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THE IRISH ORIENTEER ADDRESS LIST
AJAX ORIENTEERS Peter Kernan, 29 Willowbank Park, Rathfarnham, DublinI4.(kemanpeter@,eircom.net)
ATHLONE IT ORIENTEERS Nigel Foley-Fisher, AIT, Dublin Rd., Athlone. Co. Westmeath (0902-24465)BISHOPSTOWN OC Sean Cotter, 45 Rossbrook, Model Farm Rd, Cork, (021-4546194)BLACKWATER VALLEY OC Ellen Feehan. Scarteen Lower, Newmarl<et. Co. Corl< (029-60385)COMMUNITY GAMES ORIENTEERS Ted Lucey. Kilpadder. Dromahane. Mallow. Co.Corl< (022-47300)CIT ORIENTEERS Padraig Finnegan. Sports Office, Cork Inst. of Technology. Rossa Ave .•Cork.CORK ORIENTEERS Rick Austin, Gurteenroe. Macroom, Co. Cork (026-42095)CURRAGH-NAAS ORIENTEERS Ruth Lyman, Baltyboys, Blessington, Co.WlcklowDEFENCE FORCES ORIENTEERS Comdt. Brendan Delaney, Infantry School. Military College,
Curragh Oamp, Co. Kildare.DUBLIN UNIVERSITY ORIENTEERS The Secretary. DU Orienteers, House 27, TCD, Dublin 2.;FERMANAGH ORIENTEERS Mary Campbell. 5 Knocknamoe Bungalows, Omagh, Co. Tyrone (048-
82246818)FINGAL ORIENTEERS Tom Burl<e, 2 Sycamore Ave .. Beaufort Place, Navan, Co. Meath (046-74711)GALWAYIMAYO IT ORIENTEERS The Secretary. P.E. Dept.. GMIT, Dublin Road. GalwayGREAT EASTERN NAVIGATORS Nora Lalor. 6 Knockslnna Grove, Foxrock, Dublin 18 (01-2893497)KERRY ORIENTEERS Aory Costello. 14 Manor Court. Tralee, Co. Kerry. (066-25532)L.AGAN VALLEY ORIENTEERS Stephen Gilmore. 41 Drumlough Road. Hillsborough, Co. Down. BT26
6PX (048,92683812).LEE ORIENTEERS Clare Nuttall, 4 Upr. Panorama Tce .. Sunday's Well, Carl< (021-4300373)MIDLAND NAVIGATORS Barbara Foley-Fisher, Holly Cottage, Glasson, Athlolle, Co. Westmeath (0902-
85306)NORTH WEST OC Chartes Reid, 55 Brentwood Parl<, Bellast, BT5 7LO, (04890-666072)NUIGO The Secretary. clo Students' Union, NUl, Galway ([email protected])OK DCU Dublin City University. David Healy (david.healy90mall.dcu.ie)SETANTA ORIENTEERS Hazel Thompson. 2 Orwell Mews, Rathgar, Dublin 6; InfoOsetantaorienteers.
orgSLIGO ORIENTEERING CLUB Joe Bannon, Corrigeenroe, Boyle. Co. Roscommon (086-8305335)THREE ROCK OC Vera Murtagh, 19 The Cloisters. Terenure, Dublin 6W (01-4908237)UCC ORIENTEERS The Secretary. PE Office. UCC, College Road, Cork.UCD ORIENTEERS Box 64. Student Centre, UCD. Belfield. Dublin 4 ([email protected])UL ORIENTEERS Ed Niland. clo Clubs Officer. ULSU. University of Limerick ([email protected])WATERFORD ORIENTEERS Andrew Cox. Newtown School. Newtown. Wateriord
(wat020wateriordireland.com)WESTERN EAGLES - GALWAY ORIENTEERS Frank Ryan. St. Mary's, Balllnfoyle. Galway (091-
753829).IRISH O-ASSOCIATION Dave Weston. 49 Ashlawn, Balllnteer. Dublin 16 (01-2960854)IRISH ORIENTEERING JUNIORS Nianh Lalor ([email protected])NORTHERN IRELAND OA Raymond Finlay. Gortatole OEC. Florencecourt, Co. Fermanagh BT92 1ED
(048·66348888)CONNACHT OA Padralg Higgins, 24 Alverno Ave, Willow Parl<.Athlone, Co. Westmeath.LEINSTER OA Vera Murtagh, 19 The Cloisters, Terenure. Dublin 6W (01-4908237)MUNSTER OA John Muckian, 13 Elmvale Close, Wilton, Cork (021·4343348)IRISH·O STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Susan Healy, 11 Belmont Grove. Blackrock, Co. Dublin (01·
2885798)BRITISH O·FEDERATION Riversdale, Dale Road North. Darley Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2H(0044·
1629·734042. FAX 0044-1629-733769). www.brilishorienteering.org.ukINTERNATIONAL O·FEDERATION Radiokatu 20, FI'00093 SLU. Finland (00358·40585 3801. fax 00358-
93481 3113); www.orienteering.org
Club and other orienteering websites are accessible from the Irish Orienteering Association web-site, www.orienteering.ie
Remember, for round the clock orienteering information on lOA events ring 1890·923490 and forNIOA events ring 0044-07020·963986 or check the lOA web page at www.orienteering.ie or the
NIOA page at www.niorienteering.org.uk.
2 The Irish Orienleer
che lRlsh oracnccecNo. 108
The Irish Ortenteer Is avail-able from all Irish ortenteer-Jng dubs or by direct sub-scription from, the Editor:John McCullough. 9 ArranRoad, Dublin [email protected]
Annual subscription costs€9.50 for 6.issues.
Cover: 3ROC's Eoln Dunneplans his route at the GENNorwegian map-memoryevent at Bamaslingan. Co.Dublin on September 26th(JMcC)
NEXT COPY DATE30111 November 2004
CONTENTSClub contacts 2News 4WMOC Report 16Fixtures 18
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ISSN 0790-1194
Autumn 2004
Season OpenHow many of the Irish soccer team can you name?
