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A new year, a new age class. Who will be moving up in 2011?

Adkins (Richard):M50
Adkins (Matthew):M14
Adkins (Linda):W45
Bob Alderson:M70
James Beasley:M14
Beresford (Rachel):W45
Bethany Blunden:W14
Gilbert Bradshaw:M85
Tony Buckland:M75
Margaret Buckland:W70
Sarah Claxton:W21
Fiona Claxton:W20
Ray Davidson:M50
David Didsbury:M50
Sue Drew:W55
Matthew Drew:M18
Kathryn Drew:W18
Samuel Elliott:M14
Joe Elliott:M18
Max Elliott:M16
Ellis (Patrick):M14
Janet Evans:W50
Laura Evans:W21
Fernandez Lence (Carlos):M35
Lucy Forrest:W12
Neil Fraser:M50
Sam Fraser:M21
Andy Geering:M40
Alan Gould:M55
Matthew Green:M18
Steve Green:M55
Benedict Harwood:M14
Hempsall (Sam):M21
Charles Hickling:M60
Diana Hickling:W60
Jorge Hills:M14
Rachel Holliday:W12
Nicholas Holliday:M40
Chris Horsewill:W50
Hannah Horsewill:W16
Andrew Jones:M55
Knight (Kerry ):W40
Knight (Amelia):W12
Remi Gauvain:M40
Shelley Littlewood:W50
Kevin Lomas:M55
Nicholas Malbon:M16
Brian Medlam:M75
Bob Newsome:M60
Harry Nicholson:M20
Mike O'Neil:M55
Pauline Olivant:W60
John Palmer:M65
William Parkinson:M16
Helen Parkinson:W45
Pass (Adam):M14
James Peet:M12
Luis Perdigao:M35
Carol Picksley:W70
Toby Pike:M12
Sanjay Puri:M16
Mark Sears:M16
Juliet Severn:W45
Elaine Smith:W55
Toby Stewart:M50
Emma Stewart:W16
Matthew Wallace:M21
Joeseph Warren-Barratt:M12
William Wayles:M21
Michael Wayles:M18
Webb-Bowen (Jamie):M20
Leah Weightman:W12
Megan Wells:W16
Matthew Wetton:M18
Whitehouse (Peter):M45
Whitehouse (Georgia):W12
Harry Wickham:M12
David Winser:M60

Provisional results have now been uploaded to the website.

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson for being selected for the England Team for the Interland Cup 2011 on 6 March at Lübbecke, in NW Germany.

The full team.

The YBTF has been re-scheduled for the 6th February 2011 at Hawkbatch Woods.

Competitors will run in age groups that were valid as of December 6th.

Further details to follow.

After visiting Walesby scout camp this morning, I would just like to pre-warn anyone travelling to the event that the approach road from the A614 is very icy and caution should be taken. Other than that, we have avoided another major snow fall, and the Met Office has removed the weather warning for this area. However, with the uncertainty of weather forecasting, please check the British Orienteering website before you travel.

Paul Beresford

The qualifying round draw for the Compass Sport Cup has been officially completed. NOC will travel to LEI’s Beacon Hill on the 16th January 2011. The opposition will be LEI, DVO and our conquerors from last year WAOC.

The December copy of the NOC newsletter has arrived. Many thanks to Peter Hubberstey for creating this edition and to those who sent in their stories, it is a great read. Click here to view it.

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

The Compass Sport Cup (CSC) 2011 – qualifying round date is Sunday 16th January 2011. As ever, the more runners we have entered, the more chance we have of qualifying for the final. Further details can be found here.

The Yvette Baker final planned for Sunday 5th December has been postponed. This is because of the severe weather conditions nationwide. The conditions at Hawkbatch itself are fine, however the concern is with regards to the risks posed by transporting large numbers of juniors across the country in snowy conditions.

The Tuesday club night session (30th November) at West Notts has been cancelled due to the weather, more snow and freezing temperatures are forecast for this evening.

Congratulations to Liz Parkinson (representing Tuxford school) on winning silver at this year’s British School Orienteering Championships in the year 13 category. The event was held at Wormley Wood, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Full results and photographs available at www.bsoa.org.

The Black and Green Word Machine is the club's magazine, Peter Hubberstey will be editing the next issue, so if you would like to send him an article, then contact him here. The deadline for the next issue is the 6th December.

Most people now seem to have a local magazine that businesses can advertise in. Quite a few have a community page where clubs can put their listings for free.

