A few thoughts from our Vice Chair, Gavin: I do hope you managed to get to Inside Park on Sunday. Wasn’t it just brilliant to be back in the forest? Ok it’s a bit scrubby in parts but I thought the runnability was better than I remember, perhaps I just steered clear of it this […]

Finally, we have some orienteering to report on. I remarked to Julie that our WSX events seem to be timed either just before or just after national lockdowns. One can only assume the PM checked the WSX fixture list. Hopefully we will not go into another one before (or after, or during) our next event […]

As we come to the end of Lockdown 2, some words of wisdom from Gavin: Last Friday evening I was getting a bit bored with lockdown so thought I would treat myself with some traditional Friday food. I’m fortunate that my local chippy is only three minutes walk 😊. Togged up and mask in hand I […]

A message from Gavin: Stan Smith the American tennis player of the 70s and 80s used to say: “Experience tells you what to do, confidence allows you to do it”. This definitely applies to my orienteering. I enjoyed my night league run at Upton back on 19th October, made a few mistakes and as I had […]

You will note there is a change to the title of the chat to invite everyone to share their thoughts. Please do contribute. In the absence of volunteers it will be Jolyon and Gavin. Here is Gavin with the latest chat: Couple of events to report upon. There should have been three but Wimborne rightly […]