Moravian Orienteers

Last Saturday 22nd May, MOR held their long anticipated Altyre Local event, The event centre had to be relocated to the Dallas Dhu distillery after the original parking was lost. Thanks to those competitors who biked to the event and reduced the parking requirement. Dave Ritchie rejigged his courses to allow for a reasonable walk to the start/finish, providing  Blue, Green, Orange and Yellow courses which made excellent use of the area.

There were good junior performances on the day, Lili Sharman won the Yellow course in 25:02, Anna Howard won Orange in 38:52, Finlay McLuckie won Green in 30:06 and Michael Bishenden won Blue in 43:30. All of the Results and Routegadget can be found on the Results page. There are already lots of routes up for you to compare to your own.

The weather was fine compared to recent days and Karen Fraser did a great job organising, with help on registration and download from Rosie Pye and Ian Welsh.

The next Saturday event is at Culbin East, details on the Events Tab.

SI Entries are now open for our next, several times postponed, event in Altyre Estate on Saturday 22nd April.  David has been planning for much of the winter and has planned four great courses for you to test your skills: Blue (TD5) course (6.3km), Green (TD5) course 4.2km, Orange (TD3) course (2.3km) and a Yellow (TD2) course (2.1km). See Events page for full details.

 

Darnaway Saturday League
What a great day we had for our return from the nether regions. Great weather, great courses (thanks Karen) and wasn't it great to see everyone again!! The results and Routegadget are all available. Quite a number have put their courses up on the light green course, but only one orange runner, and that was me! Come on orange runners, I have no-one to run my course against. You don't need to be a high flyer to put your route up. Drawing your route is easy. You don't need a GPS watch, but you can download your course if you have one. See how to do it here. 

Coaching Update
Roseisle MAD Yellow – the controls will be collected on Thursday from the Yellow. The Short Green and Green will remain out until the end of the month. Note that there is no longer a kite at No.1 but there is a piece of tape.

Updated 18 April 2021

MTBO Weekend

Steve Smirthwaite has made maps and planned courses in preparation for the Moravian MTBO weekend.  There will be 4 events on the weekend of 25-27 June (COVID rules permitting) with a back up weekend of 16-18 July.  Part of this event will now also form the British Championships.  

Entries will open in late April and will be limited to 80 competitors.

See EVENTS page for full details.

We will recommence Hill training on Thursday (18th March). As this is a club activity risk assessments have been completed and the activity registered with BOF. 

Before each session there will be a quick Covid briefing and a participation register will be kept. Each participant will be required to have completed a contact data form. These have been kept for those that attended in the autumn so only new participants will need to register.

See you at 09.30 by the cricket pavilion in Grant Park, Forres. Moravian tops and hats welcome.

We now have another MAD activity for March, thanks Alan Halliday for planning. See "Coaching" for Details or  https://www.mor.scot/node/134

The Minutes for the latest Moravian Committee meeting are now available on the Governance page:

https://www.mor.scot/node/58

MAD

The Roseisle forest MAD is now closed, there will be  a new MAD in Culbin shortly, watch this space!

Your Club Needs You!

Our Junior Badge Coordinator has become Club Secretary, so we need a new coordinator. It's a straight forward task and requires keeping track of the number of events that juniors have completed towards each badge level, and also whether they have attained any of the technical standard badges e.g. Yellow Standard. All of this data is available in the the website results. The badge webpage has some more details: https://www.mor.scot/node/90

Morag would be pleased to hear from anyone interested in finding out more, contact her on secretary@mor.scot

Fixtures

We have plenty fixtures ready but are waiting for news of when outdoor sport will resume so that we can hit the ground running (sorry).We will keep you advised via the website and newsletter.

The Scottish 6 Days is planned to take place in Lochaber during the 1-7 Aug 21.  Moravian is hosting Day 3 at Arisaig which is being co-planned by Eddie, and controlled by Roo who will act as the Assistant Controller.  Andrew and Nikki have volunteered to organise the Day on behalf of the Club and will be looking for volunteers to assist with preparations and help on the Day.  If you wish to volunteer, then please get in touch with either Andrew (Chair(@)mor.scot) or Nikki (Events(@)mor.scot) who will be extremely grateful for your support.  Please delete the brackets when using the email addresses.

Many thanks to all who have booked already - it helps us as organisers getting a feel for the level of infrastructure required. Unlike some previous events we are planning and organising around stricter Covid-19 guidance and will have separate and wider start lanes and more staggered starts. For those who have not yet booked please think about getting your entries in earlier rather than later. MOR currently have 15 entries.

MAD options for February have been updated, see the COACHING page for details of our Findhorn MAD.