Two perspectives on winning Gold medal at the British Sprint Champs from Gavin and Lyra From Gavin: Nothing philosophical this week just a personal retrospective of the British Sprint weekend: A weekend in Skelmesdale is possibly not many peoples idea of how to spend time over the summer holidays. However for the small Wessex contingent […]

Chairman’s report 25th August It has been a long time since my last missive, and that is largely because I have been away orienteering, so please forgive me. There are lots of items to report on. Upcoming local events/activities Firstly, you will have received several emails from Julie regarding help required at the Caddihoe Chase. […]

Ian shared this account of his recent Quantock Long-O challenge, with Chris Branford of WIM: For a number of years Quantock have organized a Long-O event on the Quantocks Last year – because of Covid – they changed the format from a one-day event and used MapRun so that the event could continue with the […]

I have been so busy orienteering that I haven’t posted a WSX chat for a few weeks. However, as the rain arrives and my village cricket game is cancelled, here is a short missive. The events are coming thick and fast. Since Rushmore, some of the WSX crew made it over to TVOC Bradenham Park […]

There was an overriding sense of euphoria on Sunday. Somewhere deep in the forest the sun was shining, the smell of wild garlic pervaded the air, the beeping sound of the start clock signalled the (re-)start of something exciting. It’s easy to get carried away, but it was wonderful to be able to see so […]