Setanta Orienteers

Setanta Orienteers invite entries to the 16th Setanta Rogaine Ireland 2013 over the weekend of 22/23 June. There will be the usual 24 hour Championship course for teams of two to five, along with a shorter 6 hour equivalent. Individual entries can be accepted for the 6 hour event. Further details can be found at http://www.setantaorienteers.org/event/rogaine-ireland-2013

Some great individual and team results for Setanta members at IOC - here's a report from Angus Tyner, who struck gold both in Classic M45L and Handicap 6 relay :

11 Setanta members returned from the the wind, rain and bog with 7 Irish titles and a further 6 podium placings.

The Irish Orienteering Championships were held over the May bank holiday weekend near Oughterard Co. Galway. The championships were made up of middle distance on Saturday, Classic distance on Sunday and Relay on Monday. The 3 days were based on 3 overlapping areas.

Thanks again to Dave for putting in the time to set up the Club Training in Glendasan on Saturday.

It was quite technical and I found both the Windows and Lines exercises very challenging.

I made a classic mistake on the Windows exercise. We had 6 controls to locate, and navigating from 2 to 3 I spotted control no. 4, and assuming it was no. 3 made straight for it, without double checking my compass bearing, (tsk!) however the pacing would have been similar enough. I didn’t realise I was at the wrong control because there were no numbers on the control markers, and on a hillside full of boulders it is very difficult to tell which one you are at!

Thanks to Dave for a very useful exercise.

Dave planned a shortish course with about 13 controls using his customary high Vis cut-out on canes.

The course was divided into 2 parts. First part was windows. The parts of the map visible were just the control circles. The rest of map was blanked out. This meant bearing and pacing. Generally the distances were 1-200m. To assist in our pacing Dave had measured out a 100m length across rough ground as a pace reckoner. I took about 46 paces for this. Usually I'm anything from 37 to 60 paces for 100m - 37 on tracks/grass and 60+ for uphill in rough terrain.