A hot day in Gillingham saw our Wessex Raiders relay team put  in a fine effort at WIM’s Furrow Hoppers Relay event, but sadly came 2nd (by 21 seconds!) to BOK Raiders (Gavin Clegg cheekily stole our name!) The team was Ian Sayer, Rob Hick, Jason Falconer, John Cook and Jolyon Medlock. Well done. But […]

Apologies for lateness of this ‘chat’ – the Lake District and Wimbledon have got in the way a bit! The South West Summer Relay Series is well under way now, and our teams did us proud on Sunday at Sarum’s Moonraker event. Jolyon has reported on this already in a post, but it’s worth repeating that our […]

What a ‘scorchio’ day Sunday was in Poole Park and Town! Fortunately, we managed to find a nice shady spot for both the Registration and Start for our Poole Town Race. There was a lot going on in the park, in addition to our event: the Junior Park Run and, later, the Run for Life. We […]

A fine weekend in Bristol last weekend saw a few WSX members competing in two urban events – the BOK Blast. On the first day, there was a dastardly complex area with flyovers, underpasses, spiral staircases and other features leading to mass confusion among most competitors (including myself, of course!) Some managed to get it […]

Three events happened over the previous weekend involving WSX club members. Firstly, on Saturday at Godshill a few of us took part in a Surveying session led by John Warren from WIM. This was an incredibly enjoyable day, learning the basic techniques of surveying in order to produce an orienteering map. We tend to take […]