JWOC Blog

Great to see this development...look forward to being inspired by the adventures of our top juniors in the Dolomites!!

Inter-region School Champs

Great to see the Wellington team selected for the inter-regional schools champs...see below. I am hugely looking forwarding to seeing this initiative play-out at Queens Birthday Weekend. It seems like a great way to integrate secondary schools orienteering with the Super Series final. Kudos to those making it happen....and best of skills for those involved!

The following students have been named in the Regional Team to Represent The Lower North island at the upcoming INTER-REGION SCHOOL CHALLENGE for orienteering:

Senior Girls: Laura Robertson (OHV), Erin Paterson (Taranaki), Georgia Ramsden (RK)
Senior Boys: Kyle Higham (RK), Liam Paterson (Taranaki), Tim Robertson (OHV)
Intermediate Girls: Jula McMillan (OHV), Lauren Turner (WOC), Hannah Sampson (WOC)
Intermediate Boys: Nick Hann (WOC), Ed Lawley (Taranaki), Jonathan Wood (WOC)
Junior Girls: Sammy Sabire (OHV), Sophie Snadden (WOC), Sharne Ralston (OHV)
Junior Boys: Shamus Morrison (WOC), Cameron Grant (WOC), Simon Teesdale-Spittle (WOC)

The event takes place at Queen’s Birthday Weekend and is run alongside the CDOA. Seniors will compete at 18’s, Intermediates at 16’s and Juniors at 14’s.

Waitangi Vid

Watch Waitangi Orienteering Summer Carnival in Sports  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Geez, theres some beautiful people in this vid!

Map of the Day

Check out Ross's description of his surprisingly average ;-) run in DM Sprint 2009

Sprint Orienteering Tips

From former British Champion Nick Barrables

Chang Chang Chang

I watched this whole video imagining Darrens head on the main singer, hillarious.

World Games Team

I missed the announcement of this, a big congratulation to those selected, I'm sure it will be an amazing experience!

From Clem Larsen on Maptalk..."But for those who missed it, the NZ team that'll run down AUS and the rest is:

Darren Ashmore
Ross Morrison
Lizze Ingham
Tania Robinson

150-160 hours of TV coverage, 24-34 hours of semi-finals and finals in ALL sports sent out in global packages, satelite transmission uploaded to a global pool, and coverage by global print media. It's a pretty big event for orienteering and the IOF know it.

I will try and talk with a couple of these people in the next few weeks to suss out how they are feeling about the event and what they are doing to prepare.

I Love Ross's Blog

Finally we had the call '15 seconds' then only maybe 4 or 5 seconds later the gun went off. With one big 'BANG' I had 400 guys prematurely coming up my ass". Read it here.