West Anglian Orienteering Club

Notice of EAOA Annual General MeetingThis will be an on line meeting and all club members are eligible to attend.

The AGM of the East Anglian Orienteering Association will be held at 7:30 pm on Wednesday 24th June.

This will be organised as an on-line meeting. Anyone intending to take part should send an email to EAOA@waoc.org.uk so that you can be given details of how to join the meeting.

Wednesday Summer Training Night 4Google Street O

Answer the questions below using the map and Google Street View.

If the question does not make sense and you are sure you are in the right place, try changing the date of the view you are looking at in the top left of the screen.

When entering or leaving a College you may need to use the map view to jump across the gap (marked with a compulsory crossing point). Otherwise please remain within the street view course at all times.

Cambridge City Centre map

Google Street view, Start by the Corpus Clock: Click here

Wednesday Summer Training Night 3Control Descriptions

Click here for the Control Description training sheet.

Click here for the answers.

Wednesday Summer Training Night 2Route Choice Speed

Click here for the Route Choice - Speed training sheet, which this week includes RunningWild.

Wednesday Summer Training Night 1Map symbols

Click here for the map symbol word search - if you need extra help scroll down to the bottom of the page.

The answers are here.

Wednesday evening trainingNow home-based. Restarts 29th April 2020

This terms' training sessions are all activities that you can complete within the home, and many can even be done while sitting down.

Hopefully you will enjoy all the challenges but they will be different each week, so if one activity is not your cup of tea - do not let that stop you looking at the following week’s activity.

Each Wednesday a new training session will be uploaded. Note: With the news that limited orienteering is now allowed, the home-based training term is being shortened.

The training programme is below:

Coe Fen Photo-OAnswers now available

While we are in lockdown, Bruce has been thinking of ways we can practice our orienteering skills while observing the coronavirus restrictions.

Can you identify the control points for this 1.4km course around Coe Fen using the aerial photos and the control descriptions on the 'blank' map?

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!