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CONTENTS

Canadian Cfampionsfips 2 A Competitor's View 6 A Western Affair 8 World Orienteering Cfampionsfips 10 Fjellorientering 13 " O'Ree's Training Diet" 16 C.O.F. Drops 18 W.M. '85 For Canada? 20 Book Review 22 Orienteering in Australia 25 I.O.F. News 28 Modern Orienteering Training 30

Orienteering Canada is publisfed in Ottawa witf tfe assistance of tle National Sport and Recreation Administration Centre.

Editor : Gord Punter Typists: Brenda Russell, Lee Leger Contributors: Colin Kirk, Juri Peepre, Susan Budge, David Hogg, Sfeila Andrews, Wilf Holloway

Cover Pfoto: Steve Pearson (by Harold Wfyte)

BUDGE AND ST.CROIX WIN AGAIN

Now that the event is behind us and the results well digested by all competitors, it is time to review some of the performances from the 1979 C.O.C.

For most competitors, Pippy Park was a different type of terrain and presented different problems from normal. Like all problems, some people solved them better than others. In a country the size of Canada, terrain, vege-tation, marshes, etc. vary a great deal from one province to another. Our National Team members are well aware of the great differences in terrain, vegetation, runnability between the different European and Scan-dinavian countries and these could all fit into a small part of Canada. Regardless of where the World Orienteering Champion-ships are held, we still find the same names appearing at the top of the lists. Egil Johansen, Liisa Veijalainen, Outi Borgen-strom, Sarolta Monspart, etc. The reason is that they adapt to the conditions.

A review of the C.O.C. results over the past few years will in-dicate the same thing happens in Canada. The orienteers

with the best basic skills rise to the top. We find Ted de St. Croix and Susan Budge winning four conse-cutive Canadian Championships in the H21 and D21 categories in four different provinces under very different conditions and terrain.

The year 1976 saw Ted and Susan successful in the rugged terrain of Lac Phillipe in Quebec, under the most apalling weather conditions imaginable - freezing rain, sleet, snow, ice, cold mud. The next year under bright sunny weather, they negotiated the steep hills and good fast running conditions of Wentworth, Nova Scotia. Hilton Falls, Ontario was the scene of the 1978 C.O.C. and the fairly flat, stony terrain with numerous small details and cold fall weather pre-sented another different challenge. This year there was Pippy Park with its fast running on trails and slow slugging in some dense bush sections. Some competitors have remarked about the bush in Pippy Park; but did it really create bigger problems than the deplorable weather at Lac Phillipe in 1976 that made many competitors quit? Or how about the infamous broad yellow ski trail on the Wentworth map?

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The results show that in these vastly different conditions, by and large, the better orienteers are still successful. This is as it should be. The best competi-tors should win the titles. Not the best runner, or the luckiest person but the best all-round competitors. Upon reviewing the results of the 1979 C.O.C., the above statements are confirmed.

If a person had been asked to name a slate of winners before the event, it is doubtful if they could have arrived at a better all-round group of champions. The good and consistent performances go deeper than just the winners. In many categories, there were real "dog-fights" for second and third positions. Our three best H21 runners, Ted de St. Croix, Ron Lowry, and Gord Hunter finished 1 - 2 - 3, but Gord had to turn in a very good run on Day 2 to edge past Frank Farfan and Afan Jones to capture a medal. The D21 saw the four members of our National Team finish in the first 5 positions, with Robyn Rennie of B.C. break- the monopoly by finishing second. Robyn was a close second after Day 1 and made Susan Budge work hard for the victory.

Fierce but friendly competitions was the halmark of many categories in all age groups. On Day 2 Andy de St. Croix thundered across the finish line then re-

mained at the line anxiously peer-ing at his watch and counting the minutes and seconds until he confirmed that he had beaten Dave Wheeler and Ken Moolein a very close battle. In the M35 class Bob Kaill rebounded from a poor Day 1 with an outstanding run on Day 2 to beat several other top runners in a close fight. Kris-tina Kaill made it a family affair by squeaking past peren-nial champion, Rena Weiler, in the D35 event. Kristina and Rena were anxiously scrutinizing the result board to see which one had 'eked out' the win.

In addition to the D35 strugg-les, there were other close bat-tles and excellent performances on the Green Course in the H17-18 and H43 categories. Two sons of famous fathers, Glen Geddes and Mike Day Jr., returned the two fastest times each day on the Green Course with Glen emerging the winner of the class. The H43 category was a real "cliff-hang-er" with the long-time rivals Mike Day, Robert Weiler, and Andy Lamm being joined by Don Budge to form a very competitive group. Mike held a narrow lead over Don on Day 1 with Robert in 3rd spot. On Day 2, Robert had an excellent run to move past Mike into what appeared to be the win-ning position. However, Don came through with an equally fine run to nudge into the number one posi-tion. To see and hear these keen

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but friendly rivals clustered around the result board, was a good example of "Orienteering--the friendly sport."

Still another friendly rivalry between two old foes took place in the HSO with John Charlow beating Dick de St. Croix by some 36 seconds. John finished ahead of Dick and waited anxiously near the finish chute counting down the time that Dick had left to win. When Dick appeared, John was urg-him to "slow down - take it easy."

All in all, some very close re-sults, good competitions with an admirable group of winners from D12 and H12 all the way up to H56 category.

Aside from the actual Champion-ships, the entire week in New-foundland will long be remember-ed by many and may very well be the best C.O.C. ever. Many or-ienteers from all provinces lived together, socialized and competed together and gener-ally speaking, had a great time. It reminded me very much of the spontaneous feeling of friend-ship that occurred at the Guelph Leadership Clinic in 1974 and again at the O'Ring Quebec event in 1976. This thought was seconded by Charlie Fox of O.A.B.C. who said in a recent letter "On the return flight to Vancouver,-the B.C. group all agreed that it was the best Championship any of us had

attended. I am sure there will be many fond memories of some of the wild woods, Ches's Fish and Chip Shop, and Finnigan's Pub. It was a treat to go". (Charlie spent a long time looking for Control 1 on Day 2, so his com-ments should not be treated light-ly.)

