2010 Orienteering Calgary Club Championships & Brunch

Visit our 2010 OCCC web page for detailed info, latest news and results.

Participate in one, two or all three events. Your choice!

Or come just for brunch :)

• Register on-line

• Early bird deadline: register BEFORE Sep 01 to claim your discount!

The complete Club Championships series consists of three(3) events:

1. Club Champs Forest - Fish Creek Park (Bebo Grove - 24 St SW)

Saturday Sept 11

Course Start : 10:00am – 12 noon

Course closing : 2:00pm

2. Club Champs Urban Park - Nose Hill Park (64 Ave NW)

Sunday Sept 12

Course Start : 10:00am – 12 noon

Course closing : 2:00pm

3. Club Champs Sprint & Brunch/Awards - Calgary ZOO

Sunday Sept 19

Course Start : 8:00am - 8:35am

Course closing : 9:15am

Brunch and Awards : 9:30am

• Register on-line

Because the weather is poor today, TRY-IT event is extended to the next week.

So everybody welcome to try orienteering for free today April 28 at Eau Claire Market or on May 5 at University of Calgary.

The Prairie Opener 2010 will take place at the SL Ranch, near Rumsey… Orienteering courses for all ages.

Date: Saturday April 17, 2010

Registration: 9:30 AM

Course starts: 10 AM to Noon

Course closing: 3:00 PM

Location: SL Ranch, which is east of Highway #56 in between minor highways #589 (N) and #585 (S).
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>>> Go to online registration <<< Cost .. Adult $20 , Junior (10-20) $10, Kids (9 and under) $0.

6 courses will be offered, choose a course appropriate to your skill and fitness level as follows:

• C0 String
• C1 2.2km
• C2 2.2km
• C3 3.5km
• Short Advanced 4km
• Long Advanced 8km

Course Planner: Marion Owen

Meet Director: Don Merriam

Registration closes Fri April 16.

FWOC / JDP is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Foothills Nordic Ski Club (FNSC)!

Starting Tuesday May 04, cross-country head coach Chris Jeffries will be running a weekly Club Night fitness/conditioning practice. These sessions are open to all JDPers with an active FNSC membership! You can purchase a FNSC membership at the FNSC website: http://www.foothillsnordic.ca .

The first session will take place at Confederation Park (19^th St and Chicoutimi Dr NW) from 6:30 to 8 pm. More details will follow shortly.

From the FNSC website: FNSC is very excited about this new relationship that promotes active sport for life in a year round setting. Cross-country director Stan Prenioslo sees it as a perfect fit for both clubs. “Orienteering and Nordic skiing are both hugely popular in the Scandinavian countries, we see this as a perfect union as we continue to develop our respective programs in the coming years.”

JDP 2010 is open to all juniors 6-20y (must turn 6y on or before Dec.31, 2010). JDP 2010 Fees are $50/junior (prior to April 1, 2010) and $60/junior (as of April 1, 2010) - each junior fee includes 1 complimentary adult Wed. event season pass for family members e.g. parents, grandparents or older siblings.

* Registration will continue until all available spots are filled.

More information on JDP website: http://orienteeringcalgary.ca/junior/

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact FWOC Junior Program Coordinator:

Karin Gerritsen

E-mail: junior@OrienteeringCalgary.ca Phone: 283 9531

Fantastic area, fantastic weather, fantastic courses. It was a wonderful training at the foothills of Rocky Mountains last Sunday.

There were four courses with difficulty from “slightly more difficult beginner” to “long advanced”.

Courses short and long advanced (C5 and C6) are put into attackpoint so you can enter and compare splits if you like http://www.attackpoint.org/splits.jsp.

30%FTE (12h/w – on average) Jan – Dec. (year round position) rate: $22/h.

Is responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of a coaching curriculum that is appropriate for all Calgary Junior Program members (ages 6-20y).

Requirements: Previous orienteering experience, a good understanding of long term athlete development and a willingness to complete a police information check, to complete the NCCP community coaching workshop (if not already done so) and to have up to date first aid certification.

