News

The next edition of the club newsletter is due to be published in mid January, as always contributions are most welcome, please send articles to Peter Hubberstey. Let’s make Peter a very happy editor. The 7th January is the deadline for submissions, so just over a week to go.

NOC member Fiona is top news in the Matlock Mercury (see the forum). If you see any other interesting articles on the world wide web involving NOC members then please let us know or just leave a message on the forum. The article gives great coverage to DVO, well done to them, don’t forget NOC are still looking for a volunteer for the role of publicity officer, one of their tasks could be to write similar articles for the Nottinghamshire local press. If you fancy the role, then please get in touch.

Time to run off the Christmas excess at the last league event of the year, hosted by LEI this Sunday at Beacon Hill. Plenty of NOC members are in the running for top three places. Good luck to all.

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Merry Christmas to all members of NOC and orienteers everywhere.

More success at Walesby last Sunday. Congratulations to NOC member Hugh Atkin for winning the Central Notts Scout District competition. Hugh won the 12 and under class.

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson (M18) on winning the Midland night champion title at Rowney Warren recently.

Other big runs included Nigel Mockridge (M45L) 2nd and James Clarke (M50S) 3rd.

Fancy giving night orienteering a try? NOC are staging an event at Shirebrook Wood on Saturday the 17th Jan 2009.

Sunday’s Walesby fixture was the first that Neil Fraser had organised. Neil passed on this message “Not sure if this covers everyone - but thanks to you all for making my first attempt at organising less stressful than it might have been (please pass my thanks on to other's in your teams who helped out). With special thanks to Mick and Peter for sorting out the courses without whom none of this would have been possible! Everyone seems to have had a good time - at least I didn't hear anyone moaning”

Everyone at NOC would also like to thank and congratulate you Neil for organising such a splendid day.

Don’t forget that in the Barn there will be soup and mince pies available. NOC tops and sweatshirts will be on sale. Car stickers will also be making an appearance, please pick one up if you don’t have one.

We had some new members join in December. Welcome to NOC and we hope you have a long association with the club.

The new members are

Tom Banks
Kam Khalil
Rowan Lee
Fraser Lim
Sanjay Puri
The Smith family, Amanda, Jack and Paul
Danny Teesdale
Sarah Thurnell
Camron Tongue

Hilary Palmer is planning a coaching session on Saturday 3rd January 2009 from 1030 – 1230 at Bestwood Country Park. All NOC members, both adults and juniors are welcome. Park in the South Car Park and and pick up a map to find the start from Hilary’s Corsa windscreen – make your way as a warm up to the start point marked on map. Allow enough time to get to the start by 1030.

The coaching is aimed at White, Yellow and Orange Standard.

Older juniors who have the young leaders award are welcome to come and help – or just come and have a run.

If you intend to be present please e-mail me at coaching@noc-uk.org and let me know so we have some idea of the likely numbers by Wednesday 31st December at the latest.

Jim Clarke

(NOC Committee Coaching rep.)

Although it seems a long way off, we need to get thinking about entries for the British and JK relays.

The British is early next year - March 1st and the closing date is in January.

I've attached the forms you need to fill out and return, along with a cheque payable to NOC. To make my life easier it is strictly money with entry please!!

Hope you have a Happy Christmas and a fit New Year

Simon

PS the other date for your diary is Sunday March 29th which is the qualifying round of the Compass Sport Cup

British Relays Entry Form
JK Relays Entry Form

The Start Time allocations are published here. The allocation of ecards to individual runners has been made, and will be available from enquiries at the event.

(This note only applies to the Scout/Guide competition which is taking place at the same time as the normal orienteering event)

The next edition of the “Black and Green Word Machine” is due to be published in mid January, please send any contributions to Peter Hubberstey. Your contributions will be most welcome, let’s make Peter a very happy editor. The 7th January is the deadline for submissions, so that’s plenty of time before and after Christmas to get writing.

An energetic and successful first meeting of the new look committee took place at the end of November. The minutes are now online under the administration option.

