THE FOREST LEAGUE The Salisbury Schools Forest League is a success story that arose from Sarum’s longstanding Primary Schools outreach programme established by Pam Swienton and Liz Yeadon. Basic skills were taught in schools’ grounds using exercises such as Naughty Numbers, cones and simple relays. Subsequently schools were taken into local woods to learn to…
Chairman Ian Peirce made banner headlines with photo to match in The Salisbury Journal this week (go to http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/sport/13318846.Chairman_benefits_in_Lake_District/ for online report). It’s a long drive to the Lake District just for two races but for Sarum Orienteers’ Chairman Ian Peirce it was one well worth taking on. Competing in the two day Twin Peaks…
About 700 orienteers, including 13 from Sarum, travelled to the Welsh Marches for SINS 2015 for a challenging but friendly and low key three days over the May Bank Holiday. Shropshire is a delight, quiet, uncrowded with lots of attractive and interesting small towns and villages. May is a wonderful time to visit the heart…
Front page picture: Megan! Sarum member, Megan Ashton, made the front page of the Guardian recently, working with some of the veterans as part of the VE Day celebrations – doesn’t she look smart! Megan has been very involved in many of the Anniversary events over the past year as part of her job with…
Ben Chesters winner of 2-15 Sarum Gallopen holds the Ron Ley Trophy After many years of consistently high performance for Sarum Ben Chesters finally wins the Sarum Galoppen. Joan Hambleton (Sarum Statistician) presented Ben with the Ron Ley Trophy at the JK 2015 relays at Graythwaite…
24 Sarum Orienteers joined 3500 orienteers from countries around the globe to compete in the Jan Kjellstrom 2015 Orienteering festival held on four days over Easter in the Lake District. This is a major international competition that draws many of the world’s top orienteers including this year Frenchman Thierry Gueorgiou, the most successful orienteer ever…
The second evening training session held at the Hub Club in Salisbury enabled club members to brush up on their pace counting – with a few surprises for many. There were also options to run line courses and locate the barely visible control sites. A good time was had by all, including a random ginger…
The start at the Sarum Saunter on Sidbury Hill Tidworth. Over 340 runners competed in the event which incorporated the SCOA Championships. Apart from Army vehicle movements, trail bikers, gun fire and two dead EMIT bricks, all seemed to go smoothly. Thanks to all the cheerful competitors for making it all seem worthwhile.
On Feb. 21st 2015 74 orienteers from South Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon and Somerset competed in an event organised by Sarum Orienteers in Vernditch Wood near Martin on behalf of the Dorset Schools League. The day started damp & chilly and spades were needed to patch up the road, where Forestry vehicles had gouged out a…