President’s Introduction

Kia ora all. April was a quiet one locally with just one event run by us at Riverhead’s Robinson Road. Thanks to Paul Ireland and Geoff Mead for setting the courses. The main feature of the month of course was NZ Champs in Nelson. It was great to catch up with club members down there who I haven’t seen regularly since moving to Wellington. The club hasn’t always been the greatest at acknowledging the hard work put in by our volunteers, so we’re working on some ways to show more appreciation. All volunteers will now get a helper’s voucher at the end of the event they’ve helped with which they can use on their next NWOC event.

Newsletter Contents

• Event Calendar
• Next NWOC event
• NZ Teams
• Riverhead
• Cameron de L’Isle receives ONZ Innovation Award
• NZ Nationals Race Report and Analysis from Gene Beveridge
• Club O shirts (Trimtex) available
• 2022 Club Membership Fees now due
• New Members

Event Calendar

May

Tue 17 May AOC Autumn night event Westmere Details here

Sun 22 May AOC AOS* 7 event Riverhead (Barlow Road) Details here

Tue 24 May AOC Autumn night event Mt Eden/Mt Albert Details here

Wed 25 May CMOC AKL Sec Schools Individual Champs Waiuku Forest - enter by 18 May. Details here

Sun 29 May NWOC Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine # 1 Lake Kereta Event Details here Enter here

Tue 31 May AOC Autumn night event Mt Albert & further afield Details here

June
4-6 June Queens Birthday Weekend 3 Days of orienteering in the Manawatu region west of Bulls. Pre-entry by 22 May - details here  Note: these events include selection races for the NZ Schools teams to the Southern Cross Challenge in Australia in September/October 2022. The selection policy is here

AOS* = Auckland Orienteering Series – events generally have 9 courses of varying lengths and difficulty

General Event Info

A number of park orienteering events are still available as orienteering training courses with MapRun6. Maps (pdf versions for you to print out a copy) are uploaded to the AOC website and in MapRun. Details on MapRun are given here.
PDF versions of the maps can be found on the Auckland Club website.

A full list of events around New Zealand is on the ONZ website here. Use the filters to customise your search for events in specific regions, organised by a specific club and/or for different formats.

Next NWOC event - Lake Kereta Rogaine Sunday 29 May

Following the successful format we’ve used in previous years, these popular events are back for 2022. Join us and event sponsor Bivouac Outdoor, for a great day out!!

Event details here Enter here

NWOC members keen to volunteer to help on the day - please email Jenny Cade jjcadenz@gmail.com

NZ Teams

Congratulations to those North West members who have recently been named in teams to represent New Zealand at various events coming up in 2022.

Cameron Bonar          JWOC Portugal
Gene Beveridge          WOC Denmark
Heidi Stolberger          WUOC Switzerland
Liam Stolberger          WUOC Switzerland
Jessica Sewell            WUOC Switzerland (former NWOC member)

Riverhead

A photo montage from AOS5 held on 10 April 2022.

Photo credit: Annemarie Hogenbirk

Cameron de L'Isle - Recipient of Orienteering New Zealand’s Innovation Award for 2021

At the 2022 National Champs held over Easter weekend, Orienteering New Zealand announced the 2021 recipients of ONZ awards.  North West is delighted to congratulate Cameron de L’Isle for winning the Innovation Award. 
This award is for an individual, club, or group that demonstrates innovative approaches that have the potential to advance the sport. Innovation could be in a number of areas including technology, event formats, mapping, sports development, or process/system advances.
Cameron de L’Isle received this award in recognition of his role as instigator of the O-Map of New Zealand project - an innovative idea using work pioneered in Finland and applying it to New Zealand.  Working with others, Cameron’s is creating a giant interactive orienteering map of New Zealand. 
Commenting on Cameron’s work, ONZ President Pete Swanson, said, “A lot of people have been super impressed with the work you have done in the open source mapping space – this is a brilliant bit of work you have done which goes a long way to democratising map development in NZ, so fantastic. This has been a really notable innovative initiative and the Council all agreed that you have done something really great here.”

Cameron’s work can be viewed here. 

Congratulations Cameron.

NZ Nationals Race Report and Analysis from Gene Beveridge

A comprehensive review of Nationals 2022 from Gene Beveridge.  Read his report here

Club Shirts

Look great in the forest or at city sprints in a smart NWOC Trimtex club shirt. The shirts sell for $79 each. We currently have most sizes in stock, plus a few casual (round neck/ no zip) shirts and limited old stock at reduced prices. Trimtex shirts can be ordered on the club website or ask at Registration at a NWOC event.

2022 Membership fees are now due – and a membership/rogaine combo deal

A reminder that Club membership fees are now due and need to be paid to ensure you are eligible for members’ rates at all orienteering events.

We have a special deal this year - NWOC membership subscription rates have been reduced for 2022. And this year we are also trialling a new club membership plus rogaine entry combo which offers good savings for those who love our rogaine series.

The new combo deal means you will effectively get free entry to one rogaine – plus all the benefits of club membership. We have 3 rogaines planned for 2022.

Please pay your fees now - Existing members can simply credit the club bank account (WESTPAC Account 03-0243-0247251-000 and include your name in the reference field.) – no need to log in or re-register.

Those selecting the membership/rogaine combo deal will receive a credit voucher before the start of the rogaine series. Note the first rogaine is on Sunday 29 May so get your membership fees paid now so you receive your voucher for this event.

Please note this will be the last newsletter sent to everyone on the North West database - future newsletters will be sent to financial members only.

New Members

A warm welcome to Mack O’Brien and Ben Ross, Matt Hopper, Jo Munro, Glenn and Alexander Robertson and David Haines.

See you in the forest!