How about the Irish Rugby team? The All-Irelandfootball or hurling champions? These are householdnames. How many of the Irish orienteering team can youname? Our team were competing in the World Orienteer-ing Championships in Sweden in September, bur can youname them?Congratulations [Q Andrew Quin, Steven and Violet Lin-ton, Marcus Pinker, Neil Dobbs, Colrn O'Halloran, ToniO'Donovan and Ailbhe Creedon. This must be the firsttime we have had a husband and wife together on theteam. Steven has been on the learn a number of Limesbefore, but it's Violet's first outing at WOe.The World Championships now take place every yearand have short, middle distance and classic distanceraces, plus a relay, so there's plenty of variety for theteam. Well done, all of you: maybe this is one step closerto your all becoming household names.
This time of year sees the start of a new season: there areplenty of events leading up to a fascinating Irish Cham-pionships in May on Inishbofln, via the Northern IrelandChampionships in ToUymore, the Munster Champs onthe dunes of Castlegregory and the Leinsters in a newarea in Co. Louth. Inisbofin sounds far- fetched , but itwill be a unique occasion. Doubtless everyone willwatch the weather forecast with extra interest that week.Unfonunatcly, though, the date clashes with World Cupraces in the UK so we will be without some of our bestorienteers,
How about a new season resolution to try orienteeringsomewhere new in the next twelve months? A differentpart of Ireland, or the .(K in England at Easter, the Scot-tish 6·Day or one of the many multi-day events on thecontinent? These can easily be combined with a familyholiday (well, "easily" is relativel) as I have found inItaly. France and Denmark in recent years. Enjoy yourorienteering!
The lrish Orienteer 3
WOC2004 REPORT
Unlike some other races withqualifying rounds, there arc no Bor Consolation finals in theWorldChampionships, thoughunsuccessful competitors can runin the public races associated withthe competition. In the relays,Ireland finished 22"d, ahead ofteams from Canada, USA, Hun-gary, Japan, Spain, Portugal, NewZealand and South Africa, amongothers. We had no women's relayteam this year.
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SWEDENFollowing selection races held inSweden,. the team of MarcusPinker, Neil Dobbs, Steven Lin-ton, Colrn O'Halloran, Andrew Quin; ToniO'Donovan, Ailbhe Creedon and Violet Lin-Lon was selected to run for Ireland in the2004 World Orienteering Championships inVasteras in Sweden in September.
The trial races, held 30 km South of Stock-holm, were 1n a very technical area, Withfew tracks, intricate contour detail, in anundulating forested area with mixed visibil-ity. The selection races were run all warmsunny days, with temperatures of 26-28C.
Sunday September 12 - Classic Qualifica-tion raceAndrew QUill recorded the best result of theIrish at the classic qualification. Andrewnarrowly missed qualifying for the classicfinal. by finishing 18th in heat B earlier to-day, less than 2 minutes behind the qualify-ing position in the 10.5 km race.
4 The frish Orienteer
Irish Champion, Andrew Quin
possible qualification in the medium racetomorrow. The remaining athlete, Colmo 'Halloran, appears to have made liule inthe way of mistakes, which, judging by hisfinishing time, seems 10 indicate he shouldbe relegated 10 Zimmer frame orienteer-ing. ".
Men beat A4730 mI Valentin Novikov Russia 26: 17.615Darnien Renard France 31:42.116 Marcus Pinker Ireland 33:12.4
Monday 131h - Medium Distance qualifica-tion race: Marcus Pinker came agonisinglyclose to qualifying for the final in the Me-
Despite some very good runs, none of me dium distance, tinishing in 16th place withIrish team at the World Championships 15 to quaJify. Marcus finished the 4.73 kmquaJitied for the A finals. Marcus Pinker course in 33.12, leaving him within 1 min 30came closest, finishing one place too low in seconds of qualification.the middle distance race. In the other heats, Colm was
27th, Violel 241h, Neil and Ail-bhe did nOIfinish .In the tongue-in-cheek words orthe "team journalist", reporting(somewhat controversially, a~ itturned out) to the Irish orien-teering c-groups, "Irish cham-pion Andrew Quin came closest(0 qualifying, running a COIll-
pact and few race, but unfortu-nately a recent ankle injury anda pervasive Swedish virus lefthim a little off peak fitness. IIIthe ladies races, Yiolet Lintonshowed that she is fast master-
V A S T t RA S ing the more technical types ofterrain but still has a little 10 go.
All eyes will flOW be Oft husband Steven to gothat bit better in (he Medium qualificationtomorrow. Neil Dobbs and Ailbhe Creedonhad off days and merely featured ill me re-suits as "incorrect ", but their enthusiasmand effervescent spirits in the wake of theirruns today is to be admired, and they wereboth confident of bouncing back 10 form and
Men B heal 4670 mI Thierry Gueorgiou France 25:54.029 Stephen Linton Ireland 42:36.4
Men C heat,4740 mI Holger Hott Johansen Norway 25:56.621 Nell Dobbs Ireland 41 :03.2
Women A heat 3900mI Jenny Johansson Sweden 25:23.624 Ailbhe Creedon Ireland 46:38, I
Women Cheat 391OmI Minna Kauppi Finland 25:12.027 Violet Linton Ireland 53:41.6
WOC2004 RESUL T5Sprint raceMen Final 3060 m1 Nlclas Jonasson Swaden2 Hakan Eriksson Sweden
Yuri OmellchenkoUkralne 13:09.0
Women Final 2560 m1 Simone Niggli-LuderSwitzer1and2 Karolina A Hojsgaard Sweden3 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen Norway
Classic raceMen Final 17110 m1 Bj0mar Valstad Norway 105:25,32 Mattias Karlsson Sweden3 Holger Holt Johansen Norway
Women Final 11020 m1 Karolina A Hojsgaard Sweden2 Hanne Staff Norway 83:26.5
13:06.513:09.0
12:32.213:01.113:19.5
105:57.2107:00.5
82:25.4
NWOC's Allan Bogle was at the WorldChampionships 100.
