NEWSTRACK
MAY 2005
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Great Moments from the Orienteering Archives
King Alfred fails to win Wilf’s Employee of the Month Award
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Newstrack is the magazine of Derwent Valley Orienteers
Editor: Dai Bedwell, 200 Leicester Road, Loughborough, Leics LE11 2AH
Tel: (01509) 260751 email: daiandkaren@tesco.net
Thoughts from the Chair
When I got the reminder from Dai that the deadline was on us again I felt that he must be mistaken as so little time had passed since I last wrote something. And then on reflection I realised we had had the JK, the British Orienteering Championships and Round 1 of the Orienteering World Cup, all very significant events, at least for this year. Having been to all three events (the latter as a spectator just in case any of you thought there had been a spectacular improvement in my performance) I continue to be amazed at what can be achieved by a relatively small group of individuals in staging these races.
Over the course of these three events I have also run on very varied terrain, from the forests of the West Midlands to the sand dunes of Cornwall through to the complex contours of Leith Hill in Surrey where the Middle distance race of the World Cup was held. The ‘public’ were allowed on the World Cup areas immediately after each race to hold the Surrey 5-Day event giving you an impression of your capability compared with the world’s elite. I have much to learn. The top runners were going twice as far as me in half the time though they were half my age – there must be some maths in there somewhere. Overall, it reinforced my view that our sport gets you out into varied areas, in varied weather on varied courses, never allowing you to feel complacent – something will fight back.
Anyway, Summer is nearly with us and the orienteering season changes to holidays, abroad or not, so I wish you all the very best running in whatever far flung places you may get to. I am sure Dai will be looking forward to your reports for Newstrack.
Derek Gale
Welcome
Welcome to the following new members who have recently joined DVO:
Linda Andrews
Lynne, Vic, Amy & Jack Bevan
Open Meeting
The next DVO Open Meeting is on 13th July at 8:15pm at The Stone Centre, Middleton Top just outside of Wirksworth. The agenda will be a continuation of the new format, i.e. a couple of presentations on issues of the moment followed by an open forum. Meet at 7pm for a run beforehand.
DVO Equipment Store Update
With effect from Saturday 23 April 2005, all DVO’s equipment has been moved from the Buckleys’ shed to the new shed at Riversdale, near Ambergate. See March Newstrack for details.
No equipment is now stored at the Buckleys’ and any equipment that you might have should be returned to the new shed.
Thank you,
Paul Wright,
Equipment Officer
Captain’s Jog
The JK Relays were held on a very pleasant spring day at Hopwas Woods near Tamworth. I thoroughly enjoyed competing in this event and thought that the course planning was excellent with plenty of scope for head-to-head racing through the runnable forest. For various reasons I had to make a lot of short notice changes to our 16 teams, so thanks to everyone who co-operated in changing team or coming in at the last minute.
For the third year running the W165+ team won their class, although this year’s team (Liz Godfree, Helen Finlayson and Pauline Ward) decided to make it more a more interesting race with Pauline one minute down at the spectator control, level with Lakeland at the last control and 17 seconds ahead at the finish. The M120+ team (David Lawson, Steve Kimberley and Andy Jackson) also did very well to finish 8th less than 5 minutes off the podium in a very competitive class. The MW12- team (Ben Beresford, Harriet Lawson and Nathan Lawson) were 9th. In the other classes we had a number of very good individual performances, most notably Erin Malley with the fastest time on the Wshort short leg, but the team results were slightly disappointing with no other top ten finishes.
The British Relays were held on a rather less pleasant day at Penhale Sands, with cold winds and squally showers making for unpleasant conditions particularly for spectators which was a shame because otherwise this event was also very well organised and planned. DVO achieved two podium places with the MW60+ team (Doug Dickinson, Pauline Ward and Derek Gale) coming through to 2nd place in a very competitive class and the W35+ team (Sue Russell, Viv Macdonald and Ann-Marie Duckworth) also coming 2nd in an arguably less competitive class. Ranald Macdonald emerged from a hard morning watching the London marathon to help with the prize giving but forgot to kiss his wife. Elsewhere the MW55+ team (Mike Godfree, Liz Godfree and Steve Buckley) finished 4th with Steve just losing out in a sprint finish with SYO. The MW12- team (Nathan Lawson, Ben Beresford and Harriet Lawson) were 5th. Alex Ross and Steve Kimberley brought the M45+ team back in 3rd place after 2 legs but unfortunately the 3rd leg was myself and I did not have a good day: too stressed-out sorting out the other teams!
