Southampton Orienteering Club's Summer Series is returning this year, with five fun Saturday events from April - August. These events are a perfect introduction to orienteering for newcomers, for families looking for a day out together, for those looking to improve their orienteering skills, and for experienced orienteers too.

There are five events in SOC's 2025 Summer Series, details of which can be found below. Click on each link to find details about each event, and enter to guarantee a place on the course you would like to run.

Each event will have three courses on offer: a short (Yellow), medium (Orange) and long (Green, or as near to it as the area allows).

This year, we will be running a league for each course over the 5 events.  This will be based on the 2 best scores for the Yellow and Orange courses and the best 3 for the Green course. Points will be given according to your finishing position.

Perhaps some competitors will want to move up to a more technical course at some stage, but points will not be transferable from course to course.

Results:

All 3 courses were keenly contested over the 5 events with the winners not being decided until the final day.

Congratulations to our winners:

• Hard Course, best 3 runs – 1st Paul Thwaites, 2nd David Currie.
• Medium Course, best 2 runs – 1st Kate Gedny, 2nd Claire Thwaites.
• Easy Course, best 2 runs – Georgia Jones, Rufus and Felix Bracher shared the honours, showing great promise for the future.

In all 113 runners competed in at least one of the events. Many thanks to all Mappers, Organisers, Planners, Download Leads and all helpers for their contribution to an enjoyable series of events. Thanks also to Pete Davis for dealing with entries for the series and also to Julian Hartwell for handling permissions throughout.

Bill Davidson

The league results at the end of the League are as follows.