he did this not once, but several times, with the absorption into the build, release from the build, reabsorption and release again, a feature of the courses. The mix of environment at Narrogin, necessitated by the small building footprint, resulted in a challenge many of the masters failed to master, and is perhaps worth a closer look.

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course ‘elbow’. And it was factored again on the same course, where runners, having readjusted their thinking with campus legs #4-#5#6 (the #5-#6 being close to a David May ‘3’ in its challenge), were suddenly plunged down again to the western bush, to watercourse and ditch, where the clock again recorded the ‘panel’. By the time the Course 8 mob got to the EVENT map change, and with some relief found the WORLD RANKING balance pretty well a built render, the damage had been done.

Well almost. Tony, in a last throw of the course planners dice, engineered a concluding leg #13 - #14 with a three way exit, and then two wide** continuation options. Test them early, test them late the mantra! Great setting that I’m sure Mr May would be proud to award a ‘2’, or maybe even a ‘3’ – but not helping those who had done their dough earlier in the classic built to bush sections, and the judgement of control #137!! (Quite a few of the other younger classes

had control #137 but came from a different direction presenting less difficulty).

The take out from Narrogin then is not so much that bush legs deduct from built Sprint intensity, but that they alter it. Adjustments in map reading and running speed come into play, and offer a difference that many of the ‘masters’ failed to master in WA. You ask yourself, how did the shortest legs on the course do so much damage? **The wide building that occupied most of the southern school site, and contributed to several major left/right routes well wide of the red line, was apparently able to be opened up with through passageways – the offer by the school principal being declined by planner Simpkins, who saw the solid, seemingly no-go nature of the 150m building width, offering him a richer resource.

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SCHOOLS ORIENTEERING

Taking Control of ASOC: Mapping out a Future

VALERIE BARKER – OA NATIONAL SCHOOLS COORDINATOR 2018 Schools Relay - ACT Senior Girls celebrate 2nd place.

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he Australian Schools’ Relay Championships is one of the spectator highlights of the Orienteering year; many of us will again enjoy cheering on our State Schools teams in this keenly contested competition during the 2019 Oceania Carnival. The event is a colourful, noisy, and exciting day when we celebrate the hard work, commitment and enjoyment that so many of our juniors display in their participation in the Relays. If you have never been to this event, make sure that you experience it this year, at Wagga Wagga.

You will not be disappointed and you will take away a huge amount of admiration for our junior Orienteers - their skills, tenacity and determination, and their pride in their State representation.

2019 is a significant year in the history of the Australian Schools Orienteering Championships (ASOC).

The first event was held in 1981 in conjunction with the Victorian Schools Orienteering Championships, open to all orienteers attending school (even including Tertiary and Teachers’ classes in some years) but with no significant interstate competition. In 1989 it was reconstituted 2018 Schools Relay as ASOC under the Emily Sorensen leads SA Senior Girls. auspices of the Australian School Sports Council (later School Sport Australia) in the format that has continued since, for 20 years.

However, as of 2018, School Sport Australia withdrew its endorsement of Orienteering as one of its national sports.

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Orienteering South Australia managed the 2018 ASOC in a transition year, providing a forum in which the Schools community was able to consider a range of options for how ASOC might function in a future without SSA support, as both a representative goal for students to achieve and also an important step on a national Orienteering pathway for aspiring juniors. ASOC is now fully endorsed by Orienteering Australia.

We are pleased to assure you that the legacy and integrity of ASOC has not changed: each State & Territory will still field a team of a maximum of 20 students, in the same age classes and across the same events (Individual Sprint and Long Distance, and 3-person Relays).

What has changed is that now there are no 2018 Schools Relay - ACT Senior Boys. reserves nominated and a State may name up to 6 students in any one class. This means the efforts of all team members contribute to points and that coveted ASSOC Shield. In terms of management, OA now appoints a National Schools Coordinator (previously the SSA National Secretary); and, as before, the State Schools Team officials become the National Schools Committee.

It is at the annual Post-Event meeting (formerly the SSA AGM) that decisions about the structure, rules and management of ASOC take place, to be ratified in December by Orienteering Australia.

Whose Relay team will you be supporting on Thursday 3rd October?

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Monash Indoor/Outdoor Sprint Double

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ntries are now open on Eventor for Australia’s first Indoor Multi-level Sprint, at Monash University in Melbourne on Sunday June 30, in their spectacular Learning and Teaching Centre. You can select any of the five courses – Long Hard, Medium Hard, Short Hard, Moderate, or Easy. The longer the course, the more of the four levels of the building you’ll visit!

Indoor mapping at 1:1,000 is now completed (unless they reconfigure the classrooms) – see snippets for what to expect. No two floors are the same! As you can see from the legend, you can expect to encounter pillars, display screens, classroom furniture (which you can reach over or under, but not move), passable and impassable doors, one way corridors, blocked routes - and voids - do not expect to cross! As has become convention, stairways that connect are indicated by matching letters. Oh, and the lifts are Out of Bounds and will NOT be a route choice! We strongly recommend you study the legend ……

There is one particular symbol in the Legend that you may wish to look at. No doubt you’re familiar with the ISOM symbols ‘Open land with scattered trees’ and ‘Rough open land with scattered trees’. Well, when you move indoors the trees turn into furniture and so you get ‘Passable area with scattered furniture’. The furniture in these areas is impossible to map, as it is relocatable and in different positions every day. It could impede fast running but is still navigable.

To be part of this unique experience, simply pre-enter on Eventor before the entry cutoff date. Your entry will include the afternoon Outdoor Sprint as well, and your times will be added together to produce results.

Make a weekend of it by heading to Banyule Flats in Heidelberg on Saturday June 29 for a 2pm mass start, featuring a new colour map, and Score courses for runners and power walkers.

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he Stockholm Indoor Cup goes from strength to strength.

It’s a 2-day event held at two different schools with preentry numbers of 1554 on Day 1 and 1449 on Day 2 and the opportunity to EOD if a free start time was available.