3 Manka Mikkola Finland 83:51.6
Middle DistanceMen Final 6300 m1 Thierry GueorglouFrance 32:45.92 Valentin Novikov Russia 33:07.13 Anders Nordberg Norway 33:12.3
Women Final 5260 m1 Hanne Staff Norway 33:03. 12 Tanya Ryabkina Russia 33:14.93 Hell Jukkola Finland 33:30.3
RelayMen1 Norway 2:08:08,5 BjemarValstad, 0ystelnKristiansen, Jergen Rostrup2 Russia 2:08:12,5 Misha Mamleev, An-drey Khramov, Valentin Novikov3 Sweden 2:08:13,4 Mattias Karlsson,Emil Wingstedt, Niclas Jonasson4 Finland 2:09:48,3 Jani Lakanen,Jarkko Huovila. Mats Haldln5 Great Britain 2:12:30,5 Jon Duncan
Daniel Marston, Jamie Stevenson22 Ireland 2:43:59 Andre Quin. Marcus Pinker,Steven Linton
Women1 Sweden 1:53:41,0 Gunilla Svlird,Jenny Johansson. Karolina A HOjsgaard2 Finland 1:53:43,4 Marika Mikkola,Minna Kauppi, Heli Jukkola3 Norway 1:55:34,6 Birgitte Husebye, Elisa-beth Ingvald.sen, Hanne Staff4 Switzerland 2:01:21,9 Kl:ithi Widler,Vroni Konig-Salmi, Simone Niggll-Luder5 Russia 2:01:46,9 Yulla NovikovaOlga Belozerova, Tanya Ryabkina6 Great Britain 2:03:19,4 Sarah Rollins,Helen Winskill, Heather Monro
The irish Orieflteer 5
WORLD UNIVERSITY 0-CHAMPIONSHIPS
Neil Dobbs and Niall Burke representedIreland at this event at Pilsen in the CzechRepublic., accompanied by, team coachFrank Ryan.The classic race was run in an area of mixedforest with plenty of large boulders. Pan ofthe area was formed by a slope sprinkledwith cliffs. The 14.4 km course was won byMichal Smola (CZE) in 82.58. Neil Dobbswas 571h in 114.48. Neil navigated well aftermaking some errors early in the race but waspleased with his navigation towards the endof the course. Niall elected not 10 compete inthe long distance event.In the 3.25 krn short race, Niall finished 5181
in a time of 18.50. The course was won byOystein Osterbo (NOR) in 14.42. The ter-rain was an urban area and city park withlots of paths, nat terrain, partly open andpartly semi-open. 1.6competitors were dis-qualified for mispunching, including NeilDobbs, a very large number of athletes atthis level of competition. However, the or-ganisers admitted breaking the rules by hav-ing control points on similar features closerthan the permitted 50 metres but as therewas no formal objection the results stood asit was felt the best athletes had won. NiallBourke had a very good run and his time iscreditable for this world class sprint event.
In the men's Middle Distance event(6.7km/2S0m) Niall finished 41s1 (44.1.7) andNeil 68~1(51.30). The race was won by Slo-vakia's Marian Davidik in 37.27. This was avery good performance by Niall who navi-gated superbly and was less than 7 minutesbehind the winner, finishing well up thefield out of 102 competitors. Neil Dobbs ranwell but some small errors caused him tolose a few minutes and valuable places onthe results listAthletes from the host country the CzechRepublic, Eastern Europe and the Scandina-
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WOC team member Colm O'Halloran.No zimmer frame in evidence here.
vian countries dominated the competitionand the performance of the Irish athletes wasvery good considering the near professionalnature of orienteering in these countries. Thenext world championships in Kosice, Slova-kia on 14-20th August 2006. (Frank Ryan)
HANS STEINEGGER DIESHans Stcinegger, developer of the orienteer-ing map drawing program OCAD. has died.He participated in a club weekend with hisclub in Switzerland, OLG Basel. After thefun relay all Saturday June 19th, Hans ex-perienced a heart attack and died.Hans, a Swiss Orienteering Federation(SOLV) honorary member. participated inorienteering races over the last weeks andmonths and had shown no indication of illhealth.OCAD appeared in 1990 and is now in ver-sion 8. The OCAD-Tearn will continue hiswork.
IMRARACES5tb Sep World Trophy Race, 1017m, 10 km5th Sep St Kevin's Way20 kin26th Sep Mullaghcleevaun 570m 11 krn13th Nov 12:00 Sugar Bow] 650m
8km
27th Dec 12:00 Christmas Flash191m 2.4krn
For details of the Irish Mountain RunningAssociation, see www.imra.ie
MUNSTER CHAMPSThe webpage for the Munster champion-ships is now on the BOC website at this link:
izup:llhomepage.eircom.llell- b i sh o p s t o w n o h c/ m o c 2004. hun IAn entry form and accommodation list areavailable on the web page. The BOC site isreadily found at www.orienteering.ielBOC
The Munster Championships, on the Octo-ber Bank Holiday Monday, are on the un-used section to the south of the IOC Relaysmap al Maharees, Castlegrcgory. Co. Kerry.Mapper Sean Corter described the area as farbeuer than the area used for the relays, so itshould be a good event.
3ROC's Eoin McCullough (MID)starts at the Leinster Championships
The previous day has a Kerry Orienreersevent at Inch, one of the best and most ex-tensive sand dune areas in the country. sceneof the Irish Individual Championships inMay.The entry form is enclosed. What a pity,though, that the two clubs couldn't use asingle address and payment for both events(described as the "Kingdom 2-Day"). Hav-ing La send two entry forms, two cheques,two envelopes etc for the weekend doesn'tgive a great impression.