To apply for this position, please email your orienteering and coaching experience resume to: junior@OrienteeringCalgary.ca by March 12, 2010.

If you have any questions or would like further details, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Hurray! We are through our cold spell of the winter! Now let’s get on with some training.

To kick off the TNT (winter training) season, Christmas “race” will be organised on Tuesday, December 22^nd in Sunnyside / Princes Island.

Organisers will be needed for subsequent weeks. Please send an email to Teresa Winn (tkwinn@shaw.ca) if you would be willing to organise a training session. If possible let her know which date you would like and she will coordinate.

Congratulations to all organizers, volunteers and participants for an incredibly diverse season of events. Calgary’s Orienteering community has come together to guarantee a wide variety of high quality events, for all ages. Here’s a quick recap for 2009:

Meet Type	Number of Events
Junior / Wed Nights	23
Forest	4
Special Events	9
Coaching/Admin	9
Total	45

Still to come!
The FWOC 2009 season still has three excellent events to come:
1. September 26 - Urban Hunt Calgary Corporate Challenge Eau Claire Market (Food Court)
2. October 3 - (CANCELLED) Mountain Bike Orienteering - Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park
3. October 4 - Run the Wild - Sun Sandy McNabb Recreation Area (Kananaskis)

Calgary Roadrunners experienced a great evening of orienteering at Edworthy Park on the 21^th of August. There was about 15 in attendance, beautiful evening, BBQ potluck. Runners were treated to three fun loops of varying difficulty and terrain. Lots of positive comments but runners were surprised at just how fun the sport is!

Jen Silverthorn met Paul Karchut from CBC Radio on Wednesday evening, the 19^th of August! They had a blast trying out Cindy Heselton’s course in Bowmount and taking about orienteering. The CBC article is available here (go to article from 20^th of August). The news article read directly by clicking here.

Register now for JDP 2009! The first 40 junior registrants will receive a FREE Orienteering bumper sticker. Families who were part of JDP 2008 will be guaranteed a spot in JDP 2009 if they register PRIOR to April 05, 2009. JDP 2009 is open to all juniors 6-20y (must turn 6y on or before Dec. 31, 2009). JDP 2009 Fees are $50/junior - each junior fee includes 1 complimentary adult Wed. event season pass for family members e.g. parents, grandparents or older siblings. To register follow the three steps on the junior web-site.

The Alberta Orienteering Association is currently looking for Canadian mappers who have extensive experience producing top quality orienteering maps (OCAD) to the latest ISOM and/or ISSOM standards to work on different projects in Alberta during the summer of 2009.

The different areas where we want to map are located in Calgary and Alberta Rocky Mountain.

The mappers will be coordinated by the Alberta Orienteering Association.

If you are an interested mapper and you have the experience please contact Pascale Lévesque at pascale@orienteeringalberta.ca

Each year a number of Alberta Orienteers make the trip to run on some of Sage’s open, challenging, very beautiful maps and enjoy the laid-back BC hospitality. More details on the Sage website.

If you missed Nicki's article on sprint orienteering when it was originally released in Impact Magazine's July/August 2007 issue, a PDF of the article is now online.

Registration for JDP 2008 is now open. The first thirty registrants will receive a free Silva souvenir control flag and some registrations have already been received, so sign up now! More

FWOC is looking for one or more part-time Technical Specialists who will develop and teach a new officials' course, conduct group coaching sessions, and create instructional materials. More information is in the job description Contact FWOC President, Nicki Rehn, to apply, or for more information.

We've updated the look and reworked some of the contents but this is just the beginning. In future expect more information, more news and interesting stories, and more photos. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new layout and if you have comments, suggestions or wish to have news or event information published, please email me.

Watch a video of Thierry Gueorgiou, one of the world's top orienteers, navigating through terrain at high speed.

In the World of O's second story in a series on Thierry Gueorgiou, Thierry describes his navigation technique. The technique is not just for elite orienteers; every orienteer could benefit from following its principles.