News

Merry Christmas to all members of NOC and orienteers everywhere.

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

The new members are

The Beasly family, Nigel, Elaine, Charlotte, Olivia and James
Liz Day and Will Drewe
Samuel Elliott
Peter Ferguson and Joanne Woolley
Andy Geering
Charmain Heaton
Charles and Diana Hickling
Amanda Howard
Patrica and Jack Krawczyk
Brian Medlam
Barbara and Bob Newsome
The Severn family, Jonathan, Juliet, Elle and Theo
Joseph Warren-Barratt
The West family, Danielle, Martin, Abigail and Thomas
Steve Wickham
Eva Wheeler
David Brown
James Culley
Alice Malbon
Justin McLaughlan
Lorena Peet
David Robinson
Megan Wells
David Sissons

The latest edition of the NOC newsletter has arrived.
Click here to view it.

Entries need to be in sooner than originally thought. Please let Simon have your details by January 3rd at the latest (the earlier the better)

The qualifying round draw sees NOC pitted against Norfolk Orienteering club and West Anglian Orienteering club.

The venue is Shouldham Warren, Downham Market, Norfolk. Date is Sunday 24th January.

Entry fees are £8 senior, £3 junior / student

Simon Elliott will need your

Age group as of 2010
BOF number
SI card number

We will be running a coach leaving West Bridgford library around 0730. Park and Ride you know it makes green sense!

Cost £5 adults, £3 juniors / students, subsidised by NOC.

Please send your details to me here

Cheques payable to NOC

Send to 9 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1BS

By January 10th at the latest, the earlier the better!

If you didn’t receive Simon’s e-mail last week then maybe we don’t have your correct details? Please let Mark know your latest e-mail address here

The final Bassetlaw District Club session of 2009 will be a night event at Ranby House School, in the village of Ranby, between Worksop and Retford. This Wednesday, 16th December.

Everyone is welcome. Headlights will be provided.

Meet at 6.30pm in the Old Gym.
Adults £2, Children £1

The qualifying round draw sees NOC pitted against Norfolk Orienteering club and West Anglian Orienteering club.

The venue is Shouldham Warren, Downham Market, Norfolk. Date is Sunday 24th January.

Entry fees are £8 senior, £3 junior / student

Simon Elliott will need your

Age group as of 2010
BOF number
SI card number

We will be running a coach leaving West Bridgford library around 0730. Park and Ride you know it makes green sense!

Cost £5 adults, £3 juniors / students, subsidised by NOC.

Please send your details to me here

Cheques payable to NOC

Send to 9 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1BS

By January 10th at the latest, the earlier the better!

If you didn’t receive Simon’s e-mail last week then maybe we don’t have your correct details? Please let Mark know your latest e-mail address here

A small (but elite) group of juniors certainly seemed to enjoy their day at the Yvette Baker Trophy final. The final was held at Tilgate Park, Crawley, Sussex.

Apparently it was very muddy!

Octavian Droobers took the title, with Deeside the runners up and South Yorkshire finishing third.

Full results can be found here

Thanks to Mick and Julie Lord for being the responsible adults on the day and to Pauline Olivant for organising and the administration.

And of course to all the juniors who took part on the day and those who helped qualify for the final.

Next year’s event will be closer to home, should NOC qualify it will be in the West Midlands.

The deadline for submitting articles for the next edition of the NOC Newsletter is fast approaching (Wednesday 9th December)

Please send any items for inclusion to December's editor Peter Hubberstey

Enclosed with the Autumn edition of the Focus magazine was your membership renewal form.

You must renew by Monday 7th December to receive your new membership card by the 1st January 2010. Your membership card will be distributed with the Winter edition of Focus in late December.

Those who pay by direct debit should now have been debited.

Otherwise

ONLINE You are also able to renew your membership online. To do so, visit the British orienteering website and log in with your username and password which has been sent out previously. If you have mislaid or forgotten any of your login details please contact the National Office. You must renew by Monday 7th December 2009.

CHEQUE If you do not currently renew by direct debit, your renewal form and cheque should be returned by Monday 7th December 2009 to the National Office.

National Office:
8a Stancliffe House, Whitworth Road, Darley Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 2HJ
Office hours: Mon-Fri 9.00am-5.00pm
Tel: 01629 734042 Fax: 01629 733769
e-mail: info@britishorienteering.org.uk

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the Bassetlaw District Orienteering Club will be at Thoresby Hall on Wednesday 2nd December.

Gather in the Gallery Car Park, this is to be found just next to the main hall car park entrance. 6.30pm start.

This is an ideal location to for beginners to experience night orienteering.

The minutes of the November committee meeting are now online. Download from here

Congratulations to Samuel Horsewill on his appointment as Junior Team Captain (This also means that the committee now has a full compliment of members)

A big thanks to Lindsey Brown for taking on the team leader role for the string course.

Also many thanks to Hilary Hodkinson for all those years of sterling service.

Hilary’s great article from B & G (September 2008)

I’m All Strung Up!

Our family first got involved with running String courses for NOC sometime back in the mid-nineties – in those far-off days before every detail was recorded on the computer! –and I’ve held the job of String Course Team Leader ever since. But I now need to pass the role on to another Club member.

When we first started organising string courses, they were very elaborate affairs. We had to visit the area in advance and hand-draw a pictorial map upon which the course was drawn. I remember photocopying 30 or 40 per event – and even then fearing that they might run out. (But those were the days when M14 had 100 competitors at the JK or British Champs!)

Times have changed and the number of young children at events has dropped significantly. We have worked out a way of running string courses that is much less demanding of time or petrol. There is no need to visit the area in advance or to produce a map. You simply affix a large picture to each control stake (obtainable from the club garage) and print out a number of ‘control cards’ (comprising a strip of paper with miniature copies of the pictures next to numbered boxes where the children punch.) We have several pre-prepared sets of String Course pictures + ‘control cards’, which only need to be printed off the computer. On the day, you just roll out the string within the allocated area, choosing the course to suit the day’s conditions, and put out the control stakes at appropriate points on the course. Instead of a map, each child is given their ‘control card’ and simply follows the string.

Although there are now fewer children, the enjoyment and educational benefit they gain from doing the String Course remains the same. I know how important it was for our family to have something for everyone at an orienteering event and can honestly say that, without the initial experience of the String Course, our children’s passion for O would have been slower to develop.

A particular highlight for us was running the String Course at the JK in the Lake District in 2004. For such a special occasion we had drawn a detailed map; but, on the morning of the event we were forced to move to an entirely new location and to construct an entirely new course, with no opportunity to correct the maps. Only one family out of the hundred or so who took part commented upon the obvious inaccuracies – thus confirming my observation that children are more interested in the string, the pictures, the punching (and the sweet at the end!) than in the finer points of a map

Times have now moved on and the role of String Course Team Leader no longer fits our family life. Our youngest child is dedicating her life to music and ballet and we now spend many weekends at master classes and competitions and almost every weekday evening at ballet school the other side of Nottingham. This makes it very difficult to carry out the only essential part of the Team Leader’s job – phoning or emailing round to arrange volunteers to run the string courses at the next few club events. There is no obligation to run the courses yourself since we have a team of helpers, many of whom are well experienced. Above all, and contrary to popular belief, there is no need to have any children of your own at all – a sense of satisfaction when seeing children enjoying themselves in a constructive way is the only requirement!

