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COOL TEMPERATURES & COOL HEADS prevailed at the Au

COOL TEMPERATURES & COOL HEADS prevailed at the Australian Schools Orienteering Champs (ASOC) sprint at Aquinas College. Fast times and perfect running conditions with moments of drama as some succumbed to the cunning of the planner. The commentary was thick and fast New Zealand names supplanting each other for the top placings.

In the end we had medal winners in Junior boys and girls and the Senior boys, established a clear initial lead on provisional points: Karahiwi 34, Harua 33, NSW 21, ACT 18, TAS 16, SA 14, VIC 14, WA 8.
NZ Place getters: Junior boys 1st Blake, 3rd Harry: Junior girls girls 1st Greta 2nd Zara; Senior boys 1st Zefa, 2nd Felix;

There is a long way to go over the next 2 days with a a prolonged drive to the Long distance, but we're in for the long-haul! Watching this space and the live results today!

Results:
https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/ResultList?eventId=18146&groupBy=EventClass

📷 Susana Carryer
#schoolchamps #schoolorienteering #australasianchallenge #orienteeringNZ #AUSvsNZ #goNZ! #orienteeringchamps

RACING RELAY ACTION Back to the challenges of Pet

RACING RELAY ACTION Back to the challenges of Peterdine and the terrain was even faster underfoot than the day before and if anything vaguer! The long legs demanded close attention to maintain map contact with your wit about you to make sense of the inevitable rock cluster in the circle.

A few sore ankles after yesterday so some team members sat out or walked. Also another chance for the managers and coaches to compete along with accompanying families. Areas of bare rock gave new truth to the concept of "stepping stones". Once again, many on the podium, although the Aussie commentators seemed to assign glory to random NZ clubs.

Fabulous team work by all, but noting these great results:
M21E 1st another dramatic sprint finish for ASOC coach Joe Lynch
W21E 2nd (ASOC coach Briana Steven)
M20E 2nd and 3rd with a flying sprint finish
M16 2nd with Matthew Greenwood pulling them from 4th to 1st in leg 2
W16 3rd
M14 1st

Full results:
https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/ResultList?eventId=18142&groupBy=EventClass

📷 SHOO orienteering, Richard Mathews, Orienteering Victoria, Susana Carryer

MORE PHOTOS More podium shots from yesterday and

MORE PHOTOS More podium shots from yesterday and terrain shots. Plus some excellent athlete in action shots.
📷 Podium & terrain: Fleur Murray . Athlete shots: From the Kambarang orienteering carnival.

#southercrosschallenge #australasianchallenge #orienteeringNZ #AUSvsNZ #goNZ! #orienteeringchamps

IMPRESSIVE PODIUMS IN TECHY TERRAIN The weather i

IMPRESSIVE PODIUMS IN TECHY TERRAIN The weather is excellent, the terrain beautiful with challenging orienteering to test us. Fast and open running, with very gentle vague contours and rock fields everywhere.
The first leg for some of the red courses was especially tough, throwing runners straight into a boulder field across a vague slope. A huge baptism of fire for some of team's first ever Oz race! The coaching team described it as one of the most difficult Australian maps they'd been on.
It was impressive that we had an amazing string of results on such unfamilar terrain. The Aussie commentator was especially flabbergasted that NZ took out 5 of the top 6 places in M16 - definitely a wake-up for the Oz school teams! M21E & M16 took all top three places, and two in out of three in W14A. We had three in top 10 for W16, and two in the top 10 for M20E.

Map: Jospeh Lynch's 21E route
Photos: Screenshotted from Lyn Stanton's (sorry we couldn't download the best quality ones today - tech issues) .

#southercrosschallenge #australasianchallenge #orienteeringNZ #AUSvsNZ #goNZ! #orienteeringchamps

MISTY & COOLER FOR SECOND DAY OF TRAINING We team

MISTY & COOLER FOR SECOND DAY OF TRAINING We teamed-up in groups to get to grip with Australian terrain with a focus on rock features, figuring out what rocks are mapped and testing how grippy they are for running on, and then the search for Australian watercourses – often disguised as something dry and indiscernible!

The afternoon's forest training at Jorgensen Park included microsprints to work on leg plans and encourage precision with clear visualisation within control circles. It was encouraging to see juniors who never been in this style of terrain quickly gain confidence and fluency.

A flurry of domestic flight delays made things difficult for the arrival of Australian teams, but we will be meeting them very soon. Intense practise is here today with the start of the Australian Champs events.

#AUSvsNZ #southerncrosschallenge #Australasianchallenge #orienteeringNZ

INTERVALS & CLIMATE ADJUSTING 🔆 It was over 30

INTERVALS & CLIMATE ADJUSTING 🔆 It was over 30C when we arrived, but the next day we enjoyed a cooler day before racing starts - especially for those who ran in the snow just before they left NZ!

Short, but intense, map focus today with interval-based sprint training at the University of Western Australia with creative last-minute artificial barriers in place.

The swimming pool at camp helped with jetlag and temperature adjustment followed by an in-depth analysis of the training exercise in the evening.

#AUSvsNZ #southerncrosschallenge #Australasianchallenge #orienteeringNZ

THE 2023 SOUTHERN CROSS CHALLENGE IS ON! The teams

THE 2023 SOUTHERN CROSS CHALLENGE IS ON! The teams have arrived and are waking up to warm up and will be onto some WA maps in no time. We'll be watching from this side of the ditch and cheering from afar!

#AUSvsNZ #southerncrosschallenge #Australasianchallenge

ENTRIES CLOSE IN 5 DAYS! With a new long map and a

ENTRIES CLOSE IN 5 DAYS! With a new long map and a world ranking for two events - this is not to be missed! Entries close this Sunday 1 October
https://www.oevents.nz/nzoc2023/

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