The 1979 C.O.C. provided good competition between the partici-pants and produced as fine a group of champions as we have ever had. The Newfoundland Asso-ciation organized a fine Champ-ionship and should be proud of themselves. With a very limited number of workers and very little experience in organizing a major event,they produced a Champion-ship that will be long remembered and which showed that smaller associtions can hold their own against the larger ones.

Colin Kirk

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1979 CANADIAN CHAMPIONS Class Name Club Province

H 12 Colin Taylor St. Johns NFld. H 13-14 Brian Fleck 415 Scouts Ont. H 15-16 John Downing 415 Scouts Ont. H 17-18 Glen Geddes Toronto O.C. Ont. H 19-20 Andy de St. Croix Niagara O.C. Ont. H 21 Ted De St. Croix Niagara O.C. Ont. H 35 Bob Kaill Trackers N.S. H 43 Don Budge Toronto Q.C. Ont. H 50 John Charlow Ramblers 0.C. Que. H 56 Miles Hicklin Toronto 0.C. Ont.

D 12 Barbara Weiler Viking S.C. Que. D 13-14 Pamela James Hustlers N.S. D 15-16 Robin Andrew F'ton Foxes N.B. D 17-18 Heather Budge Toronto O.C. Ont. D 19-20 Sharon Dean Ottawa O.C. Que. D 21 Susan Budge Toronto O.C. Ont. D 35 Kristina Kaill Trackers N.S. D 43 Pat de St. Croix Niagara O.C. Ont. D 50 Eleanor Nicholl "r.-- keys r.S.

OPEN CLASSES

H-Red Ian McCallum St. John's NFld.

H-Green Bernard Douville Azimut Que.

H-Orange Alex McNauglit F'ton Foxes N.B.

D-Orange Marion Lowen Coureurs de Bois Man.

D-Yellow Sylvia Harding Coureurs de Bois Man.

H. White Tony Buchauer Viking S.C. Que.

PEST PROVINCE: Ontario

BEST CLUB : Toronto O.C.

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THE CHAMPIONSHIPS.. -A COMPETITOR'S VIEW

In 1977 the Canadian Orienteering Championships were held for the first time in a province outside of Central Canada. The success of this meet proved that Ontario and Quebec were not the only two provinces with the resources and manpower to stage a meet of national stature. This fact was again dramatically proven this year by Jim Richardson and the New-foundland Orienteering Associa-tion. The people involved with bringing the event to Newfound-land staged a very professional 12th edition of the championships.

It is only proper that a national championship should be held in as many parts of Canada as possi-ble, so that over the years as many people as possible would be exposed to orienteering. The hosting of a Canadian Champion-ship is good publicity for the sport in the area where the championship is held. Thus it is encouraging to note that B.C. will host the event in 1981.

There is much more to a national event than the two days of compe-tition. It provides an oppor-tunity for people from across the country who share a common in-

terest to meet and exchange ideas. It also provides an opportunity (or an excuse) to take a vacation and explore a part of this country that one might not normally have the chance to visit. This year's Canadian Championships were a combination of sightseeing and training leading up to the big event; a good combination.

The Newfoundland championships were preluded by a series of three pre-meets designed to intro-duce mainland orienteers to New-foundland's terrain and "inte-resting" spruce vegetation. Mike Day of the Ottawa O.C. hosted the first at Wych Hazel Pond. The second was held at Flaky Downs by Arne Naess of Nova Scotia. Jack Forsyth of Manitoba organized the third near Torbay. All three were successful in attracting large turnouts of peo-ple although the weather was not always co-operative.

The actual championships were held at C.A. Pippy Park August 18 and 19. The small band of organi-zers took care of every detail and even arranged for two of the best days of the year (i.e. bright sunshine and warm). The brand new map used for the championships

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ROUGH " 0"

Orienteering New Brunswick is one provincial association tlat tries to make all its meet notices bi-lingual. But the typists some-times have a little trouble! A recent notice announced four courses according to our tradi-tional colour code - Blanc, Jaune, Orange et RougY!

CANADIANS WELCOME AT SWEDISH 5-DAYS

There are many Canadians planning to visit Europe for orienteering vacations next summer. One 'must' event is the Swedist 5-Day event. It is always well organized and the 16,000 entries give it a unique and exciting atmosplere.

Tte 1 0 80 5-Days will be Yeld near tYe beautiful and historic city of Uppsala. A group of orienteers from Uppsala tlat visited Canada last July have offered to Yelp Canadian orienteers with tfeir plans to visit Sweden next year. Andy Wallenius of Toronto fas offered to act as a contact person.

For furtfer information you may contact Andy at:

106 Indian Road, Toronto, Ont., M6R-2V4

rates as one of the best in the country and will long be remember-ed for its many shades of green.

The ladies of Newfoundland con-tributed as well, so that com-petitors could enjoy such local food as moose soup and part-ridge berry tarts. These are just some of the examples of the work the organizers did to en-sure a successful meet. The meet was wrapped up with an awards dinner which was attended by a very large crowd. The next day saw most people starting to re-turn home. Most will have fond memories of Newfoundland and for that the organizers deserve a warm round of applause.

Craig Henderson

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A" WESTERN AFFAIR"

As I left Edmonton and started the 20 hour journey to Yellowknife my mind was swirling with images, and reflections from the past week. It was a picture rich with acti-vity - for five intense days our bodies had tangled with the north-ern forest, and then, with sudden awareness, it seemed the only real tangling occured inside the mind. The forest can be a gra-cious and willing host provided one understands and accepts the subtle but unbending laws of na-ture. An image flooded in : a shattering blow to the side of my head ... a whirring flash of grey-brown feathers and a piercing shriek. Silence. Stunned, I staggered in the moss for a mo- ment then fell head-long. Although I could not immediately see what personal quarrel the hawk found with my presence, it soon dawned on me to humbly depart from her nest-ing territory.

