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Looking for an interesting way of getting some exercise? Street Orienteering offers the opportunity to take part in regular street and/or park runs in a social environment. The sport caters for all ages and fitness levels - typically, A, B, C and D grade offer runs of 10, 8, 6 and 4.5 km respectively and an E grade event of about 3 km is especially designed for children and beginners. In addition, there is a Power-Walking section - if you can walk for about 1 hour this is the event for you.

Metropolitan park/street events are held at 7:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (if you are a newcomer, please be there by 6:40 so we can brief you). Suburban and bush events are held on Saturdays and Sundays from March to late October. If you would like more information please try the excellent training and information pages provided by the Emus Orienteering Club

If you can't find the information you're looking for click here or call Geoff Hudson on (03) 9888 8121.

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Latest News/Friendly Gossip

Bayside Kangaroos refuse DROC

Controversy Rocks the Northern Series

For those of you that ran in the heat and the hills earlier in the week, the Thursday event at Greensborough managed to fix one out of two. The conditions were perfect for running - cool, clear conditions - as we ran along the creek and through the parks on this well set event, we realised that few events get much better than this. There were, however, several upsets in the results - causing at least one long-standing orienteer to reconsider his tenure in the sport. For full details, see the Event Report at http://street.orienteering.com.au/2010/Thursday/NSS/Summer2/

Ray's Rankings - now available for February 2010

Thanks again to Ray Howe for updated rankings - press here to see how you fared

Today's (Wednesday) Event - 20th January - Lynden Park

Parking in Lynden St is limited.  Other parking options are at the Scout Hall cnr Oberwyl and Stornaway Rds, or in Stornaway Rd.

Park-Street Millennium Club

 Many of you may have enquired about the Millennium Club - a VOA sponsored initiative that recognises longer-term participation in our sport. Organised by Ray Howe, this award system provides recognition for street-orienteers that have done more than 500 events since 1st January 2000.  Several classes of membership are currently on offer - see http://www.vicorienteering.asn.au/parkstreet/millennium/ for more information.

Legend Member : Participates in 1000 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a full member of The Millennium Club. Legend members will be presented with a special TMC cloth badge(1000), a special TMC(Legend) key-ring and a Certificate of Recognition. Legend members will be identified with a number which represents the chronological order in which they have qualified for The Millennium Club.  Companion Member: Participates in 750 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a provisional member of The Millennium Club. Companion members will be acknowledged with a special TMC cloth badge(750). Associate member: Participates in 500 Street-O events since the start of this millennium (1st January, 2000) and will be regarded as a provisional member of The Millennium Club. Associate members will be acknowledged with a special TMC cloth badge(500).

Confession is Good for the Soul...

From Ray - - - "Just in case you believed my PR machine after last nights event that I had completed the B Course in "World record time", I thought I should issue a new media release this morning"

On closer scrutiny of post race evidence it is revealed that Ray Howe did not complete the B Course (only 17 controls). He failed to check in at #8 as planned and then failed to check in at #15 in order to rectify the earlier oversight. (See map/scores at http://street.orienteering.com.au/2010/Thursday/NSS/Summer1/ )

This declaration is made with the expressed purpose of ensuring that my wife gains the appropriate public recognition accorded to any woman who is able to beat her husband (partner?) in such a high profile sporting event. If such recognition is not forthcoming then the sharing of domestic duties will become significantly skewed towards the male partner.

The only saving grace for the male partner is that this serious loss of concentration occurred during the Thursday event where history says that the scoring penalty is: to be placed at the bottom of the scoring sequence, unlike the brutality of the Wednesday scoring system. It's nice to know there is still some compassion left our sport :)

Cheers
Ray

Ray's Rankings - now available for December 2009

Thanks to Ray Howe for updated rankings - press here to see how you fared

Summer Series Calendar now Online

We've updated the calendar on the Street-O Homepage. If you would like to load all these events into Microsoft Outlook - or into your PDA or phone - then visit the Emus Download Page to get the data. We've tested this on a number of Outlook Versions and various PDA types - just be sure to follow the instructions carefully.

OCAD Mapping Tips and Hints

We recently added two articles to the OCAD pages associated with our site -

Adjusting the Map Scale in OCAD 8 - will be of interest to those of you that draw maps and set courses. Very few of our maps are set up correctly - in most cases course setters experiment to find out what seemingly random value they have to key in to get the paper copy of the map to come out at 1:10,000. This brief tutorial explains how OCAD map scales work and provides a few steps to adjust the internal scale so that your map prints correctly.

Using Part of an OCAD Map - will be of interest to course setters that want to use part of a larger map. Cutting out just the portion of interest allows one to size the map to fit the page thereby making the map all the clearer.

