Next Events
Wed 3 Oct
Cherry Hinton
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Wed 10 Oct
West Cambridge
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Wed 17 Oct
Sidgwick Site, University Library and Harvey Court
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Results from Sun 16 SepAmpthill ParkColour coded and WAGAL
Planner's Comments Ongoing land management at Ampthill Park continues to keep mapper and planner on their toes - the courses you ran today were adapted to avoid significant excavations in the central area which had appeared during planning and disappeared again by the …Junior night training, Wednesday 24th October 2018at Trumpington Meadows
Never too early to start preparing for the Peter Palmers next year :) The training will be on the same area as the senior training and at roughly the same time.
Action required: Please email training @ waoc.org.uk by Sunday 14th October if you would like your child or children to attend, and include their ages and what colour each child currently runs.
Peter Palmer Relays
Many thanks and congratulations to the WAOC Junior Team (and their parents) who travelled to Tankersley Wood in Barnsley at the weekend to take part in the first Daybreak Relay race in the 2018 Peter Palmer Competition for Junior Orienteers.
Revival of the FittestDoes Orienteering make you run faster, or are faster runners naturally selected to become orienteers?
It is striking that out of 350 participants at the Wimpole Parkrun on 8th September, 3 of the top 6 age graded performances (and 4 of the top 11) were achieved by WAOC members.
Final details now published for Ampthill
Details of the Ampthill Park event are now available on the website here, and as a downloadable PDF here.
Don't forget that Ampthill is one of this year's WAGAL league events, the remaining events after Ampthill are High Ash in October and Rowney Warren in November.
Podium place at the British SprintsUrsula earns bronze
Ursula has achieved 3rd place in the W80 class in the British Sprint Champs at Bath University. The campus provided a suitable technical challenge for all competitors, with route choices spanning multiple levels in the central complex.
New edition of Jabberwaoc now outMap from Askham Fell, Lakes 5 Day 2018
Read it here, or visit the Jabberwaoc page for previous editions.
Success at the Lakes 5 Days
Congratulations to Helen Bickle, overall winner of the W35S category at the Lakes 5 Days.
A number of other WAOC members were highly placed in the overall scores:
JabberWAOC magazineThe Newsletter of WAOC
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!