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The Irish OrienteerMay. June 1994 ISSN 0790·1194No. 69

Why stop now?

We are lucky that we C3J'l orienteer in Ireland for twelvemonths of the year - but we don't We talk of ways of making orien-teering more popular, introducing newcomers and increasing partici-pation, yet when we reach the start of the summer the level oforienteering activity simply drops off. Perhaps it's a relic of the timeswhen orienteers weren't satisfied unless they had spent hours search-ing for controls in the cold and wet using a black and white map.Nowadays we like to think of the sport as a fast-thinking athleticacti vity, with good quality maps and faster wining times but some ofthe stoicism remains. Is this wby we stop orienteering as soon as tbeweather improves? A couple of clubs use the long evenings to stageevents which can be enjoyed by beginner and expert alike: even if thecourse or the area are none too technical, it's still better than going fora run on the roads.

Why not run the orienteering season from February, say, toOctober, with a three month fallow season in mid-winter, and use thesummertime to its best advantage? Even without such 3J'l extremestep, would it not be possible to extend the season up to the ShamrockQ-Ringen. with an lrisb Championships maybe in mid or late June,rather than coming to an abrupt stop sometime in May?

It's no real advantage to the elite runners to be able tocompete all year round: they need to have peaks and valleys in theiryear and many of the major international events take place over thesummer with the World Championships in late summer or autumn.Summer bas traditionally been mapping time, but the fact that wemay be competing too doesn't mean that this must change.

One of the' aspects of orienteering often neglected is thesocial dimension. Would you be happier to sit around after 3J'l eventon a wet and windy winter day rather than in the sunshine, maybe ata barbecue or picnic? It has been suggested that the reason we nolongermeetin a local pub after events is that we're running that muchfaster and that winning limes are down, so we're all half way home bythe time the pubs open. Should we make courses longer, put starttimes back or think of some other social outlet for ourselves? Maybesummer orienteering is the answer,

Worth considering?

Odds and Ends and Odds* The Lougb O-Fest and Irish Two-Day: ifyou're entering by phone and credit card, or ring-ing Ronnie McKee for any other reason, pleasenote that the phone number on the entry form iswrong. It should be 08206-23795.* lOA Chairman Faith White and IOFHigh Tech rep Arthur Green are to travel to Bul-garia for the 17th International O-FederationCongress in Varna on the Black Sea from June 21-

MUNSTER CHAMPS MOVE 25. Of course there's also a 3-Day event nearbyThe Munster Championships planned for Mahon from 26-28 June.Falls in the Comeragh Mountains on April 17th * For your diary: expect next year's Brit-have been re-scheduled for September 11th. Entry ish Champs to be of interest to Irish orienteers, ifforms are in this issue of TID and the closing date they go ahead as planned. The Welsh O-Associa-is 28th August (cheaper before 12th August). The tion hopes to be running the event atNewboroughvenue is Inch in Co. Kerry, a superb area of Warren, an area of forested sand dunes on southintricate open sand dunes stretching outinto Dingle east Anglesea on St. Patrick's weekend, March 18-Bay. Inch hasn't been used for a major event for a 19th. If the new Stena-Sealink super ferries arenumber of years and is definitely worth a visit. If running it's less than two hours by ferry from Dunyiou are interested in group transport from Dublin Laoghaire. Commute?for the event, contact 110 as soon as possible. Only * Keep Ireland Open is a newly formedif there is an adequate and an early response will organisation which aims to ensure that the country-this be organised. side is protected and that access to wilderness,

mountain and forest is maintained for outdoorpeople lilce walkers and orienteers. An umbrellaorganisation to deal with conservation issues, KeepIreland Open already has over 30,000 membersfrom An Olge, the Irish Ramblers and the UnitedFarmers Association. Some of the issues to beaddressed by KIO are occupiers' liabilty, the envi-ronmental impact of afforestation and overgrazing,the protection of rights of way and the threat tocommonage: Also on their list is the Coillte posi-tion requiring users of "state" forests to pay for theprivilege. For this they seek the support of orien-teers.Keep Ireland Open can be contacted at 43 Butter-field Drive, Dublin 14.* The news from Norway is that the Nor-wegian O-Federation is appealing the IOF deci-sion to disqualify their womens' relay team at theWorld Championships. You will remember thatthesilvermeda1lists were disqualified when ToronnFossli was found to have taken Rinexin, a 'flu'remedy which contained a substance banned by theInternational Olympic Committee. The Norwe-gian team lost its silver medals and about £6000 ingrant aid from Olympiatoppen, aNorwegian sports

GENERAL ENTRY FORMThe new lOA general entry fonn is on page 52 ofthis issue of The Irish Orienteer. Please photocopyit and use it to enter any pre-entry events in Ireland.The organisers will accept this fonn even if theyhave produced their own. This means that entryfonns need no longer be circulated in TID but thatenough event details to allow use of the new formcan be published.

LEINSTER TAKE INTERPRO?Leinster took the Interprovincial Championshipsby a scant 3 points from the holders, Munster, atCornamona at the end of Mareh - or did they? Arigorous application of the rules excluded a num-ber of runners who had failed to write the initialletter of their province on theircontrolcard and thiseliminated several prominent Munster competi-tors. The final score on the day was Leinster 197,Munster 194, Ulster 135. Connacht nil. Unfortu-nately the Gcourse (M15, 55; W17. 21AS, 45) wasdeclared void due to a wrong control code and thusdidn't count towards the resultThe full application of the Rules, however, meansthat classes with an entry of two or less will beamalgamated with other classes. This makes thefinal result Munster 184, Leinster 149, Ulster 135.Connacht nil. It's not clear from the publishedresults who the organisers regard as the winners,butLeinsterwereapparently awarded the trophy atthe event,A review of the complex rules is to be undertakenby the AOA before the next Interprovincial.

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scene. The Garda Championships were run inconjunction with the Western Command armyCbamps at Motepark, Co. Roscommon, and KevinGrogan (CNOC) won with Pat O'Brien (f/More)second and Adrian Tucker third.Hello also to Fermanagh Orienteers wbo haveaffiliated La lOA as well as BOF. Since their new"Burren" map is mostly in the Republic, it makessense for insurance purposes. Maybe we'll see anupsurge of orienteering in the SligolDonegal areanow too?Goodbye to Kevin Street College of TechnologyOC in Dublin wbo unfortunately can't afford toaffiliate to lOA this year.

booster group. Torunn was cleared of charges bythe Norwegian Sports Federationjudicial commit-tee and was reimbursed her legal fees.* IOC 95 preview: The news on IOC '95 isthat it will be in the Comeragh Mountains in Co.Waterford, run by CorkO, and with the relays atRossadrehid near Cahir. The event will take placeon a bank holiday weekend and there may be a thirdevent on the Monday.* Wa1lcing World Ireland. the new walk-ing magazine, is publisbed quarterly by the pub-lishers ofIrish Runner. For an annual SUbscriptionof £6, including postage, it's very good value.(You can gel a sample copy for £2). ContactWalking World Ireland, 109 Old County Road,Crumlin, Dublin 12.* Hello and Goodbye: Welcome to a neworienteering club, Garda Training DepotOC. Basedat Tcmplemore in Co. Tipperary, the club has 90members and a map of the Devil's Bit Mountain.Con Lynch, who is in charge, is a well known roadand cross country runner on the Irish athletics

WANTED: POSTERA new poster has been produced by lOA and isavailable free of charge from clubs or the lOA atthe House of Sport. Ithas a lot of text so it isn'taimed at grabbing your attention, but it does ex-plain in reasonable detail how to go about orien-teering: how a compass works, some techniques

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and what equipment you need. If you have anycontacts in schools, scouts, youth clubs. gyms etc,please geta poster and arrange to have itdisplayed.Theywon'ldoany good if they're stored in a roomsomewhere: get them on the walls.

GOING CHEAPRemember: If you are a member of an affiliatedorienteering club you are entitled to a reducedentry fee to all entry on the day orienteering eventsrun by any club affiliated to lOA. Keep the organ-isers on their toes and be sure to ask. Be preparedto produce your club membership card toshow thatyou're a club member.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FORESTA new group called Foraiseacha don bPobal("Forestry for Community") has been formed toalert people to the spread ofSitks spruce across thecountry and the possible long term environmentaland ecological effects of such extensive single-species planting. They want to ensure that thenational planting programme is balanced. that nati vebroad leaved species are not forgotten and thatplaces of natural beauty are not sacrificed forfinancial gain. The group had their initial meetingin Athlone on May 7th.The government is at present formulating a 20-year plan for forestry in Ireland and this shouldencompass the social and environmental impact ofplanting programmes as well as considerationslike planning permission for forestry. The lOA hasmade a submission to Coillte in relation to whatthey feel are the aspects of forestry which particu-larly affect orienteering.

KARIN WRITESKarin Berg is a 19 year old Swedish girl from nearGothenberg and she is just finisbed three years ofhigb scbool wbere she studied social science. Afterthe Swedish 5-Day at the end of July she plans togo abroad for 6-12 montbs and would Liketo workin an orienteering club or organisation or as an aupair with an orienteering family.Karin is an elite runner for Sjovalla FK and basbeen orienteering for 10 years. She has worked asa leader for children aged 6-15 an ten O-cam ps andcourses and has done a course to be an Oecoach, as

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well as organising competitions. For the past twoyears she has also been an aerobics teacher for herclub.If your club or your family could offer Karin work,contact her at Haggvagen 8, S-435 37 Molnlycke,Sweden (Phone 00-46-31-883525, fax 00-46-31-204460)

MORE PROGRAMSA computer program for PC's called PICOVERfor printing course overprints, control descrip-tions, course details etc via OCAD is availablefrom Tony Pennick. 20 Abbey Vale, St. Bees.Cumbria, England CA27 OEF (Phone 0044-946822945). A demo version is available for STG£5.Fron Germany come three new programs (now inEnglish) for keeping track of courses etc: OLEinzelfor individual events (price DM220), OLStaffelfor Relays (DM220) and MTageOL for multi-dayevents (DM420). Prices exclude tax and postage,For full details contact lng.-BUro filr Information-stechnik.Dipl-Inf Stephan Kramer.Brinkmannstr,21. D-95666 Mitterteich, Germany. (Pbone0049.9633 4459, fax 0049-9633 4305. Compuserve100120.2657)

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Annual General MeetingThe AGM of the lOA took place in Cornamonaon the day of the Connaught Champs. and il isvery pleasing to report on the large attendancepresent. The following Officers were elected»Chairperson Faith White SETExec. Secretary Ken Griffin CorkOHon. Treasurer Brian Hollinshead 3ROCMapping Officer John Walsh PXNFixtures Secretary Frank Cunnane CorkOJunior Affairs Bernard Creedon CorkOTechnical Officer Bernard Creedon CorkODevelopment Off. Trina Cleary 3ROCCoaching Officers Eileen Loughman &

Brendan Delaney CNOCPRO VacantEnvironment Off. Vacant

Following discussions on various motions thefollowing significant decisions were made:

(a) That from Jan. Ist 1994 alJ event levies willbe collected by the Regional Associations on aQuarterly basis.

(b) That the age notation for all events bechanged to the IOF system. This mainly affectsthe Juniors and will come into force on Ist Jan.next, i.e. M/W 19 changes to MIW 20-, MIW 17changes to MIW 18-, etc.

Silva AwardThe Silva Award has been presented to BrianHollinshead, 3ROC. Brian bas been activelyinvolved in Orienteering for more than ten yearsserving as 3ROC Chairman, Leinster Chairmanand now lOA Hon. Treasurer. Brian acted as

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co-ordinator for the 1993 Irish Championshipsand was largely instrumental in obtaining thesponsorship of Fyffes. Brian is probably one ofthe best known administrators in the sport andbas been involved in promoting orienteering toyouth groups, the community games, scouts andmany more. Througb all his activities Brianmaintains a balance and good humour which isan example to all with whom be works. He is ina very real sense an ambassador for orienteeringand a very worthy recipient of the Silva Trophy.

Mactire Award.The Mactire award has been presented to TrinaCleary of 3ROC. The Mactire Trophy isspecifically given to an orienteer who has madean outstanding contribution in the past year andas planner of the '93 Irish Championships Trinais a worthy winner. Those of us who ran aroundthe snow capped Carlingford Mountain last yearwill readily understand the mammoth task,requiring many days of walking the area in allweathers, mapping and checking. which Trinaundertook. Trina is the current lOADevelopment Officer and chairs the lOATraining Board.

lOA Poster.The lOA have now produced an excellent wallposter (3'x2') which explains everything youneed to know about the sport. Tbe poster isprinted on glossy artboard and will bedistributed to clubs. schools, colleges, scoutsand guides. adventure centres, etc. It is availableto anyone who is interested, free of charge, andif you want a copy we will ask you to pay for thepostage if necessary. Each of tbe Regions willhave copies available but please do not ask us topost it as it is bulky and expensive. We will tryand have them available at all large events. Ifyou know of any organisation who wouldbenefit from a copy please let us know and wewill arrange delivery.

New Club.We are pleased to welcome a new OrienteeringClub based in the Garda Training Centre in

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Templemore. The contact person is Con Lynchand they bave already run their first event andare actively mapping.

Munster Championships.The Munster Championships have now beenrefixed for Sunday 11th September on tbe InchSand Dunes in Kerry. The Planner is RoryCostello - KerryO. At that time of the year theweather should still be good enough to have aswim afterwards and you can even bring yourbucket and spade for the "Elite" sand castlecompetition. Those of you who have neverexperienced the "Dunes" before are in for a raretreat. Special thanks to KerryO for taking on thetask at short notice.

Map Library.Trinity ColJege have an extensive map librarywith many old and rare maps in their collection.They have now invited the lOA to submit copiesof Orienteering Maps for the archives and in thisregard John Walsh, lOA Mapping Officer, islooking for 3 copies of as many O-maps as areavailable and John would particularly welcomeold maps which are no longer in use -overprinted maps are acceptable so long as theyare clean. So if any "old" mappers out therewould like to submit their work for posterity -now is your chance. You will be indistinguished company.

Recruitment.In an effort to increase membership the lOA issetting up a recruitment competition, withgenerous cash prizes. Prizes will be given to theclub which recruits the most new members in acalendar year. The TIO would welcome articleson how best to promote orienteering with a viewto increasing members and again cash prizeswill be given to any article printed in TIO. Thisyear, 1994, has been dedicated to "Recruitment".

Anniversary Year.The IOA will celebrate 25 years of Orienteeringin Ireland in 1995 and anyone who has any ideason special events, exhibitions, promotions, etc.

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please contact the House of Sport or any lOAOfficer with your valued contribution. As theposition of Public Relations Officer is stillvacant is there any Leinster based orienteer whowould like to take on the job - no previousexperience necessary, just enthusiasm.

Entry Forms.If you are planning to travel abroad during theSummer and would like to take in a feworienteering events then the IOA bas some entryforms for a number of events - contact FaithWhite or the House of Sport.

International Squad.In an effort to raise funds for our InternationalSquad all Regions are asked to reserve a Sunday,to be called "Squad Sunday". The idea is thatmembers of the squad will plan and organise theevent - they might need some help on the day.All proceeds will go to the International TcamFund. Any other fund raising events on the daywould also be welcome.

lOA Grants.Clubs are reminded that they have until the endof June to claim their grants for 1993/94 - i.c.the grants that were already approved. Receiptsmust be submitted with the claim. The lOA arenow accepting grant applications for the comingyear on a similar basis as last year. It is hoped tobring the whole system forward to co-insidewith the calendar year eventually.

Irish Two Day.The next major event on the calendar is the IrishTwo Day on the Whit weekend June 4/5th. Dayone is based in Stieve Martin, Rostrevor, Co.Down. Day two is based in CarlingfordMountain, Co. Louth. From all accounts thispromises to be an exciting weekendsorienteering with much empbasis on the socialside - barbecues, etc. Full marks to (heorganisers for looking after body and soul.

Ken Griffin,Executive Secretary lOA.

SHORT COURSESMichael Deasy, home for the Irish Champion-ships, feels that the Short course competitors got abad deal. He writes:"1 was disappointed to discover on my recent visitfrom Argentina that the short courses at the IrishChampionships were only being given the sameconsolation prizes that the novices were getting.This is an unfortunate development in Irish orien-teering in contrast to what is happening in the restof the world where the short courses are gainingequal status with the "ELite" or "Classic" distaneeraces.Ihope that by the time Icome back again that thepowers that be in Irish-O will have realised that byadopting this downgrading attitude to the shortcourses thatthey are (a) going against the wishes ofthe large number of people who entered theseclasses, and (b) frightening away from the sportpeople who are middle distance as opposed to longdistance oricnteers/runners".

What do you think?

Personally I'd say the advent of the short course isa good thing: it replaces the old "B" courses foradults and gives them courses of a high technicalstandard butonly abouttwo-thirds the length of thecorresponding Long course. Short distance orien-teering as in the World Championships is a differ-ent ball game, however: here the elite run short.intense courses where any error is penalised by aplungedown the results list. Look at the last WorldChampionships wbere the first 12 places spannedjust 75 seconds.

WORLD CUP 94Thefirst World Cup event for 1994 was likeafairytale come true. The New Zealand O-Federationagreed to give $3800 to Alistair Landels (winner oflast year's ShamrockO-Ringen) lofty from Britainwhere he has been living for the last two years inthe hope that he would do well and a truly amazinghappened - he won IThe NZOF also paid $6000 10have television coverage so they have the momenton video forever.

