Tuesday, January 3, 2012

2012

So 2011 has come and gone.

The club was fairly active across the World. We got lost in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland and some people got very very very lost in France.

So whats on the list for 2012.

Looking at my highly detailed calender, CNOC have a few races coming up
Jan 22 Donadea (local)
Feb 11 Curragh (NightO - see the blog on headlamps)
April 1 [TBA] (Spring Cup)
June - July Summer Series

Other events to note are the JK in Scotland on the 6-9th of April, the Irish Champs down in Kerry from the 5-7th of May and the Irish 3 Day in Galway from the 2-4th of June. The Leinster Championships won't be on till next September and will be hosted by Ajax.

Now, who intends to be the first person to spike 2012 controls?

Control at the base of a nameless Wicklow snow covered mountain

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Dark Art of a Bright Torch

After some complaints that some people cheat by using a better/bigger/brighter light. I decided to throw up a piece on how to compete better at NightO.
Bigger isn't always better!
A complete guide to what torch to use to win* in the Night

Light 1
The candle.
Viewing Map: Crap
Viewing Terrain: More crap


Light 2
Petzl
Viewing Map: Good
Viewing Terrain: Crap



Light 3
Silva Halogen
Viewing Map: Good (but not great)
Viewing Terrain: Good (but not great)



Light 4
Magicshine
Viewing Map: Poor - Reflection too strong
Viewing Terrain: Excellent



Light 5
Silva Alpha

Viewing Map: Crap - completely blinded
Viewing Terrain: Concentrated Sun!

View when the user is looking at you




* use of a light does not guarantee victory

Dark Nights

Last Saturday was the first of the Dublin by Night races. The race was held on Howth Head organised by Fingal. CNOC had 5 runners out and about. Ruairi Short had a commanding victory winning by over 2mins from Nick Barrable who was over from the UK. In the family battle, Ruth took 20mins out of Don and Brian took in a tour of Howth Village while ex pro Eddie went hunting for controls in brambles with the aid of a candle.
The bigger the light the better!

The second race of the what goes bump in the night takes place in Phoenix Park on the 14th of January.

If you think Howth is challenging at night, take a look at OK Linné's first winter training session.
10 mile LineO!

Now if only we could get out 90 runners for a long night LineO

What goes bump in the night Scandi Style


Friday, December 9, 2011

Winter 2011

The blog hasn't been updated since Jukola. This was mostly due to CNOC going to the far reaches of Europe and the World in search of World Championship glory, as well as getting distracted by hard winter training.

To try sum it up in a few lines.

Summer

WOC Team went to France. It was technical as can be seen below!
Ruairi (28th LongQ), Seamus (25th SprintQ), Niamh (27th MiddleQ, 19th SprintQ, 24th Relay) all ran but we didn't have the success of Norway.

CISM World Militarys, Brazil. Orla, Ray and Colm went. Orla ran very well. Ray broke his leg and Colm miss punched.

WOC Tour. A selection of juniors travelling to sample the tricky french terrain.

Maps: France - http://omaps.worldofo.com/?cid=1308&s=views
Brazil - http://omaps.worldofo.com/index.php?st=CISM&a=s&submit=Search

Leagues

Since the end of the summer, CNOC have being running in all the usual events.
Fingal Scatter Series, Local races and Leinster Leagues.

The Lenister League wrapped up last week at the final CNOC event that was held in Stradbally. (Waiting for a report).

The over all league can be found here http://orienteering.ie/results/leagues/show_table.php?league=Leinster+Autumn+Series&date_from=09%2F11&date_to=12%2F11&best_of=3

CNOC only had 3 runners running the required 3 races to score in a League.
They were:
Brown
Seamus O'Boyle 3rd
Ruairi Short 4th

Green
Regina Kelly 5th (2nd Female)

Championships


CNOC had a massive impact on the Senior Home International.
The teams CNOC members were
M20 Conor Short (4th), M21 Hugh Cashel (8th), Ruairi Short (14th), Colm Hill (15th), Seamus O'Boyle (17th), W20 Deirdre Ryan (9th), W21 Ruth Lynam (14th), Regina Kelly (20th).

