Types of event
What the club offers
At Quantock Orienteers, we put on a variety of events through the year. Hopefully there is something for everyone. Here is a quick guide.
Stock Hill
SW League
Pock-marked as it is by the lead mining of yesteryear, this area of technical woodland up on the Mendips always delights and challenges and there were several excellent runs had amongst the 25 QO's who competed there on Sunday.
Who's been where?
Glorious winter sunshine graced North Glos OC's 50th anniversary weekend and a fair number of QO's took part.
Results: Lightning Tree (Sun), Knockalls (Sat)
Also featuring: results from other events attended by QO members this year
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.
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.
2020-21 series details
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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.
Southern Championships
& Night championships
Often held as part of the multi-event weekend. Besides the classic (long distance) race, the Southern Night Championships may be held on the same weekend. In 2019, there was also a middle race. Sometimes the long race doubles up as the November Classic.
Southern Champs Weekend
Forest of Dean
Pete Shirvington had the run of his life on the Middle event, finishing a very close 2nd to Pete Ward, who was M45 Southern Champ in 2016.
Competitor reports further below.
Ringwood Forest
SW League
What a day - half of the QO runners who ran at Wimborne OC's event placed! But who fell over four times? And was the going really that rough? I'll give you a clue - she was out there two hours plus but still loved it...