Posts from May 2016

Hoe, Hoe, Hoe.

Tamar Triple Success for Sarum Orienteers Seventeen Sarum Orienteers competed successfully in the three day Tamar Triple festival which involved running in three different types of race over the Bank Holiday weekend.  It was a weekend of good performances from Sarum with five club members coming away as SWOA middle distance Champions. Day 1 was…

PAM SWIENTON: INSPIRING SCHOOLS

With much sadness we report the death of Pam Swienton after a fight against cancer.  Pam may not be well known to everyone in the Club but for many years she has been an absolute mainstay of the work we have done promoting orienteering in schools in Salisbury and across S. Wiltshire and the Avon…

SARUM SUMMER SERIES #2: The Moot at Downton

The second event in the Sarum Summer Score Series took us over to Downton where Peter had planned a ‘linear score’ course in the Moot which is a great place for a small course as there are so many contour features in a small (250x200m) area.  It is very much orienteering in three dimensions. The…

Schools in Southleigh

Sarum takes Orienteering to Warminster Schools On a glorious sunny day in May over 140 children in years 5 and 6 from nine primary schools in Warminster, Westbury and Trowbridge and neighbouring villages took time out of normal lessons to take part in an orienteering competition held in Southleigh Wood, Warminster organised by Sarum Orienteering…