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Compass Points July-August 2010
Compass PointsJuly-August 2010
1 ContentsEditor’s Error - EIT 2OY3 Whanawhana 5Pukeora 9Te Mata Peak 11Member of the Month July 15Member of the Month August 16OY4 Havelock Village 17Hawkeye 20NZ Schools Championships 21Navigate Napier 24Scott at the JWOC 27Letter to the Editor 29President’s Report 30
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HBOC CommitteePresident Chris Howell 06 879 5686Secretary Phillip Herries 06 870 9552Treasurer Mark Irwin 06 877 6730Club Captain vacantMapping Paul Steeds 06 877 2100Fixtures Lesley Sceats 06 878 8561Equipment Murray Harty 06 873 5182Publicity Rob & Faye McDonald 06 876 0146Schools Anne Baxter 06 871 0306
Tui Craven 06 877 9848Off Committee OfficialsLandowner Liaison Rolf Boswell 06 833 7300Coaching Geoff Morrison 06 877 4870Membership Pamela Morrison 06 877 4870Magazine Hugh Forlong-Ford 06 835 7820Webmaster David Fisher 06 844 8282Forward Club Correspondence to:The SecretaryPO Box 13046 Forward Magazine Contributions to:Mahora [email protected]
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EIT—HBSS relay resultsI omitted these last month. Sorry.
Sec Senior Boys (6)1 KRMU Karamu High 1 1:11:38
Conner Alsleben 21:56Justin Alsleben 29:13Chris McDonald 20:29
2 LIND Lindisfarne 1:12:10Tom Harrison 23:52Joel Willetts 27:17Brett Sceats 21:01
3 HAVE Havelock North High 1:17:18Angus Fuhrer 21:55Tim Barclay 25:12Ryan Calder 30:11
4 KRMU Karamu High 2 1:32:17Troy Abraham 33:53Steven Kilgour 28:00Callum Ross 30:24
NAPB Napier Boys High 1 mpBradley Ivory 18:41James McCaughan
21:46Hamish Lewis mp
NAPB Napier Boys High 2 mpSven Hopman 23:19Shaun Ferris
35:00Richard Seymour mp
Sec Senior Girls (5)1 WOOD Woodford House 1:09:15
Bridget Steenkamer 26:48Sarah Davidson 22:28Katie Eames 19:59
2 HAVE Havelock North High 1 1:12:02Natalie de Burgh 20:44Kate Hensman 23:27Virginia Irwin 27:51
3 HAVE Havelock North High 2 1:34:03Jade Gilling-Goldbert 42:06
Nicole Jones 27:41Nicola Mulvay 24:16
4 NAPG Napier Girls High 1 1:37:33Rebecca Manson 24:02Kathryn Manson 32:05Abby Temple 41:26
5 NAPG Napier Girls High 2 1:38:14Zivana Donnelly 30:43Laura Kaan 34:54Annie Creagh 32:37
Sec Int Boys (9)1 NAPB Napier Boys High 1 39:31
Liam Ward 15:12Callum Herries 12:11Pearson Williams 12:08
2 NAPB Napier Boys High 2 47:55Blake Hone 13:58Freddie Stoddart 15:06Jarred Hone 18:51
3 TRDL Taradale High 59:15Alex Manktelow 20:15Braydon Stone 19:44Liam Hurst 19:16
4 LIND Lindisfarne College 59:18Kenneth Muir 27:40Hamish Penny 17:20Campbell Edmonds 14:18
5 NAPB Napier Boys High 3 1:01:13Thomas Airey 22:27Colwyn Forlong-Ford 21:08Nathaneal Hinton 17:38
6 NAPB Napier Boys High 4 1:12:36JJ Brits 29:06John Edwards 19:09Nic Searle 24:21
7 HAVE Havelock North High 1:22:24Matt Wilkey 15:37Thomas Hensman 20:47Garret Finn 46:00
8 COMP Composite 1:30:48Jaime Gray 21:23Laurence de Burgh 22:03Robbie Love 47:22
NAPB Napier Boys High 5 mpMatthew Stone mpJack Roberts 19:03Russell Dodd 18:13
Sec Int Girls (7)1 HASG Hastings Girls High 1 49:18
Sarah Baxter 14:39Catherine Clark 16:07Harriet Baxter 18:32
2 WOOD Woodford House 57:19Rebecca Matthews 18:56Miranda Dowding 20:05Megan Davidson 18:18
3 HASG Hastings Girls High 2 1:04:23Jasmine Lock 18:44Nerys Jones 23:16Hannah Jones 22:23
4 HAVE Havelock North High 1:15:37Bethany Duligall 22:31Sarah Cornes 21:04Aimee Lobb 32:02
5 TRDL Taradale High 1:31:16Kelly Sunnex 40:46Melissa Graddons 24:00Marieke Flatt 26:30
3NAPG Napier Girls High 1 mp
Naomi Anderson 14:26Georgia Lindsay 15:39Holly Edmonds mp
NAPG Napier Girls High 2 mpEmma Pullen 18:37Charlotte Weeks 24:23Melita Busch mp
Sec Junior Boys (7)1 NAPB Napier Boys High 1 46:05
Ieuan Edmonds 13:38James Allcock 18:29Devon Beckman 13:58
2 LIND Lindisfarne College 46:18Duncan Parsons 18:11Hamish Muir 15:28Craig Sceats 12:39
3 HAVE Havelock North High 1 47:53Harrison Gregory 14:44Mitchell Webber 15:34Marcus Yule 17:35
NAPB Napier Boys High 2 mpMark Woods mpCameron Anderson mpGavin Andrews 27:35
NAPB Napier Boys High 3 mpDuncan Spall 19:44Reuben King 25:42Te Rimene Workman mp
HAVE Havelock North High 2 mpNick Wilkey 18:14Michael Parsons mpTim Keip mp
NAPB Napier Boys High 4 mpAlex Ross-Smith 18:13Harry Evans 21:53Craig Roberts mp
Sec Junior Girls (8)1 NAPG Napier Girls High 1 49:08
Brianna Massie 16:15Molly D'Ath 16:17Monieka Scott 16:36
2 NAPG Napier Girls High 2 1:00:48Katherine Rybinski 21:18Vida Fox 17:40Sophie Rose 21:50
3 NAPG Napier Girls High 3 1 : 0 0 : 5 0Shoanna Forrest 24:52Millie Costley-Deakin 16:44Danielle Oliver 19:14
4 WOOD Woodford House 1:13:21Nicola Law 23:20Hannah Matthews 27:28Georgia Richardson 22:33
NAPG Napier Girls High 4 mpAlice Lumsden 16:58Tiffany Reynolds 22:40Briana Wilson mp
HAVE Havelock North High 1 mpMalin Dolden mpLaila Franklin mpGrace Irwin 19:43
HAVE Havelock North High 2 mpEllerie Hawkins 22:09Lulu Jordan mpCrystal Walsh mp
HASG Hastings Girls High mpSamantha Agnew 23:21Greer Whiting 20:46Anna Stimpson mp
Y7/8 Boys (7)1 HAVI Havelock North Int 1 38:16
Jarrod Lobb 14:13Callum Wilkie 14:29Sean Morrison 9:34
2 HERP Hereworth School 1 45:52Stuart Graham 17:32Tavis Graham 16:27Vaughan Sceats 11:53
3 TARI Taradale Intermediate 2 49:21Callum Williamson 15:33Angus Lindsay 16:47Jason Bryant 17:01
4 TARI Taradale Intermediate 3 1:02:05Calum Dewsnap 19:39Jake McNally 18:59Rhuaridh Williamson 23:27
HERP Hereworth School 2 mpSandy Campbell 23:07Josh Bayly 22:11Cameron Webber mp
HAVI Havelock North Int 2 mpTaylor Harrison mpBrandon Jones 13:03Daniel Way mp
TARI Taradale Intermediate 1 mpFinn Roberts mpRyan Hone 12:55Tom Edwards 15:27
Y7/8 Girls (7)1 HAVI Havelock North Int 1 43:40
Marie Jones 12:37Georgia Lock 13:53Caitlin Jones 17:10
2 TARI Taradale Intermediate 2 53:43Nicole Waldron 16:45Yvonne Rothwell 18:50Hannah St Clair 18:08
WOOD Woodford House mpLaura Matthews 16:16Olivia Wilkie 19:17Lydia Hall mp
NAPI Napier Intermediate mpEmma Boswell 33:35Phoebe Murphy mpRachael Imlay mp
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TARI Taradale Intermediate 1 mpAngela Sunnex mpKaya Shlomi 20:44Sarah Manktelow 13:55
HAVI Havelock North Int 2 mpMelissa Oliver mpBianca Flanders mpLaura Tong mp
TARI Taradale Intermediate 3 mpLaura Branch 21:41Alice Chappell 22:26Rhiannon Forlong-Ford mp
Primary Boys (4)1 HAVP Havelock North Primary 36:03
Lachlan Cairns 10:21Sam Hill 15:53Angus McMillan 9:49
2 TEMP Te Mata School 39:12Mitchell Jones 10:19Andrew Tong 14:18Thomas Culham 14:35
3 LUCP Lucknow School 41:55David Son 10:20Jamie Cornes 11:45Adam McMillan 19:50
HAUP Haumoana School mpBayley Stephens-Ellison 7:33