Turning to forthcoming events, entries are now imminent for:
1) Harvester Trophy overnight relay, June 4th/5th at Pillar Woods, Caistor, Lincolnshire.
2) Footpath Relay, Sunday June 12th organised by Ashbourne RC and believed to be largely in the White Peak.
Please let me know immediately if you would like to run for the club in either or both of these events.
In addition to traditional methods I can now be contacted by e-mail : “johnhurley870 at btinternet dot com”.
Later in the summer the White Rose weekend is being held near Helmsley and this year instead of relays on the Monday there is to be a Team Score event in which 3 members of the team all start at the same time and decide who will visit which controls, with the intention of picking up the maximum number of points between them in the one hour period. Let me know if you are interested in this one as well.
John Hurley
PS: The Compass Sport Cup final this year is at Clowbridge, near Burnley (GR820280) on October 16th.
For the day the club has hired a coach to make it a sociable occasion. Starting at Heage it will call at New Road, Riversdale, Ambergate Hurt Arms, Belper Triangle or Belper Bus Station, Allestree (North of A38) and Etwall (A516/A50 junction) . Final pick-up/drop off points will be put up on the website. Additional locations can be added by negotiation. You will have to find suitable safe parking if you are driving to one of these pick-up points but there is ample parking at the Riversdale, Belper and Allestree pick-up points Limited to the first 53 names Email to cpstwright@supanet.com to reserve a place.
And here is the victorious JK W165+ relay team. Wait a minute, who is that mystery fourth runner lurking in the background? Isn’t it former World Championship silver medal-winner, Stephen Palmer? Are there some dubious tactics at play here, somewhere? I’m sure you’re not allowed a fourth runner in the team, former silver medallist or not.
Fixtures Secretary’s Appeal for Help
I have listed below all of the DVO events we are proposing to promote over the next twelve months. However, they will not take place unless we have members to organise, plan and control them. The events for the rest of 2005 are at present well covered, but we now need volunteers for all of the events for 2006, so now is your chance to pick your event before I start to coerce you in to organising, planning or controlling one you don’t fancy.
14th May Ilam Park C5
O – Val Johnson P – Mike Godfree
15th May Farley Moor C4
Cancelled due lack of officials
5th June Kedleston Park C4
O – A Ross P – Sue Russell C – S Buckley
11th June Foremark C5
O – Dave Walker P – Mike Godfree
24th Sept Bottom Moor S5
O – Val Johnson P – Mike Godfree
9th Oct Carsington C4
O – S Swalwell – P -J & D Gale C – P Bourne
6th Nov Stanton Moor C4
O – Tracy & Ian Grant P – Dave Chaffey C – P Wright
2nd Jan 06 Wirksworth Street S5 O & P Required
8th Jan 06 Linacre or Eckington C4 O, P & C Required
19th Feb 06 Shining Cliff C3 O & P Required
12th Mar 06 Bow Woods C4 O, P & C Required
21st May 06 Carsington Pastures C4 O, P & C Required
We have yet to plan our usual series of C5 events for 2006 but although usually planned and organised by the regular team of Val, Mike and Rex, these can be an opportunity for prospective organisers and planners to gain experience at a low key event with plenty of expert advice on hand.
If you wish to fill any of the above vacancies please contact myself, Ranald or any other member of the fixtures committee.
Dave Walker
Club Championships 2005
Advance notice: the club championships should be on Sunday 17th September at Calke, subject to permission. More details in next Newstrack.
Dai
Sports Personality of the Month
I haven’t received any nominations this month. I can’t imagine anyone would ever nominate themselves…?
My JK Diary (or ‘The 39 Steps’)
Orienteering in the first three months of this year may have been as miserable as a wet Thursday afternoon in Heanor, but this was the Big One, the one I’d been waiting for. The terrain on which the JK is held may often be of variable quality but the magic of the occasion more than makes up for this. It is the biggest event of the year and I’m always amazed at the numbers that turn up; orienteers you’ve not seen all year come crawling out of the woodwork, or, in Emma Whitehead’s case, the pub.
If this is not damning it with faint praise, Day 1’s Brown Clee is my favourite HOC area (!), and I was eagerly anticipating my run on it. There are few sensations to beat the nervous anticipation in the stomach – or is it the Pot Noodle? - as you stand in the Start lane at the beginning of a big multi-day event, a stunning run still in prospect despite form and experience suggesting a measure of success slightly lower than your average Veritas candidate.
