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Sarum Takes Its New Year’s Day Event to a Brand New Area It’s a rare pleasure when Sarum is able to launch a brand new orienteering map so a first event on Martin Down was a special way of celebrating the start of a new decade. Competitors must have been wondering what was in store…
A weekend of orienteering in the Forest of Dean After days of torrential rain the clouds lifted to give a delightful (reasonably) sunny weekend of day and night orienteering organised by NGOC, BOK and BAOC and Sarum runners competed in all three events. The events were originally scheduled for earlier in the year but access…
A small but perfectly formed contingent of Sarum Juniors comprising one girl and five boys travelled to Black Park near Slough to take part in the British Schools Orienteering Championships. The courses took the runners through open forest on a good, complex path network that offered good, fast and technical orienteering. There were some good…
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…
SWOA League 2 and SCOA League 3 SARUM Galoppen 2019: Sidbury Hill Pity the poor Planner setting out controls on Sidbury Hill for three hours in a torrential downpour on the previous day. That’s part of what was necessary to ensure that this year’s Sarum Galoppen went ahead on time. Mercifully, on the day there…
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…
SARUM 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…
Images from the Compass Sport Trophy at Pippingford
Click here for some very good information about the Wessex Night.