Unfortunately the DVO event at Whitesprings on 14th December will no longer feature in the East Midlands League as it has proved not possible to provide a light green course (technical reasons)

There are plenty of NOC members in contention for top three finishes in the league. Good luck to all of them at the last fixture of the year, the Beacon Hill event. The latest league tables can be found at www.emoa.org.uk

Volunteers are needed for the starts at the JK 2009. Help for the Saturday and Sunday is required (11th & 12th April 2009). Helpers will receive a discount on their entry fees. Further details are on the forum.

Broxtowe Sports Partnership Celebration Evening

The Broxtowe Sport Celebration event is held each year to recognise people who have contributed to local sport through performances, volunteering or sheer enthusiasm and endeavour. This years’ event will take place on Tuesday 16th December.

NOC members Peter Hodkinson and James Taylor have both been nominated for “Sports person of the year”, good luck on the night from everyone at NOC.

We had some new members join in November. Welcome to NOC and we hope you have a long association with the club.

The new members are

Graeme Barker
James Dunajko
James Mellor
The Milner family, Sean, Caroline, Isabel and Samuel
Benjamin Moore

Chancellor Alistair Darling may have cut VAT from 17.5% to 15% but he can’t beat NOC’s reduction of 30% on club tops.

The new club kit has been reduced to £20 for one month only. There is never a better time to get that club top, whether for yourself or for a Christmas present.

And that’s not all; we have a large selection of “retro” clothing including the ever-popular sweatshirts. See the club forum for details and pictures.

All the clothing will be available at the Walesby event (21st December) but if you need to arrange delivery/collection before that date, then please give Mark Webster a ring on 01159169711.

Happy shopping.

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Thanks to everyone who made it to last month’s annual general meeting. The latest A.G.M minutes are now available to view via the website.

A link to the 2007 minutes has also been added for completeness.

There is something I cannot fathom for the moment about the various Bestwood files that I need to load to create RouteGadget. I hope to have it working later.

23:25 Working OK now. (For the technically minded, it was actually a Java runtime error when used with the new Google Chrome browser, which prevented Java running on other browsers so I needed a complete reboot). Ray.

Summer League Prizes

Prizes for the top three on each course for the summer league will be presented at the NOC AGM (at Bramcote) on Thursday night. The prize winners are:

Technical: 1= Hilary Palmer, Matt Green, Steve Green
Orange: 1 William Parkinson, 2 Max Elliott, 3 Christine Elliott
Yellow: 1 Mark Sears, 2 Joanne Towndrow, 3 Charlotte Webster
White: 1 Jamie Lowthian, 2 Sam Elliott (BLS), 3 Catherine Sears

If you are unable to attend, please contact Richard Robinson to arrange collection of your prize.

2008 Winter Circuits start Thursday 9th Oct in the Bramcote Upper School Gym

NOC AGM for 2008 will be held on Thursday 23rd October at Bramcote Hills Comprehensive School at 19:30
Agenda

Congratulations to the following NOC Juniors in the selections announced by British Orienteering yesterday:
Peter Hodkinson, who has been selected for the Junior Squad 2008/9, and also in the M18 age group to represent GB in the European Youth Orienteering Championships, and James Taylor M17 and Jenny Evans W15 who have been chosen for the 2008/9 Start Squad.

Do you have any NOC equipment which has not been returned to the garage after use? We seem to be short of quite a few vital items, so if you could please have a search round your house, garage, shed, the back of your car, etc., and then arrange to return anything that you find, then this will help us all to put on the next event (CATI)- and subsequent events. If you have items which need to be retained (for example for training), but which are used for NOC events, can you please ensure that an explanatory note is clearly displayed in the garage, or everyone is made aware of where to find those items next time they are needed. Thanks Dave

Today saw the third of the NOC weddings this summer. I'm sure that all members of NOC would like to join me in passing on our congratulations and best wishes, and wish Andrew and Emily a happy and prosperous future together.

You may remember, back in January, NOC qualifying for the Compass Sport Cup final which will be held in Sutton Park, Birmingham on Sunday October 19th.

