Moravian Orienteers

More than 15 enthusiastic Moravians enjoyed a club coaching session in Aldroughty Woods on Saturday morning, 8th January.  The activity was planned by our lead club coach, Elizabeth Furness, ably assisted by Paul Furness.  For a full report of the activity see next Tuesday's newsletter. Meanwhile, the attached image shows one of the challenges we were set.  No paths!

Entries are now open for our next event at Sanquhar Woods on 15th January. Entries close on Wednesday 12th. We need volunteers to help with the event, please contact Kaisa (amazingdogra(@)hotmail.com) by email (remove the brackets!) if you can assist. All of the usual local event tasks will be required.   

This event has now been rescheduled to February 9th 2022. SI Entries will be updated and emails sent to all entrants. Entries will be rolled over to the new date. Maps had already been printed, instructions will be sent out for anyone who wishes to cancel for the new date.

NNC 2 at Culbin has been cancelled. Forestry and Land Scotland in a press release Monday 29th November, advised the public of closure of all car parks and access until safety work to clear storm damage has been completed. The press release can be seen in full here Public urged to stay away from forests after Storm Arwen - Forestry and Land Scotland  We will look at rescheduling the event once we have clarification in respect of Culbin from F&L Scotland.

NNC 2 due to be held at Culbin Forest on Wednesday, 1st December will be rescheduled. Details will be on our events page.  Note that the courses are setup in SI Entries as LONG and MEDIUM  these will be changed to LONG and SHORT after the event to conform to the NNC scoring.

Results so far  

What a weekend we had and we even had our usual Moravian luck with the weather! It all went very well. Thanks to Elizabeth, Liz and Marsela McLeod on Saturday, and Andrew, Morag and David Summers on Sunday.  The results and routegadget links can be found on the RESULTS page. 

Lossie Forest SOL Controller's comments
I hope you all enjoyed your day in Lossie. It's a good forest with plenty variety and challenge. Andrew put a lot of thought and work in as planner and came up with great courses, and Morag was a superbly efficient organiser. 

A select Moravian team took part in the Compass Sport Cup Final (Trophy) at Tankersley near Sheffield on 17th October. The team came a very creditable 4th (from 14 teams), just 5 points off the INTERLOPERS (INT) score.  As well as getting great results on each course, our juniors did exceptionally well, especially Kate McLuckie, who won the short green running against the 16/18 age runners.  This was one of Moravian's best ever team results at the Final.  

We checked with Nick Barrable (Editor of CompassSport magazine), and he has confirmed that the last time MOR were in the CSC finals was the late 80s.  We were 2nd in 1989 and 3rd in 1988 in the Trophy competition, which is for smaller clubs. So that means it is over 30 years since we were in the finals.  Our juniors did particularly well - the Howards, McLuckies, Daniel Campbell and Michael Bishenden all had good runs. We were well supported by the adults - the pressure was on not to mis-punch in a tricky area with lots of pits and other confusing features, as we only had 14 runners with 13 to count.  We were 4th overall out of 13 teams in the smaller clubs competition, and were just pipped by Interlopers to the position of best small club in Scotland.  Thanks are due to South Yorkshire Orienteers for organising the event at such short notice.  Over 800 runners took part in the event.

23rd and 24th October, 2021 - The Moray Mix Weekend

The Moray Mix weekend returns, this time to sunny Lossiemouth! There will be an urban SOUL (Scottish Orienteering Urban League) event in the town on Saturday 23rd October followed by a SOL (Scottish Orienteering League) event in Lossie Forest on Sunday. Elizabeth and Andrew are busy putting the finishing touches to their exciting courses which will cater for everyone from beginners/juniors up to elite competitors. Preliminary event/entries details will be on the website soon but what Morag and Liz (Event Organisers) really need now is some VOLUNTEERS to help them at these two events! If you are able to help at one or both events, please contact Liz at andrewandlizcampbell(at)outlook.com. Don't worry if you have never volunteered at an event before, there will be lots of support and it can be quite good fun, and you will get to run too.

Here is the Agenda for our AGM next Saturday.     MOR AGM Agenda
 
It should be a short AGM which will start as soon as possible after everybody has run at the “Club Champs”(hopefully at 12ish.)
 
Could members let Morag (secretary@mor.scot) know if they have any business they would like to raise at the AGM?
 
Morag
 

The results are now on the MOR website results page, winsplits are here: Winsplits

The results are a different format to usual.