Daniel Hanna mpAiden Barnshaw 13:43
Club results
Orange Long 1 2.7 km 27 C1 Rita Homes 18:492 Hugh Forlong-Ford 18:523 Callum Herries 18:564 Rory Hart 19:145 Cairn Coghill 22:306 Sara Bailey 23:077 John Craven 26:068 Faye McDonald 30:399 Catherine Howell 31:3110 Tim Anderson 31:4911 Steve Armon 31:5312 Helen Edmonds 33:0813 Kim Creagh 36:3614 Thomas Steinmann 49:07
Greg Edmonds mpIeuan Edmonds mpPhilip Baker mp
Orange Long 2 2.7 km 27 C1 Ove Oksvold 17:462 Hamish Goodwin 18:043 Rolf Boswell 20:004 Chris Howell 21:035 Tui Craven 33:546 Colin Jones 34:277 Andrew Mitchell 35:43
Orange Short 1 2.3 km 24 C1 Harry Dent 31:44Neil Dent mp
Orange Short 2 2.3 km 24 C1 Derek Morrison 18:282 Mark Irwin 18:403 Devon Beckman 24:004 David Fisher 24:475 Alan Berry 29:266 Duncan Parsons 30:117 Paul Steeds 37:218 Helen Howell 39:50Sarah Anderson mpAnne Baxter mp
Yellow 1 2.0 km 19 C1 Hamish Duncan 23:542 Sue Stone 25:153 Ross Stone 26:194 Glen Stone 31:025 William Duncan 32:426 Rob Duncan 34:047 Ross Berry 40:048 Gaye Evans-Love 40:059 Georgia Creagh 43:1110 Molly Lee 57:17
Tim Creagh mpHelena Steinmann mp
White Medium 1.9 km 24 C1 Brayden Stone 11:582 Caroline Kitchin 27:02Janet Parsons mp
White Short 1.1 km 15 C1 Caroline Howell 12:102 Steve Berge 20:573 Brenda Berge 24:524 Lily Stephens-Ellison 25:48Olivia Beckman mp
5OY 3—Whana WhanaWhanawhana loosely translated means "give me all that you have, give me all that you
have”, and that was appropriate for a lot of the orienteers out there, as Whanawhana, Got tagotta.Firstly I would like to thank Geoffrey for his tremendous input. Initially I had the red long
course shaped like a giant cricket pitch but thanks to Geoff we changed it to being a lot morecompact without losing distance or too much height and eventually it looked like a giant MickeyMouse head which was also appropriate as a lot of the runners thought some of the control positionswere a bit Mickey Mouse. One shared red med/red long leg was particularly under immensescrutiny as times varied from 1m38s to 24m31s which is quite considerable for 125 metre leg. Iwould like to give my condolences to the families of those still out there.
I was particularly happy with the white and red short courses. I liked the variations wemanaged to obtain for the whites, with the use of tape only once. I would estimate that 80% ofthem crossed the creek at the start instead of following it around and I did see one of the girlstearing up the hill at the start, chasing a red long runner, and another couple of lads making theirway to the finish via the start. As there weren't any DNFs I assume they got the lot. The red shorthad 3 uphill controls to start with and the rest was either across or down. This was achieved withoutcompromise to variation of landscape or technical difficulty. Due to the spe- cious nature of thelandscape there were some big name MPs (not the Tariana Turia type MPs) on the red short course.I think Ken finally found the elusive 3rd control 2nd time out there.
Because some clown complained about the onga onga at Smedley ( the nearest town iseven called Onga Onga for chrissakes) the Orienteers Course Setters Guild decided that thenasty little shrub should be eliminated from red short courses, which unfortunately meant Ispent a day out there chopping out the infringing culprits. It’s a funny feeling when you runafter being stung on the calf about 30 times; it feels like the muscle has separated from thebone. No other complaints about the onga onga were heard, so it was all worthwhile.
The orange and yellow courses had the most contestants. The winning times were moreakin to a short course event whereas the mean times for both around the 42 min mark were spoton what you'd expect for middle distance; maybe there are a few trying to burgle some cups inthese grades this year.
I'm not going to thank Dave Fisher for fixing up all the computer results that went awryon the day, nor for helping tidy up the caravan after nearly all had gone but I am going to for- givehim for my electrocution at The Slump.
A note for setters in the future; if you have to take the caravan 45 minutes to the event addon an extra one and half hours if you forget the caravan key. When we eventually put out half thecontrols we returned to the caravan only to hear a shotgun go off. Next thing a couple of farmersdrove up to us and threw us two phat feasants. We finished putting out the controls and returnedto the caravan, when again we heard shotgun shots , three reports this time. Along came the samefarmers and threw us another five pheasants, that was seven birds in four shots, as the boot wasgetting full we headed home. Next day I overheard Geoff saying, "We had a really good day anda pheasant plucking night too".
Geoff did do the ultimate sacrifice to protect some gear. Whilst collecting controls heslipped down a bank, with the e-bases in the vest, a vice like grip on the control flags in onehand and the controls standards in the other, he was horrified to see an enormous onga ongabush waiting to break his fall. Quick thinking (???) Geoff thought he would protect his newshoes from being ravaged by this bush and spread his legs only to take an onga onga to the
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groin. Left straddling this bush he eventually managed to work himself free but did give a newmeaning to walking with a limp...
A special thanks to Bill Beamish for the use of his farm, turning off the electric fencesand the pheasants1; they were absolutely delicious, a rare setter’s and vetter’s perk. Thanks to allthat helped with the collection of controls, all that helped with the running of the event, all those(except Dave) that helped with the computer, a moderate thanks to those that considered protestingcontrol positions but didn't, an enormous thanks to Geoff, and a general thanks to those that turnedup and participated, and of course, Big Hewie for a cracking day even though that was possiblyresponsible for a few members opting to go to the beach for a swim and a sunbathe instead.Possibly we could look at car pooling for those events a little further out than normal to keep thenumbers up.
Rob1. Editor’s Note: I think I can explain Bill Beamish’s remarkable marksmanship. With
out checking, I’d guess that he is a descendant of Captain Harold Francis “Kiwi” BeamishD.S.C. of 3 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service and 203 Squadron, RAF. During 1917-18, heshot down 11 German aircraft while flying Sopwith Pups and Camels, to finish as New Zea-land’s 6th highest scoring ace of World War 1. He later farmed at ...Whanawhana.