So I do hope that someone in the Club will feel able to take on this less-thanonerous task and do their bit to keep up the supply of families coming into our sport. Please email me on teamleader_string@noc-uk.org to arrange a chat.

Hilary Hodkinson

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

The new members are

Alexander Bosworth
Steve, Lucy and Rachel Forrest
Carl, Francesca, Jacky and Matthew Giudici
Liz Harvey and Chris Heaton
Mark, Edward, Paula and Tara Johnson
Jeffrey, Jane, Lily, Oscar and Talulla Renton-MacBeth
Clive Kent and Jenny Morris
Gary and James Peet
Andrew, Darcy and Mackenzie Shaw
Keith, Blake, Claudia and Hilary Southwell

Alongside the regular orienteering event, the annual Scout/Guide Orienteering Competition at Walesby Forest Scout Campsite takes place on 20th December. The competition is open to individuals from any Scout/Guide group or any School.
Details and Entry Form are here

Closing Date is 1st December.

Information on travel and entries for the Yvette Baker Trophy Final can be found here. We are sharing a coach with SYO, and we need your names AS SOON AS POSSIBLE please so that the right size coach can be booked.

A big thanks to Nigel Mockridge for taking on the club role of equipment officer.

Congratulations to James Taylor on being one of the first to have made it onto the scheme.

British Orienteering has had 21 nominations accepted for the 2009/10 Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS).

TASS is a Government funded programme that represents a unique partnership between sport and Higher, and Further Education institutions. The programme facilitates service provision to talented athletes that are committed to combining their sport and education.

Each athlete will receive a comprehensive package of support including strength and conditioning, physiotherapy, lifestyle Support, screening and medical scheme and access to coaching, sport science, nutrition and psychology services.

Each athlete is linked to a TASS Hub Institution from which the majority of support services are delivered. Further details.

I have just received the latest copy of EMEWS and it is showing LOG's event on Sunday 22nd November as Stapleford. It should be BOURNE WOODS. Sean Harrington, LOG Chairman.

NOC juniors qualify for the final! A big thanks to everyone who turned out today at Wakerley Woods. The results are available here. The final is to be held at Tilgate park near Crawley, initial details are here.

Please let everyone know that there will be the opportunity to have a go at night orienteering at Thoresby Hall on 11 Nov and 2nd Dec and at Ranby House School on 16th Dec.

If anyone is interested please give me a call so that we have enough maps and headlights.

regards,

Robert

For further information contact Robert Parkinson 01777 871762

November/December 2009 Programme

Wed 4th Nov East Retford Rugby Club : Contour Interpretation , Night Norwegian Courses

Wed 11th Nov Thoresby Hall, Gallery Car Park : Night Orienteering with Headlamps

Wed 18th Nov Ranby House School Old Gym : Slopes, Contours, Re-entrants, Conditioning Exercises

Wed 25th Nov Ranby House School Old Gym : Line Features, Night Labyrinth Plus!

Wed 2nd Dec Thoresby Hall, Gallery Car Park : Night Orienteering with Headlamps

Wed 9th Dec Ranby House School Old Gym : Compass Work, Conditioning Exercise

Wed 16th Dec Ranby House School : Night Orienteering with Headlamps

Wed 23rd Dec No Meeting

Wed 30th Dec No Meeting

Our Yvette Baker trophy qualifying heat is on Sunday 8th November at Wakerley Woods (full details will be available on the LEI web site, www.leioc.org.uk )

For those who haven’t taken part before this is national junior competition of the year and NOC juniors have always done well, but last year DVO beat us so we want to have as many juniors are possible at the heat to help us qualify for the final this year. All juniors score and the top 9 count for the team. but even if you don’t count for the team you may still push other scores for LEI, DVO down.

The format is fairly straight forward, any M/W20 or below can run, courses yellow to green are used for scoring, boys and girls are scored separately, you can run very much the course that you think you can score well on, but with a few small restrictions.

Yellow is restricted to M/W14 and below, as long as they haven’t got gold standards at level 1 events or above on JMW 3 courses .

Orange Any M/W 12 or below, plus any 14 and above who hasn’t got gold at JMW4 or higher.

Light green any M/W 14 and M/W16 or above, but again as long as they haven’t got gold standards on JMW5 courses.

Green Anyone.

A list of those holding gold standards has been published by British Orienteering if you are not sure. http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/downloads/eventinfo.php

If you finished in the top ten at the final last year this also may affect the course you can run.

We really need as many juniors as possible, a lot of our obvious ‘stars’ can now only run green, we can only score 4 on that course whilst we hope they will take max points between them, we really need a lot more juniors to take part particularly on yellow, orange and light green, can you please let me know if you will be able to run and check out if not sure which course you should compete on.

Please come and run for the club and help us qualify for the final again Crawley on the 6th December.

Regards

Pauline

Pauline Olivant
Nottinghamshire Orienteering club
Tel 0115 9872083

That's the message from the latest edition of the magazine "My Mansfield". The latest recruits to the set-up at West Notts College, Tricia and Jack can be seen trying it out on page 14.

November's edition with the full article can be found here.

Peter Hodkinson grabs bronze/third place in the sprints. For further information and to follow the long and relays visit the website at http://www.jec2009.de/

Team manager Simon Elliott would like to pass on this message regarding the Compass Sport Cup.

The NOC entry was pretty thin this year so many thanks to those who made it off their sick beds and physio couches to compete.

Even I enjoyed what was a pretty runable LEI forest, probably due to the fact that it is in Northamptonshire!

I hope to get to the Byron's Walk event in a couple of weeks and will bring the maps for those who didn't collect on the day.

Remaining refunds will also be available.

I'm off to Hong Kong this weekend for an interesting sounding Team Score Event - looks very hilly!

Cheers

Simon

Thanks to everyone who turned out for the Compass Sport Cup on a lovely day at Fineshade wood. NOC eventually finished 7th with SYO taking the title once again.

1st South Yorkshire
2nd Octavian Droobers
3rd Bristol Orienteering

Our top 25 counters can be found here.

Individual results can be found here.

“I never thought I would wear a hoodie, but they are really great for before and after a run”.

“Helping out at an event, felt fantastic in my NOC hoodie”

Just some of the quotes received from the early adopters of the “hood”

Please email Mark clubkit@noc-uk.org if you would be likely to buy one. The cost will be £15.

The next bulk order will be placed as soon as there is enough interest.



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The minutes of the 2009 A.G.M. are now available. Download from here

The minutes of the September committee meeting are now online. Download from here

Just in case you missed the presentations at the A.G.M. NOC had three members honoured by British Orienteering. The British Orienteering Services to Orienteering Awards are to recognise and acknowledge the great work done by volunteers in orienteering.

