Drenching Downpours Don’t Deter
Techniques for sprinting with a focus: map to ground navigation and learning/reaffirming the important elements of sprint orienteering – rules and out of bounds/route choice/map detail guided the first session…
Double Header This Weekend
Orienteering ACT welcomes Orienteers from near and far. Saturday offers a fun event on the banks of the Murrumbidgee. Parklands, rocky features and contour detail in a pleasant location beside…
World Orienteering Day Wed May 17th – Tues May 23 – Activities in Canberra
IOF’s World Maze Race first stated in 2021. This year OACT had a bit of fun with a free, fun, and fast (if you feel like it), come and try…
World Maze Race Is for Everyone
Introducing Kas Gregory - Winner of World Maze Race 2021 In 2021, Kas Gregory was a local Newcastle Summer Orienteering Series and Bold Horizons Champ as well as being crowned…
OACT active in IOF Development – World MAZE Race
On Wednesday May 11th 2016, the inaugural World Orienteering Day (WOD) was held which saw Orienteering ACT first out of the blocks with a midnight event on Mt Ainslie run…
Quality Training Delivers Results
As we head towards our major event Easter 2023, it’s great to see so many ACT orienteers take up the opportunity to enhance their orienteering skills. This year alone OACT…
LAST DAYS TO REGISTER for Term 1 Training
TRAKOTACKStarting THIS WEDNESDAY - 1 Feb. Be a confident navigator and learn the skills of the champions!!This series will grow our newer orienteers into confident navigators by teaching essential skills and…
Training, Training, and More Training
Orienteering ACT Welcomes All to 2023 For ACT orienteers keen to improve, we have an exciting series of training opportunities coming your way: TRAKOTACK runs for five weeks starting 1…
Jumping Juicy Apples – What a great training camp!!!
With just shy of three years since the last OACT training camp it meant that many new and developing orienteers were keen to learn.Three years is a long time! Based…
Tara Melhuish with Blue Lightning Squad members
ACTive Coaches Build Community
Coaching builds confidence. Coaching creates connections. Coaching builds community. ACT coaches contribute enormously to our orienteering community, whether delivering Sporting Schools Programs in Primary and High Schools, squad coaching with…
Spring Women’s and Girls’ Training Wraps Up
Around 25 keen wild runners got into Spring Women’s and Girls training this season – a great turnout. The program was a little different to usual beginner training – we…
Women’s and Girls Intensive – 3 Sessions Down, 3 to Go!
Since 2015, orienteering training with a focus on girls has helped to attract, support and grow women and girls in orienteering in ACT. With more than 20 women and girls…