Orienteering timing training - O-Lynx for timing volunteers - tbc

During an orienteering event, the total time a participant takes to complete the course is recorded, and the fastest participant is declared the winner. Since the introduction of SportIdent (SI) cards, a small device worn on a participant’s finger, time recording has been increasingly automated, initially using European-based OE software.

NOC timing volunteers

Nelson Orienteering Club uses the user-friendly O-Lynx software for all its events, except the urban NOCturnals. Within the club, there is a limited number of volunteers trained to use the software, and 2026 is the year when we hope this volunteer bottleneck will be resolved.

O-Lynx training

To this end, NOC organises a 90-minute, hands-on O-Lynx training night at Waimea College, Wednesday 11 February (location and time to be confirmed, registration via NOC website). Jan and Annemarie have used O-Lynx since 2019 while volunteering at North West orienteering Club in Auckland, and have a wealth of knowledge using the programme, both for small events with just one computer as well as big (inter)national A-level orienteering events with a computer network and 6 television screens going simultaneously.

Knowing that ‘theory’ only is not an effective way of learning,  we’d like to encourage you after the course to put all this new knowledge into practice during the upcoming Summer Sprint Series on Wednesdays (and ‘Motueka Sunday’) – and there will always be somebody experienced at hand to help in the unlikely event you get stuck.

If you'd like to learn O-Lynx but are unable to make it on Wednesday, 11 February, please register as well, and we'll try to organise a second training session or teach potential timing volunteers individuall