It was the Western and Northern Canada Orienteering Leadership Development Clinic, Blue Lake, Alberta. Twenty-three partici-pants from B.C., Alberta, and the NWT gathered together for a week of course-setting, meet-organi-zation, map-making, technique training, and a numbing total of nine orienteering events.

Although the staff felt fairly confident that they were success-fully exhausting everyone with the morning and afternoon events, there was ample lecture time for recovery and dozing. Jack Lee and Juri Peepre, with able assistance from George Murphy and Scot Robert-son, planned a number of unique activities to illustrate aspects of course setting. After the warm-up exercise which exposed the parti-cipants to a progression of "white" through "red" orienteering legs, it was decided to set a course including every conceivable mistake -- from mis-placed controls and wrong code letters to 'dog-legs' and 'dead legs'. By attempting to orienteer around the course every-one was explosed to the frustra-tions of participants and the pit-falls of course-setting. A post-event analysis, (admittedly, with some heated comments), gave all a chance to discuss the errors they had encountered.

Other events included a relay, night '0', control-punching ex-ercise, and an open 'A' event. Although everyone professed to be non-competitive during the week, the keen rivalry between indivi-duals and the B.C. and Alberta contingent was hard to disguise. But above all, spirits were high,

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WORLD ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS

GO TO YOUNG SCANDINAVIANS

Youth is taking over at the World Orienteering Championships. Per-haps following the lead of Canada the top Scandanavian teams each chose young teams to represent them at the WM 79 in Finland.

This really paid off for Norway as Oyvin Thon (1st) and Tore Sagvolden (3rd), both under 21, combined with former World Champion Egil Johansen (2nd) to sweep all three medals in the Men's 16 km Individual race. Fourth and fifth places went to two young Swedes Kjell Lauri and Lars Lonnkvist. A definite non youngster, 35 year old Rolf Pettersson of Sweden, was sixth.

The Finnish men, who were ex-pected to dominate the race had their worst placings in any WM.

Top Canadians were Ted de St. Croix (27th) and Ron Lowry (30th) - our best placings yet in the Individual race.

The 8.4 km Women's Course was the subject of a lot of criti-cal post race discussion as many runners found it too easy, 'a runner's course'. Said Megan Piercy, "I found the

training races the week before much more interesting." Defend-ing Champion Ann Berit Eid con-curred, "I just couldn't run fast enough. It's the first time I've ever run a course with no mis-takes and not won". The top ten finishers all beat the expected winning time.

First and second places went to Finns Outi Borgenstrom and Liisa Veijalainen while Monica Andersson of Sweden edged Hanni Fries of Switzerland by a single second to take the Bronze medal.

Megan Piercy was the top Canadian in 34th place while Susan Budge was 38th, one second ahead of Denise De Monte.

With their sweep of the Indivi-dual race the Norwegian men were expected to win the relay. How-ever, they got off to a bad start coming in 11th on the first leg, ten minutes behind the leader. Gambling to make up lost time their second runner, Oyvin Than, made more mistakes putting them out of the medal picture.

Sweden, running their steady veteran, Rolf Pettersson

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first and relay specialist Bjorn Rosendal, fourth lead from start to finish and won by 15 minutes over Finland. Czechoslovakia was third.

The Canadian men started well with Ron Lowry running a strong lead off leg to 8th place - only 8 minutes behind Pettersson, Ted de St. Croix maintained that posi-tion, losing a bit of time to the leaders but gaining on several teams Gord Hunter moved the team briefly into 7th by passing France before himself being pass-ed by the Norwegian Egil Johan-sson. Hunter then re-passed Johansson while watching the form-er World Champion make a parallel error approaching their fifth control. Two controls later Johansson was able to 'fly' by Hunter floundering in a marsh. Near the end of the leg the French runner also passed Hunter so that Timo Palotie went out in 9th place.

One bad control cost Palotie twenty minutes and two places as Canada finished in 11th place - our second best showing since 1972 in the Men's relay.

The Women's Relay was a much closer race. Four different teams took turns leading the race. Swiss Annalies Meier took the lead on the first leg only to have her team mates fall back to fifth place. Anna Gavendova of CSSR lead briefly on the second leg only to be overtaken

by Astrid Carlson of Norway. On the third and final leg Dobruse Jantova (CSSR) took the lead then fell back to fourth spot. Brit Volden (Norway) fell to second then passed the Czech girl only to have Liisa Veijalainen (Finland) pass them both moving from third to first. The fastest time was turned in by Monica Andersson (Sweden) who moved her team from fifth to third for her second Bronze medal of the Championships.

The Canadian girls started well with Megan Piercy leading them to 9th place and second runner Sheila Smith held that position until one bad control caused the usually steady Sheila to spend 40 minutes on a "13 minute leg". This dropped the Canadians to 14th. Susan Budge running third moved the team up slightly to 12th - still a good showing.

While this World Championships probably produced Canada's best overall performance yet it shows naturally we are still far behind the Scandanavian and other top European nations. However, with two more runners like Lowry and de St. Croix Canada could be challenging for a fifth or sixth in the Relay.

To improve our competitive perfor-mance abroad we must increase our depth of performers at home.

Gord Hunter

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Ted de St Croix

Ron Lowry

Timo Palotie

CANADIANS AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sheila Smith Gord Hunter Bob Smith

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" FJALLORIENTERING "

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It was during a conversation with a Swedish friend in Finland that Megan Piercy and I first heard the words "fjallorientering". "Fjallorien-tering?" we said, "What's that?" We were informed that it was a 3-day mountain orienteering competi-tion on July 11, 12 and 13 on the other side of the mountain from Valadalen, a small town in North-ern Sweden. We spoke with Ted de St. Croix who was very keen on the idea, and before we really knew what we were getting into Ted, his brother Andy, Megan, and I were entered in the "Fjallorien-tering 1979" and on our way to "the other side of the mountain from Valadalen".

