Kennedy Park Results

Thanks to Robert Pim for planning a successful Red Course and to Laura for help on upload. Full results for both Scatter courses and the red course are available on the Wato blog and the IOA website.

Waterford Adventure Race

Club members John Casey (10th on the elite out of 66) , Elaine Mullane (3rd on sporty female), Nuala Callery (2nd on sporty female) and Brigid Coffey (12th on the womens elite) took part in the 2nd Waterford Adventure Race which included a run from Mellarey down through Glenshelane woods, bike ride up to the Vee, run up the hill at the Vee, bike back to Lismore, kayak along the river Blackwater to Cappoquin, run back to Lismore, and then back on the bike to the finish to Melleray.
They feature on Nationwide for Friday 3rd June...check out RTE player. Click here.

Successful Shamrock O Ringen

Club members travelled to Kilcrohan and the Sheeps Head Peninsula for 3 days of that special form of orienteering only found in west Cork. Not a tree or path in sight...rocks and crags litter the landscape.

Brid Casey was winner in the W21 short class whilst Robert Pim (M14), Thomas Callery (M40s), Andrew Cox (M55) and Sue Pim (W65) were all second on their courses. Well done to all concerned.

Tramore results

A windy sunny Tramore was the venue for the final SE and Munster League event.
Thanks to John Casey (planner, controls out), Thomas Callery (controls out), Andrew Pim (Start, controls in), Liisa Honkasaari (registration, controls in) and Andrew Cox (controls in).
Results can be found here.

Where did the Easter bunny go?

The Pim and Cox families headed north to the JK 2011. Day 1 was the sprint in Stranmillis College. Fast and furious, not to everybodies liking, 25 controls in 2 km. I was happy with my run, 27th out of 101 entrants on M55 despite 2 one minute errors.
Day 2 was at Tyrella in the sand dunes where Robert Pim was best in 2nd place on M14B. Laura Cox was 4th on W20L. Day 2 was on Slieve Croob where Andrew Pim finished a creditable 35th out of 106.

It was left to the Cox family to fly the Wato banner at the Irish Champs held in the Wicklow mountains. Day 1 was the middle distance on the peat hags of Glendoo. Laura won the W20, Angela was 2nd in her class, Jana was 5th in W21s and Andrew was 8th out of 27 entrants on M55. Day 2 was the classic distance at Brockagh where I managed to be 2nd Irish finisher home, 7th overall behind some good GB runners. Laura won W20 again to be Irish Champion.

On the Saturday evening, there was a chance to try Mini O...highly complicated, loads of controls, instant decision making...look at the pictures!

Ballyconnery results

Full results can be found by following the link on the results section.

Fog to sun

After a foggy clod start, the day turned into glorious wam sunshine. Whilst there were few on the Blue course, the Red was very heavily subscribed. just under 100 people took part. Full results are uploaded here. Apologies for having to manually putting the finish time as the Finish control died. RIP! Thanks to Angela, Jana and Ian for their help in running the event today. For those interested in what it costs to run an event...we start each event with the Coillte licence (€40), the IOA registration fee (€35), printing the maps, plastic bags, petrol expenses when the map needs to be updated and planning the courses, putting out the controls and costs on the day. Any surplus goes to replacing equipment and further mapping.

Tower Hill results

Thnaks to Pat, Con and Hugh for running todays event. Results are uploaded to the IOA website...click here.

South East league Standings

For those interested in the SE league standings up to 12/02/11, click here.
Some adjustment will be needed in the end with red and orange courses as we do not always use the same nomenclature.
Results from Kilbunny here

Faithlegg recapture Primary schools shield

Thank you to members of Waterford Orienteering Club (Hugh and Liz Dobbs, Andrew Pim, Pat and Veronica Purcell, Jana Cox) and Form 5 pupils from Newtown school (Izzie, Nichola and Anna) for running todays event at the RSC.
280 Primary pupils took part from 9 schools. Full results here.
Pictorial coverage in the Munster Express, Sports section.
Overall winners were Faithlegg National School (92.23) who recaptured the mixed shield from last year's winners Butlerstown (98.15)
Waterpark (42.55) were clear winners in the 5th class Primary Boys section from Christchurch (62.07) and Faithlegg (73.17). James Bond and Joseph Ryan (Waterpark, 1st), Gary Healy and Dean O'Mahoney (Waterpark, 2nd) and Craig Johnson and Harry Jephson (Christchurch 3rd).