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Overnight rain caused most competitors to becomesaturated in the thick native bush making oneperson DNF and caused some people to havetrouble finding controls when most of the detailwas obliterated. Later competitors had more of anadvantage as the bush <hied out in the muggyovercast conditions. The courses were long for themen and very long for the women. The very tech-nical sand dune terrain in the thick dense nativebush made the going physically and mentally verydemanding. Quite a few of the competitors comingin at the finish were absolutely shattered. Someeven had trouble running down the finish shutewith some running out of the last control the wrongway.

World Cup 1994 - Event No.1 - NewZealandResults - Men 10.85kmI Alistair Landels2 MikaKuisma4 Thomas BUbrer6 Petter Thoresen8 Allan Mogensen14 David Peel16 RobJessop19 Stephen Palmer23 Jonathan Musgrave33 Steven Hale34 Richard Jones

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World Cup relay results (8 April 1994, LittleHard Hills, Enfield, AustraUa):Men (3 x 8.6-8.9 km)1.Norway 1 130.11 (Bjomar Valstad 43.27, HavardTveite 43.25, Petter Thoresen 43.19)2. Norway 2 132.15 (Kjeti1 Bjodo 44.36, AndersBjomsgaard 44.47, Jon Tvedt 42.52)3 (2). Sweden 1 132.28 (ActoRautiaiaea 42.46, JorgenMartensson 42.22,9 (7). Great Britain 2137.29 (Richard Jones 44.23,Jonathan Musgrave 45.33, David Peel 47.33)10 The Irish Orienleer

10.Switzerland 2140.13 (Komel UIrich 46.08, DanielGiger 50.35, Daniel Hou43.30)11.Great Britain 1 140.49 (Steve Nicholson 50.33,Steve Palmer 44.42, Steve Hale 45.34)

Women (3 x 6.4-6.6 km)1. Czech Republic 129.41 (Marcela Kubatkova 43.51,Marie Honzova46.18, Jana Cieslarova 39.32)2. Norway 1 133.42 (Hanne Staff 43.55, ToruonFossli 46.27, RagbniJd Bente Andersen 43.20)3. Finland 2 135.24 (Johanna Tiira 46.29, EijaKoslcivaara43.36, Kirsu Ttira45.19)7 (5). Great Britain 144.55 (Heather Monro 52.13,Jeony James 49.17, Yvette Hague 43.25)

Results of World Cup short-distance final,Nerrina, Ballarat, Australia, 6 April 1994:Women A final (4.0 km)1. HanneStaff2. JanaCiesJarova3. Yvette Hague25. Heather Mooro26. Kristio Federer27. Jenny James

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SKI-O IN THE OLYMPICSYes, the IOF is going 10 formally apply for inclu-sion in the 2002 Winter Garnes. Before the non-skiers get upset, they should understand that thereisno--I repeat, NO-chance offool-O getting intothe Olympics in the foreseeable future. A new sportmust be practised in 50 countries (that's for men,for women it's a bit less) on 4 continents. And thatis a necessary but not a sufficient condition. TheIOC docs not want the games any bigger, so theywould have to drop another sport to let foot-O in.For ski-O, the requirements are 25 countries on 3continents. Just having a ski-O event is not enough.For a country to count itmust hold regular nationalChampionships both for seniors andjuniors. Rightnow there are 27 countries that have some sort ofski-O, but only 15 hold championships. (Therewere 20 countries at Val di Non for WSOC94.Poland did not come, probably because of money,because they were at previous WSOCs, and France,which held WSOC92, and held an Alpen Cupevent in January, for some strange reason did notcome.)The 10F Ski-O Committee has queried NZ, andwas told they are not interested. Australia may bea better bet, but the IOF is looking toward Japanand Korea for the 3rd continent.(Larry Berman, USOF Ski-O Committee)

CALLING FRANC-O-PHILESAlex Miller, a TIO reader and ex-member ofLiverpool' sMEROC (which as everyone knows inthe real capital ofIreland) is now living in Paris.These are his impressions of French orienteering:"If orienteering is a minority sport in the UK it is

moreso here, and one with falling numbers. How-ever most Sundays there is an event in one of theold royal hunting forests around Paris, with abouthalf taking place in Fontainebleau. When I arrivedhere I thought that my position in the results mightimprove, but it stayed its usual dismal self, whichIrationalised by concluding that, as there are fewercompetitors here, it is only the really keen oneswho take part,Being France, no event takes place without foodbeing available. At least it provides an incentive togt around the course while there is some left.Another difference is that you must provide amedical certificate of fitness for competition be-fore you can join a club.The equivalent of hill races are more like trailraces. although with a lot of climb. With a littleorganisation it is possible to do races like Sierre-Zinal (in the Valais Alps) in the weekends. In thewinter, cross-country ski races in the Vosges/Jura/Alps are also possible weekend activities (cross-training?) and Ihave just participated in the Enga-dine Marathon with 12,000 others. I stumbledacross a ski-O event in the Jura. Withoutthe plasticmap-tray the professionals strap on, carrying map,compass and ski-sticks is not easy (my excuse forbeing last")"(Perhaps without realising just what he has lethimself in for, Alex says he would be happy to helpif any Irish visitors want O-infonnation aboutFrance. His address is 9bis, avenue Pierre-Grenier,92100 BOULOGNE, France; phone 00-33-1-46202181)

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SWEDES COMINGA party of 100 Swedish orienteers are coming toIreland en route for the Veteran World Cup inScotland at the beginning of August. They willtake in the Shamrock O-Ringen three day (July 22-24 in West Cork) and tour Ireland, staying inDublin on the 28th before going on to Rostrevor (orcadstlewellan)via New Grange for some more ori-enteering. There may be social or orienteeringevents organised for them: if you can help (guidedtours? local knowledge?) con tact Eileen loughman(045-79780).They should give the Shamrock O-Ringen a realcosmopolitan, international flavour lhisyear. Haveyou entered yet? Don't miss it. Entries to Bernard& Margaret Creedon, Mount Prospect, Douglas,Co. Cork (021-361824, fax 021-361825). Cheapentry up to June 1st

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MINI.SPORTS AGAINThe annual Mini-Sports Festival where primaryschool children try out19 different sports, will takeplace from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon,June 24-26 at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra,Dublin 9.Volunteers are sought to do a half day or more.Accommodation and meals can be arranged. Ifbetween 10 and 15 people volunteer it will beperfect Please give it a try: no experience neces-sary and it's actually good fun (if you don't have todo the whole weekend yourself). Contact JohnMcCullough (01-8378819) with offers of help.

Murphy's Law Revisitedby Bill Teahan

Murphy's Law applied to Orienteering in Grottyterrain.1. Imagine the worst it could be. It WILL beworse.2. The competitors won't just DISliKE it.They'll throw up on it.3. If you didn't do well, then the terrain wasgrotty.

Murphy's Law applied to Orienteering inSublime Terrain.1. No orienteering terrain is sublime.2. No matter how good the terrain was, someonewill think it was grotty.3. Refer to Murphy's Law applied to Orienteer-ing in Grotty terrain.

COMPUTERS IN 0The long awaited workshop on Computers in Ori-enteering has been set for Saturday, September17th in Dublin. Organised by the FIOA the work-shop will demonstrate many of the applications ofcomputers in orienteering, including O-CAD fordrawing maps, programs for event administration.control descriptions and results and the O-Nel.There will be both takls and hands-on sessions andit is hoped to be able to organise a visit to theOrdnance Survey Office in Dublin 011 the Fridayafternoon,the day before the workshop.Fordetails contact ArthurGreen, 22 Swords Street.Dublin 7 (01-8306893)e-mail: [email protected]

Ioe 94 Report

The Other BurrenIt's arisky business, staging events on open

mountain even in late spring. Thankfully therisk was fully justified for Fermanagh Orienteers,a small club who worked another minor miraclewhen they staged the 1994 Irish Championships atthe B urren, near the source of the Shannon, on theCavan/Fermanagh border on tbe May bank holi-day weekend. A very varied area gave plannerRaymond Finlay plenty of scope for interestingcourses. The fast open mountain gave way toheather-covered slopes with few paths, while ablock of forest in the centre of the map with lowvisibility and lots of detail caused many competi-tors to come to grief.

Winning times were fast on manyof the courses,with Men's Elite winner Bill Edwards (CorkO)managing 6.1 minutes per kIDfor his 12.6 km/360m course. leaving defending champion AonghusOCItHrigh trailing 2 mins 11 sees adrift. Juniorprodigy Marcus Pinker bad a great weekend, fin-ishing 2nd in M21 Elite and anchoring the winningCorkOrelay team in the Premier class next day. Inthe Women's Eliteclass Three Rock's Una Creaghdefended her title, leaving the field trailing by thesubstantial margin of more than seven minutes.

The map, another excellent Barry Dalby(EastWestMapping) product, was clear and unam-biguous, drawn with OCAD and printed at both1:10,000 and 1:15,000 scale. Entries staggered tojust past the 400 mark, with most of the entriescoming in at or after the closing date (typical Irishorienteers I).

There were several notable features in the area,the first being the sign greeting competitors gettingover the fence into the field for the Red start, "Wel-come to Co. Cavan". There can't be too manyorienteering maps spanning borders such as thisone, from North to South. Curiously, as a result ofthis. the event was registered both with BOF and

10A for insurance purposes, as many ofthe coursesran in both jurisdictions. Another novel featurewas the deepest depression in Ireland, wbich wefound in the forest: about 20 metres deep and 100m across. The limestone underlying the area gaverise to many small pits and depressions whichcalled for careful navigation, particularly in theforest, and also to many boulders of all sizes.Enough has been said about the "stray sod"

which causes people to wander lostuntil daybreak: I certainly encountered it in theforest between controls 7 and 8, 8 and 8 and 8 and91The forest is, sadly, soon to be felled, so yourlastchance may be to run there on June 18th attbe nextNI Series event.

One persistent but very welcome source of dis-traction on the courses was the vocal band ofcuckoos in the northern part of the map, and I'mtold there were fine views to be seen from the biUtops overlooking Lough Macnean and the RiverErne. It's a good orienteering area and a verypleasant part of the country.

Unfortunately I was unable to stay for the Re-lays, but the Day 1 finish area was used for thechangeover and the courses largely went clock-wise from there. The defending Ajax team of Co lmRothery, lain Rochford and Peter Kernan led thefield with a 2 minute29 seconds lead going into thefinal leg, only to have Cork's Marcus Pinker de-stroy them with a blistering run to finish in the leadby 61 seconds. The established Three Rock team ofUna Creagh, Maeve MacPherson and Julie Clearyretained their title for the fifth successive year witball 18 minute margin over CNOC.

With two sunny days in a row in the worst yearin living memory the organisers and competitorswere very lucky. Perhaps now that the whole islandof Ireland shares a bank holiday weekend at thebeginning of May this will become the established


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5Snippets from the Results:

Bill Edwards had the fastest minutes perkm with6.1 on the M21E course, but the M13B coursewasn't far behind: Wilson's Hospital's ZoltanFoley-Pisherran 6.3 mins/lan and 6 of the 8 in thatclass beat 10 mins/lan.

The smallest winning margin was in W45Swhere 15 seconds separated winner Audrey Law-rence from second placed Josephine o 'Keeffe.while the only dead beat recorded was in W21 Lbetween two visitors, Kim Giddis and EstherRoberts.

The largest winning margin, apart from thecouple of classes with only one entrant, was inM21N with 58 minutes separating 1st and 2nd.

A look at the prize table sbows that Cork 0 had54 entries and got40 prizes, 3ROC bad 47 entriesand collected 32 prizes and LV0bad 49 entries andwon 23 prizes. The most efficient club at pot-hunting was North Cork's BVOC who bad 19entries (mostly the extended Feehan family?) andpicked up 19 prizes: something for everyone.

Incidentally, theresults booklet (page 14) claimedthat this is the first time an O-map has spanned theborder from Northern Ireland to the Republic: notso! When Eastern Command Orienteers ran the1989 Irish Championships the Ravensdale mapused for the individual event covered areas in bothNorth and South.

Results:M21E 12.6km/360m1 Bill Edwards2 Marcus Pinker3 Aonghus OCleirigh4 Brian Corbett5 James Logue

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Other Irish Champions:MlO Niall Walsh 3ROCMIlA John McGrath 3ROCM13A Allan Bogle NWOCM15A Timothy Pentland LVOM17A Patrick Feehan BVOCM19A Brian Creedon CorkOM35L Liam O'Brien CorkOM40L Scan McSweeney SOM45L Wilbert Hollinger LVOM50L Ted Feehan BVOCM55L Noel Bogle NWOCM60L Andrew Bonar Law GENM65 Fred Calnan CorkO

WIO Niamh O'Boyle CNOCWllA Aislinn Austin CorkOW13A Ruth Mein NWOCW15A Toni O'Donovan CorkOWI7A Eunice Cinnamon LVOW19A Faye Pinker CorkOW35L Ursula Macl'hcrson 3ROCW40L Jane Watt GENW45L Trina Cleary 3ROCW50L Clare Nuttall LccOW55L Diana Large GENW60L Mairfn Morrish LccO

Non-Championship courses:MllB ConorHenry NWOCM13B Z.Foley-Fisher WHOM15B Geoffrey Gray 3ROCM17B FergalRyan PXNM19B Richard 0'Gorman CNOCM21L Derek Conerney PXNM21S Michael Deasy PXNM21N Michael Regan PXNM35S Steve McGibbon LVOM40S AnthonyMcfkmigle NWOCM45S EndaHume FermO

M50S Michael Butler 3ROCM55S Brian Hollinshead 3ROC

W13B Beth Smythe NWOCW15B Barbara McStravick NWOCW17B Emma Lawrence WHOW21L Kim Giddis DEE

& Esther Roberts AIREW21S Ruth Blair NWOCW21N Margaret Creedon CorkOW35S daphne Hamond LVOW40S Anne Bell LVOW45S Audrey Lawrence WHOW50S Terry O'N eill BVOCW55S VeraMurtagh 3ROCW60S Faith White SRI

WOpen1 3ROC (Una Creagh, Maeve Macpherson,Julie Cleary) 102.362 CNOC (Eileen Loughman, Catherine Butler,Ruth Lynam) 120.533 CorkO (Darina Cunaane, Faye Pinker, AilbheCreedon) 120.56Open 13- 3ROC (Gerard Butler, LukeCampbell-Crawford, John McGrath)Open 17- CorkO (Cian Chandler, ConorBarry, Conor Creedon)Open 40+ LVO (Colin Henderson, CliveMajury, Bill Simpson)Open 50+ 3ROC (Harold White, NigelCampbell-Crawford, Ted McGrath)W13- CorkO (Aisling 0' Donovan,

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KNOW YOUR CONTROL DESCRIPTIONSThe article in TIO No. 68 (March-April 1994) calledKNOW YOUR CONTROL DESCRIPTIONScontained a number of errors and non-standard10F symbols. If we are to get used to using thesesymbols, we might as well get used to using thestandard ones, so that we can know the controldescriptions even in countries where we can notspeak the language, and therefore can not ask forhelp.

The first error is in the paragraph (no. 3 in col. 2)which deals with Column F (dimensions). Depthsare never shown. Three dimensions are ~shown. So you only have to fit one or twodimensions into the box. As all heights are shownin metres, there is no need to write the letter "M".One figure is height. Two figures on the samelevelwith an "X" between them (e.g. 9X5) Indicatethe extent of an area suoh as a clearing,depression, or thicket. The heights of eachfiTlof two features that the control is between~are shown on two levels, in the North-Westand the South-East comers.

The second error is the impression given in thesame paragraph that a diagonal slash (under the"?" on a keyboard) is acceptable between the twoheights of a feature on a slope. The 10Fpublication "CONTROL DESCRIPTIONS" makesit quite clear that it is not. What is required iSI71a diagonal line from the south-west comer to lL_jthe north-east comer of the box, like theorienteering sign is divided. And the numbersshould be on two different levels. (like the twofeatures above) to show that the higher number isthe height when viewed from above, and the lowernumber the heightwhen seen from below.

The third error is in the next paragraph, where ilrefers to "junction of track and wail". Since theword "junction" means JOINING, it is clear that atrack can not join a wall. If neither ends, it is aCROSSING. If one ends, it is an END. Theclarificationsin the 10Fbook says "JUNCTION: thepoint where linear features of the same typemeet", Same types would include ROAD/PATH,STREAMIDITCH. WALUEARTHBANK, PATH/RIDE, etc. Of course you can have CROSSINGSof dissimilar features, such as PATHIWALL, andFENCE/STREAM.

The word "track" is a non-standard description,the 10Fbook uses "path".

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On the two pages of symbols, two are incorrect.The LINEAR THICKET should have "X·sr7lacross a diagonal line, not "="s. It shOUldtLJappear like the diagram in this paragraph.The ROOTSTOCK diagram should show all thelegs of the X extending to the edge of the circle.

On page 20, the descriptions for the M21E courseshow a number of errors. The climb of 640 metresis 5% of the distance (shown correctly - it wouldnot be correct to show this distance as 12.8K). Butthe maximum allowable climb is 4%. The heavyhorizontal lines should be after every third line ofboxes, not every fourth as shown here. And forcontrol 15, the heights of the two boulders shouldbe given, by the method described in the secondparagraph.

