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[EurekaO] BUNS

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Oct 162017

A big THANK YOU to Angela for organising a challenging (and chilly) BUNS event last Thursday. A good spread of controls meant that nobody got to all the check points, but we had fun seeing how many we could get to ( and some even had fun finding the start!)

The prize for “effort” should go to Blake as he tried valiantly to get all the checkpoints, but took 52 mins to do so, thereby losing 70 of his hard won points. Points should be deducted from Jenny and James for “lack of effort”. They finished early and need to try harder! And Judy gets the “most blood and dirt” award- perhaps she went directly over the only hill on the map?

Next event in the series is a special. It will be a BUNS event, organised by Bun (aka Belinda Lawford) AND we will bring a bun ( for refreshments at the finish- or before the start if you’re hungry). It will be on Thursday 26 Oct at Mount Helen/ Fed Uni. at 5.30 for a start at 5.45pm. Look for the Eureka Banner on University Drive, west of the oval. This is a new map prepared by James Gray and covers the uni grounds and some of the suburbs to the north.

As a reminder, the rest of this series is:

Thursday 26 Oct 5.30pm –Mount Helen/Fed Uni. (Organiser: Bun)

Thursday 9 Nov 5.30pm – Black Hill (Organisers: Rod & James)

Thursday 23 Nov 5.30pm – Location TBC

Thursday 7 Dec 5.30pm (2017 WRAP-UP – BUNS BBQ/Picnic) – Lake Wendouree West. (Organiser: Jenny)

As you can see, an organiser and venue is still required for the event on 23rd Nov. Is there anybody out there???????

Results from last week:

Blake 190 points, 7 mins late, = 120 points

Peter 130 points, not late = 130 points

Aaron 140 points, 1 min late= 130 points

BJ 80 points, not late = 80 points

Judy 100 points, not late= 100 points

James 150 points, not late = 150 points

Ian 160 points, 2 mins late = 140 points

Jenny 160 points, not late = 160 points * unofficial (she didn’t have any checkpoints recorded as she forgot to take a pencil).

Laura+4 50 points, not late, but had 4 small helpers so gets bonus points = 200 points!!!

Hope to see you at the Triple BUN next week.

Jenny

[EurekaO] Middle Champs Update to roster

Posted by Webmaster at 12:20 pm Quicknews Comments Off

Sep 132017

Thank you again to all who have willingly put up their hands for this coming Saturday. Forecast is not particularly promising so bring warm clothing and waterproof gear. With most of the Club members running from 1 to 1.30pm, I have had to change a couple of things to do with starts and finishes – see below

The Main Start has included James as he is starting very close to the last time and he can walk into the box at the appropriate time after assisting in getting the bulk of the field away. The Secondary Start only has 18 competitors so will be done quickly and I have listed Lian there as she is not starting until 30 mins beyond the last start time at this station.

I have left a number of names attached to the finish and it will be necessary for perhaps Roch and Chris to always be in this space while Ian is out competing and for others listed to assist before running and then after. It would be good for all of this group to meet with Ian around 12.30pm to know what has to happen. Anyone else in the Club who wants to learn more about the finish procedure for future events should also get involved here.

11am Parking

Adrian

*12pm*	Start Teams to get organised	First starts 1pm
Main Start 1 to 2pm – Mark, James. Ken

Secondary Start 1-1.20pm – Anitra, Lian


*1pm*	Finish
Ian, Anitra, Belinda, John, Chris, Roch

Regards,

Mark Valentine

Administration & Events Manager

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[EurekaO] Entries for Vic Middle and Long Distance close this Sunday night

Posted by Webmaster at 11:48 am Quicknews Comments Off

Sep 082017

Hi all

Just a reminder to get your entries in for the 16th and 17th September events at Petticoat Gully and Creswick Diggings. Please respond to Mark [email protected] as to what you can do at the Vic Middle on Saturday – set up on Friday afternoon, take down on Sunday after the presentations for the Long. We’ll take a load back to the store on Saturday after our presentations, but much of the infrastructure will be used again on Sunday by Bayside. So we’ll need a small crew on Sunday pm to put away the tents, tv’s, and water containers. This is our last big state event for 2017 so please support Roch and Chris’s work in the bush by giving a few hours of time. It is a EU team effort – all offers of assistance will be welcomed whether you are competing on not.

Cheers

Blake and Mark

[EurekaO] Vic Middle Champs

Posted by Webmaster at 4:58 pm Quicknews Comments Off

Sep 042017

Eurekans

Your assistance is required on Saturday Sept 16 at Petticoat Gully, Creswick Forest to run the Vic Middle Championships. Please register your availability with me asap so I can organise a roster. Event will be held a little later in the day than usual to allow travellers to get up on Saturday. First starters at 1pm. Some people still required relatively early to set up, so please indicate what your general availability will be.

