Another win for Steph

The Quarry at Stirrup Glen was the venue for the Short Course final. It proved to be rather tricky with lots of people making big mistakes. Steph did brilliantly in the tough area to win the womens course over a minute ahead of Tania. Salome had a good run coming 3rd. Jess L also did well to finish 4th. The splits are here.
On the mens course Nic took the win. Alex was 2nd and Brad finished 5th. Mike had a good run coming 7th.

There was plenty of post race analysis to be done:
Thanks to everyone who supported the fundraising.

Western Cape Champs

Most of the JWOC team travelled down to the Cape for WCOC. We stayed in a hotel in Hermanus and hired 2 small cars. Our Ferrari Red Hyundai Atos was sponsored by Jeremy Green. Thanks Jeremy!

It wasn't all about running in the forests. We went to the beach, did a bit of shopping and had a braai.The Orienteering, however, was the highlight of the weekend. The team had some great results and gained valuable experience. Both days were at Lebanon South
The middle event was fast with a winning time of 32mins on the 5.2km M21 course. Coach Nic was 2nd behind international Tobias Tritschler. Manager Alex was 3rd. Brad did well coming 4th. The ladies ran a 4.5km course. Margaret won. Sarah had a good run coming second. J.P ran M20. He took gold in his category. Roark won M16 and Laura won W16. The splits are here. Nic's map is here and Sarah's map is here. Jess was snapped running in the forest by Alvin Ward:
The long distance event was on Sunday morning. The girls decided to run W21 which was a 9.2km course. Salome had a great run to come second. Jess and Sarah weren't too far off the pace. The 10.6km M21 course was won by Nic. Alex was 4th and Brad finished 5th. Roark once again won M16 and Laura won W16. The splits are here and Nic's map is here.
So all in all it was an awesome weekend. PENOC put on a super event and we all gained some more experience.

Junior Squad Training in the Cape

The squad had a training session in Nuweburg Forest. It was great to have Roark Robinson and Laura Troost at the training.

The tricky area and exercises designed by Coach Nic made it a brilliant session. We warmed up with a line course. Then did a course on a contours only map. The 3rd exercise was a window O', distance judgment and bearing exercise. On the way back to the cars we did a relocation exercise. Here is the map:Thanks to Cindy, Martin Terry and Eugene for helping out. Thanks to Alex for putting out controls and a huge thanks to Nicholas for organising the training.

Boksburg Stadium

There were some great performances from the juniors at Boksburg stadium.

Bradley had a superb run to win the mens course by 9 seconds. Stephanie came 2nd on the womens course with Zoe coming 3rd. Jess L also had a good run finishing in 4th place. Well done guys! Check out the splits here

The junior fundraising competition was based on the fastest split to the 1st control. Steph did a great job getting over 50 people to enter. She then went and beat most of them to win the chocolate on the womens course. Kevin Reeves had the fastest split on the mens course followed by Dylan and Garry. They had all gone home so Craig was next in line. Thanks to everyone who entered.

Thanks to some hot weather and a good turn out we had a great day of fundraising. Thanks for buying raffle tickets and supporting the tuck shop. Hope you enjoyed your egg and bacon rolls.

Next up is Western Cape Champs. Some of the Junior squad is heading to the Cape on the 9th of April. Keep a look out for the results.

Junior squad Training - Hennops

The juniors had a training session at Hennops 4x4 on the 27th of March. Coach Nic was out of town, but manager Alex put together a good session.
The first exercise focused on attack points and traffic light O'. Exercise 2 was a course on a contours only map and the last exercise was a window O' to work on compass skills and distance judgment. Brian took some cool photos while we were training.

Thanks to Garry for putting out controls and helping us out. Thanks to Alex for a good session.

Derdepoort

The junior squad didn't have their finest day at Derdepoort. Quite a few juniors had other commitments so didn't come. And those that were there were either injured, sick, got disqualified or had average runs. Great runs by the senior women didn't help.

Steph managed 3rd place with Salome coming 5th.

The sprint finish competition was well supported. The aim was to get the 5th fastest time, out of the people that entered the competition, on the 70m finish sprint. On the mens course Ian was 5th. Jenny got the chocolate on the womens course which just shows that you don't have to be super speedy to win. Thanks to everyone that entered!

Once again thank you to everyone who bought food and drinks. And a BIG thanks to our mommies and daddies for their continuous effort to raise funds.

TUT

The juniors did superbly at the Tshwane University of Technology.

The open gate which was marked as uncrossable on both the mens and womens courses caused a bit of debate but it was decided that, that split should be removed. This was good news for most of the juniors as quite a few would have been disqualified. The final results can be found here.

On the mens course Brad took his first short course win. Mike wasn't far behind in third. Coach Nic managed 6th.

On the womens course Salome came 2nd with Steph coming 3rd. Sarah finished 6th. Jess H was 7th. Jess L was 8th and Zoe finished 9th.

Kevin Reeves and Zoe won the finish sprint competition. Kevin's time of 46 sec for 160m (I think) uphill was really impressive.

Thanks to everyone who supported the fundraising efforts.