ENGLAND WIN JUNIORHOME INTERNATIONALS
This turned out to be a low-key event. runalmost single handedly by Derek Allison inthe Lake District. Some Sf units failed dur-ing the event which led to some initial con-fusion over disqualifications and reinstate-ments but at the end of the individual day,England led from Wales, who had put in agreat effort, followed by Scotland and Ire-land. Scotland's boys won the relays, whichenabled the Scots to pull up 10 2nd overall.
QUOTE OF THE DA Y ...'" just got IOSl in thought. It W(lS unfamiliarterritory."(From Y Ddraig ("The Dragon"), the WelshOA newsletter).
NATIONAL ADVENTUREMARATHON
Rumours indicate that tbe National Adven-ture Marathon will be held again this yeardespite rumours to the contrary. Jt will movefrom its normal home in Kerry to GartanOEC in Donegal. and will take place overthe October bank holiday weekend.
The Irish Orjenteer 7
A helping hand at the Hellfire Clubevent.
xroc 04 TOLL YMOREFOREST AND MORE!!
This year's premier event in Northern Ire-land is being run on an up-dated and ex-tended map of one of the Province's mostpopular areas - Tolly more Forest Park. Nowthe map includes a new and challenging areaof open moorland on Luke's Mountain toadd contrast to the already pleasant run-nable woodland.
In addition to the usual championshipcourses LVO are offering 4 courses as entryOJ) the day - White, Yellow, Orange andLight Greenas well as a string Course.
The Irish Trail-O Championship is also be-ing organised by Alan Gartside, an expert atTrail-O, who currently holds the British ti-tle. This will be entry on the day.
Apart from band-crafted prizes there willalso be medals for all junior championshipcompetitors. Get your entry in before 25th
September - a paper copy is enclosed withthis issue and others can also be down-loaded at www.nioc.btinterner.co.uk
The Irish Trail-O Champs 2004 will be run
8 The Irish Orieflfeer
alongside NlOC at Tollymore on 9th Octo-ber. Entry (£5) is on the day and the coursewill have an extended opening to allow forparticipation after your NIOC run (indeedthe course won't open until Planner!Organiser Alan Gartside has had hisrun!). Take the opportunity to test yourtechnical skills as you recover from you rearlier exertions.
VHI2004
The team for the 2004 Veteran Home Inter-national at Cartingford on October 2/3 is
M40 Colm O'Halloran, Colm Rothery, BrianCorbeuM45 Gerry Brady, Val Jones, ScnanO'BoyleM50 John McCullough, Liam O'Brien, BillSimpsonM55 Colin Henderson. Wilbert Hollinger,Bernard CreedonM60 Ted Feehan, Alan Gartside, PatFlanaganW40 Julie Cleary, Clare Heardman, HeatherCairnsW45 Ruth Lynam, Petranka Pacheva, AnnSavageW50 Teresa Finlay. Ger Power, Mary HealyW55 Monica Nowlan, Jean O'Neill, MaireWalshW60 Trina Cleary, Maura Higgins, FaithWhite
This is an annual competition between Ire-land, England.Scotland and Wales (or, morecorrectly, between England and Scotlandand between Ireland and Walesl).
MTBONEWSThe Irish MTBO team will assemble in Mel-bourne in early October for the 2nd MTBOWorld Championships. Ireland has a team offour - Eoin Rothery, Mark Geary. Eunice
Postscipt: Following on from the successfulLeinster rnountainbikc orienteering league,there maybe some more events over thesummer with perhaps even an Irish MTBOChampionship in September. Future planswill be posted on the MTBO egroup. You
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Cinnamon and Nina Phillips. The events arein and around Ballarat in the state of Victo-ria, about 100 km west of Melbourne. Eoinand Mark are based in Australia and whileEunice and Nina will travel from the UKand Ireland respectively to take part. TheMTBO WOC consists of long distance, mid-dle distance and relay events on 20 - 23rdOctober, preceded a full week of organisedtraining and model events which thewomen's team will attend to acclimatise tothe unfamiliar Australian terrain. The longdistance races cover 38 km for men and 29krn for women, with the middle distance andrelay lengths proportionally shorter.
Boin and Mark have been competing regu-larly in Australia in preparation, Jncludingboth taking part in the recent Australianteam trials races on terrain quite close (butnot too close!) to the woe areas. Eunicehas been competing in the UK, while Ninaattended the MTBO world ranking events inFinland and Czech (9th - short distance) andthe Swiss Championships during August andSeptember.
It was interesting to discover that MTBOevents in some of the more developed
The editor with his home made mapbracket at the MTBO event at
Trooerstown
MTBO countries lake place on Slight!ymodified foot orienteering or even local ord-nance survey maps and tbese are still higbquality events, proving that there's no reasonIreland can't do the same. A large part of thedistance of a Swiss Cup race (the day aftertheir championships) was on a quiet countryroad network, with only parts of the courseoff road or in forest. There's plenty of inter-est in a second Irish MTBO series, followingthe success of [he events in April and Mayso any club willing to organize one, pleasedo, we have plenty of suitable areas andmaps.
Next year's MTBO woe is in Slovakia inSeptember, a bit more accessible than Aus-tralia and a world ranking series is plannedto incorporate all the national champion-ships ... maybe Ireland can produce an eventLO include in this calendar?
Nina Phillips
HOME MAP PRINTING
Lcinster has produced guidelines for homemap printing, available at
bttp:/Iorienteering.ieJleinster/index.html
Printing maps as required is becoming morecommon, rather than a commercial print runof 2.000 or 3,000 maps which will be out ofdate before they are aJJ used. Printing mapsfor each event (from OCAD)means that re-cent map corrections can be included, courseand control descriptions added and it does
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Once you have 2 or 3 key sessions in yourweekly schedule then you can devise some-thing around lt. I gOl preuy fil last winter bybasing my training around hill intervals with
2) I'm, living close to varied terrain - Cur- friends 01'1 Monday, a 60-minule training runragh, Glending, Donadea on Tuesday witl« a local running club, and
[bng intervals with. the running Club on3) I'd envision. maybe doing 2/3 sessions a Thursday. I then added other sessionsweek, + an, event (when the» start). around that - a 30 minute swim and 50 min-
utes of aqua running on (I Wednesday; 'fri-day varied between a run 'or cycle and at theweekend 1tried /0, get as much time in ter-rain or at competitions or just long runswil.h friends as possible.
away with the master map. However, theprint quality isn't always the best and the inkcan flake off the paper when repeatedlyfolded.
