On Saturday 20th August over fifty orienteers gathered on Findhorn beach for the Moravian Club Championships, including members of both local and more far flung clubs. The sky was blue and spirits high as the orienteers gathered. Both new members and old enjoyed a good catch up after the summer break, there was a strong club atmosphere.
The club championship was slightly different then your usual orienteering course, it was a score event.Meaning instead of a set route the map had all the controls on the map with different values depending on difficulty, this meant it was up to each individual orienteer to choose their way around the scenic sights of Findhorn collecting controls as they went. There were two different age categories: the open for anyone in which you had 45 minutes to gather your controls; and the juniors for under fourteen who had 30 minutes. The bonus to score results is that it does not matter about experience as each person was fairly handicapped to even the playing field. Congratulations to our open course winner Alan Halliday and our Junior winner Sophie Howard. Our thanks go to the planner Ian Addis and organiser Ken Anderson for setting up and running the event.
After the courses had finished and the club AGM started. We looked into the highs and lows of last year celebrating success through out the juniors. With British camps and international camps, the successful juniors all came from the bottom working their way through the inclusive courses for each ability and the support of Moravian to be some of the best in Great Britain.
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