We travelled by ferry, train and thumb until we were just north of Valadalen. We were hitchhiking on a small side road when Lief Akerblom, who has been on many orienteering trips to Canada, happened to pull up. He informed us that the fjallorientering was indeed on the other side of the mountain from Valadalen, 30 km on the other side, in the town of Ljungdalen and it must be approach-ed from the south. So we back-tracked to Asarna and boarded a bus for the final 110 km to Ljungdalen. Our bus was not only a passenger bus but milktruck and mailvan, as

well, and the 110 km took 4 1/2 hours to cover! But we were kept busy admiring the snow-spotted moun-tains that seemed to grow as we approached Ljungdalen. We finally arrived in a small town of two stores at 8:30 pm and pitched our tents in a farmer's field in the cold and rain.

We spent July 10, the day before the competition, resting and gathering information about the competition. "Fjallorientering '79" would be run in a cloverleaf style with the same start and finish each day. We would be orienteering on a 1:50,000 government map with a 10 m contour interval and a 20 magnetic deviation to the west. The H21E class would run courses of 25 to 27 km with ("Gasp"), 1000 meters climbing each day. The women's courses would be between 13 and 16 km with an average of 600 meters climbing. The H43 class would have courses similar to the women's and the D43's would run about 10 km each. Because mountain orienteering is so physi-cally demanding and because of the risk of injury in the mountains the competition is run in pairs. I would run with Megan and Ted and Andy would make up a "de St. Croix team". Each team must carry mat-ches and 'first aid' (which in

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Megan's and my case consisted of a band-aid!) and we were advised to take a whistle with us. That night we ate a large macaroni dinner and went early to bed to rest up for our big "race"?

We awoke the next morning to bit-ter cold and we faced the problem of "what to wear". I decided on two pairs of socks; one wool and one "0" sock, two pairs of "0" pants with shorts underneath, two T-shirts, my fingerless gloves and around my waist I tied my shell and wool toque which I wore above the treeline. At 9:15 Megan and I trotted to the start feeling more like children dressed to play in the snow than orienteers! Because this was the first day, there would be a mass start and the following days would be chase starts. The gun sounded and 349 teams took to the forest. I think it was more of challenge to stick with your partner than to make the first route choice. The men's first control was a mere 10 km into the mountains while Megan and I had 3 km of forest with 240 meters of climbing to locate our first checkpoint. To put it bluntly Megan and I "screwed" the first control. We were not used to the map scale or the quality of the map and started our search for the first flag some kilometer and a half too early! When we finally did find the first control, one hour after

the start, we looked further up the mountain and on a snowfield we could see pairs of black dots pro-ceeding to number three! So from then on Megan and I took Day 1 as a hike. We sipped a refreshing rose-hip drink at control two and admired the gorgeous views on the way to number three. It's a strange feel-ing to look about during an orien-teering race and see a helicopter hovering below you or to locate a checkpoint in a cloud as the men had to do on Day 1! I can't say that Megan and I placed tremendous-ly well but I can say that we tho-roughly enjoyed the experience of Day 1.

Day two was another story. The weather was ideal for orien- teering - cool with a slight breeze and cloud cover. This and the desire to move up a few places for-ced Megan and I to "attack" the course. Our first two legs had 660 meters of climbing straight up! We were totally exhausted at control number one and then Megan received a burst of energy, whether it be from the blueberry soup, the fabulous views, or the pack of reindeer that stared curously at us, I don't know, but it was all I could do to keep up with her. We finally reach-ed number two and then I received a new burst of energy with the thought of 660 meters downhill to the finish! Our determination paid off as we placed 45th out of 59 on Day two (only 44 mins. after the winner:) and moved up eight places in the

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overall standings. That evening I treated myself to a Swedish waffle with hjortron berries and whipped cream in an old cafe with grass on the roof that was just down the road from our tents. Ted, Megan and Andy, being talented outdoor chefs, feasted on a meal of Swedish pancakes with filmjolk in our woodshed turned kitchen -drying room for the week! We then hit the sack (or should I say ground?) which felt unbe-lieveably comfortable to our aching muscles.

At last came the final day and we'd been told it would be the fLatest and easiest. Ha! Our course was 15.7 km with 480 m climbing and it was a scorcher. What a difference from the first day when we competed bundled in winter clothes. Throughout the course I prayed for a wind above the treeline to keep us cool and mosquitoe-free. We trudged around the course until the high-est point and then started on a 5 km gradual downhill leg. It was here that Megan said, "Susan, you know you're tired when it hurts to go downhill!", and believe me it hurt. Later in the course we passed some beautiful old houses that I later learned were farmers' summer homes in the mountains where they grazed their cattle. At last, after swimming across a river, Megan and I cross-ed the finish line in a grand 48th position (only 3 hours

behind the winners!), but it didn't matter - I was just overjoyed to be finished! Our Canadian men's team finished a respectable 136th out of 203 teams.

Mountain orienteering has been des-cribed

as one of the physically

toughest sporting events in the world but it can also be alot of fun if you compete as Megan and I did - to finish and enjoy it. It's a different style of orien- teering which takes a while to get used to. You must adapt to the 1:50,000 scale and learn to rough orienteer as only mountains, lakes and large streams are on the map. There are two different types of orienteering on the course - the difficult orienteering in the scrub before the treeline and the fast, easier orienteering on the Peaks above the treeline where there is visibility of at least 2 kilometers! I think the feeling of competing in "Nordiska Fjallorientering 1979" was summed up perfectly by one of the Swedish girls on the team who finished fourth when she said upon finishing, "All I want to do is sit down and die!" But what a way to go!

Susan Budge

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NEW DIET TOUTED!

During the early years of Orien-teering in Quebec the two most acknowledged authorities on the sport were two persons named O'Ree and T. Ring. They were widely acclaimed for their art-icles and poems about the World Championships, the first Orien-teer, Mark O'Polo, and many other subjects.

After a too long absence these wayfarers are back! Now we know that they weren't really away. They have just been on a diet that has left them so highly tuned for orienteering that they've been as lithe as young maples, and as fast as deer. They have been running incognito in the Gatineau woods.

