Quiz for the day

How many pieces of fruit are in the bowl?

Bonus question. Where is the team sitting?

Athelete profile: Krystal Neumann

Name: Krystal Neumann 

Nick name: Meth

Age: 26

Number of wocs: 3

Disciplines: sprint, sprint relay and long

State of origin: Queensland 

Coffee or tea?: tea

Favourite orienteering map: do not have one

What do you do in your non-orienteering life?: Travel, study, teach. 

Favourite quote: there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes

Why do you like orienteering?: it's fun to run in the forest and I go to cool places.

Training update:

Today we went out to a map near the town of Otepaa. Yesterday we went through this town and it hailed. It hailed a lot. The forest was quite nice today and runnable but there were places where low visibility made navigation challenging.

Training Camp - Sprint Training

Storks nest - no room for shoe rack

Sprint Training near the Border

Training camp digs

Forgot to include the photo of the team house - from the outside. Very nice and much more spacious than the special poles set up for storks to make their nests. These are everywhere. Not sure if there's a map symbol for stork nest??

 

 

Sprint training was on a neat map near the border with Latvia, Valga-Valka.
Nice and technical.

Sprint Training in Valga-Valka

Almost as technical as the 'down time' activities of solving the 3 Aliens Maths Problem,
and playing Bananagrams.

Simon & Henry figuring out maths problems - how relaxing!

Henry and o bags?

Hello again!
Today we have a quiz for you. Can you correctly name the o-bag to the person in the house.
Your options are Simon, Bridget, Henry, Belinda, Krystal and Jim.
Write your answer in the comments.

Athlete profile: Henry!

Name: Henry McNulty

Nick name: Fenry

Age: 20

Number of wocs: 2

Disciplines: sprint, sprint relay

State of origin: Western Australia 

Coffee or tea: Coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon

Favourite orienteering map: Hill Park Dale

What do you do in your non-orienteering life?: I think about numbers

Favourite quote: you'll have to speak up I'm wearing a towel

Why do you like orienteering?: I was forced into it and now it's too late to get out

Training Camp - Day 1

Into the forest

So we've been checking out what low visibility means by Estonian standards... it looks a bit like this...


Estonian forest

The area was on a map called Paidapalun, south of where the Middle Distance competition will be held. The forest was really nice underfoot - but really low visibility!!    Fun running.

Paidapalun

 

Introducing  Belinda, one of our two Boomerangs debutants ...



Belinda Lawford

Name: Belinda Lawford
Nick name: Bun
Age: 26
Number of WOCs?: 1
Disciplines in 2017: sprint and middle
State of origin: ACT
Coffee or tea?: tea
Favourite orienteering map: Cascades and Pittwater
What do you do in your non-orienteering life?: PhD, that's pretty much all I do.
Favourite quote: It's a moo point, it's like a cows opinion, it's moo.
Why do you like orienteering?: cause it's different every time.


We are in Estonia!

Hello everyone! The Aussies have arrived in Estonia. We are currently on our training camp in a small BnB farm called Hallivarku which we just learnt means Grey Hill. We have seen no grey or hills yet.

Cosy Training Camp Accommodation



The impressive shoe rack!

Here are some photos of our accommodation and our wonderful shoe rack which will ever increase once Brodie arrives.

 

All is well here and we will try to keep you updated on our training. We are heading out to a map near the middle this afternoon. 

We hope you enjoy following us on the team blog..sorry the full blog site is not up to date, but we'll  work on that when we are not out training, or eating or tidying the shoe rack!


Each day we'll introduce one or two of our Aussie WOC Team members to you, as they answer a few quirky questions.
Firstly, Boomerangs regular...Simon Uppill.

Simon Uppill

Name: Simon Uppill

Nick name: Bun

Age: 29

Number of WOCs?: 9

Disciplines in 2017: sprint, sprint relay, middle

State of origin: Queensland

Coffee or tea?: neither

Favourite orienteering map: I don't know, lots of maps?

What do you do in your non-orienteering life?: works, cats and games.

Favourite quote: Rachel’s not here, so I'm right.

Why do you like orienteering?: I go places.

WOC 2017 Estonia

The countdown to WOC has started...

Boomerangs team members have started to arrive at the team training camp near Tartu, to commence final preparations for the World Orienteering Championships. All the action begins on Friday 30 June. Keep up with the inside team information here on the Boomerang's blog, as well as the OA Facebook page.