Tim Watkins Trophy 2023

The prestigious long distance race based on the Norwegian Blodslitet, brought to us by SROC's Tim Watkins, and now named in his memory,  returns to the Lake District on 26th November 2023. As well as the long open classes there will be shorter options for those wishing an easier, though still challenging, race. For details please click through to the event webpage. Entries are now open on SiEntries.

Sizergh Castle Saturday 30th September

Our next event is at Sizergh Castle on Saturday 30th September, run jointly with Lakeland OC.

You can find full details here

This event is aimed at newcomers and will use the Maprun app to register visiting controls - see the details, its very easy!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Autumn Series 1, Beacon Fell

Around 50 orienteers enjoyed a warm and sunny day of orienteering at the Beacon Fell event with orange, green and score courses available.  The course took in a mix of heathland and forest, with some fine views from the park summits across the Bowland Hills to the North East, and over to Blackpool and the Fylde coast in the west.

Conditions were mostly dry underfoot (except for the marshes!), however, the late summer undergrowth made for slower going away from the paths.  Most participants completed clean runs, however, a small number of controls were missed due to a couple of mapping/placement ambiguities - apologies to those who lost time here.  

Great to see some new orienteers trying the sport for the very first time, as well as more experienced orienteers and also some enthusiastic juniors who completed a more technical course for the first time - very well done!  We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and that we might see you again at future events. 

Thank you for coming and to all the helpers on the day. Michael Hendry

For results click here, RouteGadget here.

SROC AGM 2023

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th September at 7.30 pm. Details of how to join the meeting remotely, or in person, plus the agenda and various reports, are on this page. Please attend if you can.

Autumn series event 1 at Beacon Fell

The first event in the new series will be at Beacon Fell on 16th September. Entries are open on SiEntries and there will be no entry on the day. Details are here.

Fantastic 4th place in the World Masters Orienteering Championships

Well done to SROC member John Embrey for 4th place in the world in the Middle final at WMOC yesterday. No doubt a Bronze would have been nice but still an amazing achievement in Slovakia. All eyes are now on the long finals tomorrow.

A full list of SROC results is here:

4	John Embrey	M65-A (158)	30:39	+2:02	8:21
16	Miriam Rosen	W70-B (114)	55:06	+19:26	24:10
30	Julia Preston	W40-A (62)	59:14	+24:09	13:37
30	Jacqueline Embrey	W65-B (159)	53:29	+17:12	21:18
40	Matthew Cochrane	M65-C (155)	49:20	+19:23	15:57
41	David Rosen	M70-C (125)	1:23:18	+46:39	26:52
47	Jill Cochrane	W65-B (159)	1:03:42	+27:25	25:22

Autumn series approaches

Summer holidays are nearly over but that means the SROC autumn series is nearly here! Entries are now open for the first event, at Beacon Fell on 16th September. Enter here.

Sprint Series Final event at Lancaster University

The fifth and final event in this Summer Series was held on a sunny evening and with a record turnout. Results are published here. RouteGadget for Prologue and Final are ready to receive your routes. A list of the top three in each class, and overall, may be viewed here (pdf).