CompassSport magazine reports that the 4.5-hour start window with 1-minute starts was completely filled on both days with some people joining waiting lists in the hope of a cancellation. They expect they’ll have to extend the start window next year.

On Day 1, the Open courses were relatively short with 2.3km for Women and 2.2km for Men. The winner of the “Tanter” course (W40+) – nominally 1.8km – took 40:44, while the last finisher came home in 99th place with a time of 2:43:16 and 25 others mispunched.

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On Day 2 nominal distances for the Open courses were seriously longer, with 5km for Women and 5.8km for Men. Winning times for both were a bit over the 40 minute mark but further down the list times soon got much longer and there were many mispunches. Last place in Women (117th) took 2:59:44 and last in Men (159th) took 2:23:55.

Here we show the “Tanter” course on Day 2 – nominally 2.1km and 19 controls, on which the winner took just 35:37 but the last finisher (95th) took 2:33:50 and another 13 mispunched. Clearly all courses presented difficulties and were very time-consuming for some.

Appreciation to the SIC 2019 organisers and CompassSport magazine for permission to reprint the map and course.

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nother indoor event from Sweden – this one held late last year at Hässleholms Tekniska Skola. “Kamikaze” could well be a very good description for this form of Orienteering. Appreciation to the Hässleholms OK club and to Skogssport magazine for permission to reprint the map and course.

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MELBOURNE CITY RACE

MELBOURNE CITY RACE WEEKEND - UPDATE The venue …… we can now reveal that the inaugural Melbourne City Race will be held in Docklands, on a completely new full colour, 1:5,000 map. This area is full of vibrant colours, quirky architecture, and maritime history. Docklands is fast becoming the commercial hub of Melbourne, and is full of exciting new developments, while retaining its links with the past.

Our arena is a lovely green space full of sculptures, bike trails, and an urban forest. Courses may take you to NewQuay and the Observation Wheel, Flagstaff Gardens, Victoria Harbour, Marvel Stadium, South Wharf, the Casino and Convention Centre, Polly Woodside, the Eureka Tower, the Melbourne Aquarium, and much more. After the Sunday morning race, enjoy exploring the CBD, the markets and the gardens which are a short stroll away.

Numerous pedestrian and road bridges cross the Yarra River, and you’ll have a chance to experience many of them, including the bizarre hooped Webb Bridge, the dramatic Seafarers Bridge, the Sandridge Bridge with its giant metallic sculptures, and Melbourne’s favourite Evan Walker bridge, with tiny but popular bar Ponyfish Island bobbing in the water.

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Not just a sprint …… course lengths will vary, with the longest at 8-9 km, down to about 3km for the shortest. You can expect a lot of short legs, multiple route choice, and constant changes of direction. You’ll need to strike a balance between keeping map contact, and taking in the sights!

The arena …… is a short stroll from Southern Cross Station, and the western end of the free tram zone. There are toilets and drinking water close by. We strongly recommend you come by public transport, as there is only commercial parking available, at high rates. We’ll provide a place to leave your belongings.

The other races …… we’re still arranging the venues for the Sunset Sprint on Friday, and Sprint Into Spring on Saturday; but they will definitely be close to the city, and easily accessed by train or tram. The locations we have in mind offer a fantastic mix of complex buildings, picturesque parkland, and small streets and laneways, perfect for urban racing at its best. Course lengths will be shorter than the Sunday race. We plan to have SI Air contactless punching at most, if not all events.

The team …… Jayne Sales is our course planner, bringing a wealth of experience from the London City Race. Jayne is bursting with enthusiasm as she starts drafting early courses. Peter Dalwood is preparing the map, and he’s already sniffed out all sorts of fascinating nooks and crannies to add. Dandenong Ranges Orienteering Club will host the event, keenly supported by the Sprint Into Spring organising team, and Orienteering Victoria. You’re in great hands!

Entries …… will be open on Eventor by June. You’ll be able to enter one, two or all three races over the weekend. Pre-entry is required, with entries closing in early October.

Visit Melbourne …… the Melbourne City Race Weekend is a fantastic add-on to the Oceania Carnival! Continue your road trip down the Hume, find somewhere to stay, and enjoy all that Melbourne has to offer – our famous shops, restaurants, cafes and shows will give you plenty to do.

Park Street events …… if you come to Melbourne straight after Oceania, or stay on after the City Race, you can orienteer on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening, at our iconic Summer Series. Treat yourself to an Orienteering holiday! www.melbournecityrace.com.au

Another Sprint feast in March 2020

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MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

2019 NSW MTBO CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 NATIONAL MTBO SERIES #1 AUS TEAM SELECTION TRIALS

Tim Doman ates MTBO trials

BY CAROLYN JACKSON. PHOTOS: GEOFF PEEL & JOHN GAVENS

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here was a big shakeup in the men’s Elite field at the recent NSW MTBO Championships. The events were also the national team selection trials for the Australian team to compete in the World MTBO Championships in Viborg, Denmark, plus rounds of the National MTBO Series. Newcastle local and virtual MTBO novice Tim Doman certainly made an impact, winning two of the races, and only missing out on the third after suffering a DSQ because he wasn’t aware of the ‘no cutting’ rule.

Included in the M21 Elite field was one of New Zealand’s top riders Tommy Hayes, and two of last year’s Australian WOC reps Ricky Thackray (WA) and Joel Young (Qld), among other riders trying for selection.

New Zealand once again had a small contingent present, and as well as Tommy Hayes, exciting juniors Georgia Skelton and Tegan Knightbridge battled it out in Elite women with evergreen Carolyn Jackson. NZ also added some competition to the masters men’s categories.

Unlike some parts of Australia, Newcastle has had a good amount of recent rain and steady rain fell on the Thursday and Friday before these events with one of the organisers even getting bogged while

Scott Gavens finishing the Middle Distance event.

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putting out controls. This left all three maps with lush vegetation, considerable water hazards and slower riding conditions.

Based in or near Holmsglen the three races were a great contrast.

The Barnsley Sprint used a small area of complex single track and was as good a sprint as you could hope for, intense navigation in fantastic smooth tracks contrasted with the rougher fire roads.