The following people were acknowledged for their outstanding contribution.

David Olivant for the development of Mapping in the Nottinghamshire area.

Jim Clarke for his commitment to the development of schools' orienteering and young orienteers in Nottinghamshire.

Keith Streb for the development of Mapping in the Nottinghamshire area.

The photographs have been uploaded to the website and are now available to view.

Hilary Palmer was crowned the NOC champion of champions at Saturday's a.g.m. Hilary held off a strong challenge from Charlotte Webster and defending champion Ruedi Billeter to once again take the title.


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2009 : 1st Hilary Palmer 2nd Charlotte Webster 3rd Ruedi Billeter. Previous results

Many thanks to those who have let me know that they can run!

For the rest it's not too late tho' I must know by October 1st please.

If you can run, please send me an e-mail with your name, age category, BOF number and SI card number.

Also please note the revised entry fees of £9.50 senior, £4 junior. Cheques payable to NOC please.

Anyone who has already sent me a cheque, I will give you a refund on the day unless you wish to send me a substitute cheque - current cheques have not yet been cashed.

Finally, I forgot to ask that if you have a preference about Early / Middle or Late start times to let me know.

If you've already sent me your details could you let me know with a further e-mail otherwise I'll start from the last start time and work forwards!

Many thanks
Simon Elliott, Team Captain,
9 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1BS

Thanks to all those who made it to today’s events. Hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves, there were plenty of new faces at the “come and try it” and over fifty NOC members attended the a.g.m.

Once again thanks to everyone involved with the day.

James Taylor along with Simon Taylor, Jamie Webb-Bowen and Simon Payne will be attempting the “Three Peaks Challenge”. Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, all within 24 hours. They will be raising money for the “Nottingham Traumatic Brain Injury Service”

Further details are available at www.justgiving.com/James-Taylor1/

Well done to Peter Hodkinson on being selected to represent Great Britain at the Junior European Cup being held in Dresden, Germany from 22nd to 25th October.

The entry fees have been reduced!

The new prices are Seniors £9.50 (after discount for BOF members) and Juniors £4.00.

As before, entries to Simon.

If you can run, please send him an e-mail with your name, age category, BOF number and SI card number.

Then put a cheque in the post to Simon, payable to "NOC"

Simon Elliott, 9 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1BS

The white and yellow entry on the day courses will remain at £3.00 for Seniors (after BOF Discount) and juniors £1.50.

The latest edition of the NOC newsletter has arrived. Click here to view it

After the Summer break, West Notts Orienteers is back! Tuesday 8th September sees the club nights return to your social calendar.

Club nights start again after the summer break on Wednesday 9th September.

6.30pm - 8.00pm,at East Retford Rugby Club, Ordsall.

Everyone welcome. £1 children £2 adults

For the first five sessions we will be developing our score orienteering skills in preparation for some of the more experience juniors competing in the British Schools Score Championships, on Saturday 10th October, at Hylands Park, in Essex.

Any juniors interested in doing the Peter Palmer relays on Sept 27th who haven't let Jim Clarke know, please do so ASAP - we're hoping to enter two teams this year!

It's time to get the NOC entries ready for this year's final at Fineshade Wood, Leicestershire.

It's only just down the road so no excuses for not going this year!

If you can run, please send me an e-mail with your name, age category, BOF number and SI card number.

Then put a cheque in the post to me payable to "NOC"
Fees are £xx.xx senior, £x.xx junior (Latest news = now £9.50 and £4)

Many thanks
Simon Elliott, Team Captain,
9 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1BS

NOC members are invited to a complementary buffet after the “c.a.t.i.” event. A social gathering, award presentations, sumptuous food and the a.g.m. will make this an afternoon not to be missed!

Awards are to be given to this year’s club champions. Summer league prizes will also be presented and there are also some beneficiaries of awards from British Orienteering. The presentations will take place at Sherwood Lodge after the “Come and try it” event at Burntstump (19th September)

The NOC A.G.M. for 2009 will be held on Saturday the 19th September 2009 at Sherwood Lodge. It will be held after the “come and try it” event at Burntstump. Please put this date in your diary, further details, the agenda and more exciting news to follow.

Since the formation of the current committee, we have been unable to fill the position of Volunteer Coordinator. This is a challenging role in the club but is also crucial to our continued development and success. Time given by volunteers is our greatest resource and without effective coordination, we are in danger of failing to capitalise on the commitment and good will of our membership.

As an interim measure, other committee members have attempted to fill in but this is a far from ideal solution and is unfair to ask committee members, who are themselves volunteers, to take on additional responsibilities.

As the club develops, the position of Volunteer Coordinator will become even more crucial and the Committee have decided to adopt the following approach to deal with this challenge.

To deal with our immediate challenges, the position of Volunteer Coordinator is advertised here, to the membership, with responsibilities as per the current Roles and Responsibilities (set out below) and with a limited tenure to 31st December 2009.

Recognising the particular challenges of the role, a fee of £750 will be paid in return for the achievement of an agreed set of outcomes (which will basically revolve around the provision of volunteers for the 2009/10 fixtures).

During that time, the committee will work to develop a bid for grant funding to create a larger post aimed at developing the Volunteer Coordinator role and the utilisation of volunteers within the club. It is hoped that this post can commence in January 2010 and will last for around one year. As this bid develops, updates on it’s progress will be given.

Anyone wishing to be considered for the role should contact the Club Chairman by 15th September 2009.

Anyone considering putting themselves forward is welcome to contact Steve Green or Pauline Olivant for an informal chat.

Roles and Responsibilities
· Attend all NOC Fixtures sub committee meetings and any NOC committee meetings if necessary.
· Email/post all actions relating to the role, 2 weeks before the NOC Committee meeting
· Find volunteers for each event for the roles of planner, organiser, controller and whiz kid.
· Liaise with the fixtures sub committee about planned fixtures and permissions, keep them updated about event officials appointed including updating web site system.
· Circulate to event officials any guidance on file e.g. organiser's notes (which include contact details for helper group co-ordinators, results service), planner's notes, summer league organisation notes.
· Ensure that they have received all the relevant information they need from the club to enable them to carry out the role.

Congratulations to the overall winners at the Scottish 6 Day event, Jane Booker (W55S), Andrew Llewellyn (M21L) and Mark Burley (M21V).

Top three places also went to William Parkinson (2nd on M14B), Craig Woods (2nd on M18S) and Peter Bowen (2nd on M21V)

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson(M18) for being selected to represent England at the WJHI.

The minutes of the July committee meeting are now online. Download from here

Certificates are available for competitors who meet the required standard for the same colour course on three separate occasions.

Standards are as follows:

White by anyone who successfully completes the White course.

All other courses are calculated using whichever of the following two methods gives the larger number of qualifiers:

The time that is achieved by at least 50% of those who started the course, which includes those who retire or are disqualified. Each pair or group on Yellow and Orange courses (if any) should be treated as a single starter.

or

150% of the winner’s time.

