Williamson Park Spring Series event

Despite an amber weather warning for strong winds the latest SROC event went ahead mainly in susshine with a stiff breeze. Paricipants varied from first-timers to old hands, and all seemed to enjoy the challenges of navigating around the park. Results are on-line here and RouteGadget, where you can view others' routes and add your own, is here. There was a small amount of lost property found around the start area. If you have lost a hat or a glove please email results@sroc.org with a description of the item.

Night Street League Finale

The eleventh and final event in the 2023-2024 NSL season was held in warm but wet conditions from the Water Witch in Lancaster, followed by the annual league prizegiving. RouteGadget for the event is here. A list of winners of the various trophies is here. Results for event 11, the mass start finale, are here.

Duxbury Park

The first 2024 Spring Series event took place in the surprisingly rugged terrain of Duxbury Park in Chorley. A goodly mix of seasoned and novice orienteers helped to make the event a success. Results are on-line here, and RouteGadget is ready for your routes here.

Street League event 10, Penwortham

Results for the last event counting in the league for the current season are on-line here, and RouteGadget is here. Don't miss out on a meal at the grand final event next Wednesday - see instructions from Rowena below.

Final Street League event and prize giving

Please note the the final street League event takes place in just one week on Wednesday March 13 with a mass start at 7pm. Please bring your SI card for recording your finish time.

Food needs to be ordered in advance. No food orders will be taken on the night. The pub have asked that I let them know food orders 48hr in advance so please can anyone who wants food after their run, email me on rowenacbrowne@gmail.com by Monday evening. Take a look at the Waterwitch pub menu here https://www.waterwitchlancaster.co.uk/food

Duxbury Park spring series 1, Saturday 9th March

 Final details for this event are now available. Entries are open on SiEntries.

Carnforth street league event

Last night saw the 9th night street league event in the current season, held on a new Carnforth map. The weather was kind and a good turnout enjoyed the course planned by John Embrey. RouteGadget is ready for your routes. League tables will be updated in due course.

SROC in the CompassSport final!

SROC hosted an extremely successful qualifying round for the national clubs championships, the CompassSport Cup for large clubs and Trophy for smaller clubs. Interesting courses were made even better by early Spring weather, most folk completing their runs in sunshine.In a close fought match LOC took first place with in the Cup with 2458 points, followed by WCOC on 2413 and DEE on 2316. In the Trophy competition SROC on 1288 points were just ahead of BL who scored 1278, and PFO on 1241.

There were some fine individual performances on the SROC team with maximum points going to David Roome, John Embrey (club captain), Ben, Ellie, Maisie and James Todhunter and Martyn Roome. See all the results, both team and individual here. RouteGadget is here.

SROC NSL Carnforth Wednesday 21 February - Food Orders

I have just been advised by the Junction Bar that they would like to know food orders by 10:00 on Wednesday morning !
Can you please review the menu via this link - https://royalstation.co.uk/dine - and let me know what you would like by noon on Tuesday.
I have explained that you will not know what time you will want to eat due to the unpredictability of traffic. I will need you to give me an estimated time for eating after you have arrived and before you run.
(You can ignore the "food until 20:00" on the website as we have a kitchen extension to 20:30).
Please email requests to john.x.embrey@gmail.com

Helsington Barrows CompassSport Cup and Trophy

We are fast approaching the CSC/CST qualifying event which SROC is hosting on Helsington Barrows near Kendal, on Sunday 18th February. Final Details have now been publiished.

North West Night League final results 2023-2024

Congratulations to the SROC night orienteers who took part in the NWNL over the Winter. Results tables for the league may be viewed here. Notable performances: M19-49 runner up Simonas Sakalauskas, M50+ 3rd place John Embrey, W50+ winner Karen Nash and overall league winner Heather Roome, who finished with 117 points out of a theoretical maximum of 120, thereby beating all-comers.

MDOC Night event part of the North West Night League

On-line entries close Thursday 25th January

Club Handicap

42 participants (including 1 shadower) ran in the Club Handicap Champs on 20 January in an appropriately-named White Coppice.

Club 2023 trophy winners, awarded Saturday 20th January 2024

Club Handicap, Brinscall Woods Saturday 2oth January

The harsh weather only put off a couple of runners and a very strong turnout enjoyed the sometimes slippery and windy conditions at Brinscall today. John Embrey, paying pennance for his win at the handicap last year, produced both a new map and a new type of score event for the delight of the gathered throng. We can publish the basic results now, and will follow with the handicap results and trophy winners' list later, Photo credit: Fraser Dixon.

SROC - sixty years of adventure

It may have escaped some members' notice that SROC, foemed in 1964 and therefore England's first orienteering club, is this year celebrating its diamond jubilee. There will be various special events throughout the year, culminating in a "60 at 60" special New Year score event on 1st January 2025. Various commemorative clothing is now available to order, with O tops, jackets, hoodies and dry robes all bearing the special 60th logo (as above). Any club member who has not seen the email explaining how to order should contact development@sroc.org to reqest this information. Please don't delay; we want to place a major order with the suppliers quite soon.

2023-2024 Night Street league season continues

The first street league event of the new year, also the 6th in the current series, was held in Chorley yesterday evening. RouteGadget is now ready for your routes.

Cracker results

Results for today's event, the 23rd New Year Cracker at Sizergh, are on-line here. RouteGadget here.