The Auckland orienteering clubs are hosting the World Masters Orienteering Champs at the end of April as part of the World Masters Games. This is a huge undertaking with 1600 competitors entered. This is a much bigger event than we have hosted before and we are needing to practice all the procedures.

We are therefore running an event on the Massey Campus, Albany, on SUNDAY, 5th March. It will be a double sprint but don't be put off by the word. This just means a nice short event, on a complex building map. However to make it more worth your while we are making it a double sprint, so you will go out on 2 courses. There will be 8 courses to choose from 6 of the same difficulty, ranging from about 3.7km down to about 1.4km, with 2 more short, easier courses.

We will run this event in a more formal way, but only so we can practice our procedures. We ask you to pre register your intention to come on a website and you will be allocated a start time for both your courses (allowing plenty of time for recovery). Electronic timing will be used and there will be a formal start and finish procedure like happens at a major event. However all this is just to allow us to practice. There is nothing official or formal about the event just a couple of runs around.

To test out our systems we do need LOTS of people so PLEASE mark the date on your calendar and come along to help our preparation for welcoming the rest of the world to New Zealand. Starts will be from 11am as it is also Round the Bays day, so we are hoping that some of you who are competing will come after your warm up! (you can request a later start time if you are coming after Round the Bays) Costs will be the same as for SummerNav, except ALL CHILDREN WILL BE FREE, as it is Childrens Day. We will also loan you an e card for use with the electronic timing for free for this event, if you do not own one.