In the East Midlands Men’s and Women’s times are calculated separately.

Certificates can be obtained by contacting Simon Elliott, "ccAward @ noc-uk.org" letting him have the full details of your results.


Example Certificate

This years’ Peter Palmer junior team relay will take place at Sutton Park, Birmingham on Sunday 27th September 2009. A brief flyer is available at http://www.coboc.org.uk/Peter_Palmer_Flyer_09.pdf

Congratulations to Helen Palmer on being selected for the Trondheim training camp.

The Ranby House results are below, and the action doesn’t stop there, another event next Wednesday (15th) sees an outing for a street score event around Ordsall. Meet at East Retford Rugby Club, at 6.30pm. Refreshments will be available afterwards in the clubhouse. Everyone welcome.

Ranby House Wednesday Evening Event

Short Course 1 (550 metres 5 controls)
1. Joe Warren-Barratt 3.35
2. Michael Woolgrove 4.16
3. Tim Ho 4.41
4. Cameron Ho+Aaron Smith 5.36
5. Amy Woolgrove 7.56

Short Course 2 (1.2km 10 controls)
1. Tim Ho 8.01
2. Michael Woolgrove 10.12
3. Joe Warren-Barratt 12.02
4. Cameron Ho +Aaron Smith 12.59
Amy Woolgrove (3 missing) 9.52

Medium Course (4.0km 16 controls)
1. Ben Beresford 20.31
2. Liz Parkinson 21.10
3. Paul Beresford 23.15
4. Graeme Huggan 28.26
5. Connor Jones + Mr Jones 31.19
6. Jess & Rachel Beresford 36.52
7. Juliet Severn 42.02
8. Sara Smith 56.02
Kieran Huggan (nos. 9-16) 12.13

Congratulations to Helen on being selected to represent Great Britain at the World Championships in Hungary from August 16-23, Helen will be running the middle distance event, you can also follow Helen’s blog at http://helvino.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Laura Young on her wedding to Matthew Martin, best wishes for a long and happy future from everyone here at NOC.

Bassetlaw District Club are using their next Wednesday club night (8th July) to hold a small orienteering event. We are going to use the newly mapped school grounds at Ranby House School. There will be a short course and a medium length course.

Meet at East Retford Rugby Club, in Ordsall, at 6.30pm, or just inside the entrance at Ranby House School, at 6.45pm.

Adults £2 and children £1.

After running everyone is welcome back at the rugby club (about 2 miles) for refreshments.

Everyone welcome.

Members of NOC can grab themselves a fantastic 20% off this Thursday (2nd July) at “Up & Running” on Huntingdon Street (opposite Staples)

The shop will stay open later than normal from 17:00 to 20:00 to offer all NOC members this great discount; you just need to show your British Orienteering membership card to qualify for the discount.

A big thanks to Rob the shop owner for offering this to NOC, Rob will be there on the night to help you choose the right gear. Directions are available at http://www.upandrunning.co.uk/shops/nottingham.php

Sunday saw another fantastic summer league event, for those who ran too fast and missed seeing The Hemloch Stone, try http://www.stapleford-notts.co.uk/hemlockstone.htm for some further information.

Andy Wallace wins “timekeeper” of the day, with no watch he still managed to keep under the 40 minute barrier with a very accurate run of 39:33

Simon’s comments………

A glorious day with a huge turnout - many thanks to those runners on the technical course who were patient in waiting for a recycled map (very 'green'!).

With such a small area it's difficult to get courses of suitable length using pin punching however I hope the pathless Hemlockstone slowed you down a little if the hills hadn't already.

We had one control kite and one punch stake pinched (at different control sites), fortunately after everyone had finished so no ones run was affected.

Thanks to Catherine Hughes for doing the 'Meet and Greet'. Much appreciated I'm sure by the several newcomers.

Thanks to Joe Elliott for planning the orange course and Max for running round it to ensure it met the required standard.

And finally to Christine / Max and Joe for helping on registration / start and finish

Simon Elliott

A big welcome to two new members this month, Alex and Lynda Allison, we hope to see you out and about very soon.

Two events completed and five more to go. Bramcote is the next venue on the 21st June, hopefully the weather will revert back to the standard set at Rushcliffe? Details of the scoring system can be found here and the latest league points can be found here.

With two club nights now offering the opportunity to coach absolute beginners and with the summer league in full flow, there has never been a better time to get involved with orienteering in Nottinghamshire. Further details on the club nights can be found here.

Another club evening launches tonight, Bassetlaw District Orienteers will now start meeting at East Retford Rugby Club, Wednesday evening is their choice, which compliments the existing Tuesday(Mansfield) and Thursday(Bramcote)

Rushcliffe provided a fantastic start to this year’s summer league, great courses, great weather and a fantastic turnout ensured everyone had a super time.

The minutes of the May committee meeting are now online. Download from here

Wednesday 3rd June sees the start of this new initiative in Bassetlaw. It will run every Wednesday evening, 6:30pm–8pm from East Retford Rugby Club in Ordsall click here for further details

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

The new members are

Bethany Blunden
David Musgrave
Andrew Stuart
Jim & Cameron Thorpe

Congratulations to two of NOC's members on being selected for events over the summer. Victoria Littlewood has been selected to attend British Orienteering's talent programme, she is off to the summer training camp at Lagganlia. Peter Hodkinson has been selected for the Junior World Orienteering Championships, this year they are being held in Italy.

Two weeks until the first event at Rushcliffe Country Park. These are great events to introduce and show friends the joys of orienteering. Check out those fixtures and make an entry in your diary.

Once again orienteering was blessed with bright and sunny weather for some great courses in a lovely area.

The event saw a 25% increase in numbers participating on the previous club championships held at Tankersley in 2008. So a big thank you to all those who made the trip to Cademan and Thringstone Woods.

The day featured some very competitive races, just 4 seconds and 16 seconds deciding two of the age category winners.

The 2009 Club Champions are

W10: Charlotte Webster
W14: Victoria Littlewood
W16: Elizabeth Parkinson
W21: Helen Palmer
W40: Helen Parkinson
W45: Julie Webster
W50: Louise Sandell
W55: Pauline Olivant
W60: Hilary Palmer

M12: Jack Lord
M14: Kieran Huggan
M16: Joe Elliott
M18: Peter Hodkinson
M21: Richard Robinson
M40: Mark Webster
M45: Keith Roberts
M50: Mick Lucking
M55: Ruedi Billeter
M60: David Cooke
M65: Peter Hubberstey
M70: John Woodall

Congratulations to Helen on being selected to represent British Orienteering at the Open Nordic Orienteering Championships (including World Cup Events 1 & 2) in Finland and at the O-Festivalen World Cups (Events 3 & 4) in Norway.

Saturday's event involved a huge amount of club members, many forgoing their chance to run in order to take part in the organisation of the day.

The committee would like to thank everyone who turned out and helped, hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves and it turned out to be another great advert for “Team NOC”.