Red Long 4.6 km 17 C1 Cameron Massie 49:262 Amber Morrison 53:253 Hamish Goodwin
1:00:244 Rita Homes 1:03:125 Chris Howell 1:08:256 Ove Oksvold 1:15:327 Chris McDonald
1:47:46Red Medium 3.0 km 13 C
1 Bradley Ivory 37:592 Thomas Eatson 43:463 Paul Jones 52:374 Rachel Goodwin 52:445 Sara Bailey 55:326 Cairn Coghill 56:267 Sarah Anderson
1:00:258 Campbell Edmonds 1:04:249 Chris Morris 1:05:18
10 John Craven 1:05:3011 Derek Morrison 1:07:0612 Norris Cox 1:09:04
13 Murray Richardson 1:09:1114 Blake Hone 1:09:1515 Heather Jones 1:09:1816 Olivia Gregory 1:12:2117 Alan Davidson 1:15:2518 Tim Anderson 1:19:4619 Grant Edmonds 1:25:1520 Jane Davidson 1:25:2621 David Fisher 1:27:4922 Colin Jones 1:47:01
23 Peter Watson
1:52:12Kevin Osborne mp
Red Short 1.9 km 12 C1 Callum Herries 30:222 Georgia Wedd 37:163 Harriet Baxter 39:194 Catherine Clark 43:315 Nathanael Hinton 46:286 Natalie de Burgh 49:417 Sarah Davidson 53:448 Naomi Anderson 56:439 Kate Gray 1:00:1010 Laura Kaan
1:01:50Sean Morrison mpJames Brigham-Watson mp
Red Short Vet 1.9 km 12 C1 Hugh Forlong-Ford 38:322 Phillip Herries 44:093 Catherine Howell 46:504 Pamela Morrison 48:325 Stewart Hyslop 49:506 Faye McDonald 53:147 Peter Hill 54:528 Greg Edmonds 55:129 Stephan Alsleben 58:2810 Alan Berry 59:1811 Tui Craven 1:05:3212 Louise Anderson 1:09:3613 Philip Baker 1:13:3714 Susan Hone 1:16:5115 Rob McDonald 1:17:08
716 Paul Steeds 1:22:0117 Diane Lucas 1:27:42
Ken Holst mpJane Herries mp
Orange 2.4 km 10 C1 Craig Sceats 25:232 Liam Ward 27:553 Graeme Sunnex 28:214 Connor Alsleben 30:275 Henry Porter 31:586 Harrison Gregory
33:117 Holly Edmonds 33:278 Andrew Logan 34:439 Sarah Davidson 35:59
10 Megan Davidson 36:0611 Angus Fuhrer 36:1712 Ieuan Edmonds 36:3013 Georgia Lindsay 37:4514 Sam Wallace 37:5515 Justin Alsleben 38:3716 Stephan Alsleben 41:0417 Jarred Hone 42:5018 Gary Gregory 43:2519 Thomas Hensman 44:1120 Monieka Scott 44:2821 Peter Hone 46:3422 Anne Baxter 48:1223 Jane Davidson 53:5524 Peter Hensman 54:4225 Kim Creagh 57:2626 Sarah Cornes 1:00:5027 Justin Harrison
1:04:2028 Helen Edmonds 1:04:2829 Robbie Love 1:05:2730 Damien Scott 1:09:4631 Stephen Matthews 1:09:5732 Jake Jacobs 1:21:1833 Paul Reynolds 1:27:2434 Neil Dent 1:33:39
Nicholas Jacobs mpYellow 2.4 km 10 C
1 Wilkey Matt 23:412 Kim Creagh 28:283 Annie Creagh 29:104 Jarrod Lobb 29:285 Tim Keip 31:415 Kelly Sunnex 31:417 Ross Stone 32:148 Ryan Hone 32:32
9 Vida Fox 32:3310 Brayden Stone 33:1011 Rebecca Matthews 33:5712 Tim Creagh 34:4513 Katherine Rybinski 35:0514 Duncan Parsons 35:1815 Helen Howell 37:1216 Brandon Jones 37:1317 Jaime Gray 38:2018 Sue Stone 38:5119 Angus Lindsay 39:1420 Laurence de Burgh 39:1521 Georgia Creagh 39:1622 Marie Jones 39:3623 Lauren Bell 39:4324 Blair Whiting 39:5025 Jenny Way 39:5526 Daniel Way 40:1327 Isaac Sweetapple 42:3928 Glen Stone 43:2929 Laura Matthews 44:1930 Susan Eatson 48:0631 Barrie de Burgh 48:4632 Mitch Webber 50:0933 Hannah Matthews 50:1134 Harry Dent 50:1535 Tim Bravenboer 50:5036 Olivia Radovanovich 51:41
37 Isabella Radovanovich 52:3538 Melita Busch 53:4239 Chelsea Peters 56:4740 Duncan McKay 58:3341 Antony Logan 58:5242 Greer Whiting 1:00:3943 Grant Russell 1:04:3744 Thomas Culham 1:05:0345 Kim Matthews 1:05:5046 Grant Husband 1:06:05
47 Georgia Richardson 1:07:0248 Sophie Rose 1:09:1049 Celia Dent 1:13:3450 Rei Jones 1:15:4151 Caitlin Jones 1:24:1052 Tiffany Reynolds 1:45:5853 Gaye Evans-Love 1:58:31
Nicholas Cox mpAlice Lumsden mpConnor McKay mpJulia Hurst mp
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Nicola Law mpSam Clark mp
White 2.2 km 14 C1 Nick Wilkey 21:002 Ellerie Hawkins 22:123 Laila Franklin 22:574 Lulu Jordan 23:245 Angela Sunnex 23:346 Amy Wolland 23:367 Harry Evans 25:038 Crystal Walsh 25:129 Angus Harrison 26:2710 Monique Way 27:16
11 Alexander Radovanovich 28:0412 Caroline Howell 29:0813 John Parsons 31:4014 Wilber Peters 31:4815 Pam Russell 31:5916 Phil Law 33:28
17 Amy Culham 35:4718 Olivia Wolland 36:0719 Mitchell Jones 37:0320 Jamie Cornes 37:1521 Gabrielle Bell 38:0422 Jill Harrison 39:4023 Taylor Harrison 41:1824 Georgia Cleary 41:1925 Ryan Garrick 42:1026 Nicole Hamilton 42:3327 Rachel McDougall 43:0128 Imke Kitchin 43:0428 Hannah Rawnsley 43:0430 Janet Parsons 45:3831 David Son 50:5832 Caroline Kitchin 51:3233 Mary Dent 54:1534 Jenny Quinn 59:37
9Pukeora (Score)No report received.
Score (93) 60:00 min 27 C 54 Pts1 Duncan Morrison 54 51:20 542 Hamish Goodwin 54 51:56 543 Jaime Goodwin 54 1:00:01 -1 534 Bradley Ivory 50 56:58 505 Callum Herries 46 1:01:19 -2 446 Mark Irwin 43 54:08 437 Connor Alsleben 43 59:54 438 Murray Harty 47 1:04:11 -5 429 Campbell Edmonds 41 57:46 4110 Russell Dodd 40 52:42 4011 Naomi Anderson 40 57:08 4012 Faye McDonald 40 58:29 4013 Tim Barclay 40 59:10 4014 Ieuan Edmonds 40 59:54 4015 Blake Hone 42 1:01:45 -2 4016 Hugh Forlong-Ford 43 1:02:36 -3 4017 Sarah Baxter 39 58:59 3918 Alan Davidson 39 59:04 3919 Holly Edmonds 39 59:12 3920 Greg Edmonds 40 1:00:34 -1 3921 Tim Anderson 40 1:00:47 -1 3922 Natalie de Burgh 38 55:04 3823 Geoff &Daryl Paget 38 59:54 3824 John Craven 39 1:00:25 -1 3825 Catherine Clark 37 54:07 3726 Devon Beckman 37 56:11 3727 Stephan Alsleben 38 1:00:21 -1 3728 David Fisher 35 56:56 3529 Henry Porter 35 59:32 3530 Gary Gregory 35 59:51 3531 Kim Creagh 36 1:00:14 -1 3532 Phillip Herries 36 1:00:16 -1 3533 Peter Watson 38 1:02:16 -3 3534 Justin Alsleben 34 59:24 3435 Royce Mills 33 58:16 3336 Megan Davidson 33 58:19 3337 Sarah Davidson 33 58:20 3338 Angus Logan 32 54:31 3239 Bayley Stephen-Elli32 58:37 3240 Damien Scott 33 1:00:36 -1 3241 Mike Howard 34 1:01:08 -2 3242 Monieka Scott 31 57:52 3143 Alan Berry 30 58:29 3044 Harriet Baxter 30 59:21 3045 Georgia Creagh 29 55:23 2946 Annie Creagh 29 57:22 2947 Jane Davidson 29 59:59 2948 Phil Law 28 56:39 2849 Stewart Hyslop 28 58:47 2850 James Allcock 27 57:34 2751 Freddie Stoddart 27 58:04 27
52 Rebecca Matthews 27 59:11 2753 Peter Hone 27 59:26 2754 Paul Steeds 27 59:36 2755 Andrew Mitchell 27 59:59 2756 Jane Herries 26 58:23 2657 Philip Baker 26 1:01:00 -1 2558 Anna Stimpson 24 55:37 2459 Susan Hone 24 56:18 2460 Vida Fox 24 59:32 2461 Rob McDonald 26 1:01:52 -2 2462 Hamish Duncan 23 54:11 2363 Nicola Law 23 58:39 2364 Tui Craven 23 58:42 2365 Rebekah Wright 23 58:58 2366 Harrison Gregory 22 52:57 2267 Jarred Hone 22 54:51 2268 Brayden Stone 22 57:35 2269 Barrie de Burgh 22 58:18 2270 Laura Matthews 21 54:05 2171 Hannah Mathews 21 56:30 2172 Kim Mathews 21 56:39 2173 Jules Dodd 21 58:12 2174 Anne Baxter 22 1:00:04 -1 2175 Helen Edmonds 29 1:07:16 -8 2176 Rob Duncan 19 58:27 1977 Ross Stone 21 1:01:04 -2 1978 George Davies 18 57:09 1879 William Duncan 18 57:51 1880 Robyn Davidson 18 58:53 1881 Sebastian Averill 18 59:16 1882 Barbara Howard 18 59:19 1883 Richard Lynn 26 1:09:28-10 1684 Laurence de Burgh 15 57:10 1585 Patricia Larsen 13 59:40 1386 Angel King 12 54:31 1287 Sue Stone 12 59:30 1288 Katherine Rybinski 17 1:05:41 -6 1189 Tiffany Reynolds 15 1:06:44 -7 890 Stephen Matthews 7 48:13 791 Brianna Wilson 17 1:13:33-14 392 Robbie Love 17 1:13:36-14 392 Bronte NGHS 17 1:13:36-14 3White (16) 18 C1 Bradley Ivory 12:432 Nobuaki Fujii 20:453 Justin Harrison 22:414 Greta Averill 23:375 Zachary Averill 23:536 Siena Harrison 25:297 Imke Kitchin 25:328 Taylor Harrison 25:419 Grant Russell 26:12
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10 Pam Russell 30:25 14 Caroline Kitchen 44:5211 George Walton 30:35 15 Elenar Hollings Hatton 45:1512 Ruby Morgaine 36:41 16 Grace Smith 1:14:0913 Charlie Hollings Hatton 36:48
Where was Wonder Woman going to meet us?
