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WSX Chat Jan 1st
A New Year Message from Gavin: This isn’t just a post about Orienteering. I do want to say Happy New Year and here’s to a much, much better 2021. This has been far too strange a year to end it with a trite, generic blog post. I want to invite you all back to mine and […]
Posted on Fri, 1st January 2021 by Jolyon MedlockWSX Chat 15th December
A few thoughts from our Vice Chair, Gavin: I do hope you managed to get to Inside Park on Sunday. Wasn’t it just brilliant to be back in the forest? Ok it’s a bit scrubby in parts but I thought the runnability was better than I remember, perhaps I just steered clear of it this […]
Posted on Tue, 15th December 2020 by Jolyon MedlockWSX chat 8th December
Finally, we have some orienteering to report on. I remarked to Julie that our WSX events seem to be timed either just before or just after national lockdowns. One can only assume the PM checked the WSX fixture list. Hopefully we will not go into another one before (or after, or during) our next event […]
Posted on Tue, 8th December 2020 by Jolyon MedlockWSX chat 30th November
As we come to the end of Lockdown 2, some words of wisdom from Gavin: Last Friday evening I was getting a bit bored with lockdown so thought I would treat myself with some traditional Friday food. I’m fortunate that my local chippy is only three minutes walk 😊. Togged up and mask in hand I […]
Posted on Mon, 30th November 2020 by Jolyon MedlockWSX Chat 17th November
A message from Gavin: Stan Smith the American tennis player of the 70s and 80s used to say: “Experience tells you what to do, confidence allows you to do it”. This definitely applies to my orienteering. I enjoyed my night league run at Upton back on 19th October, made a few mistakes and as I had […]
Posted on Tue, 17th November 2020 by Jolyon Medlock