World Cup Mixed Sprint Relay: How did you like it?

New season, new country, new job, new Scandinavian club,...

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Tech Torture in Turkey

Portugal O-Meeting: Gueorgiou and Magnusson (and Niggli)

Stony therapy at Lipica Open - Slovenia

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Weltcupauftakt in der Türkei

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Frustrerende fornuftighet

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Strålende Treningssamling

Steinige und nasse Ferien in Portugal

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Season start in Turkey

Weltcupsieg in der Türkei

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Interviews with Thierry Gueorgiou, Simone Niggli, Jan Pr...

Tyrkiatrening

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No World Cup for us - Half marathon instead

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Türkei: Weltcup und Stützpunkt

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Urban Enduro

Preparation is going well for the Urban Enduro. The new Wellington City map which will eventually see the entire ampitheatre of Wellington mapped to International Sprint Specifications is growing by ...
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Oxford Odyssey

I was out of the loop when this happened, an annihilation of a couple of New Zealands best mountain runners by a couple of the orienteering boys. The Oxford Odyssey is a new event on a great bit ...
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Coles Bay

The Tasmania World Cup organisers have posted the old map of Coles Bay (the terrain for the middle distance) to the website. This is a fantastic part of the world, I suspect though that the forest wi ...
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Anatomy of a race - early candidate for course of the year?

Is this the best sprint course and map in New Zealand since at least the World Cups? Given the wonderful course on Ferrymead at the Nationals and the stunning Queenstown Botanic Gardens maps its a tou ...
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Fireside Chat: Darren Ashmore

This is the first in what may become an irregular feature. The premise is simple, an orienteering friend comes to stay and we talk into the night about orienteering. They may or may not be world fam ...
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Godzone Adventure – pre start thoughts

Godzone is less than a week away. I’m heading south tomorrow with Matt and Ed to meet Toni down in Kaikoura. I’ve been map-dreaming and scoping some of the terrain in the upper sou ...
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The End of Summer

Geez its been a good summer. The OSquad have been going hard around the place, training for orienteering or getting into some wider outdooors activity. See Tanes previous post about the impressive li ...
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World Cup Round One.......2015

...And suddenly its March! Its been another hectic couple of months full of work and travel, with niggley injuries coming and going, and thankfully some training and racing to keep me sane! The blog h ...
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The Storm is approaching!

There is a Southerly Storm coming, brewing away, set to descend on Kaikoura in about a weeks time to coincide with GODZone, the adventure race. This year there is a large contingent of the Bivouac Sou ...
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Images from Coast to Coast

As the body recovers, more and more images from various parts of the Coast to Coast course are popping up. There must have been more photographers than I remember! These are courtesy of the Sportzhub. ...
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Resilience: A Lesson From Sochi by Sydney Finkelstein - Updat...

Resilience. It’s often the secret sauce that separates the highest achievers from the mass of people who are perfectly capable, but not exceptional. The good news is that each of us has ...
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NZ Elite O Tour - Autumn 2014 - Dates Announced

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Coast to Coast 2014

I now understand why they call it the Longest Day. I had 13 hours and 54 minutes during the race to think about just how far it is from the West Coast to the East Coast of the South Island. … ...
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Awareness and Routine

As most of you will have realised, in 6 weeks now Riverhead will play host to the Official North Island Orienteering Championships. The competitions will incorporate trials for the JWOC team to compet ...
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Post Nationals Training and the Urban Enduro

Ok, its happening. This is a huge year for New Zealand High Performance Orienteering. We will have potentially our best JWOC team ever. We will have Matt Ogden and Lizzie Ingham poised for new level ...
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Victory for Aucklanders

Greta Knarston and Matt Ogden prevailed in a tough Sprint the Bays tour, made more challenging by stormy Hawkes Bay conditions. Ogdens victory was assured following Tim Robertsons tragic mispunch in ...
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What I’m riding for Coast to Coast

Coast to Coast has 3 bike sections. The one day race includes a bunch ride near the start and two individual time trials. Setting up the bike to suit the course is a compromise between aerodynamics an ...
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Sacred Girls

I wasnt there, but I wish I was even for just this race, or even just the start of this race, a solid first six from the pen of Ross Morrison.
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Follow Sprint the Bay

Great online coverage of Sprint the Bay. Event website here. Results here. Matt Ogden and Tim Robertson duelling it out, and Greta Knarston looking likely overall. A few contenders have mispunched o ...
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Auckland Sprint Training Weekend - Report from Gene Beveridge...

On the Sunday of AOTCs Auckland Sprint Training Weekend we ran Sprint Auckland Day, also known as SAD. The third edition of SAD reflected the rapid growth of orienteering in Auckland, especially ...
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Sprint the Bay Preview

Well its that time again. Sprint the Bay time. The final start lists and bulletin are out and its time to have a look at what might unfold over the weekend. As always the Morrison boys have done a g ...
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Auckland Sprint Training Weekend - Report from Gene Beveridge...

With Sprint the Bay fast approaching AOTC hosted the Auckland Sprint Weekend incorporating the Cornwal Park Ultra-sprint and Sprint Auckland Day along with 2 other quality sessions. On Friday aft ...
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Sprint Auckland Day 3.0

Sprint Auckland Day was conceived originally partly as a way of honing sprint orienteering skills early in the season and partly as a half-baked idea of a physical challenge. The idea is simple. Take ...
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S.A.D

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The ideal breakfast.

