In this issue:

1. Upcoming Events
2. Welcome to New NWOC Members
3. Congratulations - Wins in Europe
4. Coaching Corner - New NW Junior Training Programme
5. NWOC club trip to Nationals and a reminder to enter
6. WOC and JWOC reflections
7. MTBO European Style
8. Further Congratulations
9. SI Training
10. NWOC Committee - what do they do?
11. Club Member Profiles - Allan Janes, Thomas Stolberger & Kaye Griffiths.
12. Good Luck for Australian Champs.

Upcoming Events

10 Sept:    AOS 7, Woodhill (NW run event - more information below)
17 Sept:    AOS 8, Waiuku South
15 Oct:      AOS 9, Riverhead (NW run event - Coordinator required (job is easier than it sounds! - contact Rob if you can   take on this role rgmg@xtra.co.nz)
21-23 Oct: National Champs, Hawkes Bay
18-19 Nov: Auckland Champs, Onewhero
26 Nov:      NWOC Club Prizegiving and Christmas Gathering (more details next newsletter)

Whites Line AOS event Sunday 10 September

The event team of setters Robert & Catherine Murphy and controller Geoff Mead report that the forest is in superb condition for orienteering: clean under foot, good visibility, fast running, no mountains, and many areas of complex contour detail. The red 1 course will be about 13 km, a great opportunity to get in a "solid" run in before the upcoming Australian, NZ, and Auckland championships over the next 10 weeks. 

The event caters for all levels of orienteering:
Red (challenging orienteering)1  - 13 km
Red 2 -  8 km
Red 3 -   6 km
Red 4 -   3.3 km 
Red 5 -   2.3 km
Orange (medium orienteering) long - 4.8 km
Orange short - 2.9 km
Yellow (easy orienteering) - 2.7 km
White (very easy orienteering) - 1.9 km

Access to Woodhill Forest via Restall Road, starts from 10AM.

Welcome to New NWOC Members

Welcome to  the following new members who have recently joined North West. We look forward to getting to know you at events and our end of year BBQ!

Amber Cook
Luke Hart
Yolanda Hu
John Yu

Congratulations - Wins in Europe

European MTBO Champs in Loire Valley, France.

Congratulations to both Marquita and Rob for their fantastic results at this event!

W50   Marquita Gelderman was 1st in Sprint, Middle and Long Distance - 3 Gold Medals!
M65   Rob Garden was 3rd in Middle and 1st in Long Distance.

See "MTBO European Style" later in this newsletter for some reflections on the experience from Marquita.

OCerdanya

Congratulations to Lisa Mead and Marquita Gelderman for their fantastic results at O Cerdanya 5 days held  in both the French (Base Font Romeu) and Spanish Pyrenees mountains (base La Molina) from  11-15 August 2017. Events were at 1400-1800m above sea level!

Overall results were based on cumulative time over 5 races.

W55
1st Lisa Mead

W50
3rd Marquita Gelderman

Coaching Corner - New NW Junior Training Programme

We have starting a new training group, targeted at our talented high school aged juniors aiming for places in the NZ schools team and eventually at JWOC. Training starts at 10am on Saturdays and is either a trail run of 10-15km or map-based training at Red level. In the short term we will have a training session most weeks up to the Australia trip and after that through to Nationals. We have already had 2 sessions, a muddy hill climb from Karekare and a map-based training at Riverhead (thanks to Matt Ogden and Cam Tier for setting this). Please email Alan Moore on pommie.al@gmail.com if you would like to be added to the email list for further sessions or keep an eye on the AOTC facebook page where we will post details.

Reflection on training from a junior participant:

The warm-up was very good, it was faster than I normally start, but the speed was about right. I appreciated having Cam Tier to pair with and his big tips from this day. I might have struggled in places on my own, especially when it was very vague. One of the big tips I remembered is to skip the little details and just concentrate on the big stuff, and be prepared before you reach it. Be ready in advance, so you can spot the bigger detail coming up. The other tip was to go around the really green stuff - not just to be able to run faster - but as it gives more visibility as well. When it came to the corridors, we had to pay attention to detail, because if we lost any map contact we were out of the corridor very quickly. The compass legs that we did was just another reminder of how important your compass is when running a race.

