The Farquhar family group had fastest time on the Easy course, closely followed by Ryder Seaman.

Veteran orienteer Bob Moore was pushed down to 5^th place by the younger legs.

Audrey Young completed her first orienteering course today which, at just over 7 weeks old, made her one of the youngest ever WaggaJoeys to do so – even if she did sleep on Mum’s chest all the way around.

The Moderate course was not so easy with very long grass making the rocky hillside difficult to traverse. Running wide to the nearby paths was a good tactic.

Pauline Moore was doing very well until she saw two large snakes inspecting one of the control sites. She was in and out of that control quickly but then the long grass became ultra-tall.

All participants did very well on a lovely sunny morning that was very conducive to running. Only one person exceeded their time limit and that was by a mere 39 seconds. The Farquhar family judged their time the best, finishing inside their time limit with just 28 seconds to spare.

Great effort by Chontelle who managed to cover about half the course in her 30-minute time limit.

Results:

45 Minute Course:

1. Ella, Alex & Duncan Farquhar           70 points

30 Minute Course

1. Chontelle Dailey                                160
2. Debbie Davey                                    130
3. Alex Davey                                          90

Excellent orienteering by Briohny to take all 30 controls in less than half her allotted 45min time limit. i.e. on average she took one control every 42 seconds!

Also a great effort by Chontelle who did the 30 minute score event and very nearly got all controls.  

• participants all starting in different directions;
• there were plenty of hard decisions to be made with many opportunities to just pop over there for those higher valued points or do I deviate a bit and get that smaller valued one on the way; and
• many confessed to getting into the wrong street and not being able to make sense of the question to be answered. Bob was the most effective at this and finished several minutes over time.

The Farquhar family judged their time the best finishing with just 7 seconds to spare – thanks to a hard finish sprint by Alexander. Pauline, though needs more work on her sprint finish; she was 5 seconds overtime, but did take the handicap honours for the day! Good to see the Earl family at their 3rd consecutive event!

John scored best on the 45-minute course and Deb took the honours on the 30-minute course.

Although the warm day (even at 9am) was not conducive to comfortable running, it was the strong wind that made the effort difficult – particularly when trying to run into it, as most had to do on their return to the finish.

Remarkably everyone went different ways. From the start John and Debbie headed south and went in different anti-clockwise loops. Andrew and Nathan started west and went clockwise finishing from the east. Julie and Jarrah started east and then went anti-clockwise finishing from the south. Andrew and Nathan were the only ones back late after becoming just a bit geographically misplaced in the unfamiliar streets. 

Results:

                                                                     Time                     Points     Penalty          Score

1     John Oliver                                           0:44:37                    135          0                 135

2     Debbie Davey                                       0:34:46                    120          0                 120

3     Andrew & Nathan Earl                          0:45:40                    105           5                 100

4     Julie Gooding & Jarrah Mestan              0:43:02                    55             0                 55

Next event: Sunday 6 December, 9-10am. Lake Albert start/finish adjacent to the Football facilities block in Angel Street.