Get up, have a shower, make yourself look beautiful, chuck the kettle on, then think about breakfast. Whats it to be today? There is plenty of tempting sugar munchies like weetbix and cornflakes lur ...
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Sprint Auckland Day

Epsom Campus marks the halfway point of sprint auckland day. Just over 37mins of racing for the leaders so far.
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Thinking about your Training?

About now a lot of you are probably settling down into the New Year having done more or less training over summer. Some of the big goals of the year are still some time away, Tasmania next January, ...
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Sprint Auckland Day

Auckland Orienteering Club is hosting an Ultra-Sprint event at Cornwall Park on Saturday 1 Feb, but with a few twists this year. There are no control descriptions. Instead there is a dot in the midd ...
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Looking for a sponsor?

My long time supporters over at Vitasport are looking for a new addition to the team. Join Mireille Sitters and me in representing an innovative Kiwi brand. Vitasport was born and bred in Masterton of ...
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Tasmania - Keep it at the back of your mind

Check out the World Cup map from 1988 on the World of O
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Sprint Canberra Maps

Shes been doing a lot of orienteering lately. Visit Lizzies Digital Orienteering Map Archive (DOMA) for some interesting maps. Including downloads from her new watch! http://ogang.org/doma/index.php ...
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Embarrassing Mistakes

Yep. Weve all done them. And this last weekend gave me another goodun to add to my list. Coming through the spectator pivot for the first time in Sprint Canberra race 4, I completely missed the taped ...
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Born again orienteer...

Jamie has kindly asked if I start contributing to the Osquad blog. I think his term was that Im one of the orienteering geeks. Funny it fits. Turns out Im not the only one and checking through the l ...
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Tackling an injury – a few thoughts

I think I’m pretty experienced with lower limb injuries. I’ve had a few. From medial tibial stress syndrome to ITB friction and patellofemoral pain. If it’s a common runn ...
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Getting Our Sprint On

Its pretty well documented that with the new changes to the WOC format, the sprint distance is set to become more and more targeted by athletes, particularly from smaller nations who only have 1 or 2 ...
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Work now, play later

Its been a quiet couple of months on the blog front here, with my time being dominated by the phd side of my life. There has been far too much time spent shut away in the lab, and not enough time out ...
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Pukenui Forest – Circumnavigation

Night shifts aren’t all bad. Sure being awake all night can be a bit niggly. It does however mean no work during the day! Sure sleep has to fit in somewhere, but it means the day has flexibi ...
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Coast to Coast training – Goat Pass run

The week down at Arthurs Pass was not just about tackling the Waimak. It was also an important time in getting my head around the run leg of Coast to Coast. After the test run in early December I had ...
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Forget the Cold

Although Winter does have its merits, for an orienteer being warm and not having to feel the ground slide from beneath your feet in every training is a smarter option! Ive had a couple of tough Winter ...
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Wellington Champs: Hills, sprints and jungles.

A few weeks ago now I made the relatively short hop back over the ditch back to NZ for the Wellington Champs. It was a good excuse to get home and see family and friends, whilst stretching the legs ou ...
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Knock-out Sprint Video

Great video of the knockout sprint final race from the Wellington Champs in New Zealand. The video was edited by up and coming junior star Devon Beckman from my local club in NZ - HBOC - great work by ...
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Aus Champs Part III: Caught in the Middle

The final weekend of the Australian domestic season saw the running of the Middle distance and Relay championships, both on the granite covered, brand new, Gibralter Hill map. Having raced as a proud ...
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Aus Champs Part II: Back to School

With the Australian Champs run over two consecutive weekends, the days between are traditionally used to hold the Australian Schools Champs. Teams compete from almost all of the Australian States and ...
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Aus Champs Part One: the Long and Short of it.

Last weekend the ACT played host to the Australian Long and Sprint distance orienteering champs. The races were my first since WOC over two months ago, and I was stoked to even make it to the start li ...
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Australian Champs; National League Final and NZ-AUS test matc...

The next two weekends see the running of the Australian Champs in and around the ACT. As a current local of the ACT, Ive been looking forward to the events for over a year. The areas offered look to b ...
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Lazy bum

Injury can be a pain in the butt.Returning to the cold Canberran winter following WOC, I was looking forward to a bit of downtime from training and orienteering. Perhaps even focusing a bit more on th ...
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Chur Bro!

Youll read a fair bit on this blog and others about the commitment, sacrifices, and general stubbornness that it takes to (try and) be a top level athlete. It also requires one heck of a lot of suppor ...
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Training Techniques

Looks like Jamies spilled the beans and let my secret training technique out! Might have to upgrade to something faster to stay ahead of the competition now!
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Post WOC 2013: Back to Reality

It’s been over a week now since I crossed the finish line of the final race at WOC. A week to reflect on and analyse the races, what went well and what went wrong. A week to recover from the men ...
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O-no! last (real) WOC

A lot of things have to come together to perform well at WOC, and after 8 years I have yet to get everything right. I think I have managed to slowly make progress with my orienteering over the years, ...
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