Many of the nicely groomed single tracks used over the weekend are used, or created for, the annual Port to Port MTB 4-day stage race.

The Middle Distance map, Fairley Dams, was just up the road and also featured intense navigation, with the added bonus of big, but incredibly tricky open areas and endless mud baths. Great courses criss-crossed the area so that constant direction changes increased the degree of difficulty.

Then came the Killingworth Long Distance event, and wow, what a fantastic long. It had it all, combining all the previous day’s maps, adding in tough hills, epic route choice, massive power line reserves (which were surprisingly tricky for those not used to them), endless mud and then finishing again through the complex single track used for the Sprint.

Tim Doman successfully dodging the Killingworth puddles.

W20 Arabella Phillips from Tasmania.

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Carolyn Jackson performing well in W21.

Joel Young making his way across the powerline tracks.

Jenny Enderby (W50) during the Long Distance race.

Scott Gavens crossing one of the many watercourses. Photo: Andrew Haigh

The Newcastle club should be very proud of their amazing organising team led by Greg Bacon and Andrew Power, and course setters Tim Hackney, Malcolm Roberts and Steve Todkill. Added to these events, they were also of great assistance to Carolyn Jackson who ran a 2-day training camp preceding the trials.

Tim Doman’s amazing performances created a selection dilemma for our Australian selectors. Tim is an experienced MTB, multi-sport and Adventure racer, but being a Newcastle local meant familiarity with the areas provided him with a real advantage. His fitness was in no doubt, but with no MTBO history at all, his lack of relevant experience and results were a problem.

Tim agreed to travel to Victoria the following weekend, which is less familiar territory for him, to compete in the Victorian MTBO Series event near Ballarat.

And as they say, the rest is history. Tim performed exceptionally well there in spite of the stress and time loss from a major mechanical, giving the selectors little choice but to name him in the three person team of Ricky, Joel and Tim. Tim’s meteoric rise is testament to the Newcastle club’s great cross promotion into other sports.....now we just need some new Elite women!

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Damien Enderby powering to the Sprint finish.

Australian MTBO team announced

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he Australian MTBO team to contest the World Championships in Viborg, Denmark (28 July - 4 August) has been announced following the selection trials at the NSW MTBO Championships.

There will be 3 male elite riders: Tim Doman (NSW) Ricky Thackray (WA) Joel Young (Qld) Tim, based in Newcastle, will be making his international debut after winning 2 of the 3 trial races. He is relatively new to MTBO but has a strong background in mountain bike and adventure racing.

Ricky has been Australia’s best performer both nationally & internationally for many years. This is his 7th team & he is looking to build on his good navigation at last year’s worlds in Austria.

Joel will be racing at the Worlds for the 2nd time and is looking to avoid some of the mechanical issues that

Hamish Mackie (NSW) competing in M21.

Heather Leslie (Vic) won all three races in W60.

Ricky Thackray

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beset his races last year. Knowing the level of competition and navigational difficulty he is now able to train more specifically for MTBO. The team will be managed by a Queensland legend of orienteering, Andrea Harris, a former foot O WOC representative and keen mountain biker.

Reid Moran (M70)

Not content getting muddy while winning all three races in W21, NZ’s Georgia Skelton got even muddier while taking photos after the Middle Distance finish.

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ne aspect of MTBO map preparation that is sometimes overlooked, or not understood, is getting the control circles and control lines on the correct level of the symbol colour palette. The International Specifications for Mountain Bike Orienteering Maps (ISMTBOM) specifies that Control Circles and Lines use the “lower purple” colour, whereas the Start, Finish and control numbers (and the focus point dot, if used) use the “upper purple” colour.

By using the “lower purple” colour, control circles and lines will print underneath the track/path symbols so that they will not obscure tracks and junctions that are around the control circle. By definition, every control on a map will have at least one track through the control circle, so if the tracks appear on top, it will be much clearer. This is usually done automatically with most course setting software, but there are still plenty of examples of events being run with the circles and lines printing on top and covering up important information for riders.

Even when these are printed on the correct level, it is also good practice to break the control circles and lines where complex features such as multiple tracks or junctions appear right on the circle line.

Looking at these situations on a computer screen, or even on the competition map while standing still, the track symbols seem clear, but at race speed it is much harder to see the finer detail, especially with “older” eyes, as the colours tend to merge into a solid dark line.

There has been much discussion about this on the MTBO Facebook page over recent months, led by Keith Dawson, with Masters riders feeling it is especially important.

PLUS circles and lines broken where needed.

At last year’s World Masters Championships in Hungary, which was also a World Cup round for elites, the competition maps had the control circles and lines on the correct level, but they generally elected not to break control circles or lines. This made some situations very hard to see what the route choice was. The sample illustrated going from #6 to #7 was actually the subject of a protest, as important detail was completely obscured under the circle and line, especially when racing. The rider in question, as did your correspondent, thought that the only way out of the fenced area from #6 was to head south again near #5 and ride a big clockwise loop around to #7. After taking time, I eventually realised there was a track under the line through the fence, but I never saw the track to it that was under the circle. I took the next minor track on the left.

So my point is, when preparing course maps: make sure the control circles and lines are using “lower purple” and appear under the track symbols, and this will make most controls and lines appear clear. But for those more complex situations, make sure to also break the circles and lines where they cover up track and junction information.

Improving track and path symbols?

Another issue being discussed on the MTBO facebook page is whether track and path symbols could be improved to better indicate complex track and junction areas.

I know we have found this problem on some complex single track areas in Australia where the dashes or dots don’t always show the full shape of the tracks, where the junctions are, or even if the tracks go through to another track.

The discussion was around using a continuous 30% gray (or yellow) line under the dashed line. The samples look quite good when viewing on screen (ie not racing), but these samples were tested recently at the MTBO training week in Denmark and the consensus was that the tracks tended to look like solid lines when viewed in competition. I know something similar to this was tried on the Hills Ups & Downs map in Castlemaine a few years ago with a green line underneath, but again, it just looked like a solid line while competing.

I believe the next trial is to try a 15% gray line under the dashed symbol.