11Te Mata Peak (Score)The bottom half of Te Mata Peak was covered in cloud as I drove from Napier early in themorning of 8/8/10, but at least it wasn’t raining as had been predicted. My wonderful helpersfor the day, Mike and Lynn Helliwell, were already there by the time I had put out directionsand with little fuss the caravan and all the other trappings needed for an event were set up andready to go. When the first runners arrived out came the sun and the rest of the day went likeclock-work – apart from one control not having a clipper, but this was soon fixed by Lynn whohad an unexpected early run. Thanks so much Lynn and Mike for your cheerful, efficient helpand I was particularly appreciative Mike that you drove the caravan for me. Thanks also toPhillip Herries who brought the toilet (so that a certain un-named senior orienteer would notbe caught out), to Roger who manned the caravan and to the control collectors at the end ofthe day.
Preparation for this day started in my mind some months beforehand but I didn’t really havemuch time to do much about it until 2-3 weeks beforehand. Someone told me that everyoneknows Te Mata Peak and maybe I could do something different, perhaps use an old black andwhite map to make it more interesting (which I didn’t do). On the other hand others told methat they found the maze of paths confusing and the terrain itself is challenging, meaning thatrunning can be slower than expected on a 1:5000 map. I fitted into this second category andwas quite happy to give it a go, so that I could finally “suss it out.” My vetter Pamela told menot to try and cover the map but to concentrate on maximizing route choices. Download Con-des she said, ask David Fisher to forward me the map and there should be no problem….yeahright! Many hours later (don’t ask my wife how many) a couple of trips to the peak and somephone calls to David I finally had the courses done. Pamela knows the area so well that she didnot have to go out and check, so after some adjustments she kindly sent it all off to the printer.My son Karl (who originally got me into orienteering) happened to be at home and he helpedme put controls out on Saturday. However we took longer than expected and by the time Pam-ela and Geoff arrived to check them we still had some to go. Thanks both of you for puttingout those last controls and for all the rest of your help. I was glad you had lights to check thelast one!
The course was well received and I think it did offer lots of choices. I was also pleased that oneperson, Duncan, was able to almost, but not quite, gain maximum points. It was much moredifficult for others and I realised that when I saw some of the scores; I thought at the time thatit was brave for someone to take on a score event rather than the white course when they had-n’t done any orienteering before.
My lasting impression of the day was a young girl telling her mother that she had been scram-bling up and down cliffs and hanging on trees. I don’t know how many points she got but theglow on her face said it all. This is what orienteering is all about!
Philip Baker
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Score ResultsSurname First name Time Raw Penalty Final Score
1 Morrison Duncan 1:04:08 54 5 492 Herries Callum 0:57:05 43 433 Boswell Rolf 0:59:48 42 424 Herries Phillip 0:54:57 39 395 Morrison Derek 1:00:06 38 1 376 Forlong-Ford Hugh 0:59:53 35 357 Alsleben Connor 1:01:01 36 2 348 Coghill Cairn 0:55:28 33 339 Irwin Mark 0:56:46 33 33
10 Jones Paul 0:57:39 32 3211 Creagh Kim 0:57:26 30 3012 Eames Jon 1:02:04 33 3 3013 Goodwin Hamish 1:23:44 54 24 3014 Fisher David 0:55:04 29 2915 Sunnex Graeme 0:59:06 29 2916 Hosking Wayne 0:59:50 29 2917 Wedd Georgia 1:00:02 29 1 2818 Eames Jo 1:03:48 32 4 2819 Clarke-Winiata Samuel 0:55:45 27 2720 Barclay Tim 0:56:00 26 2621 Edmonds Campbell 0:58:33 26 2622 Mulvay Roger 1:01:01 27 2 2523 Helliwell Michael 0:53:19 24 2424 Anderson Naomi 1:02:42 27 3 2425 Anderson Tim 1:04:26 29 5 2426 Jones Heather 0:57:50 23 2327 Edmonds Holly 1:02:17 26 3 2328 Cox Norris 0:58:25 22 2229 Wallace Sam 1:03:01 26 4 2230 Stoddart Freddie 0:56:11 20 2031 Edmonds Ieuan 1:04:15 25 5 2032 Edmonds Greg 1:04:36 25 5 2033 Beckman Devon 0:52:26 19 1934 Dodd Russell 1:00:05 20 1 1935 McDonald Faye 1:03:52 23 4 1936 Creagh Annie 0:55:47 18 1837 Poulgrain Rob 1:06:43 25 7 1838 Davidson Megan 0:53:56 17 1739 Clark Catherine 0:57:07 17 1740 Tong Sharon 0:58:37 17 17
1341 Russell Grant 0:56:48 16 1642 Steeds Paul 0:57:01 16 1643 Kaan Laura 0:59:32 15 1544 Hensman Peter 1:07:15 23 8 1545 Beckman Karen 0:48:10 14 1446 Allcock James 0:55:56 14 1447 Steinmann Kai 0:57:25 14 1448 Matthews Rebecca 0:59:40 14 1449 Sunnex Kelly 0:59:49 14 1450 Jacobs Jake 1:01:00 15 1 1451 Wilkie Callum 0:56:42 13 1352 Baxter Sarah 0:57:17 13 1353 Hyslop Stewart 0:59:43 13 1354 Davidson Sarah 1:06:11 20 7 1355 Alsleben Justin 0:58:51 12 1256 Matthews Laura 0:59:13 12 1257 Stone Ross 1:00:17 13 1 1258 Matthews Stephen 1:01:04 14 2 1259 Bell Lauren 1:03:54 16 4 1260 Sunnex Donna 0:50:35 11 1161 Jones Mitchell 0:50:59 11 1162 Matthews Kim 1:02:35 14 3 1163 Averill Lindsay 1:04:04 16 5 1164 Porter Henry 1:14:03 26 15 1165 Stone Brayden 0:55:57 10 1066 Baxter Anne 0:57:45 10 1067 Fox Vida 0:59:39 10 1068 Davidson Alan 1:07:27 18 8 1069 Logan Angus 0:59:09 9 970 Duncan Hamish 0:59:19 9 971 Lumsden Alice 1:00:28 10 1 972 Geary Ian 1:16:23 26 17 973 Stone Glen 1:02:32 11 3 874 Stone Sue 0:55:56 7 775 Love Robbie 1:04:01 12 5 776 Evans-love Gaye 1:04:04 12 5 777 McDonald Rob 1:04:55 12 5 778 Wilson Garry 1:00:59 7 1 679 Wilson Tracey/Liam 1:02:27 9 3 680 Berry Alan 1:12:36 19 13 681 Duncan Rob 0:52:28 5 582 Peters Chelsea 1:00:09 3 1 283 Creagh Tim 1:13:44 16 14 2
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White course results. 1.2KmSurname First name Time
1 Davidson S & M 0:13:152 Macmillan Angus 0:14:123 Fox Vida 0:14:594 Stephens-Ellison Bayley 0:15:085 Culham Thomas 0:15:546 Lumsden Alice 0:16:217 Harrison Kirin 0:16:238 Radovanovich Olivia 0:16:579 Tong Laura 0:18:0610 Radovanovich Isabella 0:18:3411 Radovanovich Nic 0:18:3512 Averill Zachary 0:18:4913 Tong Andrew 0:19:0214 Cox Nicholas 0:21:0215 Radovanovich Alexander 0:21:5616 Tong Sarah 0:22:2017 Trent Louise 0:24:5318 Costley Millie 0:24:5919 Culham Amy 0:25:5820 Berge Steve 0:26:0321 Harrison Siena 0:26:4322 Sunnex Angela 0:27:3423 Coory Georgia 0:28:4924 Stephens-Ellison Lily 0:28:5025 Burns Tessa 0:29:1226 Russell Pam 0:32:2627 Macmillan Karen 0:33:2728 Brinas lelle 0:35:4429 Beckman Olivia 0:37:1230 Hurst Marcus 0:37:2631 Trabitzsch Josephin 0:40:1832 Berge Brenda 0:42:0333 Ericksen Georgia 0:42:4934 Geary L o g a n
0:43:14Harrison Taylor DNF
84 Sweetapple Isaac 1:10:51 11 11 085 Duncan William 1:07:49 7 8 -186 Davidson Jane 1:31:14 22 32 -10
Jacobs Nicholas 1:12:47 mp mp mpArmon Steve DNF DNF DNFBarclay David DNF DNF DNF
15Members of the Month
July - the Helliwell familyHow long have you been involved in orienteering? Lyn started in 2001
How did you get involved with orienteering? Lyn had to do 3 courses as part of her OutdoorInstructors Course, then carried it on for training in Adventure Racing. Got Mike, Cameron andAmber to come along as well. Initially Mike went with Amber but then ventured out on his ownto do an Orange Course.