The following day, Seamus redeemed himself by getting back first of the three Irish relay teams.
Deirdre (as well as Niamh Corrbett) deserve special mention for stepping up an age class and running well in what were very long Long Distance races.

In the JHI, CNOC had 3 runners.
Caoimhe O'Boyle finished an awesome 2nd in W14 (9sec off winning!) followed closely by Siobhan Delaney in 6th. Deirdre Ryan finished 14th in W18.

In the VHI (no jokes please), Ruth Lynam was our only runner. She finished 3rd in W55 (and was also the only person to run at all three Home Internationals!... again)


Other News


Next up on the Irish Calender are the NightO races. CNOC are organising the final one on the Curragh on the 11th of February. Before that, we have a local event in Donadea on the 22nd of January.
CNOC's 3rd event of the Spring is on the 1st of April, the weekend before the JK in Scotland!
Be on the wait for the emails in search of help.

More News


If you find any interesting orienteering info or anything of interest, send them this way and I'll up load them to the blog.

Time to get the ball rolling again!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Jukola 2011

The CNOC team finished 295th at Jukola. Detailled team results are here.

Halden took the victory by 4 minutes from Kalevan Rasti.

The CNOC team is en route home and a full report will follow.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Meet the Team

from left to right: Conor, Ruairi, Shea, Kev, Niamh, Hugh, Colm

Leg 1: Conor “only good at music” Short
Favourite orienteering technique: Relocating, I use it the most
Result most proud of: Beating Seamus at Shamrock
Result most ashamed of: (thinks deeply...) Will answer after Jukola
Orienteer they admire the most: My mammy
Most annoying habit: Singing and playing piano

Leg 2: Ruairi “the clue is in the name” Short
Favourite orienteering technique: Contouring, cause i’m unfit
Result most proud of: Beating Seamus at Shamrock
Result most ashamed of: Irish squad score-o (note: this was a personal event)
Orienteer they admire the most: My Daddy
Most annoying habit: Turning a negative into a positive, when it is still a negative.

Leg 3: Seamus “where’s the car” O’Boyle
Favourite orienteering technique: Following Seamus “where’s the car” O’Boyle
Result most proud of: Winning the CNOC Summer Series
Result most aSeamused of: See appendix A
Orienteer they admire the most: Seamus “wheres the car” O’Boyle
Most annoying habit: Talking about Seamus “wheres the car” O’Boyle. Never helping unless Ciara is around

Leg 4: Kevin “the putt master” O’Boyle
Favourite orienteering technique: Making the same mistake again, and again, and again... (also applies to orienteering)
Result most proud of: Beating Seamus at Shamrock
Result most ashamed of: Been beating by Colm at Shamrock
Orienteer they admire the most: My older brother (Cian)
Most annoying habit: Laughing about not showering

Leg 5: Niamh “the fat controller” O’Boyle
Favourite orienteering technique: Pretending I’m injured
Result most proud of: Still havn’t been beaten by Caoimhe
Result most ashamed of: Anytime Dad beats me
Orienteer they admire the most: My younger brother (Cian)
Most annoying habit: Running Jukola (they invented Venla for a reason)

Leg 6: Hugh, who? You? Me? No! Hugh Cashell
Favourite orienteering technique: Asking for directions
Result most proud of: Beating Seamus at Shamrock without actually being present
Result most ashamed of: See appendix B
Orienteer they admire the most: Roger Federer. He’s Swiss, so he’s probably good.
Most annoying habit: Overly competitive, a red head, plays cricket, from trinity, a posh Dubliner, continued overleaf (see appendix C)

Leg 7: Colm “the track fairy” Hill
Favourite orienteering technique: Pure blind random luck
Result most proud of: Beating Seamus at Shamrock
Result most ashamed of: Name a race. No seriously, any race.
Orienteer they admire the most: Not applicable.
Most annoying habit: His watch that beeps every hour during the night. Complaining. Complaining about people not training. Complaining about not complaining enough. See all appendices.

Disclaimer: Seamus does not endorse these comments

Crazy Golf

The Putt Master in action


Planning the line


Team spirit