Judging by some of the comments on Nopesport, the whole weekend was judged to be a fantastic success by the orienteering community.

“An excellent day out - thanks to all involved. I think watching the A-finals has to be the best orienteering ‘spectator experience’ I've had in the UK”

“An outstanding weekend of orienteering. Slick organisation, some superb courses, and some great spectating on Saturday. Loved every second of it!”

Girl Power! Today’s event in Leicestershire produced some great results for NOC. Charlotte Webster (W10) and Hilary Palmer (W60) both took the top spot, with Victoria Littlewood claiming third in the W14.

Jack Lord was second on M12 and Ruedi Billeter was also second on M55.

The event rounded off a fantastic weekend of orienteering in the East Midlands.

Results are now in for all the races, a super day was enjoyed by all at a sunny Nottingham University.

The top three places went to

Women
1 Sarah Rollins
2 Pippa Whitehouse
3 Helen Bridle

Men
1 Scott Fraser
2 Graham Gristwood
3 Matthew Speake

The latest edition of the NOC newsletter has arrived. Peter Hubberstey has put together another bumper edition(including photographs) Click here to view it .

May’s edition of the Nottingham Arrow features orienteering (see images below)

The City council along with NOC and British Orienteering have been working on this and very soon you will be able to download maps for a number of city parks. See http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5376 to find out more.

The Nottingham Arrow is the City Council's magazine for city residents delivered ten times a year to every household in Nottingham. It provides all latest news and information about City Council services and more.


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NOC are hoping to enter at least two teams for this event.

The venue is Merthyr Common, Merthyr Tydfill, South Wales. Why not make it a weekend with a Saturday afternoon(20th) race on Clydach Terrace?

Richard Robinson is interested in taking an 'A' team and as you may have seen on the forum, Keith Streb is interested in a 'B' team.

If orienteers feel they would like a run in either team could they contact Richard and Keith either directly or through me ( Simon Elliott ) and if there is appropriate interest I will enter teams.

For those not familiar with the Harvester relays, it is a 7 leg relay starting at night, finishing during daylight hours.

Initial details on the Swansea OC site http://www.swoc.org.uk/

Did you know that NOC members are able to claim a certificate of achievement for colour coded courses?

A competitor qualifies for a colour coded award by achieving the colour coded standard for that colour course on three separate occasions. Pairs can qualify for colour coded awards on the white, yellow and orange courses.

Further details will be in the next issue of the club newsletter (due very soon) including how to make a claim.

The closing date for online entries is today (Monday 27th April 2009)

The weekend comprises the British Elite Sprint Championships at Nottingham University Campus (organised by NOC) and the British Middle Distance Championships at Cademan, Thringstone and High Sharpley (organised by LEI) The middle distance championship will also be the NOC club championships.

The family fun day at Sherwood Pines was a great success for NOC. Three mini-courses were on offer as well as a string course. The latest technology was employed, SI punching with a print out of each run.

Every single person enjoyed their run, with many coming back for 2nd and 3rd runs. We were overwhelmed with the many positive comments and maybe the odd future champion has been introduced to the sport.

Thanks to Robert Parkinson (pictured just before the event started) for planning the course and taking the lead on this and thanks also to his posse of helpers Pauline, Catherine, Lindsey, Ruedi, Mark, Tom, Charlotte and Jordan.


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

The new members are

The Constantine family, Kevin, Rosslyn, Rhiannon and Joshua
Paul Goodwin
The Harrold family, Glynn, Thomas and Holly
The Ogden family, Andy, Julia and Isaac
Campbell Walsh

The committee recently held another meeting. The minutes are now online. Download from here

The deadline for submitting articles for the next edition of the NOC Newsletter is fast approaching (22nd April), please send any items for inclusion to the editor Peter Hubberstey

The first deadline for cheaper entries is today (15th April) for the British Age Class Middle Distance Championships on the 10th May 2009.

Any “local” members of NOC can still enter this event, LEI will accept your entries via the postal route should the online system not allow you to enter (the online system may be set up to only accept “national” members)

Remember to enter your own age class, no running up or down.

The first finisher from NOC in each age class will be crowned club champion for that particular age class. Mementoes will be presented to each winner; this will be done later in the year at a separate event.

Further details are available at http://www.leioc.org.uk/bmdc/index.html

Fantastic weather in the North East complemented a great four days of orienteering at this year’s JK.

Top spot was saved for the final day when the relay team of Julie Arnesen, Elizabeth Parkinson and Mali Kanstad took the Women’s short title.

The Claxton’s household will also be buzzing with a silver and bronze medal.

Other top three places are as follows

Day 1, Friday: Sprint in Newcastle

W10: 3rd Charlotte Webster

Day 2+3, Overall:

M18E: 3rd Peter Hodkinson

M18S: 2nd Peter Lynas

W18L: 3rd Fiona Claxton

W20L: 2nd Sarah Claxton

W60L: 2nd Hilary Palmer

Day 4: Relay

Women’s Short: 1st Julie Arnesen/Elizabeth Parkinson/Mali Kanstad

Special mention to Keith Streb who managed to finish both days(2+3) despite the minor inconvenience of a broken arm!

This year we will be having an age class based championship. The first finisher from NOC in each age class will be crowned club champion for that particular age class. Mementoes will be presented to each winner; this will be done later in the year at a separate event.

The first deadline for cheaper entries is fast approaching, in fact it’s the 15th April, so enter ASAP and save a £1

The nominated event is the LEI event at Thringstone and Cademan Woods(Sunday the 10th May) which just happens to be the British Middle distance championships. All you need to do is enter your normal age class. Information about the rest of the event can be found at http://www.leioc.org.uk/bmdc/index.html

NOC will be taking 17 teams to this year’s JK relays.

Simon Elliott the NOC team manager has even managed to find a team where everyone has the same name! Good luck to “Team Christine”: Christine Elliott, Julie Christine Webster and Christine Horsewill.

To all competing, have a great run.

The full list of relay entries is available at http://www.sportident.co.uk/entries/list.php?event_id=181

The training sessions on Thursdays at Bramcote will take a break for the Easter holidays, after this the evenings will be lighter and so training will probably revert back to runs rather than circuits.

NOC’s top performer was Jenny Evans who finished 4th in the W16 class, Jenny missed out on the top spot by just 37 seconds in a race which saw the top 10 separated by just 2 minutes!

The sprints were held at Stirling University (Saturday 4th April 2009) a fast modern campus with extensive grounds and woodland.

A quick note to remind everyone that due to the Easter break the next training night at West Notts College will be on Tuesday April 21st.

Our friends at Sherwood Pines are hosting a family fun day on Sunday the 26th April.

Some fantastic attractions are on the list, see http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-7pve9c for further details.

NOC will be present with Robert Parkinson taking the lead but we will need 3 or 4 others to help out. You don’t need to do the full day, a couple of hours here and there would be great help to Robert and would leave you plenty of time to try the other activities on offer.

This is a great opportunity to promote NOC and orienteering to the general public and hopefully we might generate a few new members.