The biggest highlight with training is learning from experienced members like Matt and Cam and getting to know them better. This enables us all to have much more courage to go and talk to them after the race to be able to discuss our runs. We really value learning from more experienced and knowledgeable orienteers and appreciate having Cam Tier and Matt Ogden's time and their willingness to help.

 - Cameron Bonar

Reflection on training from an accompanying adult:

Don't tag onto a junior, get lost on your own

Having been lost so many times I have decided to start an orienteering lifehacker list. I have fitted in just as many miles as those more experienced Elites, because I know how to circle more. I can find those extra switchbacks and interesting undiscovered corners of the forest. I have such embarrassingly good mistakes that I've decided to share a detailed list. I'd encourage you all to send in your best learning episode of the month. It starts with number 101, as I think we have all managed to complete over a hundred ways of being lost already – so this is a good place to begin...

Lost at the starting block – how to orientate version No.101
Event: Junior O training Where: Riverhead Date: 25 August 2017
This is the time when you get lost even before the training has even started. When the juniors go off for their training run, and for some reason your legs don't move as fast. The juniors dive off into the forest 90 degrees off the track. You politely stop to holler out, to an even slower group 50m behind you, which direction you are heading off track. You turn around to find the juniors have melted into the forest. You look for them behind a few trees, under bushes and get closer to the mud to inspect for recent footprints. Meanwhile the smaller group behind you catch up, and just happen to mention that they are not orienteering today, just 'going for a walk”. Note to self: Try not to groan too loudly next time. This is one thing to sap your confidence, and your ability to actually 'be trained' as an orienteer when cannot even get to the start! 
This is when you remember you should always carry a torch, whistle, first aid - all the essential items if you are ever alone in the forest. I am saved by Suzanne (the one who once stole a burger). Immediately being lost is an adventure teamed with someone else. We work out the most useful strategy – head back to a nice big fat and wide looking road and run to a triangle on the map. 
We do happen to find the juniors, I'm sure they are relieved that they do not have to send out a search party. The training provides many more opportunities for more 'how to orientate' versions, for the list. The best ones from the day were “lost in a figure of eight fashion” - a contender for version No.102 , and, “It's raining - I have no map cover, the map is limp and about to disintegrate”. Actually I have a better example of that when, years ago in the Waitakeres, my map was actually in tatters, unless someone else has a better version.

Anyway, the list has only just started, please send in your own 'how to orientate' adventures to the news editor. All exaggerated and armchair versions  accepted. I am a slow learner, so if they are all my own – they could get very boring. I heard a good one last weekend, a clubbie member showed us on his MTBO map a pink track that was suspiciously shaped like number 7. He could not find it on the ground - very confusing!

- Julia Moore

NWOC Club Trip to Nationals - Labour Weekend

To all those members who have already signed up for this trip, Club Secretary, Jenny Cade will be in contact with you shortly to provide specific details about the accommodation including costs.

Between 65 and 70 Club members are part of the group - if anyone else is interested in joining the group now, please contact Jenny on northwestorienteering@gmail.com as some spaces may be available. 

As advised earlier the Club is subsidising the accommodation costs for members.

And to get you excited, here is the promo blurb from Hawkes Bay who are putting on the event:

From the Hawkes Bay Orienteering Club we welcome all orienteers from near and far to the 2017 New Zealand Orienteering Championships. Breaking from tradition, this year the champs will be held over Labour Weekend (20-23 October). Spring time in the Hawkes Bay is a wonderful time to visit, with new lambs, fruit blossoms and lush green pasture to greet you. The selection of terrains for the championships is varied, whether it be the lightening quick pavements of Hastings City to the intricately creased gully spur of Arbofield, the maps on offer will challenge most orienteering skills. Our aim as a club is to put on enjoyable, friendly and challenging events with a great atmosphere and spirit.

Check out the website for more info and to enter – www.nzochamps2017.com

Don’t forget to enter by 5 October and to book that extra day’s leave from work for the Friday Sprint event!

WOC and JWOC Reflections

At the time the last newsletter, we were all noticing the lack of sleep with late nights dot-watching during WOC and JWOC! Thank you to two of the NWOC members who competed overseas in the NZ teams for their short reflections on an aspect of the experience.