Now Mr. O'Ree as decided to reveal his secret.

Dear Editor, The Vol. 7, No. 2, 1979 issue of Orienteering Canada includ-ed an article "Distance Ath-letes' Diet" that had been sub-mitted by Ted de St. Croix. Ted had acquired the diet from a Norwegian coach while atten-ding a Ski-0 clinic in Norway in December 1978.

orienteering career, I developed a diet which helped keep my weight under control and yet provided me with a gourmet diet of exotic dishes. It is not necessary to consume such foods as "highly pungent sour milk" or "fried lard with pork drippings".

I am passing along this diet for the benefit of all other or-ienteers who do not have suffi-cient time or imagination to experiment with their meals and foodstuffs.

Yours in orienteering

J.A.M.B. O'Ree

O'REE BEFORE DIET... During the peak years of my

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LOW CALORIE DIET

Monday

BREAKFAST: Weak Tea LUNCH: One bouillon Cube in

one-half cup diluted water.

DINNER: One Pigeon Thigh; Three ounces Prune Juice (gargle only).

Tuesday

BREAKFAST: Scraped Crumbs from Burnt Toast

LUNCH: One Doughnut Hole (any flavor, without sugar)

DINNER: Three grains Cornmeal (broiled).

Wednesday

BREAKFAST: Boiled-out Stains of Old Table Cloth

LUNCH:

Belly Button of a Naval Orange

DINNER:

Three Eyes from Irish Potato (diced).

Thursday

BREAKFAST: Shredded Egg shell skin

LUNCH: One-half dozen poppy seeds

DINNER: Bee's Knees and Mosquito Knuckles (sauted in Vinegar).

Friday

BREAKFAST: Two Lobster Antennas LUNCH: One Tail Joint of Sea

Horse DINNER: Rotisserie Broiled

Guppy Fillet

Saturday

BREAKFAST: Four Chopped Banana Seeds

LUNCH:

Broiled Butterfly liver. DINNER:

Jelly Vertebrae a la Centipede

Sunday

BREAKFAST: Pickled Humming Bird Tongue; Prime Ribs of Tadpole; Aroma of Empty Custard Pie Plate.

DINNER: Tossed Paprika and Clover Leaf Salad

NOTE: A SEVEN-OUNCE GLASS OF STEAM MAY BE CONSUMED ON ALTERNATE DAYS TO ASSIST IN HAVING SOMETHING TO BLOW OFF.

...AND AFTER

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C.O.F. DROPS

Notes from the National Office

1. Fitness and Amateur Sport are playing musical chairs with our consultants again. Our "new" Recreation Consultant, Sue Vail, has now been transferred to another Dept. and our latest "new" consultant is an old friend, Barb O'Brien. Barb is a member of the Ottawa 0. Club and is a fairly regular competitor at '0' events. In addition to being an active orienteer, Barb is a very active Badminton Player and has repre-sented Canada in numerous Inter-national competitions.

2. C.O.F. Board member, Juri Peenre, is also 'playing?, musical chairs between Calgary and Van-couver. The C.O.F. office seems to receive a change of address card from Juri every other month. I think Juri believes in the old saying that " a moving target is harder to hit." For the next few months Juni will be located in Vancouver to attend U.B.C. and complete his Master's Degree. He then hopes to find a position in Calgary and return to Alberta. Being in Vancouver for the next few months in no way implies he

will be at the same address for that period. He has moved into an apartment with another notorious orienteering "rolling stone", Man Jones, and if past records mean anything, they will be "in transit" several times before the end of the school year.

3. Orienteering Ontario executive director, Henry Lam, advises that orienteering will be included in the 1980 Ontario Summer Games to be held in late August. Each of the thirteen Ontario regions can enter teams in each sports event and it is hoped that there will be orienteering teams from 8 or 9 regions.

1979 C.O.C. Meet Director, Jim Richardson, informs that the Newfoundland Gov't Sport Dept. have approached the N.O.A. to have orienteering included in the 1930 Newfoundland Summer Games. There are 5 regions in Newfoundland and the plan is to have regional qualification events with the winners advancing to the main event. The Gov't is willing to provide funds for the production of new maps; however, time does not permit the making of several mans. Existing maps vill be used

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in three regions with new naps being produced in the Labrador City and Burin Peninsula areas.

4. For years our O. Clubs have had rather staid and uninteresting names e.g. Montreal O. Club; Ottawa O. Club; Toronto 0. Club etc. Recently, there has been a trend to more colorful names and a seemingly much more evident club spirit. First club to break with tradition were the Courier de Boi; of Vineland (now called Niagara O. C.) then the Hartney Gougers; tha Halifax Hustlers; the Halifax Hoppers; the Dartmouth Trackers; the Calgary Kangaroos; the Foot-hill Wanderers; the Guelph Gators. Members of a new club, the Fred-ericton Foxes, were among the prize winners at the 1979 Canadian Championships. Although one of the smaller groups, the Foxes, were the most vociferous at the awards banquet, with each winning member accompanied to the awards table by a large colourful 'fox' mascot..

5. The 1980 I.O.F, Congress will decide whether the 1985 World Championships will be held in Australia or Canada. C.O.F. prepared a brochure that was given to all I.O.F. delegates and National Team coaches and offici-als at the 1979 W.O.C. The brochure gave details on Canadian terrain, vegetation, weather conditions, accommodation costs

etc. and included 2 maps. A. Hilton Falls-Ontario; B. Viking Hap-Quebec as examples of the quality of maps being produced in Canada.

The 1985 W.O.C. will be the first time the event will have been staged outside of Europe and both Australia and Canada are anxious to host the event.

6. With the cold weather and dark nights fast approaching, it will soon be time to be thinking of Christmas gifts. The C.O.F. office still has a quantity of the new C.O.F. T-shirts in both long and short sleeve. These T-shirts would make an excellent gift and one that would be put to good use.

