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Wessex
Orienteers
Infornal Day And Night Events
Saturday 6th February 2010
Brownsea
Island
A
unique opportunity to take part in the first races on the
historic island.
Full
Details: Day
Event, Night
Event
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Wessex
Orienteers
Informal Event
Saturday 6th March 2010
Hethfelton near Wareham
Courses:
White, Yellow, Orange, 60 minute score.
Click
here
for details.
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Wessex
Orienteers
Galoppen
Sunday 28th March 2010
Rushmore Estate near Tollard
Royal
Courses:
White, Yellow, Orange, Light Green, Short Green, Green,
Blue & Brown
Click
here
for details.
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OMM
success for Jon Brooke
Over
the weekend of 24/25 October the annual mountain race challenge
that is the OMM took place in Mid Wales. Unless you have
taken part in one of these races it is difficult to convey
the challenge that faces competitors. Jon and his running
partner Gavin Miles not only accepted this challenge but
took it too the limit by entering the Elite race. Following
two days of intense physical and mental application Jon
and Gavin came 11th, a remarkable result. Jon however was
disappointed not to break in to the top 10 – sounds
like he might be back next year!
A month
later at the Southern Night Championships Jon took the M40
title – congratulations!
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Gifted
and Talented Multi-Skills Orienteering - The Sir David
English Centre on Friday 21st August.
You
all did really well for your first time of Orienteering
and we hope that you will want to try it again some time.
Have a look on our web-site at Permanent Courses which
you can download free and try out when you want. Also
look at forthcoming events.
Results
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Wessex
Summer Relay Success
Members
of Wessex displaying the haul of relay trophies won
over the summer. From left to right, Rob Hick with
the Devon Relays handicap trophy, Andrew Houlder:
Devon Relays trophy, Tim Houlder: Hardy Relays trophy,
Gavin Clegg: Adams Avery Trophy, Dale Paget: SWOA
Chairman’s trophy. Missing is the Coast Path
Relay Trophy.
The
participants in the winning team(s) were as follows:
WSX
– Dale Paget, Gavin Clegg, Roger Crickmore, Tim
Houlder
NWO
– Dale Paget, Gavin Clegg
BOK
– Dale Paget, Gavin Clegg, Rob Hick
Devon
– Dale Paget, Jon Brooke, John Cook
WIM
– Dale Paget, Gavin Clegg, Jon Brooke, Bill Brown,
Julie Astin
A
total of 9 different club members all together.
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Winning
South West Team at the Furrowhoppers (L-R Bill
Brown, Julie Astin, Gavin Clegg & Dale Paget)
with the Chairman's Challenge Trophy for the most
successful Club in the South West Summer Series.
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Second
Trophy for Wessex in the ‘Chairman’s Challenge’
Having
targeted the SWOA Chairman’s Challenge for
races during the summer, team co-ordinator Dale
Paget and his team Wessex Raiders came up trumps
again on Sunday in holding off a strong challenge
from Bristol. The Adams Avery is run as a normal
three leg relay. Dale went out first and returned
in second place about 1m 50s down on Leading South
West orienteer Clive Hallet running for Bristol.
As predicted the race turned on the middle leg,
with Rob Hick, who is in great form at the moment,
overtaking Michael Hallet and pulling out a six
minute lead. Rob handed over to Gavin Clegg, who
had promised not to make a hash of the last control
as he had done the previous weekend at Swindon.
Gavin brought the team home in first place with
a five minute lead.
This
means Wessex have scored maximum points from the
first three relays of the season and providing nothing
untoward happens in the next two relays (Devon on
19 July and Furrow Hoppers on 26 July) the Challenge
Cup looks set to come to Wessex for the first time
in its history – watch this space!
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Wessex
Orienteering Club
Hosted
the successful
SOUTH
WEST SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009
on SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER
at Bournemouth University
We
are hoping to run another Sprint Race on Saturday
23rd October 2010. More details to follow.
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Two
British Champions are Wessex Orienteers!
Congratulations
to Wessex Chairman Richard Arman on becoming British Champion
for class M80 at the event in February and to James Crickmore,
British Champion for M16S shown below receiving his trophy
from Ian Sayer at the Buddens informal.
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Wessex & Wimborne Annual Dinner & Dance - Presentation
Of Trophies
(Photos by Ian Sayer)
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Wessex
Orienteers' new Trophy, the Charlie Morton Junior Award was won
by James Crickmore M16, the club's Junior Champion for 2008. The
trophy was presented by Karen Morton and received on behalf of
James by his Father, Roger.
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Gavin Clegg
receives the Mens Club Champion trophy from Chairman Richard
Arman
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Richard
Arman presenting the trophy for Ladies Club Champion 2008 to
Kay Sayer.
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Tina Stratford
is presented with the Ian Horsey Trophy in recognition of being
the most improved Wessex Orienteer in 2008 and winning the Club
League.
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Hardy
Relay - Another win for WSX
Rob
Hick organised the Wessex Hardy Relay this year at Hethfelton,
one of WSX smaller mapped areas near Wool. The event took place
on a gloriously sunny 26th July with teams from WSX, QO, WIM and
NGOC taking part in the complex muti-loop, multi-runner handicap
relay. Despite having the toughest handicap, the WSX team of Gavin
Clegg, Dale Paget, Roger Crickmore and Jon Brooke took the honours
on the day with some strong running and also a plan that worked!
There
were also a range of colour coded courses enjoyed by around 20
friends and family not taking part in the relay.
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WSX
win the Dorset Coastal Path Relay!!!
July
12th saw the 18th running of the annual Dorset
Coastal Path Relay, from just west of Lyme Regis to the
mouth of Poole Harbour - a distance of 65 miles.
After
7 hours 36 minutes Martin Lewis, Chris Lee and Nick Hillman finished
the final multi-runner leg along Studland beach to bring WSX
home in first
place for the second successive year.
In
total, 27 members of WSX took part in the relay, with teams of
'sprinters' tackling the steep climbs and some of the stronger
runners making individual efforts on the longer, more inaccessible
sections. Roger Crickmore was the team captain for WSX and planned
all of the logistics for the day.
The
other teams, in order of finishing were: BOK, KERNO, The SW Junior
Squad, SOC, WIM and BKO
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For
more Coast Path Relay pics, click here.
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WSX
at the Poole Festival of Sport
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On
28th June, WSX took part in the Poole Festival of Sport at Carter
Community School in Hamworthy. The event was a chance for people
of all ages (though mostly children) to try out new sports and
there were around 30 activities to take part in.
Kay
Sayer was in charge of organising the WSX stand while Bill Brown
had specially mapped the grounds in order to put on a short course
and also organised some exercises to try using a grid of cones.
Other helpers from WSX on the day were Alan Hooper, Julie Astin
and Roger, Tracy and James Crickmore.
Over 30
children had a go and the team collected contact details from
their parents in order to alert them to forthcoming events.
Hopefully we might see some of them again.
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