Roark and our Czech guide Vojta on Charles bridge

Czech us out bru!

Manager and I are nearly in Czech, currently utilising some free interweb in the charles de gaulle airport!

Tim and Roark should hopefully be in Czech Republic by now, and will probably have explored Prague quite a bit.

Salome writes her last exam on Monday and then Flies to Czech later on. I'm sure we're all really amped to get into terrain ASAP and smash some quality trainings.

We'll hopefully keep our number one supporters (all you SAffers!) updated on this blog and also with @SAorienteers. (Roark and Tim, as newbies, are in charge of the blogging, so any hate mail should be directed to them ;)

Also check out our attackpoint logs. Sweet!

Action time

Tonight we had the opening ceremony in the town center. It was nice. Pretty similar to previous years, but they kept the speeches nice and short for a change. We'll post some pics later.

The Sprint is tomorrow afternoon. Jess is first off - 14:05 and Ant is the last starter at 16:56. There should be online results on the official website. http://www.jwoc2012.sk/

Hoping it cools down slightly but otherwise very excited :-) 

Last Official Training

Today was our last official training, only model events left. It was another middle map but really enjoyable. Steph took the day off to rest her legs for the sprint. Sarah took it easy after having her finer finally sorted and Salome also took it nice and chilled to rest her legs up as well. The heat wasn't as intense today which was a really nice change with a bit of a  light shower in the afternoon....Tescos also got a visit for last minute sapplies for JWOC and then on to a close forest to do our poster. It was an interesting experience getting painted out in the forest with people around but fun non the less....Had our first official team meeting so the
JWOC excitement and nerves are starting.

Written by Jess

Today we did a middle training session - control picking. Map is included below. Everyone coped well. Coach, Zig and Zoe headed to the event center to do our accreditation in the afternoon. We got cool goodie bags with a t-shirt and a buff :-) So far everything feels really well organised.

Today we had long distance training, then we headed to a castle. It was slightly cooler today and we got caught in a hectic hail storm. The Spis castle was huge - one of the largest castle complexes in Europe. Very Lord of the Rings like :-)

Here are some pictures from the last few days:

Today we had a single training in the morning on a middle related area. We did control picking. The contour detail was insane. The gullies and marshes were really helpful. Everyone seemed to enjoy the session.

After training we headed to the lake. It was like a beach :) Bruce came along too :)


We were all pretty dead so most of the team decided not to go to the relay area for the afternoon session cause we had already run on that map. Nic, Zig, Zoe and Jess did the session cause they had missed the previous session on the map.