7. Orienteering will be featured on the October 18th episode of the CTV program "Live it Up". The program was televised at the National Team Selection Meets at Hilton Falls, Ontario on May 26-27. Make a note to watch this program and tell your friends also.

Cohn Kirk

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WN85 IN CANADA?

Since their beginning in 1966 the World Orienteering Championships have always been held in Europe. The IOF wants to change that and Canada wants to help.

Next July the IOF Congress will decide who will host the 1985 W.O.C. Both Canada and Aus-tralia are seeking that honour.

For two years Australians have been promoting the idea of a "WM85" down under with bumper stickers and T-shirts and a fair amount of hoopla at European 0-events.

Last February the COF Board of Directors set up a Steering Committee to begin preparations for a bid to the IOF Congress and the possible task of host-ing the championships. Gord Hunter, Mike Day and Colin Kirk made some preliminary investigations of possible WOC locations and terrains and prepared a brochure for distri-bution at the 1979 IOF 'mini congress' and to teams compet-ing at the Championships in Finland.

The brochure contained infor-mation about terrain and for-est types, climate, accommoda-

dation and air travel costs from various IOF countries to central Canada. It was printed in both English and German thanks to the translation work of Jan and Mark Dutz of Ottawa.

The brochure was generally well received and although the deci-sion is not certain it seems that we can count on a fair amount of support next July.

If Canada is chosen to host WM85 a new organizing group will be put together to run the Champion-ships. This small group of per-haps less than ten persons will handle most of the organization up until 1985 when a greatly expanded work force will be needed especially during Championships week.

Secrecy about the actual sites of the Championship races is very important to the integrity of the Championships. If you know persons who will be involved in the organ-ization please do not press them for details. What you ask they may not be able to tell:

One question they will be able to answer is "Why host the Champion-ships?" For one it is a challenge we want to tackle and, two, past

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Megan Piercy awaits the start. WM '79 Ladies Relay

WORT 0 CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ORIENTEERING

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The benefits to the sport, it is felt, will far outweigh the necessarily heavy work load that will be experienced in 1985.

experience has shown that devel-oping Orienteering countries hosting the Championships like CSSR, Britain and Denmark have experienced a tremendous public increase in interest in the sport at the time of and just after the Championships. This interest has also manifested itself in an increased membership and meet participation.

Gord Hunter

ORIENTEERS ARE

"REGULAR PEOPLE"

Despite rumors you may Faye heard to the contrary orienteers are 'regular people'. At least that's the opinion of the great Finnish cross country skier, Juha Meito.

Interviewed for an American ski magazine he was asked why he com-peted in orienteering events during the summer. Meito replied, "It's a great sport for training. I do it mainly because it's a real amateur sport. I go to a meet and I'm like any other guy. I enjoy

this because 1 don't want to lose contact with regular people."

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BOOK REVIEW

There was a movie made in the mid 1960's called "Man's Favorite Sport". In it Rock Hudson played the part of a well known author and expert on sport fishing. It was a comedy revolving around the idea that Hudson, while he wrote about fishing, had never actually every gone fishing. Misadven-tures occur when he finally has to enter an important fishing derby.

What reminded me of that movie was a new book now in many book-stores. It's called The Com-plete Guide to Orienteering in North America by Berndt Berg-lund.

Berglund is described in the book as being North America's foremost outdoorsman and he claims to have had "almost 40 years of Orienteering both in Sweden and in Canada".

The 'Guide' covers many map and compass related topics as well as competitive orienteering. Its form and some content re-minds me of Kjellstrom's, Be Expert with Map and Compass which Berglund claims he is updating.

While the sections dealing with

general map and compass use may be good - I am not qualified to judge those - he should not have attempted to write about competi-tive orienteering without knowing more about how it has been prac-ticed in the 1970'.

I would like to share with you some of Mr. Berglund's insights into orienteering. On '0' Maps: "Often organizers will produce a special map for the race, but I think it is better that you use a standard topographical map in a scale of 1:50,000. The race is, after all, designed to hone one's knowledge of ordinary map reading." On Pace Counting: "It is a good idea to make a bead band for this purpose. Take some string and thread on some beads with every tenth bead a different color. This device will help you keep track of how many double steps you've taken".

Score Orienrepring: "in- volves three or more orienteers from the same club, who make up a team. The team usually consists of the three best orienteers of that club and their final times are added together for the team result".

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Relay Orienteering: ".. is ex-actly that - each competitor takes on a stretch of the course and a staff or marker is carried from one individual to the next". Sample Control Description: "Check Point No. 2 Control Letter A Track Trail Crossing approx. 2,600 yards or 2,400 meters SSW".

For the Meet Organizer: Remember the controls have to be hidden or else they can be spotted for miles away."

It is obvious that Mr. Berglund has not been much involved in orienteering in the last ten years. With so few orienteering books on the market it is dis-appointing that one claiming to be a 'complete guide' should be so poorly done.

Gord Hunter

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AUSTRALIA TO HOST "PACIFIC ORIENTEERING

CARNIVAL" Do you enjoy the challenge of orien-teering in unfamiliar types of ter-rain against orienteers from other countries? If so, you may well be attracted to compete in the inau-gural Pacific Orienteering Carni-val which is being held in Austra-lia from 5 to 13 April 1980. This article tells you about the Carnival and orienteering in Australia.

Orienteering in Australia

When orienteering started to spread throughout the world during the 1960's, Australia became the first nation in the southern hemi-sphere to adopt the sport. While occasional navigational competi-tions similar to orienteering had been held in Australia for at least the previous twenty years, it was in August 1969 that the orienteering event that started Australia on its way to becoming an orienteering nation was organised.

This event was conducted near Mel-bourne, the capital city of the °tate of Victoria. In 1971 orien-teering spread to the national cap-ital, Canberra, and since then has been established in all other State capital cities and many re-gional centres. Today there are

about 5000 members of the Orienteer-ing Federation of Australia (OFA) and many others participating in schools or as non-members at events.