What do you remember about your first event? Wet and muddy and lots of fun.
What courses do you usually run? Lyn does Red Short or Med, Mike does Orange but ismoving up to Red soon. We’re trying to get Amber to move from Yellow to Orange.
What do you enjoy about orienteering? Finding the checkpoints where I thought they wouldbe. Setters aren’t always good at putting them there.
If we met you during the week, what would you be doing? Mike would be cleaning and rentingout cars , Lyn sneaks off for a run or a paddle or a cycle, sometimes all in one day
What's the most absurd thing you have hidden in a dark closet at home and how did youget it? Flipfold – the ultimate folding tool, perfectly folds all sizes of Polo Shirts, T-Shirts,Sweaters, Pants, Towels. A never used Xmas present from Canada. (If anyone wants it just askMike.)
Photo of Lyn &Amber somewhereinpine forest near BlueLakes doing theRotorua Hot RocksRogaine.
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Member of the MonthAugust - Pearson WilliamsHow long have you been involved in orienteering? I have been involved since year 4 in Pri-mary school, so I am now year 12, 8 years or so, on and off though.
How did you get involved with orienteering? I got involved when the Barrett family (Jenny andco.) took me to an event out at Maraetotaroa. I was good friends with Jay and they took me outthere for a reason I cannot remember.
What do you remember about your first event? Running in a large square paddock (fairly basicstuff) with Jay behind me to make sure I did not get lost, lots of rocks and doing skids in the gravelon the way there.
What courses do you usually run? These days I’m normally running on a red medium, justbecause the distances are a little more friendly. And I think I would get totally walloped in thered long.
What do you enjoy about orienteering? Mud, blackberry and large impassable objects that Imanage to pass. Orienteering for me is all about the challenge of running and thinking fast inthe middle of nowhere with only a map to guide you. I feel a little bit adventurous when I’mnot suffering severe fatigue. It’s very satisfying finding your way around a large and hardcourse. It is a good mix of brains and fitness.
If we met you during the week, what would you be doing? Eating, sleeping or swimming.School is crammed in there too with refueling and dechlorination.
What's the most absurd thing you have hidden in a dark closet at home and how did youget it? My O maps of Maraetotaroa. I always seem to get hopelessly lost on that map, and so
never want to see the mapsagain and relive stupid mis-
takes. They go to the bottomof my dark closet.
Pearson’s after school job isworking for a beloved videogame character cum Italianplumber.
17OY 4—Havelock VillageSix weeks out and I have the map.Four weeks out and I still have the map. Still without any control sites, and not a clue
about where to start. No problem, I’ll just ask my vetter Derek for some advice when I see himat Pukeora. Except he doesn’t turn up – the only time I can remember him doing this in the last5 years. So I ask a few other familiar faces instead, most of whom say they are not really surehow many courses an urban sprint should have, or how long they should be. Ruth provides ashort, pithy observation on trying to please everybody and refers me to the website for histori-cal information. Wish I’d thought of that.
Three weeks out and Rolf needs to know about contacting landowners. No pressure, butobviously time to pull finger and get something on paper, so it’s time to delve into the un charteddepths of Condes and randomly click on icons until something useful happens. Several hourslater, with constant reference to course specs on the website, I have what I would like to believeis a pretty good set of courses that I have actually managed to print out on separate pieces ofpaper. So far, so good.
Time to get Derek to validate this masterpiece, but when I meet him at the office hedoesn’t have the latest version of Condes on his computer so can’t open my courses. And Ididn’t think to bring paper copies. Must be the first time I’ve been the most technologicallyadvanced person in the room – any room. However, after suggesting a new start/finish area andproviding some general advice, we agree to meet at the Te Mata event and go through every-thing then.
Back in front of the computer screen, I quickly realise that shifting the start/finish willmake all of my previous work redundant. So it’s back to square one. And several more hours oftrying to achieve a fiendishly difficult set of courses on a dead flat course in an urban areathat 90% of club members are very familiar with. At the next meeting with Derek he diplomaticallysteers me towards a range of changes that will hopefully help with the fiendish bit, and thenprovides feedback on the actual sites after a look on the ground. Time is running out fast, butwe seem to be ahead of the game until Saturday night, when Ruth reminds me that the batterythat powers the computer needs to be charged. After two trips to the caravan (occasioned bya boy look the first time) and a certain amount of stress, the battery is duly connected to thecharger and I can get some sleep.
Sunday morning dawns warm and fine-ish, so things are looking up. Until we start put-ting controls out in the mud of Anderson Park and realise just how wet it has been in the last fewweeks. However, we do have the advantage of a sealed carpark and dry access for com- petitors.Phillip and Ruth are on site early to set up the electronic stuff, and Andrea and Marcus Yule havethe caravan ready to go on time, so it was a relatively relaxed few hours of actually running theevent. Except for the unseen individual who moved a white control into the middle of the creekand caused a few white runners to go for a morning dip, and the battery giving up the ghost andrequiring some 4WD gymnastics to get a car close enough to the computer to connect it up again.
Feedback on the day was generally positive, even the slightly excessive length failing togenerate much excitement. For the longer courses, Derek’s counsel to offer route choices onmost of the controls appeared to work very well, with a number of competitors making deci-sions that they later confessed to regretting. For those who ran orange / red short, my sincereapologies for control 7 (#32). A none too couth local obviously got caught short (only 100m
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from a public convenience) on Saturday night and it was way too late to think about re-printingmaps on Sunday morning.