Being so close means we have really no excuse for not getting a strong team out, remember we need competitors in all age groups, men and women.

The closing date is early October but I am away September 20th to October 4th so could do with getting organised straight away!

If you are available to run, could you e-mail me name, age group, BOF number and SI card number ASAP?

I'll sort out entry fees etc later, at the moment it is more important to know who is running!

Please for my sake, do this now rather than next month.

Also if you know you definitely cannot run, it would be helpful to know this - I'm not interested in the excuse thanks!

Hope very much to hear from you shortly,

Simon Elliott, Team Captain

On behalf of all members of NOC can I pass on our congratulations and best wishes to both of you on the occasion of your marriage and wish you both a happy and prosperous future together.

On behalf of all members of NOC can I pass on our congratulations and best wishes to both of you on your wedding day and wish you both a happy and prosperous future together.

The Juniors Document page now contains a Juniors Calendar running up to October 2009. It will be updated about twice a year.

Congratulations to the following NOC Juniors who have been selected to represent England in the Junior Home Internationals against Scotland, Wales and Ireland in September:
  W16 - Fiona Claxton and Jenny Evans
  M18 - Peter Hodkinson

A host of NOC Juniors were in the East Midlands team that finished 4th at the Juniors Inter Regional Championships; one of their best ever finishes.  The two day competition hosted by the North East Orienteering Association was held near Richmond and comprised an individual and relay competition.  The best NOC performances of the weekend came from Fiona Claxton who finished 2nd on W16 and Peter Hodkinson who finished 2nd on M18.  A special award was also given to Matthew Wallace for competing in all six Junior Inter Regionals that he has been ellegable to compete in, with this being his final year.  

  Richard Robinson
EMJOS Lead Coach

Mick Lucking, Andrew Powell, James Taylor, Peter Hodkinson and Richard Robinson will be flying out to Finland today to compete in the Jukola relay, which this year is being held near Tampere.  They will be joined out there by team mates Ali Brunton and Helen Palmer (aka Helena Peters) travelling with their Wing O team mates from Trondheim in Norway.  The seven leg relay starts at 11pm on Saturday 14th with the winning team expected to take approximately 7½ hours.  Our NOC team hope to better their debut performance of 359 out of the 1,361 teams participating; however this year's field is even bigger, which is understood to be the largest ever has 1,454 teams entered including seven teams from Great Britain.

Helen Palmer will also be running for WingO in the Womens Venla relay on Saturday afternoon against 970 other womens teams.  The total number of runners at this year's competition is expected to be 14,062!

You can follow all the action online at www.jukola2008.net

There are late permission changes to the Summer League event at Manton on June 22nd. It is likely the event will be cancelled.