Circle and line covering important route information from #6 to #7.

Current track symbols.

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With gray line under.

With yellow line under.

MOUNTAIN BIKE ORIENTEERING

Friday 2 5 Oc to b e r to S unday 2 7 Oc to b e r 2 0 1 9 M ar yboro u g h , Vic to ria

Incorporating: • 2019 Victorian MTBO Championships • 2020 World Masters MTBO Series, Round 1 • 2019 National MTBO Series, Round 3 • 2019 Australia-New Zealand MTBO Challenge

w w w. a u s m t b o c h a m p s . c o m Maryborough is the location of this year’s Australian MTBO Championships. Maryborough is approximately 170km from Melbourne or a bit over 2 hours drive.

FOUR championships events will be contested over 3 days of competition – Sprint, Middle, Long and Mass Start, plus a training/model event, the Championships Dinner and an IOF-run Workshop for Organisers, Course setters and Controllers.

This will be the first Mass Start event to be part of the Australian MTBO Championships. This exciting new format is now part of all World Championships, Elite, Junior and Masters Championships. The extra race means we need to use the Friday, hence 3 days of racing. Make sure you’re a part of this history.

The Long Distance championship will be held near Dunolly, 20kms from Maryborough, but all other events are within

4km of central Maryborough, so competitors will have an opportunity to ride to these assembly areas, if they wish.

All map areas are typical of the Maryborough region with an excellent network of tracks on mostly gentle to undulating terrain. The tracks are mostly vehicle tracks but range from slow to fast. So riders will need to make sure they don’t go too fast for the navigation required as many of the areas have a very similar look if you’ve lost track of exactly where you are!

With 5 events over 4 days, this is sure to be a feast of MTBO. But if you want to stretch that out to 8 events over 10 days, the ACT MTBO Championships will be held the weekend before – 18-20 October, and includes 3 races; Mass Start, Middle & Long Distance. Check out the ACT events in Eventor.

Check out www.ausmtbochamps.com for the latest information and to read Bulletin 1.

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TRAINING

Training the Swiss way Two training maps from the Swiss Orienteering Team used in February of this year, with optimum routes shown. One, a Sprint map at 1:4000 scale with three Sprint intervals shown. The other a forest map at 1:10,000 scale with the last part being a 1350 metres long “corridor” section.

We thank the Swiss Orienteering Team for the use of both maps.

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OBITUARY

Yvonne Caspari 1934 – 2019 Many Australian orienteers were saddened to learn of the death of Swiss orienteer, Yvonne Caspari, on 19 January 2019. For more than 40 years, Yvonne was a great supporter of Australian orienteering and a dear personal friend to many Australian orienteers.

Yvonne with Jenny Bourne, 2012.

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vonne and her husband, Armin, began their association with Australian orienteering in the late 1970s. Geoff Lawford recalls first meeting Yvonne in Halden, Norway in mid-1977, when she was managing and coaching the Swiss team at a training camp held prior to the 1978 World Championships. He also remembers Yvonne as the Swiss team manager at the Championships and those held the following year in Finland.

In 1978, Peter Howe and Michael Job were planning a grand orienteering tour around Europe, including the Swiss Five-Days.

Peter wrote to Yvonne, who was Secretary of the Swiss Orienteering Federation, regarding entry and received a prompt reply. When they arrived in Switzerland, they called at her house to thank her personally, and received an invitation to dinner. During the FiveDays, they were invited back again for dinner, along with Mark Wilmott, which started a long friendship with the Wilmott clan.

Yvonne and Armin lived in a large wooden house in Rüschlikon near Zürich. The house overlooked Lake Zürich and had several floors reached via steep, narrow stairways. Their home was to experience numerous visits from Australian orienteers over the following decades, and became known as the Australian Orienteering Embassy in Switzerland. At the front of the house was a tall flagpole on which the Australian flag was hoisted whenever Aussies were in residence or visiting. In 1981, when the World Championships were in Switzerland, Yvonne and Armin invited the entire Australian team for lunch.

Armin, Yvonne & David Hogg, APOC 1990.

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Yvonne and Armin visited Australia in 1980 to take part in the inaugural Pacific Orienteering Championships held near Canberra and the Australian Three-Days. During the days between these events, a minibus tour through the Snowy Mountains was organised for overseas visitors as well as any Australians who wanted to join in. Don Young first met Yvonne and Armin on that tour, with Don interpreting the bus driver’s ‘strine’ accent to a form of English which the Casparis could understand. Their interest in Australia extended to the broader Asia – Pacific region and they attended several subsequent APOC events.

Yvonne encouraged and supported Australia’s successful bid to host the World Orienteering Championships in 1985 and visited Australia for that event, when she was responsible on behalf of the International Orienteering Federation for supervising the Drug Control Centre. This followed an Australian visit in 1984 which included competing in Western Australia’s first multi-day event, the Spring West 3-Day.

Yvonne’s international interests extended also to working for the International Orienteering Federation. Having been Secretary of the Swiss Orienteering Federation for many years, she was a Swiss delegate to the IOF General Assembly during the years 1986 to 1994, and her contribution to international orienteering was recognised with the award of the IOF’s silver pin in 1992. She was also made an honorary member of the Swiss Orienteering Federation in 1990.

The Caspari home in Rüschlikon.

Yvonne and Armin at home 2006.

Yvonne and Armin raising Australian flag at Rüschlikon 1983.

In addition to her role as an orienteering administrator and coach over many years, Yvonne was also a formidable competitor. In her youth, she had been a leading elite orienteer in Switzerland and her achievements continued as a masters competitor, for example, winning the W60 class at APOC in New Zealand in 1994.

Sandra and Cathy Hogg, Rolli Burford, Roy and Jo Hiller and the Wilmott family, among others.

For many Australian orienteers, it was not so much her orienteering talent or exceptional administrative contributions that are remembered, but the warmth, friendship and personal support that she and Armin displayed. This continued after Armin’s death in 2009.