I’ve never enjoyed reading those accounts from event winners giving a control by control run down of their all-conquering efforts. On this occasion I would have willingly subjected you to one but, in the case of my run at Brown Clee, I am forced out of necessity to offer a first, not a control-by-control, but, indeed, a step-by-step account of my run:
Metre 1 – 10:
I successfully negotiated the first challenge of any event, locating the correct map in the correct bag without colliding with any other competitor, a feat I’ve not always managed in the past. The early signs were good and nothing had happened so far to suggest that the Holy Grail of The Perfect Run was not within my grasp.
Metre 11- 20:
Things were going unbelievably well, as I covered the ground between the map bag and the Start Control with the minimum of difficulty.
Metre 21-30
Matters started to become more complicated as I realised that, to get much further, I would actually have to look at the map and the whereabouts of the first control. There it was, a depression nestling somewhere in the depths of the forest to my left. There was nothing for it but to venture off the path and into the Great Unknown. So far I hadn’t put a foot wrong.
Then I put a foot wrong.
My eye engrossed by the map, I neglected to take account of the indentation beneath my left shoe. Too late, I realised the derivation of the word pitfall, as I fell into a pit. I sank into a metaphorical and literal depression. My leg went north, my foot went south and my ankle went west, along with the rest of my JK. As I writhed in agony, I wondered what I had possibly done in a former life to deserve this fate, and why this didn’t happen 30 metres from the end of Day 2 rather than 30 metres into Day 1. The answers to these questions will, like the enduring popularity of Jamie Cullum, remain an imponderable mystery.
And that was that really. I limped ignominiously into the Finish and spent the rest of the afternoon with the Newstrack Editor’s ice pack wrapped round my ankle, sulking and contemplating life’s injustice. I wouldn’t say I was bored but I did calculate that, bearing in mind the cost of entering both days and the distance completed, my efforts had cost me something like 80p per metre of ground covered. It would have been cheaper if I’d driven the 30 metres in a Rolls-Royce – and I would have come back in one piece too.
Graham Johnson
Kids’ Corner: Spot The Difference
The Newstrack Artist has been hard at work, children, altering these identical pictures of a well-known DVO member. There are (at least !) ten differences between the two. Can you tell what they are? If you can, send your entry to Uncle Dai, and he may have a special prize for you.
First Prize: the lady on the left will come and change in the front of your car.
Booby Prize: the lady on the right will (oh, make it up yourselves……..)
(Apologies to all non-EMEWS readers – this contribution from Graham Johnson will make even less sense than normal.)
Local Fixtures
May 2005
21st-22nd Twin Peak Weekend
C3 21st - Regional Event. Macclesfield Forest, Macclesfield. SJ/978714.
C3 22nd - Regional Event. Macclesfield Forest, Macclesfield. SJ/978714.
Fees £7.50/£3.00 per day. Chq: MDOC. No late entry, EOD +£1.00/50p. EPS-SI. String course. Lim CC courses - W, Y, O & LG. Day 1 starts 1130-1400.www.mdoc.org.uk
22nd EM LEI Local Event. Grange Wood, Ibstock. SK/425094.
C5 Steven Davidson, 01509 507748. £2.50/50p. Lim CC courses - O, R, LG & G. www.leioc.org.uk
28th-30th Springtime in Shropshire Weekend
C3 28th - Regional Event. Bury Ditches, Bishop's Castle. SO/310846.
C3 29th - Regional Event. Mitchells Fold, Nr Bishops Castle. SO/302976.
C3 30th - Regional Event. Corden/Lan Fawr, Bishops Castle. SO/302976.
Jill Leventon, 6 Huxley Close, Shrewsbury, SY2 6JQ, 01743 289946. entries@sins.org.uk CD: 13/05/05. £7.50/£2 per day. Lim EOD & late entries + £2/£1 per day. Chq: SINS. EPS-SI. String. Lim CC courses website: www.sins.org.uk/
29th EM NOC Local Event. Vicar Water, Mansfield. SK/587627.
C5 David Cooke, 01773 770278. d.cooke4@ntlworld.com String course. Starts 1030 - 1130.
30th YH EBOR Park Race. York City Centre, York.
