includes: IOF Mapping Commission Vacancy; ONZ Mapping Wiki; LINZ seeks feedback on changes to maps; PAPO is seeking a sand dune mapper.

Dr Camilla Knight talks about the support of parents of talented young athletes. The focus for young people at competitions is to enjoy it and perform to the best of their ability. Parents are important before and after training and competitions to offer support and help their child, reviewing with them what it going well and things they may want to work on.

British Orienteering shared a series of 4 short video clips of Hector Haines (GBR) talking about how his parents helped him get into orienteering and some advice for parents of young orienteers.

The JWOC 2016 Middle Qualification Race is on Wednesday night from 8pm NZ time. Here are the start times for the NZ team members, and links to more information.

includes 17th International Conference on Orienteering Mapping; ONZ Mappers List; OCAD Tips and Traps; Topo Map Extents; Drawing Conventions; Mapping Requests;

Tane Cambridge has posted a race review of his experiences at Queen’s Birthday Orienteering Race on his personal website blog.

The Australia-New Zealand Elite Test Match over the long Queen’s Birthday weekend has given me a chance to gauge my fitness at this clear midpoint in this training block…

Gene Beveridge has posted a blog reviewing his experiences at the 2016 Queens Birthday Orienteering races.

Past TWALK competitors – its the 50th Anniversary in 2017 – A call for your stories, videos, photos and suggestions…

Tane Cambridge has posted a blog about TWALK #50 (2016) on his personal website blog.

The mapping committee has decided to form a mapping bulletin, which will encompass all orienteering mapping related news in New Zealand.

Tane Cambridge has posted a recap about the Southern Orienteering Week 2016 on his personal website blog.

This guide is intended for clubs and event organisers who would like to upload their event onto New Zealand’s Routegadget.

Join the new OrienteeringNZ slack team – for live NZ Team supporters chat, sharing, and open team work.

Tane Cambridge has posted on his blog about his experiences at the New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2016.

Gene Beveridge has posted on his blog about his experiences at the New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2016.

Tom Reynolds has posted on his blog about his experiences at the New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2016.

A compilation annual of the MTBO pages that have appeared in The Australian Orienteer magazine in 2015 is available online.

Congratulations to the winners of GODZone 2016 – Team Yealands. Several orienteers competed in various teams in the adventure race that included map navigation legs and an elite level foot orienteering course set by Nelson Orienteering Club.

Some cool coverage of the Spirited Women’s Adventure Race held in Rotorua last weekend. The race involved several orienteers and included a Rogaine stage around the Redwoods.

Video – Orienteering – more than just running

For the first time ever, Drug Free Sport NZ has used a reformed doper to deliver a series of captivating video messages to warn New Zealand athletes about the perils of drug use. The three enthralling and thought-provoking videos include a direct message to athletes, a message to the parents of athletes, and top tips for staying clean.

A “Welcome to JWOC 2015” video

Matt Ogden (NZL) has posted on his personal blog: “It has been a little over a week now since I came back from OK Linné’s annual training camp, which was held in Croatia and Slovenia…”

Matt Ogden (NZL) has blogged ” Another European Adventure Begins” on his personal blog including orienteering, reflections on his past few months in NZ and current travelling.

Gene Beveridge has posted on his personal blog: Trigger Words and Mental Mistakes. “Marion set a good course for AOTC this Saturday on Telephone Track which was a great opportunity to redeem myself after my messy runs at Tour De Peninsula. My session aim was to use my trigger words consistently to drive technical process and forget about the bigger picture of my training and performance. I call this process focus…”

Gene Beveridge (NZL) posted about orienteering on his personal blog: Tour De Peninsula marks the build up to the 2015 orienteering season in NZ with its series of 8 races over 3 days with the cycle tour inspired concepts used by Sprint the Bay in previous years. This year I was open to compete for as many of the leaders’ singlets as I could.

Lizzie Ingham has posted a blog update – recalling her Tasmanian and World Cup experiences, one month on. The blog post is titled “Behind the times: Tassie World Cup”

Orienteering New Zealand’s Development Squad Camp 2014 – A fun video from the awesome week of training in December!! Enjoy!!

Gene Beveridge has posted a personal blog: Solid Run at World Cup Long Distance in Tassie. After a disappointing performance in the middle distance at the World Cup in Tasmania it was hard to maintain confidence leading into the long distance…