Thanks to Derek for making his valuable time available to keep me on track and ensureI learned a little more about the process, as well as his input on the day. Also to Phillip for theelectronic systems (and paper back up), Ruth for baby-sitting me on the computer until Timtook over, to Andrea and Marcus for running the caravan and collecting controls, and last, butnot least, to Rolf for having (along with Stewart Hyslop and Mark Irwin) the most perfectlyaligned punch pattern on his score card, enabling it to be easily used as a template for checkingthe other competitors cards – some of which resembled not so much punch patterns as a card-board colander.Red Long (17) 3.6 km1 Duncan Morrison 22:162 Scott McDonald 23:083 Cameron Massie 23:194 Amber Morrison 24:165 Hamish Goodwin 25:586 Chris Howell 29:477 James Tinker 29:568 Rolf Boswell 29:589 Kyle Higham 30:0810 Phillip Herries 31:3411 Georgia Wedd 34:4412 Neville Smith 36:4213 Russell Higham 37:3814 Adam Forbes 43:0815 George Nelson 54:4016 Stephan Alsleben 57:1017 Callum Wilkie 1:02:17Red Medium (19) 3.6 km1 Pearson Williams 27:182 James McCaughan 29:453 Cairn Coghill 29:484 Samuel Clarke-Winiata 30:025 Mark Irwin 30:136 Nat De Burgh 33:007 Matt Stone 34:128 Holly Edmonds 34:169 Paul Jones 34:2310 John Craven 34:2411 Campbell Edmonds 34:4512 Tim Anderson 36:4713 Steve Armon 38:5914 Murray Richardson 43:1215 Blake Hone 43:1416 Norris Cox 43:4117 Greg Edmonds 49:0918 Alan Davidson 58:3919 Peter Watson 59:20Red Short (10) 2.9 km1 Callum Herries 18:512 Natalie de Burgh 23:513 Sarah Baxter 28:384 Sarah Davidson 28:445 Harriet Baxter 29:176 Zivana Donnelly 33:357 Nicholas Jacobs 34:168 Kelly Mulvay 35:18
Naomi Anderson mpCatherine Clark mp
Red Short Vet (13) 2.9 km1 Hugh Forlong-Ford 20:562 Faye McDonald 27:353 Roger Mulvay 29:144 Alan Berry 33:145 Catherine Howell 33:306 Rob Poulgrain 35:227 Tui Craven 38:298 Susan Hone 38:499 Louise Anderson 40:33
10 Paul Steeds 41:0511 Stewart Hyslop 41:4412 Jake Jacobs 44:4213 Rob McDonald 48:04Orange (34) 2.9 km1 Thomas Hensman 24:282 Damien Scott 24:313 Ieuan Edmonds 25:304 Angus Logan 25:515 David Barclay 26:066 Graeme Sunnex 26:477 Tim Barclay 27:408 Connor Alsleben 28:329 Devon Beckman 28:41
10 Isaac Sweetapple 29:1811 Freddie Stoddart 29:2812 Henry Porter 30:0313 Mike Howard 31:1514 Jarred Hone 31:4315 Kim Creagh 32:0116 Megan Davidson 32:1017 Monieka Scott 32:1718 Hannah Harty 34:0519 Justin Alsleben 35:0820 Michael Helliwell 35:2821 Jasmine Lock 36:1822 Helen Edmonds 36:5123 James Bell 37:2824 Nicola Mulvay 37:4025 Neil Dent 37:5426 Hamish Duncan 38:4827 Harry Dent 39:4528 Robbie Love 41:1329 Stephen Matthews 42:5130 Duncan Parsons 43:11
1931 James Allcock 45:0332 Jane Herries 49:1933 Linda Gordon 1:27:26
Peter Hensman mpYellow (49) 2.0 km1 Devon Beckman 11:552 Amy Wolland 17:093 Karen Beckman 17:184 Nicola Law 17:545 Brayden Stone 18:596 Mitch Webber 19:227 Laila Franklin 19:448 Phil Law 19:589 Kirin Harrison 19:5910 Rebecca Matthews 21:0511 Grant Husband 21:1312 Sebby Averill 21:1613 Georgia Creagh 22:3614 Brandon Jones 22:5715 Glen Stone 23:0416 Laurence de Burgh 23:1817 Ryan Hone 23:2718 Sue Stone 23:4319 Tim Creagh 23:5820 William Duncan 24:3021 Daniel Way 24:3122 Ross Stone 24:3223 Jorgen Murphy 24:5224 Amber Helliwell 25:1725 John Parsons 25:5326 Robin Love 25:5527 Tessa Burns 25:5728 Harry Evans 26:5629 Annie Creagh 27:1330 Mary Dent 27:1931 Kelly Sunnex 27:2432 Helen Howell 27:3033 Hannah Matthews 28:3234 Diane Murphy 29:3035 Gaye Evans-Love 30:07
36 Rob Duncan 30:2937 Lindsay Averill 30:5938 Alan Young 31:2539 Ian Geary 33:0440 Kim Matthews 37:3941 Logan Geary 37:5542 Steve Berge 38:5943 Barbara Howard 39:4844 Laura Tong 40:5545 Andrew Tong 45:2146 Connor McKay 56:34
Laura Matthews mpAnna Stimpson mpSarah Tong mp
White (23) 1.4 km1 George Walton 16:402 Kirsty Walton 16:473 Olivia Beckman 17:154 Caroline Howell 19:245 Brenda Berge 19:346 Angela Sunnx 19:597 Mitchell Jones 21:378 Jenny Quinn 22:279 Abby Oliver 24:3910 Diane Murphy 25:1811 Lottie Evans 28:3212 Emma Boswell 31:1513 Siena Harrison 34:0814 Blake Boswell 35:3915 Georgia Ericksen 41:4216 Kyle McDonald 43:3117 Reece Craik 43:39Monique Way mpMelissa Oliver mpZachary Averill mpTaylor Harrison mpJorgen Murphy mpLogan Geary mp
Congratulations:
To Napier Girls’ High School and Napier Boys’ High School, who have beenselected by the NZOF to represent New Zealand at the World Schools’ Orienteering Championships in Trento, Italy in May 2011.
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HAWKEYEHamish had the ignominy of being beaten into 3rd place byM60s Neil Kane and Michael Wood at the recent Win- terClassic in Wellington.
Lawrence de Burgh’s HNHS team won at the Yr9/10 science quiz at Lindisfarne. Callum’s NBHS team wereplaced 2nd in the Yr9s.
Caroline Howell has been chosen to dance with the Impe-rial Russian Ballet in Napier on October 3.
Helen Howell won the Constance Miller Academic Scholarship to HGHS.
At the recent Town & Country Schools’ Mathletics competition Helen Howell was in the teamplaced 2nd in the Yr 8s. She was the only girl in the top 3 teams.
Navigate Napier located a control in the “motley rock garden” of the Boswell’s house. Evi dentlyRolf has taken exception to his rockery being labelled as such and has employed MaggieBarry to redevelop it. A large digger was recently spotted moving in that direction…
After Navigate Napier, Callum, Ieuan, Devon and Isaac were very happy they didn’t have PEat school. Their team were doing very well until they took a “short cut” through some fight andafter 10 minutes came out INSIDE an industrial site surrounded by 6ft barbed wire fence sothey had to leave back through the fight.
Rumour has it that a well known Yr 1-8 Hastings School Principal was asked not to turn up tohis meeting at St Matthew’s Cathedral for fear the plague and pestilence ravaging his schoolwould then be spread to the parish. He has assured us it was a mere sniffle and nothing to bealarmed about.
Rolf Boswell might be the unluckiest host in the world. For the second time in five years, oneof his guests was murdered at his birthday party. A well known local sports club president, whowas providing security, was powerless to prevent the tragedy. However, he was fortunatein unmasking the killer using the old fashioned “wild stab in the dark” technique – which wasexactly what happened to the victim.
Rolf’s party was fancy dress. Who was the slippery politician and erstwhile drama queen? Whowas the punk that pierced his ear with a safety pin? Who was the fastidious and officious park-ing warden? How did Linda get hold of so many photos of everyone from 30 years ago? It’sprobably best that the answers to these questions never see the light of day... Until you get topage 30.
212010 N. Z. Secondary Schools’Orienteering Championships
In the July School Holidays, the 15th, 16th and 17th, the New Zealand Secondary SchoolsOrienteering Championship was held in Auckland, and what seems to be the Auckland club’sfavourite map, Woodhill Forest. Several School teams from around the Bay travelled up to theevent, including Napier Boys’, Napier Girls’, Havelock North and Karamu.
This year, the competition comprised of a sprint event on the Thursday before the nor- malcompetition and was a test run for future NZSS championships. It was held at a local high school,Roskill College, and was a very fast map and seemed to be quite enjoyed by most com- petitors.The course ran through the building complex, across the school fields and touched a neighbouringreserve. Some top finishers included Cameron Massie (NAPB), 1st in Senior Boys, PearsonWilliams (NAPB) 3rd in Intermediate Boys, Callum Herries (NAPB) 2nd in Jun- ior Boys, SeanMorrison and Jarrod Lobb (both HAVE-INT) 2nd and 3rd in Y7-8 Boys, Jamie Goodwin (HAVE)2nd in Senior Girls and Natalie de Burgh (HAVE) 3rd in Intermediate Girls. Although points fromthe sprint did not contribute to overall standings, it was still an enjoyable event that I hope willbe continued at future NZSS competitions.
The next day was the Individual competition that was set on a section of the ‘awesome’Woodhill forest called Stag’s Roar. The map consisted of blocks of forest with unmapped
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mountain bike tracks and intricate contouring that made navigating more difficult than usual.Despite this it was still a well set course that was a great challenge for the competitors. Againthe Bay schools came out with some great finishers including: Duncan Morrison (NAPB) 2nd
in Senior Boys champs, James McCaughan (NAPB) 1st in Senior Boys standard, Pearson Wil-liams (NAPB) 1st and Thomas Eatson (TAUP) 3rd in Intermediate Boys champs, Thomas Airey(NAPB) 3rd in Intermediate Boys standard, Callum Herries and Devon Beckman (NAPB) 2nd
and 3rd respectively in Junior Boys champs, and a clean sweep of Nick Wilkey (HAVE), HarryEvans and Craig Roberts (NAPB) 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in Junior Boys standard. To thegirls: Kate Hensman (HAVE) 1st in Senior Girls standard, Holly Edmonds (NAPG) 2nd in Inter-mediate Girls champs, Vida Fox (NAPG) 2nd in Intermediate Girls standard, Brianna Massieand Monieka Scott (NAPG) 1st and 2nd in Junior Girls champs, Laila Franklin and Amy Wol-land (HAVE) 2nd and 3rd in Junior Girls standard. After this race, Napier Boys’ were leadingthe male side of the overall standings while Napier Girls’ were just ahead of their rivals, Havelock North.