C5S Entries: Ann Smith, Weddow Hills, Oulston Road, Crayke, York, YO61 4TP, 01347 821220. CD: 16/05/05. £4 /£2. EOD + £2. Chq: Eborienteers. EPS-SI. Dogs on lead. www.eborienteers.org.uk
June 2005
4th YH HALO The Harvester Relays. Pillar Woods, Great Limber. TA/132059.
4th YH AIRE Sprint-O. Roundhay Park, Leeds. SE/332377.
C4S Lawrie Phipps, 0113 2167143. h.j.sears@adm.leeds.ac.uk £4.50/£2.00. EPS-SI. Long Sprint/Short Sprint/Yellow, String. Starts 14.00 - 16.00.
5th EM DVO District Event. Kedleston Park, Derby. GR/312403.
C4 Alex Ross, 01629 820193. alex@britishorienteering.org.uk £4.00/£1.00 Family £9.00. EPS-SI. String course. Dogs on leads at all times.
11th EM LEI Local Event. Bradgate Park, Leicester. SK/550115.
C5 L Fluck, 01509 503107. £4/£1.50. Yellow, orange, green & blue only.
11th EM DVO Local Event & Derbyshire Schools Champs. Foremark Reservoir, Melbourne.
C5 Dave Walker, 01332 574003. dave@walkerj222.freeserve.co.uk £2.50/£1.00. White to Light Green. Starts 10.00 to 14.00.
11th EM NOC Local Event. Colwick Woods, Nottingham. SK/597400.
Kevin Parker, 01623 634357. £2/£1. String. Dogs on leads. Starts 1030 - 1130. www.noc-uk.org
12th YH AIRE District Event. Adel Woods and Meanwood Park, Leeds. SE/291383.
C4 David
Shelley, 01943 875935. £4.50/£2.00. EPS-SI. String course.
12th WM OD Relays. Kingsbury Water Park, Tamworth Warks. SP/204958.
R4 Dave & Carolyn Marr, 01926-735 390. EPS-Emit. Parking £2.00.
19th YH SYO Local Event. Maltby Commons, Rotherham. SK/553920.
C5 Colin Best, 0114 230 2621. colinallanb@yahoo.co.uk £2.00/£1.00. Dogs on leads. Limited colour coded courses up to Light Green.
19th EM NOC Local Event. Haywood Oaks, Mansfield. SK/611558.
C5 David Cooke, 01773 770278. d.cooke4@ntlworld.com String course Starts 1030 - 1130.
July 2005
9th EM NOC Local Event Rushcliffe CP, Nottingham. SK/579324.
C5 David Cooke, 01773 770278. d.cooke4@ntlworld.com String. Starts 1030 - 1130.
17th EM NOC Local Event. Nottingham University, Nottingham. SK/533382.
C5 David Cooke, 01773 770278. £2/£1. String course. Dogs on leads. Starts 1030 – 1130
Jul 31st-Aug 6th Scottish 6 Days
September 2005
4th YH SYO District Event. Sandal Beat Wood, Doncaster. SE/610037.
C4 John Helliwell, 01302 772571. john.helliwell2@virgin.net £4.00/£1.00. EPS-SI. String course. Parking £1.00. Dogs on leads. www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk
11th YH NATIONAL EVENT
C2 10th - NATIONAL EVENT Kilnsey Moor, Skipton. SD/966672.
C3 11th - Regional Event. Malham Moor, Skipton. SD/908645.
Further details via: www.aire.org.uk
17th-18th Caddihoe Chase Weekend
C3 17th - Regional Event. Wheal Franco, Yelverton. SX/507685.
O3 18th - Chasing Start Event Wheal Franco, Yelverton. SX/507685.
Further details via: www.devonorienteering.co.uk
24th EM DVO Local Score Event. Bottom Moor, Matlock. GR/323633.
S5 Val Johnson, 01773 824754. Gmjandfam@aol.com £2.50/£1.00. Dogs on leads at all times.
Hugh Roberts (1956 – 2005)
‘A Good Man and a Good Friend’
It is not an exaggeration to say that I was devastated to turn the pages of CompassSport and read in cold print the news that Hugh had died of a brain tumour in March. Shock was followed by a multitude of emotions including shame that I’d not even known that he was ill, let alone seriously – though there is no reason why I should have known this of someone who has not been a DVO member for the best part of 20 years – and anger that I’d had to find out about it in such a sudden and detached manner.