White Course Position Name Age class Club Time 1 Lesley Crane 19.58 2 Matthew Jackson M10 DVO 20.00 3 Jamie Iswithian M7 NOC 20.45 4 Isaac 22.30 5= George Cranton M3 35.25 5= Oliver Beech M3 35.25 7 Blake Beesley 39.45 Yellow Course Position Name Age class Club Time 1 Henry Longstaff 20.30 2 Robert Towndrow M10 NOC 23.00 3= Isabel Beech W6 31.15 3= William Cranton M6 31.15 5= Charlie Mather 33.05 5= Molly Mather 33.05 7 Franklin 33.30 8 N-J Kinch 33.40 9 Joanna Towndrow W12 NOC 35.30 10 R Johnson 36.00 11 Carey 47.28 Orange Course Position Name Age class Club Time 1 David Olivant M60 NOC 29.25 2 Christine ElliottW50 NOC 34.00 3 William Parkinson 35.05 4 Pauline Olivant W55 NOC 38.17 5 Katie Taylor W18 NOC 38.23 6 Pete Ambrose M55 DVO 38.32 7 Kate Butler 38.40 8 Simon Taylor M40 NOC 39.24 9 John Woodall M70 NOC 43.18 10 Max Elliott M12 NOC 43.28 11 Keith Picksley M70 NOC 43.30 12 Dorothy Woodall W65 NOC 50.40 13 Carol Picksley W65 NOC 54.05 14 Longstaff 56.04 15 Kalisiak 81.55 Technical Course Position Name Age class Club Points Time 1 Andy Jackson M45 DVO 150.00 48.41 2 James Taylor M18 NOC 150.00 49.30 3 Thomas HonniballM21 150.00 55.12 4 David Bray M55 LEI 150.00 57.10 5 Robert ParkinsonM50 NOC 150.00 58.42 6 Steve Green M50 NOC 140.00 55.02 7 Ben Crane 140.00 57.30 8 Andrea Page W21 IND 140.00 61.55 9 Michael TowndrowM45 NOC 135.00 62.03 10 M Capper WAOC 130.00 63.43 11 Gerry Spalton M60 OD 125.00 60.20 12 Simon Elliott M50 NOC 110.00 50.45 13 Elizabeth ParkinsonW16 NOC 110.00 54.23 14 John Ward M60 OD 110.00 55.55 15 Hilary Palmer W60 NOC 110.00 56.45 16 Neil Fraser M45 NOC 110.00 58.13 17 Matt Green M14 NOC 110.00 59.40 18 Joe Elliott M14 NOC 100.00 57.10 19 Rodney Hugo M65 OD 100.00 57.37 20 Helen Parkinson W40 NOC 100.00 58.38 21 Sam Fraser M18 NOC 90.00 58.10 22 Jane Booker W50 NOC 50.00 52.25 23 Thelma Spalton W60 OD 40.00 55.52 24 David Winser M55 NOC 15.00 60.14 max points = 150 5 points deducted for each min over 60 mins

Congratulations to the following NOC Juniors who have been selected for training camps this summer:

M/W15 Summer Tour - Badaguish
Jenny Evans
Elizabeth Parkinson

Under 18's Summer Tour - Uppsala
Fiona Claxton
James Taylor

JWOC'09 Training Camp - Italy
Peter Hodkinson

BOF Coaching have organised an Individual Coaching Day at Cordon/Stapeley on Saturday June 7th, the day before the nearby National Event at Brown Clee. There will be instruction available for three levels Orange/LtGreen/Green+. The application form is here. NB Closing date is 21st May.

Four years after achieving Clubmark standard, NOC has been reaccredited with Clubmark.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed towards achieving this quality status marker which indicates that NOC cares for the club's Junior members well-being, enthuses them, helps them to use their leisure time creatively, develops their talents, and identifies and supports the outstanding ones amongst them.
Follow the link from the Clubmark logo (bottom left foot of Home Page) to find out more.

Podium places for NOC at the British Championships held at Culbin, near Inverness, on 19th/20th April

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Helen Palmer W21E Bronze	Jenny Evans/Sarah Claxton/Fiona Claxton W18 Winners	Peter Hodkinson/James Taylor/Peter Lynas M18 Winners	Kevin Lomas/Michael Napier/Mick Lucking M50 2nd

Photo credits: Hilary Palmer

Our other runners in the top 5 were:
M18L Peter Hodkinson 4th
M60S John Palmer 3rd
M65S Bob Alderson 1st
M70S Tony Buckland 2nd
W21S Rosemary Hodkinson 1st
W21S Emily Parkin 5th
W55S Hazel Rice 1st
W60L Hilary Palmer 5th

Congratulations to all.

7 or 5 person overnight relay starting at 11pm and finishing at 7am
Variety of leg lengths and difficulty: 4 night legs, 3 day legs
Saturday 17th May, Park Wood and Nap Hill, High Wycombe
Preceded earlier in the day by JOK Chasing Sprint (UK Cup race) at Bloom Wood
Further details available at: www.splitsbrowser.org.uk/harvester/
entries closing date 3rd May
please eMail if interested
All persons must be aged 16 or over.

To all members of NOC:

If you move house or change email address please could you try to inform the club secretary so our records can remain up to date.

It is very useful to us and you to be able to keep in contact with our membership about upcoming events.