PROBLEM PAGE ...
CNOC's David Masterson recently issuedthis plea on the internet:
"I've decided' this year to make a decente1fOl:tat getting fitanrj doing some propertraining for orienteering. However, this isone area where ! have consistently fallendown an in the past. Does anybody have anysuggestions for an achievable training pro-gram that will keep me interested in gettingfit over the next few months. Here's my facts:
1) I'm quite unfit at the moment.
I'd welcome any suggestions, or pointers. toinformation that might help me. I'd also beinterested ill hearing what our elite orien-leers do in terms of training (not tho: I'll betrying it...)"
This is a Situation many of us have fouudoursel ves In, either when starting competi-tive orienteering, recovering from injury orreturning from.a lay-off.Former lrish Champion and aspiring WorldChampionship team member, Toni O'Dono-van, replied
Ruth Lynam and husband, Don Shortt,winners of the Mixed Veteran class, at
the 2004 Setanta Rogaine.
Front a mativaiion point of view I reallyneeded a structure because I was really unfitwhen I started aftera bad injury - I strug-gled with going out running - when! felt badit wa,5f! 't that easy unless 1 had somethingvelY defihite (0 40! Everyone is differentthough and you have to find something. tvsuit you! Good luckwith you)' training!
"Well! guess! count as one of the elite typepeople even though fin not going to WOe. We'JI watch the result and see how DaveMy advice isfind a few organised sessions - .gets on ...either OIi interval session with a club, a fewfriends who will do hills, a local circuit ses-sionetc ..
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JUNIOR WORLDCHA~IONSIIIPS
Norway and Sweden rookthe first gold med-als of the Junior World Orienteering Cham-pionships nil Wednesday 7th July in theMen's and WOmen's Middle Distance Finals,at Gdansk, Poland, with Audun BjerkreimNilsen (Nor) lind Helen Jan$S011(Swe) win-ning their 'A' Final.
Bjerkreirn Nilsen denied Matthias Merz of asecond Middle Distance Junior WorldChampion's lide, by taking the gold by 25sees. He was a deserved winner, as he hadprepared extremely well for these champion-ships over the last six months. This is hisfifth orienteering visit to the area, as well astraining very strongly over the wintermonths.The Swedish girls performed very well,
with three of their team finishing in the toplen.The Irish men, Foley-Fisher, O'Brien andHiggins, all had good steady rUIlS again to-
Nina Phillips does some techniquetraining at Barnaslingan
day but the higher levels of fitness and ex-perience of other runners at these worldchampionships showed through.
MEN'N Final: I, A. Bjerkreim Nilsen (Nor)27.09; 2, M. Mea (Sui) 27.34; 3. S. Krepsta(Lru) 27.42.'B' Final: I. M. Kristensson (Swe) 25.49; 57.Christian Foley-Fisher (Irl) 33.20; 80. CorrorO'Brien (IrI) 40.57; 81. Patrick Higgins (Irl)42.29.WOMEN'A' Final: 1.B. Jansson (Swe) 28.59; 2. R.Brozkova (Cze) 30.08; A.M. Fincke (Fin)30.30.
Only l' second separated gold and silver po-sitions in the Men's. Long Distance race.Mauhias Men (SUO was determined to takethe gold, having had to settle for the silverthe day before. in the Middle Distance Fi-nal. In an exciting finish, he sprinted the last200 m, down the finish chute, to deny Mar-lin Johansson (SWE) the gold by lsecond,
In the Women'S race, the Finn, Silja Tar-vonen, won comfortably, 1. min 57 seesahead of her nearest rival, Veline Stalder(SUI). Stalder had an excellent aID. to puther into an unexpected silver position, Al-ison O'Neil (GBR) is really producing thegoods this year. She took the bronze medalyesterday. Great Britain's first medal atJWOCsince 1987, and she finished just outof the medals on Wednesday. in 4th positionin the Middle Distance Final.
MEN 1.Matthias Merz (SUI) 72.19;2. Martin Johansson (SWE) 72.20;3. Simonas Krep$ta·(LTU) 72.29,141. Patrick Higgins (IRL), 119.l5,;145. Christian Foley-Fisher (IRL) 126.56;147. Conor O'Brien (lRL) 131.54.
WOMEN 1. Silja Tarvonen (FIN) 59.51;2. Veline Stalder (SUI) 61.48;
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3. Alison O'Neil (GBR) 62.22.
Sweden took the gold in both the Men's andWomen's Relay races. Both teams camefrom behind, on earlier legs, to win with acushion of 2mins. The men's team provedthe strength of their squad, where they werewithout their first leg runner, Anders Holm-berg, through injury, and still managed tocome through the winners.
MEN I. Sweden 128.25 (1. Lindahl 45.30;M. Millinger 42.53; M. Johansson 40.02);2. Czech Republic 131.07 (J. Palas 43.37; J.Sed ivy 44.19; J. Prochazka43.11); Switzerland 132.40 (A. Ruedlinger45.46; F. Henner 44.25: M. Merz 42.29);ireland 152.42 (P. Higgins 83.1 L; C. O'Brien69.31; C. Foley-Fisher Disq.).
WOMEN I. Sweden 111.43 (E. Skantzc39.36; A. Persson 36.48; H. Jansson 35.19);2. Finland 113.41 (A-M. Fincke 34.44; H.Wennman 39.21; S. Tarvonen 39.36);3. Norway L 14.16 (E. Egscth 37.55; B. A.Bjerkreim Nilsen 38.03; 1. PlatckvaJ 38.18).