The last day consisted of the Relays, the best orienteering race for the spectators. Thisrace was held on the same map, Stag’s Roar, but in a smaller area. The courses also had a greatspectator control where competitors emerged from the forest onto the road right next to the eventcentre, so the runners were in plain view. It was a very exciting and well set course that challengedeven the top teams. Still great results were achieved by our teams: Duncan Morri- son, CameronMassie and Bradley Ivory (NAPB) 1st in Senior Boys, Zane Tomalin, Callum Herries and PearsonWilliams (NAPB) 3rd in Intermediate Boys, Naiomi Anderson, Georgia Lindsay and HollyEdmonds (NAPG) 1st in Intermediate Girls, Harrison Gregory, Mitchell Webber and Nick Wilkey(HAVE) 1st and Devon Beckman, James Allcock and Ieuan Ed- monds (NAPB) 2nd in JuniorBoys, Monieka Scott, Katherine Rybinski and Brianna Massie (NAPG) 1st and Malin Dolden,Laila Franklin and Amy Wolland (HAVE) 2nd in Junior Girls.
The final standings placeNapier Boys’ as the top boysschool, again, whileNapier Girls took out thegirls side of the competition.Despite the rain on Fridayand Saturday, the event wasstill a huge suc- cess anda big congratulation to allthe runners who partici- patedand especially all theplace-getters. Well Done!
By Bradley Ivory
23Navigate Napier – August 1, 2010
Fundraisers are generally hard work. The man-hours and effort often equate to an abys-mal hourly rate. So, when the HNI boys hockey team were looking to raise funds for the AIMStournament options included wood chopping, raffles, selling kiwifruit, cleaning sewers andcontract killings, the idea of a rogaine seemed appealing. With Sean, Jarrod Lobb and Oliver Lockall members of the orienteering club, it seemed a fun way of raising funds.
The question was, where to have it at that time of the year? Farmland was out, so whynot an urban event. And, how could we use electronic timing?. Napier, with its city centre,labyrinth of streets and the hill to negotiate, plus outlying areas of Westshore, Onekawa indus-
trial area and Napier Boys’ to the south looked like it had possibilities on the 1:50,000.. Checking the map, revealed plenty of alleyways, tracks and parks which were added and even I wasenvious of the participants on the start-line.
Only 4 controls weren’t guarded, as the organisation to get 23 parents to various mystery locations became a mini-military exercise. The Forlong-Fords, Boswells, Roses and Helli-wells all obliged and allowed markers to be placed on their properties. It turned into a perfectevent to set – put out only 4 controls by car an hour before the event, send out the rest donewith the minders, armed with photographs of the control site, 15 minutes before the start andthen around 3 hours later they all start coming back - some returning before the last of the fin-ishers!
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With Superman, Batman and Robin entering the event, enter the press. Eccentricity drawsthe media like nothing else, so this was right up there, making the front page of HB To- day onthe following Monday! Forget the story, madness rules. The photographer had chased them allover town, but probably would not have found them in the 53 minutes it took to get betweenPerfume Point and Pandora Pond. Apparently the time was well served re-hydrating at Shed 2.
Andrew Bott couldn’t find a partner silly enough to go with him and one could see why,as he visited all 27 controls in 2.5 hours, a distance of about 35 kms. So too did Aiden Boswelland Chris Howell (fresh) from Rolf’s 40th birthday party the night before - they finished with acouple of minutes to spare.
The real winners were the variety of participants, some very young and some not soyoung, who went out and had a great time. Many experienced orienteering for the first time -60% of competitors were non club members. Some groups visited cafes on their course ortreated themselves to ice cream at the local dairy and of course the opportunity for a quickbeer was always tempting. There was a great turnout of Napier Boys’ and Girls’ students supportingthe event, and despite a lot of people for various reasons unable to compete, there was a 100who did.
Thanks everyone for your support – GO HNI Boys Hockey!!!!
PS – there were numerous requests afterwards for the next event. Look out for NavigateNapier II in the future - there will be plenty more hockey fundraising to come.
PSS and talking of hockey fundraisers…. Four teams of intelligent orienteers took onthe best of the rest in a HB U13 Hockey quiz evening on August 13. Team “Broken Compasses” made a powerful start picking up the first round prize on Hockey trivia. They sooncame back to the pack with teams “Ripped Maps”, “180’s” and “Mispunches” all showingglimmers of brilliance, but struggling overall to maintain consistent scoring. Thanks everyonefor taking part.
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1 Chris Howell / Aidan Boswell NN 1500 2:56:30 15002 Graeme Sunnex / Grant Husband / Michael Helliwell Three Blind Men 1250 3:00:48 -10 12403 Cairn Coghill / Cam Edmonds Wallace & Gromit 1210 3:00:19 -10 12004 Pearson Williams / Tai Barham / Hamish Lewis The Angry Dragons 1140 2:41:06 11405 Rolf Boswell / John van Raders Old Blind Map Men 1080 2:57:42 10806 Stephan Alsleben / Alan Davidson Dads Army 1070 2:52:42 10707 Jared Fowler / Ryan Todd / Carl Simons Munta 530 2:22:47 530Nc Andrew Bott AB 1500 2:30:17 1500
Women (2)1 Fiona Fowler / Teresa Todd / Kirsty Elstone Sheryl 900 2:55:14 9002 Barbara Selman / Sue Lever BarbSue 630 2:49:49 630
Mixed (7)1 Mike Howard / Lindsay Averill Longrun 1070 3:03:23 -40 10302 Sarah Davidson / Megan Davidson / Connor Alsleban Justintime 1000 2:59:58 10003 Trace Wilson / Tim Anderson TNT 820 3:01:52 -20 8004 Greg Edmonds / Helen Edmonds Sure to rise 780 2:57:47 7805 Tiffany Reynolds / Kendra Monteith / Paul Reynolds Two Plus One 770 2:56:59 7706 Ross Stone / Glen Stone / Brayden Stone / Natalie Stone Off The Map 720 2:57:17 7207 Gaye Evans-Love / Kyle McDonald / Jenny Quinn Snailtrail 500 2:52:08 500
Workplace (2)1 Robbie Love / Steve Armon Rob's Mob 1070 2:58:21 10702 Neville Kirk / Kath Kirk / Christine Gallagher Barnes Mossman 3 + 1 650 2:52:11 650
Family (8)1 Monieka Scott / Damien Scott Red Bananas 1130 2:53:11 11302 Nigel Wilkie / Heather Wilkie / Callum Wilkie Wilkie Family 860 2:51:44 8603 Geoff Paget / Darryl Paget Paget 850 2:50:26 8504 Katherine Rybinski / Maryclaire Rybinski / Hamish Rybinski HKM Rybinski 830 2:52:56 8305 Rob McDonald / Faye McDonald The Big Macs 630 2:48:31 6306 Julie Mercer / Flynn Mercer / Kassie Mercer Mercer's Flie 350 2:40:38 3507 Laura Tong / Andrew Tong 310 2:09:17 3108 Fiona Culham / Peter Culham PFAT 310 2:09:25 310
School (14)1 Matt Stone / James McCaughan 1290 2:53:01 12902 Sam Clarke-Winiata / Liam Ward The Young Ones 1290 2:55:38 12903 Isaac Sweetapple / Callum Herries / Ieuan Edmonds / Devon Beckman S.H.E.R.B.E.R.T 1180 2:59:47 11804 Cameron Massie / James TinkerThe Super Heroes 1150 2:49:50 11505 Naomi Anderson / Georgia Wedd Blondes For Life 1060 2:56:27 10606 Mitch Webber / Ryan Calder Havelock 1040 2:51:29 10407 Harriet Baxter / Sarah Baxter / Anna Stimpson Baxter Duo 1030 3:01:33 -20 10108 Vida Fox / Alice Lumsden Alice & Vida 900 3:05:53 -60 8409 Brianna Massie / Sophie Rose Go Girls 830 2:53:46 83010 Georgia Lock / Marie Jones Fast & Faster 810 2:50:00 81011 James Allcock / Te Rimene Workman Doritoes 790 2:56:57 79012 Sebastian Averill / Freddie Stoddart Mustangs 810 3:07:22 -80 73013 Jasmine Lock / Hannah Jones Tom & Jerry 530 2:51:29 53014 Robert Hirshman / Daniel Way Which Way? 550 3:09:13 -100 450
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27Scott at the JWOC
This year was my third JWOC and after two years experience I decided to focus on themiddle distance rather than spread my effort over the three individual races. The middle dif-fers from the other races as it has a qualification race followed by the final the next day. Thequalification consists of 3 heats with the top 20 in each going through to the A-final, the next20 in the B-final and the rest in the C-final. Having made the C and B finals the last 2 years Iwas keen to make the A this time around. However, there’s a bit of a mental barrier that I’vestruck in the past when it comes to making the A-final. I was told that a clean run was all thatwas needed to make the A but I learnt that wasn’t quite the case. You did need to be prettyclean but also aggressive in your execution, being cautious and clean probably wouldn’t quitecut it.
