Harlequins Orienteering Club

The opening event of the Summer Series will be held at Highbury Park, in Birmingham on Saturday 1st April. The park was originally the urban farm owned by the Chamberlain family who lived in the neighbouring Highbury Hall. The park and the neighbouring gardens are a beautiful oasis in the suburbs of Birmingham with a lake, ponds and several woodland areas. We are running this event in conjunction with COBOC who are treating it as a part of their Beginners,…

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Captain Kerstin says: I would be the first to admit I was not feeling it yesterday. Even less so after my own run, I was out for a long time and many of you agreed it was a tough day. However, conditions were the same for all clubs, and in the end we did it!! From the onset we knew we could not take SYO on, but we “only” had to beat MDOC to go through to the final. POTOC…

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Congratulations to the HOC team who competed in today’s Compass Sport Cup regional qualifier at Park Hall. An enthusiastic team of experienced and new members overcame the mud to qualify for the final to be held in the Forest of Dean in November.

Series Co-ordinator John reports: I am grateful to the organisers of this season’s Night Street League events who attracted a total of 69 runners to their events with 106 individual runs in all. It was great to see some familiar faces as well as some newcomers, and members from other local clubs, attracted by the range of events that we put on. I think it’s fair to say that the MapRun format is working well for this style of event…

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A pdf file is linked from the results pages and can be viewed below; Kerstin’s verdict: My first event planning with map run and I will definitely do this again. I already decided to do an event for next season, but I won’t include a locked up trading estate!!Thank you all runners for coming along and making it such a lovely evening.”

Eloise and David W. Full table below; John beats Richard by a whisker on age class seniority!

Results from the Malvern event on 16th February: Colin says: With one event left to go, the league table looks like this: And here are the details of the finale:

Saturday night at the British Night Championships down in Ringwood saw not one, but two Harlequins crowned British Night Orienteering champions – many congratulations to Barry Houghton M75 and Alison Sloman W85. Chris McCartney also took third in M50. Fantastic achievements!