To those who never knew Hugh, I cannot better the summary of his character which appeared in Hazelle Jackson’s CompassSport obituary:
‘Hugh was a one-off: quirky, absent-minded, funny, clever, disorganised and, at the same time, ethical, straightforward, modest and unassuming. Everyone liked Hugh, he was such a frank, funny, open, likeable man…’
As evidence of the absent-minded part of this description, I am reminded of the occasion when, in the days when DVO’s annual dinner took place at the Buckleys’ house, Hugh turned up one year in full dinner suit – a week early.
I joined DVO in 1980 at around the same time as so many of us did of the same age who remain members to this day, Ian and Kath Whitehead, Mike Gardner, Rob Shooter, Steve Kimberley. Hugh was an integral member of our group. We had many similarities: age, single status, by and large from outside Derbyshire, having just left University and sharing a passion for orienteering. For a few years, we were able to share, both in and out of the forest, what in retrospect seem carefree times, before the inevitable distractions and responsibilities of adult life made this impossible. Hugh remained a member of DVO until, I guess, the mid-eighties, when he moved on and by which time our lives had all changed. For me, personally, Hugh will always be synonymous with those early DVO days and an enduring reminder of happy times.
No-one who was a DVO member in that period can forget Hugh’s most significant contribution to the club’s social life – the annual Bonfire Night party at the Buckleys'. Hugh was one of those lucky individuals whose job encompassed his passion, in his case, that of fireworks, and this guaranteed us the biggest and most spectacular display for miles around. Spice was added to these occasions by the knowledge that these fireworks might be ‘seconds’ or not necessarily successful prototypes. The results were often unpredictable to say the least.
The CompassSport obit describes Hugh as a member of Middlesex Orienteers, but, to me, he was, and always will be, a member of DVO who just moved elsewhere. Living in different parts of the country, we rarely competed at the same events so it was only at the bigger competitions that I saw him. I always looked out for him and even if I did not see him, he would always make a point of coming to the DVO tent to renew old acquaintances. His presence at these big events could be relied upon so much so that I’d commented to Val on his absence from the last JK, oblivious at that time of the reason.
Unsurprisingly, Hugh was a better orienteer than I but he was a yardstick by which I could judge my runs – and I knew that, like me, his orienteering was unpredictable and it was as likely as not that triumph would be swiftly followed by disaster.
When someone like Hugh dies, a small part of you dies with him. The opportunity to meet and to have had the honour of knowing people like Hugh is reason enough to go orienteering. I am grateful to have had this privilege.
Graham Johnson
The Last of
the Summer Wine Series:
Thursday 21 July 2005, 7pm Mass Start
Its back…
Crich Street O
Organiser: Paul Wright
One Hour Score Event in Crich, Fritchley and Crich Carr
Using the streets, jitties and footpaths
Meet at Crich Scout Hut , (SK349544)
signposted from Crich Market Place
parking at Scout Hut and overflow in the Market Place
Toilets and Changing Facilities
Tea and Biscuits in Scout Hut afterwards
(donation to 1st Crich Scouts)
Please note the results from this event do not count to the summer series league
Cost tbc(~£1/50p)
Editorial
OK, so I thought I was going to be stuck at the inevitable 14 pages, with not enough copy to make up 16 but nothing obvious to cut out and keep till next time to reduce to 12 (the total page count having to be divisible by 4, of course). Thankfully, enough material came together at the end to fill the pages – hopefully of a suitable quality!? Thanks again to Graham and Val for their generous contributions, and its good to see the club captain has plenty of good news to share. Hopefully by the next edition (due in early September) there’ll be so many reports from summer orienteering around the country and further afield that I’ll be struggling to squeeze it all in.
Dai
JUST FOR JUNIORS
Derbyshire Schools Orienteering Championships
Saturday 11th June 2005
FOREMARK RESEVOIR
(nr Melbourne)
Registration from 10.00am Start from 10.30 –11.30am
Courses White, Yellow, Orange and Light Green + Score
£1 Juniors / £2.50 Seniors
An event for all, just turn up as usual and run – you don’t have to be a member of a school team to take part (adults and families also welcome).
All participants get a certificate with medals for 1st three on all courses and a school team prize.
British Schools Orienteering Score Championships
Saturday 8th October
SHIPLEY PARK
(Heanor, Derbyshire)
£2.50 BSOA members / £3.50 Non-Members
A 45 / 60 minute score event (depending on your school year group). All can enter, you don’t have to be a member of a school team (although you do need your head teacher’s permission)
Make a date in your diaries now.