Faithlegg (37.20) narrowly won the 6th class Boys from Butlerstown (2nd, 38.27) and Dunhill (3rd, 61.10). Leading pair were Robert Pim and Conor Quinn from Dunhill whilst Sean Darcy and Joe Monaghan (Faithlegg) were 2nd and Bill Lacey and Tom Costello (Butlerstown) were 3rd.

St John of Gods were clear winners in both the 5th and 6th class sections.
In 5th class, Danielle Leonard and Ciara Silby (1st), Hazel Purcell and Maya Howlin (2nd) and Hannah Jacob and Casey Cullinane (3rd) gave JOG a clean sweep. Waterpark (2nd, 62.26), Christchurch (3rd, 83.53) and Faithlegg (4th, 85.03) were the team placings.

In 6th class, Lorna Aylward and Maeve Bolger (1st, JOG), Kate Maguire and Eleanor Walsh (2nd, JOG) and Niamh Walsh and Alice Hutchinson (3rd, Mercy) were the individual placings).
St John of Gods (1st, 31,53), Mercy (2nd, 42.14), Christchurch (3rd, 51.48), Faithlegg (4th, 55.03), Butlerstown (5th, 59.48)

Bad luck to the pair from Mercy Primary who had an exceptionally fast time but failed to punch one of the controls properly.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to one and all.

The highlight of the year has to be the JK event to be held for the first time in Northern Ireland. For seasoned orienteers and novices alike it is a chance to try a large scale event for the first time. Check out the website here. The brochure (which features our own Neil Dobbs) can be downloaded in pdf format here.
Anyone interested in purchasing a club top from Trimtex should email me to let me know if they are interested. I will post cost and other details shortly.

Orienteering challenge

Click here to see a 6 minute clip from the Breakfast Challenge with Chris Evans...guess what it's Orienteering!

Greenane results

The results from the event held at Greenane wood, Colligan, Dungarvan on 21st November are uploaded here.

Thanks to Con Murphy for helping on the start, Contols out and some pix. Thanks to Angela Cox for Registration.

Mahon Falls event

Full results are posted in the results section. Thank you to Pat O'Connor (Planner/Controls out), Norman Storey (Start/controls out), Elizabeth Storey (Registration), Hugh Dobbs (Start), Andrew Pim (controls in), Liisa Honkasaari (Controls in), Laura Cox (Download)

Results have been manually uploaded to incorporate adjustments for controls 201 and 207.

Tower Hill results

The results of the SE League event held at Tower Hill, Portlaw on Sunday 10th October can be found on the IOA website. Thanks to Con Murphy for his help putting out controls and starting on the day. The next event will be held at Davmore, Mahon Falls on November 7th.

Tramore results

Thanks to Andrew and Liisa for putting on the event in Tramore. Full results can be found at the IOA website. Apologies to the last few runners as I pulled in control 12 by mistake too early but it did not affect the times.

Easter 2011

The Jan Kjellstrom International Festival takes place In the North between 22nd and 25th April, 2011. One of our club members is splashed across the front cover!!! Download the programme in pdf format

Any orienteers suffer from insomnia?

JFK results

Results from the Non League, Come and Try it event held at Kennedy park as part of Heritage Week can be found on the IOA website. Apologies to those who are interested in their splits as there seems to be some problem uploading these without errors. Will work on ironing out the problem.
Thank you to Angela and Jana for their help in running the event.
The next event will be the schools event at JFK on 21st September. If anyone is able to lend a hand, I would be delighted to hear from you. The next club event will be in Tramore on 26th September.

Change of Direction in Sport

If you missed the Health Supplement on Tuesday in the Irish Times...here is the link