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What a booty! Garingal members won 12 of their age classes at the NSW Sprint Champs at Ourimbah on Saturday. The highlight was Barbara Hill's two-second win over Big Foot's Paula Shingler in W55A. GO also had four 2nd placings and four 3rd placings.
This made Garingal the most successful club at the event, ahead of Newcastle with nine wins. Congratulations all!
The event was conducted by the small Central Coast Orienteering club on the Newcastle Uni satellite campus - thank you CCO. A couple of reflections heard around the arena afterwards concerned the fact that not all olive green on the map was as obvious as those gardens shown close to Ken Jacobson in the photo below. There were areas of Out of Bounds which thwarted route choice, people realising at the last moment that the ground in front of them didn't look particularly like a garden, yet it was olive on the map. If it is mapped as olive OOB, then that is because the landowner wants it that way. And, Land Owners are those who MUST be obeyed! Or else we risk not being allowed to go back.
Awards for Garingal club members for 2021 were announced at the Christmas Party last weekend. Many Garingal orienteers received ONSW Badges for overall performance during 2021; Gold/silver/bronze Orienteering Australia Badges for performance at designated Badge Events during the last two years (see here for details); and ONSW Junior Waratah Badges and certificates for participation. Congratulations to you all - the spirit of orienteering resides in us all coming together to give it a go. Without each of you, orienteering would not be as much fun.
Importanly, Garingal runs its own tally room under the excellent scrutiny of Jim Merchant. It does not matter what class you run, you simply have to be in it to win it. For the 2021 Garingal Club Champion, Ross Barr (M75) came out on top with 877 points, followed by Cooper Horley (M16) second on 846 points with dad Adam Horley (M35AS) third on 760 points. Great achievement you guys. See the next Newsletter for the full leaderboard. There are also two special awards for juniors: the Garingal Encouragement Award which went to Anneka Corry, and the Most Improved Junior Award which went to Nick Stanley. Congratulations!
However, although the competing side of orienteering is fun, without our club volunteers there would be no events! Garingal's 2021 Silver Hare Award donated around forty years ago by Moira Whiteside for the purpose of recognising a person who has given generously of their time to the club has been awarded to Johnny Petersen. Johnny is a very talented club member and has been the man behind the club website for many years and a critical SI Team member for many years. Johnny has also been event Organiser for events, including a major event at Hill End. Great work Johnny, the Silver Hare is well deserved.
   
Held on Saturday 12th February (when people can fit it into their busy schedules!) at the farm home of Ron and Barbara Junghans. Twenty-seven members of Garingal braved the inclement weather to chat, eat, chat, eat, and learn who had success for O-performance during 2021. The BYO-everything concept worked really well in light of covid considerations, and made hosting the function a breeze.
It was really nice to see the juniors getting to know each other better. And our current club Secretary, Mark Lusher, and former Secretarym Rod Eckels, appeared to be having a good chin wag.
An O-activity was offered which involved taking the orienteering map of the Christmas Tree Farm and enumerating the map corrections required. The discussion that ensued was quite enlightening: most of all, what sort of map should it be? A bush map, or a sprint map?
  
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