The familiar format of five, hour-limit courses will return. However, in keeping with the OACT Return to Play Plan, there will be some important changes from previous Street Series:

• There will be no mass start. Participants can start at any time between 5:40pm and 6:15pm, using a self-timing honesty system.
• A season pass is available, covering all four September events. $12 for adults, free for juniors.
• Pre-entry, either via the season pass or to individual events, is strongly encouraged. Entry fees are $5 for adults, free for juniors (but must still register). Entries close at 5pm on the Sunday before each event.
• There will be no punching at controls, instead participants mark their control card using their own pen.

A series of daylight street-O events will continue from October onward, with 12 events running from 5 October to 21 December.
A separate season pass is available for these events.

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• All Street-O, MTBO and Saturday Metro Series events up until 31 May 2020.
• All ACT Classic Series events up until 30 June 2020.

In early May 2020 the OACT Board will consider the program of events beyond the above cancellations.

At this stage the Council Meeting planned for Thursday 28th May is not cancelled. Further advice will be provided closer to the date.

The OACT office is now open by arrangement only, all enquiries should be directed to office@act.orienteering.asn.au.

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ACT Street Series, Watson, 1/07/19

ASSEMBLY AREA:
Western car park of the Canberra Technology Centre, Phillip Ave, Watson.

COURSES:
Course A: visit any 18 out of 20 controls. Course B: visit any 15 out of 20 controls. Course C: visit any 12 out of 20 controls. Couse D: visit any 8 out of 20 controls. Power walker: visit as many controls as possible in 60 minutes. Distance of courses ranges from about 3km up to 8km. 

There will be a lunchtime day event at 12.30 in addition to the usual 6.15pm night event:
Event 1: Lunchtime: Registration 12.15pm; mass start 12.30pm; finish by 1.30pm
Event 2: Night: Registration 5.45pm; mass start 6.15pm; finish by 7.15pm. 

Everyone is welcome. Just turn up – no need to book ahead or notify anyone beforehand.

COST:
$5 adult, $2 child, maximum $10 a family. Can participate individually or in small friendship or family groups (teams).

NOTE:
Head lamp or torch and watch required.

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Photos

Results

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With only one more daylight saving event in the 2017-18 street orienteering program, course setters Michael and Rebecca Tedeschi made the most of many interesting park control sites. In doing so they also set quite a few route choice planning challenges and working out which controls to drop and which to include. Geoff Stacey was the men’s winner of the A course with 7.3 km while Shannon Jones won Women’s A in 36.53 with a distance of 7.87 km. Bruce Barnett was outstanding in the walk, punching 17 controls. Next Monday Zac Zaharias has another outstanding event planned on the popular full colour Parkes map in the Parliamentary Triangle. It is a cross between street and sprint orienteering. The assembly area is lakeside at the National Sculpture Garden and Zac has many interesting controls to make this an exciting event for families to do a walk around as well as experienced orienteers looking for a great final hit out before Easter.

Results

Photos

John Harding

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The A course saw a miraculous result with a 35 min 40 sec tie between Matthew Purcell and Geoff Stacey, despite one running clockwise and the other anticlockwise around their 18 control routes. David Alder was 3^rd in 39.55. Florian Benz and Des Davis won the B course, Phil Walker and Tracey White the C, while Roger Edwards, Rebecca Tedeschi and the Gao family dominated the D course. Geoff Barker had a 7 minute win with 12 controls in the 1 hour walk. Rosemarie Edwards was the top female walker, also with 12 controls.

Monday 12 March Results
Maps and photos

Some tips from Melbourne street O

Keep an eye on the clock and your rate of travel as you move around the course. Don’t get back late – so plan to be within 1km of the finish as your time reduces to say 10-12 minutes to go. (I draw a mental circle, 1km in radius, on the map – and plan to be inside it with plenty of time to get to the finish. If I can’t get to the circle in time, I drop controls and head towards it – better to be 2-3 minutes early than 1 second late).

As you approach a control, read the control description so you know what you’re looking for, think about where you’re going to next, align the scorecard to the correct square……and as you reach the control, punch in the middle of the square (e.g. if you arrive at control 11, then you punch in square 11) and immediately head towards your next control. Standing around to think about where to go next will cost you 20-30 seconds per control … about 4 minutes on the course above. This is equivalent to about 400m of travel!

John Harding

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