It is always with a tinge of sadness that we hold the final
SummerNav for the season but we certainly can feel fortunate
indeed to have had
beautiful evenings almost every week. With such fantastic
weather it is hard to
believe we are finishing because winter is approaching but the
nights are
certainly starting to close in on us, making control collection at
the end of
the evening quite a challenge. There is a packed full programme in
the months
between now and the start of next season’s SummerNav at the end of
October so don’t sit
around waiting for it to begin again. Do come and join us. As well
as all the
Sunday events on the outskirts of Auckland (and if you have
enjoyed Summer Nav
you can’t help but find these great fun) there are the city night
events and
the city Sprints to try. The night events are on a week day night,
with a mass
start at 7pm, for about an hour. You get a black and white street
map (WITHOUT
street names) and the controls are all on the streets. There are 2
series of
these events, the first in May and the second in September. The 4th
event in each series is a Rogaine of either 2 or 3 hours. The
sprints are
another series of 4 events on Saturday afternoons in June/July.
These are mainly
on maps with
buildings and are great for
a short fast sprint (winning times if sprinting of about 12
minutes) but they
are also ideal for going out at a more sedate pace, for a course
similar to the
SummerNav course 3. The whole programme for the rest of the year
is now up on
the AOC website. The
details of the venues
will be added closer to the time but get the dates marked on your
calendar now!
Our thanks to Tommy Hayes,
a first time setter,
for the courses on this final night, and to Dwayne for his
assistance. You will
see from the results that Tommy went out to show the speed that
course 1A could
be done in – with that speed it is no wonder that Tommy is
starting to get some
very good results in the Secondary Schools events!
The event this Sunday is being run by Counties Manukau on the Sunset Views map, Port Waikato. It will be signposted after you cross the Waikato River at Tuakau. Starts from 10am to 12.30. Also, all the very best to everyone travelling down to Canterbury for the National Orienteering Champs at Easter – Go well and let’s see plenty of names from the Auckland Region featuring in the titles. Also all the very best to the Diocesan School team heading away to Portugal very soon to represent New Zealand in the World Secondary School Champs – GO WELL!!