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Sports Taster Day at Lakeside Saturday 6th July

By Kevin Bracher , 28 April, 2019

Lakeside Country Park are holding a Sports Taster day on Saturday 6th July between 10:00 and 14:00.

We are looking for a few volunteers to man a tent and offer help to people wanting to try out the Permanent Orienteering Courses (POCs). A couple of teams could split it in to 2 two hour stints.

If you can help please let me know.

Kevin Bracher                     kevin.bracherATtalktalk.net

Results for Summer Series - Itchen Valley Country Park

By Pete Davis , 27 April, 2019

We hope you enjoyed the first of the 2019 Summer Series. Thanks to Kevin and his merry band of helpers. Also a big thanks to Melanie, the park warden for allowing us to use the room and the park.

Results

Kevin Bracher

7 years ago

Thank you to all who came and ran, a great start to the Wessex Summer Series. We were grateful for the use of the room for registration as the strong winds would have made using a tent difficult.

Many thanks to all the SOC helpers and to IVCP for their help.

I asked participants not to cross any fences in the park. This request made so we did not upset the Park Staff and compromise use of the venue in future. So it was a shame that some participants felt the need to climb the fence between 10 & 6. Times show that it was possible to get all the controls by running round!

As I  was using the Permanent Orienteering Course maps I could not put an Uncross-able  purple line on the fences.

Kevin

Event
Summer Series - Itchen Valley Country Park

JK Results

By Julian Hartwell , 27 April, 2019

The JK provisional results are now up (as well as plenty of photos).

Headline achievements for SOC were:

  • Duncan Currie 1st in the Middle Distance (M10A)
  • Andy Nash 1st in the Long Distance, 2nd in the Middle Distance and 1st overall (M40S)
  • Mary Nixon 3rd in both the Middle and Long and 4th overall (W70S)
  • Christine Currie 5th in the Short, 6th in the Long and 6th overall (W40L)

Well done to all of them and to other SOC members who just failed to make the cut in this roll of honour.

6 SOC teams took part in the relays – no podium positions but a really great team spirit.

SOC contingent at JK Relay

The weekend will be remembered for two things – heat and emiTags – but behind that was a really excellent series of events, expertly co-ordinated by Di and Terry Smith.

Julian Hartwell