Moravian Orienteers

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.

Findhorn Evening event

Next week Moray is hosting a training camp for the 16/17year olds who were selected from the Regional Squads to go to Stockholm – sadly they couldn’t travel and so they are here. As a thank you for helping with access and permissions for areas, they are planning and organising an evening event for us on Findhorn.

Date: Wednesday 25th August

Time: 6pm – 7pm with courses closing at 8pm

Parking: Findhorn main beach car park  ( meet in parking area beyond the motorhome parking)

Courses: Yellow, Orange, Short Green, Green

Entries:  via SI Entries (Full details  and link on the Moravian website, www.mor.scot )

Enquiries: Elizabeth Furness  coach@mor(dot)scot

Club Champs and AGM Postponement
The committee. has decided to postpone the club champs event and AGM from 21st August to 18th September. Our event on 21st August has been postponed but the Stockholm JROS squad are offering an evening event in Findhorn (more details from Elizabeth) and Steve Smirthwaite is planning a mountain bike event on his return from Edinburgh to keep us busy. The club champs will be in a score format with the AGM straight after and be held in Roseisle so the hardy among us can still go swimming. More details next week. Apologies to our members for the postponement.

Entries open tomorrow for the next SOL hosted by MAROC
You can read all the details here    It also mentions a SOL on the previous day, hosted by GRAMP, but as yet there are no details available for this. These events are due to be on the 4th and 5th of September.

Invitation from INVOC

Provisional results for the Anagach Middle Distance event are here.

The provisional results for the Sanquhar Sprint event are here.

The provisional results for the Altyre Middle event are here.

Finally, the provisional results for the Darnaway Long event are here.

The MTBO Weekend is here!  Final details and start lists are up on the appropriate event page.

Results for Anagach (Friday) will be posted Saturday on the Results page. The other events may have live results depending upon phone signals.

Live results can be accessed from the bottom of the HOME page or the Results page.

Great Britain team selections

Our very own ISOBEL HOWARD has been selected to represent Great Britain this summer at the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) scheduled to take place 20-22 August in Kocaeli, Turkey. Isobel is one of 3 W16s selected. And that is not all... She has also been named as reserve for the GB Women’s team at the Junior World O Championships (JWOC) due to take place 5-10 September in Vilnius, Lithuania. As a W16 this is not something that happens very often but in the Selection races at the beginning of June Isobel  won the W16 Sprint and the Long, which she won by 6 minutes at a min/km pace on a par with the best W18/20s. Over this past year, Isobel developed her training plan and did a lot of excellent sessions, mainly on her own and her commitment and hard work has translated in to results which the Selectors have recognised.

Clearly, there is a big question mark as to whether either/neither of these championships take place/travel is possible etc etc but there is no taking away from the fact that Isobel is good enough to be selected for GB representation. Congratulations!