Gene Beveridge - WOC

Upon reflection of my 3^rd WOC I can see progress attributed to my improving physical fitness but not really from technical and psychological components. The terrain in Estonia this year was new for me and arriving 2 weeks before race day was valuable, but far from enough to feel confident at race pace amongst the dense trees and fallen branches. I’m happy with my 37^th in the long distance but much more race-specific training was needed to perform better on the day, and I’m not yet sure if this was possible from New Zealand as we don’t have much relevant terrain. New Zealand has lots of great athletes and great races, and with the support I’ve had over the years I’m hopeful I can overcome as many of these challenges as possible.  Next year’s WOC in Latvia will be a similar situation and the current plan is to stay in New Zealand and do the best I can by finding tougher areas to train on. 

Cameron de L’Isle - JWOC

JWOC this year was tough. From the physically tough forests to the accommodation (we were staying in containers in a parking lot), it was far more challenging than last year. That and the sun in Finland never really sets – 10pm feels like 2pm, not fun when you’re trying to sleep! 

With so much attention (deservedly) on the sprint with Tommy winning silver (!!) I thought I would talk about another race, the JWOC relay. I ran first leg this year in the relay, mainly as I wanted to have that experience at one point and because I wasn’t chosen for the top team. 

Warming up before the start of the relay, everyone was crowded in a small pen, eyeing each other up while we jogged around. The start line was quite impressive – 60 fast runners lined up in 5 rows, far bigger than any relay start I have been in before. As a second team runner, I found myself in the 4^th row – a tough place to start from.

The start itself was insane. As the countdown hit 3,2.. everyone started early and ripped away at an insane pace into a narrow chute. Being at the back I knew I had to be aggressive or face getting stuck behind the ‘slow’ guys where the tape turned into the forest and single file. Luckily I managed to fight into about 12^th spot into the forest and avoid the tumbling bodies tripping all around me.

The forest in Finland is very soft underfoot and draining to run in. However at the speed we ran the first few hundred metres I didn’t notice at all. Hitting a road, the leaders accelerated to a very fast speed but I just couldn’t get going. I lost ~10 places from the start but found myself passing people once in the forest again. Unfortunately, I choose the wrong pack along the road, losing time where I should have taken the road towards 9.

I was running roughly at the back of the leading pack until 5. Here I took a slightly different micro route choice closer to the line and gained a few places. Unfortunately I had the trickiest control here (D) and passed just above the cliff. I lost ~2mins with a few other guys and with it the main pack. Some good micro route choices and hard running allowed me to catch the next group at 6 although we all made a small mistake on 8. I fought to the front of the group along the road to 9 before dropping them on the way to 11 and the finish.

I finished roughly mid pack despite my mistakes which was satisfying but certainly not where I would like to have finished. After JWOC I went on to Hungary to scout JWOC 2018. For any juniors hoping to go to JWOC next year, get excited! The terrain is pine trees on sand dunes, and it feels just like home (aside from the 42-degree heat!).

MTBO European style

Rob and I were lucky enough to enjoy a rather nice 7 weeks away in Europe, taking in several MTBO events along the way. We started the trip in the Czech Republic, at the Plzen 5-Days – the “O-Ringen” of the MTBO world. Plzen is a city about 1.5 hours west of Prague, renowned for its beer. The event was based about 30km away at a scout-camp type place with hall/dining area, cabins and semi-permanent tents for accommodation and plenty of room for campervans, caravans and tents. About half the 700 competitors stayed on site, which made for long shower queues (and cold showers but it was pretty hot so that didn’t matter) but also added to a very social atmosphere. The Czechs sure know how to party and every night there was some sort of après-O entertainment with an awful lot of beer drinking going on. The party on the last night went until 4am with first start for the final race at 9am – fortunately jet-lag meant we were pretty tired and managed to sleep through the racket. Four of the 5 races were adjacent to the camp with the finish line in the camp grounds so it was all very compact and easy to get around. The races themselves were a mix of sprint, middle, long, relay and a free-order event. This is a bit like a rogaine but you have to get all the controls, and to make it even more tricky there are some compulsory legs thrown in. Each class had a different number of controls to get, and different combinations of compulsory vs free controls, and just to really turn the screws, it was a chasing start and no planning time! I stood still for a full 5 mins at the triangle trying to work out the best route and still didn’t get it right. Rob got his route right but got a bit over excited towards the end and completely missed two controls, which was a shame because he would have won the M60 class if he hadn’t done that! I was riding W21E so I was nowhere near winning, but I was nowhere near last either so I was happy enough.

