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)

Calendar for 2014 Adventure Racing Season

Hi WARTS
Here is a list of all the events for the rest of the year. Please text or email me what you are keen to attend. I will not be doing all the transport for these events, so some activities you will need to organize yourselves.

8th of June: Northwest Rogaine at Woodhill
22nd of June: Navquest at Waiuku
14th to 15th of July: Year 9 and 10 Training
17th to 19th of July: New Zealand Secondary School Orienteering Champs at Auckland
27th of July: 6 hour Hilary Qualifier in Auckland (Only for Year 11-13)
2nd of August: Get2Go Training
9th of August: New Zealand Secondary School Rogaine Champs in Rotorua
12th of August: Get2Go Regionals in Whangarei (Only for Year 9-10)
13th of September: North Island Secondary School Orienteering Champs in coromandel
20th of September: Lactic Turkey P6 Auckland
24th of September: Auckland Secondary School Rogaine Champs


Starting on the 7th of June, every Sunday we will meet at the Glenbervie Adventure Forest Carpark at 2pm. To go MTB till 5pm. Parents are more than welcome to join in for this training. I would encourage all Juniors to come along, if you are having issues sourcing a MTB please let me know.

Orienteering and MTB

Hey WARTS,
On the 25th of May we are having an orienteering event out at smugglers bay. That starts at 10am. I was approached by the new caretaker of Glenbervie MTB tracks who said thankyou for the work we have done, and that he is going to have a clean up day on the 25th of may. I was thinking after orienteering we could go to Gelnbervie forest to do some more track maintenance on Flipper and then have a ride.

Let me know via text if you are keen to help.

Liv

North island secondary school adventure racing champs

Who is keen to go to this?

Hi Folks

Entries are now open for our new Adventure Race, a 12 hour and 6 hour Adventure Race.

The event will take place on Saturday 13th September 2014 and will incorporate the North Island Secondary School Championships.

The event will be based from Tucks Bay, near Coromandel Township and with the exception of the Schools Championships, teams will not require a support crew.

The events include mountain biking, trekking, rifle shooting, mine exploration and navigation and all team members will require a wet suit.

The 12 hour event will have  kayaking and non-kayaking options and is open to teams of 4 or 2 (any mix).

The 6 hour event is non- kayaking and will be open to teams of 2, 3 or 4.

The School Championships is open to teams of 4 (any mix) and will include kayaking.

The theme for the event can be found on the website and it is hoped that it  will raise awareness to the plight of Coromandels Archey's Frog.

As usual we have an early bird option for teams and more information and online entry can be found on our website at www.arcevents.co.nz

Holiday Training Info

Please read through the info attached and make sure that you are all sorted:

You should be bringing all the gear on the Hillary List, so please make sure you have sorted all of this.

I am bringing a pack for James, Bridget and Sara. Is there anyone else?


Tuesday:
Come prepared with lunch and water for the drive. Make sure all your cycle gear is easily accessible, might be a good idea to just wear your cycle gear down there. Make sure your camel packs are full and you have some race food, tyre kit etc.

Regarding Skit:
Based on conversations on Thursday, if you can think of a better **** than what I had, then you need to bring the actual ***** with you so that we can work on it. Costumes ETC we will sort out later.