WINTER TRAINING INPORTUGAL
The orienteering club, Clubc de Orientaeaodo Centro - Leiria _ Portugal ((http://www.coc.pt/), will be organising four orienteeringtraining camps, starting Jan 29, 2005 till Pcb18,2005.The dates for these training camps werescheduled in order to match the interest ofall of those planning to attend the next Por-tugal "0" meeting or the World RankingEvent that wiU be held in Portugal duringthe weekend of Feb 12- 13, 2005 ..The training camps will be open to anyoneand it's not mandatory that participants at-tend any of these competitions. The deadlineforregistration is November 30, 2004.All the information about the Camps and thearea where they wiJI be held, can be found at
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committee in Paul Mahon and David Dare. ciated the one way traffic effort as the roadNina Phillips is continuing on as treasurer. was oniy just wide enough for on.e car.Both the former chairman and secretary, I was surprised 10 see so many cars in frontTerry Lawless and Mick Mangan, have of me. Usually, gaps develop as people comestayed on the committee to give continuity. and go at different times. However, this wasThe other committee members are Brian impossible 01'/ this narrow road. 1decided toPower (who is also looking after mapping) get Illy running gear on, as I was very lateand Tony Doolin (also taking over the web- and didn't want to delay things further bysite and moderation of the club e-group). having to walk LIp and down to my carRetiring to the backbenches are Dave Wr:.s- again. Just when I was putting on my run-ton and Frances O'Neill both of whom are ners a car parked behind me. A young ladtaking a well-earned rest after long stints on came out accompanied by ""'0 old fellows. Ithe committee including many years be- said: "I am glad I am 7101 tile only one whotween them as chairman, secretary and treas- is late", but these guys' were 1101 in the mood
for talking and hurried Oil.
8)' that lime I knew something lVas wrong,maybe it was the look these glfyS gave me
F h H j dcscrib f th . t: II seeing me ill Illy running gear, maybe theae tna ea y cscrt es some 0 e pitta s . .f . • . . C C k fact that I didn't see a/l.)'people tn. the 15 oro onenteenng IU o. or ... . fi if h I ldi
I di I I so cars tn .rant 0 me, or I at tne two 0 tesgal some irecuons of 101V 10 gel 10 tne ,...I I d b . h b b h who you wouldn I associate with ortenteer-event. la. een I ere once efore,. lit t e . b I. I k .r d ori .I . d'/$.· I dd I tng, may e tne ac« OJ expectec onenteenngroute was given was . l.J.Ierem. su enty
d I I '. d fi ground. Anyway, I closed the car and fol-came to a roo tnat recognise as one /'omthe previous lime I went to Wals/uolVn. l was ~motoring along prettyfas: at this stage whenI suddenly came fa a Tvjunction which filledthe description given and where some carswere parked and a guy lVas giving parkinginstructions (1101 unusual for these events). Iopened my window and asked if I was still ill.time, "Yeah, you're fine". Theil he said: "Weopera te a aile lVay system, so call you driveon, take a leJt tum, another Left and anotherleji and park behind the other cars". I askedhim: 'II.re there many at it" and he replied:"Yeah, there are a good few",M)~last remark then was that they were wellorganised. These competitions are organised011 a rotational basis, and I knew il could beorganised by a company whose people 1didn " know. I expected. a small detour, butafter 10 minutes of very narrow roads withmostly farmland around me I was beginningto wonder a bit. I didn't remember this at allfrom the last time. Anyway, I reached thetail end of the parked cars soon and appre-
"Watch out [ornighi-O again. this winter.Here Tom Condo II shows how it's done. urer.
www.mariosantos.com/coc_trainlng_camp_panflet/coc_training_camp_UK_US.hlm
A CAUTIONARY TALE
LATETIOWork and family commitments delayed theproduction of this issue. Apologies if youwere inconvenienced. particularly with the
distribution of entry forms.
JUNIORS BARRED FOR AL-COHOLABUSE
The Finnish Orienteering Federation hassacked 25 juniors from its regional trainingprogramme because they were caught drink-ing alcohol at the end of a training camp thissummer. "Since the training group membersare between 15 and 20 years, we agreed notto allow any use of drugs at camps and com-petition trips organised by the Federation,"said FOP training director Pelteri Kahan.FOF is recommending that clubs do notcover travel costs for the juniors involved.(O-Sporl)
SET CHANGESSctarua Orienreers have a new Chairman inSean Hassett, a new Secretary in HazelThompson, and rwo new members to the
fan Searle gets ready for the first leg ofthe Iukola 7-person overnighi relay
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LEINSTER JUNIORS TABLEQUIZ
There will be a table quiz on Tuesday 9thNovember to raise funds for the JuniorSquad in the Leinster area. More detailsnearer the time from Ruth Lynam (045867183) ruthlynam@iolje or Mary Healyjoehealy@ioLie.
ORIENTEERING IN THEOLYMPICS?
With all the media coverage of the Olympics
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cent Seven where Yul Brynner assembledhis team: the shaky-banded gunfighter whohas taken to drink, the hopeless cases whonevertheless pull off a miracle when theMexican village needs defending. Well. thatwas us, except the miracle didn't happen thisyear.Camping in a Finnish army tent (one perteam), we tilled up with coffee and pan-cakes, pasta and pudding to prapare for thenight ahead. To sleep. perchance to eat: aye.there's the rub, This event is so out of theordinary thai all your normal routines go outthe window: if you are to run at 3 am, doyou go to bed (and fail to sleep) or stay up(and gel cold and wish you were in bed)? Doyou try and run early (when it will be at it'sdarkest) and then retire to the sauna with abeer for the rest of the night, or run laterwhen it will be brighter?Ian, running first, had a good. steady run.Second-leg runner, Ken-in his first Jukola,was concerned about mispunching. When hecame back after his leg and said that he hadmispunched, we didn't all believe him, buthis dejection was too convincing. In thedark, in a Finnish forest, in the heat of com-petition, it's easy enough to do. As a resultthe team was disqualified and. though thirdleg runner David got out, the rest of us wereto run in a mass-start for teams such as ours.So our aim of finishing in a higher place
r------------------, tban our race number was dashed for anotheryear.Following several hours (days, even) of rit-ual humiliation. Ken (who had sprained hisankle badly the week before) had been pun-ished sufficiently and was allowed to rejointhe party.This year's event was not as technical as the2002 race: there were some tracks in theforest and the visibility was unusually good.With Ryanair flying to nearby Tampere, itwasn't that dear to get there.Here's to next year ...