The boxes illustrating this note have been drawnclose to the maximumsize of 7 millimetressquare.

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1994 NationalAdventureMarathon

Brendan O'Brien returned to his nativeKerry to sample the delights of Killarney.

The 1994 National Adventure Marathon washeld over the weekend of the 25th to the 27th ofMarch in the wonderful picturesque setting of Kil-larney and its environs. The weather obliged formost of the time. however few if any of the com-petitors had the Lime or inclination to savour thetrue beauty of this magnificent setting, with mostbeing focused only on team or personal survival.

Imyself must admit that in the weeks leading upto the event I was both looking forward to andfearing the adventure ahead (both with equal inten-sity). However now, a few weeks on, I cannot butpraise this event. It was very demanding and totallyexhausting. but thechalleoges it combined in termsof physical, mental and total teamwork commit-ment over a large and varied number of adventuresports are unrivalled. Both myself and my fellowteam members thoroughly enjoyed the experience/adventure and eagerly look forward to renewingthe challenge next year.

The following is a brief account of the tenstages covering the whole weekend.

Noon. Friday 25th All teams as-sem bled in the Lake Hotel, Killarney, which was tobe the base for the weekend. registered etc. andafter a light lunch, told that Stage 1 would start at2pm and we would be transported to the start bybus. No mention whatsoever of the nature of thestage or even a hint of what might be ahead! Thiswas to set a precedent for the weekend, wherebyteams were made aware of the content of the nextstage, at most, 10 minutes before it began.

STAGE 1: Picture the setting. Kate Kearney'sCottage at the Gap of Dunloe, 2pm on a sunnyspring afternoon. a dozen multicolored teamstrying to get used to mountain bikes, and a goodnumber of tourists and locals looking on in amuse-ment and wonder.

Part I was acyclerace.starting at Kate Kearney'sCottage and ending at the head of the Gap. Teamsstarted at 30 second intervals, and the marathonhad begun, with each stage against the clock fromhere on. At no time was any team allowed toseparate by more than 25 m,with the time of the lastmember to finish being the official time for theteam (this was strictly applied to all the stages).This first part of stage Iwas about 5km all uphill.Unfortunately our team had the first mishap of theweekend, one member had a crash on one of thesharp bridges in the gap, shooting over the handle-bars at speed. Fortunately. be was not badly hurtwhich was more than could be said about the bike.111efront wheel was severely buckled and wouldn'teven rotate. So. as we had to complete the stagewith the same equipment, we pulled and pushed tillwe finally got it going, albeit with no front brakes.At tbe bead of the Gap, the clock stopped and somenecessary human repairs were performed.

Part 2 began at the Black Val ley Church, (bavingallowed everyone todescend safely into the valley)and finished at Moll's Gap. This section involveda very long steep climb right before the finish,

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which had many legs suffering long before the top.The distance covered here was about 12km.

Part 3 began once all teams had safely cycledfrom Moll's Gap down to the edge of the UpperLake on the Killarney road. Each team was givena canoe complete with life jackets, helmets andpaddles. Teams had to paddle across the lake anddown the Long Range to finish at the Old WeirBridge, a distance of about4.5 km. Earlier scepti-cism of our paddling abilities was well justifiedduring the first part of this section, with balancebeing the most pressing concern, followed closelyby steering. With an ever evolving hybrid tech-nique we reached the finish in one piece, while enroute an unmanned paddle was seen floating amongthe reeds, effectively meaning that some teamwere only firing on 3cylinders .... and it wasn't tooeasy with 4 ... !!

Part 4, the final part, involved a run from theMeeting of the Waters through Muckross Estate,pastMuckross Abbey, finishing at the Hotel at theoutskirts of the town. The distance involved wasabout 1Okm, and at that stage of the day it felteverybit of it. This concluded Stage I at about 7.15pm.STAGE 2 : This began after dinner Friday, and

also contained a number of sections.Part 1 kicked off with a team communication

exercise atnight using radios. The teams were splitinto pairs, each pair had a radio, and the object ofthe exercise was to communicate as well as pos-sible to the other pair the information gi ven. Theythen bad to draw/interpret this information at theother end, and vice versa. This proved to be a littlefrustrating at times.

Part 2, raft building time . Each team was given4 poles, 9 short ropes, 3 barrels plus 2 paddles. Theobject being, in 25 mins build a raft, float it, thenwith all 4 people on board, paddle it about 200mout the lake without it sinking. You were allowedsink on the way back to shore, without penalty. Afew very grateful teams took up on this last option,willingly or not. This was needless to say allconducted in the pitch dade of night, using onlyhead torches for light.Part 3 was a mental exercise, and can best be

described as a very hard version of an aptitude test,where you didn't really get enough of time to


complete. As an addendum to this each team wasgiven a sheet of paper containing a described routewhich we were told will have to be run at somestage during the weekend. Each team had to submitan estimated time for the route, bearing in mindthat there would be 15mins of "safety time" avail-able between now and the run (no guarantee ofgetting it though!). However the estimated timewould be taken as the official time, even if you didbetter than it, and heavy penalties would apply ifyou went over this time (2 mins penalty per 1 minover) .... a tough choice at 1 am ..?STAGE3: A 6amwake up, acupofteain hand

on the way out the door, a 3 km warm up jog intothe middle of Killarney, all before the official 7 amstart. However it was a gloriously fine, sunnymorning and at this deserted hour the town lookedstrangely calm, almost as if it was all a dream.The start of the stage soon changed this calmness

with teams of 4 all running back and forth, to andfro, aUover the town. There were 4 sections to thisstage, all being completed continuously, with teamsreturning to the start/finish at the end of eachsection only to begin the next one. The sectionsinvolved 4 different navigation/running exercise,

AJAX ORIENTEERS would like toapologise 10 all competitors who took partin the Brown and Green courses at theirrecent Leinster League event at Raven'sRock. The organisers bad no option but 10void these courses. Local fanners badmoved two controls as they were very

upset at seeing dogs without leads in theirfields and worrying their sheep.

Ifwe are to maintain good relations wil.hlandowners we cannot afford to antag-

onise them in this manner.

(Perhaps a good rule of thumb is, assumeyou can't bring dogs into the competition

area unless you are specifically toldotherwise? - Ed.)

each taking on average 15 to 18 minutes to CQm-plete. They included a detailed described route tobe followed with some control points to be punchedwhen found en route; a single line route on over 35separate boxes with each following on from theprevious to cover a course which also containedsome controls; amap of the town with 10 locationsmarked and question to be answered at each loca-tion; and finally another map of the town withquestions, but this time the map was not of streetsbut of overhead electricity cables and nothing elsefor navigational purposes.

I must compliment the planners on this event asI found it very novel and intriguing as well as beingphysically and mentally demanding. Roughly 13to 15km were covered during this stage, and itcertainly generated an appetite for breakfast.

Breakfast was almost a stage in itself. The wholeof the Bricfn restaurant was taken over, and hugequantities of porridge, scrambled eggs, etc. wereconsumed and washed down with ample amountsof tea and coffee. By 9am all the troops werewatered and fed raring to go once morelSTAGE 4: This stage began directly opposite

the front of the Cathedral in Killarney. Each teamwas given a canoe and once suited up had to launchinto the Deenach river and paddle to the lake, a fewkm away. Once at the lake we had to paddle to anumber of locations along the shore and punch acontrol at each location. the end of this section wason Inishfallen island in the middle of the largest ofKillarney's lakes, Lough Leane. Once on the is-land section 2 began. This was an enormousnumerical problem which we were given 20 min-utes to solve. Intruth, no team managed do this, andhence nobody gained the 9 mins of "safety time"available. This in itself left some teams fairlyworried about their estim ated run times, especiallythose who had factored the maximum safety timeinto their estimate!Next up was the final partofstage4, a 2kmsprint

across the lake, in the canoes, with the finish atRoss Castle. Unfortunately by this time the windhad freshened and therefore there were additionalhazards such as sizable waves and a strong cross-wind to contend with.STAGE 5: Ross Castle was the starting point

for the next 2 stages, with stage 5 consisting of 4separate sections, one to be completed by eachteam member. The sections involved were an ori-enteering course, a 5km road race, an assistedswim (i.e, swim on a surf board out on the lakearound an island and back .... - this was a reallydifficult section.), and lastly a mental exercise. Allof these sections took roughly 30 minutes to com-plete.STAGE': Atabout2.30pm, after some lunch,

it was onto the water once again. This time eachteam was assigned a boat whose only mode of pro-pulsion was a pair of oars! The object of theexercise was to row from Ross Castle all the wayacross Lough Leane, under Bricfn bridge, andacross Muckross lalce to finish at Dinish Cottagebeside the Meeting of the Waters. This was a fairlytrying stage, particularly when tbe wind was strong.the waves increasing, and no member of the teamhaving rowed before. The distance involved herewas a long, energy sapping 5kIDor so. Atone point, we had to row under the Bricfn bridge, where thoflow of water coming from Muckross lake was sostrong that even rowing as hard as possible, wewere bairly avoiding being swept backwards.Finally the end came and we staggered ashore atOinish Cottage to some very welcoming warm teaand soup. And it wasn't over yet!

MAP OF THE YEARCongratulations 10 3ROC on winningthe "Grade 1" category of the Map ofthe Year competition with Carling ford;GEN for Carrickgolligan ("Grade 2")and PXN for Daingean ("Grade 3").

Mapping Officer John Walshe asksclubs 10 send 3 copies of current 0-

maps to him for the TCD Map Library.and also asks Regional Mapping

Officers to collate a register of maps.Details from John (091-90408).

The Irish Orienteer /9

STAGE7: With aching muscles, and exhaustedbodies, the revelation that the next stage was to bethe previously estimated run was received to achorus of sighs to say the least. Beginning atDinish Cottage the run proceeded gradually up tothe main Kenmare road, then across the road andmore or less straight upwards along a very narrow(single me only) track, around the side of ToreMountain, and down to the carparkjust above thewaterfall. This was almost as much a test of mentalas physical endurance. There was no point trying tobreak records, while at the same time we had tomaintain a steady pace to ensure that no penaltytime was picked up. This run on average proved tobe a very difficult one to estimate, partly due to thenature of the terrain, and partly due to the physicalstate of the teams after such a demanding morningand afternoon. Fortunately due to a very conserva-tive estimate the night before we managed tomakeour time with 40 seconds to spare.

Back to the Bricfn restaurant for a wonderfuldinner and some well-earned rest At about 9pm allteams assembled again opposite the Cathedral attbe entrance to the Demesne for stage 8.

STAGE 8: This involved some more commu-nication exercises. The difference this time beingthat eacb team was again split into pairs, each pairhaving a radio and half of a map. Now here iswhere the catch comes in, each pair had the otherpair's map. That is, pair A only had a map of thearea in which pair B were and vice versa. The ideawas for each pair to guide the other pair (via radio,in the pitch dark of night) through an orienteeringcourse. Time penalties were imposed for missing acontrol, or over-running the allowed time. As wellas requiring good and clear communication skills,this exercise demanded a complete trust in theinstructions of fellow team mates. While not par-ticularly tiring physically, this exercise provedmentally exhausting and when coupled with bothfrustration and verging annoyance required realdiscipline to continue working as a team.

STAGE 9: Sunday morning, and a dramaticchange in the weather. Pouring rain, cold and verylow visibility was the welcome upon venturingoutside. And naturally this stage took place out-side. Very simple instructions were all that were


Asia - Pacific Orienteering CarnivalDec 30 - Jan 101994. New Zealand

Eoin's ProgressEoin Rothery, a former Irish Champion nowliving inAustralia, bas been orienteering sincethe sport started in Ireland in the late '60' s. Herecently took part in the Asia-Pacific Orien-teering Carnival.

The Asia-Pacific Orienteering Carnival is a bi-annual event and in January 1994 was held on theNortb Island of New Zealand. The best five of sixindividual days were to count, with 2000 points tothe winner on each day. I'd entered the M35Aclass, the longest course after M21 E. Also on ourcourse were M20A and M21AL. Day 1 was atOtari, a steep open farmland area just north ofWellington. The walk to the start climbed over250m onto a misty ridge. Determined not to havea major time loss, I took tbe event carefully andonly lost one minute in a mistake on the way to tbefirst control, visiting another control on a steepslope. I ended up a close third.just ahead ofNZ'sRick McGregor and Norway's Ingvar Braaten.Australian team members Andrew McComb andPaul Pacque (a Belgian team member at WOC 91and 6th in Australian M21E in 1993) were 5minutes clear in 1st and 2nd, separated by 42seconds.Day 2 was at Jollies Bush, east of Masterton, andwas more rolling open farmland with some nativebush. The latter featured the fearsome "ongaonga"or stinging nettle, which left its mark on quite afew. I was foreed into even more careful mapreading than the previous day as a result of drop-ping my compass on the way to the start butsucceeded in making no errors and finishing third,once again 5 minutes down. Pacque won, withMcGregor second and McComb was 2 minutesbehind me.Day 3 at Glenroy was another very billy day - 360min 5.2 km. A late start and some elephant trackshelped, but it was making no mistakes again that

of alead and I ended up winning by 6minutes fromPacqueand the third Australian team member, RobVincentIt was down to the last day, with three of us still inwith a chance, separated by less than a minuteoverall. McComb was in the lead if five eventswere counted, Pacque was in the lead if four and Iwas second either way! Day 6 was at Maraetotaraand again was open. However this time there werelots ofrocks, boulders and cliffs, as well as detailedcontours. My success up to now had been readingthe contour detail and my worst results in recentyears had been in Australian rocky areas. A Swed-ish style of confidence was the key and I amazedmyself with anotber error-free run. The pbysicaleffort clicked in around half way and after notrecording any fast splits up to then I pulled away,recording the fastest split on every leg to thefinish.All in all a most enjoyable event; open, rollinggrassland obviously suits me, as well as the holidayatmosphere. I only had one bad day and nothinglike the catastrophic 10,20 and 30 (I)minute errorswhich I've experienced in Australia. It was also arelief to be running the shorter M35 course: theM2IE's were out for half as long again and a lot ofthem suffered fairly badly on Days 5 and 6. It isgood to be enjoying orienteering again - I recom-mend these holiday events to everyone.

helped me to win by 4 minutes over McComb andPacque. The practice with careful map reading theprevious two days had allowed me to run a bitfaster this time.Day 4 was also the APOC Individual Champion-ships on sand dunes west of Palmerston North.Before the Carnival I bad decided to make anattempt to return to the thumb compass after manydisastrous rough-compass episodes in Australia.Today was the day , hut I didn't have the techniquequite right and dropped a couple of minutes earlyon. Trying too hard, the careful map reading wentout the window attbe wrong time -wben I got to thedetailed foredunes beside tbe beacb. I was foreedonto the beach and got back in 400 metres too farpast the control. I ended up 9th, a disastrous 15minutes behind the clear winner, McComb.Day 5 was hot. Itwas combined with the Aus vNZindividual challenge. The venue was The Slump,near Hastings on the east coast, and temperatureswere in the 30's with no clouds in tbe sky. Thecontours were intricate, especially near the end,and the terrain open but with long grass whichmode running difficult. Added to this, I ran ranwithout insoles and my left sock eventually gothalfway out of my shoe. The bard surface alsocaused fairly large blisters on both feel My carefulapproach lasted until control 12 when the heat gottome and I struggled in from there.losing aminuteat5 of the last 6 controls. I got to the finish to findthat my early conservatism had given me enough

Eoin Rothery,AJAX.

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CONNACHTCHAMPIONSIDPS

1994Moved from their usual slot at the end of Febru-

ary in the hope of better weather, the ConnachtChampionships and Interprovincial Championshipsat Cornamona, Co. Galway were run on the lastweekend in March. The decision seemed the rightone on Saturday for the Connacht Champs: sunnyand breezy, perfect running conditions for an openmountain area with good underfoot conditions.This was said to be the first dry day since Novem-ber, though, which should have altered us to whatlay in store for Sunday ...

Padraig Ferguson's courses made good usc ofthe terrain, although shorter and older competitorshad severe problems with the many unavoidablefences on the courses. Luckily the weather condi-tions were good as the start was put back half anhour for administrative reasons (like getting a startlist to the start). At least it gave a better chance todigest one's breakfast. CorlcO'sBrian Corbett in areturn to form won the M21L class by 19 secondsfrom clubmateMarcus Pinker whileM arcus 's sisterFaye had her first major win, taking W21L withtwo minutes to spare over Eileen Loughman, thePinkers confirming the form they showed at theLeinster Championships two weeks before. Thecombination of the Connacht Championships andthe Interprovincial on the same weekend meantthat most classes were well represented and com-petitive, with class winners from all four prov-inces, though dominated by Munster and particu-larly by Cork O.

The event was followed by the lOA AnnualGeneral Meeting, a separate report of which ap-pears elsewhere.

On Saturday night it rained.

Well, the gamble paid off for one day. Sundaywe were back to cagoules and woolly hats. "Notenough trees to hang a man, not enough wood tomake a coffin for him .;" might have been coinedto describe Mamclochahin: rain and driving wind


greeted the competitors, with scarcely any shelteron the courses. Low cloud and mist made thingsmore interesting still, making careful navigationand persistence essential. Atthe turn, with the windat your back, there was an exhilarating floating runtowards the finish, along the ridge and down to thesoup and sandwiches in Comamona communityhall. Pinker and Corbett exchanged places today,as did Pinker and Loughman. Unfortunateltdue toa wrong control code on the control descriptionaaffecting some people on the G course (MI5, 55,Wl7, 21S,45) this course was void.

