Oceania Sprint Distance Training

Squad Email from Carsten - Super Series Soon

Hi There SquadStars!

Great to see lots of great results at the Oceania 2009 including the Bushrangers-Pinestars Testmatch win, the ANZ challenge win and the Schools Test win! Great stuff!

But yep the 2nd round of the SuperSeries and JWOC Trials is coming up sooner rather than later and it is time to get the entries in. Here is the information on how to do it!

From Beverly Holder:

Hi All,

I am taking entries. I have just found out that I should have ALL entries - so that's Super Series as well as JWOC trials. Let me know what maps you want and e-stick numbers so I can put you on the list.

Some of you have told me but those who have not, need to let me know so we can pop them into the computer ready for the events.

Attached is the flyer for those of you who might not yet have seen it.

Beverley

Here's Beverley's email address d.dinsdale@xtra.co.nz Flick her an email with your name , SportIdent number and that you're running W21E/W20E or M21E/M20E at all the events including the Sprint.

You might have to take a quick look at the attached flier (W3.doc) to check dates. And then enter and it is pay on the day, It's a great extended weekend of orienteering and it is going to be fun fun fun!

Remember the classes you want to enter are W21E, W20E, M21E or M20E!

See you there!

There is also attached a document for the ones that want to put their name in for the first two rounds of the World Cup 2009. Looks like those events could be quite good fun as well!

The future and the past?

Or maybe not? Will a move to Rotovegas herald a return of the flash?

World of O: Best of 2008

This is a great long read if you wanna stay in touch with whats hot and whats not at the World level.

A snippet of the Squad Email

Hi SquadStars and Todd Star!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and got a bit of training done as well! Here's a wee update on different subjects!

"Availability for World Games and WOC 2009!"

Make yourself available for World Games 2009 (Taiwan) and WOC 2009 (Hungary) at the latest the 31st of Dec to marquita.gelderman@gmail.com . See more about the selection announcement on nzorienteering.com "The Pinestars team!"

Selected to compete in the testmatch against the Bushrangers at Oceania is: Women: Rita Homes Dunedin OC Lizzie Ingham Wellington OC Penny Kane Hawkes Bay OC Tania Robinson Counties Manukau OC Reserve: Rebecca Smith Taupo OC Men Michael Adams Peninsula & Plains Orienteers Darren Ashmore Taupo OC James Bradshaw Counties Manukau OC Tane Cambridge Dunedin OC Todd Oates Wellington OC Thomas Reynolds* North West OC

......................If you orienteer as long as Carsten you will go to Paradise

The competitions in the testMatch are the individual Championship events! All the best of Luck to the team! Remember luck comes to the ones that are best prepared! That should put us in a good position!

"Silva SuperSeries 2009!"

The Silva SuperSeries 2009 is also kicking off at Oceania. The competitions in this round are the individual Championship events and the massStart in Naseby on the Sunday. In the JuniorSeries round 1 - the sprint and mass start are competed on the same courses as SuperSeries and juniors will count in the SuperSeries as well. Juniors on the Elite Courses will count in the JuniorSeries as well. On the middle and the long distance JuniorSeries will be competed on the W20 and M20.

We are happy to announce our new SuperSeries Sponsor Silva. Silva will provide the over all prices at the end of the SuperSeries.

The event program for the 2009 Silva SuperSeries is: 1. Round Oceania - South Island - Oceania Sprint Champs - Oceania Long Champs - Oceania Middle Champs and Naseby Mass Start event 2. Round - JWOC Trials - Palmerston North and Wairapapa - Sprint - Multiday Long - Middle 3. Round - Nationals - Auckland - Sprint - Middle - Long 4. Round - QB 3 days - Hamilton

We are looking forward to lots of very cool events at the Silva SuperSeries 2009! An article on the Silva SuperSeries first round will go up on the MapTalk News!

Elite Orienteers Show Their Emotions

Just picking this up from the very good okansas blog.

Thierry and Simone article

Great article on Attackpoint. If you can't take me seriously promoting the benefits of catching features listen to Thierry, "I sometimes play 4 hours a day, sometimes less"!!

Heres an excerpt, a Tuesday training session and the importance of maps:

Those details have a lot to do with map exercises for Thierry and the gang in St. Etienne. The ice-cold Tuesday training session in the park Le Jardin des Plantes, just a stones throw from Thierrys house, is both impressive and a little odd.

Olivier Coupat runs the workout like a soccer coach, and on the track in the lower part of the park, 10 elite orienteers are doing bounding and strength exercises mixed with stretching. Even though were in France, land of freedom, your thoughts go unbidden to Eastern Europe -- not that that is necessarily a negative thing.

The runners are divided into three groups. One does bounding drills, another balance exercises and the third strength, in a circuit format. During each 15-second period per circuit, they have to look at a map, a detailed Norwegian map with a course on it. When they get to the strength station, Coupat is there with an assignment: If theres a stone at control number 2, without looking at the map again, the runners have to decide whether its to the left or right of the actual control point.

We dont have so much detailed terrain here around St. Etienne so this is good for learning to read many details around the circle, explains Gueorgiou.

To keep up to the Scandinavians and Swiss we must be better than them technically. Therefore the map is almost always present in some way in our training, says Olivier Coupat.

Party at Oceania's

Think we need a squad get together at Oceanias. So the day is the 7th after the Classic. Venue: Jamies parents house next to Avalanche Creek. If people are up to it we'll meet there say maybe 4pm, then the BYO BBQ/Party will begin maybe six.

This is from maptalk.

"Latest NZOF news states that council is looking forward to a "decent trial" of the code of behaviour.

I hereby announce I won't be organising or coaching at any more official NZOF squad camps. Maybe I'll organise Jamie and friends camps.

I refuse to kowtow to the the PC brigade that put this policy through to stop me having a beer with my mates. Its ridiculous. But neither will I be set-up for a fall.

AND on a brighter note, I noticed that the Oceania barn dance has fallen through, but don't worry there will be a BYO BBQ/Party/BoozeO at Jamie's parents house in Arthurs Pass on Wednesday the 7th of January following the Oceania Classic.

The party will finish on nightfall but the celebrations will continue in the local pub. There is a DOC campsite adjacent to the venue.

In no way should this be considered a "National Squad Camp".

Jamie