over the summer. you may be wonderingwhat ever happened to the plans to have ori-enteering included ill the Olympics. Becauseof the rules governing what sports are in heGames, ski-orienteering has a better chanceof being adopted in the winter Olympicsthan foot orienteering has in the summergames. This because the sport needs to bepractised in fewer countries for acceptancein the Winter Games.
lished in The Irish Orienteer, just send themto the editor with a request for publication.There is a small charge which just covers theprinting cost of your results.
lowed tire trio, who in the meantime hadseparated, as the oldest fellow couldn't keepup the walking pace. I caught up with himand asked if he wanted to walk the course.Well this guy was a real rural and he musthave just finished his evening tea as he wasfarting away happily, and it was obviousthere was a language barrier between us, ashe didn't understand me and I didn't under-stand him. He murmured something about"It's a sad day" and I replied to him "But itis clearing up now". However, orienteering was once withinGelling nowhere with this guy I started jog- months of bei I1gin the Olympics. Orierueer-ging away from him until I reached the ing was included as a demonstration sport inyoung fellow. Seeing 111)' outfit he helped me the Helsinki Olympics in 1940 and would01lT of my dream very quickly. "There is a have been in the games were it nor for thefuneral, which started at Zpm." And then I Second World War. The 1940 games hadsuddenly saw a crowd in front of tl house. I been planned for Tokyo but were changed toimmediately turned around and went back 10 Helsinki when the Japanese withdrew inthe car. but there was absolutely no way to 1938. The maps had been prepared atgel forward or backward. So I gave ill and I :20,000 scale at the village of Fiskars butstarted changing into my clothes again. the Games were not held that year. The lirstAround 7.45 pm. I filially got out, and for post-war games were in London in 1948some reason continued my route and within and. when the games returned to Helsinki inminutes I found the signposted Y-jullctioll. I 1952, orienteering was no longer included.arrived at the event when the fastest guy of In 1966, Finland ran the first World Orien-the night was finishing. Somebody was al- teering Championships at Fiskars, so maybeready collecting controls, and aforester had the work done more than 25 years earlierstarted loading a truck 011 the finishing paid off in the end. (Information from 0-straight, so absolutely no chance to get a Sport magazine)./"IITI. I told somebody Illy SIOI)', but he justsaid that I waif unlucky. "- Fachtna Healy, Setanta Orienteers
JUKOLA2004John McCullough was orienteering for aweekend in Finland ...The Jukola is a Finnish midsummer orien-teering institution, Try to imagine a crossbetween a formula I motor race with no carsand an all-night open air concert with nomusic. Nine thousand people assembled onan airfield (let's hope someone thought totell the pilots) in tents for a seven-personovernight orienteering race, starting aroundII pm and finishing at about 7 am (for thefaster teams, that is). There's also a [Our-women race called the Venia relay whichtakes place the afternoon before the Jukola:the girls get a chance to trample down theundergrowth for the big race later on. Well.really!!This was my second lukola. I was an inviteeonto a London OK team with Ronan andJulie Cleary, Ken Warren (anyone rememberhim from the Irish Junior Team of the'70's?), former round-the-world yachtsmanIan Searle, Steve Bingham and David Saun-ders.You remember the scenes in The Magnifi-
EVENT REPORTSlt's always interesting to read somcone'sexperiences of orienteering events, even ifyou weren't there yourself, In this issue.however, you will have to be satisfied with afew reports: was anyone at the Welsh 6-Dayor at any of the other events over the sum-mer? Why not tell us about them?
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....RESULTS
This is the second issue of The irish Orien-teer with no results pages. Results frommany events are available on the internet.atwww.orienteering.ie.If you wouldlike your event results pub-
A Finnish army tent, complete with(bullet?) holes at Jukola
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WORLD MASTERSORIENTEERINGCHAMPIONSHIPS
Formerly known as the Veterans' WorldCup, tbe competition now called the WorldMasters' Orienteering Championships(WMOC) attracted three thousand cornpeti-tors to the Asiago area of northern Italy for aweek of outstanding orienteering in July.Half of the competitors came from Scandi-navia. with the rest from other parts Europeand around the world. One characteristic ofthis event is that anyone over 35 can enter -you don't have to be selected by your na-tional federation. Depending on your placingIn two selection races, you go into the A, B.Cor D final for your age class.
The event centre, Asiago, is a town at analtitude comparable to the top of Carrantoo-hill and the races were at similar elevationsin alpine terrain of mixed coniferous forestand limestone pastureland. To gel to theAsiago plateau, we negotiated a series oftortuous hairpin bends and improbablebridges, launching themselves from the val-ley walls towards the other side, engineeringfeats which, in Ireland, would have everyonegasping with admiration.
ln winter. thiS is a big cross-country ski 'areaand in summer it boasts hundreds of kilome-tres of mountain bike trails. Several areashave been mapped for orienteering. Oneunusual feature is the number of pits. de-pressions and gullies in the forests. Theseare remnants of the trench warfare when thefront line repeatedly crossed over and backin the area during the first World War. (Atthe time the British and Italians were allies,fighting the invading German army). Tens ofthousands of soldiers were killed here andthe military cemeteries and a buge memorialin Asiago to mark the events.
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Almost 20 competitors from ireland, northand south, travelled [0 the WMOC, runningin classes from M and W 40 to M65. (Therewas even an M90 class, with one competitor,from Finland). Their best result was JulieCleary's 18th place in the A final ofW40.
