Write about your Summer!

Despite the weather, there is lots of orienteering going on this summer. First and foremost is the World Championships,now an annual event, in the Czech Republic. The event starts on 12th July and the Irish team is


Andrew Quin (3ROC)
Neil Dobbs (WATO)
Patrick Higgins (LVO)

Ailbhe Creedon (CorkO)
Niamh O'Boyle (CNOC)
Ciara Largey (QUBOC)

Trail-O: Alan Gartside (LVO) and Wilbert Hollinger (LVO).

You can follow their progress each day on line here.

The programme is

Date	Time	WOC 2008 Events
Sat 12 July 2008	afternoon	Model Sprint Model start procedure, punching system, time keeping, refreshments
Sun 13 July 2008	morning	Sprint distance qualification
	afternoon	Opening ceremony Sprint final
Mon 14 July 2008	all day	Model long distance qualification
Tue 15 July 2008	morning	Long distance qualification
Wed 16 July 2008	all day	Model middle distance
	afternoon	IOF/VIP/media race
Thu 17 July 2008	morning	Middle distance qualification
	afternoon	Middle distance final
Fri 18 July 2008	all day	IOF Congress Model long distance final and relay
Sat 19 July 2008	morning	Long distance final Model relay
Sun 20 July 2008	morning	Relay
	afternoon	Closing ceremony
	evening	Banquet

If you are going orienteering,why not write about is for us? There's a Junior Tour to the Swedish 5-Day, there's the World Masters in Portugal, Junior World Champs, the Setanta Rogaine, the Welsh 6-Day, the World University Champs ...

CorkO's Fiona Barrett 3rd in L'Etape du Tour
John Scannell, Chairman of CorkO, writes "On behalf of CorkO I would like to congratulate club member Fiona Barrett on her super performance in the L'Etape du Tour. This is an event with nearly 7,500 cyclists competing on one of the actual stage routes of the Tour De France. This year's stage was the 165km route from Pau to Hautacam with two infamous category one climbs the - the 23km with 7.5% gradient Col du Tourmalet and the 15km with 7.2% gradient Hautacam. With inclement weather conditions, Fiona finished in 3rd place in the ladies category which is indeed a superb performance.

Our congratulation go out to you Fiona!"

Fiona finished the 165 km course in poor weather conditions in a race time of 7 hours 8 minutes 44 seconds, less than 3 minutes off 2nd place. The 16th Mondovelo Etape du Tour was on Sunday 6th July. For details see here.