Season 2023-24 Has Concluded
Our club's annual Summer Street Series for Season 2023-24 (i.e. the 34th edition of Street-O) has been "run and won". Thanks to everyone who came along and participated. Congratulations to the winners for this season:
| Award | Men | Women | Walk | Team | Pram |
| Overall (i.e. General Classification) |
1st - Alex Massey 2nd - Justin Stafford 3rd - Steven Roberts |
1st - Jenny Enderby 2nd - Nicole Haigh 3rd - Carolyn Matthews |
1st - Arthur Kingsland 2nd - Glenn Burgess 3rd - Ingrid Oblasser |
1st - Greg Newton, |
1st - Ben Watts, Nicholas Watts |
| In Zone |
Andrew Free | Bronwyn Stafford | Ingrid Oblasser | ||
| Alternating Controls |
Graeme Taplin | Nicole Haigh | |||
| Consistently Average |
Geoff Todkill | Gayle Quantock | |||
| Efficiency Index |
1st- Nicole Haigh, 2nd - Jim Lee, 3rd - Samantha Howe | ||||
| Totally Committed (i.e. full attendance) |
Matt Brown, Andrew Free, Samantha Howe, Arthur Kingsland, Carolyn Rigby, Felicity Whitehead | ||||
To review the 2023-24 season, click here.
Season 2024-25 Begins October 2024
Street-O will resume in October 2024, with the 35th edition of the series. We expect that the calendar for this series to be finalised sometime in mid September 2024. If you feel that you could help out in the upcoming season (for example by setting an event) please send an email to:
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Map Updates
Do you live on (or visit regularly) an area that is on one of our Street-O maps? If so, would you be interested in helping us keep that map up to date? Your involvement could be from just letting us know about updates that need to be made through to helping us actually updating the map itself or even mapping new areas for Street-O. If you are interested please send an email to:
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Note: If you are interested in the mapping side of things we would be willing to help you learn the associated skills if necessary.
Summer Street Series Event 17 - Mayfield
Wednesday 14th February 2024
GC Series / EI Series / IZ Series / CA Series / AC Series
Remember:
a. Bring your charged up phone with MapRun (version 7) installed and ready to go. (Things will still work with the older MapRun6 app.)
b. If, while you are out on course, you are sure you have visited a control site and can’t get MapRun to beep in acknowledgement then continue on your course and after you’ve finished submit a “Review Result (HITMO)” request using the
c. If, while you are out on course, your GPS sensor goes to sleep and misses sections of your course then let the officials at the finish know (including any additional controls visited) and the results processors can consider making adjustments to the official results.
A Note About Safety: Newcastle Orienteering recommends that all competitors wear bright clothing or reflective gear throughout the season to enable drivers to see you especially if you are running near dusk. Please also take care when crossing roads and use recommended crossing points on busy roads. We also wish to remind competitors that listening to an ipod (or similar) while on course can be a distraction that may cause you to not hear an emergency warning or similar and as such are not allowed during these events for your safety.
Summer Street Series Event 16 - Islington
Wednesday 7th February 2024
Remember:
a. Bring your charged up phone with MapRun (version 7) installed and ready to go. (Things will still work with the older MapRun6 app.)
b. If, while you are out on course, you are sure you have visited a control site and can’t get MapRun to beep in acknowledgement then continue on your course and after you’ve finished submit a “Review Result (HITMO)” request using the
c. If, while you are out on course, your GPS sensor goes to sleep and misses sections of your course then let the officials at the finish know (including any additional controls visited) and the results processors can consider making adjustments to the official results.
A Note About Safety: Newcastle Orienteering recommends that all competitors wear bright clothing or reflective gear throughout the season to enable drivers to see you especially if you are running near dusk. Please also take care when crossing roads and use recommended crossing points on busy roads. We also wish to remind competitors that listening to an ipod (or similar) while on course can be a distraction that may cause you to not hear an emergency warning or similar and as such are not allowed during these events for your safety.
Summer Street Series Event 15 - East Maitland
Wednesday 31st January 2024
Remember:
a. Bring your charged up phone with MapRun (version 7) installed and ready to go. (Things will still work with the older MapRun6 app.)
b. If, while you are out on course, you are sure you have visited a control site and can’t get MapRun to beep in acknowledgement then continue on your course and after you’ve finished submit a “Review Result (HITMO)” request using the
c. If, while you are out on course, your GPS sensor goes to sleep and misses sections of your course then let the officials at the finish know (including any additional controls visited) and the results processors can consider making adjustments to the official results.
A Note About Safety: Newcastle Orienteering recommends that all competitors wear bright clothing or reflective gear throughout the season to enable drivers to see you especially if you are running near dusk. Please also take care when crossing roads and use recommended crossing points on busy roads. We also wish to remind competitors that listening to an ipod (or similar) while on course can be a distraction that may cause you to not hear an emergency warning or similar and as such are not allowed during these events for your safety.
Summer Street Series Event 14 - Kahibah
Wednesday 24th January 2024
Remember:
a. Bring your charged up phone with MapRun (version 7) installed and ready to go. (Things will still work with the older MapRun6 app.)
b. If, while you are out on course, you are sure you have visited a control site and can’t get MapRun to beep in acknowledgement then continue on your course and after you’ve finished submit a “Review Result (HITMO)” request using the
c. If, while you are out on course, your GPS sensor goes to sleep and misses sections of your course then let the officials at the finish know (including any additional controls visited) and the results processors can consider making adjustments to the official results.
A Note About Safety: Newcastle Orienteering recommends that all competitors wear bright clothing or reflective gear throughout the season to enable drivers to see you especially if you are running near dusk. Please also take care when crossing roads and use recommended crossing points on busy roads. We also wish to remind competitors that listening to an ipod (or similar) while on course can be a distraction that may cause you to not hear an emergency warning or similar and as such are not allowed during these events for your safety.