At the ONSW AGM this long weekend Mike Ridley-Smith (photo on left, a member of GO) stepped down from his role on the ONSW Board for over 4 years as a Director and looking after the Marketing portfolio. A big thank you to Mike for his long service and for offering his expertise learnt in the corporate wold of marketing. Mike was the only representative from Garingal on the Board over this time, which is something we should address because we are the largest club in NSW and could look to greater representation.
Thankfully Jamie Kennedy (photo on right) has stepped up to the plate to take a position as Director on the Board of ONSW. Good on you Jamie! With Jamie also on the Garingal Committee, we look forward to good connections between GO and ONSW.
The new President is Robyn Pallas from Central Coast Orienteers, and the new Secretary is Mary-Jane Mahoney from Uringa: We welcome them aboard. Whilst it is nice to see a better spread of clubs represented at executive level, I do want to note our sincere thanks to the outgoing executives Greg Barbour (President), Rob Spry (Secretary) and Mark Shingler (Finance Director). Their jobs are not easy. With 11 clubs in NSW for most of their period of service, half regional and half in Sydney, it is quite difficult to deliver equitable service. To their credit, the Annual Report (available here) indicates an amazing array of activities that the ONSW has either delivered from the ONSW Office, or facilitated being rolled out across the clubs in NSW. The whole Board deserves a big clap and our thanks for keeping our sport healthy and growing in numbers due to their diligence and professional approach to what in the scheme of things is a very small and relatively unknown sport.
Barbara Junghans
The story below is taken from the ONSW website home page on Sunday 24th May. Congratulations to our own member Jim Forbes who refined his courses for the NOL events at Hill End in March 2019 under the careful eye of Controller Andrew Lumsden.
For the full story on the World-of-O website, go to http://news.worldofo.com/2020/05/21/route-to-o-season-2020-day-68/. Congrats Jim and Andrew!
At the World-of-O website you can draw in your own route choice, or look at the route-map for the top 6 runners that day March last year. Also, you can see the 'density map' with the compilation of all runners routes superimposed to see that the pattern covers every direction possible. Wow! What a leg.
... Hill End leg makes it onto world stage Friday 22nd May 2020
The World of O website is a veritable "O bible" and has been posting a route choice poser each day of the covid-19 lockdown.
Today it's a leg from the 2019 NOL Relay at Hill End, with kudos going to Garingal's Jim Forbes (setter) and Big Foot's Andrew Lumsden (controller).
You can view the conundrum, work out your tactics, draw your route (and offer an explanation), then look at the runners routes.
Jim also had the job of setting the Middle Distance courses for all the non-elites on the same day!
Australia is on the other side of the globe to all the heavyweights of orienteering, so it's nice when we get recognised by the Europeans.
Well done Jim and Andrew.
Many orienteers will have fond memories of Hill End's debut for the 2017 Australian Championships Carnival, and the 2019 NOL weekend was a great follow-up.
Orienteers know they currently need to stay at home. But happily, we are allowed to spend time outdoors to exercise. If you are missing the flashing red light and beep of SPORTident units during your run (or jog, or walk), then MapRun can provide beeps from your mobile phone. It also provides a competitive element to your exercise. If you like to linger at the results screen, this is for you.
MapRun is an app that provides a form of Orienteering using SmartPhones GPS for punching and timing. This means that courses can be available at any time on any day. ONSW has created MapRun courses at Centennial Park, Bicentennial Park, Curl Curl Lagoon and Georges Heights. Garingal (in particular, Colin Burnett & Dianne, and Carol Jacobson) has recently created some courses that may be closer to home for GO members.
For more information on getting started today with MapRun click here.