Munster were determined to retain the Inter-provincial tropby and would have done so if theirrunners had all declared for Munster. Unfortu-nately for them, several notable runners (includingBrian Corbett, Rory Morrish, Sean Cotter, ConorCreedon, and Ulster's Maxwell Reed) omitted towrite the initial letter of their province on theircontrol cards as the rules required, and were notincluded in the scoring. The final result on the daywas Leinster 197, Munster 194, Ulster 135, Con-nacht nil and the Interprovincial Trophy wasawarded to Leinster.

This occurrence has prompted a review of theInterprovincial rules, however, and a change islikely before next year's event in Leinster.

As has been pointed out in the results, it was agreat achievement by the Connacbtregion (whichis essentially one club, Phoenix navigators) to runthis event, given their limited manpower and re-sources and the distances they have to travel to doit. Our thanks are due to all the officials involvedand thanks are also due to the competitors who tookthe trouble to enter and compete: without enthusi-asts such as yourselves there would be no orien-teering.

JMcC.

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Making AMapThe re-mapping project of Glencree is finally overand as I write, the event is just 10 days away. It isa nail-biting time for all those concerned in themaking of the map, as the work invested in recentmonths comes under the scrutiny of those whoknow. For those of you who have made arnap, wholive with mappers, or who have been in some wayinvolved in the making of a map, the informationset out below will be of no surprise. For those ofyou who don't know what is involved, or those ofus who forget or may be inclined to be critical, thefollowing information may beuseful.The re-mapping of Glencree took approximatelyone thousand twohundred and fourteen person-hours to complete.Almost half ofthese were spent standing On crags, boulders, in themiddleofaforest, etc. with a compass. A large portion of thetime was spentin travel to the area. Of these three hundred andthirty hourswere spent on a bicycle! The time spent drawingon OCAD was two hundred and fourteen hours. Intotal more than two hundred person-days werespent on this project between only three people.The table below gives a breakdown of the time!mileage involved.

Total time Drawing: 214 hoursSurveying: 580 hoursTravel Time 420 hours

Total mileage by bicycle 2,550 milesby car 2,210 miles

In many ways this was a special project . Theproject was sponsored by PAS and provided"occupational therapy" for Paul Nolan for a year,to the mutual benefit of both Paul and the sponsor-ing club, GEN. (Though it is my belief that GENgot more out of it than did Paul.) Nick Butterfieldwas the project coordinator and Brendan Dohertygave generously of his time. The map was drawnon OCAD Professional, which was a first forGEN24 The Irish Orienleer

members and some getting used to the vagaries ofOCAD was required. Backup discs were used incase of computer failure, and the good sense of thispolicy manifested itself on at least one occasion.Towards the end of the project, some very latenights were had by all as the finaltouches were putto the logos and the legend with the help of ArthurGreen. At the final stages, Peter O'Neill, Post-script wizard, manipulated the files to enable themto go to print. So it is with a little awe and a lot ofgratitude to those who give so unselfishly of theirtime inmapping places for us to run, thatI have putpen to paper for this article. I certainly have neverseen the like of the wholehearted commitmentgiven to this project by all those involved. I haveno doubt other maps involve just as much time,effort and shoe-leather. While the lads complainedvociferously, and wondered were they mad, I'mvery grateful, for those of us who like to orientccr.that they are! The sketch below is a kind ofmapping joke.

Audrey Sheridan.

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LEINSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS, well received and useful. If you'd Iioke to run in

Glencree, CO.Wick low, Glencree again the plan is to run the 1995 Inter-

12 March 1994.provincial Championships there in early April.

Those of you with long memories will recall aJMcC.

Leinster Two-Day at Glencree run by Dubin Uni- COURSE:" 9.61<m'55Om

versity Orienteers in the early '80's, with runners 1. M21E Aonghue 0 CIeIlfgh ONOC 78:442. M21E Marous Pinker CorkO 81:06

milling around in the cloud on the open mountain 3. M21E Justin May 3ROC 82:03

above the Raven's Glen. Suddenly the cloud would COURSE:B 8.SI<mI42Sm

lift to reveal orienteers running every which way, 1. M19 Stephen Wileon LVO 82:19

hopelessly lost, before it descended again to ob- 2- M19 M. Colclough lIAS 113:473. M19 8t1wt Low ..... WHO 158:28

scure everything except the few feet of lighter1. M21L AndrewPlm WalO 17:05

gloom around you. 2. M21L B.rry Delby 3ROC 86:03

While this year's Leinster' sweren'tquite like that, 3. M21L Marc ... Geoghegan AJAX 87:01

there was a definite awareness of the prevailing 1. M3S Senen 0 Boyle CNOC 90:32

weather conditions, particularly for later starters, 2. M35 Kieran McDonald ECO 111:233. M35 PalSplRane CNOC 105.25

who benefited from on-course showers (unfortu-nately, of snow and hail). Much of the old forest of COURSE:C 8.0krn'3nm

1. M40 BIf., Bell (lEN 74:21

Crone has been felled so Nick Butterfield's longer 2. M40 Maurice 0 Har. AJAX 78:18

courses spent a lot of time in the open, heading over3. M40 Kevin 0 Dwyer SO 18.23

the side of Maul in and Tonduff before returning 1. W21E EllMnL~ CNOC 96:4112. W21E Faye Pinker CorkO 115:43

towards the Powerscourt waterfall and back to the 3. W21E Maeve MacPheraon 3ROC 115.&4

finish. Wisely the organisers insisted on cagoules COURSE: 0 7.Okrn'300m

for all starters. 1. M17 Clan Chandler CorkO 82:19

The weather conditions, the rough going underfoot2. M17 Ian Locklngton NWOC 84:273. M17 Conor Creedon CorkO 93:41

and the severe climb reduced many competitors to 4. Ml1 JOfWIhon MllCkey 3ROC 96:11

a stagger. but fast winning times were still attain- 1. tMS Billy ONal. CNOC 74:22

able. The map, largely surveyed by Paul Nolan for 2. tMS Bob Pinker Co<kO 78:47

GEN with the aid of a FAS youth employment3. tMS Gerry Byma CNOC 80.47

scheme, was clear and generally represented the COURSE: E 5.6km'23Sm1. MOO John 0 Murphy LeeQ 59:62

terrain well. I'm not suggesting that this was the 2. MOO TedF .. han BVOC 62.57

case here, but the problem with OCAD maps is that3. MOO PodrIdc UoIor CNOC 64.26

they all look beautifully drawn. While previously I. WIll Joenne Meln NWOC 64:242. WIll ".bha Creedon CorkO 65:35

a badly drawn map might suggest a correspond- 3. WI9 Eunice Cinnamon LVO 70:16

ingly badly done survey, there are no such warning 4. W19 Brld Hlggln9 Lea 0 83:10

signs with OCAD maps: perhaps this is something5. W19 Nine PhIllips ucoo 20:64

which the assessors for the map of the year will 1. W21L T•• Hor., AJAX 65:562- W2IL Mlrlllm NlChoItlr COfkO 79:34

have to take more into account in future. 3. W2IL Ruth Blair NWOC 19.39

It's good to have another map in Leinster althougb 1. W3S Mary Curran CorkO 19:42

the physical nature of the terrain will pose prob- 2. W3S ....... Mctnemey CNOC 95:41

lems for future course planners. Aonghus OCleir-3. W3S Joan 0 Brien "JAX 109:41

igh again took the Men's title and Justin May again COURSE:F 5. 11<m'205m1. W40 Ruth Ly"." CNOC 61:27

finished in the top three as he has done every year 2. W40 Healher Majury LVO 64:35

since the LeinsterChampionships started. Marcus 3. W40 Monica Nowlan 3ROC 65.47

and Faye Pinker (CorkO) both finished second in 1. M56 Cotln Powell Wrekln 59:52

M21E and W21E, an excellent result for two just-2. M56 Frank McCOf1NIC:k CNOC 62.S73. M56 Colin Dunlop SET 64.07

about juniors. Though the prizegiving was' seri-ously delayed the prizes of Lowe bum-bags were


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Those individuals interested in compet-ing for Ireland in any or all of the remaining 1994Wold Cup races should apply in writing to theconvener of selectors, Richard Kavanagh, as soonas possible. For the next series (10 August Classic,Kristiansand, Norway; 13 August: Classic, forkedmass start, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14 August:Relay, Copenhagen) selection will be assessed onrecent form, the Irish Two-Day and the ScottishChampionships.For the last series (24-25 September, Short quali-fication and Classic AlB final, Hannover, Ger-many; 29 September, Relay, Jicin, Czech Repub-lic; 1 October, Classic, Jicin) early summer formincluding the Shamrock a-Ringen will also beconsidered. Selection will be decided at least twomonths before each race.

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Dear Sir,Iread in to-day' s Irish Times (page 20)that Orien-teering is a "Sport" along with Golf, Rugby andBasketball. Ialso read in the same paper (Week-end, page l l) that it is an "Outing" along withBirdwatching, River Vale walking and Castleexploring.Iam confused - and Ihave been orienteering foryears!Those who don't know anything or those who aretrying to food out more must be even more con-fused.

3 Selection criteria for the World Cham-pionships in Germany, 13-20 August 1995, arebeing prepared and will be issued as soon as

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2 The Senior Home International willtake place in NW England on 5-6 Novem ber 1994.This International has a high priority and we areanxious to field our strongest possible team. Selec-tion will be based on criteria similar to thosedescribed above.

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possible. A nomination (application) form is alsobeing prepared. This will provide the selectors andteam managers with all relevant information aboutseniors and veterans interested in running for ire-land. Further details soon.

4 Veterans (MIW40 and over) are re-minded that the Veteran Home Internationalwill take place in Wales on 8-9 October 1994.Again, we want to make an impact at this event. Asusual, performances in Irish and Provincial Cham-pionships, as well as the Irish Two-Day, the Sham-rock a-Ringen and major British events will beused in the selection of this team.

Selectors:Convener: Richard Kavanagh, "Tara", 3 Ma-ryville, Ballintemple, Cork (021-291610);Trina Cleary, 25 Templeroan Grove, KnocklyonRoad, Dublin 16 (01-4936187);Teresa Finlay, Gortatole OEC, Florencecourt, Co.Fermanagh BT92 lED «08-)0365-348937»;Wilbert Hollinger, 51 Collin Road, Ballyclare, Co.Antrim BT399TF «08)-0960-341042);John McCullough, 9 Arran Road, Drumcondra,Dublin 9 (01-8378819);Miriam Nf Choitir, 43 Lohunda Crescent, Clon-silla, Dublin 15 (01-8202319); out of primaryschool term: "Brownhill", Ballincollig, Co. Cork(021-870025);Frank Ryan, St. Mary's, Ballinfoyle, Galway (091-753829).

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Let's stop this double-think and let Orienteeringprogress in its rightful place - a sport - anathletic navigational sport, catering for both com-petitive and non-competitive.Maybe ifwe can get to that stage we can then focuson improving our standards so that we can rightlyhold our place among the a-nations of the World(and while I'm at itmaybe wearing the Irish a-suitwill then be voluntarily reserved for Internation-als).Anything else just isn't Cricket!

IOAAGMREPORT

31:4834:4943.44 Businesslike and uncontroversial, the Annual

General Meeting of the Irish Orienteering Asso-ciation was like the Association itself. It returnedto one of its former haunts, deepest Connacht, onthe weekend of the Connacht Championships andattracted a modest crowd of interested spectatorswho actually got to vote a couple of times.lOA AGM's in Connacht were common someyears ago and Comamona Community Centrehosted the weekend's events as well as the AGM.

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Yours in sport,IAN MACNEILL.

Perhaps it was a move to keep the meeting brief,but the central heating wasn't turned on until nextday.The usual reports were read and circulated: Chair-person Faith Whitehigblighted the certification oforienteering instructors and leaders and the role ofadventure centres in introducing orienteering tonew people. FrankCunnanereported on wholesaleresignations during the year: Cbairman PatO'Connor, Executive Secretary Pat Redmond,Environment Officer Barry Dalby, Mapping Offi-cer Brian Corbett, PRO John O'Neill. At the end ofthe year three of the Executive held two jobs each


on lOA. He also informed us that the lOA hasaffiliated to the Tree Council of Ireland, that ArthurGreen has joined the 10F High Tech Group andthat the affiliation fees for smaller clubs are beingkept al£120 while larger clubs will now pay £200,up £20 on last year.On the financial front Brian Hollinshead reporteda loss of just over £lOOOlast year, due partly to aslightly over-generous disbursement of grants toclubs. Income was £28,828 (up from £27,999 in1992) and expenditure was £29,355 (up from£26,956 in 1992). Cospoir grants amounted to£12,000 for the year, including grants for compe-titions abroad. Brian noted thatoutof23 clubs only14 had affiliated with only 10 days to go, only 6 hadpaid event levies for 1993, only 7 had sent back thecensus form four weeks after the closing date andonly 3 had sent copies of their accounts in the past9 months! Hewamed that this levelofnon-compli-ance may provoke lOA into disaffiliating clubs,rendering them uninsured and without any grantsupport from lOA. He suggested that lOA spendsmoney on increasing participation, on coachingand training, on improving the visibility of thesport and on essential administration. He failed tocomment on the fact that the last three lOA Treas-urers (all3ROC clubmates of bis: Ronan Cleary,Paddy Keane and Pat Flanagan) have emigrated toBritain: is there a message here?Frank Cunnane.wearing his Fixtures Secretary bat.gave a breakdown of the events registered for theyear and announced the unfortunate postponementof the Munster Championships planned for April.Development Officer Trina Cleary reported on thelOA Training Board: there are now 32 O-Ieadersand l30-instructors and Barry Dalby is preparingorienteering modules for the new Vocational Cer-tification scheme for leisure sports. The RegionalChairmen are to produce regional developmentplans by the end of March. A new poster is beingproduced by lOA for outdoor centres and such likeand clubs are encouraged to adopt outdoor centresand keep them informed about orienteering.Technical Officer Bernard Creedon distributedcopies of the Rules of Orienteering and proposedthat the names of the Junior age classes should bechanged to the 10F norms(i.e. that if you are anM15 now, meaning that you are 15 or 16 on 31stDecember next, then you will become anM16, that30 The Irish Orienteer

is 160runderon31stDecembernext). This changewon't affect the actual classes, just what they'recalled, and will come into effect next January. Heis waiting for details of Grade 1Controllers fromclubs to get the controlling scheme going again andwants to publicise the Coaching Award scheme:formal qualifications will in the future be requiredfor insurance purposes.Coaching Officer Brendan Delaney outlined theNational Coaching Development Programme beingrun by the National Coaching and Training Centrein Limerick. It is hoped to be able to integrate thelOA TB awards with the European vocationalqualification system at the NCTC.Wearing his Juniors Officer hat, Bernard Creedonthen told us about the good results obtained by theJuniors last year, most notably Marcus Pinker'swin at the European Junior Match in England inSeptember. but also the results at the Junior HomeInternational, the Junior World Championshipsand the performance of the Juniors on the SeniorHome International team. A discussion followedon whetber Juniors should be allowed to wear IrishO-suit tops in non-representative matches. Thefeeling of a number of people at the meeting wasthat they should be, and the lOA was requested tobring the matter up at FIOA for review.Faith White, another double-jobber, as Interna-tional Affairs officer, outlined two of her mainconcerns - to get international orientecrs to come toIreland and to keep the cost of our affiliation to theIOF down. She reported that the 10F TechnicalCommittee may come to Ireland for a meeting inOctober. If this happens, Irish orienteers would bewelcome to attend some of the sessions, by priorarrangement.

The only real election of the day was for the twolOA representatives on theFIOA. Four candidateswentlnto the contest, Richard Kavanagh, BernardCreedon, Frank Cunnane and John McCullough.After the votes were counted, Frank: was elimi-nated, Bernard was elected and there was a tiebetween John and Richard. Richard gallantly with-drew and now finds himself the Convenor of theSenior Selectors: outofthe frying pan, into thefire.In the rag-bag of Any Other Business EileenLoughman expressed concern that Coillte wereinvestigating forests as possible sites for dumpinglandfill and domestic waste; John McCulloughasked what lOA planned to do to made the 25thAnniversary of Irish orienteering this year; Rich-ard Kavanagh complimented the Irish team on

their performance at the World Championships inthe USA last October; Brian Hollinshead askedclubs to contribute maps to the Map Library ofTrinity College. Dublin (they have over 500,000maps but no a-maps, and finally Bernard Creedonpresented aplaque, hand-made inwood and leatherfrom the emporium of Pinker and Taylor in Ballin-geary, to Eileen Loughman to mark her extraordi-nary achievement in representing Ireland at tensuccessive World Championships, over a period of17 years.

The official version of the lOA AGM will doubt-less be circulated to clubs in due course.

JMcC.

Leinster Schools Orienteer-ing Association Newsletter

A meeting was held in St Andrew's College onThursday 9th March to restart the Leinster SchoolsOrienteering Association, at which a number ofschools were represented. The following agreed toact in a caretaking capacity until the Annual Gen-eral Meeting to be held in September - Chairman:Ernest Lawrence (044-71324171115); Secretaries:Mary McGeady & Alan Cox; Treasurer: AudreyLawrence.