Maxi 2009 - Creswick Diggings

Provisional results, map and analysis now available - click here

Coming Events

Event Date Map Club Location Suburb Melway 
Tuesday, 9th FebSeddon RidgeBKYarraville Gardens - enter from Whitehall StreetYarraville42 C8
Wednesday, 10th FebYarra BendMFRYarra Bend Road, north of footbridgeFairfield44 H4
Wednesday, 10th FebRiddells CreekCreek Reserve, Gisborne-Kilmore RoadRiddells Creek609 H11 VR:
Thursday, 11th FebWhites CornerYVSchramms Reserve, J J Tully DriveDoncaster33 F12
Thursday, 11th FebGeelong West / NewtownSparrow Park, Hope StreetGeelong West451 H2
Monday, 15th FebAshwood SouthBKCaloola Reserve, Atkinson StreetChadstone69 G5
Tuesday, 16th FebFootscray / EdgewaterTKCar park - east side of Henry Turner Memorial ReserveFootscray42 D2
Wednesday, 17th FebBlackburn SouthAREley Park, Eley Road SCORE EVENTBlackburn South61 H5
Wednesday, 17th FebWoodendBuffalo Stadium, Tylden-Woodend RoadWoodend609 G9 VR:
Thursday, 18th FebWestgarthNEFairfield Station, Railway Place – parking available on north and south sides of stationFairfield30 K10 - K11
Thursday, 18th FebJan JucOverflow car park, Carnarvon AvenueJan Juc505 H10
Monday, 22nd FebNortons ParkDRNapier Park - enter from High Street RoadGlen Waverley71 J2
Tuesday, 23rd FebAltona MoundNEH D Graham Reserve, Queen StreetAltona Meadows208 K1
Wednesday, 24th FebCamelot RiseNECapital Reserve, Capital AvenueGlen Waverley62 G12

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Brunch-O - Saturday Mornings


(Informal activities organised by local street-orienteers - events run every Saturday morning - come for a run, then join us for brunch. While there is NO charge for these events, we do expect participants to pitch in and help when the need arises. Course-setting is fun too - and we will provide you with the assistance you need to set your first course. For more info, call Geoff on 9888 8121)
 

Join an Orienteering Club

If you live in the Northern or Western suburbs of Melbourne
 join Emus Orienteering Club now
 
Membership only $5 per household per year

Please see our Clubs Page for the benefits of joining a club - there are excellent clubs serving all regions of Melbourne.

Weather Report

Tue
35
Wed
30
Thu
30
Fri
22
Sat
24
Sun
25
Mon
25
 
Tuesday: Local early fog, then a mostly sunny morning. Partly cloudy this afternoon andevening with isolated showers and thunderstorms possible about the outernorthern and eastern suburbs. Winds tending northerly up to 20 km/h thismorning, then seabreezes up to 25km/h developing late afternoon and evening.
Wednesday: Humid and partly cloudy. Isolated showers and the chance of thunderstorms frommidday. Winds mainly northwest to southwesterly averaging up to 20 km/h tendingsoutheasterly by early evening.
Thursday: Cloudy. Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms. Winds northeast tonorthwesterly averaging up to 30 km/h shifting south to southwesterly up to 30km/h late afternoon.
Friday: Cloudy. Scattered showers. Winds west to southwesterly averaging 15 to 20 km/htending south to southwesterly up to 25 km/h around dawn.
Saturday: Cloudy. Isolated showers. Winds south to southeasterly averaging up to 20 km/htending south to southwesterly during the evening.
Sunday: Cloud increasing. Isolated showers. Winds south to southeasterly averaging upto 20 km/h becoming southeasterly up to 40 km/h during the afternoon.
Monday: Cloudy. Isolated showers. Winds southeasterly averaging 30 to 45 km/h.

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Temp Changes - Last 24hrs

 

Useful Services

Load 2008 Summer Series Fixture
into your PDA or Phone
Street-Orienteering Who's Who Ray's Rankings Printed copies of the program
Don't key all 100 Events into your diary, computer or PDA... See the Emus Orienteering Club download page if you'd like to download the fixture for the current series. 

Want to know who that other runner or walker is? Do you have a name and want to know what the person looks like so you can talk to them at an event? If so, just go to the Street-Orienteering Who's Who pages. We'll update this regularly. Please forward additional photos/names if you wish to be included.

See how you rate against other streetO folks that do the same course/category.

Ray's Ranking System

For information about the Park-Street Orienteering Millennium Club

Archive Material

Want to trace back through the older announcements - then see our archive file

 


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