Fyne Court JOG
A Fyne start
The first JOG of the Spring Term doubled up as a 'Come and Try It', which also had the effect of doubling up the attendance.
By 2pm the area was thronging with families - we hadn’t expected such a massive response!
New members
A warm welcome to...
To Jake Belsten of Watchet. M21 Jake previously orienteered with Devon Orienteers and has returned to the sport after a few years away. Jake kindly provided a few words to the QO Website to introduce himself
Woodbury Common
Devon League
About 20 QO members ran at Devon's lastest league event on physically tough heathland towards the south coast near Exmouth. Ollie Rant was top QO overall, Rosie Wych won Light Green and Ollie Lewis and Al Hemmings were runners up on their courses.
Coaching: review
Ashton Court
Karen Lewis took Oliver and Annabelle to Bristol OK's coaching session at Ashton Court on Saturday (4 January) and it sounds like they all got a lot out of the morning.
Karen reports...
JOG
Spring programme
There's been plenty of beavering away behind the scenes to bring you another full term of events running from early January to late March. These include nine Saturday JOG events, with the next one at Huish Woods.
Brighton City Race
QO again had representation at this annual race on the far south coast, which coincides with a spectacular festive display known as the 'Burning of the clocks'. But were there any scorching times recorded?
Martin Lewis reports.
JOG
Autumn 2019
This was one of the toughest JOG programmes imaginable, held mostly on woods and open hillside, with no visits to school campuses.
We introduced a coaching element into this series and welcomed contributions to assessing juniors' skill levels as they worked towards badges.
Exmoor Challenge
Walk & training weekends
Tom Hasler is looking to organise some club teams comprising of older school children for a long walk on Exmoor in late Spring, with some training weekends on offer in the build up.
Club clothing
This Christmas
Looking for a stocking filler? We have club t-shirts, O-tops and possibly still some jackets, in a range of sizes.
Please let us know if there are any other club clothing items you feel we could be producing e.g. hoodies
Kingswood & Soudley
Wye O Wye? Another Dean double
Obviously feeling surprisingly fresh after last weekend's triplet of events, several QO went back to the Wye Valley / Forest of Dean area for some more. Steve R reports from Kingswood and Jeff from Soudley.