Four motions were carried: that the executivesecretary's report be circulated before the AGM,that the lOA make efforts to keep clubs informedon lOA business, that event levies be collected bythe regions and passed on, minus commission, tolOA and the the age class notation be changed toreflect the 10F norms.The officers elected for the coming year are listedin the lOA Bulletin elsewhere in this issue. Thereare still some vacancies, however: a Public Rela-tions Officer (preferably Dublin-based), and anEnvironment Officer.

It was agreed that affiliation to the lO.A. shouldtake place immediately, so that schools can com-pete under their own name in championshlpevents.The chairman will meet with theL.O.A. to discussitems of mutual interest.The Leinster Schools Orienteering Championshipswill take place this year on 22nd May, tying in withthe GEN Leinster League Event in TrooperstownWood. L.S.O.A. Championship trophies should bereturned to Brendan Cryan, DLS. Churchtown, assoon as possible.

A Schools Open Orienteering Weekend was alsoplanned for 14th/15th May, to be held in Mul-laghmeen, hosted by Wilson's Hospital, and fea-turing a small-scale night orienteering event on theSaturday night, an ovemightstay, and then anotherevent on the Sunday morning.

Brendan Cryan has started looking into a pro-gramme of events for the school year 1994-95. It isproposed to have tW9 or three Schools TrainingEvents before Christmas, and then to run a SchoolsLeague in the second half of the year, based onresults in four or five Leinster League Events.

It was felt important that schools be encouraged toaffiliate to the L.S.O.A. A nominal affiliation feeof £5 for the rest of this academic year is beingcharged to help with administration and postagecosts. Only those competitors from affiliatedschools will be allowed compete in any L.S.O.A.event. Get your school affiliated! t

Any enquiries and affiliation fees should be sent toAlan Cox, StAndrew' s College, Booterstown Ave,Blackrock, Co Dublin. (Tel: (01) 2882785)


Improving 'iour OrienJeering (3)

A training schedule forthe average club orien-

teerby Paul Howard Davies of Offa's Dyke

Raiders (borrowed from "Y Ddraig", the WelshO-newsletter).

Most orienteers train in a haphazard, unstruc-tured, ad hoc way which inevitably leads todisappointment with results and disillusion-ment with training. This article is aimed at thebasic jogger who runs three times a week fora few miles each time. It should enable you 10run a whole orienteering course without stop-ping, to recover quickly after hills and toeliminate errors caused by fatigue.

It is suitable for anyone over 17 and under 55 yearsold. This schedule is safe and effective and wasrecommended by the Australian OrienteeringFederation in the '70's. It starts with three trainingsessions a week and builds up to five a week. Thenon-training days should be restdays but activitieslike swimming or yoga which do not stress the legswould be useful on these rest days.

Three types oftraining sessionare Included:Long, Slow Distance (LSD): steady jogging at apace at which you could maintain a conversation.Aim initially at 30 minutes and build up to amaximum of 60 minutes.Interval Training (IT): Striding out for 30 sec-onds (do not sprint) and jog recovery for 60 sec-onds. Warmup well before you start At the begin-ning try 5 repetitions ("reps") and build up to 15reps in a session.Terrain Running (TR): Fairly solid running onuneven ground including bills and occasional burstsof speed ("fartlele"). 20 minutes to begin, aiming at45 minutes. Orienteering competition is the bestway to get this kind of training.


Schedule: IS THERE ABETTERWAY?

(Subtitled: Pre-marking orienteeringmaps with a computer plotter)

Week 1 lx30minLSD,lx5IT,lx20minTR,4 rest days.Week2 2x30min LSD,l x 8IT,l x25minTR.3 rest days.Week 3 2x 35 min LSD, 1x !OIT, 2x 30 min TR,2 rest days.Week4 2x40minLSD,1x 10IT,2x35minTR.2 rest days.Week5 1x45min LSD,2x 12IT,2x40minTR,2 rest days.Week 6 1x 50 min LSD,2x 12IT,2x45minTR,2 rest days.Week 7 lx55min LSD,2x 15IT,2x45minTR,2 rest days.Week 8 2x 60 min LSD, l x 8 IT,4 rest days.

Marcus Geoghegan finds out ...

Are you one of those club members who arebecoming increasingly reluctant to volunteeras an official atmajor events? Often the troubleis the amount of time that is required. In hiseditorial to 110 68, John McCullough points outthat clubs are being put off staging championshipevents due to the heavy time commitment. Butwhat if you could save time by pre-marking mapsfaster?Using a plotter Ioverprinted 420 maps in 6' manhours for Cronybyme on March 13th 1994. Thiswas well below the 100 man hours that went intooverprinting for the 1993 AJAX Leinster champi-onships when we used the usual orienteering over-printer and also marked some courses by hand(Paddy O'Brien even experimented with a perspexsheet drilled with holes). At the time I was con-vinced that there must be a better way and so Idecided to use a plotter to overprint the maps forthe next grade I event ill Cronybyrne.l'm sure that1 was not the first person in Ireland to try this, butI am not aware of anyone else's experiences withplotting.

Obey the RulesThere are a few rules. If after the end of week 2 youare struggling, repeat weeks 1 and 2. However, ifyou are reasonably fit to begin with, start withweek 3.Do not (cain when ill or when recovering fromi11nm and don 'tlrain through pain. e.g. by usingpainkillers when suffuing from shin splines!Do not attempt any anaerobic interval traininguntil you are comfortable with week 8 fitness level(the interval training referred to above is aerobic).To be really successful you will need some specifictraining after this basic training, but in the mean-time on your long, slow runs, why not take a mapand learn the IOF symbols or practice distancejudgement or pace counting? The Hardware

A plotter is a type of computer printer that uses apen to draw shapes on a sheet of paper. They arecommonly used by engineers and architects forcomputer aided design. Small simple plotters arealso used in offices for colour printing, but they arebeing overtaken by cheaper new technology colourprinters. Mesmerising to watch in action, plottersdraw lines and curves by moving both the paper(up-down) and the pen (left-right) at the same timeto draw any shape anywhere on the page.I was able to borrow a flatbed IDM 6182 plotter (aflatbed plotter has the paper laid flat as opposed tomounted around a revolving drum) which couldtake A3 and A4 sheets. Fortunately the Cro-

Thanks to all the con-tributors to this issueof The Irish Orien-teer: without you

nothing would havebeen possible.(Or necessary!)

nybyme map is very close to A3 size (This lendsstrength to the case for the standardisation of mapsizes to A31A4. This would give cost savings bothin map production and in subsequent overprint-ing). My plotter's main advantage lay in the re-load time, which I was able to get below 5 seconds.

The SoftwareThere are two com puler programs to drive a plotterfor orienteering overprinting - PLOTIT and PLOT-MAPS. Both are for IDM type computers and areavailable from Arthur Green of SetantaOrienteers.PLOTIT is free; there is a small charge for PLOT-MAPS. Neither requires any fancy hardware, astandard OOS system will do. Iused PLOTIT (Isuspect PLOTMAPS has more features, but it gavea OOS error on my PC and I did not have time toinvestigate). Minimal computer literacy is requiredto set-up and use these programs. However it isvital to have all of the maps trimmed exactly thesame. I asked the printer to guillotine them andwatched him do it to ensure he got the message. Butby far the most complex issues are pens and ink.

Pens and InkPens and ink are discussed in detail in tbe manualfor PLOTMAPS. What is required is a 3mm penfilled with an ink that is transparent yet vivid. redor violet, non-beading, quick drying and spiritbased. The yellow and green on an orienteeringmap is usually printed with a clay based ink whichwill not take a water based ink on top. I actuallyused a 6mm pen with water based ink. Ifyou lookclosely at your map (I'm sure that you did not misssuch a high quality event!) you may see taat the inkdid not take on any yellow area and it beaded on thedarker green. I was lucky that this did not affect anycourse to a great extent.

OverprintingFirst I gave PLOnT some general informationsuch as the circle size, where to put the course nameand which way the map is oriented on the page.Then I gave it the co-ordinates of each control siteby laying a transparent millimetre grid on mymaster map and typing the co-ordinates of eachcontrolintoaftleon the PC. This file is used to sendinformation to the plotter instructing it to print :1.

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master control sheet with every control site for theevent At this stage I had to do a lot of minoradjustment to ensure that Icentred every circle aswell as possible.Overprinting each course is very simple as anygiven course is justasubsetoftbemaster sheet. Forexample, to produce the plot file for the blue courseIcopied the master plot file and used an editor todelete those controls that were not on the bluecourse. The only triclcy bit is deciding where toposition the control number on the map - PLOTITchooses a default position that often was not satis-factory. Mass production is done by sending therequired course to the plotter, watching it plot thecourse, removing the map, loading a new map andrepeating as many times as required.There are extra features in both programs to allowyou to draw partial circles and broken lines so asnot to obscure detail. PLOTMAPS has an interest-ing feature that allows you to use the plotter itselfto tell the program where each control site is andcan also feed information into CONDES, the con-trol description program. Neitberplotting programis really designed to overprint map corrections,however Imanaged to draw straight lines to hatchfelled areas.

GLORIOUS MUD -JK'94

Mud everywhere didn't seem to bother some of theIrish competitors who achieved some of the bestJK results ever. Irish Champion Una Creagh(3ROC) finished third in the Womens" Elite,Deirdre nl Cballanain won W21 L and Nuala Hig-gins (LeeO) was third, Justin May (3ROC) fin-ished third in M35L, Niall Walsh (3ROC) was 4thin MI0A while his clubmates John McGrath andThomas Gray finished 2nd and 4th in MI1B;Thomas's brother Geoffrey was 3rd in M13B. JeffButler (3ROC) won Ml1B; the NWOC pair ofSteven Linton and James Logue finished 19th and20th in M21 Elite with Brian Corbett (CorkO)34 1M Irish Orienteer

AdvantagesYou do not have to print all of the maps for a givencourse at the one time.Wastage is minimal (I threw away less than 10maps).The overprinting is exactly the same each timewith very small deviation.It is a lot less messy than the traditional overprinterand does not involve fidgeting with sticlcy bits ofrubber and ink pads.

they were lucky to find a carpark in a garden centre2.5 km away. Confusion reigned, however, whenall start times after 12.00 were put back, first by 30minutes, then by 60, to allow later starters time tomake it from the distant car park, Start times thusran from 9 am to after 4 pm: a difficult situation totty to maintain morale and a positive attitudetowards the race ifyou're sitting, cold and hungry,in a muddy field for a couple of hours.The forests weren't very challenging apart from aninteresting enough area near the finish of Day 2,but the competition was nonetheless intense. OK,most of the British squad was in Australia for theWorld Cup races but the ones left behind were noslouches. AU the maps were surveyed and drawnby Terry Foxton in an amateur capacity and he didan outstandingjob, showing that itcan still be donewithout a professional survey.Day 1at Garnstone and Foxley was a long valleywith farmland in the bottom and a narrow strip offorest around the sides. How the planners managedto plan courses for a JK here was a miracle: franklyif an event of the standard of the lK were run inIreland on an area like this I'd be embarrassed.Given that the choice of the location of a JK isbased on political considerations rather than onorienteering quality, the quality of the orienteeringmust vary from year to year, but can you imaginehow the Scandinavians must have felt to havetravelled to this, Britain's premier event? BrianCorbett compared it to Kilbrittain, near Kinsale.Doubtless there are other woods like it dottedaround the country.Switzerland's Christian Hanselmann romped homein M21 Elite. almost 2 minutes clear of SouthernNavigators' Paul Hague (Yvette's brother) on Day1. Hanselmann ran in Ireland at CISM in 1987, ifI remember correctly. InW21 Elite Alice Bedwell(Bristol) also finished nearly two minutes clear ofWendy Smallwood, with Una Creagh 6th, 65 sec-onds adrift but within striking distance.Day 2 at Pyon and Dinmore was somewhat sim ilarterrain: a patchwork of fields and forest, steep sidesand flat tops. The largely fine conditions the firstday had given way to incessant rain. Hanselmannfinished 48 seconds clear of Andy Kitchin whoserun brought him from 4th to 2nd, but the Swissrunner bad it in the bag. In the Womens" Elite Una

DisadvantagesGetting access to a plotter. The ideal would be onethat could take any size and shape of paper but isalso simple and quick to re-load.It is harder to divide the labour amongst a group ofpeople than with the traditional method.Remember that if you try plotting you will have toexperiment with inks.

Is it worth it?I think so. While Iwould never claimthat my overprinting was perfect, I was sadsfledthat it matched anything I had seen previously.After LOC 93 we vowed 'never again' .Maybe byintroducing technology such as this we can reducethe work required to run major events and makeclubs less reluctant to take them on.Marcus GeogheganAJAX Orienteering and Hill Running Club

22nd; Derek Conerney (PXN) 11th M21S1; TedMcGrath 8th M50S; Aisling Walsh 6th WllB;Toni O'Donovan (CorkO)9thWI5A; Faye Pinker(CorkO) 8th WI9A.Route choice was the main navigational challengeof the 1994 Jan Kjellstromlntemational Festival ofOrienteering (you can see why it's simply called"the JK"): whether the brambles in the forest werebetterthan the mud on the tracks. rarely haveIseensuch mud: red-brown, glutinous, sticky, all-em-bracing, plentiful mud: Hereford - hippo heaven.Obviously the weather had a lot to do with it: lotsof rain had fallen and it snowed on each of the fourdays of the event. The organisers were presentedwith a nightmare scenario on the second individualday wben permission for parking for the 4000 oddcompetitors in fields close to the assembly areawas withdrawn at literally the eleventh hour and

pulled up to 3rd, 2 minutes down on the day'swinner Kirsty Bryan-Jones, but neither could catchAlice who maintained her 2 minute margin to theend. (Alice won the lK in 1984 in Wales also andthen came over and beat all comers in the IrishChampionships at Killary that year, as she hasdone on more than one occasion). In M35L lainRochford (AJAX) was runaway winner with JustinMay3rd.Easter Monday saw the Relays at Big Wood, asmall foreston aridge with lots of muddy paths andbrambles to choose from. Relays are a lot of fun,particularly if there are as many teams competingas attheJK. The "Jan KjeUstrom Trophy" is in factaRelay prize, so the relays have always been takenseriously. Bill Edwards (CorkO), who retired thefirst day, didn' trun the second day to save himselffor the South Yorkshire team: perhaps just as well,since they won the tropby again by almost 4 min-utes tThemost com peliti ve Irish team here was theCorkO one ofBrian Corbett (21st), Marcus Pinker(8th), Liam O'Brien (23rd) and Brian Creedon(15th) did well to finish 15thin such a competitiveclass, but could have done better if everything hadgone well on the day. Bill Edwards ran third leg forSYO, bringing the team in first, a position main-tained by anchor man Tim Tett. In fact MarcusPinker had the 5th fastest time 00 the 20d leg andJames Logue the 7th fastest leg 1 time.So, overall hardly a classic JK, but then it wasn'texpected to be. At least Hereford bas four newmaps. The organisers and planners pulled off aminor miracle to run the event on these areas in theprevailing conditions, so thanks are de to them:they did a great job. Next year tbeJK will be basedat Harrogate in Yorkshire and Easter is April 14-17.

!mTHE JAH~KJELLSTROMIHTERHATIOHAlFESTIVAL OFOIJEHTEERIHGI!r.Y:1

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THE RAIN INSPAIN

I got the idea of organising the rust Irisbwinter training week in Spain wben Ipickedup a leaflet at the French 5 day in the Pyreneeslast summer. To be honest, the venture started lifeas the first LVO winter training trip to Spain, but itquickly became clear th at most people are short ofboth holiday time and cash in February and so thetarget audience spread rapidly to encompass thewhole of Ireland. The final party included myself,Paddy Herbert and David Ainley from LVO plusAonghus O'Cleirigh, Brendan Delaney and Pa-draig Higgins.

Wernet up at Dublin airport on a very cold Feb-ruary morning to set off on the first leg of thejourney. A 2 bour flight brought us to Barcelonaand our first sight for many months of a strangeyellow orb in the sky that seemed to exude warmthand brigbt ligbt. A short hop on an Iberian Airlinedomestic flight brought us to Seville airport atabout tea time on Sunday evening. My contact inthe local orienteering club, ADOL was MiguelBorrero, but we were met by his club mate Pablo,who assisted with hiring cars. A simple matter, youmight think, but by the time that we had reconciledourselves to the fact that cars hired locally weredearer than expected, all suitable vehicles had beenaccounted for.

Plan B led us to seek a hotel in Seville for thenight, again with Pablo's assistance. Paella andwine were high on our listof priorities by this timeand again we set off with Pablo, who joined us ina memorable (as far as I can recall) meal, which setus all in holiday mood. The following morning,bacon rolls and coffee in the bar across the street (orlane as themain traffic thoroughfares in old Sevilleare known!) fortified us for the final round of carhire negotiations, conducted once again by ourfriend Pablo in the main railway station.

The sun shone as we headed west along the mo-torway towards Huelva and E1 Portil. The routethrough Huelva had been carefully planned exceptthat the ever courteous Brendan had offered a


young senorita a lift to Huelva as an alternative tothe train and we found (or lost, depending on howyou look at it) ourselves in the middle of the townand nowhere near the planned ring road. Neverchange your route plan once you have started a leg.The basic relocation technique was to follow grav-ity downwards until the bridge we sought finallymaterialised.

