Eaves Wood

Today's Spring Series event in Eaves Wood attracted a high number of competitors, both experienced orienteers and relative beginners. Shame about the earlier-than-forecast rain. Results are available to view here, also RouteGadget.

Eaves Wood Spring Series event

The second Spring Series event is at Eaves Wood on Saturday 29th March. Final details are now available. On-line entries close on Friday evening.

British Middle Champs success

Congratulations to SROC members taking part in the BMOC today. Successes include John Embrey Gold M65, David Roome Bronze M40 and Ellie Todhunter Silver W16! Full results here.

Night Street League 2024-2025 trophy winners

Trophies were presented at the finale event at Feniscowles. Winners are listed below

Feniscowles results

Results and organiser's comments are now available here.

Feniscowles RouteGadget

Why not add your route to the latest RG event? Or work out which way you shouldv'e gone!

NSL Finale Weds 12 March

Night Street League event 11 and prizegiving at Feniscowles, west Blackburn, key details:

the venue is the Feni Rec Cafe, BB2 5EH
mass start at 19:00
60 minutes for all
bring a SI dibber (or borrow one on the night) to punch the Finish only
there are just a few servings of potato&meat or cheese&onion pie left to be reserved - contact Paul Turner to put your name on one

Eaves Wood, Silverdale Event Saturday 29th March Starts 12.30 to 1.30

 Orienteering for all! Families, runners, walkers - everyone welcome!

The Easy (Long Yellow) and Score courses are ideal for the less experienced. The Green course will be a true technical test for the experienced. Map and electronic timing chip provided - all for just £7 per entry (non members). An entry can be one person, a pair or a small group. Junior members of Red Rose Orienteers FREE! (ask for details)

You need to Pre enter by close Friday 28th March 21.00 on Si Entries:

https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=15048

(there is only very limited entry on the day subject to map availability).

Full help and coaching given on the day!

Lancaster East Night Street event

Today saw the last event in the current season of night street league events, with a chance to run again on some surprisingly hilly parts of Lancaster. Did anyone miss the extra bonus points for the John o' Gaunt control? RouteGadget for tonight is here. Interest now moves to the standalone league finale event next Wednesday in Feniscowles. It's a 7pm mass start, followed by the annual prize giving.

Bamber Bridge night street event

Results are on-line here. Next week sees the last league event in the current series, in Lancaster. The standalone finale is in Feniscowles the Wednesday after. Don't miss either event!

SROC Qualify for CSC Final

 2nd place today behind WCOC. Well done everyone.

Put Redcar Sunday 14 September in you diaries now for the Final.

CSC Start Times

.... are confirmed as per v2 I sent by email on 7 February. Note 5-10 mins to Assembly depending on where you are parked, and 15-20 mins from Assembly to Start. Do not be late.

CSC Walls & Fences clarification

 I have clarification from the organisers.
ALL walls and fences (other than ruined ones) must only be crossed at marked gates / stiles / crossing points. Some, but not all, will be overprinted in purple but ALL (apart from ruined) are subject to the "only use mapped crossing points" restriction.

Spring Series event 1

Results and RouteGadget for today's event are now on-line.

Leyland Night Street League

 Results for the recent Leyland event are on-line here. RouteGadget is here.

British Night Championships 8/2/25

Congratulations to Heather Roome on winning w40 at Touch Estate, Scotland.

Results are available here

Club Handicap and annual prizegiving

Club Handicap results and RouteGadget. Details of trophy winners for 2024:

Williamson Park, Lancaster Saturday 15th February Starts 12.30 to 1.30

Perfect for both newcomers, improvers and the experienced! If you are a newcomer enter the Easy or Score (1 hour to find as many controls as you can!). Green for the experienced. Pairs and small groups welcome. Help and coaching given on the day. Pre enter here 

Any queries, including about the entry system (very simple) to Development@sroc.org

Club Handicap entry deadline

To make sure of your correctly handicapped map be sure to enter on-line by Wednesday midnight at the latest

Major Event Entry Fees increase 1 February

 A reminder to all that the entry fees for the JK at Easter, in / north of Sheffield, go up after 31 January. If you are intending to go and have not yet entered you will save a few £ if you enter this week.
The same applies to the British Long Champs, in Grizedale on 10 May.

2025 SROC Club Handicap

All members are reminded that the fiercely fought club handicap event takes place on Saturday 1st February. Runners are handicapped, thereby running different courses, so that the first to finish is declared the winner. This year we have use of Alex's new map of an area not orienteered in for many, many years. After the race, we will have the usual social with annual prizegiving and Jacob's join meal. Click here for the final details. If not yet entered, follow this link to the Google form, and don't delay! 

Helmshore

RouteGadget for the night street league event in Helmshore is available here. For results click here.

Whitbarrow Cancelled

 Unfortunately Forestry England have refused us permission to use Whitbarrow for our proposed National event on March 9 so very reluctantly we have had to cancel the event.

Helmshore Street O Wed Jan 22

 Just a heads up about this event which is being organised by Steve Wilson who is a PFO member. The event is both a PFO and an SROC event. It will be pre entry via SI entries and it would be appreciated if as many people as possible do take the option to pre enter. Entry on the day is also available as usual but the fee will be £5 for members and £6 for non members just as a one off for this event.

Heysham night street league

The rescheduled Heysham event took place last evening, in much better weather conditions. Results are available here, and here is RouteGadget for the event.

Event Cancellations

Due to icy conditions, both LOC Tarn Hows night event on Saturday 11 January and Helm Hill Runners Giggleswick race on Sunday 12 January have been cancelled.

Tarn Hows NW night league event has now been rescheduled for Saturday 25 January.

Heysham Street O rescheduled

 Following the decision to postpone tonight's event we have decided to reschedule to next Tuesday January 14. This is to avoid a clash with the LOC event in Kendal on the Wednesday. All other details remain the same.

Heysham Street O postponed

A late inspection of Heysham's streets has revealed treacherous icy conditions on a large part of the area, making it advisable to postpone the event. This was all because of an overnight fall of snow and or hail, which is unlikely to melt in time for the event today.

Heysham Street O

 Just to let people know that there will be an inspection of the local pavements in Heysham tomorrow morning and a decision will be made then regarding the safety of continuing with the event as planned or postponing it to the following week.

New year Cracker results

 Results from today's well-attended event at Lancaster University may be perused here.