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    What shape is your parkrun?

    Parkrun has been a phenomenon for some 20 years now, and every Saturday morning when I scroll Strava, I see where fellow DVO members have been running. Will it be Australia (Markeaton) or the girl with the long hair...

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    Review of DVO’s 2025 events

    Dave Nevell – our statistician, now based in north Wales – looks back on last year’s events 2025 saw the DVO fixture list settling into what is perhaps a new paradigm for orienteering, namely a small number of...

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    Alison Uttley and Bow Woods

    Sal Chaffey looks at the Derbyshire author’s roots Bow Woods and Lea Woods have been used on and off for orienteering events between 1970 and 2012 (photos from 2012 here), and many of us visit in April to check...

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    2025 East Midlands League Successes!

    DVO has 15 top 3 places in the EM terrain league Yesterday was the first event of the 2026 East Midlands League at LEI’s Grace Dieu & Cademan event, and therefore the certificate presentation for 2025’s...

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    January 2026 Club News

      A happy and injury-free 2026 to you all! The prize giving for 2025 East Midlands Urban League took place before the Matlock Urban Race, which opened the 2026 League. Your best 4 races out of 8 count, so get those...

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    Winter MapRuns 2026

    Smartphone orienteering in and around Derby  What: Keen to improve your navigation and meet new people? We have planned a new series of evening events which we hope will be as successful and as popular as the last two...

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    DVO Trophies and Awards 2025

    Presentations at Strawberry Hill by our Chair, Jane Kayley-Burgess Club Championships trophies First of all some thank yous. Thank you to NOC, especially Kevin, Robert, Ant and Hilary, for allowing us to use this...

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    Rachel Storms the Castle at Quid Games

    This November I ran Quid Games II: Storm the Castle in Kendal, an event in partnership between British Orienteering and SportsShoes (British Orienteering members get 15% off). It was part race, part festival showpiece...

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    EMOA Officials Development Conference 2025

    EMOA Chair Ann-Marie Duckworth reports on this year’s Development Conference John Hurley (coordinator for day and EM Development Officer) summarised the day by saying that the Development Conference, held at...