Results uploaded

Results from the two events at Brandon Hill on 13th and Tramore on the 20th May are posted under results. A huge thanks to Pat O'Connor and John Casey for planning the two days.

Pictures from recent events

Pride of place to Robert Pim (M14), Jonathan Pim (M16), Gints Plaudis (M40) and Sue Pim (W65) who all came 2nd at the Irish Orienteering Championships on the Long Distance courses at Inch sand dunes, Co.Kerry. Gints and myself both won our respective Middle distance courses on the previous day at Castlegregory sand dunes.

Nigel and his family, Laura and myself represented the club at the JK competition in Scotland over Easter.

Robert at the IOC

Nigel in the Sprint at Livingston

Navigating out of the JK carpark

The run-in

Robert after the relay

Thanks Laura for the photo, on the relay run-in

Robert at Mullaghmeen, Leinster League event

Family day out at Woodstock

Irish schools results and pix

Waterford Orienteeering club hosted both the Irish Primary and Secondary schools orienteering championships at Woodstock Gardens, Inistioge, Co.Kilkenny.

A huge thank you to all the club members who turned out on both days to help make the event such a success. Full results on the IOA and IOSG blogs

Best individual performances in the Secondary level came from Denise O'Connor (Presentation Waterford) who saw off the challenge from Anna Hickey (Newtown) and Kate O'Donovan (Nagle Rice, Doneraile) to win the Post Junior Cert Girls category. Newtown retained their team title with Anna Hickey, Andrea Harvey, Nichola Fennell and Becky Barr. The Ursuline team of Rachel Moore, Maggie Doolan, Laoise Doyle and Rachel Butler were 2nd team home.

Robert Pim (Newtown) stormed home in the 1st year boys category in 1st place ahead of Ruairi Ling (Rockbrook, Dublin) and Michael Kelly (Midleton CBS). Newtown picked up the team title for the first time with Robert, George Maclean, Philip Dwan and Mark Morris) ahead of Midleton CBS and Clonakilty.
Waterford teams picked up further prizes in the Senior Boys where Newtown (Kaine de la Haye, Joshua Thiele, Charlie Kelly and Geoff Graham) finished 2nd behind Midleton CBS; and  in the 1st year girls category, the Ursuline (Kate Maguire, Alyson Bermingham, Niamh Murphy and Leah Keating) narrowly pipped Newtown (Leona Quigley, Camilla Benivides, Emma Galloway and Emma Swift) for 2nd place.

The best individual performance in the Primary schools was by Emily Collum from Faithlegg N.S. in the 5th class girls section who won first place. This helped the team finish 2nd behind Convent Primary Mallow. Joanna Meaney, Kate Lynch and Molly Doherty were the other members of the team. There were fine individual runs by Ciara Walsh (Ballyhack in 4th), Rebecca Bawden (Ballyhack in 6th) and Jordan Pim (Dunhill in 7th). Waterpark (Lorna Monahan, Kaya Reynolds, Maya Laura and Hannah Gibney)  finished 3rd team.
In the 5th class boys, Waterpark (Dylan Brennan, Brian Sheridan, Cathal Moran and Jacob Ellicott) finished 3rd behind Scoil Mhuire, Cork and Clonakilty. The best individual was John Manoaghan from Faithlegg who finished a commendable 8th out of 52.
The strongest entry was in 6th class boys where 102 took part. Jacob Pim (Dunhill) was the first local finisher in 14th whilst the Butlerstown pair of Andrew Mulhall (24th) and Jack Walshe (25th) also had good runs.
The 6th class girls was dominated by Mallow but Faithlegg (Cici Tracey, Molly May Powell, Sophie Quinn, Iona Nevin Maguire) finished a pleasing 3rd team in a large field.

Goirtin results and next event

A huge thank you to Thomas and Nigel for running the event at Goirtin woods in Kilsheelan. Full results can be found under the results section.
The next event event will be held on Sunday 15th April at Woodstock gardens, Inistioge. Please try and start before 12 to avoid the general rush in the gardens.

Tower Hill results

Thank you to Con Murphy for helping run the event at Tower Hill. Results are posted on the IOA website

Kilbunny results

Thanks to John Casey for planning todays event at Kilbunny woods in Portlaw. Thanks to Norman,  Elizabeth and Veronica for helping on registration. The numbers were swelled by 120 cubs and beavers and their leaders. The yellow course encountered some flooding which gave the 1st Port an advantage! The longer courses encountered a movable depression which caused time loss. Well done to those who did actually get control 218, either you were very persistant or in the wrong place to start with.
Full results can be found here.

Fixture changes

When we set fixtures back in May 2011, they were provisional dates. Sometimes it is necessary to alter dates to fit the planners and controllers.
The revised list is as follows:
March 10th: Kilbunny woods, Portlaw (note this is a Saturday and start times will be between 12 and 2, rugby is at 5!)
March 11th: Munster League event on Seefin mountain in the Nagles run by Cork O
March 19th: Tower Hill, Portlaw
April 1st : Goirtin wood, Kilsheelan, Munster League event.
April 15th: Woodstock, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
May 13th: Brandon Hill, Co. Kilkenny (new map)
May 20th: Tramore, Munster League event.