Getting drawn to start near the end of the field for the qualification meant that when Ifinished I wouldn’t have to play the waiting game at the end, painfully watching my namedrop slowly down the list into the lower finals as has happened in the last two years. I did getcaught during my race by Rasmus, the top Danish guy who’d won the sprint earlier in theweek, and he was really handy to have around for about 4-5 controls before he got away, butI had been clean before seeing him and continued to be clean and aggressive afterwards whichturned out to be enough to finish 15th in my heat (which Rasmus won) and qualify for my firstA-final! This just about guaranteed that I would beat my previous best JWOC result (of 56th
in the sprint last year) as long as I didn’t completely mess up.New Zealand hadn’t had any men in the A-final since Tom made it in Australia in
2007 so I was proud to qualify along with Matt Ogden (12th) and Angela Simpson (5th) in thewoman’s race. The way that it works on the day is that the C and B finals run first and finishbefore the A-final starts. This creates a good atmosphere for the A runners with the early run-ners and all the people running the spectator races all there cheering for them as they comethrough the spectator control and into the finish. The starts are staggered so that those whoqualified first start last in the final which builds up the excitement as the race progresses. Itwas really awesome to watch it all unfold last year and to be in it this year was exciting andI was determined to do well.
I stuck with the same preparation that I’d been using all week of sitting down the nightbefore and planning out what to do before the race from waking up to starting. This meant thatI wouldn’t be thinking about what to do in the lead up to the race and that I could fully focuson the race itself. This is something I’d like to bring back to events here but it’s a bit harderwhen it’s not a serious race and you keep bumping into people to talk to which is great but itdisrupts the whole process. Although I think it’s important (for me at least) to socialise andchill out before the race a bit to avoid getting too tense or nervous. So don’t be worried to havea chat to me before a race!
Anyway my preparation went well and I was in a really good mindset before the start– really focused, not nervous much, just telling myself to concentrate hard and to stay in controlthe whole time. If I was in control then I’d be clean and my confidence would grow from that.This meant not going too fast, especially as the early stuff looked like it was going to be tricky,detailed dunes. I knew that I was never going to win the race in the first few controls (notthat I thought I had any chance of winning anyway!) so I was just determined not to lose it.
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As expected the start was tricky and as I’d planned I took the first few controls fairlycautiously, nailing them but having relatively slow splits. The fourth control was a longer onein the dunes. I stuck on my compass and picked up the vegetation well along the way but mis-read the contours coming close to the control and swayed off slightly. I felt it wasn’t quiteright and should’ve stopped and sorted it right then but instead I trusted myself and went on tomess it up completely – losing about 90 seconds (to many people this might not sound like acomplete screw up but when racing against the top juniors it’s quite a bit). I tried to just getback into my rhythm after this but the dunes got the better of me again on the 6th control whereI lost about 60 seconds after losing focus slightly and undershooting the control. Despite thesemistakes I’d caught and passed two other runners who were obviously having greater troublesthan I was among the sand hills. I knew other runners would make mistakes in the early con-trols too so I just put my mistakes behind me and focussed on settling back into my rhythmrather than trying to hare off and make up for lost time.
The next part of the course took us into the slightly easier forest where I was reasona-bly clean but not fast or aggressive enough to catch up any places. Not far from the end of thecourse was the spectator control which was awesome to come through with on wall of peoplealong a chute yelling and cheering and gave me a bit of a boost for the last loop. I’d also justbeen caught by the top British lad, Ralph, so tried to stick with him until the end but he wasabsolutely storming along and I just couldn’t keep up beyond about 2-3 controls. He ended upgetting 7th and it just reminded me how good some of these guys are. It was like he was run-ning an 800m race and he was nailing every single control – how am I meant to beat that? ButI guess it’s just another mental barrier, just like making the A-final was. All it takes is a hell of
29a lot of hard work! Anyway I sprinted down the finish chute to the NZ team singing some ren-dition of “Old McDonald” to spur me on.
So I finished with mixed feelings, frustrated with my mistakes but happy that I got mybest JWOC result to date of 45th. Matt was 3 seconds behind me in 46th (he was ahead until thesplit to the finish where I beat him by 5 seconds) and Angela placed 36th to cap off a solid weekfor herself.
So where to go from here? Next year in Poland is my last JWOC and I’d like to focus onthe middle again but also on the sprint. I think I can improve, firstly, by training harder and beingfitter for next year so that I can at least keep up with those top guys. I also need to work on myrace plan and have strategies to cope with different situations, so that I actually do stop when Ilose myself next time.
Thanks to the club for their support once again, to everyone who buys baking at club events,to the University of Canterbury and Sport Hawke's Bay for their generous donations, to the teamand of course to my family!
Editor’s Note: The other members of HBOC who were selected to participate at JWOC wereDuncan Morrison, Kate Morrison, Jamie Goodwin and Rachel Goodwin. Rachel, unfortu-nately , was unable to participate due to injury and the other three all promised me photos thatwould “amaze me.” I guess they decided they were inappropriate to our readers...
Letter to the EditorDear Sir/Madman
At the recent OY at Havelock Village, I followed my young son and his mate around theWhite course. The course planning was excellent, however they (and others that I noticed)had real trouble seeing the small ‘street controls’ that we have. Several times the boys ranstraight past the control and become frustrated when they couldn’t find it.
One of the key criteria for a control site is that it is visible once you are at the featuredescribed in the control description. I am sure most club members will have had frustratingmoments trying to find one of those small controls.
It occurred to me, that perhaps it was time we designed something better for our subur-ban events. It may not be as big or visible as our normal controls but perhaps someone couldcome up with something better than we currently have.
I suppose they will need to have a reasonable vertical profile so that runners can see it asthey approach. They could be free standing or on a stake as they are now but they will need toretain the chain and lock. Is there a possibility that the Sport Ident box could also bechained/locked to the control so that we could use them for urban events?
So if you are the ‘inventor’ type or perhaps a senior student who wants a science fairproject, then this could be the challenge for you!
CheersRolf Boswell
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Date Event Map Setter Vetter22-24 Jan Sprint the Bay Various
19-22 Junior Camp27-Jan SS1 EIT Luis Slyfield Norris Cox3-Feb SS2 Taradale Schools Sarah Anderson Rachel Goodwin
10-Feb SS3 Arataki Paul Jensen Kate Morrison17-Feb SS4 Park Island Sara Bailey Scott McDonald24-Feb SS5 Windsor Chris McD Faye McD
27–28 Feb Kaweka C3-Mar SS6 Anderson Park Naomi Anderson Hugh FF6-Mar Night Event Stoney Creek Stephan Alsleben Chris Howell
10-Mar SS7 Frimley Park Harriet Baxter Mark Irwin13-Mar Katoa Po Taupo21-Mar Club Event Te Awanga Cameron Massie Rob McDonald28-Mar OY1-Long Craggy Range Jaime G Hamish G2-5 Apr Nationals11-Apr Club Event Rochfort Heather Jones Derek Morrison16-Apr NISS-Champs Wellington17-Apr NISS-Relay Wellington17-Apr NZ Rogaine Wellington25-Apr OY2-Long Smedley Duncan M Mark Irwin
9-MayDeborah Turner
Memorial Rogaine Taheke Hamish G Jamie G16-May Club event Evertree John Craven Murray Harty
23-MayHB School
Champs Rotoma Rolf Boswell Ken Holst6-Jun Queen’s Bday
13-Jun Club Champs The Slump Rita Homes David Fisher27-Jun HB School Relay Te Awanga Chris Howell Pamela Morrison4-Jul OY3-Middle Whana Whana Rob Polgrain Geoff Morrison16-Jul Nat SS-Ind NW17-Jul Nat SS-Relays NW25-Jul Score Series Pukeora Katie Eames Jon Eames8-Aug Score Series Te Mata Peak Phillip Baker Pamela Morrison
22-Aug OY4-Sprint Havelock Village Grant Edmonds Derek Morrison5-Sep OY5-Score Taheke Murray Harty Chris Howell19-Sep OY6-Long Tangoio Murray Richardson Geoff Morrison3-Oct Club Event Tauroa Station Brett Sceats Ruth Vincent
17-Oct Club Event Rowe Road Phil Herries Ken Holst23-25 Oct WOA Champs
31-Oct OY7-Long Tauroa Tim Anderson Rolf Boswell14-Nov Club Event Over the Hill Catherine Howell Chris Howell28-Nov Xmas Event Havelock Hills Tim Barclay Steve Armon
Course setters are recommended to go to the club’s website www.hborienteering.com forcourse setting guidelines and event organisation information.
