Announcements
A dark, chilly November night was brightened by the headlights of Orienteers who took to the streets of Salisbury to compete in a Wessex Night Orienteering League event organised by Sarum Orienteers. Sarum’s Ricky Thornton planned the challenging courses which required runners to visit control sites scattered throughout Salisbury’s Medieval street network and beyond. Runners…
Many congratulations to Charles who has been selected as the British Army Sports Man of the Year for 2019. Charles has made major contributions to our sport over many years and his work on behalf of Army sports is truly inspiring, if not exhausting. Charles (CBG to many of us) has been a great supporter…
GO FOURTH Sarum has developed a bit of a habit of taking 4th place in Orienteering competitions of all sorts and so it was again at the Compass Sport Cup and Trophy Finals held this year at Pippingford Park in E. Sussex. After all the heavy rain of the previous week it was nice to…
Images from the Compass Sport Trophy at Pippingford
Click here for some very good information about the Wessex Night.
SARUM are pleased to announce that over the coming months we will be working with British Orienteering on an event participant satisfaction initiative to develop our understanding of the participant experience at club events. Between October and December participants at events will be invited to share their views and comments via a short survey. The…
A beautiful September afternoon saw Sarum Orienteers gather in the lovely grounds of Farleigh School for the 2019 Club Championships. Last year’s Senior Men’s Champion, Paul Lane, is Bursar at Farleigh School and gained permission for our annual event to be held in the grounds. There was a great turnout not just in numbers but…
For quite a few years now Sarum has been bringing the experience of orienteering to primary schools in the S. Wiltshire area. From this has developed the Forest League in which schools compete to send teams to the annual Wiltshire Games in Marlborough to compete against teams from schools all over the county. Orienteering has…
Congratulations to Sarum’s Neal Jacobs who competed in the recent Ironman France competition in Nice. This all took place on the hottest day on record in France so the cycle and running distances were reduced to take account of the tremendous heat challenge. Neal completed the 3.8k swim in 1:13 before polishing off a 152k…
Ian’s 500 Mile Battle Back Grand Prix Wednesday 3 – Sunday 7 July 2019 The Battle Back Centre at Lilleshall operates to support wounded, injured and sick personnel. The centre’s goal is to help these people to achieve the best possible recovery so that, they can either return to service duty or to help with…