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 (1^st 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 (1^st 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 (1^st 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

Weather Report

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Mon

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.

Check if it's really going to rain before the run! View Radar Image

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.