Chris, our club development officer explains your options So you’ve just arrived at your first event. Excellent! You, or maybe the whole the family is in a cheerful mood and excited to try a new experience. You bounce...
Jane Burgess wins silver in the Venice City Races Annie and I went to Venice in November. We’ve been in the summer but always thought how amazing it would be to orienteer there. When Viv showed us their maps from 2005...
Eight Smartphone orienteering events across Derby What: Come and join us for a series of smartphone-based events centred on the Derby parks! We’re using a Score format, which means you get points for each of...
This summary was presented by Jane Kayley Burgess at the Club’s AGM [Editor’s note – we’ve been approached by other clubs about this, so it’s good to see that awareness is spreading.] This...
By Newstrack’s Roving European Correspondent, Graham Johnson Around the middle of September, when schools are back and normal people are at work, we generally crowbar another cycling trip into the calendar, and when Val...
Helen Chiswell reports on the Limburg 4 days, the event just before ASOM in Ghent A few months ago I was idly looking at the World of O calendar (as one does when tired of work!) and noticed that there were two multi...
The fun of the mass finish! Club members took on courses of 2k, 3.8k and 6k today – handicapped across all three for a mass finish at noon! This was remarkably accurate, as Chris our last starter – and winner – on Long...
New number for contacting organisers is 01332 653899 Reason It’s important for competitors to be able to contact us during events in case of emergency so, for some time, we have been adding the organiser’s...
There’s a lot going on in September and into the Autumn that we’ve summarised in this article. We’ve also included Dave Vincent’s Newstrack puzzle below. Club Championships We’re excited...
A report from Graham Johnson, showing the importance of perseverance at the first control At the end of July, 40 intrepid DVO orienteers made their way north of the Border for the Scottish 5-Days. A few weeks earlier...