10 the afternoon, a 7 km course was selectedfrom the permanent control sites in the nearestforest, El Portil. The apartment was in the southernpart of the map, a few hundred metres from theAtlantic. Although the map was 5 years old, it wasstill fairly accurate. The scrubby undergrowth hadgained domination in some areas, turning themfrom wbite to green and the apartment developersbad made many changes in the area near the coast.The predominant features in the undulating terrainwere the many re-entrants and spurs, all of whichbegan to look very similar after a while. It 'wasessential to keep in touch with the map at all timesin order to avoid parallel errors.

On Tuesday morning we agreed to train indi-vidually or in smaller groups and to set up a clusterevent in the afternoon. Paddy, David and myselfset off to do some fine navigation and route analy-sis in a small area of complex sand dunes in thesouth cast corner of the map. This proved to be auseful exercise in finding handrail features amongstthe contours. Running along a ridge top whilekeeping track of each hill proved to be one of themore successful techniques.

Another, adjacent map was selected for the af-ternoon exercise. As we set of through the forest(by car, but don't tell the hire company), rain beganto fall. Two controls were to be placed within300m of each other in specified blocks of forest,thus setting up a 12 control course. As the rainturned to hailstones and the thunder rumbled in thedistance, control site selection became less dis-criminatory. I won 'tsay who wimped out, but onlyfour of the group ran the course that afternoon.(Suggestions on a postcard please to ) Myown personal theory was that once you are wet,then you may as well stay wet till you've finished.Besides. it was just like home and very kind of theSpanish to lay on the first rain in the area for 4months just to make us feel welcome.

Homecookingslarted as a group exercise, butassoon as the "too many cooks" syndrome becameobvious, David took the helm and produced thefirst of a series of culinary triumphs. Plenty ofcarbohydrates, onions, tomatoes and black olives,accompanied by fish, chicken or ham, and was beddown with glasses of vino tinto (60p per litre) keptbody and soul together for the remainder of theweek.

While looking for a bank, David accidentallyfound the Event Centre in the next room to thelibrary in the local Civic Building. Unfortunatelythe language barrier prevented us from gaininganswers to any trivial questions, such as "where isthe car park for the event?", or "what are our starttimes?" We resolved to return with our residentinterpreter, Brendan. (How else do you think hemanaged to pick up that senorita at Seville railwaystation?) There was no H40 class, so we settled for3 H21E runs and three H35 courses, split neatlybetween the North and South ofIreland.

On Wednesday morning it was still raining stead-ily, but a pre-breakfast interval session left the restof the morning free to continue David's search forpesetas. 3 banks later. the addition of some ofPaddy's sterling notes to David's sterling travell-ers cheques, finally breached tbe threshold ofminimum financial transactions. Now it was onlya matter of waiting for balf an bour for the paper-work to be completed.

Wednesday afternoon was a go-as-you-pleasesession. While I tried out the challenges of the ElRompido map ( a 1 km jog to the west of theapartment), David and Paddy finally managed torun the previous day's cluster course (OK, forgetthe postcard), collecting the controls en route.Foregoing the pleasures of Punta Umbria's Al-hambra bar (or the Crucible as it was dubbed inbonour of its pool table), David and I munchedgreen olives in a nearby bar, while sipping a fewlocal beers. The thought of Brendan and Guscleaning up on tbe pool table yet again was toodepressing to contemplate.

Thursday morning was planned as another clus-ter control course. It seemed that the Vino was be-ginning to take its toll. It was one of those days thatthe brain just did not get into gear. I lost time on the

first two controls and quickly followed up bycompletely missing the 3rd one and thefourth. 5 and 6 were OK, but I had placed thosemyself. The final ignominy was a classic mentalshift from leg 9 to leg 11 without going through allthat bassle with controls 9 and 10. Time to take abreak from navigation. Seville, here we come,preceded only by a quick dip in the Atlantic.

There was the cathedral. the Real Alcazar, theMoorish gardens. the narrow streets, the horsecarriage rides, the boating canal and. bestofall, thesunny boulevard, where we sipped cold beer andwatched the world go by. Seville is a beautiful cityto visit, althougb we were a few days early for there-opening of the buildings on the Expo site. Anearly night is called for in preparation for theweekend events,

Day I competition is on the northern part of themap which includes our apartment. We took theopportunity to walk to the event - purely for thenovelty value, you understand, and besides, weonly spotted one control en route. A steady runwith no errors as far as control 9, which wasunfortunately missing. A quick confab. with aSpanish competitor and another from South Ribbleconfirmed our location at the control site, whichwas asmall building. The control code was paintedon one wall and we quickly agreed to move on.However, I was then in a bunch and in an attemptto break away, I became confused by a series ofunmapped vegetation changes just before ventur-ing in to the more complex sand dune area. Severalminutes were lost, but I settled again quickly. onlyto be caught, three legs later by a real bingocontrolin a shallow re-entrant hidden in young conifers.Another 3 or 4 minutes were lost there, althoughthe firstre-location plan worked at a walking pace.I ended up in fourth place, only 5 minutes down onthe leader.

Aonghus also bad a good run, finishing in see-ond place to a Lithuanian ill the H2lE class.Padraig and Brendan had creditable runs, to finishin the middle of a strong international field.

On day 2. I was looking for a steady run to con-solidate the day 1 performance and perhaps makeit into tbe first three. The event was on the PuntaUmbriasanddunes, whicb rise to the dizzy heights


As a point of interest for next year, South RibbleOrienteering Club won a trophy for being theforeign club with the most competitors at the eventWith three members present, LVO was half waytherel Perhaps next year, we could bring that oneback to Ireland.

of 5 metres in each of 4 parallel ridges. This wasjUu terrain. It was also very fast underfoot, havinglittle of the previous day's undergrowth. A coupleof short legs in shallow contours were followed bylonger runs across totally featureless forest tocontrols in clearings. The middle section of thecourse offered two legs across the grain of thedunes; the rest being in the nature of aboatrace .IN to the control, OUT to the track, IN to thecontrol, OUT to the track, etc. The tracks werestraight and flat, so it was still necessary to use theadjacent contour detail to keep in touch with themap. The last three controls looked simple, but itwas an effort to keep concentration in the face ofthe demands for blood supply to my legs. It was agood feeling to finish a fast, clean run with a 100metre sprint down the local athletic track. Goodenough to take first place on the day. and promot-ing me to second place overall. Aonghus also hadanother good run to win on the day, missing firstplace overall by the narrow margin of 40 seconds.Padraig and Brendan finished in 16th and 18thplace respectively in a closely contested H21 Eclass. There was time, before the prize giving tonip back to the apartments, pack the cars and cleanthe apartments in readiness for a final afternoon'srelaxation in Seville. A few more beers 011 theboulevard, another excellent meal (Menu del Diasthis time!) and several glasses (at 25p a glass, whowas counting?) of red wine rounded off an enjoy-able and worthwhile trip.

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!fyou think this sounds interesting, here's more:Manuel Parrilla Gil and his wife Marilo LahozRuano are expecting a baby in July. They arelooking for a girl to work as an au pair to workfrom September/October to April, and offer fullboard in their house, pocket money, the opportu-nity to learn Spanish and training all winter withtheirO-club (they have two runners in the nationalwomen's team) and they will pay all entry fees andtransport to about 30 races - regional and nationalevents - between October and April. Interested?Then contact Manuel or Marilo at C/ Munoz Seca,4 80 Izq., 02002 Albacete, Spain. (PS The Editormet them in Sweden in 1992 and in the USA in '93and they are a very nice couple. Manuel speaksquite good English and Marilo's is OK.)

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Regional and Club News

Connacht Region News

Connacbt League 93/94The Connacht League was completed with thefinal event in Garbally on 6th March. The winnerof the senior men's event was Kieran O'Brien(PXN) and the ladies event was won by SiveBaxter(UCOO).

Connacbtand Interprovincial ChampionshipsThe Connacht and Interprovincial Championshipswere successfully held at Mamclochalun, Coma-mona on the last weekend in March. Much thanksis due to organiser John Walshe for the Trojanwork he put in and to planners for both days,Padraic Ferguson and John Darcy who worked sohard to get the-courses right for everyone and gavea great lot of their time, having to travel so far fromCork and Manorbamilton.Thanks also to Aonghus O'Cleirigh (CNOC),controller Day 1, and Derek Conerney, controllerDay 2. Hope everyone enjoyed the competitionand the refreshments in the community centre.Thanks, girls, the tea/coffee, soup and sandwicheswere great, Apologies to the small number ofcompetitors who were affected by the incorrectcode on course G on Day 2. Next year will probablysee the Connacht Championships revert to its tra-ditional last weekend in February in forested ter-rain.

National Adventure MarathonCongratulations to the Phoenix Navigators team ofCathal Cregg. Kieran O'Brien, George Taylor andEamon Cregg who were winners of the NationalAdventure Marathon held in Kerry at the end ofMarch.

IOC '94More congratulations are due to the followingmembers of Phoenix Navigators who were classwinners at the Irish Championships: Derek Con-erney (M21 L), Michael Deasy (M21S) just homeon holidays from Argentina. Michael Regan(M21N) and Fergal Ryan (M17B). Best of lucknext time to the other cIub mem bers who made theeffort to take part

Midlands Two-DayIt is proposed to hold a two-day event on 3/4September on the two maps prepared for this year'sAll Anny Orienteering Championships whicb wereheld in early May in Kinnitty, Co. Offaly.

SETANTANEWS

TheAGM was held recently and the committee forthe next year is as follows: Chairman: ArthurGreen; Treasurer: Frances O'Neill: Secretary: Joce-lyn Cathalin; committee members: Philip Bren-nan, Maura Higgins. Michael Mangan, DavidWeston, Eamonn Woulfe.

Recent events: Thanks to all club members whoassisted at the recent event inMullaghmeen: unfor-tunately we were a bit too early for the bluebells butit has to be said that we had an incredible dayweatherwise given the week that was in it.Club members have been fairly active in all cham-pionships to date - and going beyond mere orien-teering, a Setanta team gained third place in theNational Adventure Marathon run by Cappanaleareeently. This team comprised Philip Brennan.Michael Mangan, Eugene O'Sullivan and DavidWeston. Tommy Caffrey (another Setanta clubmember) was on the second-placed team withthree other orienteers.

Mapping: Mapping is "ongoing" in Ballinascor-ney - now isyour chance 10 give it a go. Hellfire isalso to be resurveyed in the near future. Contact thesecretary if you are interested.

Mountain Marathon: Yes, it's that time of theyear again. This year the event will start from theSally Gap and the date for your diaries is July 17th.

Secretary: Jocelyn Cathalin, 36 Taney Road,Dundrum, Dublin 14 Phone (01)-2985799.


3ROCNEWS

Congratulations to our Irish Champions, UnaCreagh (W21 E), the five-time winnering Women'sOpen Relay team of Una, Maeve MacPherson andJulie Cleary, Niall Walsh (MIO), John McGrath(MIlA). UrsuiaMacPherson(W35L), TrinaCleary(W45L), and the Open 13- relay team of LukeCampbell-Crawford, Gerard Butler and JohnMcGrath. Well done!3ROC members willfind their issue of the action-packed club newsletter "The Rocket" enclosedwith this edition ofTIO.

LEINSTER NEWSEquipment The LOC has start and finish clocks,an overprinter and a selection orienteering videosfor loan to clubs. Contact Fixtures Secretary JohnMcCullough (01-8378819) for details.A fixtures meeting was held on May 18th to ar-range events up to June 1995. If your club wasn'trepresented there, tough: the other clubs will havegot the best dales and the best locations. You'vebeen warned before!Congratulations toex LOCChainnan Brian HolUn-shead on being awarded the Silva award for serv-ices to orienteering. Long may you continue, Brian.Finaily,lhanks to Great Eastern Navigators forstaging the Leinster Championships and to all theclubs who ran Leinster League events over thepast season. Perhaps we could encourage you toprocess the results a bit quicker, though. Unfortu-nately due to a misplaced control at the Sugarloafevent the Green course results can't be used for theLeague. Also, as an orienteer took a dog out on thecourse at Raven 's Rock in contravention of the per-mission for land access from the land owner,permission was withdrawn in mid-event and theGreen and Brown courses (at least) cannot be usedfor league points. Inaddition the person concernedmay have jeopardised the use of the area for futureevents.Finally, a reminder to clubs that you should beoffering members of O-clubs a substantial dis-count on entry fees in order to encourage orien-


teers to join clubs.

New committee: At the Leinster OrienteeringCouncil AGM at Trooperstown Peter Gargan(AJAX) was elected Chairman, Arthur Green (SE1)as Secretary, Vera Murtagh (3ROC) as Treasurer,Colin Dunlop (SET) as Technical Officer, JohnMcCullough (3ROC) as Fixtures Secretary, Mar-guerite O'Rourke (GENIUCDO) as PRO ErnestLawrence (WHO/SET) as Juniors Officer, whoasks each Leinster club's Juniors Officer (or some-one else if you don'thaveone)to contacthirn aboutplans for Junior Orienteering in Leinster. Hisaddress is: Wilson's Hospital, Multyfarnham, Co.Westmeath.

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Mountain Running Fixtures

Knockdhu Intemational (4.7 miles!1470 ft climb) Camcastle, Co. Antrim2 pm. (GR 332 073)Prince William s Seat, Curtlestown,Co. Wicklow (311000) 7.30 pm2nd Lowe Alpine ComeraghChallenge, Clormel, Co. Tipperary.

Seahan, Ballinascorney, Co. Dublin(4.311200) 7.30 pmSpelga Skyline (1214500) SpelgaDam, Moume Mts. 12.00 hrs.Carrantoohill (7.4/4040). Start 1 pmnear Lough Acoose.Hellfire Relay, Co. Dublin (3x1.31280)7.30 pm.White Hill, Wicklow (3.811030) 7.30pmSlievenamon, Co. Tipperary (5/1500)Kilcash 2 pm.Kippure (61900) 7.30 pmLug Relay (3x11/28OO), Stone Cross,9.00 am.Sorrel Hill, Wicklow (611245) 7.30 pm

World Trophy Selection RaceMillstreet, Co. CorK (411400) 7.30 pmSugarloaf Relay, Co. Wicklow (3x1.21660), Calary 7.30 pmGaltees Ridge, Co. Tipperary (11/46(0), 1.00 pm AnglesboroughMaulln, Glencree (5.1/1410) CroneWood 7.30 pmSHeve Donard, Newcastle, Co. Down(7/2800) 2 pm.Snowdon Intemational, Wales (10133(0)Connaught Cham plonships, Achill

Scrabo, Newtownards, Co. Down (31750)7.45 pmMoumes Seven Sevens Challenge,Newcastle.Lurigethan, Cushendall, Co. Antrim(3.5/1000) 2 pmSperrin Mountains (14/4300), GolesForest (GR 682 940) 12.00 hrsBurren Walk, Fanore, Co. Clare.

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Moumes Mountian TrialWorld Mountain Running Trophy,Berchtesgaden, Germany.Andersons Mournes MountainMarathon

Club Secretary: Vera Murtagh, 19 The Cloisters, Congratulations to theLeinster Leaguepnzew-Terenure, Dublin 6w (01-4908237). inners:

Brown course: 1 Colm Rothery (AJAX) 4920points, 2 John McCullough (3ROC) 4780, 3 Bren-dan O'Brien (3ROC) 4638;Blue course: Men- 1Angus Tyner (3ROC) 5997,2 Ger Maguire (UCOO) 5984, 3 Nigel Campbell-Crawford (3ROC) 5192; Women- 1 Jane Watt(GEN) 4827, 2 Mary Healy (GEN) 4669, 3 RuthLynam (CNOC) 4494;Green course: Men-I Brendan McGrath (3ROC)3892,2 Eddie 0'Shea (GEN) 3779,3 Colin Dun-lop (SET) 3708; Women- 1 Jean O'Neill (FIN)3140,2 Wyn McConnack (GEN) 2916,3 MaireWalsh (3ROC) 29l0;.Rcd course: Men- 1 Wayne McDonald (ECO)5879, 2 D. Carberry 5687; 3 Alan Cox (3ROC)5520; Women- 1 Hilary Allen (WHO) 4454, 2Niamh OColmain (GEN) 4128,3 Patricia OCleir-igh (CNOC) 3979;Orange course: Men- 1 David Jeffreys (WHO)5705, 2 Gerard Butler (3ROC) 5572, 3 AntoinOrion (WHO) 5432; Women-I Judy Inglis (GEN)3746, 2 Clare Walsh (3ROC) 3641, 3 ElinaO'Neill(3ROC) 3544;Yellow course: Men-l David Healy (GEN) 5940,2 Douglas Barry (GEN) 5630,3 Jason Masterson(WHO) 5495; Women-l Sheila Nowlan (3ROC)4392,2 Aisling Walsh (3ROC)4169, 3 EdelDonlon(SE1)3774.Prizes will be presented at the irish Two-Day atCarlingford on June 5th.

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October2 Commedagh - Donard Horseshoe (7/

3100) Tullybramigan, Newcastle (GR365 314), 12.0 hrs.AagstaH to Cariingford (11/3000) GR106200

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December26 Barf Turkey Trot (5.511500) from

Trassy Track, Moume Mts. (GR 311313)

Hili & Dale Evening Raco series In theMourne Mountains, Start 7.30 pm.

