2017 New Zealand JWOC Team

By NZ JWOC Team - Fri 26 May 2017 8:55pm

Introducing the 2017 New Zealand JWOC Team.

Brawn before beauty

Callum Herries

Post session cheat meal: Tiramisu
Roll up song: All Star
Interval session: 10 x 100m Hill Reps in Auckland Domain
Favourite training session: Fartlek in the Dolomites
Orienteering hero: Tommy Hayes
Role model/s: Everyone in M85
Favourite quote: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” – Seneca
My teammates would not know this about me…My bedroom doesn’t have a bed in it.

Cameron de L’Isle

Post session cheat meal: Baked beans
Roll up song: Hunter by Galantis
Interval session: Mini Nick Willis sesh: 2*600m, 2k, 2*600m, 1k, 2*400m
Favourite training session: 35min orienteering tempo + extended warm up/down, on a contour only map in Woodhill
Orienteering hero: TGIF
Role model: Eliud Kipchoge
Favourite quote: “It’s not the mountain we conquer but ourselves” Sir Ed Hillary
My teammates would not know this about me…. #sugarfree2k17

Devon Beckman

Post session cheat meal: Chicken Sizzling and curry puffs from Ruang Thong at the legendary Mercury Plaza
Roll up song: The entire works of Kanye West (Yes, all 9 Hours)
Interval session: A dirty fast Michigan (1 Mile tempo pace, 1km fast, 1 mile tempo, 800m fast, 1 mile, 600m, 1 mile, 400m
Favourite training session: 15 minute tempo run followed by 6 km of orienteering sprintervals
Orienteering hero: Rune Isaksson
Role model/s: Me in 10 years, Duncan Morrison
Favourite quote: So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero’s always 10 years away. I’m never gonna be my hero. I’m not gonna attain that. I know I’m not, and that’s just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing. – Matthew McConaughey
My teammates would not know this about me: Almost able to recite word for word the entirety of The Life of Pablo. – also working on The Wolf of Wall Street with Ed.

Ed Cory-Wright

Post session cheat meal: Choccy Milk and half of a one square meal!
Roll up song: Swedish House Mafia – Miami 2 Ibiza (feat. Tinie Tempah)
Interval session: 6 x 3min w 2 mins jog in between
Favourite training session: Control picking
Orienteering hero: Chris Forne
Role Model/s: Chris Forne… Mum and Dad
Favourite Quote: “Never give up, find a way cause that’s what winners do” — Surfs Up (2007)
My teammates would not know that… My left pupil is bigger than my right.

Nick Smith

Post session cheat meal: My brothers baking
Roll up song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLHQZ9Op-E
Interval session: Hills
Favourite training session: Long run in the mountains
Orienteering hero: Chris Forne/Nick Boss Hann
Role model/s: As above
Favourite quote: “We were on a pie mission the whole way” Chris Forne- Godzone 2015
My teammates would not know this about me…. Secretly I want to be an adventure racer, but I like sleep too much.

Tommy Hayes

Post session cheat meal: Milkshake with extra protein boost
Roll up song: Sunrise by Childish Gambino
Interval session: 4 x negative split Mt Eden hill reps
Favourite training session: Recovery session in the spa after training
Orienteering hero: Tim Robertson.
Role model: My sister
Favourite quote: ‘The world is your lobster’
My teammates would not know this about me…. My natural hair colour is actually pink.

Stephen Harding (2017 Reserve)

Post session cheat meal: $5 Chicken McCheese combo + choc milkshake
Roll up song: Hard to beat Skrillex’s Bangarang
Interval session: Jog 400m, Sprint 400m, x5, followed by 5x100m sprints
Favourite training session: Orari reserve double loop
Orienteering hero: Some scandi fella
Role model: Mo Farah
Favourite quote: ”Nothing is ever so bad that it can’t get worse”
My teammates would not know this about me…I’m a qualified Underwater Ceramics Technician.

Alice Tilley

Post session cheat meal: A bag of RJ’s Raspberry chocolate licorice!
Roll up song: Savage – Whethan(ft. Flux Pavilion and MAX)
Interval session: 6x1km intervals
Favourite training session: speed training
Orienteering hero: Marquita Gelderman
Role model/s: my friends and family
Favourite quote: “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment” -Buddha
My teammates would not know this about me… I can clap with one hand.

Dani Goodall

Post session cheat meal: Chicken nuggets with sweet and sour sauce, or curry puffs with sweet chilli sauce
Roll up song: Whatcha Say, Jason Derulo – covered by Ed Cory-Wright
Interval session: Interval time at school because I’m well hungry by 10:40
Favourite training session: Long missions and forest trainings
Orienteering hero: Tove Alexandersson and Hanny Allston
Role model: Katie Cory-Wright
Favourite quote: Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
My teammates would not know this about me…. Katie, Ed & I are actually triplets!

Katie Cory-Wright

Post session cheat meal: Crispy m&m’s
Roll up song: Pump it – The black eyed peas
Interval session: To the fridge and back, 10 times
Favourite training session: Anything with hills 🙂
Orienteering hero: Jean Cory-Wright
Role model: Simona Abersold
Favourite quote: “Wake up early. Drink coffee. Work hard. Be Ambitious. Keep your priorities straight and your’e head up. Do what you love, love what you do”.
My team mates would not know that I…… am surprisingly good at imitating different accents (especially Geordie)

Kayla Fairbairn

Post session cheat meal: bagels
Roll up song: Give Me Everything
Interval session: 6x400m
Favourite training session: Anything in the Forest
Orienteering hero: Sophie Bachman / Tommy Hayes
Role model: Pitbull
Favourite quote: If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire – Pitbull
My teammates would not know this about me…. I can clap with two hands.

Jenna Tidswell

Lara Molloy

Marina Comeskey (2017 Reserve)

Post session cheat meal: Chocolate brownie cheesecake
Roll up song: Poi e
Interval session: 5 x 800m, 3 hill reps up the hill home
Favourite training session: intensified intervals on cool terrain (straight running interval before O interval)
Orienteering hero: Lizzie Ingham
Role model/s: My mum, dad and grandad
Favourite quote: If you are given two options, take the harder one because you’ll regret it if you don’t. At least if you take the harder one and fail you’ll have tried. – Alison Hargreaves
My teammates would not know this about me…. I can ride a bike in a moon boot.

Ross Morrison – Coach

Karen Beckman – Manager

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