Street O

Just to be clear STREET O..... Lytham has finished but Lancaster, Blackburn and Ormskirk are already available and you can do them any evening until the end of the year. No cost and just email the organiser for maps and cluesheet. See fixtures page for details.

Autumn MapRunF series scores updated

 The Autumn Series results tables have been updated to include results from Beacon Fell.

Virtual Orienteering Challenges for YOU, NOW!

 As we are in a second period of Lockdown we are not able to bring you any SI timed events (we will as soon as we can) but there are a LOT of Virtual Orienteering Courses  using the MaprunF or MaprunG (for Garmin) apps.

These are

Street league - The Tower Trophy

This year the venue for our prestigious Tower Trophy was the first event at Lytham. The Trophy is awarded to the individual or pair who have the highest age/gender adjusted score and who have not previously won the trophy. This year the winners are Ed Mellor and Anne Speakman, so may congratulations to them. Bob

Street League

The Lancaster event is available now (details on the Fixtures page).  Despite being  in Lockdown British Orienteering  guidance shows that we can continue with the Lancaster and Blackburn events in the current  format  (see www.sroc.org news item 29th September for details).  The BO  Guidance is as below;

'Within these new restrictions for England, the government continue to emphasise the importance of outdoor exercise and recreation. Orienteering remains an excellent, socially distanced sport, and many types of orienteering activity can be undertaken within these new restrictions in England. Despite these new measures, orienteering is still very much open for everyone to enjoy.

Orienteering activities that can continue within the new government guidance for England areas follows

• Unsupported training activities on your own, with people you live with, within your support bubble, or with one person from another household if social distancing is maintained. These include the use of training maps created by individuals or clubs
• The use of Permanent Orienteering Courses, Virtual Orienteering Courses and activities such as MapRun events. All Virtual Orienteering Courses and activities must be open for a minimum of at least seven days, to reduce the risk of overcrowding
• One-to-one outdoor orienteering coaching
• Mapping and Local planning for future events.

The government guidance is that you should look to reduce the number of journeys you make. Outdoor exercise should be done locally wherever possible, but you can and should travel to do so if necessary (for example, to access an open space).'

It is proposed that the autumn street runs will now be open until the end of Dec to give you more chance to be spread out/ not meet up and also for individuals to decide when they feel comfortable to travel. With luck all those events will be available soon so you can pick which ones you wish to run and so can opt to stay very local if you wish to. Bob Nash

Lytham scores

The scores for the first of the new season of night street league events are now available. Can we carry on with the league under lockdown? It'll all be in the small print no doubt.