If you can help and spare the time then please get in touch. E-mail via the secretary.

We are aware the Blue Men and Blue Women courses are swapped. It will be fixed later this evening. Please don't put up any courses on those two courses for the moment.
21:00 I believe it is now fixed. The problem was that the names of the courses used by the planners did not correspond to the names of the courses used by the results system.

Team NOC qualified for the final today at Sherwood Pines, a big thank you to all those who took part including all the helpers and those important people doing all the work behind the scenes. The cup holders SYO were victors on the day with NOC qualifying in second place.

The final will be hosted by LEI at Fineshade Woods on Sunday 18th October 2009. Hopefully the weather will be the same as today? So a date for your diary!

The Trophy competition looked a very close affair, with only 13 points separating HALO, LOG and SELOC

Compass Sport Cup
Club Points Counters
SYO 2411 25
NOC 2294 25
DVO 2189 25
LEI 1919 25
NOR 264 4

Compass Sport Trophy
Club Points Counters
HALO 1262 13
LOG 1258 13
SELOC 1249 13

We don't want anyone missing their start times on Sunday at Sherwood Pines.

Start times have been published for this event at Sherwood Pines (see fixtures)

Further details here.

The next NOC committee meeting will take place on Wednesday 25th March 2009.

The next edition of the “Black and Green Word Machine” is due to be published towards the end of April, please send any articles to Peter Hubberstey. Your contributions will be most welcome, let’s make Peter a very happy editor. The 22nd April is the deadline for submissions, so that’s plenty of time before and after Easter to get writing.

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

The new members are

The McShanes, Martin and Alice
The Stewarts, Toby, Anne-Marie, Emma and William

Tuesday 17th March sees the start of this new initiative. It will run every Tuesday evening, 6:30pm–8pm in term time, click here for further details

With coaching and free runs on offer this weekend, is there anywhere else you would rather be?

Please support the Sutton Lawn and Berry Hill Park events and don’t forget to bring a friend with you!

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Would it be good for orienteers to meet up once a week to learn orienteering skills from coaches and talk about events with regular club orienteers?

Would you like to help out… and maybe improve your skills or fitness at the same time? Pauline Olivant and I (Catherine Hughes) have been working with local authorities and sports partnerships for over a year and we are very excited to announce the launch of the new venue, which will mean that orienteers living north of Nottingham will be able to meet up on a regular basis. However, we need your help!

Come And Try It events

We need volunteers to help us run the two events at Sutton Lawn on Saturday 14th and Berry Hill on Sunday 15th March. If you can help us putting out or taking in controls or supporting newcomers as they try orienteering for the first time, please email me with your preferred time of day between10.30 to 3.30pm. If you can only spare one hour – that will still be appreciated. There will be white, yellow and orange courses – and they’ re all FREE!

And, Hilary Palmer will be offering coaching to NOC members too!

Please pass on the details about these two events to your friends and colleagues who you think might be interested. Here’s a handy link to forward to friends:

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New training venue @ West Notts college and nearby woodlands

Launch of new training venue takes place at West Notts College on Tuesday 17th March and will run every Tuesday evening, 6:30pm–8pm in term time. It would be great if local club members could join in this year to support new members. We’ll be organizing a mix of skills and physical training activities. So, there’s an opportunity to improve your own your fitness and skills too – perhaps come along just for a drink and a chat about your o-course at the weekend?

Please forward details about the venue to friends and colleagues. We are happy to supply posters, flyers or electronic copy for intranets etc.

Would you like to become a volunteer coach? Talk to Catherine about opportunities to train as a level 1 orienteering coach

If you have any questions, please contact the club coach Catherine Hughes on 07940 575758 or e-mail me at hubclub

There will be a members coaching day - Bouth Woods, Lake District - Saturday April 18th 2009 (Sunday April 19th is the Graythwaite Regional Event)

For both British Orienteering Groups and individual Members

Controls will be put out and 6 exercises will be available focusing on Levels 3, 4 & 5.

The cost will be £3 per adult (£1 per junior) and there will be a car parking fee of £1 per vehicle.

If you wish to attend this coaching event please e-mail coaching (by 20th March at the latest)

Members of the East Midlands Junior Orienteering Squad will be attending this event and will already have been contacted.

As you may know (see flyer on front page) there is a weekend of "Come and Have a Go events" in Sutton In Ashfield and Mansfield on March 14th and 15th from 11am-3pm each day.

It's FREE to have a go!

Sat 14th Mar Sutton Lawn
Sun 15th Mar Berry Hill Park

Everyone is welcome.

Coaching is also available for members from 10.30 - The coaching will primarily be aimed at White, Yellow and Orange standard runners. Hilary Palmer will be at both and happy to coach members alongside newcomers.

People could try a coaching exercise or a few exercises and then do a course.

If you intend to come to the coaching, please e-mail coaching by Thursday 12th March in order to ensure sufficient maps are available.

Club captain Simon Elliott needs to enter the runners for the Compass Sport Cup Qualifier at Sherwood Pines. There is just over 1 week left to do this.

At the moment we're short of runners in a couple of the ages groups.

Simon has sent out an e-mail to all club members with a list of the runners and those who entered last time. If you know anyone who could run but isn't currently on the list perhaps you could encourage them to do so? If you didn’t get the e-mail then please contact Mark.

We're up against SYO, DVO, LEI.

However, even if SYO win as they are the current Cup holders, a second team will go through to the final and that should be NOC - providing people enter and run!

If you wish to run, please e-mail Simon:

Name
Age group
BOF number
SI number
Early / Middle / Late start time preference.

Entry fees are £9.50 senior and £4.00 Juniors and Students

Cheques payable to NOC.

Congratulations to all the NOC team who went down to the British Championships at the weekend.

There were plenty of top three places for NOC with Tony Horsewill coming home 1st in the M55S. The relays produced winners for the men in the M18 class, with the ladies runners up in the W18 and the M50 men also coming 2nd.

Jim Clarke also picked up a special award for "Outstanding Services to Schools Orienteering"

Individual top three places
M12B : 3rd Rowan Lee 31:29
M55L : 2nd Michael Napier 57:34
M55S : 1st Tony Horsewill 51:58
M65S : 3rd Peter Hubberstey 59:22
W18L : 2nd Fiona Claxton 56:15
W20L : 3rd Sarah Claxton 59:51
W21S : 2nd Emily Powell 61:34
W55S : 2nd Pauline Olivant 52:04
W60L : Joint 2nd Hilary Palmer 50:25

Relay top threes
M50 : 2nd Mick Lucking, Paul Morris, Kevin Lomas
M18 : 1st Harry Nicholson, James Taylor, Peter Hodkinson
W18 : 2nd Elizabeth Parkinson, Fiona Claxton, Jenny Evans

Apologies go out from the club to those runners affected by the erratic behaviour of a certain individual near the end of the event on Sunday. I’m sure the day was spoilt for those followed by the man on his quad bike who then started collecting in the controls! NOC would like to offer a refund to those whose run was affected.

