Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! It’s been a slightly less chaotic year and it’s been great to see so many from Sarum out orienteering again: long may it continue. Santa and his little O-elf hope you all have wonderful Christmas Day with your families. Enjoy lots of scrumptious food…
Club News (Page 5)
Planner Martin Goddard devised challenging Green, Score and Orange courses, plus a Yellow course, to fit into the small area of the Dur Hill map. Poor Martin was struck down with an infection just before the event and was unable to be there and Controller Ian Peirce nobly took on the task of putting out…
Congratulations to Charlotte Thornton for another impressive night run. This occasion was the Southern Night Championships held this year at Broadstone Warren, beyond Crawley. The map was divided into two areas, each having a pretty good path network. The courses initially led runners through a more open area, with lots of marshes, rough open and…
Two trophies were finally united with their worthy winners at Sarum’s Everleigh event. Joan Hambleton finally gets her hands on her medal for 3rd place in W80L British Championships – after a mere eight months. No, that isn’t Gareth Bale handing over the medal but our very own topknotted Jeff Butt. Paul Lane wasn’t able…
Sixty seven Orienteers, including 23 from Sarum, donned headlights and took to the streets of Salisbury for a Wessex Night League event. A fortunate gap in the rain gave everyone a dry and reasonably warm night out. Unfortunately for Planner Charlotte and Organiser Liz, however, a mid-afternoon downpour drenched them when putting out controls in…
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…