By Club Coach Jason Falconer This half term I have planned, organised and delivered my first 5 day week of full programs of Orienteering coaching for 5 different schools. 3 of these Schools have hired me to make them a map for future use when I hand on the session plans to them, as Poolemouth […]

Final results are now uploaded following a little tweaking to ensure that the scoring complies with Night League rules. This has made a few alterations to the placings whereby lateness is more heavily penalised (10 points per minute or part minute) rather than 1 point per 6 seconds). This puts a marginally late finisher behind […]

Weekend events included a local at Avon Heath Country Park, an area the local clubs use regularly and venue of one of the Permanent Courses belonging to Wimborne. I wrote about sequencing a while ago, saturdays event give another twist to the way that my sport always keeps you interested in Navigation at Speed. Score events as you know […]

Warming up after a freezing and blustery run over Haytor. Haytor is one of the jewels of Dartmoor National Park. The airy tor is a precipitous climb and is extremely exposed to the wind and the changing weather, but an ascent is rewarded with distant views over the Devon coastline. Having left the sun drenched wind-less […]

Hampshire is a county of contrasts. In the space of a few miles one can be transported from the bustling container port of Southampton, where the horizon is dominated by massive cruise ships, interminable rows of cars and IKEA; to the peaceful, ancient and sylvan vistas of the New Forest, where extensive tracts of woodland […]