The incident is being pursued by NOC with the landowner from whom full permission was in place for the event to take place, and from the Forestry Commission who lease the land from the Estate.

A big thank you also to the professionalism of the event officials and helpers who had to deal with this extraordinary occurrence.

Further details and some revisions are detailed below. Please see Andrew Powell at the weekend if you need to discuss anything relating to the relays.

Men's Premier(6.6km) : Ben Windsor, Petr Basus, Richard Robinson

Men's Premier(6.6km) : Matthew Wallace, Andrew Powell, Clare Claxton

Women's Premier (4.7km) : Mairead Rocke, Silvie Hojne, Sarah Claxton

M40 (4.7km) : Nick Evans, Eddie Lloyd, Robert Parkinson

M50 (5km) : Kevin Lomas, Paul Morris, Mick Lucking

M/W60 (4.3km/3.5km/4.3km) : Barrie Bateman, Hilary Palmer, David Olivant

M18 (4.3km) : James Taylor, Harry Nicholson, Peter Hodkinson

M18 (4.3km) : Matthew Wetton, Calum Goodger, Samuel Horsewill

W18 (3.5km) : Jenny Evans, Liz Parkinson, Fiona Claxton

M14 (2.8km Orange) : Ben Lord, Jack Lord, William Parkinson

M14 (2.8km Orange) : Jordan Webster, Henry Longstaff, Nick Malbon

Mini-relay M/W12 (2.2km Yellow) : Ben Moore, Rowan Lee, Thomas Webster

Mini-relay M/W12 (2.2km Yellow) : Fraser Lim, Nathan Gull, Charlotte Webster

Mini-relay M/W12 (2.2km Yellow) : James Mellor, Jack Smith, Tom Banks

Junior ad-hoc (different lengths and TD) : Sanjay Puri (2.2km Yellow) Katie Taylor (3.5km Green) Hannah Horsewill (2.8km Orange)

Junior ad-hoc (different lengths and TD) : James Dunajko (2.8km Orange) MISSING RUNNER (2.2km Yellow) Chris Houlton (3.5km Green)

Mixed ad-hoc (different lengths and TD) : Tony Horsewill (3.5km Green) Mark Webster (2.8km Orange) Mick Lord (5km Green)

Mixed ad-hoc (different lengths and TD) : Emily Powell (5km Green) Chris Horsewill (3.5km Green) Julie Webster (2.8km Orange)

Team NOC head down for the British Championships this weekend. In the relays we have twenty teams entered!

Here are the line-ups.

Men's Premier : Ben Windsor, Petr Basus, Richard Robinson

Men's Premier : Matthew Wallace, Andrew Powell, Harry Nicholson

Women's Premier : Mairead Rocke, Silvie Hojne, Sarah Claxton

M40 : Nick Evans, Eddie Lloyd, Robert Parkinson

M50 : Kevin Lomas, Paul Morris, Mick Lucking

M/W60 : Barrie Bateman, Hilary Palmer, David Olivant

M18 : James Taylor, Peter Lynas, Peter Hodkinson

M18 : Wetton, Goodger, Green

M18 : Woods, Horsewill(s), Houlton

W18 : Jenny Evans, Liz Parkinson, Fiona Claxton

M14 : Ben Lord, Jack Lord, William Parkinson

M14 : Jordan Webster, Longstaff, Malbon

Mini-relay M/W12 : Gull, Mellor, Thomas Webster

Mini-relay M/W12 : Lim, Moore, Charlotte Webster

Mini-relay M/W12 : Dunajko, Smith, Banks

Junior ad-hoc : Katie taylor, Hannah Horsewill, Victoria Littlewood

We also have a spare team for the Junior ad-hoc

Mixed ad-hoc : Emily Powell, Chris Horsewill, Julie Webster

Mixed ad-hoc : Mick Lord, Tony Horsewill, Mark Webster

Mixed ad-hoc : Clare Claxton, Lee, Puri

An important date for your diary. The 2009 NOC club championships will be held on Sunday the 10th May. The nominated event will be the LEI event at Thringstone and Cademan Woods, which just happens to be the British Middle distance championships. All you need to do is enter your normal age class. Further details on the club championship format are to be issued later.

Information about the rest of the event can be found at BMDC

Our hosting company have informed us that on Wednesday 25th the web server hardware is being swapped/upgraded. They expect this to take 30 minutes, probably at 19:00. Whilst the transfer is taking place there will be no services available, including the Forum and Routegadget.

Good luck to the following NOC members who are representing England in the Interland Cup this weekend at Burnham Beeches, Hertfordshire.

M20 Peter Hodkinson
M50 Kevin Lomas
M50 Mike Napier

And have a good run to all those NOC members who are also travelling down for this event (there are quite a few looking at the start list)

NOC’s fixtures have three fantastic events coming up over the next month.

All are ideally suited for beginners, especially the “Come and Try It” weekend. These two fixtures on the weekend of the 14th/15th March are even FREE! If you know anybody in the north of the county who has expressed an interest in orienteering in the past then please let them know, don’t let them miss out!

1st March 2009 Annesley - Park Forest and Morning Springs

14th March Sutton Lawn
15th March Berry Hill Park
(see glossy flyer on the front page)

The committee recently held another meeting. The minutes are now online under the administration option.

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

The new members are

Alison O'Neil
Nathan Gull
The Sheridans, Kevin, Joanne, Lizzie and Patrick
Jamie Shortland
Steve Burns
Remi Gauvain and Louise Newton

Firstly a reminder that entries for the JK relays in Newcastle have to be completed by Feb 28th to take advantage of the cheaper prices!
JK Relays Entry Form

PLEASE LET ME HAVE YOUR ENTRY BY FEB 22ND SO I CAN SORT THE TEAMS READY FOR THE 28TH DEADLINE

We have very few complete teams at present!

Secondly the Compass Sport Cup Qualifier.

This is Sunday March 29th in Sherwood Pines - a home fixture for us so no excuses not to run!

Entry fees are £9.50 senior and £4.00 Juniors and Students

We need as big a NOC representation as possible in all age groups to ensure our qualification for the final.

Even if you're not necessarily going to win your class, being there will push someone from another club down the results list and fewer points for them!

If you can let me have your details:

Name
Age group
SI card number
BOF number
Early/Middle/Late start preference

together with a cheque payable to NOC

by 9th March please - this is event is more complicated than most for me as we are allocated start times and I have to fiddle around slotting people in!

Any queries don't hesitate to contact me ( E-mail Simon Elliott )

Many thanks

Simon Elliott

At Clumber last Sunday, Jane Booker was helping at the remote finish and so was one of the last people to download. Her finishing time of 51:48 was a winning one, making her W55 East Midlands champion.

The revised list of NOC winners

W10 Charlotte Webster
M12 Jack Lord
W16 Elizabeth Parkinson
M16 Matthew Green
W21 Silvie Hojna
M21 Richard Robinson
M55 Michael Napier
W55 Jane Booker
M60 Derek Mill

Due to the bad weather the club circuits this evening (Thursday) has been cancelled.

