QLD NOL Report

The Victoria Nuggets have climbed to 3rd place on the National Orienteering League table, and are now within close reach of the NSW Stingers with the final set of races to come in WA. The Nuggets took second place on the weekend behind a strong Canberra Cockatoos team with consistant performances from both the men's and women's teams.

Adrian Jackson (3rd M21E) and Kathryn Ewels (5th W21E) were the standout performers with strong runs in both the middle distance and long distance races of the Queensland Championships. The terrain was fast, open spur gully (much like Eppalock), but competitors had to battle 28 degree temperatures on up to 15km courses.

In the individual National Orienteering League standings, Bruce Arthur has consolidated 7th place, with Jackson 9th and Blair Trewin 10th. Jasmine Neve is 8th in the womens elite category.

2006 Team Standings after Round 11
1 Canberra Cockatoos 165
2 NSW Ultimax Stingers 149
3 Victorian Nuggets 139
4 Tassie Foresters 114
5 Southern Arrows 104
6 Queensland Cyclones 95
7 Western Nomads 55

In the Junior National Orienteering League races, Rob Fell and Bryan Keely kept Victoria in the running for team honours. Queensland took the lead on home ground, but Victoria is still a chance to overhaul them in the final races in WA in October.

Junior National Orienteering League standings after Round 11
Queensland 121
Victoria 106
ACT 95
Tasmania 80
South Australia 43
Western Australia 41
New South Wales 31

Race results and report at;
http://www.orienteering.asn.au/news/?ItemID=931

see Rob's attackpoint log for photos and his report;
http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_1568/period-7/enddate-2006-08-26
http://www.attackpoint.org/viewlog.jsp/user_1568/period-7/enddate-2006-08-19

Please send me any photos if you have any to add to this site.

QLD NOL Review

Congratulations on a good weekend of racing. I think everyone had a least one good result over the weekend. I hope that you all enjoyed the trip and are now motivated to keep training hard for the Australian Championships.

Blair has been busy on the computer, and has already calculated the updated NOL points. The good news is that we have left TAS Foresters in our dust and are now in third place and within reach of NSW Stingers. Our goal for the remainder of the year is to catch and pass the Stingers for second. The juniors have been overtaken by QLD Cyclones, but are still close enough to give the title a challenge in WA.

While the weekend is still fresh in your minds, can someone please volunteer to write a short report on weekend for the O-Vic magazine? Orienteering Victoria gave us good support for this event so it would be great to be able to tell the members all about it. Any good photos would be useful too.

I'm hoping to be able to get the weekend's transport and accommodation expenses covered by OV from our remaining 2006 NOL budget. Can Jim, Blair and Paul let me know their final car, petrol & accommodation expenses, and I'll arrange to get Ruth Goddard to re-imburse you? I'll also arrange for the selected team member's funding to be forwarded to you as soon as the expenses are finalised.

I look forward to seeing most of you at Kooyoora next weekend. The perpetual Victoria Nuggets Kooyoora Challenge awards will be up for grabs based on cumulative times over the 2 days on course 1 (M21) and course 3 (W21).

South Australian Long Distance Championship

The South Australian Long Distance Championship was held on new map called Ngaralta Country near Murray Bridge. It provided open rocky paddocks, together with patches of tricky Mallee scrub with thick undergrowth and low visibility. It was quite a challenge to find many of the controls hidden right next to small boulders.

Torgeir Watne had his best run in Australia, coming second, 2 minutes behind Bruce, but almost 5 minutes ahead of promising junior Simon Uppill. Rob Lewis beat Dion Keech by 17 seconds.

Results
http://www.oasa.asn.au/2006/august6.html

Map and Route Choice
http://users.senet.com.au/~hillyard.tyson/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=7&cID=10&kieli=