Australian Champs entries

update as of 17th Aug

Bruce, Ilka (and perhaps Simon) are still not on the start list.

AJ is there for Sprint and Long, but not relay
Adam is there all week, but does 21a on the 2 long days
Blair and Dave, doing events 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11
Kathryn 8, 10, 11
Jim 8, 10, 11
Aislinn is there for the week, but no entry in the relay (event 11) as goes the same for ger Mum and Dad
Sunleys 8, 10, 11, Rebeka and Jasmine in 20e including relays
Sean and Julie have actually entered 21E for the Sprint (event 8) so we will have a full girls team
Dion is in the entry info

Nuggets News

Welcome back to those of you who have been orienteering in Europe recently. Many of you had some great results, and it was fun to follow so many Nuggets in these competitions online.
If you missed out, don't worry - there is still some great orienteering coming up in Australia over the coming months.
The first event that you need to consider is the Australian Orienteering Championships and National League races.
Entries close on 11th August. Get your entry in now before you forget, and be sure to enter all of the NOL events in either the 17-20E or 21E class.
http://www.oq.asn.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=187

The 2009 National Orienteering League calendar has been announced, so you can start your 2009 planning.
http://www.orienteering.asn.au/news/?ItemID=3128
I'm not sure about the wisdom of racing in the Adelaide hills in March given that it was over 35 almost every day in March this year. However, it will be the same for everyone and we will no doubt get some practice in those conditions over summer and the xmas 5 days.

O-Tops
I will be ordering new modern, tighter fitting Nuggets o-tops shortly. They will be the same colours as the existing tops, so that you can have a choice of wearing the old or new styles without risking any NOL points. Kampela have sent me sample sizes and I will bring them to events over the coming weeks. Please try these on and give me your order and size if you would like a new top.

SA Sprint Champs and OY event
If you enjoy Cantara Dunes, put Oct 11 and 12 in your diaries. It's only about 6 hours from Melbourne, and less from Ballarat or Bendigo and will offer top class sand dune orienteering.
This is not a NOL event, but it is always great to experience unique and unfamiliar terrain without having to travel to the other side of the world.

Tas NOL Final Information

I trust that you are all fit and well for some good races this weekend.
Here is some final information for you.
Race information:
http://www.orienteering.asn.au/news/gfolder/nationalleague/nol2008/2008NOLRound4-Bulletin3.pdf

Accommodation:
I have arranged accommodation for the following Victoria Nuggets members in St Helens YHA on Fri and Sat nights.
Jim, David, Leon, Bruce, Jasmine, Toph, Morten, Bryan, Ilka, Simon (Blair and Sue - Sat night only)Note: Kathryn (staying with Robbie) and Aislinn (staying with her parents)
The address is:
St Helens YHA5 Cameron StreetSt Helens 7216
Phone: (03) 6376 1661Fax: (03) 6376 2612
Full cooking facilities, lounge room with wood fire, internet access, bedlinen provided. We need our own towels, but I have confirmed that we are allowed to come back and shower after Sunday's races.Jenny Casanova is aiming to get there by dark - leaving Hobart at 2. If anyone gets there earlier they just tell the owner they're with the SA & Vic orienteers. The double rooms are for Sus/Lachlan and Vanessa/Reuben if that's okay, but anywhere else is fair game.
South Aussies will go out for dinner on Sat night so the kitchen is all yours, unless the Nuggets have had the same idea.

Ground Transport:
Bruce, Jim, Toph, David & Leon are sharing a car from Launceston.
Others have made own arrangements. Please keep you car rental receipts and I'll see how much we can get re-imbursed from Orienteering Victoria.

Model area:
Those who wish to do some training in relevant terrain before the NOL races can go to Constable Creek map on Friday 16/5. If not, I have a computer simulation of this on Catching Features that I will bring for you to try on Friday evening.
On Saturday morning ONLY, part of the Littlechild Creek map will be available as a model map! Copies will be available at the assembly area from 9.00am. The track onto the map section is 1.5 km back toward St Helens from the track into the NOL assembly area. It is a major logging road.

TAS NOL Entries close April 30

Hi Nuggets,
Please get your entries (link below) in now for the Tasmanian NOL events.
If you can let me know your arrival times and locations, I will get some car hire organised.
Accommodation is already arranged in St Helens for Fri and Sat night.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards
Bruce Arthur



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Tassie NOL Accommodation

Jenny Casanova has kindly booked accommodation at St Helens together with the Southern Arrows for Fri and Sat nights.