Also if you have any time available on Sunday Sept 24 for aMAZEing Ballarat to be run within the Teachers Games (1pm to 6pm at Eastwood Leisure Complex), and/or Tuesday Sept 26 Foot O event at Yuille Station in Vickers St Sebastopol 9am to 12pm, please also let me know.

Regards,

Mark Valentine

Administration & Events Manager

PO Box 3, Wendouree 3355 | [email protected]

P: (03) 5338 1220 | F: (03) 5338 1992

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[EurekaO] Results this year in BUNS events

Posted by Webmaster at 10:03 am Quicknews Comments Off

Jul 292017

Here is the whole list of results for 2017 – hope to see many of you today at Redan on Ripon Street South at 11.00am. How are you going – try Ian’s challenge today and pick up ‘extra time’ at bonus checkpoints. I’ve always wondered how I could make the day longer! BUNS 2017 Results – Feb-Aug Cheers Blake _______________________________________________ allmembers mailing list [email protected] eurekaorienteers.asn.au/mailman/listinfo/allmembers_eurekaorienteers.asn.au

[EurekaO] Canadian Regional Park Naming Ceremony and BUNS This Saturday

Posted by Webmaster at 9:31 pm Quicknews Comments Off

Jul 122017

Hi all,

Saw this in the Courier today, of interest to Eureka, about the official naming ceremony for Woowookarung (the new Canadian Regional Park):

http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/4785367/regional-park-to-receive-its-name-next-week/

Also, the next BUNS event is on THIS SATURDAY at 11am, at Pioneer Park, off Gillies Street North heading towards the MCain Plant. Roch is setting the controls, and has promised to keep the courses interesting, without being, err, too interesting!!

A fortnight later on 29 July, I’ll set some controls on a new map I’ve put together featuring the numerous old nightcart laneways bounded by Sturt, Pleasant, Drummond and La Trobe Streets in Western Central Ballarat, plus the area around St Pats and Ballarat and Clarendon Colleges up to Victoria Park. I’m looking forward to exploring this very interesting old part of town.

For those setting future BUNS events, we’ve now got quite an extensive collection of good maps available to run events on. Additionally, following on from my little experiment with “Open Street Maps” as a basis for a BUNS map a few weeks back at Golden Point, and Mark’s use of OSM for his Brown Hill run last week, I’ve now found yet another great website, a UK one called Open Orienteering Map (http://oomap.co.uk). This uses the Open Street Maps features database, and basic Street O mapping symbols, to produce quite reasonable Street O maps anywhere in the world.

I’ll be trying this out for my BUNS event on July 29. Here’s what a typical Open Orienteering Map looks like. It’s not quite as well-finished as Roch’s fieldworked maps of course, but it’s still quite useable for a street-based BUNS run in simple terrain. This example took literally 30 seconds to make:

What’s my message here? Using this as a base, plus Google Maps and Google Street View to to explore in more detail and browse around the streets visually, it’s really, really easy to identify specific signposts, fences, power poles etc to put 20 checkpoint tapes on, then plot them on a map, all from the comfort of home. So, if anyone wants to have a go at setting a BUNS run, please let the Committee know. It takes no more than an hour to make a map and choose 20 control sites, and then it’s perhaps 1 – 2 hours on the day of the run to go around and stick the red-and-white tapes on your chosen sites. Don’t be discouraged from setting if you can’t commit to making a map or putting tapes out – other members will gladly do this on your behalf. We’d love to see some new faces having a go at setting courses for our BUNS runs!

Regards, Ian Chennell

[EurekaO] Child Protection Legislation

Posted by Webmaster at 10:57 am Quicknews Comments Off

Jul 062017

G’day Eurekans

A couple of conversations in other areas have caused me to properly consider our obligations under the new legislation and the attached document needs to be discussed widely and comprehensively by our Club. We will certainly have it on the agenda for next Club Executive meeting likely to be towards end of this month.

Regards,

Mark Valentine

Administration & Events Manager

PO Box 3, Wendouree 3355 | [email protected]

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[EurekaO] BUNS Report – 27 May 2017 Delacombe

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May 302017

BUNS Event 27 May 2017 Delacombe We explored some of Delacombe again last Saturday, using a different start point to give us a different perspective and create different route choices. A good number of people visited all the controls. Are we improving our navigation and route choices or was it that Roch was in a kindly mood and made it easy for us???? Will the Lawfords be in a kind mood next Saturday (3rd June) at Canadian Lakes or will they provide a stern test? To find out, meet on Canadian Lakes Boulevard, near the lakes, ready for a 11.15am start. Bonus points go to anyone who brings a friend who hasn’t tried our BUNS series. Hope you’ll be there! Results from last Saturday: Judy 170 points 44.55 Peter 190 points 42.50 Jeanette ?points(we’ll give her 200 as a default option) 44.30 Mark 200 points 32.00 Steven & Lachlan 180 points 45.00 Blake 200 points 34.00 Maurice 160 points 49.00 BJ 160 points 45.00 Angela 200 points 44.30 Ian 200 points 37 mins Geoff, Belinda & Jenny 200 points 33.00