Over the last year I have increasingly heard that great woodlands and heathlands previously used for orienteering in our region are no longer accessible, either because of inappropriate nature conservation constraints, change of ownership or being over-run with brambles. Rushmore on the other hand, with the support from the estate, has proven an exception. That’s […]

British Orienteering Championships this Bank Holiday weekend. Bradford University Sprint event Friday 04th May. Our Dedicated Medlock Family were there racing and gave it a concerted effort over 2 days. Firstly a Sprint race on the Saturday, Jolyon in the mens vets class made 9/22 on a highly technical urban site, with Lyra the youngest […]

Southampton put on the first Summer Series Event saturday- the events just keep on rolling now in Orienteering world. Results here. 61 runners went along on a very windy day! 3 of WSX enjoyed it and Alan wrote up the day like this:-” I went to the Itchen Valley event yesterday which was a new area […]

  At the recent JKs, we had the oldest competitor (Andrew Beldowski – M90) and one of the youngest (Esk Medlock – W10) and both of them won medals. Andrew, as winner M90 and Esk 3rd in W10. And our rising star, Lyra Medlock (W12) not only won all three races (Sprint, Middle and Long) but […]

J.K Time. Every few years we have a late Easter and great weather for the entire time, last weekend was one of those times. Funny I remember once in about 2008 when the J.K was also in Surrey Hills some Swedish friends had travelled over for the event weekend and experienced the foulest freezing sleety […]