Welcome to the Wednesday Eastern Series - Park and Street orienteering in Melbourne's east all year round.
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Spring Series Concluded
Monday, 26 October 2009
21st Oct 09 - The Spring Series concluded with a novelty event last Wednesday. Mark Besley, our night series scorer comments:
Ted Van Geldermalsen and Margi Freemantle organised an interesting ”Novelty” where the map was “broken” into three overlapping pieces. The start was obvious and its section contained enough controls for the shorter courses. The two extra pieces had us thinking hard as we ran off after “go” was shouted. I could see the piece with Ruffey Lake Park joined onto the western side but the other piece with King St at the South really had me thinking. Somehow I thought it was further to the West than it actually was, and it took me a long time to notice that many controls were duplicated on both pieces. There were quite a number of us going very slowly at the start while we were trying to work this out. Of course some just “followed the leader” running to No. 10, which wasn’t a bad strategy as it turned out. It was a lot harder than usual to get a good “overview” of the map and estimate how many controls I was likely to be able to get in the time available. However there weren’t too many people back late, so I guess most people worked it out OK. Well done to the course setters.
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Blackburn South
Sunday, 10 December 2017
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Burnley Maze
Sunday, 3 December 2017
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Belmore Parklands
Friday, 24 November 2017
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Blind Creek
Sunday, 19 November 2017
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Ruffey Lake
Friday, 10 November 2017
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Blackburn North
Monday, 6 November 2017
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Dandenong Creek
Thursday, 26 October 2017
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Tally Ho
Friday, 6 October 2017
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Farewell Winter, Hello Summer!
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
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Hilly Heidelberg
Friday, 15 September 2017
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Eastern Series Information
Where: Eastern suburbs of Melbourne
When: 7:00pm Wednesdays; all year round
Cost: $5 per event for adults, $2 for juniors (under 21)
What to bring: jogging/walking shoes and comfortable, light coloured clothing. Bring a watch, a drink, and a torch for winter events (late March-mid October).
Please arrive 20-30 minutes early. This will provide time to help you register for the event and explain how to take part.
Groups (schools, scouts, sports or social) are extremely welcome, but please contact us at least a week prior to the event so we can ensure enough maps are printed.
In winter, there are 2 courses for runners. These are Score
format, where you visit as many controls as you can in the allocated
time, with the aim of earning as many points as possible. Times are 60
mins or 45 mins. There is also a 60 min Score course for Power
Walkers.
In summer, there are 5 runners courses ranging from 2.5-10 km,
and a 60 minute power walkers' course. For runners the format is
Scatter (visit a designated number of controls in any order, first back
wins), and for power walkers the format is Score format (visit as many
controls as you can in the allocated time).
Enquiries: Ian Dodd, tel 0419 316 843, or email
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