Success at JK International Festival of Orienteering

Congratulations to all those who took part in JK over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Our very own Roger won all his races and got the JK Performance Shield as well as gold medals for the sprint and the two day event in M85L. Darrell High achieved a silver medal in M55L, Heather High a bronze medal in W18E and Ruth Rhodes a bronze medal in W80L over the two-day event.

Summer Trail Runs 2024

Spring club nights returned on Thursday April 11th. Courses have been risk assessed according to this document.

We will meet as a group at 6:30pm each Thursday although we hope to make the activities available online to attempt at your leisure. Courses will be saved in the Trail Runs folder on MapRun (UK/Sussex/Trail Runs).

Please sign up using the Strawpoll and indicate (when appropriate) whether you would like a map provided (cost £1) or are happy to print off your own.

Summer SOG Planners Required

Planners are required for the Summer SOG series events at Worth School, Lancing Manor, Hampden Park and Brooklands Park.

If you have planned before or would like to have a go for the first time, please speak to/email any of the club committee members listed on the contacts page. An event advisor will be available to support you throughout the planning process and on the day of the event.

Entries now open for Sunny Sussex weekend in May

Get your entries in now for a whole weekend of Orienteering between Arundel and Chichester. There’s a Middle Distance race on Saturday, followed by a Sprint race at Oaklands Park and Chichester University. Take advantage of the campsite at Eartham and then it’s a short drive to the Long Distance race at Houghton. Prizes on offer and children’s activities available with lots of opportunity for socialising and catching up with fellow Orienteers. Enter here.

Virtual Orienteering

During Covid times many clubs, including SO, set up a number of so-called virtual courses which club members could do on their own using the MapRun app. Instead of finding control flags participants used the GPS facilites of a smartphone or smartwatch to confirm that they had reached the desired locations. The courses that we set up are still available to use and links to them are listed below. In some cases the course may have expired - if you come across any of these please contact the club captain who can reset them.

SO Juniors win YBT Heat at Gravetye

Congratulations to our junior team who won today's Yvette Baker Trophy (YBT) heat at Gravetye Manor. Despite the rain and mud there was great team spirit, lots of fun and amazing map reading and running!

We had strong competition from the TVOC team, the final results were: SO 895 points, TVOC 893 points. We had five people score maximum points and lots of excellent runs from our whole squad.

JK and British relay entries

I am now taking expressions of interest for the two big relay championships taking place this Spring. The JK Relay on Stanton Moor, near Matlock, on April 1st and British Relay Championships on April 14th near Whitby.

To express an interest in running in one or both of these please complete this StrawPoll or e-mail the club captain. Since the entry fees for these events are quite steep the club has agreed to subsidise 50% of the cost of each relay.