May 26 Meelbe~Meelmore (3.5/1800)Happy Valley

June 9 Loughshannagh (4.G'1700)Spelga Road carperk

June 16 Crossona (2.511700) Bloody Bridge

June 24 Drinahily (3.51800)Donard Park, Newcastle

Details of NIFRA eraces from Brian Ervine, 38Kennedy Drive, Lisbum, Co. Antrim BT27 4HZ(08..()846-665476, after8 pm)

Apologies for the delay inproducing this issue of 110.

This was caused by a combina-tion of laziness, procrastination,disorganisation, late submissionof material and the arrival of ason and heir to the Editor. Thedeadline for 11070 is July 20thand it should hit the streets by

mid-August (-ish)

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AJAX OrienteersCronybyrne, C3 Event \~JJ) Green Course (continued) II.BC~. 3ROC M21 39.+1

13 March 1994 18. Gr.gory Smythe NWOC MIS 67.33 12. JaC:kie Atkinson Se, W21 41.1719. I\lchard William.on LVO M40 69.25 13. P Coughlon OPC94 ~1.46

Results 20. IInndan Oohe..,. GEN M50 6MO I~. Colm MeX.. na OPe MI9 42.3721. M Bury ECO M3S 70.03 IS. K Byrne GEN ~S ~2.5322. Ruth Bllir NWOC W21 70.05 16. I\uth M.i. NWOC WI3 43.08

Red Course: 5.3k 185m 23. JOIn O'Nelll Fin W45 70,Sol 17. W)O'Nem Se. M50 49.20Brown Course: 8,5k 395m 24. Chrbtlan Caffrey M21 71.32 18. JOIn Boyden OPe94 W~5 51.+1I. Brian Corbett CorkO M21 77.54 I. Mi<k Mangan SC. M21 58.14 25. Jim O'Oono .. n CorkO M45 71.36 19. Barbara I1tStnvick NWOC WIS 52.372. M3rC\J$ Pinker CorkO MI9 79.57 2. arlan Condon GEN M21 62.49 26. B.rnard Creeden CorkO M45 73.19 10.0uTrncy OPC94 M21 54.03l. S•• phon Union NWOC M21 BO.56 l. Tom O'Ocnevan CorkO MIS 6B.01 27. Brian Phelan M21 73.24 21. Donal Fitzgerald OPC94 M21 54.43~.Brian Creedon CorkO BS.21 4. L C-Crawford 3ROC MI3 72,19 28. )o.nn. Mein NWOC WI7 73.57 22. David Carter CorkO MI3 56.11S. B O'Srien 11\0C 95.11 5. Alan Mc:Cormack CNOC M21 77.39 29. Clore NUIQII LeeO WSO 74.01 23. B£lrbre Ben. Set WIS 58.026. Kevin O'Dwyer SO M40 95.53 6. o O'ColmAln GEN M4S 82.05 30. Malread Wal.h WI9 74.07 H. Terri sen GEN WI3 58.137. P Higgins PXN M21 9MI 7. U O'Co""'in GEN WI5 83.H 31. tidin Clery W21 74048 15. Fio.ne Austin CO WI3 62.198. Derek Conemey PXN M21 107.04 8. q Carroll M21 85.44 Ken Foley M11 74.48 16. Conal Walsh 31\OC MI3 63.599. K McDonald ECO M35 111.59 9. Deirdre Creedon CorkO WI5 87.14 33. Nina Phillip. UCOO WI9 76.48 17. Mari. O'Sulllvon LetO W65 M.~10. Gordon p.rk.r 31\0C Mll 130.36 10. F Connolly ECFCA 89.07 l~. Andr..., HcHerumln CNOC M11 79.03 18. M.ureen Bury 65.18II. Michael Gran. WATO M21 1ll.54 I I. Brbn Brestin ECO 90.07 35. Andrew Meln NWOC MIS 79.19 19. NiallW.lsh 31\OC MIO 66.0212. P Ferguson PXN M21 141.45 12. Shan. O'Carroll ECFCA 99.14 36. Sean Rothery lROC M6S 79.41 30. SA FlsherlE O'Donovan 66.40

B Oel.n.y CNOC M21 dll" (mill.d II) 13. N O·Colm.ln GEN WI5 99.23 37. ) Ryan CorkO M55 80.43 31. Lorraine Brady OPC9~ W21 69.20Rory Morrish Le.O M21 elisq("'92) 14. C Carroil 3ROC M60 100.26 38. Harold whl •• 3P.OC MSO 81.10 32. EI.anor O'Neill 3ROC WI3 69.1~Gerry Srody 3ROC dl.q (mp 22.23) IS. Lynch ECFCA 102.45 39. Tony Oavor.n M21 81.35 33. Sara WOjak 31\0C WI3 71.HKevin Grogan CNOC M3S dlsq(!1IPI7.19.11) 16. Ferg,ll\y.n PXN MI7 106.05 40. N) Bogle NWOC MSS 81.40 H. Elizabeth Quinn 75.21John M",ulr. BACO M21 dlsq(milln·H) 17. Celine M.rtln S., W21 108.02 41. F McCormack CNOC M5S 84.03 35. I\hona McGrath 31\0C WIO 78.01Brion Ben GEN M40 DNF 18. Moreu' Bym. MI7 109.22 42. Ooup. Barry GEN M~O 84.28 36. M..... r .. CrHdonlDympna Ryan CorkO 78.37Richard Kavanagh CorkO M11 DNF 19. M Wenham 115.19 ~3. Martin Sneyd OPe ~O 85.~3 37. Paul Oohe..,. oPe'~ H21 82.00

10. Gavin O'NeOi 31\0C M35 115.43 ~. Coim Redmond OPe Mll 86.1~ 38. Owen Qu",ey 0PC9~ M21 86.1411. A H.erey UCOO W21 142.00 45. Alne UISMIII•• bhiln 31\0C W40 86.56 39. Maura O'SuUlvan WI7 91.0022. Martin B.. Jln CNOC Mll 156.00 46. Garry Byrn. CNOC M21 87.00 40. D.ve Byrne OPe94 M11 93.:lS

Blue Course: 6,3k 275m 13. Sondra Bulin CNOC W21 156.14 47. O.vld Smyth Fin Mll 89.16 ~1. Paul B.'_;n OPC Mll 101.01I. Conor Creedon CorkO MI7 H.IS 24. K.therine Bradnen W21 156.17 48. M K... nagh M~O 89.34 42. Cllrisline Brady SAC WI9 115.352. Sorry Oalby 31\0C M21 75.53 25. Tho",., B... lln CNOC M21 156.51 ~9. I\udle Dorr.pul Set M35 89.45 41. John Owen. OPe~ ~5 125.113. MMO'Nelll UCOO M21 81.19 26. Tony Field, CNOC M21 156.56 SO, John Sh.nlu M21 90.19 Aoll. O'Dwyer CorkO WI3 disq(mpn06)4. Angu, Tyner 3ROC H21 82.11 J O'Arcy ESB elisq (mined4) 5.1. Trlna Cleary 3ROC W~5 91.54S. G Byrne CNOC M45 82.28 S,ephen Higgins DLSOI3ROCM17 dltq (mp 11.13) 52. Oelrdre Ryan PXN W21 92.16 YellowCourse: 2.Sk 105m6. Una Cr.agh 3P.OC W21 84.10 POL.r McKay dl"l(mp Il) 53. Milre Wabh 3P.OC W~5 93.20 I. AI.linn Au.tln Cork 0 WII 16.437. PatH .. ly CNOC M10 85.03 Colm Gerrard M21 DNF 54. Dermo, Cronin CorkO M~5 96.16 1. O.vld Huly GEN Mil 27.498. Maxwell Re.d 86.17 Donncha Manon 3ROC MIS DNF 55. Fran O'Nelll 5., W~5 96,31 3. Barry Green. OLSO Mil 35.089. Tim Tot"Marn 31\0C MIS 90.30 D.mlan Murphy ECO/FCA DNF 56.) Bell 99.35 4. Sea"",. McCoubrey OLSO MI3 3U510. ElI•• n Loughman CNOC W21 91.19 Amull'ong ECFCA DNF 57. Noel Morrish teeO H6S 102.21 5. Janet SteVen.on NWOC Wil 36.45II. G M.guire UCOO M11 96.02 Paul van Kampen UCOO M21 DNF sa. liam O'Brien Mll I~J6 6. Shello Nowbn 31\OC WII 38.5912. Bob Pinker C....kO ~S 101.05 O'SuIlMn GEN DNf 59. 0.,.. Oeary CDAC WI9 105.15 7. AW.I.h 3ROC WII 43,47Corol Ann Phelan DNF13. Gordon Elllo" 31\0C M21 102.15

McNally DNF 60. IlickO·H .... MI9 108.38 B. 8t!thSmythe NWOC WI3 43.5314. Pat O'Donovan BVOC M21 102.21 61, Garre" Ti.mey M11 109.30 9. Alllln,O'DonO¥\ln CorkO ~.02IS. C R.id NWOC M21 102.48 Sarah O·Fri.1 ONF 61. Mlch.el Bucler 31\0C MSO 110.35 10. Oenbe Huly CNOC WII 49.3216. Maeve MacPh •• rson3ROC W21 105.46 johanne Cox DNF 63, 1I.Jon .. UCOO W21 112.46 II. Ru.lrl Short M4 50.2317. Mary He.ly GEN W3S 106.33 M. M.ur .. n Lougi>r.y NWOC W40 115.14 11. )0 Buder lROC W45 50,4818. [ane Watt GEN W40 109.04 65. Canne, Carey 3ROC W21 115.17 13. Conor Bent Se, M8 61.1819. Nigel C-Crawlord 3ROC H50 112.50 Green Course: 4.2k 170m 66. 0 Large GEN WSS 117.11 I~. )en,,".r Buder 31\OC WIS 62.2610. Vol Jane, Fin M3S 115.33 I. John de La<y ECO M40 51.27 67. Susan 8t!U LVO 119.21 IS. A Butler 31\OC W~O 62.4821. John O'Oonovan SVOC M21 116.02 2. WHcDon.ld ECO MI5 57.48 68. Ta,.. O'Beime SAC W21 135.02 16. A Bell GEN MIO 65.0022. T Keegan 31\OC M21 117.33 3. A d. Lacy ECO MI5 59.10 69. Usa Holpin WI9 135.09 17. Bells GEN WIOIt16 64.082l. Aid"" Keyes M35 123.41 4. Joe Sent St. M55 60.19 GregOuMe MI9 Iotoard 18. M Barry 12 81.1724. Hick O'Oonovan SVOC Mll 125.10 5. Brian Keogh M21 6O.3S Cai~in 8t!n. Set W45 41q(mp" Keith Mag.. NWOC Mil 41q(mpno5)15. Conor Mu"~)' GEN MI7 126.53 6. Colin Dunlop Se. MSS 60.39 R Barry GEN MIS cisq(orisscd8) Conor Henry NWOC Mil cIisq(mpno5)26. E Deane 128.23 7. Tom O'GOm'lln CNOC Mll 60.48 V.raMu""" 31\0C W50 DNF MarkOonlon Set MIO ONF21. Alison Tcttenham 3ROC W40 150.58 B. David O'OonoY.1.n 61.57 Gall Hindley SLOW W21 DNF Deirdre Cormack CNOC WI3 ONF

Ruth Lynam CNOC WiO di"l(mpl) 9. Joseph Ry.n DLSOIlROC HIS 62.21 One cemp.d'or, called IOSUNEor FOSUNE. cI... 2l,.dld no. handAndrew Boyle UCOO M21 di"l(mp 141 10. Conor McC.lllon NWOC MIS 62.18

up their card and cawed (.OtI(.tm about their safety. Competitors areP Brennan S.t M21 dl,q(~14.n'"181 II. E. Glanville 3ROC W21 63.05 Orange Course: 2,9k 115m reminded mat I. b e.... d.1 to Inlorm the Of1aI1i1erswhen they red ...Ailbhe Creedon CorkO WI9 di1q(ml".d 11.16) 12. ABoglo NWOC MI3 6M1 I. Gerard Butler 31\0C MI3 30.01 'rom 0 cour .. or ~ they 10•• their contrOl card.RShaw ECO disq(...... ltIS.18) 13. Monia Nowl:." 31\0C W40 64.23 2. RO'ColmaJn GEN MI3 33.208 Maguire UCOO M21 dbq(mllled 14,IS) I~. P.ul Callery UCDO M21 64.58 3. John McGrath 3ROC Mil 33.56 Thanks '0 you all lor comInc 'Iona and """" part in !his evenL .ndK Carey 31\0C M3S disq("" ... d 12.14) I5. Frank Ryan PXN M4S 66.06 4. David Caliaglun OPe94 MI9 35.09 ens"",",' .ueceuNI second day to !he LeWter Two Day 1994.Minam NiCh6iur CorkO W21 DNF 16. Miroslav Kohler wO MI7 66.09 5. Patrick O'Brien AJAX MI3 35.21OonShon: M35 DNF 17. Ian Hunter NWOC MIS 67.21 6. A Bonar-Law GEN M60 36.14 Next AJAX E_nt

7. P Buder 31\0C ~5 36.53 Sunday 8 Hay 1994, Leinrter League8. D""i.1 Kennedy 36.56 Ravens Rock (new map)

4217le Irish Orienleer 9. Genevieve Ward OPC94 WI7 37.+1 signposted (rom Fox's Pub, Glencullen10. Don.IO·Brlen OLSO MI3 39.30


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Thanks to all who helped on the dayincl. Allison and Timothy Tottenham,Jean Mullen, Con Carroll,David Heale,Aine niShuilleabhain(assistant planner),The Michael Butler Family, Peter O'Neilland to anyone I have forgotten toMention. A special greeting to the E'XNmembers who came from Longford.Brian Hollinshead

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Brown Course1. M21 P.Nolan2. M35 J.McCuliough3. M40 M.O Hara4. M35 S.O Boyle5. M21 B.O Brien6. M35 B.Beil7. M21 D.weston8. M21 C.Aothery9. M21 M.Geoghegan10. M35 G.Brady11. M35 P.Heaiy12. M21 P.Spillane13. M35 P.Gargan14. M21 M.O Keeffe15. M17 G.Doherty16. M35 M.Beary17. M21 G.Elliott18. P.Aedmond19. M21 J.Ayan20. M21 T.O Gorman21. M21 M.Mangan22. M35 G.Sweeney

Blue Course1. M40 J.DeLacy2. M21 A.Tyner3. M21 G.Maguire4. M45 N.C-Crawford5, W40 J.watt6. M21 M.F1ynn7. M21 B.Maguire8. M19 M.O Neill9. W21 O.Prendergast10. M45 P.Lalor11. M21 E.Dunne12. M15 J.8uUer13. B.Lawlor14. M17 D.Allen15. M45 H.white16. M21 J.Maguire17. M15 T.Tottenham18. 'N35 A.Lynam19. M21 L.Quinn20. Pallentin21. J.Cori<ery22. M4S V.Delaney23. M21 J.Aowe24. M40 M.Kayanagh25. M15 K.McCam26. M21 C.Aountree

GEN 61:203AOC 62:45AJAX 63:08CNOC 65:543ROC 65:57GEN 67:57CNOC 68:30AJItX 69:05AJAX 71:583AOC 72:18CNOC 72:21CNOC 75:00AJAX 75:34FIN 76:02GEN 76:45ECO 80:523AOC 82:42SET 84:583AOC 92:40CNOC 92:45SET 103:43CNOC 121:38

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78:1179:2080:0080:2081:0482:4583:2184:0287:3290:1191:5396:40

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E.OSheaF.LaffertyJ.MulcahyC.DunlopS.Lynch0.0 CoImainC.MurrayB.McGrathD.BrooksN.ButlerfieldB.PowerG.SmithB.Cryan0.0 MurchuW.McDavittB.FlanaganG.Tubritt .D.MastersonP.ONeiliA.OoorapaalM.WalshS.MurrayJ.LeonardP.CurranK.PelkonenG.PowerJ.MurphyS.ONeiliN.O CoImainA.GreenW.McCormackR.O GormanA.AylingF.O HanlonJ.GreyN.PhilipsB.LynchJ.ONeiliM.KohlerD.ShortA TottenhamD.Large0.0 DonghaileM.BerginJ.CoweLNaughtonJ.HughesP.LawtonC.O MaraSmithMenzies.Lexin&Duncan

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GEN 54:51FIN 56:46

58:2859:3159:5262:1963:5364:2165:0065:4067:0367:3369:3169:3569:3670:3071:4272:1674:0374:5975:2375:5376:2577:0177:29

3AOC 77:47GEN 78:39

79:11GEN 80:16SET 80:26GEN 80:53CNOC 80:58DUO 82:073AOC 85:103AOC 85:22UCDO 85:32WHO 87:47FIN 87:48WO 88:10CNOC 88:283AOC 93:59GEN 94:22DUO 98:25CNOC 98:43ECO 99:063AOC 102:15CNOC 106:53

108:503AOC 110:04

110:27

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112:03 47. W21 D.Laffan UCDO 128:45 IOF Addresses, continued52. M.Ring 113:5753. W45 A.lawrence SET 117:14 Orange Coorae Netherlands Nededandse Orienteringsloop Bond, cio Magreeth Vecht-Corts, Leuvenumseveg 12, NL-385254. W45 E.O Neill 118:42 1. M13 A.Drion WHO 30:42 AS ErmeIo, Netherlands (reI +31 0341759787)