The following weekend we were in Austria for the Austrian Champs, held in a spa town called Bad Voslau about 1.5hrs south of Vienna. Again, there was on-site camping so we managed to squeeze the campervan in amongst the trees and the other campervans without denting it. There were about 250 people at this event with plenty of the worlds best as it was a world ranking event. The sprint event was held in an old military area scattered with a whole lot of old munitions storage bunkers – these were donut-like earth walls about 8-10m high with bendy tunnels through into the middle where they used to store the munitions. The idea was that if one lot blew up it wouldn’t ignite the rest. Fast forward 70 years and they made very tricky control sites! This was the only race of the whole trip where it rained which was a shame as the map was very detailed and functioning glasses would have been useful. The middle and long were on the same area – a steep slope rising up to a plateau of sorts, riddled with tracks and paths as it was a communal area belonging to the people of Bad Voslau who walked extensively through it. The courses were probably the hardest MTBO course I have done with so many route choices to consider. On the long distance I was rather disconcerted to have a leg which was so long it didn’t fit on my mapboard! One of the most impressive things was the main organiser of the entire weekend, including map making and course setting, was a 17 year-old!!

After two weeks of riding and some hiking in the Dolomites (a whole other story), we headed to Orleans in France for the World Masters MTBO Champs. This was run, to its detriment, in conjunction with the European Youth, Junior and Senior MTBO Champs so there were about 700 riders in total, although only about 250 in the Masters. If NZ showed the world how to run a World Masters competition, France showed them how not to!! The organisation was so bad it was hilarious – you could only relax and laugh about it. Even the French were complaining. Saying that, the maps and courses were very good so I guess that was the main thing and as the week went on, things did improve. It was a very successful week for Rob and I – I finished with 3 gold medals in the W50 class while Rob got a gold and a bronze in the M65 class. The terrain was very flat (in the long distance race I rode 30km with only 80m climb) which made it a bit two-dimensional, but provided its own challenges in a way as it was easy to lose focus on the longer legs and forget where you were up to.

All in all, a very enjoyable trip with some really good quality races. Rob is already planning the next one!

 - Marquita Gelderman

Further Congratulations

To the following named in the NZ Pinestars to compete against the Australian Bushrangers  at the Australian Orienteering Carnival in late September:

21E 
Renee Beveridge
Matt Ogden
Cameron Tier

20E
Heidi Stolberger
Cameron De L’Isle
Max Griffiths
Daniel Monckton

To the following named in the NZ team for the Australia/NZ MTBO Challenge in Australia early October:

Jessica Sewell
Tegan Knightbridge
Marquita Gelderman
Yett Gelderman
Darren Gosse
Rob Garden
Chris Gelderman

Congratulations to the following who made podium at this year’s NZSS Champs in late July:

Senior Girls
Long  2nd Sofie Safkova

Senior Boys
Long  2nd Daniel Monckton, 3rd Sebastian Safka

Intermediate Girls
Sprint 1st Jessica Sewell
Long   3rd Olivia Collins

Intermediate Boys
Sprint 3rd Liam Stolberger
Long  2nd Liam Stolberger

Junior Girls
Sprint 1st Penelope Salmon, 3rd Katie Ryan
Long   1st Penelope Salmon, 2nd Katie Ryan

Junior Boys
Sprint 1st Ryan Moore
Long 1st Ryan Moore

And special mention to the Avondale College team comprising just two students, NW members Liam and Ryan, who won the Premier Boys top school trophy, just proving it can come down to quality over quantity!

SI Training

A great turn recently out of NW members keen to learn how to set up and operate the all important SI system at events. Watch out for these rookie SI operators at an event soon - be kind!

Thanks to Cameron de L’Isle for sharing his expertise.

NWOC Committee

So what do they do?

As the end of the year is approaching, so is the AGM and the time to ask yourself “Can I contribute to my club in some way?”

We have asked each committee member with a specific role to outline this. The following list identifies which committee members are looking to stand down at the end of this year, so if you read the following and think “I could do that”, please consider having a chat to anyone on the committee. Or if you are interested in joining the committee, but cant see a specific role for you - there could well be something. You do not have to be an expert orienteer and it is a great way to learn a lot about the behind the scenes work of Orienteering.

