What do a group of South Islanders do when they've got nothing to do
one weekend in Autumn? We took a break from assignments, study and
work to prepare for Nationals with a serious weekend of o training.
Thanks to the organization of Greta, 8 of us descended on Naseby late
Friday night. Saturday started with a line course and then some
control picking through some controls we found difficult back at
Oceanias, I found the line course a great way to get back into some
technical navigation but was left feeling a little slow from having to
read the map all the time so.... After lunch we headed out around a
sprint course. I think a few of us planned to really race this but I
know I abandoned all the concentration I had from the morning exercise
and quickly lost track of scale. We made the most of the day in Naseby
by heading out for some extreme night orienteering in the forest. A
good exercise in distance judgement and simplification. And
surprisingly the fastest I had managed to run all day!
Sunday was a quick map memory exercise in the morning. It seemed to be
more useful than everyone was expecting. Really forcing you to
simplify the map and have a good plan. Greta and I followed this up
with some verbalisation. A great way to expose just how often my plan
goes something like "I'll run this way and then, well, hopefully I'll
see the control...." Not that useful in Naseby, or anywhere else.
All in all a great weekend in orienteering paradise! (by Georgia Whitla)
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