Visitors to their home would be welcomed with a towel and a small box of Swiss chocolate on their bed, sumptuous meals including fresh rolls just bought from the nearby baker and desserts of cakes and ice cream, and assistance with travel advice. She always had time to take visitors on local sightseeing tours. In 1983, she and Armin opened their house to Geoff Lawford and Jenny Bourne while Geoff was convalescing after an emergency appendix operation in Switzerland.

In 1994, they took a teenage Cathy Hogg under their wing, turning what had been an unhappy start to a big European trip into a delightful experience.

Yvonne Caspari was a wonderful lady whom all will remember dearly.

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NAVIGATION

Editor: since the Earth’s magnetic field is moving around this probably explains my navigation errors.

HUMAN MAGNETIC SENSE New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth’s magnetic field.

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o you have a magnetic compass in your head? Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.

Scientists have tried to investigate whether humans belong on the list of magnetically sensitive organisms. For decades, there’s been a backand-forth between positive reports and failures to demonstrate the trait in people, with seemingly endless controversy. Now, researchers at Caltech in Pasadena, California, claim to have found the first concrete evidence that humans do have a geomagnetic sense.

“The mixed results in people may be due to the fact that virtually all past studies relied on behavioural decisions from the participants. If human beings do possess a magnetic sense, daily experience suggests that it would be very weak or deeply subconscious. Such faint impressions could easily be misinterpreted – or just plain missed – when trying to make decisions. So our research group took another approach.

How does a biological geomagnetic sense work?

The Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field, generated by the movement of the planet’s liquid core. It’s why a magnetic compass points north. At Earth’s surface, this magnetic field is fairly weak, about 100 times weaker than that of a refrigerator magnet.

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have shown that hundreds of organisms in nearly all branches of the bacterial, unicellular protist and animal kingdoms have the ability to detect and respond to this geomagnetic field. In some animals – such as honey bees – the geomagnetic behavioural responses are as strong as the responses to light, odour or touch. Biologists have identified strong responses in vertebrates ranging from fish, amphibians, reptiles, numerous birds and a diverse variety of mammals including whales, rodents, bats, cows and dogs – the last of which can be trained to find a hidden bar magnet. In all of these cases, the animals are using the geomagnetic field as components of their homing and navigation abilities, along with other cues like sight, smell and hearing.

Skeptics dismissed early reports of these responses, largely because there didn’t seem to be a biophysical mechanism that could translate the Earth’s weak geomagnetic field into strong neural signals. This view was dramatically changed by the discovery that living cells have the ability to build nanocrystals of the ferromagnetic mineral magnetite – basically, tiny iron magnets. Biogenic crystals of magnetite were first seen in the teeth of one group of molluscs, later in bacteria, and then in a variety of other organisms ranging from protists and animals such as insects, fish and mammals, including within tissues of the human brain.

Nevertheless, scientists haven’t considered humans to be magnetically sensitive organisms.

Earth’s magnetic field.

Magnetosomes in a sockeye salmon.

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Manipulating the magnetic field In our new study, we asked 34 participants simply to sit in our testing chamber while we directly recorded electrical activity in their brains with electroencephalography (EEG). Our modified Faraday cage included a set of 3-axis coils that let us create controlled magnetic fields of high uniformity via electric current we ran through its wires.

Since we live in mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the environmental magnetic field in our laboratory dips downwards to the north at about 60 degrees from horizontal.

In normal life, when someone rotates their head – say, nodding up and down or turning the head from left to right – the direction of the geomagnetic field (which remains constant in space) will shift relative to their skull. This is no surprise to the subject’s brain, as it directed the muscles to move the head in the appropriate fashion in the first place.

In our test chamber we can move the magnetic field silently relative to the brain, but without the brain having initiated any signal to move the head. This is comparable to situations when your head or trunk is passively rotated by somebody else, or when you’re a passenger in a vehicle which rotates. In those cases, though, your body will still register vestibular signals about its position in space, along with the magnetic field changes – in contrast, our experimental stimulation was only a magnetic field shift. When we shifted the magnetic field in the chamber, our participants did not experience any obvious feelings.

The EEG data, on the other hand, revealed that certain magnetic field rotations could trigger strong and reproducible brain responses.

One EEG pattern known from existing research, called alpha-ERD (event-related desynchronization), typically shows up when a person suddenly detects and processes a sensory stimulus. The brains were “concerned” with the unexpected change in the magnetic field direction, and this triggered the alpha-wave reduction. That we saw such alpha-ERD patterns in response to simple magnetic rotations is powerful evidence for human magnetoreception.

showed that robins stop using the geomagnetic field if the strength is more than about 25% different from what they were used to. It’s possible this tendency might be why previous researchers had trouble identifying this magnetic sense – if they cranked up the strength of the magnetic field to “help” subjects detect it, they might have instead ensured that subjects’ brains ignored it.

Moreover, our series of experiments show that the receptor mechanism – the biological magnetometer in human beings – is not electrical induction, and can tell north from south. This latter feature rules out completely the so-called “quantum compass” or “cryptochrome” mechanism which is popular these days in the animal literature on magnetoreception. Our results are consistent only with functional magnetoreceptor cells based on the biological magnetite hypothesis.

Brains register magnetic shifts, subconsciously Our participants were all unaware of the magnetic field shifts and their brain responses. They felt that nothing had happened during the whole experiment – they’d just sat alone in dark silence for an hour.

Underneath, though, their brains revealed a wide range of differences.

Some brains showed almost no reaction, while other brains had alpha waves that shrank to half their normal size after a magnetic field shift.

It remains to be seen what these hidden reactions might mean for human behavioural capabilities. Do the weak and strong brain responses reflect some kind of individual differences in navigational ability? Can those with weaker brain responses benefit from some kind of training? Can those with strong brain responses be trained to actually feel the magnetic field?

A human response to Earth-strength magnetic fields might seem surprising. But given the evidence for magnetic sensation in our animal ancestors, it might be more surprising if humans had completely lost every last piece of the system. Thus far, we’ve found evidence that people have working magnetic sensors sending signals to the brain – a previously unknown sensory ability in the subconscious human mind. The full extent of our magnetic inheritance remains to be discovered.”

Magnetic Field Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, California.

