New Zealand orienteering Nationals

Hi Team,

There are 19 of you competing for Whangarei Girls and Boys High school. Please make sure you you check this post over the next two weeks.
Meet at Whangarei Girls High 9am, we need to depart at 9.30, so please don't be late. Come dressed in your race gear (running shorts and shirt) as we will be going straight to the event.
Frances and Steve Hill will also be accompany me as parent support while we are away. Rachel and Nira Kingi will also be down there and Nira will be driving the school van home, as I have a prior arrangement in Auckland

For event information check out: Counties Manukau Orienteering Club Website: NZSS 2014
 http://cmoc.co.nz/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-NZSS-Programme.pdf


Names of People attending:
Shaan Hill
Callum Hill
Flynn Hill
Mika Hill
Matt Kingi
Bill Hamilton
Daniel McInnes
Geneva Overwater
Macey Polwart
Julia Carter-bell
Piper Mortimer
Ruby Parker
Grace Elliot
Nicole Robinson
Madi Doar
Grace Ruddell
Sarah Adams
Ella Poole-Crowe
Tia Saunders

Gear List: (please be very careful with how much gear you bring as we only have a small amount to space)
Personal medication (you must let me know any medicine that is being taken during the time we are away)
Thermal Top and Bottoms
Socks
Underwear
Racing shorts/tights (please make sure that you bring long tights or skins as there is one day where you will need to be fully covered, due to gorse and blackberry plants)
Appropriate exercising tops
Fleece Top/woolen jumper
Track pants
Running shoes
Casual shoes
Jandals
Clothes for wearing around the hostel
There is a "disco" on Friday night
Money for the movies or pools, disco $5
Togs
2x Towels
Plastic bag
Rain coat
Warm hat
Tooth brush
Compass (I have plenty of these)
PJs
Water bottle
Half an ice cream container of baking (get in touch with someone else and bring one containter between two)
Personal snacks
Sheet
Pillow
Sleeping bag
Packed Lunch for Thursday

Here is the information for the event, start times and locations. Please read over this carefully. You should be printing out all the information so that you can go over it and be organised.

SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS – Thursday 17th

 July 

This event is an Orienteering NZ ‘A-Level’ event 

Map: Mountford Park 

Scale: 1:4,000 

Location: Manurewa/Manukau City 

Terrain: School grounds and Park 

Levels: Championship: for experienced orienteers 

Start times: First starts from 2pm 

INDIVIDUAL (LONG) CHAMPIONSHIPS – Friday 18th

 July 

This event is an Orienteering NZ ‘A-Level’ event 

Map: Waiuku Forest 

Scale: 1:10,000/1:7500 

Location: 30 mins from Bombay 

Terrain: Undulating Pine Forest 

Levels: Championship: for experienced orienteers 

 Standard: for those with less experience 

Start times: First starts will be 10:00am 

RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS – Saturday 19th

 July 

Map: Waiuku Forest and Farm 

Scale: 1:10,000/1:7500 

Location: 30 mins from Bombay 

Terrain: Undulating forest and farmland 

Level: Standard only 

Start Times First Starts will be 10.00am 

Teams: “Official teams” are made up of students, of the same gender and from 

the same school, who are eligible to compete in the class. 

To cater for students who are not able to be placed in a school team, 

composite teams will be made up.

Junior Adventure Racing

Holiday Training:
Please let me know what trainings you can make. I wll finalise all of this on the 13th fo July, so please check this post for any changes. Any seniors that want to come along and help are welcome, however please let me know your intentions.

14th of July: Meet at Whangarei Girls High School at 9am to 12.30. Training will take place at school and mair park. Bring, running shoes, thermal, towel, water bottle, personal medication, food, change of clothes
15th of July: Meet at Barge Park at 9am to 12.30. Bring, running shoes, thermal, towel, water bottle, personal medication, food, change of clothes. If you need a ride from school to barge park, then please give me a text and I will meet you at girls high at 8.30am.

Navquest Info

Please make sure that you bring all the gear listed below. We need to be leaving Whangarei soon after 6am so please make sure you are prompt and on time

Gear:
Thermal top
Running Shorts
Lunch
Camel Pack
Personal medication
Running shoes
Track pants
Towel
Plastic bag
Fleece jumper

Every team member must carry or wear –
A windproof/waterproof parka
A long sleeve polypro or woollen (eg icebreaker) top
A warm hat/beanie. Buffs are ok for this.
Poly-pro gloves or similiar
At least 1.5 litres of water
Energy snacks or bars to keep you going
Personal medication e.g. asthma inhalers, bee sting pills…etc
A pack to carry everything in
A pair of running/trail shoes

Each team needs to carry –
At least 2 compasses (I have spares)
A team first aid kit (I will bring this to the event)
One charged up cell-phone (to be used only in the event of an emergency, if you need
assistance from a marshal)
At least 2 watches
At least 2 whistles (I have this)
At least 2 survival blankets (the thin silver ones) (I have this)

Teams:
Callum
Daniel
Matt

Flynn
Alex Godman
Bill

Tia
Julia
Grace Elliot
Sarah

Mika
Geneva
Grace

Parents:
Olivia McLeod (4 seats)
Frances Hill (6 seats)
Barry Ruddell (5 seats)