We have space for 11-12 VIC people:
Yes
Jim
David
Leon
Bruce
Kathryn (staying with Robbie?)
Jasmine
Toph
Morten
Bryan
(Blair - Sat night only)
Ilka
Simon

Maybe
Louise?
Max?
Todd?

Aislinn - staying with her parents
Evan?? stress facture - probably not going

8 SA runners + Liggo (9), leaving 11 beds for us.

From Jenny Casanova:
"There are 2 dorm rooms with 6 and 8 beds each plus 2 smaller rooms with a double and single (bunk) in each; so we can fit up to 20 people, in which case it would be $20/person/night.
By my calculations there will be 8 from SA, but there’s plenty of floor space if Vic ends up with more than 12. Full cooking facilities, lounge room with wood fire, internet access, bedlinen provided.
We need our own towels, but I have confirmed that we are allowed to come back and shower after Sunday’s races.
The address is 5 Cameron St, it’s close to the centre of town. "


We will organise some hire cars closer to the time.
Let me know if you have any questions.

Bruce Arthur
Victoria Nuggets NOL Manager

Nuggets in Canberra - expenses

Hi Team
Thanks to you all for another great effort over the weekend. There was certainly some fun and exciting racing.

As mentioned before, we have some funding available for last weekend. We have already paid your entry fee, but there is some left over for transport and accommodation.
Please send me your claim for any accommodation (Fri & Sat night) or transport expenses by Fri 11th April.
I will collate these and determine what re-imbursement you may be eligible for.

Kind Regards
Bruce Arthur
2/16 Cain Ave Northcote VIC 3070

Easter info

If you have one of the Garmin GPS units, please bring this along to Easter with you. I encourage you to wear it, however if you don't, please offer it someone else from the team below.

I will have my laptop preloaded with map scans (from last year) for any analysis that you or your coach may wish to do after your races. Who knows - you may learn something important from day 1 that you can apply on days 2 and 3!

I understand that Kathryn, Bryan, Leon, Toph and Bruce have the 5 Orienteering Victoria units, and that Jim and Adam have their own.

I now have 3 more brand new Garmin units (courtesy of the OV Athlete Development grant). I will bring these along for the first 3 people that respond to me today.


Have a safe trip to Dubbo, and remember to register at 10am Friday in Dubbo before getting to the zoo by 11am.


We could have a team dinner on one of the nights at the Dubbo RSL to celebrate our NOL wins last year? Perhaps pencil in Friday evening at 6:30pm, and we can confirm this after the Prologue.


Our teams for Easter

M21E
Bruce Arthur
Evan Barr
Aaron Dodd
Simon Goddard
Christopher Naunton
Jim Russell
Blair Trewin
Adam Scammell

W21E
Sophie Barker
Ilka Barr
Clare Brownridge
Kathryn Ewels
Kirsten Fairfax
Louise Fairfax
Yelena Fairfax
Jasmine Neve
Zoe Radford

M20E
Bryan Keely
Leon Keely
Max Neve
Morten Neve
Todd Neve
James Robertson

W20E
Aislinn Prendergast
Jasmine Sunley

Good luck.

March update

Great work on the weekend. We lead junior women, junior men, senior women and are third in senior men.
Fantastic results by Kathryn Ewels and Bryan Keely in particular. Well done!
Just a reminder that if you are good enough to get on the podium, please wear your state top for the presentation (even if it smells). It looks much better for photos and sponsors. From Sunday, the senior men's photo is the only one published on the OA website, as the winners in the other classes didn't have their team shirts on. If you want to get your photo published on magazines and websites, then please support the organisations that assist you.

I'm entering all races for the team for the Canberra NOLs later this week.
Preliminary mixed relay teams will be:
Open
Kathryn and Bruce
Jasmine and Toph
Kirsten and Jim
Clare and Blair
Sophie and Aaron
Junior
Aislinn and Bryan
Jasmine and Morten
Rebekah and Leon
Max and Todd*
Changes will be made if necessary after Easter.
(Rebekah will not run NOL on the Sunday.)
Orienteering Victoria will pay entry fees, but will then subtract this from any travel and accommodation expenses that you claim.
This is the final call for anyone else who wants to enter. The entries will be sent this Friday.

Lastly, Kathryn is keen to do some sprint distance training in Melbourne this Saturday. Please get in touch with her if you wish to join her. She may be able to pass on some of her winning secrets!