Our participants’ brains only responded when the vertical component of the field was pointing downwards at about 60 degrees (while horizontally rotating), as it does naturally here in Pasadena, California. They did not respond to unnatural directions of the magnetic field – such as when it pointed upwards. We suggest the response is tuned to natural stimuli, reflecting a biological mechanism that has been shaped by natural selection.

Other researchers have shown that animals’ brains filter magnetic signals, only responding to those that are environmentally relevant. It makes sense to reject any magnetic signal that is too far away from the natural values because it most likely is from a magnetic anomaly - a lighting strike, or lodestone deposit in the ground, for example. One early report on birds JUNE 2019 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 37

BOOK REVIEW

Orienteering Pot-Pourri Wilf Holloway

The author of “Murder at the 14th Control” has produced yet another book on Orienteering – this time a “Pot-Pourri” (Wilf’s title) of coaching advice, stories, suggested training programs, ideas, hobby-horses and technical tips.

is developing the optimum speed. My mistakes are because my speed is not adjusted to the conditions. You must be a ‘That’s where I’m going’ orienteer, not a ‘That’s where I am’ orienteer. Before a race I forget everyone and everything else and concentrate on the technical demands I face. I know what I have to do.

My technical training is at a relaxed speed. It is forbidden to make mistakes.”

Wilf is a great fan of legendary athletics coaches Percy Cerutty (Australia) and Arthur Lydiard (New Zealand) and of their training techniques which placed emphasis on both physical and mental preparation. When Wilf last visited Melbourne in 2018 he made the long pilgrimage to Portsea just to visit the Percy Cerutty Oval and to see Percy’s grave. In the book he describes how Lydiard’s mental training produced gold medal performances by two then unknown New Zealanders.

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o quote from the book – “Every single training session should have an aim. What you must remember as an orienteer is that the endless variations in ground and vegetation means that you need all kinds of agility, coordination and balance in competition, and many playful forms of training can help you make pleasant gains in precisely these areas.”

“Belief is a very powerful ally, but it must be genuine. At the Rome Olympics in 1960 the New Zealanders had a few excellent runners and new coach Arthur Lydiard was convinced that two of them could win gold. He was already an expert at peaking and had finely tuned Murray Halberg (5,000 metres) and Peter Snell (800 metres) for their races. Even as the finalists entered the stadium Halberg was not really convinced of the tough tactical plan which Lydiard had drummed into him. Most experts expected newcomer Snell to be almost last in his race and Halberg asked runners leaving the track who had just won that 800 metres. With looks of sheer disbelief on their faces the defeated athletes said: “the New Zealander”; they didn’t even know his name! That was the moment that Halberg began to believe, soon also dramatically winning his own final according to Lydiard’s tactical plan.”

A book well worthy of a read with much training advice for Orienteers both young and old.

Available from Wilf Holloway ( wilfholloway@web.de ) for 10 Euro plus p+p.

The book contains a very detailed section on coaching, with topics ranging from Teenager Training to Pensioner Practice and Mental Magic.

Wilf has included a good treatise on the perceived truths and fallacies associated with muscle stretching, both before and after strenuous activity. You must read the book to find out which way he leans on stretching.

Norway’s multiple world champion, Oyvin Thon, provides a fascinating insight: “Orienteering is for me a race in which at any time I decide how fast I can or have to run. Most of my training

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Coach trying to cope with three different abilities.

(relating to boys/girls and men/women) into account my suggestion is shown below: Need 1 control from each box: men & women over 85; Need 2 controls: boys/girls under 10, M75-84, W70-84; Need 3 controls: boys 11-13, girls 11-14, M65-74, W55-69; Need 4 controls: boys 14-16, girls 15-18, M55-64, W40-54; Need 5 controls: boys 17-19, girls/women 19-39, M40-54; Need all six controls: Men 20-39.

It is necessary to make most of the compulsory controls technically easy and all not too tough underfoot, so that the oldest and youngest competitors can complete their courses successfully.

But remember that even the oldest orienteers also want technical challenge. So the controls in the box-groups should be more difficult, and some even very difficult, so that the event is also interesting for elite competitors. Youngsters having to search around a bit is also not a real problem because they cannot easily get lost with plenty of people around - and if all their controls are easy then others have little chance of winning.

Extract from Orienteering Pot-Pourri with permission from the author.

An ideal racing concept when many small age groups or clubs are to be involved: The Handicap Orienteering Method And Scoring System.

THOMASS Race

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his concept is really excellent for having everybody competing on about even footing, for example in a club championship with not quite enough people to offer many distinct classes. The title stands for “The Handicap Orienteering Method And Scoring System” and the relative­ly simple concept can be used in all sorts of situations and terrains. The basic idea is that there is a set course which everybody must do, plus groups (THOMASS boxes) of controls where each individual decides for himself which controls he will take. The number of these `box’ cont­rols which he must collect depends upon the handicapping system being used.

In the schematic and variable diagram you will see that there are eight general controls and three boxes, or groups of controls where runners get a bit of choice. If the race is being organised upon ability handicap then the best orienteers will have to collect all six controls in each box whilst the least good only need one, and the others vary between five and two according to how good they are deemed to be. When racing purely based upon age groups and sex then the very oldest and very youngest competitors only need collect one or two controls from each box whilst the ‘optimumaged’ male competitors in their twenties must find all six every time.

Of course the number of boxes and the number of controls in each box can be varied as the organiser wishes, and with a mass start there is a lot of exciting action. In this case it is perhaps also useful to go straight into a box without any common first control(s), thus reducing the chances of following. I’m not sure if there is some kind of official stipulation of how exactly the age groups are split regarding the num­ber of box-controls, I suspect not. Therefore this is also a matter for organiser preference, and it is impossible to make it absolutely fair. Taking various age development factors

All competitors must find controls 1 to 8. Elite Orienteers on this course must find 26 controls, others need only find 11, 14, 17, 20 or 23 controls. The eight compulsory controls should not be too difficult (think of the youngsters) and not too tough under foot (think of the veterans). The controls in the boxes should be technically more challenging, but with a couple each time not impossible for the very youngest and very oldest race participants.

