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
Huish Woods JOG
This JOG was just one aspect of the first Training Weekend QO have organised.
Mark Maynard was the planner and his detailed knowledge of Huish Woods meant that he was able to use the very diverse areas to maximum advantage for each course.
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!
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.
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.
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.
JOG planners course
Steve Robertson provided a two-evening course for 10 new planners for JOG activities using the excellent facilities at Taunton School.
Steve (assisted by Roger and Judy Craddock) outlined the guidelines for the Hare, Squirrel, Badger courses and discussed various training options for the Fox challenges for QO members.
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.