While Australia is a vast country, much of it is flat, largely tree-less and sparsely inhabited. Most of Australia's population lives close to the eastern and southern coastline, and it is in this area that most of the forests are found and orienteering is concentrated. The areas that have proved to be most popular for orienteering are the forests of native eucalypt or planted pine, generally below an altitude of 1000 m and with a rainfall of 500 to 750 mm per year. These forests are generally fairly open and fast, with elite orienteers often running at rates below 6 minutes per km. With an abundance of kangaroos, wallabies, native birds and other wildlife, they are very pleasant areas also for family orienteers, who make up a large proportion of Australia's orienteering population.

Since the production of the first Australian coloured 0-maps in 1973, the standard of mapping has steadily improved, and the better Austra-lian maps have been regarded fav-ourably by European orienteers. The development of Australian map-

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ping has been assisted by a number of Swedish and Norwegian orienteers and most recently by Robin Harvey of Great Britain who in April this year conducting a mapping seminar in Australia under the sponsorship of the International Orienteering Federation.

Geologically Australia is a very old continent, and erosion of the landscape over time has left most of its orienteering areas without the fine topographic de-tail that characterises the maps of Norway, Sweden and some other European countries. While some more complex and challenging orienteering areas have been found, these have not been used to date either because of their remoteness or because they are being reserved for a future World Championship, which Australia has applied to host in 1985.

Australians in International Competition

Many Australians travel to Europe to sample more complex terrain and to enjoy competi-tion against orienteers from other countries. In 1972 one Australian competed in the World Championships, and from 1974 onwards Australia has sent full teams to this event. For those orienteers who are not up to World Championship standard trips to Europe are organised

each to participate in the Swedish Five-days 0-Ringen and a selection of other international events.

Only a small proportion of Austra-lia's orienteers are able to make these trips, so in Australia we also encourage overseas orienteers to visit and sample orienteering in Australian terrain. The first event organised primarily to pro-mote international competition in Australia was the 1978 Austra-lian Five-Days which attracted more than 800 competitors, inclu- ding a large contingent of European orienteers, plus some from New Zealand, the Phillipines and Japan. The 1979 Australian Three-Days at Easter was attended by a group of Norwegians including World Cham-pions Egil Johansen and Ann-Berit Eid.

International Challenges against neighbouring New Zealand have been held regularly since 1971. Ini-tially the Australia-New Zealand Challenge was limited to an open men's class, but it now extends to junior, open and veteran classes for both men and women.

The Pacific Orienteering Carnival

The success of the Australia-New Zealand Challenge has encouraged Australia to conduct the inaugural Pacific Orienteering Championships in April 1980 to stimulate further international competition among its orienteering neighbours in the

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Pacific and Asia. These Cham-pionships will consist of both individual and relay events and together with the Australian Easter Three-Days and two other events will constitute the Pacific Orien-terring Carnival. All age classes will be contested in these events.

The programme for the Carnival is as follows:

5 - 7 April. Easter Three-Days 9 April. Individual event 11 April. Pacific Relay Cham-

pionships 12 April. Model course for In-

dividual Championships 13 April. Pacific Individual

Championships

In addition to attracting repre-sentative teams from as many as possible of the orienteering nations in the Pacific and Asian region, we hope that a large number of European orienteers will compete. For European orien-teers it is an opportune time to visit Australia as the Australian Government has recently approved substantial reduction in airfares between Europe and Australia. The Carnival is being sponsored by Howden Australia, the local division of an international engineering firm, and by the Australian Government, and promises some of the most ex-citing orienteering offered in Australia to date.

with entry forms, to all national orienteering federations. Further information about orienteering in Australia can be obtained from the Secretary of the Orienteering Fed-eration of Australia, P.O. Box 16, Abbotsford, Victoria 3067, Australia. If you can participate we are sure you will find it a new and enjoyable experience in orien-teering.

David Hogg

(The author is a former President of the Orienteering Federations of Australia and is the organiser of the 1980 Pacific Orienteering Cham-pionships).

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NEWS 1. A and B World Championships

Due to the increasing number of participants in the W.O.C. and the three minute start interval, the starting list for the event is now reaching an elapsed time of five hours. This is considered too lengthy and can result in vastly changed weather condi-tions between a 9 a.m. start and a 2 p.m. start. The I.O.F. Technical Committee have pro-posed dividing the competitions into two categories A and B. The competitors will run diffe-rentcourses with the B course being easier and shorter. Com-petitors would be divided based upon the previous W.O.C. results and by the placing of the vari-ous countries in the previous W.O.C. relay results.

The majority of the smaller countries are against this proposal and feel that other alternatives should be consid-ered eg. reduce the start interval to one or two minutes, before a final decision is made. A concern of some countries is that they will not receive government support for a team to compete in a World 'B' event. The I.O.F. Technical Committee

will do further study on this item and make a new proposal at the 1980 Congress.

2. Orienteering - Olympic Question

The Vice President of 1.0.C., Willi Daume, was in attendance at the 1979 W.O.C. presumably as a guest of the Finnish Orienteering Federation. It will be 1988, at the earliest, before orienteering has any hope of being on the Olympic program. Several I.O.F. countries are strong-ly opposed to orienteering becom-ing part of the Olympics. The opinion of these I.O.F. courtries is that orienteering should remain out-side of the huge financial, racial, and polticial problems that have tarnished some of the recent Olym-pic Games.

3. I.O.F. Annual Fees

Inflation has struck at I.O.F. Like all orienteering clubs, pro-vincial associations, and C.O.F., the I.O.F. has money problems. The Finance Committee has proposed a restructure of the annual fees com-mencing with 1980 and then a 10% annual increment increase there-after. At present, C.O.F. pays an annual fee of 2500 Swedish Kroner ($612.00 in 1979). The new fee

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structure will increase our fee to 4000 Sw. Kr. (approx. $1020.00) for 1980 and then the 10% increase in subsequent years.

gress and World Championship, al-though sad to see this great ath-lete in her present semi-disabled condition.