55. W21 Alice & S.O Reilly 119:52 2. M13 G.Gray 3ROC 31:17 Norway Norges Orienleringdfotbund, Hauger Skolevci I, N-1351 Rud, Norway (reI +47 67 1546 00

56. M50 M.Kellett GEN 129:52 3. M15 T.Macky WHO 32:31 fax +4767154786) ,

57. M45 W.ONeill SET 130:58 4. M15 R.Carbery CNOC 32:34 NewZealand NZ O-Federation, Secretary: Les Warren, PO Box 19312, Hamilton, New Zealand (rei + 64

58. W40 J.Butler 3ROC 135:11 5. W21 R.Carty SET 35:09 7839 1214, fax +64 33433354)

6. M15 D.Jeffreys WHO 36:01 Poland Polski Zwiazek Biegu naOrienlacje, ul.Wtlcza38 a, 00-679 WlllSzawa, Poland (Tel +48 2221

Red Course 7. M13 P.O Brien AJAX 36:29 8418, fax +4822295004)

1. M15 P.Behan DLSO 53:16 8. W13 C.ThomhiU GEN 39:35 Portugal Associacao Portuguesa deOrientacao, Av. Elias Garcia 177-2, P-lOOOLisboa, Portugal (Tel

2. M21 A.McMenamin CNOC 57:02 9. M17 V.Cronin StanO 40:21 +351 1613439, fax +351 793 3777)

3. M17 N.Richardson WHO 57:40 10. M13 G.Butler 3ROC 42:28 Romania Romanian O-Federation, 16 Vasile Conta se., Sector I, R-70 139 Bucharest, Romania (+40 0

4. M40 D.Csrberry CNOC 57:57 11. M15 P.Marron DLSO 43:13 120 16O,fax +400 lio 161)

5. M19 S.Carroll GEN 58:42 12. M19 B.Pessy WHO 43:41 Russia Russian O-Federation, proLenina 78, Volgograd 400005, Russia (Tel +7 8442346 666, fax +7

6. M21 A.Cox 3ROC 60:20 13. M21 S.OShea GEN 44:19 8442 346666)

7. M50 N.CarroU GEN 61:05 14. W21 N.Lee 3ROC 45:17 Slovakia SJovensky zvllz OB, Junscka 6,83280 Bratislava, SlovaJcia(Tel +427214362)

8. M21 N.Smyth FIN 64:43 15. M.Hughes CNOC 45:24 Slovenia Orienlacijslca Zveza Sloveaije, BriJejeva I, 6100 Ljubljana, Slovenia (Tel & fax +38 61 571

9 M13 L.C.Crawford 3ROC 66:27 16. W35 J.lnglis GEN 46:30 331)

10. M45 D.Kennedy WO 66:42 16. W45 C.McGrath 3ROC 46:30 South Africa Southern African O-Federation, PO Box 90330, Bertsham 2013, Republic of South Africa (rei

11. M17 A.Thompson 68:17 18. J.Spratt 48:52 +27 11 806 4343, fax + 27 11 806 4299)

12 M17 D.Murray GEN 68:38 19. M.OShea 48:53 ,Spain Agrupacion Espanola de Cubes deOrientacion (AECO), Secrotario General: D. Eusebio

13. M15 E.Redmond SET 71:00 20. K.Byme GEN 49:15 Garcia Gomez, Pari a2, B-28991 Torrej6n deJaCaJzad&, Madrid, Spain. (Tel +3418160792,

14. W21 P.OCleirigh CNOC 71:51 21. E.Monks GEN 49:35 fax +34 1683 9652)

15. W55 F.M.McCormack CNOC 72:48 22. G.Flzgerald 50:52 Sweden Svenska Orienteringsfbrbundet, Idroltens Hus, S-123 87 FBI'SI&,Sweden (rei +46 8 605 6000,

16. M50 J.D. Clar1<e GEN 73:18 23. W11 E.ONeili 3ROC 51:27 fax +46 8 605 6360)

17. W13 N.OCoImain GEN 73:52 24. June&Jone UCDO 53:09 Switzedand SchweizerischerOcienlerungsJauf- Verband, Marianne Bandlxen, Gellel'Sirasse43, CH-8222

18. W15 H.Allen WHO 75:24 25. Butler 53:48 Beringen, Switzerland (reI +4153351615)

19. M21 P.Calley UCDO 75:32 26. I.Coughlan 53:52 Ulcraine Ukranian O-Federation, OZOR, Boulevard Lepse55, 252065 Kiev, Ukraine (Fax +7044483

20. M21 P.Casey UCDO 76:45 27. W11 P.Flanagan 3ROC 54:29 8032)

21. D.Clar1<e DLSO 78:07 28. W21 B.Shankey FIN 55:39 USA US O·Federation, PO Box 1444, Forest Park, GA 30051, USA (TeI +1 404 3632110)

22. M60 C.Carroil 3ROC 78:37 29. W21 C.O Keefe FIN 64:21 Yugoslavia YOF, Kornisija za orijentaciju, Postanski Fab 33, YU-11420 Smederevslca Palanka, Yugoslavia

23. M11 R.O CoImain GEN 80:10 30. W13 E.A.O Neill 3ROC 66:01 (reI & fax +382633 031)

24. W21 o Dwyer&Jones UCDO 80:22 31. W50 C.walsh 3ROC 75:38 IOF Inlernational Orienteering Federation, Box 76, 5-10 1-21 Sollentuna, Sweden (Tel +46 83534

25 W40 M.OColmain GEN 82:38 32. W40 A.Butier 3ROC 105:13 55, fax +46 8 35 7168)

26. N.Hamilton 83:48 YellowCourae27 W21 N.Hutchinson 84:34 1. M10 D.Healy GEN 14:5128. W21 C.O Dwyer UCDO 84:35 2. M40 D.Barry GEN 15:1529. W21 L.Jones UCDO 85:50 3. M11 P.O Hara AJAX 17:1430. M.Aynn 87:58 4. M11 C.Walsh 3ROC 19:4431 M35 J.O Brien AJAX 90:06 5. M13 J.Masterson WHO 19:55 21. W11 D.Healy CNOC 36:52 White Course32. M15 C.Furry GEN 91:20 6. W11 A.Walsh 3ROC 21:53 22. W10 E.Donlon SET 38:35 1. W10 N.Lalor GEN 21:1933. W21 C.Carey 3ROC 91:42 7. M11 N.Redmond SET 21:59 23. M13 J.Hargroves WHO 39:13 2. P.Cosgrave 25:2534. M55 J.Barrett CNOC 94:09 8. M13 Z.Foley-Fisher WHO 22:53 24. M13 0.0 Brien DLSO 39:27 3. P.Larkin 3ROC 28:0535. P.McKaye 100:31 9. M45 P.Butler 3ROC 23:31 25. (M9) J.Fitsimons DLSO 40:04 4. W60 J.Mullen 29:2736. M21 ADonnelly 100:35 10. W21 C.Jordan UCDO 23:51 26. M10 N&C.Quinn 41:20 5. W15 K.O Hara AJAX 30:2637. M50 M.Butler 3ROC 101:12 11. W15 S.McCluskey 24:14 27. M13 D.Farrelly DLSO 45:20 6. S&A.Boyie 32:1938. A.Coyne 108:16 12. M13 F.Drion WHO 30:05 28. M13 S.Kohler WO 45:48 7. (M5) R.Short 32:2439. J.Haziett SET 108:39 13. W13 J.BuUer 3ROC 30:31 29. W10 Y.O Brien AJAX 47:38 8. N.Egan 39:0840, M15 Dunne&Brooks STAN0111 :40 14. M13 J.Scott WHO 30:59 30. S.O Connor 49:26 9. T&I.Caffrey 46:5641. A.wicks STAN0112:06 15. M11 A.Cooke GEN 31:49 31. W15 N.O Murchu CNOC 52:3242. O&N.Feely 115:23 16. W13 L&M.McCormack CNOC 34:27 32. M10 B.Redmond SET 54:5843. W21 A.Heery UCDO 118:45 17. M10 M.Donlon SET 34:53 33. Scanlon 57:2344. P. van Kampen UCDO 124:06 18. M13 S.McCoilry DLSO 35:15 34. M21 U&E.Gallagher 67:3645. Murphy&Ramsey DUO 126:33 19. Royston 36:0046. M.Kelly 127:30 20. Bamigan 36:07

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ORIENTEERING FIXTURES

May29 MALAHIDE CASTLE Co. Dublin. FIN. (LE) GR 02245.28-29 SCOmSH CHAMPIONSHIPS & National Event 5 & Relays. Connell, near Oban.31 OONADEA Clane, Co. Kildare. CNOC. Start 6-7 pm. GR N84 33.31 FARRAN WOOD Ovens. Co. Corlc CorX0 IFL1. 17.30-19.30. GR W 49 71.

June4 IRISHTWO-DAY5 IRISHTWO-DAY7 GLENBOWERWOOO7 HILL WOOD11 GOSFORO12 CULLENAGH14 BALUNCOLUG PARK14 CURRAGH18 BURREN21 CURRABINNYWOOO21 HOLLYWOOD25 PORTSTEWART25 TOLLYMORE28 ROSTELLAN

SUeveMartin, Rostrevor, Co. Down. NI series 3. LVO. GR J 1916.Carllngford Mountain. Co. Louth. GR J 15 13. 3ROC.Castlemartyr, Co. CorX.CorXO IFL2. GRW99 n.Monasterevin. Co. Kildare. CNOC. Start 6-7 pm.MarXethili.Co. Annagh. LVO Come & Try It event. GR H97 40.Dunmanway. Co. CorX.FUCCO (C3). GR W 14 54.Co. Cork. CorX 0 IFL3. GRW 59 71.Co. Kildare. CNOC. Start 6-7 pm. GR N78 12.Co. Fennanagh. NI series 4. FermO.Carrigaline. Co. Cork. Cork 0 IFL 4. GRW 7962.Co. Wicklow. CNOC & Midsummer BBO. Start 6-7 pm. GR N 94 06.Co. Derry. Soore event. NWOC. GR C80 36.Newcastle, Co. Down. LVO Come & Try It event. GR J 35 32.Midleton. Co. Cork. CorX0 IFL 5. GR W B766.

July1 PHIBSBOROUGH Dublin. Street event. 3ROC (LE). GR 0 150368. Start 7-8 pm.5 WARRENSCOURTWOODKilmurry. Co. CorX.Cork 0 IFL 6. GRW 38 67.10 CASTLEFREKE Roscarbery. Co. cork. LeeO event. GR W 32 35.11-17 JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Gdynla. Poland12 KILBRITTAIN WOOD Bandon. Co. Oork, CorX0 IFL 7. GR W 52 47.17 WICKLOWMOUNTAIN MARATHON Sally Gap. Setanta. Start 11-1.00. GR 0 130 110.19 CURRAGH WOOD Midleton. Co. CorX.CorX0 IFL 8. GRW 86 76.22-24 SHAMROCKO-RINGEN Ballingeary. Co. CorX& Loo Bridge. Co. Kerry. Details: Bernard &

Margaret Creedon. Tavie, Mount Prospect. Douglas. Co. CorX(021-361824. fax 021-361825). cd 8/7/94.

26 GARRETTSTOWN Kinsele. Co. CorX. (LE) IFL 9. CorXO. GRW 58 44.

August1-5 VETERAN WORLD CUPAvlemore. Scotland. Open to all over 35. Entries to VWC 94. PO Box

No.1. Nairn. Scotland IV12 4UE. cd 30/4/94.20-24 LAKELAND 5-DAY NW England. Sue BirXinshaw.221 Hale Road, Hale, A1trincham,

Cheshire WA15 8DN. (0044-619805068,8-9 pm.)cd 31.7.94.

September• I ts: ,glIM Kinnitty, Co. Offaly. Intricate sand-dune type forest. GR N 1707.4 KINNITTY Co. Olfaly. CNOC event incorporating the 1994 Irish Orlenteer Trophy

Final. New map. (C4) GR N21 05.10 SLiEVE CROOB Ballinahinch. Co. Down. LVO. NI series 6. GR J 32 47.11 MUNSTER CHAMPIONSHIPS Inch. Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry. Entry form enclosed.11 PHOENIX PARK Dublin. 3ROC come-&-try-it event. (LE) GR 0 09 34.18 BALLINCOLUG Co. Cork. CorX0 (LE). GR W 59 71.18 BALLINASTOE nr. Roundwood, Co. Wicklow. GENcome-&-try-it. (LE) GR 017 08.24 N.I. CHAMPIONSHIPS Banagher Co. Derry. NWOC. GR C69 04. Entries to Ruth Blair, 42

The Gables, Randalstown, Co. Antrim BT41 3JY. cdl0/9/94.25 BALLYCONNELL Y Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. SEL. WatO (C4). X 21 97.25 NEWBRIDGE HOUSE Donabate, Co. Dublin. FIN come-&-try-it event. (LE) GR 021 49.50 The Irish Orienteer

october2 GARRETTSTOWN Kinsale. Co. Cork. CorX0 (C4) CL1. GR W 5844.2 MULLAGHMEEN Co. Westmeath, nr. Oldcastle. SET Leinster League 1. GR N47 78.8-9 Veteran Home International Wales9 BRANDON HILL Graiguenemanagh, Co. Kilkenny. WatO (C4) SEL. GR S 70 40.9 GLENBOWERWOOD Castlemartyr. Co. Cork. GR W99 rr.15 CASTLEWELLAN Co. Down. NI Series 6. LVO. GR J 32 37.16 CompassSport Cup Final Pitlochry, Scotland16 CURRAGH WOOD Midleton, Co. Cork. UCCO. (C4) CL2. GRW 85 76.16 WOODENBOLEY Hollywood Glen, Co. Wicklow. CNOC LL2. (C4) GR N9310.23 BELAELD Dublin. UCDO event. (LE) GR 0 1829.23 GLENVILLE Co. Cork. Cork 0 (C4) Cl3. GR W 7289.29-30 Junior Home International ScoUand.30 FOXES ROCK Carlingford, Co. Louth. 3ROC LL3. (C4) GR J 1313.30 KNOCKANAFFRIN near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. WatO (C4) SEL. GR S 28 17.31 COMBAUN near Mitchelstown, Co. Cork. LeeO (C4). GR R 8218.

November5-6 Senior Home International NWEngland.5 SPRINGWELL Co. Derry. NI Series 7. NWOC. GR C76 25.6 CHIMNEYFIELD Glenville, Co. Cork. Cork 0 (C4) CL4. GR WOO85.13 CARRICKGOLLIGAN Kilteman, Co. Dublin. GEN LL4. (C4) GR 02220.13 KNOCKNACAREIGH Kilmurry. Co. Cork. Cork 0 (C4) CL5. GRW 36 6413 LYRENALEA Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. WatO(C4) SEL.19 CAIRN WOOD Dundonald, Co. Down. LVO night event. GR J 45 76.20 ISLAND WOOD Newmarket, Co. Cork. BVOC. (C4) CL6. GR R 31 05.26 NI NIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS Doohatty Glebe, Co. Fermanagh. FennO. GR H 1831.27 BALLYNOE Midleton, Co. Cork. Cork0 (C4). Cork Champs. GR WOO85.27 KILSHEELAN Co. Waterford. WatO (C4) SEL. GR S 2722.27 THREE ROCK WOOD Dundrum, Co. Dublin. 3ROC LL5. (C4) GR 01723.

December4 CURRAGH4 TRAMORE10 BALLYSCANLON10 GOSFORD11 MALAHIOE CASTLE26 THREE ROCKWOOD27 CURRABINNY

Co. Kildare. CNOC LL6. (C4) GR N 7812.Co. Waterford. Sand hills. WatO (C4) SEL. GR 5 59 01.Fenor. Co. Waterford. WatO (C4) Scout Champs. GR S55 02.Markethill, Co. Annagh. LVO event. GR H97 40.Co. Dublin. UCDO event. (LE) GR 02245.Dundrum. Co. Dublin. 3ROC Xmas score event. (LE) GR 0 1723.Carrigaline, Co. Cork. Cork 0 (LE) GR W79 62.

CROCL_ Connachl Regional Q.Council League; SS ~ Sp(lng Series; SELs South East League; LL.- Lelnsle( League; ~z MunsterLeague; NI.Northem I(eland Series; IFL=lnler·fi(m league (start limes 17.30-19.30 hrs.); GR.Qrdnanoe Survoy grid (eference(e~plalned on aliOS maps), cd~loslng dale fo( entries. If a 6-figu(e grid (efe(ence Is given It Is lor the cal pelle or ._rTbIy a(eG. If a ,,_llgu(e refe(.noe Is given ~ Is simply to help you find the ~Inlon area and. means thallhe event 0(ganl.(8 have nOlsupplied theInformallon on e~act location.

Evenl Gradel: CI. Inlematlonals & Irish Championships; C2= Regional & Interprovincial Championships, Irish 2·0ay & Sharrrod< 0-Ringen; C3. Grade I evenls; C4- Open evenls (Including oolou(-ooded events); LE.. Local Of Grade 3 evenls. lOA flK1uresIn bold typehave been (eglslered and ere covered by lOA insu(anoe. Reglste(ed events ale publicised by lOA and In theory are lese liable tochanges.

Latest Fixtures Information on 01-4569099 (24 hours).

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