Current Committee:
President: Nick Harris
Club Secretary: Jenny Cade
Minute Secretary: Jenny Cade (available position for 2018)
Treasurer: Lisa Mead (available position for 2018)
Club Captain: Rob Garden
Club Coach: Matt Ogden
Equipment Officer: Marquita Gelderman
Communications (Newsletter): Kaye Griffiths (available position for 2018)
Committee: Mike Beveridge (Mapping/Schools), Owen Means, Thomas Stolberger, Allan Janes

President

The President is the principle leader of the club and has overall responsibility for the club’s administration.  The exec committee has a dual function: governance and operations. At the governance level the President leads the direction-setting for club, helps the committee prioritise its goals, and keeps the committee on track working towards those goals. At the operational level, the major function of the President is to facilitate effective committee meetings. 

The role has flexibility in terms of what you want to focus on. My main focus has been to make the club easier and more efficient to administer, so our volunteers spend less time at the computer and more time in the forest. The next President can bring their own flavour to the role - for eg: focussing on club culture, or coaching, or school-to-club pathways. 

Club Secretary

Key responsibilities

• Manage all incoming and outgoing communications - mostly via email these days e.g respond to new member inquiries, ONZ requests, member requests, 
• Liaise with President and other Exec over club business - try to delegate where possible
• Assist with organisation of Club events/activities  e.g Christmas function, recipients of Club trophies, clothing orders, special projects e.g H&S planning, special meetings
• Assist with preparation of Annual Reports 

Minute Secretary

Key responsiilites include preparation of the Agenda & Minutes for at least 6 meetings per year plus the AGM and identify actions from meetings

Treasurer

The Treasurer manages our club finances and provides an important financial perspective in committee discussions and decision-making. 

The Treasurer is responsible to the exec committee (on behalf of the club and members). Responsibilities include processing and documenting payments in/out, regular reporting of finances to the committee, preparing annual accounts, arranging audit, and presenting annual accounts to AGM. Most of the club's financial management is now handled electronically which streamlines the work immensely.  

Club Coach 

Club Coach has the job of ensuring activities are taking place to better the orienteering capabilities of our club members. This includes organising coaching days, specific physical training sessions such as "Tuesday night intervals" through the Auckland Orienteering Training Collective, and regular segments in the newsletter highlighting various technical aspects of orienteering.

Club Captain

Club Captain has the job of allocating people to event tasks each year, and the club dinner provides the ideal opportunity for club members to sign up for these. One problem is some people sign up, but then, closer to the time, can’t do the job. However, overall this works well.

My other responsibilities include liaising with landowners (or delegating someone to do so), and chasing up the less experienced setters and controllers to make sure the jobs are happening.

Communications 

My main responsibility is to compile and send out the club newsletter approximately once every 6-8 weeks. Content suggestions are put to the committee and the committee members provide additional suggestions. I send requests for articles to members with specified deadlines, leaving sufficient time for compiling the content via our user-friendly Revolutionise Sport software (which is easy to learn using Alan Moore’s help sheet!) In addition, there are sometimes single issue club emails to be sent out.

Expansion of this role in the future is likely to include Social Media Marketing and Communications.

Equipment Officer (Chief Executive Equipment Officer (CEEO))

Most of the club equipment resides in “The Trailer” (TT). It includes tents, tables, signs, generator, spades, banners, toilet tents, map trays, reels of tape, banners, controls, flags, water containers, plastic bags etc etc – basically all the stuff required to run an event. There is also all the computer stuff which is looked after by the club SI guru, currently Cam de L’Isle.

As CEEO I make sure all the consumables are topped up (plastic bags, loo paper, hand sanitiser, rubbish bags, drinking cups….). If the tents get wet, I have the not-so- fun job of drying them out before packing them away again – this is probably the worst part of the job as it can take up to a week. Fortunately we have a large barn but I can only dry one big tent at a time. Keeping track of the guy ropes and pegs and making sure each tent has the right number of them also keeps me entertained.

On the day of an event TT has to arrive very early so the event can be set-up, and can’t leave until everything is packed away again. This is the main downside of being the CEEO as it makes for a very long day when NWOC runs an event. Because TT is rather full, everything has its place in there and if the CEEO sometimes seems a bit grumpy it’s probably because someone has put something in the wrong spot, or folded a tent up in a non-neat fashion so it no longer fits….

I also do any repairs on the control stands, and go through the flags periodically and arrange for Mum to fix any broken strings etc.

