A dozen Chasers flew the flag for the club at Croeso 2012, the Welsh 6-day event, held last week around Aberystwyth. What a fantastic week of sunshine and good competition. We had 4 days of classic distance ‘O’ on open moorland, 1 Middle Race in forest, and 1 Urban around Aberystwyth University campus. Best overall perfomances… Read More »Croeso 2012
[singlepic id=1542 w=320 h=240 float=left]Official Results are now live on the OD site here and some better than originally posted first leg runs have appeared. Amongst which I notice I owe Matt an apology as he is officially “unchicked”. On the bright side my team still won though! (and by my team I mean Jill and… Read More »West Midlands Relays Results *Results posted update*
[singlepic id=1457 w=320 h=240 float=right]Firstly many thanks to Tracy for stepping in late in the day and organising a fabulous Summer Pursuit. Also thanks to the Hughes’s for helping put out the tapes and Ray for helping to collect them in. Finally thanks to Jon for allowing us to use his garden for the BBQ The… Read More »Summer Pursuit and BBQ
A fun night was has by all who attended the event last night. The rain didn’t appear to dampen spirits, however it did dilute my beer 🙂 [nggallery id=29]
The rain is not dampening the spirits of Staffordshire Walton Chasers Orienteering Club who are currently ‘on tour’ at the London Jubilee Orienteering Festival based in the Surrey Hills where the Olympic road cycling events will be held in July. The venue for the sprint event on Saturday was the Guildford campus of Surrey University,… Read More »Jubilee Tour Weekend!
Fine, dry weather made for a good British Champs weekend in the Lake District. While there were no shining performances, there were solid runs, and a number of Chasers can be proud of their performances. Best result of the weekend went to John, Jonathan & Bob, who finished in 4th in the M60 relay, only… Read More »BOC 2012
[nggallery id=26] A small group of juniors headed up to Kilnsey & Harden Moors for 2 days of training fun & games. They worked hard on terrain running, picking lines & zooming around, as well as thinking about contours & attack points. Despite a very thundery hailstorm interrupting training for over an hour, progress has… Read More »Junior Training Camp, Yorkshire
While a number of Chasers headed north to Scotland to compete in JK over the Easter weekend, others headed south, crossing the Channel & spending the weekend on the Ile d’Oleron on the west coast of France. The 3 days of orienteering here comprised a sprint, long & middle race in forested sand dunes. The… Read More »3 Jours de Paques