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NUTRITION

Nutrition Tips

Milk

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Low fat, no fat, full cream, high calcium, high protein, soy, light, skim, omega 3, high calcium with vitamin D and folate, or extra dollop?

There are so many milks available on the supermarket shelf these days it can be overwhelming as to what to choose when you just want milk that tastes like regular milk.

Rich in Antioxidants “Rich in Antioxidants” is a bit of a buzz phrase at the moment, used to promote certain properties of foods. Antioxidants are found largely in fruit and vegetables, the foods richest in vitamins and minerals.

Let’s dig deeper into this nutrition ‘super-phrase’: Antioxidant is a term to describe any number of molecules or chemicals that counteract ‘oxidation.’ So consuming antioxidants is meant to put a hold on oxidation processes in the body. But do we really hate oxidation so much as to fully prevent it?

Exercise or training causes oxidation in the body. When we have an excess we experience tiredness and poor recovery. So in theory, having an abundance of antioxidants, and supplementing with additional antioxidants would improve recovery outcomes and reduce fatigue, right?

Well, turns out it’s a little more complex than that. When we train, we actually want our body to be put under stress. It’s how we adapt and how we eventually see a training adaptation and improvement.

So to an extent we actually want some oxidation to occur to promote that training response.

By ensuring you have a diet rich in vegetables and fruits alongside good nutritional recovery processes (carbs + protein post recovery) you should be able to get all the antioxidants you need through food in your diet, without the need for supplements. If you are experiencing excessive fatigue chances are it’s not a deficiency in antioxidants but worth checking in with your sports health professional team.

Let’s look at some of the popular types, what they are good for and how you can use them:

Cow’s milk – high in protein, high in calcium and great for recovery from training and exercise. “No fat” or skim varieties have the lowest amount of saturated fat (0-2%), and full fat milk has a marginal amount more (4-6%).

High Protein Milk – The Complete Dairy has released a new(ish) milk that has 150% the protein of regular cow’s milk. They offer full fat, skim and lactose free. An amazing recovery drink.

Soy milk – a great lactose free alternative with similar protein and calcium benefits of cow’s milk, if fortified. A great recovery food and snack for athletes who are lactose free.

Rice Milk – made from rice and sunflower oil, some are fortified with calcium but have very little protein (if any) so not a great choice for recovery.

Almond milk – made from almonds and some starches and salts, this popular milk alternative has very little protein so is not the best lactose free substitute, but can sometimes be fortified with calcium.

The best options for athletes are regular cow’s milk, soy milk and lactose free milks that are going to give you the protein and calcium you need for bone strength and optimal recovery. Check the label if in doubt and aim for >8g of protein per 100ml or >100mg of calcium per 100ml.

Vitamin D Vitamin D can be obtained entirely through skin exposure to sunlight which is an easy feat for athletes and exercisers who are based outdoors. Athletes who are indoor athletes have higher rates of low vitamin D. When vitamin D is low, extra dietary sources with some more sun exposure, can assist in bringing those levels back into the range.

For your best source of vitamin D rich foods try some of the following: 40

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Global warming This is an issue at the forefront of our minds.

What does that mean for sustainable nutrition and our global food supply?

In January 2019, a report was launched by the Lancet exploring what we could be eating for a more sustainable food environment. Below is a really simplified version of what was reported. Luckily for athletes, the types of food recommended can easily be incorporated into the optimal fuelling and nutritious diet we aim for!

Here is an overview of some of the key foods and how you could incorporate them into your fuelling strategy as an athlete. *Note: it’s encouraged to have a meat & poultry free day each week – for an athlete, this means ensuring that protein requirements are met alternatively* Protein rich: Nuts, beans, chickpeas, lentils, legumes, dairy (cheese, yoghurt, milk), meat, poultry, soy foods, fish, eggs.

• Fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, sardines, tuna) • Eggs (namely the yolk) • Mushrooms • Occasionally vitamin D is fortified in some milk, yoghurt, cheese, bread, margarine, cereal and fruit juices – so check the label on these foods to see if they have added vitamin D

Carbohydrate rich: Wholegrains (rice, wheat, corn, etc.), starchy vegetables (corn, sweet potato, potato).

Vitamins & minerals: Other vegetables and fruit.

Keep that vitamin D in the range to optimise your bone metabolism, muscle function, immune regulation, insulin and blood pressure control.

Gut feelings Do you, or anyone you know suffer from gut issues in their sport? It’s a fairly common problem causing much distress and occasional reduced performance for sufferers. Wiffin et al., (2019) explored how gut symptoms could be improved by implementing a low FODMAP diet over a short period of time.

FODMAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharide, disaccharide, monosaccharide and polyol. It describes certain molecules found in carbohydrates that in high amounts can cause gut issues. There has been good evidence over the last decade to suggest reduced amount of these molecules improves IBS symptoms with the recent evidence turning to sport.

The study suggested a low FODMAP diet over an acute period reduced exercise related GI symptoms improving perceived ability to exercise. If you’re a sufferer of gut issues reach out to a sports dietitian with a good gut feeling that they can help!

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O-SPY

Is this a record?

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his year Garingal Orienteers (GON) has obtained a new milestone. With the recent awarding of a club member a Life membership we now have 7 Life Members. All these life members are still active in the club and elsewhere creating new maps, organising events, departing their experience and much more. Does any club have more Life Members?

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For the O community the Life members are: Ron Junghans, Barbara Junghans, Jim Merchant, David Stitt, Ross Barr, Ken Jacobson and Carol Jacobson.

Have you got your tick hook?

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ordon Bossley reports:

“Back in January I learned about ‘tick hooks’ - a small simple tool that apparently worked well to remove ticks. Ticks adore me. So I was interested. Long story short, I bought a few on eBay for about $20.00 Fast forward to Sunday 24th March at Sippy Downs. I walked to the registration desk and threw a twin-pack on Craig Steffens’ laptop keyboard. He didn’t notice because he was looking at his leg.

Craig: “I don’t suppose you’ve got that tick hook yet? Coz I’ve got one on my leg.”