Below:Some of the terrain near Edmonton,Canada,to be used for WMOC2005.See www.2oo5worldmosters.com
There's orienteering from July 15to 30;nthe area.
An interesting aspect of the event were theprovision of warm-up maps at I: J OO()() and1:15000 scale for competitors to visit con-trols on the way to the start to get theirbrains working as well as their legs.
Weather conditions were perfect for run-ning: dry and sunny, with temperatures inthe mid 20's and a nice breeze most of thetime.
Above: WMOCwarm-upmopon the way tothe Start. There's more orienteering in theASiagoarea on June 2-52005 and Septem-
ber 3-42005.1110 competition is now an annual one. Nextyear it's in Edmonton in Canada, in 2006 inAustria and in 2007 in Finland.
i WMOC 2004: One of the<.:, "",,. difficulties of Alpine ter-
;:;f~ljoj.j!':~t-"Io! ,
~~r.jh~:iirain is knowing which wayll-;"" t is uphill and which is
~~'~,down... Going from 10 to 13 in the
Semifinal at Campolongo Ithought I'd go out throughthe col, out across a sloperunning from right to Jeft tono. I I, then drop to thepath and contour across thehillside to .12, run down thespur to 13 and down iotathe finish field.I was baffled when T foundthat everything was upside-down: the slope was com-ing down from my left andIhad to run along under aline of crags and climb up asteep re-entrant to get up tothe finish field!JMcC
Roberto Tettamanti (M35) takes a fencein his stride at WMOC. (Photo from 0-
Sport magazine)
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ORIENTEERING FIXTURES 2004-2005 12 Corrin Hill, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Cork County League 13, BOC12 Local Event, FIN. Venue to be confirmed.19 CoolydoodyWood, Tallow, Co.Waterford, Cork County League 14, BOC26 Three RockWood, Dundrum , Co. Dublin, Xmas Fun Score, 3ROC27 CurrabinnyWood, Co. Cork, Local Event I Norwegian I Score, BOC27 BallincolligWest, Co. Cork, Local Event / Xmas Fun Event, CORKO
October 20042 Foxes Rock, Carlingford , Co. Louth, Veteran Home International Relays,
3ROC3 Slieve Foy',Carlingford, Co. Louth, VHllndividual & Leinster Autumn Series
No.1,3ROC3 CurrabinnyWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 4 , BOC9 Tollymore Forest Park, Co. Down, Northern Ireland Championships, LVO10 UpperTorc, Muckross, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Kerry Autumn League 2 , KO10 RostellanWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 5, BOC10 Marlay Park, Co. Dublin, Local Event, AJAX17 Foilanummera, Ballingeary,Co. Cork, Local Event, CORKO17 Rathcormac MtnWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 6 , BOC17 Mullaghmeen, Oldcastle, Co. Westmeath, Leinster Autumn Series 2, SET23 Blnevenagh, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland Series 5, NWOC24 Inch Sand Dunes, Co. Kerry, Kerry Autumn 3 Kingdom2 Day, KERRYO25 Magharees,Castlegregory, Co. Kerry, Munster Champs / Kingdom 2 Days,
BOC31 BallinoraWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 7 , BOC31 Local Event, FIN. Venue to be confirmed.31 The Burren, Co. Fermanagh , 'Tough Guy' Series 1 , FERMO
March 200525-28 JK2005, Staffordshire, Jan Kjellstrom Orienteering Festival,WMOA
April 200517 Carnavaddy, Co. Louth, Leinster Championships, FIN30 Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Irish Orienteering Championships / Medium Dis-
tance I WEGO / CNOC/ GMITO
May 20051 Inishbofin , Co. Galway I Irish Orienteering Championships I Classic Dis-
tance I WEGO / CNOC / GMITO2 Inishbofln , Co. Galway, Irish Orienteering Championships / Relays,
WEGO I CNOC / GMITO
Start times are generally between 11.00 and 13.00 hrs. Members of orienteeringclubs affiliated to IOA/NIOA are entitled to reduced entry fees at all entry on theday events: make sure you get your reduction!For more information on orienteering, visit www.orienteering.ie.This site has linksto all Irish clubs with web sites, also to NIOA, International Orienteering Federationetc.
November 20046 Glenariff, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland Series 6 , LVO7 GlenbowerWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 8, BOC7 Mall Hill, Laragh , Co.Wicklow , Leinster Autumn Series 3 , GEN13 Muckross Abbey, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Local Event / Night-O , KERRYO14 Blue Pool; Muckross , Co. Kerry, Kerry Autumn League 4 , KERRYO14 Glengarra, Cahlr , Co. Tipperary I Local Event, CORKO14 Curragh Wood, Midleton ,Co. Cork, Cork County League 9, BOC14 Local Event, DUO. Venue to be confirmed.14 Lough Navar, Co. Fermanagh , 'Tough Guy' Series 2, FERMO21 GarravaghWood, Canon's X, Co. Cork, Cork County League 10, BOC21 Oldboleys, Glencree, Co.Wicklow , Leinster Autumn Series 4 , AJAX27 Crossmurrin, Co. Fermanagh , Northern Ireland Series 7, FERMO27 Ely Lodge I Co. Fermanagh , Northern Irish Night-O Champs, FERMO28 ArdarghWood, Co. Cork, Cork County League 11 , BOC28 Local Event, UCDO. Venue to be confirmed.
This season, look out for extra events not yet in the fixtures list: mountain bike ori-enteering and most night events have still to be added.
December 20044 Castleward, Strangford , Co. Down, LVO Finals Day I LVO5 Knockreer Estate, Co. Kerry, Kerry Autumn League 5 , KERRYO5 WaterlooWood, Co. Cork I Cork County League 12, BOC5 Curragh , Co. Kildare, Leinster Autumn Series 5 , CNOC5 Gortalughany, Co. Fermanagh , 'Tough Guy' Series 3, FERMO
Some of the terrain at the 2004 Jukola relay inFinland(right) Some of next year's area is
shown below.
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