SONiC 3, near Hove, for more information about this event including location maps & aerial photographs, view event details.
Southdowners Kenny Leitch and Darrell High beat more than 200 teams in the OMM Long Score to finish first and second respectively in one of the most gruelling events on the orienteering calendar. Matt Franklin also secured a place on the podum finishing third on the B course. Hugely impressive results! This year’s OMM was staged on the Lowther Hills, Southern Scotland and several SO members made the long trip north. Congratulations to all. Full results are here.
27th Oct 07
One of the top sports stories in this week’s Mid Sussex Times features a number of SO Juniors who competed in the recent British Schools Score Championships in Petworth Park. Click here to read article. The story was also featured in the West Sussex Gazette.
26th Oct 07
Results for the Lancing Ring SOG are here. Click here for RouteGadget and Winsplits.
26th Oct 07
After a couple of days’ of deliberation, the junior team from SLOW has been announced as the winners of the YBT qualifying round at Britty Wood. SLOW beat SO by 2 points, and the full results can be found here. Every SO junior who took part helped the team by pushing down the scores of other runners. There were top 3 places for six of our juniors: Lucy Thraves (Light Green) and Nick Jarvis (Orange) won their races, Bryony Crickmore (Green) and Mark Lambert (Orange) were second, and Chris Lambert (Light Green) and Hayley Collins (Orange) achieved bronze medal positions.
23rd Oct 07
Ten Southdowners represented the club at the WSX regional ‘Dorset Delight’. It was a fine crisp morning and SO had five top 3 finishers on the steep beech covered slopes of Shillingstone Hill. Jane King won W50S, Alex and Edward Lines won JM4 and JM2, Clare Lines was second on W40S, and Carol House took 3rd on W50L.
21st Oct 07
The organizers of the Yvette Baker Trophy SE qualifying round have announced a delay to the results. The current status is that three teams are in with a shout of a place in the final. Initial calculations placed the junior teams from SO and SLOW tied in first place, with SN close behind.
21st Oct 07
To be held at Vince Joyce’s from 7pm onwards. The entrance fee is one firework. There will be a fantastic firework display and bonfire overseen by Vince with Chris Jepson in charge of the potatoes and pot of chilli - power cut permitting! Please bring your own plate, cutlery and drink.
20th Oct 07 
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Southdowns Orienteers is now officially the second largest orienteering club in the country, and the trend of increasing participation continued unabated at Rivers Wood. More than 150 orienteers enjoyed excellent courses planned by the Crickmore family which tested route choice decision-making at every turn.
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Club nights
Every Tuesday evening from 9 Sept. Coaching for fitness, running, and navigation etc.
Open to all, members and newcomers.
7.30pm – 8.45pm
Blatchington Mill School (Hove), details:
adventurerunning.org.uk.
AOL user?
AOL user info
There are a number of issues that affect AOL users. The following info may help you understand what the problems are.
The AOL service makes extensive use of web page “caching” whereby web pages are pre-stored on AOL servers in order to provide faster load times for dial-up customers. These web pages are not always up to date with the “live” web pages on the actual web site in question. The problem is that the Captcha images used to prevent spam are also being stored by the caching process. This means that by the time you type in your response to the image in the Registration process you are likely seeing an older, cached image and what you type will not match the newly generated captcha image from the website and the Registration fails.
One possible solution is to hold down the “Ctrl” or “CONTROL” key on the keyboard and mouse clicking on the AOL browser reload icon
There is also a problem with AOL changing the IP address (this is normally the address of your computer on the web) during a browsing session. So if you log into a members only section of a website it stores your IP address and checks it on every page load as a security check, if the IP address changes during the session the website will think there is a security breach and log you off. You may have had this on other websites and not known what the problem was. AOL often blocks emails from automated reply systems treating them as spam. A lot of sites where you can register as a member or to receive email newsletters send an authentication email that you must reply to to activate the request, these often get blocked.
The long and the short of it is that AOL is not liked or used by experienced computer users. I personally would use Internet Explorer (and upgrade to version 7 for free) or Firefox (free). You are more likely to see and be able to use websites as the designers intended rather than crippled by AOL.
Our Privacy Policy.
Data Privacy Policy
The Data Protection Act 1998 imposes rules and safeguards on those who hold and process personal data, i.e. data relating to living identifiable individuals. Details of usage must be notified to the UK Information Commissioner, with some exceptions which include not-for-profit organisations whose usage is restricted to specified purposes. Southdowns Orienteers are exempt from notification but the principles setting out rules and safeguards do apply. In the interests of being open and fair, the club wishes to inform members of the data held and how it is used.
Southdowns Orienteers and its officials may hold some or all of the following data about some or all members and others who compete in orienteering events: name, postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers, year of birth, competition age class, competition results, offices held, skills and qualifications, courses attended and details of officiating at competitions. Contact data is held for landowners and other organisations with whom we co-operate, their employees, agents and tenants. The data may be held in electronic or paper form.
The data may be obtained directly from an individual person or a family member or indirectly from the British Orienteering Federation, clubs or other organisations.
The data is used in organising the sport of orienteering and for social purposes, including, but not limited to, mailing of magazines and other literature, publication of competition entries and results, coaching, team selection, training and appointment of officials.
Data may be distributed in paper or electronic form between members, competitors, event officials and orienteering organisations.
Publication of personal data in paper form may occur in membership and contact lists, magazines, competition information and results and other literature. Publication on publicly accessible web sites may include name, age class and club in competition results; names with offices and photographs may be published, but addresses, contact numbers and personal background details will be published only with the explicit consent of the person.
The data will not be available for commercial purposes.