Gordon: “Have a look at your computer keyboard.” (You can’t invent this stuff.)

Five minutes later the tick hook paid for itself. Sadly the video was a complete failure, so no ‘show and tell’.

Ugly Gully, Sunshine Orienteers and MTBO clubs have theirs.” (from Orienteering Queensland e-bulletin)

Or is it a dead heat?

Bayside Kangaroos’ Membership Secretary, Gwennyth Baker, responded: “Would you believe it, according to me we also have seven.”

Tom Andrews, Ian Baker, Michael Hubbert, Henry Post, John Sheahan, Jenny Sheahan, Greg Tamblyn.

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Paris Olympics 2024 Breakdancing competition proposed, baseball-softball and karate sidelined.

permanent facilities and would involve just 248 competitors, of which 32 would be in breakdancing. The surfing events are likely to be held in established surf centres such as Biarritz or Lacanau in southwest France.

The inclusion of breakdancing at Paris 2024 means that Squash has missed out, to the deep disappointment of the sport’s governing bodies. In a joint statement, the World Squash Federation and the Professional Squash Association said: “We truly believe Squash could seamlessly integrate into the Olympic program with minimal costs and an optimized pool of participants.”

Paris organizers also announced that members of the public will be able to run the marathon course on the same day as the event, after the Olympic race.

Breakdancing in Paris.

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reakdancing has been invited as a new “guest sport” for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing, which have already been added to the program for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, have been invited to return for the Paris Games. The organizing committee said it will not recommend adding baseball-softball and karate to the program of the 2024 Games, dealing a blow to potential medal favourites such as Japan.

Tony Estanguet, the head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, said the inclusion of the four sports responded to a need to make the Olympics “more urban” and “more artistic.

This is a major step forward in our ambition to organise a unique Olympic Games. Right from the beginning, our aim was to offer Games that would have an impact and the element of surprise. This is why we have chosen to present the IOC with four sports that are creative, spectacular, geared towards youth and completely in line with our vision. They reflect perfectly Paris 2024’s identity.”

Breakdancing appeared at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, in the form of “battles.” Russia’s Sergei Chernyshev, competing under the nickname Bumblebee, won the first breakdancing gold medal for boys in that event, while Japan’s Ramu Kawai won the girls’ title.

Inclusion of the four sports in 2024, which would come on top of the 28 sports already on the program, still requires approval by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC had announced that the number of competing athletes in 2024 would be limited to 10,500, which limited the scope of additional sports. But the organizers said the inclusion of the four sports in Paris would not necessitate the construction of

French fencing federation recognizes lightsaber duelling

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t’s now easier than ever in France to act out “Star Wars” fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas’ saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.

Of course, the LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsaber replicas can’t slice a Sith lord in half. But they look and, with the more expensive sabers equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble, even sound remarkably like the blades wielded in the blockbuster movies.

The physicality of lightsaber combat is partly why the French Fencing Federation threw its support behind the sport and is now equipping fencing clubs with lightsabers and training would-be lightsaber instructors. Like virtuous Jedi knights, the French federation sees itself as combatting a Dark Side: The sedentary habits of 21st-century life that are sickening evergrowing numbers of adults and kids.

“With young people today, it’s a real public health issue. They don’t do any sport and only exercise with their thumbs,” said Serge Aubailly, the Federation secretary general. “It’s becoming difficult to persuade them to do a sport that has no connection with sitting on the sofa. That is why we are trying to create a bond between our discipline and modern technologies, so that participating in a sport feels natural.

Cape and sword movies have always had a big impact on our Federation and its growth,” Aubailly said. “Lightsaber films have the same impact. Young people want to give it a try.”

Lightsaber dueling has no hope of a place in the Paris Olympics in 2024. But to hear the thwack of blades and see them cut shapes through the air is to want to give the sport a try.

Lightsaber duel.

Guest sports invited to Paris 2024 Olympics.

JUNE 2019 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 43

NOL UPDATE

BLAIR TREWIN

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he National Orienteering League for 2019 is well under way with two-thirds of the races completed. The season started at Hill End with the (elite) Australian Relays, then continued through the Easter week and the NSW Championships (and Ultra-Long) at Wyangala Dam.

The Canberra Cockatoos are once again well on top in team competition, leading in three of the four divisions. They hold commanding leads in Junior Women’s, where they are yet to drop a point in ten rounds through the depth provided by the Melhuish sisters, Ella Cuthbert and Caitlin Young, as well as the Senior Men’s.

The Junior Men’s competition is closer, but the Cockatoos have edged eight points clear of the NSW Stingers over the two most recent rounds. The only exception is the Senior Women’s, where Victoria got off to a good start with a Relay win and currently hold a four-point lead over the Cockatoos, with the Southern Arrows also in the mix.

Bridget Anderson narrowly leads the Senior Women’s competition in her best season to date, although second-placed Natasha Key has the most race wins with three. Grace Crane’s two wins on the most recent weekend have lifted her into contention, and Krystal Neumann and Belinda Lawford are also still in the mix. Simon Uppill leads the way in the Senior Men’s, showing his usual consistency with two wins and three seconds. Henry McNulty got the early jump on the field but is now overseas, with the most likely challengers being Matt Doyle, Brodie Nankervis and Patrick Jaffe; Nankervis joined the lead pack with an Ultra-Long win.

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Tara Melhuish is dominating the Junior Women’s competition as comprehensively as her team is, with six successive race wins. Most likely of the rest is Mikayla Cooper, who had her first individual win at this level on the opening weekend and followed up with overall honours at Easter. She has races in hand after not running in the May events; in the meantime, the Cockatoos trio of Zoe Melhuish, Ella Cuthbert and Caitlin Young are next in line. A clear front-runner is yet to emerge in the Junior Men’s with several of the leaders missing the most recent round. Patrick Miller has had four wins so far, but Angus Haines, Alastair George, Dante Afnan and Duncan Currie have all won races, and Alvin Craig is also in the mix.

The season now takes a break for the winter, before resuming in the spring with the Australian and Oceania Championships week.

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