Ajax Orienteering & Hill Running Club

Mike Long (photo) did well to field two Ajax teams, ran the first leg for Ajax Telamonian in a creditable 70 mins with Brid Casey on the last leg, holding off Hazel Thompson, to beat Setanta's SET_UP by 40 secs.  Thanks for pushing this Mike, it turned out well.

Any orienteer who was at the Inishbofin 3 Day, June 2006 will enthuse about great orienteering, the island, brilliant sunshine.   Sonja Ewen went one better combining her favourite sport with her most frustrating.  She kayaked out to the island, ran in the competitions and on the way back managed to take in High Island with a couple of friends before getting back to Cleggan.

Here's Ed Niland in the new O-Top at the Curragh on Tue 30th May.This is the Xtreme top and no doubt this will be reflected in Ed's time when the results get posted. Thanks for organising the gear Ed.

Photo taken by Martin Flynn. (Click on the image for a larger size)

Here is another of Martin Flynn's photos of the new gear - Brid Casey and Tony Joyce at the chasing start on Inishbofin Day 3.
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Results in winsplits and splitsbrowser

Ajax would like to thank you for competing and we hope you had an enjoyable day. If you did not collect your 2nd map from courses 1,2,3, & 4, they will be available for collection at the Irish Championships prizegiving in Carlingford next weekend.

Congratulations to the 2006 Leinster Orienteering Champions:

W10, Ciana Jones,  Fingal
W12, Cliona McCullough, 3ROC
W14, Clara Jones, Fingal
W16, Erika Jones, Fingal
W18, no champion
W20, no champion
W21E, Una May, 3ROC
W21L, Sara Hendrickx, UCDO
W21S, Roisin O'Connor, DUO
W35, Eileen Young, Fingal
W40, Mary O'Connell, 3ROC
W45, Kathryn Walley, Fingal
W50, Mary Healy, GEN
W55, Monica Nowlan, 3ROC
W60, Trina Cleary, 3ROC
W65,  Vera Murtagh, 3ROC

M10, Donal Kearns, Fingal    
M12, Daniel Kernan, Ajax   
M14, Conor Short, CNOC    
M16, Cian O'Boyle, CNOC
M18, Ruairi Short, CNOC
M20, Seamus O'Boyle, CNOC
M21E, Niall McAlinden, DUO
M21L, Avelino Pinto, 3ROC
M21S, Paul Nolan,  GEN
M35, Angus Tyner, Setanta
M40, Dave Weston, Setanta
M45, Mick Mangan, Setanta 
M50, Gerry Brady, Setanta 
M55, Paddy O'Brien,  Ajax
M60, Nigel Campbell-Crawford, 3ROC
M65, Paget McCormack, GEN

Final Information Sheet

Entry List by Class

Entry List by Club

Control Descriptions for courses 1..6

Control Descriptions for courses 7..13

Courses & Classes

Total entries by 16/04/06 = 252

Information & query email: loc2006 at orienteering.ie

Ajax are hosting the 2006 Leinster Orienteering Championships on Bull Island South, Clontarf, Dublin City, on Sunday April 23rd, 2006 (location map & satellite view).

The competition area is an intricate sand dune system surveyed and mapped by Aonghus O'Cleirigh in 2005/2006. Aonghus is also planning the courses. This event promises to be exciting, fast, complex and spectator friendly - don't miss it. The map scale will be 1:5,000 with a 2.5m contour interval for all competitors. Longer courses will have a map exchange. SportIdent timing will be used.

Planner: Aonghus O'Cleirigh (Ajax)
Controller: Brendan O'Brien (Ajax)
Organiser: Marcus Geoghegan (Ajax)

The closing date has passed and the online online entry system is now closed. There is a slim possibility that we can accept your entry by email to loc2006 at orienteering.ie, but we will only accept your entry if we have enough pre-marked maps available. Remember to include your name, class, club & SportIdent number (if you have one).

Entry fees: Adults €16.00, families €40, juniors (18-) and unwaged €9.00.

The closing date for entries was March 31st, 2006. Anyone who had entered by Saint Patrick’s Day (March 17th) was placed in a free draw for an Electronic Map Measurer. The result will be announced at the event.

Event information, course details, start lists and results will be published via the Irish and Northern Irish Orienteering YahooGroups, ajax.orienteering.ie and email. No information will be sent by post.

There is ample parking for cars on the beach. A special condition of our permission to use Bull Island is that all cars must park on the beach and not on the access road. Please respect this and do not put our chances of using Bull Island again in jeopardy.  Anyone bringing a bus should contact loc2006 at orienteering.ie to make special arrangements. The car parking, assembly, start and finish are all adjacent to each other. Entry to the event is from the coast road (Clontarf road) via the wooden bridge at the south end of the island opposite Seafield Road East, and not from Causeway road. High tide on April 23rd is at 08:30.

Special permission has been granted by Dublin City Council's Parks Department for Orienteers to use Bull Island and they will be monitoring the event. Please do your best to showcase Orienteering as an environment and family friendly sport.

Orienteering is an adventure sport. Competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety.

Information & query email: loc2006 at orienteering.ie

Event Safety Statement

Full results and splits for Dublin-by-Night #6, Bushy Park, Tuesday February 21st 2006 are now available online on splitsbrowser  and winsplits.

Planner/Organiser/Controller/Mapper: Marcus Geoghegan, with thanks to Mike Long and Martin Flynn for the help.

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Ed. Niland has taken over sorting out the Club's new O-suits. He needs to know what people want to order as soon as possible as it will take about eight weeks from ordering, to get them. The image at the left shows the proposed design for the extreme O-suit (click on it for a larger version) while the previous design will be used for the ordinary suits. You can contact Ed. via the club's Yahoo Forum.

Peter Kernan has been in discussion with O-suit manufacturer Trimtex regarding new O-suits for the club. The proposed design is adjacent (click on it for a larger view). Contact Peter if you have any comments or feedback (or to place an order!).