From Vice Chairman, Gavin: Joni Mitchell was singing Big Yellow Taxi on the radio the other day. Part of the lyrics are: “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” this certainly resonated about our Sport this year. Being the creative bunch we are, we have learnt […]

  One of the few benefits of an orienteering calendar with hardly any events in was that at very short notice we were able to postpone the Agglestone event as Storm Alex approached, and re-schedule it the following week. Thankfully we swapped rain and wind for beautiful Purbeck sunshine and were able to show off […]

Hope you have all been keeping well over the last three months. Since our efforts at the CompassSport cup we have experienced a (hopefully) once in a lifetime banishment from our chosen sport. Although if I recall, back in 2001, during the Foot and Mouth outbreak, when I was more into climbing mountains than orienteering, […]

  Compass Sport  Trophy. Our WSX members made the 122 mile journey to Gloucestershire on Sunday and I for one was glad to get the chance to race in a time when loads of things are being cancelled. Even up to a day before we had 20 entered but due to various reasons 17 people […]

Just a short report this week. Because of all the rainfall in the past few weeks the SARUM Event at Fonthill was cancelled, which was a shame because it was right on our door step. We couldn’t go through a weekend without not running so we decided to head over to the middle distance NGOC event on Minchinhampton […]