Entry by special entry form – www.bsoa.org or www.dvo.org.uk
HELPERS WANTED
Please keep this date free and help make the event a huge success for the young people taking part.
Also wanted – Yellow JK2004 sweatshirts for the helpers to wear.
Further details about the above events from;
Val Johnson 01773 824754 or gmjandfam@aol.com
Summer Series 2005
This Year - 6 Events
Low key events aimed at the beginner and experienced alike.
4 Courses: Yellow; Orange; Light Green and ‘Challenge’.
Starts: 6.30 – 7.00pm. (registration from 6.00pm)
Entry Fees: £1 Seniors 50p Juniors
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Area |
Car park |
Organiser/ / Planner |
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17.6.05 |
Allestree Park |
Top Car park, off Allestree Lane |
Ann-Marie Duckworth |
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24.6.05 |
Rosliston Forestry Centre |
SK242174 |
Rex Bleakman |
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1.7.05
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West Park |
Leisure Centre Long Eaton |
The Bedwells
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8.7.05 |
Shining Cliff or Crich |
TBA (Please check) |
The Keelings
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15.7.05 |
Elvaston Castle |
SK412331 |
Michelle Mackervoy |
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Thursday 21.7.05 |
Crich Street/ Footpath (see details above) |
Crich Scout HQ (signed from Crich market place) |
Paul Wright |
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Co-ordinator – Val Johnson 01773 824754 or gmjandfam@aol.com
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Just come along, all welcome.
Help will be available just ring the co-ordinator.
PLEASE CHECK THE DVO WEBSITE BEFORE SETTING OFF TO ANY OF THESE EVENTS.
Podium Place for Matt at Future Champions Cup Final
In a very succesful Mayday Bank Holiday weekend, Matt Dickinson secured third place in the Future Champions Cup final for both the middle distance race and the classic race. Both races were held in hot weather on fast but technical terrain. Matt's third place will hopefully lead to a place in the team for JWOC as selection for this is based on performances at the FCC final. The team selection is due to be published on 10th May.
Uphill and Down
There may be relatively few orienteering events over the summer months but there are a number of fell races and other such fun (!) in and around Derbyshire. Many are associated with well dressings or other festivals and so make good entertainment for non-runners too. Here is a selection to whet that appetite and provide an alternative to pounding the streets waiting for the autumn events to return:
Jun 16th Grindleford Fell Race (4.5miles, 500 feet climb)
Starting from Bishop’s Pavilion, Bridge Playing Field, Grindleford at 7-30pm
Jun 26th Bakewell Pudding Race (6.25 miles, 700 feet climb)
Bakewell Recreation Ground, Bakewell at 11am
Jun 29th Hope Wakes Fell Race (4miles, 650 feet climb) (Well Dressings)
Sports field, Hope (GR 165835) at 7-30pm.
Jul 6th Black Rocks Race (5.5 miles, 850 feet climb)
Matlock Rugby Club, Cromford Meadows, Cromford at 7-30pm.
Jul 10th Peak Forest Fell Race (6miles, 650 feet climb)
Start in Peak Forest (GR 115794) at 11.15am
Jul 13th Bamford Carnival Race (4.5 miles, 1000feet climb) (Well Dressings)
Bamford Recreation Ground, Bamford (206829) at 7-30pm
Jul 19th Robin Hood Fell Race (5miles, 875 feet climb)
The Robin Hood PH, Baslow (280721) at 7-30pm
Sep 3rd Longshaw Sheepdog Trials Race (5.5miles, 650 feet climb)
Longshaw Lodge (GR 265800) at 11am
Sep 13th Chevin Hill Race (3 miles, 560 feet climb)
Milford Social Club, Chevin Road, Milford at 6-30pm
Fixture List Addendum
The traditional opener to the autumn season has somehow not yet appeared on the official fixtures lists, but I have it on good authority that the White Rose is intending to be held on its traditional weekend of the August Bank Holiday. This year its at Collis Rigg and Heater Rigg, 5km north Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Last year DVO was well represented at this event and the club enclave on the campsite generated a good atmosphere, as we huddled around Steve’s laptop to watch the Olympics. This year, in another attempt to encourage more to stay for the Monday, the relay format has changed again. I haven’t worked it out yet, but the organisers assure us that it’ll be fun and allow everyone to leave relatively early on the Bank Holiday Monday.
Entries to main event via Ebor website at www.eborienteers.org.uk, relay entries through John Hurley. Cheapest entries are due by June 2nd.