Posts from October 2021

Juniors Return to Play

Sarum wins grant for coaching project Sarum Orienteers has been awarded a grant from Sport England under its Return to Play initiative. The aim of the scheme is to encourage people to return to sports that they may have lost contact with over the period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sarum’s project was built around encouraging…

Sarum Saturday

A brief spell of Indian summer contributed to making Sarum’s Saturday event at Islands Thorns in the New Forest a most enjoyable occasion. About 60 runners turned up to what was a fairly low key event but one that still needed the willing Sarum volunteer force to make it run smoothly. There were four courses…

British Championships

Blustery Weather makes it hard going at Braunton Burrows Despite concerns about having sufficient fuel to make it out and back, a small Sarum contingent travelled down to the North Devon dunes at Braunton to compete in this year’s British Long Distance Championships. and National Middle Distance events. Braunton is a complex area at the…