Category - Member news

Antalya O Festival 2025

Sally Calland orienteers in Turkey The festival was a 10 day event with 17 races, yes 17. 14 races were training races and then the festival culminated with 3 World Ranking Events all around the Antalya region. The...

Club News February 2025

It’s been a busy New Year, after the initial cold snap when we had to cancel our Whitworth Park Local event. Since then, many of us have enjoyed East Midlands League events or terrain or urbans further afield...

CompassSport Cup Heat

Christine Middleton (Club Captain) reports on the CompassSport Cup heat 23.2.25 at Clumber Park WELL DONE to team DVO who won their heat of the Compass Sport Cup qualifying round on Sunday February 23rd It was a close...

Telling The Planets From The Stars

David Vincent (DVO’s Resident Astronomer and Puzzlemeister) sets the record straight! My local running group know that I can be a bit of a bore when we meet on clear nights. They listen good-naturedly while I...

Review of DVO Events in 2024

  Dave Nevell looks back at last year’s events … 2023 saw a significant shift from previous years in the breakdown of DVO events, namely the emergence of MapRun as an event in its own right. Its...

The East Midlands League and Championships

Sal Chaffey reports on the EMOA League prize-giving Yesterday at Lincoln City Football Stadium, the prize-giving for the 2024 East Midlands league took place, where Ann-Marie Duckworth (our new EMOA Chair) and Ursula...

Club News December 2024

With the New Year approaching, about 1/5 of the club’s veteran members will change age class. If your birth year ends in a 0 or a 5, 2025 could be your ‘glory year’ when you are the youngest in class...