Coming to a location near you! All three ’Norths’ – true, magnetic and grid – are currently lined up over the UK and the alignment point is moving slowly NNE-ish. If you haven’t already seen it this go to this link to the Ordnance Survey to read about this geospatially historic event.

A large Sarum contingent took part in this year’s November Classic located this year at New Park between  Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst. The forecasts for heavy rain didn’t bode well but, in the event, the rain largely held off for the runners, apart from the occasional short, but intense, showers. An added bonus was that a…

Despite it being an extremely wet and windy night, Sarum Orienteers gathered at the famous White Hart Hotel in Salisbury for their first annual dinner and awards presentations since Covid prevented the usual get together.  Staff shortages and a simultaneous rival event added a somewhat Fawlty Towers feeling to a long, but very enjoyable, evening…

Congratulations, albeit belatedly, to Max Duncan who claimed this years Southern M12 championship trophy at the Caddihoe Chase on Dartmoor in addition to becoming the long and middle distance SW champion. Well done Max.

A beautiful autumn day welcomed over 100 runners to Foxbury for Sarum’s  local event. Foxbury has changed a lot since we first used the area with the growth of young trees starting to give some character to the map, although there is room for improvement. The undergrowth, dense in parts, made the terrain hard at…

A small, but committed, Sarum contingent of 13 recently took part in the Lakes 5 Days event. Although it was as hot in Cumbria as the rest of the country it was amazing, and refreshing, to see green lawns and lush vegetation everywhere. As expected, the Lakeland Fell, provided tough going, especially for the older…

Cam Jacobs recently completed an amazing 70k run from Salisbury to Swindon along the Great Stones Way in 8hr 41min. Many of you will remember Cam from his time as one of Juniors and his running since then has gone from strength to strength. Over the past two years Cam has benefited from being mentored…

A cooling wind made competing in this year’s Hardy Relays, organised, as ever by Wessex Orienteers, a relatively pleasant experience after the recent heatwave.  This year’s race took place in Littledown and King’s Parks, Bournemouth.  The race used the Harris relay format in which each runner in a team of three had to visit all…

This event was something of a first for Sarum.  Courtesy of a Grant from Sport England’s Return to Sport program we have been able to purchase new SIAC (contactless) timing equipment as the first step in migrating from our ageing EMIT equipment. Thanks to Des Dickinson, we had previously run a programme of five training…