Once a year I empty TT completely and clean it out – it’s surprising how much sand gets in there.

Club Member Profiles

Staying with the Committee theme, we decided to profile the last three committee members who have not yet been profiled in previous newsletters.

Allan Janes

Number of years orienteering?
About 20 years

How were you introduced to orienteering?
Darren Ashmore ran a couple of sessions for a group I was part of & I got hooked.

Key orienteering achievements to date
World Master’s Sprint Qualification 2017 – perfect race for me (on a map that shouldn’t have been used).

Current orienteering project or goal?
Only project currently is get back to full fitness after knee operation in May.  Goal – win a national  sprint title? (‘cause it wont happen in any other format unless I’m the only entrant!)

Favourite map and why?
Probably Whites Line or Otakanini Topu in Auckland, nothing springs to mind outside of Akl.  I’ve always enjoyed running on them (even if I have a bad day in the office).

Map you have yet to experience but aspire to orienteer on?
Nothing in NZ, want to experience some maps from Europe in the future

Orienteering hero?
Mark Lawson

Day job?
Retail & Design Analyst – stare at spreadsheets on a computer all day

Other interests?
Road & Off-road running – have a target/dream of running sub 90 for the ½ marathon next year & running another ultra marathon after that.                                                                             
Cycling now because it helps my fitness & easier on the body.

Thomas Stolberger

Number of Years orienteering?
About 14 years now, my first event was back in 2003 i believe.

How Was I introduced?
I was introduced to orienteering by my grandad Bert Chapman along with my Mum and two siblings and have been running ever since.

Key Achievements?
Lasting this long without any major injuries or broken bones? haha

Current Orienteering Goals?
Competition wise, maybe take a crack at the next World Uni's if my fitness is up to it. I'm also working on developing short video clips to help with the promotion and coaching of our sport.

Favourite Map?
I have two: 

• Hogsback in Canterbury because of the alpine setting and awesome range of terrain present.
• Huriwai down in Counties Manukau, because big rocks!

Map I aspire to run on
Nothing specific but anything with lots of big rocks would be pretty sweet!

Orienteering Hero
My Orienteering hero would probably have to be Matt Ogden, not just due to the success he's had over in Europe but also because of his commitment to helping others out with coaching, especially the junior club members, which i think is really awesome! 

Day Job
When i'm not out orienteering you'll find me around the University of Auckland where I am in my third year of undergraduate studying Geology. Hopefully one day it'll get me a job in the field where i'll be paid to to spend the day wandering around the countryside with a map and compass. Can't beat that for a living.

Other Interests
Rocks & fossils, making bad geology puns, spending time with friends and family, photography and going adventuring.

NB No Photo from Thomas, who struggled to find one as, in his words, "I am usually on the other side of the camera"!

Kaye Griffiths

Number of years of Orienteering?
7 years (I should really be better than I am!!)

How was I introduced?
Other than a few casual visits to the forest events when the children were young, our more serious involvement came via my eldest son Jordan who started when he was in Y10 – I quickly learned it was not much of a spectator sport so I may as well give it a go!

Key Achievements?
Progressing beyond Orange – I was on Orange for a long time so much so that I decided that was my final level. I told myself that if I ever came back in from an Orange course and thought “that was boring” then I would give Red a go – it finally happened – I actually think it was a particularly easy set of Orange courses that day but it served to move me off my self-imposed plateau! Oh yes, and making the A final (unbelievable!) in the World Masters Sprint!

Current Orienteering Goals?
To have more clean runs (and maybe get fitter to try and go a bit faster once I have got clean runs!). To enjoy the Australian Champs – a family trip!

Favourite Map?
Complex sprint maps e.g the Victoria University map (101 Flights of Steps) from W6 last year.

Orienteering Heroes?
Rob and Marquita – amazing orienteers and always keen to welcome newcomers and enthuse them in our sport.

Day Job?
Career Counsellor at Pinehurst School

Other Interests?
Tramping, skiing and other outdoor adventures, reading, spending time with family.

Australian Championships

All the best to those who are heading over to Australia soon, whether to compete in the Schools Challenge, the Australian Championships or the Australian MTBO Championships. If you have entered the relays, Jean Cory-Wright is organising the NZ teams and has asked that you contact her if you have a fixed idea of a team already.
jean.corywright@gmail.com