To anyone who is on email who hasn’t given their email address to the club, please consider doing so as we currently have only 50% of club members addresses, and it is by far the easiest way of mass communicating with the club as a whole.

Thanks in advance,

NOC committee.

Maybe it was all the mud, or the heavy snow showers, but NOC, as a club, failed to get any placings whatsoever at this year's JK Relays.

However, congratulations to our own Helen Palmer, now resident in Trondheim, Norway, who brought across a few of her teammates from the local club WING OK, winning the Women's Trophy by a clear minute. Helen ran second leg, taking her team from 4th place into the lead.

Sorry: The link seems to be personalised - so maybe only the contactee who entered JK2008 via Fabian4 will be sent a copy. Other members of their party and those via snail mail are excluded.

There is a survey requesting feedback on JK2008: Click Here

Congratulations to our JK class winners:
Michael Napier M55L
Andy Llewellyn M21L
Rosemary Hodkinson W21S
and to
Hilary Palmer 2nd on W60L
Hazel Rice 3rd on W55S

The results of the 2007 NOC Club Championship held at Tankersley are now available:

  Class                      Race Time    Gold Time    %Gold    M55L   Ruedi Billeter          52:52      66:41      79.28  JM3    Jordan Webster          26:56      33:40      80.00  M50L   Kevin Lomas             66:05      82:28      80.13  JM3    Jack Lord               27:29      33:40      81.63  JM3    Max Elliott             27:54      33:40      82.87  M50L   Simon Elliott           68:57      82:28      83.61  M21L   Petr Basus              70:51      82:43      85.65  JM5L   Peter Lynas             62:12      71:10      87.40  M60L   Stephen Wright          61:08      69:55      87.44  W21L   Silvie Hojna            65:51      74:58      87.84  JM2    William Parkinson       17:49      20:13      88.13  M21L   Richard Robinson        73:03      82:43      88.31  JW5L   Jenny Evans             64:45      72:53      88.84  M45L   Nicholas Evans          61:41      67:47      91.00  JW5S   Elizabeth Parkinson     45:40      49:45      91.80  M50S   David Booker            59:43      63:07      94.63  M60L   Alan Beardsley          67:03      69:55      95.90  M21L   Andrew Powell           79:47      82:43      96.45  JM4    Joe Elliott             33:34      33:55      98.97  M60S   Peter Hubberstey        42:02      42:11      99.67  M50L   Peter Carter            83:29      82:28     101.23  W40L   Janet Evans             77:10      75:25     102.32  M21L   James Taylor            84:44      82:43     102.44  W50L   Jane Booker             74:38      72:37     102.78  JM5L   Matthew Wallace         75:24      71:10     105.95  JM5L   Daniel Hughes           75:40      71:10     106.32  JM4    Chris Houlton           36:32      33:55     107.71  W21S   Emily Parkin            62:07      57:22     108.29  W40S   Helen Parkinson         55:43      50:46     109.77  JW4    Victoria Littlewood     53:34      48:11     111.17  M60L   David Cooke             80:03      69:55     114.49  M50S   Andrew Wallace          74:35      63:07     118.19  M45L   Edward Lloyd            81:34      67:47     120.33  M35L   Keith Lowthian         114:45      94:17     121.71  W45S   Pauline Jones           54:47      44:06     124.24  M50L   Robert Parkinson       104:20      82:28     126.52  JW5S   Katie Taylor            64:22      49:45     129.39  M55S   David Winser            63:52      44:53     142.31  M45L   Michael Lord            99:55      67:47     147.41  JM4    Ben Lord                50:10      33:55     147.91  JM5S   Matthew Wetton          93:23      41:41     224.06  JM5M   Harry Nicholson          dsq  M50S   Paul Morris              dsq  

There is no award for 'Best Newcomer' for 2007.

This year it is being organised by Ashbourne Rugby Club with assistance from DVO (presumably in the Peak District)

The proposed dates are Saturday or Sunday 14th / 15th June

For those of you who haven't done it before it's good fun but does require a commitment to reconnoitre your leg before the event!

