Another week another downpour. With that in mind a massive “”pat on the back” to Holly and Sally Hughes who put the training controls out in Tuesday’s monsoon and still smiled afterwards. Heroine is an understatement. With the O season picking up again last weekend saw a number of Chasers in London taking part in… Read More »Captains Weekly 18th September 2016
Congratulations to Alfie Spencer, Holly Stodgell, Holly Craig, Megan Colclough, Holly Hugghes and Heather Craig who have been selected to represent the West Midlands in Aberdeen next week at the Junior Inter Regional Championships. One of the races will be on Forvie – spectacular terrain! More details here
Well done to our Junior Team of Holly, Holly, Holly, Heather, Alfie, Adam and Henry last weekend competing in the Peter Palmer Relays in Leicester. The race is a junior relay named after WCH and British Junior Coach, Peter Palmer. With the first two legs being at night and starting at 4am its always a challenging and… Read More »Peter Palmer Relays 2016
The Club AGM will be held on Tuesday 18th October 2016 at 7.30pm at Brocton Village Hall – more details, including agenda etc. to follow Every club member is invited and Cheese, Wine and Chocolate Biscuits will follow the proceedings. Please, Please, Please make the effort to come along, the club is run for its membership and this… Read More »Club AGM 2016
Congratulations to Bob Dredge, on a fantastic 13th place in the M65 Sprint A Final at the World Masters Orienteering Champs. In what looks to have been a very busy Tallinn in Estonia, Bob was just 1 minute 33 seconds off the pace in a field of around 330. WMOC consists of a sprint qualification race… Read More »Chasers at WMOC 2016
Last week saw around 30 Chasers in South Wales for Croeso 2016, the 5-day orienteering festival held every 4 years. This year had 4 races close to Bridgend (2 in the sand dunes of Kenfig and 2 in the woods of Margam) and one on the moorlands above Tredegar. We had a great week, which… Read More »Chasers at Croeso 2016
Good morning all, I hope everyone made the most of the glorious weekend weather! Provisional results from COBOC’s Park Championships are out, and Allan Williams was the top Chaser on the long course so he gets a pat on the back. On the Medium course Carol Dredge came third, narrowly leading Christine and Ray Collins.… Read More »Captain’s Weekly 18th July 2016
The Captain is still AWOL, so Cabin Boy Tom’s news again this week…… Apologies once again for a slightly delayed weekly update! This week! The Shugborough Relays took place! Not much else happened! There were many spectacular performances from our Chasers contingent at Shugborough, and there are far too many individuals to mention. All those who… Read More »Captain’s Weekly 12th July 2016