By the way, a few people are still using my old mobile number, so if you haven't done so, please update your address books.
Many thanks
Bruce Arthur
Victoria Nuggets NOL Manager
H 03 9481 8191
M 0458 391 261 (please note new number)
E brucearthur1@bigpond.com

Nuggets Training Camp Schedule

Nuggets Training Camp Schedule
Saturday 23rd February
2-3:30pm Terrain familiarisation - Deadman's Flat
4:30pm Check into overnight accommodation
5-6pm Team Meeting and Q&A with OA High Performance Manager (at event site)
6:30-7pm Park race at Strathdale Reserve
8pm Dinner at La Porchetta Bendigo

Sunday 24th February
8am Hagaby course on the intricate mining terrain of Diamond Hill.
12pm (approx) Downhill course at Mt Alexander (granite).


Attendees
I am assuming that these people would like to participate in all training exercises (this list is based on those that pre-entered the Bendigo ToDay events).
Aaron Dodd; Adam Scammell; Bryan Keely; Leon Keely; Christopher Naunton; Dave Brownridge; Ilka Barr; Jasmine Neve; Roch Prendergast; Aislinn Pendergast; Shane Keely; Jo-Anne Keely; Simon Goddard; Thomas Top; Zoe Radford; Clara Brownridge; Rob Preston (o/s); Bruce Arthur; Jasmine Sunley (E-mail); Kathryn Ewels; Max Neve; Sue Neve; Todd Neve (23)
Reuben and Vanessa (SA) may also come.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
If you are not on the list, you need to tell me if you wish to attend.

Meeting Place
Please meet at 2pm at Deadman's Flat. 300m south of the Campbells Creek/Fryerstown Rd junction, or 500m north of the Irishtown 3 way junction.

Other directions
Bendigo ToDay #1
Date; Saturday 23rd Feb
Time; 1st start is at 6.30 pm, last start is 7.00 You start any time you like, just punch the start unit, and get going. NO STARTS AFTER 7.00
Map; Strathdale Parklands
Scale; 1:5,000
Organiser; JiM Russell, 0411125178
Directions; From the centre of Bendigo, travel North/East along Pall Mall to Chapel St, turn right, then left into McIvor Highway. Travel under the railway line, through the lights, over the hill to Crook St, turn right. Parking is on the left, 300m along Crook St.

Bendigo ToDay #2
Date; Sunday 24th Feb
Time; Mass start at 8 am SHARP be there with time to get organised
Map; Diamond Hill SthScale; 1:10,000
Organiser; JiM Russell, 0411125178
Directions; From the centre of Bendigo, travel via Mitchell St, Carpenter St and Spring Gully Rd, turn right into Burns St and follow O-signs, turn left into Diamond Hill Rd , then right into Kangaroo Gully Rd. Parking is under the Powerlines just to the West of the Diamond Hill/Kangaroo Gully Rd T intersection. This is on the Southern end of the Diamond Hill Orienteering map. There are other ways of getting there, take them at your own risk.

Mt Alexander training
Sunday approx noon
Start at the sealed road near the tower on the summit. A couple of non runners may be requried to shuttle cars to the finish at the bottom.


Accommodation
Assuming that Bendigo people will stay at home, I have arranged accommodation for:
2 cabins @ Central City Caravan Park, 362 High StreetGolden Square.
Cabin A - Rob & Kathryn, Zoe, Jasmine S, Aislinn (BYO sleeping bag/pillow)
Cabin B - Bruce, Simon, Adam, Aaron (linen provided)

Car pooling

Aaron is driving from Sunbury. Adam is driving from Melbourne.
Simon will drive from Melbourne and pick up Bruce and Zoe from Northcote 12:30pm, Clare from Brunswick 12:40pm and Jasmine S from Brimbank Park 1pm.

What to bring
O-gear
SI stick
Plenty of water
Food
Plastic map bag
GPS watch (if you have one)
Sleeping bag/pillow
Hat/suncreen
Maybe even your coach

Bruce
0458 391 261

Training with Kathryn

Kathryn's plan leading up the eureka challenge are:
Sat 9th Adventure Race Yarra Bend Sun 10th Feb Technical Training (maybe Castlemaine/Daylesford?)
Sat 16 & 17th Working-Fire Stand By
Sat 23 & 24th Training Camp Weekend
Sat 1st Mar Technical Training (Castlemaine) Sunday 2nd BRW tri-maybe sprint training in afternoon in Melb
Let us know if you are interested in joining in on any of the sessions.
Cheers
Kathryn Ewels
Mobile 0428992506
Email kewels AT hvp.com.au