The Lincoln event at Riseholme campus is also postponed, it will now be held next Thursday - 12th Feb

The East Midlands is planning to put on the new UK Coaching Certificate Level 1 Coaching Course during this year.

These courses are designed as the entry level to coaching and equip you to coach up to Orange standard skills for both adults and children in the club.

You don’t need to be an expert orienteer to attend the courses; Light Green standard is all that is needed. Full training will be given and NOC has several coaches who are willing to mentor anyone who is interested in learning more about coaching beginners, it is also an ideal way to find out more personally about the basic skills involved in the sport.

The training will be FREE to anyone who is then willing to do some volunteer coaching for the club.

Would you interested in finding out more?

Contact Pauline Olivant: Tel: 0115 9872083

Pauline's e-mail address

A fantastic event at Clumber park yesterday saw the following NOC members victorious, congratulations to the following East Midland champions.

W10 Charlotte Webster
M12 Jack Lord
W16 Elizabeth Parkinson
M16 Matthew Green
W21 Silvie Hojna
M21 Richard Robinson
M55 Michael Napier
M60 Derek Mill

New versions of the IOF Pictorial Control Descriptions have been loaded to the web. The only material change is to correct the timed crossing on Course 6 to be between controls 173 and 172. Other changes are the addition of course closing times and the substitution of the taped route symbol with a written explanation. Please download your course again. (The new versions were posted at 00:30 on Friday morning.)

NOC are seeking to employ a Level 2 coach to work for 5hrs a week with the Ashfield/Mansfield satellite club. Fuller details of this paid job are in the panel elsewhere on the Home page.

On-line entries for next weekend's event at Clumber remain open until midnight on Friday 30th January. There will still be entry -on-the-day without late entry surcharge for all courses, but strictly limited to available maps. Online entry via Fabian

The night championships took place on Saturday night at Mytchett near Aldershot.

Peter Hodkinson was 2nd and James Taylor 4th in the M18L class.

The M21L saw Petr Basus in 4th with Richard Robinson in 7th.

Mick Lucking was 8th on the M50L with Michael Napier 4th on M55L.

NOC’s only female entry on the night was Katie Taylor, 1st on the W18S.

Hilary Palmer will be holding a coaching session at Burnt Stump Country Park from 10.30 to 12.30 on Saturday 14th February.

The coaching is open to all but especially focusing on newer members of any age who want to improve their basic skills.

Hilary's intention is that younger children who usually do 'white' and 'yellow' courses would be able to do most of the activities on their own if they want to.

Juniors who hold the junior leaders award are invited to turn up to help, or just have a run.

Names and level to be advised by Feb 10th to give time to print the maps.

Please contact Jim Clarke with the details.

The next NOC committee meeting will take place on Wednesday 28th January 2009.

Ever fancied taking part in an ‘It’s A Knockout’ style competition?

Get ready for an afternoon of fast paced fun and team building.

It will include a range of physical and mental challenges including: Spider Climbing Tower, Jerry Can Race, Cannon Run and many more!

This competition is run in conjunction with Nottingham City Council and the Armed Forces Careers Office. The challenges will be staffed by the Army, Navy, RAF and Royal Marines Commandos personnel.

The Event will be held on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2009 (NOC team will choose the day that suits them) and will take place at Wollaton Hall.

Please note all participants must be 18 or over.

Further details will be posted on the forum.

Saturday night is NOC night at Shirebrook Wood.

This night time orienteering event will be offering three courses

Short 2.1k (suitable for beginners to night orienteering)
Medium 4.3k
Long 5.7k

Full details are on the fixtures page.

LOG are also running the last of their winter league events at Hartsholme Country Park (Saturday morning)

Sunday sees the East Midlands League 2009 start with the first fixture of the new league at Lount Woodlands (LEI).

The latest edition of the NOC newsletter has arrived. Click here to view it. On time, on budget and to specification; if only Peter were a plumber!

Congratulations to the following NOC members who have been selected to represent England in the Interland Cup 2009 on 22 February at Burnham Beeches, Hertfordshire, England:

M20 Peter Hodkinson
M50 Kevin Lomas
M50 Mike Napier

Full details can be found at www.orienteeringengland.org.uk

The NOC event at Clumber Park on 1st February 2009 is the East Midland Championships. Could all 2008 winners please ensure the return of their polished and engraved trophies to Enquiries at the event. If this is not possible, please contact the Roberts family on 01773 570016 or keithrobertsot@aol.com.

2008 Winners

M10:Nicholas Wilson(LEI)
M12:Jack Lord(NOC)
M14:Benjamin Beresford(DVO)
M18:Matthew Wallace(NOC)
M20:Liam Harrington(LOG)
M21:Richard Robinson(NOC)
M35:Paul Beresford(DVO)
M40:John Duckworth(DVO)
M45:Nigel Mockridge(NOC)
M50:Paul Addison(DVO)
M55:Michael Napier(NOC)
M60:Chris Bosley(LEI)
M65:Peter Leake(LEI)
M70:John Woodall(NOC)
M75:Donald Moir(LEI)
W10:Charlotte Webster(NOC)
W12:Jessica Beresford(DVO)
W14:Harriett Lawson(DVO)
W16:Elizabeth Parkinson(NOC)
W18:Amy Bevan(DVO)
W21:Emily Parkin(NOC)
W40:Alison Hardy(LEI)
W45:Ursula Williamson(LEI)
W50:Jane Booker(NOC)
W55:Hazel Rice(NOC)
W60:Hilary Palmer(NOC)
W70:Shirley Moir(LEI)

Provisional results are now available. The prizegiving for the first three places on each course will take place before the LEI Willesley event on 15 February 2009.

The male orange course provided an unbelievable finish, with William Parkinson beating Jack Lord by a single point. Over 15 events spanning the whole year and it comes down to one point! (Over a 30 minutes run, one point is approximately 1 second)

NOC top three places are as follows

White Male
2nd James Lowthian

White Female
3rd Francesca Littlewood

Yellow Male
3rd Thomas Webster

Yellow Female
3rd Charlotte Webster

Orange Male
1st William Parkinson
2nd Jack Lord

Lt Green Female
2nd Victoria Littlewood
3rd Margaret Buckland

Green Male
1st Tony Buckland

Green Female
2nd Elizabeth Parkinson
3rd Jane Booker

Blue Male
3rd Robert Parkinson

Full tables available at www.emoa.org.uk/league/galoppentable2008.pdf

Congratulations to Peter Cholerton on his appointment as the new club treasurer. The formalities hope to be completed at the next committee meeting.

As you may know Pauline Jones has been overseeing the position of treasurer since the last A.G.M. Pauline is currently in handover talks with a new treasurer! Once again, a big THANK YOU to Pauline for bridging the gap and to the new volunteer (announcement soon). There are still a few other vacancies to fill, see the right hand side of the website's front page, if you are interested in any of the roles then please let the committee know.

Happy new year to orienteers everywhere.