Nationals 2010

The 2010 New Zealand National Orienteering Championships were held last weekend in Central Otago.

The entire JWOC team competed fiercely in order to prepare themselves for the overseas races in just under 3 months!

Results from the JWOC team were of course dominating in the W20 and M20 grades. We saw 2 wins from both Scott McDonald, and Laura Robertson in the 20s grades.

The terrain at this competition was certainly different to what we are expecting to be running on in Denmark at JWOC, so the JWOC members had to focus and let their nerves settle down in order to produce a 'clean' run.

Many of the team members had magnificent runs, whilst some were not so happy with 1 or 2 of their races. The team sure showed the rest of the grades that they deserve to be competing against the world come July.

Team members are going to post their own thoughts and stories from the National Championships. There will be one from each race, Sprint, Middle, Long and Relay.

All up it was a very successful weekend, and it was really awesome to finally get the whole team together after being selected, and discuss our plans for June/July.

The team managed to do an outstanding effort of selling the famous 'JWOC calendars', although we still have another 100 or so to sell! So if anyone is keen to purchase one, then just leave a post and we can definitely sort something out :)

After the weekend, we had a change to the team. Sadly we are losing Rachel due to the requirements requested from the selectors regarding her injury. We wish her all the best with recovering fully and getting back to training ASAP so she can kick our butts at the next nationals! It was really close, but we have a new member to the 'wolf pack', Jula McMillian. Congratulations to Jula, and welcome to the team.

Well thats all from me now, keep watching this space, as this is just the start of many more posts to come!

Cheers,

Kate