November is Urban Month
We have plenty of urban events planned in Taunton for November 2020, from JOGs to a Southern England league event.
Club Championships 2020
A quick review
On Sunday, QO members descended on Longrun Meadow and French Weir Park for the annual club championships.
Review of the first Quantock Challenge
Well, the Quantock Challenge 2020 has come to a close. The results have now been published, but read on for a little review of the event...
A Summer Challenge for You
Get your shoes back out, competitive orienteering is allowed again from the 1st August!
Our first event is the Quantocks Challenge, a long score course covering most of the northern Quantocks.
Lockdown Classic Weekend
Intrepid Phil Sorrell took part in a multi-stage weekend of orienteering puzzles and games, held between from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May. Read Phil's write up on the QO Chat site here
The JK
Easter weekends
The Jan Kjellstrom International Festival of Orienteering (or the JK for short) is held every year somewhere in the UK over the long Easter weekend. It has proved popular with a nucleus of QO members over the years and some have had a great deal of success in it.
Street Series
2020-21
These exciting events run entirely off GPS signals, with your smartphone (or a hired one) recording your times and your route.
For more about MapRun, see below and on our MapRun information pages
All orienteering suspended
British Orienteering ruling
The national governing body BOF have announced that all orienteering activity must cease with immediate effect. This effectively means our 2019/20 season has ended and the earliest potential fixtures we could have would be in late summer/ early autumn.
New Forest event
SW League
Oliver Lewis was QO's star of the day at Blackwater where he beat 14 others to win the Orange course. Al Hemmings won the White. On an unexpectedly lovely bright, dry day, about 15 QO enjoyed this runnable mixture of wood and heathland.
Beat The Trail
Reviewed
We've now had two BTT's, which have attracted a mixture of trail runners and orienteers. So how has the new format gone down so far? Thanks to the following report from Devon OC's Martin Yeo, who has run both BTT's to date.