39th SummerNav
Ambury Regional Park
Event: 3
2026-11-11
Planner: Sarah Stewart - Controller: Simon Hunt
What a lovely time of the year to be at the lovely Ambury Park with all the young birds and animals. Tonight’s courses certainly did not disappoint in providing a real orienteering challenge!. Thank you very much Sarah and Simon for all the work you put in. Although course 1 and 2 are called hard at all our events, they are as hard as can be achieved on what are often fairly bland parks. Ambury is different! With a combination of very subtle contour, Intricate rock areas, convoluted coast and then the maze of bike tracks in the often somewhat green forest the label hard can be very genuinely applied. It was no disgrace if you did not manage to complete your course tonight, but we hope you enjoyed exploring this lovely park on what turned out to be a lovely fine hot evening. And congratulations to all of you who succeeded. There were a couple of orienteers who made an unfortunate choice of where to cross the tidal area to reach their control and came back looking rather as if they had been in a Rotorua mud bath. They were very grateful for the lovely hot shower at the park!
It was great to see families staying on to have a picnic after their run, although it was a bit of a challenge to prevent the ducks joining in!
Next week the event is on Tuesday 17th November at Point England reserve (newly renamed Omaru Reserve), right at the sea end of Pt England Rd. The longer courses will also go out to some of the neighbouring small parks, and all courses will have a bit of fun around Pt England Primary school who so generously welcome us onto their grounds . There are some wonderful new tracks being built on this map but you are going to have to wait until the next event here to explore them. Some of them are tantalisingly close to being open – a new treat to look forward to next season!
Course: 1 (Difficult)
Length: 8.90km
Place
Name
Time
Points
Km
Note
1
Aiden Barrett-Hamilton
1:16:36
2
Paul Granich
1:25:02
3
Toru Ishida
1:47:30
4
Wayne Ewington
1:50:33
11.38
5
Nick Thompson
1:53:00
6
Kingsley Ng-Wai Shing
2:01:00
11.85
Laura Andrews
DNF
Paul Khyn
DNF
Course: 1 short (Difficult)
Length: 7.70km
Place
Name
Time
Points
Km
Note
1
William Reeves
1:02:40
9.46
2
Jeff Greenwood
1:11:04
9.17
3
Oliver Watson
1:12:45
10.74
4
Fran Ishida :)
1:36:19
5
Charlotte Baken
1:37:00
9.5
6
Max Dunshea
1:42:30
10.2
Course: 2 (Difficult)
Length: 6.10km
Place
Name
Time
Points
Km
Note
1
Riley Kalman
0:52:11
2
Gavin Milne
0:57:26
6.94
3
Petah Dransfield
1:01:00
4
Will R
1:01:23
5
Michael
1:01:30
7.02
6
Mark Barrett-Hamilton
1:01:49
7
Brent Petrie
1:01:57
7.74
8
Emma Chueh
1:08:21
9
Yvette Luo
1:09:00
10
Maddie Longson
1:09:53
11
Llew McGivern
1:10:37
8.32
12
Marcus Graney
1:10:44
6.98
13=
Kelly Capps
1:12:00
13=
Elias Capps
1:12:00
15
Kyle Dransfield
1:14:26
7.69
16
Antoni Leonard
1:15:40
17
Garry Dean
1:19:35
18
Shane Blackett
1:19:44
19
Al White
1:21:50
20=
Dean Kalman
1:22:00
20=
Adam & James
1:22:00
We march for ???
20=
Blood for Ultraman
1:22:00
23
Bruce Peat
1:24:09
24
Belinda
1:26:00
25
Sarah Appleton
1:27:00
26
Matthew Bell
1:27:03
27
Tim Longson
1:27:39
7.25
28
BJ
1:28:53
29
Cameron Arvidson
1:33:46
30
Monique Dean
1:49:12
7.85
31
Xavier & Alex
1:51:13
32
Luc Ranger
1:52:00
33
Sarah
1:57:00
aka where's #12
34
Simon Hunt
2:17:52
Alina Granger
DNF
Missed 3 controls (cow with calves) 1:20:46
DM
DNF
Susy Carryer
DNF
Ti Porto
No Time
Course: 3 (Moderate)
Length: 3.50km
Place
Name
Time
Points
Km
Note
1
Sienna McKenzie
0:28:15
2
Danil Taran
0:30:00
3
Sophie Bacchus
0:31:00
4
Greg Bacchus
0:31:57
3.77
5
Reuben Edlington
0:32:00
6
Aleksandr Taran
0:33:30
7
Nathan M
0:33:57
8
Greg Sands
0:35:52
4.60
9
Sizzler Sausageman
0:37:31
10
Jon Taylor
0:39:00
11=
Cate
0:40:00
4.21
11=
Rich Ed
0:40:00
13
Stephen McKenzie
0:40:42
3.95
14
Dylan & Katie
0:41:00
15
Anna C
0:41:48
16=
Revel
0:42:00
16=
Madeleine
0:42:00
18
Danya & Caelan
0:43:00
19
Elizabeth
0:43:18
3.95
20
Roger Woodroofe
0:46:27
3.99
21
Marco Nellie
0:47:00
22
Sophia Luo
0:49:22
23
Rebecca Jeans
0:49:51
4.50
24
Nathaniel & Family
0:49:56
25
Alistair Stewart
0:50:29
4.19
26
Oscar Wong
0:51:52
27
Sally
0:52:10
28=
Jenna Purdie
0:55:27
28=
Sam Copestake
0:55:27
30
J Parsons
0:56:00
31
Andrew Orlov
0:58:05
32
Geoff F
1:01:00
DNF
33
Laura Thompson
1:10:26
34
Freddy & Jaxton
1:11:00
35
Michelle Teirney
1:13:00
36
Jan Kalman
1:19:10
37
Ghie Wan (? Hard to read)
1:31:00
38
Roslyn Wheeler
1:32:00
39
Annie Wheeler
1:33:00
40
Ella Kettey
1:34:00
41
Alex & Oscar & Kate
1:35:00
Course: 4 (Easy)
Length: 1.90km
Place
Name
Time
Points
Km
Note
1
Bonita Lovatt
0:21:50
2
Rhys Watt
0:22:00
3
Brendan Marshall
0:22:04
4
Sophia Luo
0:27:10
5
Unreadable
0:31:00
6
Platon Taran
0:32:00
7
Edlington Duo
0:35:00
Slow walking after football game!
8
Yann
0:36:53
9
Margo & Chloe
0:37:37
10
Hannah W
0:42:00
11
Eleanor Winstone
0:45:00
12
Eden Chueh
0:46:00
13
Carter Morrison
0:46:58
14
No Name
0:49:00
11/11/2026 10:28:16 pm
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