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Club Champs Results 2025

By Christine Currie , 7 December, 2025

Last Sunday saw the annual SOC Club Champs at Frith and Windmill Hills. Results took a little longer than planned to publish after some issues with incorrect programming of the start control. Luckily, they were able to retrieve everyone's start times and carefully construct a full set of results.

It was a great run around in much better weather than we've seen this weekend, and an enjoyable social afterwards in a local pub (many thanks to Ian Moran for organising!). Sadly, there are quite a few categories where prizes couldn't be awarded because there were no SOC people on the course. Something to work on for next year!

Junior men - Duncan Currie
Open men - Andy Snell
Senior women - Christine Currie
Super senior men - David Currie
Vet men - Paul Thwaites
Vet women - Bernie Newitt
Super vet men - Julian Hartwell
Super vet women - Julia Loring
Ultra vet men - Terry Smith
Ultra vet women - Barbara Davidson

Orienteering Foundation Coaching Day, South Wales

By Dave Currie , 6 December, 2025

Lisa James recently attended the Orienteering Foundation training day at Merthyr Mawr. You can find her report attached. There will be a similar session in the Forest of Dean in late November 2026, followed by a night event, and an event the following day. If you'd be interested in some shared SOC accommodation, please email chair [at] socweb.org (chair[at]socweb[dot]org) (no commitment at this time). Also, please let me know if you'd be interested in a similar event if it took place in our region.

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OF Coaching Day South Wales.pdf 387.13 KB

Brockenhurst WNL Results

By Andy Snell , 5 December, 2025

Flooded footbridge

Thank you for coming to the event. I hope you enjoyed it, despite the wet, flooded ground in places. Interestingly, the water level in the streams had dropped by 2 feet between the time of putting the controls out, and collecting them in. Picture of the flooded footbridge attached.

Apologies for the result prints, not having the point scores on them. A small anomaly with the SI Droid App we were using.

Simple results and splits are attached.

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Brockenhurst WNL 04 Dec 25 Results.pdf 37.38 KB
Brockenhurst WNL 04 Dec 25 Split times.pdf 123.2 KB
Brockenhurst Flooded Bridge Control.jpg 4.58 MB
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WRNL Brockenhurst