Yesterday Rob Finch and I did a brown course at Long Valley South. A number of these "Solo O" courses have been set up by Colin Dickson - I can let you have details.

I quickly found out how it is that Rob is consistently one of our best athletes - currently 140 in the national rankings - and he was kind enough to coach me through the course.

So what did I learn? Well the first thing is I need to look at the map more often. And then I need to check I'm going in the right direction.  I was gently told that my plan " to head west and see what happens" wasn't orthodox technique! I need to try and be more fluid, planning ahead and not stopping at junctions. Rob was keeping in better contact with the map than me and that really counted in more technical terrain.

Rob has offered coaching to anyone else interested. Do take him up on it.

If you have not seen this already it makes for very interesting reading!

The New BOF/ FE agreement became active on the 7th of September 2020 .

After waiting years for a new agreement to be reached it is strange that this very noteworthy news has not been widely publicised.

A copy of the agreement can be found in a link on the nopesport.com website.

Read the document and also the train of conversation.

Kevin Bracher

A request from orienteer William Smith to complete a survey relating to problems with vision when orienteering:

I am currently studying at Loughborough University and am undertaking my Part C personal project whereby I am aiming to design a device that reduces/ eliminated misting that occurs on orienteers glasses when they compete. I was wondering if you were able to distribute my survey about misting problems in orienteering to members of your club so that I can gain a better insight into the problem? Here is a link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BQqsZXNdFYQCdG4rlmwgyozSXP7RAVm_SSqtOv…