Carrickbyrne results

We decided not to wait until June 5th as the emails and blog stated...hope none of you missed it. That problem with the Finish we have been having struck again which means there are no splits. I calculated the times manually and posted results on the IOA website.

Slievecoiltia

Over 60 took part in the SE league event today at Slievecoiltia overlooking Kennedy Arboretum. Full results can be found here.

Planners note: control 209 was marked too far to the west on the map. Some corrections will be made to this area before use the next time. Control 205 was possibly marked a little too far west. The track is marked as indistinct and veers rather more to the west than is shown on the map. Hopefully these two small errors did not spoil your enjoyment. Thank you for your patience.

Forthcoming events

Please note that the event on January 15th is at Slievecoiltia (Kennedy Park) not Carrickbyrne. This will now take place on February 5th. Take signs for Kennedy Arboretum from New Ross. Take road to the left close to the main gate of the Arboretum. Follow this road up to the top of the hill where the start takes place. Avoid running any competitors down on the way up please.

Check out the details of the hill on Mountain Views.








The SE Secondary schools event will take place at Faithlegg woods on 19th January instead of 26th to facilitate the East Munster schools cross country event. The Primary schools is on February 8th at the same venue. More details on the IOSG blog...www.irishschoolso.blogspot.com

Ballyconnery results

Check out the results here. Apologies to anyone who followed the Google map directions on the IOA website and ended up south of Cappoquin. Plans to run light green if there is enough demand as the green is proving too long and/or too challenging for some of the punters.

It's a dogs life...they expect me to chase around the forest all day looking for these silly orange and white things and then what do I get...a bowl of water!

What another loop?...Norman at the spectator control...remember you are running age 19 again

so a brown dotted line on the map is a gully

 Big thanks to Jana who did trojan work on computer and registration.

Munster League at Glengarra wood

Well done to club members who finished well in the Munster League event run by CorkO today: Gints Plaudis 3rd on the Brown course; Hilary Collins 3rd on the Orange course; Thomas Callery 3rd on the Green course; and especially to Andrew Pim 1st on the Blue course.

Yours truly at the Veterans Home International

The VHI this year was held in Deeside, Scotland, 8-9th October. The individual race was at Birsemore Hill and the Relays at Coull. A most enjoyable experience despite one biggish error on the Individual.

Jenkinstown 13/11/11

The results for the event held at Jenkinstown are now posted on the IOA website.

 

Getting instruction at the start

More below

Munster Champs

Please check out the details for the Munster Club Championships at Coumshingaun on Sunday October 30th and the SE relays at Kennedy Park on Monday October 31st.
There is a separate blog for these two events.
www.munsterorienteeringchamps2011.blogspot.com

If you are already entered check your start time. If you are interested in making or joining one of the WATO relay teams for Monday, please ring me as soon as possible on 087-2229677. All ages and levels required.

Tower Hill results

A big thank you to Con Murphy and Nigel Pim for organising the event at Tower Hill. Full results can be found at the IOA website. Apologies regarding the use of an older version of the map. There was a break down in the systems. I basically forgot to hit send with the draft course maps to the printer and they remained in drafts!
I received frantic calls in Scotland at the VHI but was unable to solve the problem from Ballater in  Deeside.

RSC and Tramore results

Almost 200 people took part in events over the weekend. It all kicked off with Family fun day at the RSC organised by Waterford Sports Partnership on Saturday. A big thank you to Jana who manned the computer.

Winners of the Long Course 1 were the Dee family. Long 2 was won by Roisin and Ann Walsh with Moya Howlin. Short 1 was won by Rita O'Brien with Cadhla, Cathal, Niamh and Oisin close behind. Short 2 was won by Niamh Phelan with Alice Sheridan, Hannah and Aidan in second place. Third place was Liz and Jenny O'Connor. More below...

New season in the southeast

The season is off and running.
Results from the Kennedy Park event held as part of Heritage week at the end of August can be found here.
The results for the event held on the new map of Woodstock can be found here.

New season

Shake off the cobwebs, bring out the runners and visit Kennedy Park for a spot of Cunning Running.
As part of Heritage week, there will be an orienteering event on Sunday 28th August with start times between 11 and 1. Range of courses on offer to suit all ages and standards.
Follow standard signs for Kennedy park from New Ross.

Return to Austria

Laura and myself returned to Austria for another bout of 6 day orienteering. Laura found herself running longer courses than me for the first time as she has just entered W20 whilst I have slipped out to M55.

 Laura seen here finishing the last day, over 6 km, glad to return to cultural visits in Vienna!.

 My best performance was on the medium distance on day 3...an old army base (we are used to these in Ireland..think Curragh, Kilworth, Magilligan, Finner,etc). Managed 14th out of 42 finishers. I was delighted to beat 2 who made the A sprint final at WMOC in Hungary.

Given that 5 of the top 10 overall were in the A final long distance at WMOC and the winner is a 5 day time cross country ski world champion, add in the top Austrians who were not at WMOC, I was happy to complete the competition in 23rd place. The biggest challenge was the variety of scales used. Day 1 started with a 1:7,500 and then switched to a 1; 4,000 half way through...confusing one to begin the competition with! They seemed to be big into 1;7,500 on massive A3 sheets which can be confusing due to the number of times you have to refold the map.

yours truly on day 3

intricate contour detail!