4. Sarolta Monspart

One of the Hungarian delegates at the Congress was Sarolta Monspart, winner of the 1972 W.O.C. and near winner on several other occasions. Sarolta ranks among the very top few women orienteers ever and was also rat-ed one of the top world marathon runners two or three years ago. About eighteen months ago, Sarolta was bitten by a tick while participating in an '0' event. The bite developed into encephalitis and Sarolta lay near death for several weeks. She has gone through an intensive .

rehabilitation period but is still semi paralyzed in one leg and walks at a slow pace with a very decided limp. Sarolta says that her right leg is "like the leg of a baby - only half a leg - there is not any muscle or fibre left." Anyone who has witnessed this small, compact girl running through the woods will remember her most for the incredibly powerful muscular legs what could outrun and out- last all other competitors.

All athletes and delegates were happy to see Sarolta at the Con-

WESTERN CLINIC (confd)

and the enthusiastic energy didn't seem to fade - boisterous saunas long into the night, gunnel-bobbing on Blue Lake in scarce attire, and the inevitable camp-fire sing- song were all a part of those memorable days.

Plans are already underway for a second Blue Lake Leadership Course, as well as for a western map-making clinic. Our goal is sim-ply to develop the sport of orien-teering throughout the west, but we're also proud and optimistic about our recent competitive im-provements at the '79 Canadians. With the '81 and '82 Canadians to be held in B.C. and Manitoba, increased attention will be fo-cused on the ever-growing band of 500 orienteers west of Ont-ario -- and it is with leader-ship courses like the first Blue Lake Clinic that we hope to broaden our base of knowledge-able map-makers, course-setters, and competent meet organisors.

Jun Peepre

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MODERN OR IENTEERING TRAINING:

"RACE STRATEGY"

In our last issue we published an exerpt from a new British Orien-teering book, Modern Orienteering Training by Wilfred Holloway.

This book is available through the C.O.F. office for $10 plus postage.

One section deals with racing 'Strategy Tactics and Technique". 'It is reprinted here. If you find it interesting please note that the book has 16 chapters with about 130 similar sections full of the do's and don'ts of competitive orienteering.

xxxxxxxxxx The most important thing in the race is that you rapidly adapt to the map and understand it, relating it to the ground. You must make use of it because (good or bad) it is your only aid to speeding round the course. Your first look at the map should already extract lots of general information from it and if you have a minute at the start before the off then you can achieve a lot even before the running starts.

Work out your route to past the first control and then have a brief look through the other controls. Try to understand

the general lay-out of the terrain is it one big hill, or a couple of ridges, is it steep to the East and flat to the West, or whatever. Before the start you should already have checked the starting direction plus any paths in the neighbourhood so that you have an idea of what is behind and left or right of you. Having concentrated on this before the start and having imagined how the start-bit of the map will look you can more rapidly orient it and yourself when you get your first real look at the map. If you still have a couple of seconds then look again at your route to number one and two.

When finally running you must bear in mind all that has been written in the past couple of chapters. Think about what you are doing at a particular moment but also con-tinually plan ahead, usually on the easy-running parts of the course. Decide the right tactics for each control and pick out dif-ficult controls early on, trying to solve the problems well before you meet them. If you decide to make a fast but slightly risky attack on a particular control then work out also a second plan of action should your gamble fail.

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Be selective in noticing things -don't concentrate on checking off every little feature which you pass - before you get into the control area only the major features are important. When you do notice features make sure that you get the sizes and distances right. It is easy to convince yourself that this clearing is the marsh you're looking for or that rock step is a cliff - but do the sizes check? Do the distances check? You msut continually think and concentrate during the race.

Run a bit slower when you are tired and don't try tricky routes - mistakes can easily occur here. When you are tired it is much more difficult to concentrate on the map and to force yourself to plan ahead -but you must do so. If the orienting lags behind the run-ning then you are heading for an error. Be flexible too and vary your approach as necessary.

The run to the first control is the most important of the whole race for it is here that you first experience the ter-rain and its relationship to the map and yourself. Here too you must do an especially large amount of brain work

-instantly planning the first leg and also planning ahead generally. Be extra careful with your first control - far

better a few extra seconds spent on the map and safe route and per-fect find than a hurried mess and a soul-destroying search at the start.

As with difficult controls, dif-ficult route choices must be worked out early in the race if possible, but don't allow these thoughts to ruin your concentra-tion on what you have to do in the race up to this point. Dilem-ma situations can be terribly time consuming - it's often better to risk the slightly worse route than to continually try to solve a barely soluble problem. Make a decision fairly quickly and then get on with carrying it out

It's in the races that any lazy training will show up. If you have done things sloppily in training then these bad habits will cost you time in a race. In big races with big fields it is often possible to do some "Swis-sing" (ie. following faster run-ners until dropped off, two or three times in a race). This is not only a question for your conscience but also regarding your aims. You can't become a top-class orienteer by following.

Whether you work in tandem with other runners in the forest is entirely a question for you to an-swer yourself - personally I be-lieve that orienteering is an individual sport and the satis-

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Generally, though, your rule should be to ignore other runners (just as you should ignore every-thing irrelevant to the race) and get on with your own navi-gation. Watching other runners leads more often to error than to help. But what if you find yourself followed by less good runners - should you try to shake them off? Normally not, because your efforts to do this inevitably mean that you are • concentrating too much on this problem and not enough on your navigation - with the usual re-sults! The best thing to do is to keep orienteering fast and go through the controls quickly, the followers usually drop off after 3 or 4 controls.

Try not to think about how well you are doing or how long you have been running or how the others will cope in this ter-rain. If you are upset about the course or the planning or

the map or whatever - forget it, and when you finish don't com-plain to the organisers - they have worked very hard for the event, they are only human and can make mistakes. It is some-times a good idea to speak to no-body for 5 minutes after you have finished - the exhausted orien-teer is a rather antisocial ani-mal! If you find, 30 minutes after the event, that the organ-isers were at fault then perhaps a helpful criticism will improve the event next time, but remem-ber that whilst you are in the forest you have only one aim in mind - to complete the course as fast as possible.

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