SO has 10 new South East Long Champions

Congratulations to all SO members who took part at the Black and White Hills National event, near Bagshot on 1st December.

Ten of our club members became South East Long Distance Champions in their age categories, three won silver medals and 3 won bronze medals. Read on for more info about the courses and the medalists.

Autumn Club Nights 2024

Autumn club nights return on Tuesday September 24th.

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

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.

Juniors compete in epic Peter Palmer Relay 2024

At the beginning of September eight of our juniors headed up to the Lake District to take part in the prestigious six leg Peter Palmer Relay.

They were treated to a beautiful sunset in a mountainous location, fish and chips, fast paced competition, atmospheric sunrise and early morning bacon buttys. Read on to find out how they got on.

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.

Knock-out Sprint fun eventLane End Common, Chailey

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The Knock-out Sprint is an exciting orienteering format originally designed for TV. It’s popular at international level and is included in World Championship and World Cup events. This summer, the format comes to Sussex.

It will be a fun evening event where everyone runs 4 short 1km races in the style of a knock-out sprint competition. Athletes run in groups of 4 or 6 to see if they can return first and get promoted to the group above. In each round, one athlete will be promoted from the group and one will be relegated.

SO Junior Squad Compete at YBT Final 2024

On 7th July our junior squad travelled to Northaw Great Wood in Hertfordshire to compete in the final of the Yvette Baker Trophy. This is the premier Junior Inter-Club competition for English and Welsh orienteering clubs. We had a team of fourteen juniors ranging from age 9 to 18.

The team braved torrential rain to get around their courses. The team did really well with some knockout performances. Full results here and courses here. After the event everyone got the now customary ice cream.

Next year's event is on 6th July and is being organised by SO at Capite Wood, so save the date now.

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.