New for this winter is to be a mini league for Thursday nights. To run alongside the traditional informal Thursday night runs from member’s houses, this year a league of nights events will be organised. These will also be from member’s houses and take the form of 45 minute score events using fire hydrants, postboxes… Read More »Winter Score League
This year, the event was held around the Oban area and 17 Chasers headed north to partake of the superb Scottish terrain and pit themselves against the expert course planners. The areas used were varied, including open hillsides and moorlands, oak and birch woodland, flat shoreline terrain and areas of intricate contour detail. Some areas rose to… Read More »Scottish 6 Days – Oban 2011
This evening saw the annual summer handicap race and club barbeque. This year, the course was the hilly Brocton Coppice route, followed by the traditional barbeque in the rain, this year at Jonathan Howell’s house. Some pretty good handicapping by Iain Stamp saw most runners arriving within a couple of minutes. Well done to Tim… Read More »Peel Pursuit Handicap Race
Picked up from the Welsh OA website: It is with sadness that we heard of the passing away of Jean Fuller last month. Jean died in a hospice on May 5th 2011, after three years of illness. She chose not to have a funeral. Her close friend Sue Davies reminded us of some of her… Read More »Jean Fuller
**UPDATE RESULTS NOW IN** In the mixed relays Matthew Connelly, Jo and Amy Thompson and Iain Stamp finished in 2nd place out of 24 in 54:44, Tracy Craig, Heather Craig, Emily Garside and Ryan Nokes finished 13th out of 24 in 1:03:36 and Kelvin Dawson, Claire Stamp, Carley Dawson and Ricardo Fernandes finished 22nd out… Read More »Shugborough Relays 2011
A number of Chasers will be heading to the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust on Saturday, 4th June for the annual food & beer festival and would be more than happy to see other familiar faces for a sociable & relaxed afternoon/evening. The “blurb” about the day says, Last year the event attracted around 1,500 visitors, who quenched… Read More »Wolseley Food & Beer Festival
A number of Chasers made their way to Sheffield to compete in the British Orienteering Championships on the tough, physical terrain of Wharncliffe & Greno for the individual races & the technical challenge of Tankersley. We had some individual podium positions, with both Stodge & Cath winning their 35 Short classes. Other top 10 performances… Read More »British Orienteering Championships, 2011
[nggallery id=10] A “successful” and fun night at Monmore Green Greyhound Stadium saw a small group of Chasers take on the dogs, and had a great time. Lots of different techniques to pick the winners were used, not always with huge success! Most people had at least one winner on the night, and some showed… Read More »Night at the dogs
