Metro Final has Roos Running!

published by Darren Slattery on Sun 7 Aug 2011, 5:01pm

For the second Metro in a row, rain threatened to dampen our mood, but with the collective will of over 120 runners, again the skies cleared for a great sunny 6th and final MetrO League event for the season. Western and Hills Orienteers hosted the event at Cattai National Park by the Hawkesbury River. With a quick squirt of methylated spirits on our shoes we all set off to blaze some trails. (The metho was actual to kill off any myrtle rust that we may have inadvertently brought in to the national park, rather than for the purpose of literally blazing the trails!) The national park provided a great area for the event with some great courses. The grass in the fields was long, requiring some high-knee'ed romping and the bush was thick enough to get in the way, but not too thick to prevent a cross-country short cut. With limited roads and tracks there was a need for a bit of a bush bash but the navigation wasn't too tricky with some distinct trees and rock features to guide the way. Congratulations to Division D who won their round! Read on for course info and some results...

Division A Course

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This was my course, with a total length of 7.2km. I was pretty free from error, except for that detour up at control 3. I put that down to a badly read south bearing! Some opportunities were there for shortening the course but with the thickness of bush, and me not wearing a long-sleve shirt I picked the middle ground.

Club Results

Division A

Big Foot are a formidable adversary. They may have taken the round in Division A, but amicable results from BNO with quite respectable times compared to all Division A runners!

Points	Name	Time
5	Fedor Iskhakov	47:01
4	Michael Halmy	54:51
3	Darren Slattery	56:09
2	Marina Iskhakova	58:09
1	Joel Putnam	79:10

Division C

We were down two, leaving only three runners for this division. We had the odds stacked against us and SHOO took the round. The runners we did have all had good times though! Well done to Wayne for placing first and taking ten points!