Legs vary in distance and the team has to consist of all age groups

Unfortunately it clashes with the Jukola relay in Finland to which NOC are sending a team however if there is enough interest I will organise an entry.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested in running and which date as the Rugby Club are trying to gauge interest to see if it is worth putting the event on.

thanks
Simon

On 23rd February, at the British Night Championships held at New Beechenhurst in the Forest of Dean, NOC members achieved one win, three second places and a further three third places. Congratulations to:

M55 1st Michael Napier

M18 2nd James Taylor
M16 2nd Harry Nicholson
W21 2nd Sarah O'Neil

M21 3rd Richard Robinson
M50 3rd Mick Lucking
W18 3rd Katie Taylor

Peter's funeral will be take place at 11.40 on Wednesday 5th March in the West Chapel at Wilford Hill Cemetery & Crematorium, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham (Tel: 0115 915 2340). This is very close to where we lived for 35 years, so the area holds many memories for us. Afterwards we'd like to invite everyone back to The Country Cottage Hotel, Easthorpe Street, Ruddington for a light buffet.

Peter was never one for formal occasions, so there's no need for people to be getting their dark suits and ties out of the wardrobe. We'd also like to restrict flowers to family only, as we think Peter would prefer people to make a gift to Buxton Mountain Rescue Team instead (details will be in the Order of Service).

Please can you indicate to Dave Cooke if you will be attending, and if you would wish to have any particular recollections mentioned at the service.

Peter was to have controlled the Crich Chase event this Sunday, 2nd March. If you are unable to attend the funeral, there will be an opportunity to show your respects at the event. Ros, Chris and myself will be at Crich, and we hope to see many of you there.

Simon Bourne

I am sorry to report that Peter Bourne (DVO and ex NOC) died today. These are the only details I have at the moment and I shall post more information when it is known. I am sure that you will all want to join with me in offering condolences to Ros and family. Dave Cooke

The England team for Interland on 2 March 2008 at Budel in Holland includes just one member of NOC this year

M18 Peter Hodkinson

England competes in this annual five-way match, its only match outside the British Isles, against two Belgian teams (Flemish and French speaking), the Dutch and the Nordrhein-Westfalische (NW Germany) team.

Well done and many thanks to those who trekked to Thetford to help the Club qualify for this year's final. I got the impression from those who ran that the area was nicer than anticipated - it certainly allowed some very fast times! We had a number of class winners but special mention should be made of Bert Bradshaw who contributed a counting score in the male 75+ age group - have a nice rest in Australia or is it warm weather training?

The final is at Sutton Park, Birmingham on Sunday October 19th. For those of you that haven't been there before, it is extremely fast so will favour the fit, so spikes on and get training.
Simon

The rush to sort the Compass Sport Cup entries out and Christmas in general meant a baptism of fire for me in my new role. In case you haven't cottoned on, I 'volunteered' for the next stint of Team Manager. The only slight difference to tradition is that I knew at the time of taking the post that there would be events I would not be able to attend e.g. this years JK. So Andrew Powell has kindly agreed to deputise on the day and may well look after some of the team selection issues! I will be dealing with the administration so all entry queries to me - though you may wish to copy Andrew into correspondence if you think appropriate.

JK and British Relays: The next deadline is rapidly approaching! In order to take advantage of cheaper entry fees, the relay entries for the JK have to be in mid-February and the British by mid-March.

Here are the entry forms for the JK Relays and for the British Relays. I will need entries for the JK by February 15th and the British by March 14th at the very latest. Entries for the individual competitions you do yourselves!

Any problems don't hesitate to contact me:
Simon Elliott, Team Captain
Andrew Powell, Assistant Team Captain

Today at Thetford Forest NOC successfully qualified for the Compass Sport Cup final. Results Here

Club Champs will be held at SYO C3 at Tankersley on 27/01/08. Entries closing date is 13/01/08, via SYO website. (note date is 27th Sunday)

Reminder that Thursday circuits start again at Bramcote on the 3rd