MIDDLE FUN!...

hey guys,
so we had the middle qual yesterday and the middle final today. Soooo we aussies didn't do so well in the quals as we hoped but things turned around today with better results in the B and C finals. The weather was extremely hot (even for aussie standards) so i think that could have also affected the results. But nonetheless we all ran alot better today and we have all raised our esteem for the long on saturday. I was super happy with my runs yesterday and today and was really excited that i came 28th today in the A final. Thanks to everyone that has sent me messages today, i really appreciate it.

cya
Bridget.... Now a word for Krystal

hi guys :)
as it turns out today.... the map was of a similar standard of bare rock features as cascades. it had alot of bare rock however most was mapped as yellow and very little was actually identified as bare rock\grey on the map.... because it had so much bare rock i decided to try the mentality that i was running on cascades. :) yup thats my little bit. bye everyone. love krystal

Jwoc Sprint

Yesterday was the JWOC sprint race at rudallen/pavelund just south west of Göteborg. The terrain while mostly being urban areas, there were a few controls that were in the bush which caused alot of confusion among runners. Many of the legs contained route-choice challenges where the fastest times were determined by either avoiding bush legs or taking them.
results are as follows.

For the women the winning time was 13:40:01 by Denmark's Emma Klingenberg.
In 49th place: Bridget Anderson 15:24:02
In 57th place: Belinda Lawford 15:37:03
In 71st place: Rachel Effeney 16:03:08
In 88th place: Krystal Neumann 16:59:09
In 96th place: Aislinn Prendergast 17:21:08
And Laurina Neumann had an 'Ej start'

For the men, the winning time was 13:21:01 by Czech Republic's Stepan Kodeda
In 84th place: Lachlan Dow 15:41:07
In 109th place: Nick Andrewartha 16:19:04
In 110th place: Oscar Philips 16:20:02
In 125th place: Geoff Stacey 16:52:06
In 132nd place: Oliver Mitchell 17:16:07
In 151st place: Leon Keely 19:05:07

Our next race is on Wednesday with the Middle qual.

The australian team has arrived at JWOC!

Hey all!

We have all arrived at our JWOC accomodation today. We are staying at the Göteborg military base and so far today we have just settled in, eaten some strange sausage lasagne thingy and gone for a little run around the complex. Our accomodation is very nice and comfortable with two people to a room each. Roomies are "the Shady characters" Nick and Leon, "two O's "Oscar and Olly, "the ACT buddies" Lachy and Geoff, "the Gap trash duo" Rach and Bridge, "the sorta victorian pair" Aislinn and Belinda and "the Sister's" Laurina and Krystal.

We are very excited about the sprint tomorrow and we have high hopes for the team to do well. 

CYA!

Australian Team Training Camp report

The Australian Team has settled in to the IK Uven clubhouse south of Goteborg and enjoying the Swedish forest. We have raised the Australian flag at the clubhouse with great pride. The weather has been changeable and we need to take a range of clothing to cover all possibilities! The weather is gradually getting warmer as the week progresses.

Some of the team have been in Sweden for over 2 weeks and trained last week under the tutelage of David Shepherd and Jo Allison. A few are battling the affects of competing in Jukola having coming down with colds. Simon Uppill is with us and giving the team some valuable training advice and Julian Dent is joining the camp on Wednesday evening to give some last minute tips for orienteering in Swedish terrain. The locals are a little perplexed about our use of their clubhouse and use the facilities without a worry.

The clubhouse is comfortable and well equipped for cooking our own meals and the cooking groups are doing some great dishes which are consumed readily and with enthusiasm.

We are gradually relaxing into the Swedish way of life and relaxing with some light technical training in between. The team has done some long training on Partille-Gunnilise and met up with the New Zealand team today for some short relay legs and practice in mass starts on Oserjo.

Tomorrow the team plans to do some middle distance training on Jonsered Norr.

Training Camp in Goteborg

The entire Australian team is now in Goteborg, for the training camp prior to JWOC. We are having a lot of fun and getting used to the Swedish terrain.

Training so far

So most of the team has been training in Skatås for the past week with the help from Jo, Shep, SImon and JIm. we have been going out to heaps of maps and most of us are becomming very familiar with this new type of terrain. Most of the team has headed to Norway for the weekend for the World cup races but we will all meet up again on monday for the JWOC camp with the rest of the team.
That's all that has been happening so far. more will be posted soon.

Jwoc is almost here!!

Well guys, JWOC is just around the corner and the team has been super busy getting prepared for the event. Unfortunatly there have been some changes to the team as Bryan has had to pull out due to a stress fracture in his foot. Our first reserve, Geoff Stacy has agreed to take Bryan's place in the team and is quickly booking flights to JWOC on such short notice. We wish Bryan a speedy recovery and we welcome Geoff into the team.
In other news, Olly has made a speedy reocery from his operation a few weeks back on his knee. He is now up and back into running training and quotes " It should be all sweet for JWOC!".

The rest of the team have just been training hard and trying to finish uni (and school) before they head overseas. Many of them will be leaving within the next week as they are running in an Aussie Jukola team next weekend and then heading to Gothenburg for a training week with Shep before the acutal JWOC camp begins.
Keep an eye on this blog as it's going to get very busy withing the next month.

Team T-shirts

Check out our team t-shirts! We think they're super cool! :D

Publicity for Aus Team

Check out the Australian Team in the news:
Bryan and Leon: http://bendigo.yourguide.com.au/news/sport/general/keely-siblings-to-represent-australia-at-orienteering-titles/1214188.html
Queenslanders: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23483781-5014143,00.html

Post Easter Jwoc Training Camp

Hello Everyone!
On Monday of last week the recently selected Jwoc team headed off to Canberra for the Post-Easter Jwoc training camp.On the first day we were all pretty excited about what we were going to do and learn at the camp until we heard we had to do another 3km time trial…But we got over that when we learned that we were going to be running on the AIS track. We also had the opportunity that day to use the AIS Spa and Plunge pool (which was freezing). Later that evening we headed off to Dave Shepherd’s house to do some night orienteering. The night orienteering was very tricky but was heaps of fun. It also taught us about how to train for the low visibility maps in Sweden. The rest of that week including training in felled areas to get use to the tough thick terrain in Sweden and running coaching by the Lex Anderson from ACTAS. We also had time to discuss team uniforms, flights and training.

Boys running the 3km time trial and The Australian team posing for a photo