Our newly appointed publicity officer Remi Gauvin would love to hear about them.

So if you could send Remi the editor details or a copy of any local magazine you think we could advertise in, then this would be a great help. Remi’s e-mail.

Calling all NOC juniors and their parents!

The Yvette Baker Trophy final takes place on 5th Dec in the West Midlands at Hawkbatch in the Wyre Forest. Initial flyer is here .

We need all our juniors to turn out and put us in a good position to challenge for the trophy.

We are trying to find out if there is enough interest from the juniors and their parents to run a coach from the North of the county picking up along the way, all the young people who come and participate for the club help in this competition so it is important that all the juniors turn up run and support each other.

If young people are interested in coming on the coach could they please let me know a.s.a.p. so that we can get an idea of numbers.

There will be a full range of courses for parents to run at as well.

Further information from Mick Lord (NOC’s Junior Co-ordinator) e-mail him here or by telephone 0115 9174451

The minutes of the 2010 A.G.M. are now available. Download from here.

Just to let you know that the Junior East Midlands squad are going to be having another cake stall at DVO's Stanton Moor event on Sunday 31st October. Any donations of cakes and any help on the day would be much appreciated. This will be the last cake stall this year so lets make it a good one! Thank you.

Rachel Beresford (NOC)

A small but elite band of NOC members ventured to the inaugural Midland Sprint Championships, held at that well known Midland destination of Milton Keynes.

A morning sprint around a typical Milton Keynes planned housing estate was followed in the afternoon by a race through Campbell Park. Timing from both races were totalled for the winning time.

Congratulations to the NOC winners.

W12 Charlotte Webster
W60 Hilary Palmer
M14 William Parkinson
M16 Jordan Webster

Other local winners were

W40 Eva Wheeler (RAFO) W16 Amy Kimberley (DVO)

Calling all Scouts and Guides. NOC's event at Walesby Forest on the 19th December will host a competition especially for you.

Further details are contained in the following flyer and entry forms are here.

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

Elizabeth Parkinson retained her title in the junior womens category as the Nopesport Urban league came to a conclusion with the Warwick event at the weekend. The league started with a race in Edinburgh back in January and of course our own Nottingham city race was part of the league in April.

There were also many top ten finishers for NOC in the league.

The final league scores are now available. Men’s scores. Women’s score.

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

Nine juniors went Water Skiing at the National Watersport Centre on Saturday afternoon, after a really bright and sunny morning as we arrived it became overcast and dull (as well as chilly)

After a few problems getting on the wetsuits, people putting them on wrong way round and trying to get their foot through their arm hole we were ready to go.

We were put on the knee boards where you kneel down on a surfboard type thing (we were told they were easier to do), on the first pull most fell off within 25m of the start and a couple made the first corner until they came off.

This was not as easy as it looked, we had a couple of stars who managed to get all the way around Max and Sam and a few others who navigated the first corner and then came off, but most of us just made it to the first corner “time after time”.

The cold was getting to us all (well mainly the lads as the girls toughed it out till the end) so we retreated to try and get out of the wetsuits and get warm.

Everyone had a great time despite the cold.

Thank you to all the parent for transporting the young people around, quite a few of the parents seemed keen on having a go themselves but mainly in warmer climates.


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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

Jim and George Carley
Paul and Leah Weightman
David, Bethany and Clare Didsbury
Radu Rosca
Lisa, Ethan, Flynn and David Shepherd
Elizabeth Hendron

and a big welcome back to Kevin King.

British Orienteering Staff and Directors are taking to the road to visit all 12 Associations and give members details on current projects within orienteering in the UK.

The roadshows will cover the Competition Review, the 4 tier event structure, plans for the future development programme and much more.

All members are welcome and we hope we see you there!

The Nottingham roadshow will be held at the University of Nottingham on Wednesday the 20th October.

Details of all the roadshows and pre-registration details are available in the following leaflet.

Water Skiing! So before there is an inch of ice and green algae on the Trent pond thought we should start off with a water activity.

We have booked 10 places on the Ski Tow to have some fun and fall off a lot (be prepared for a lot of swimming)

Where?

The National Water Sports Centre
Adbolton Lane
Holme Pierrepont
Nottingham
NG12 2LU

When?

Next Saturday 25th Sept at 2 p.m.

We will get 2 hours on the lake and all equipment provided, wetsuit, skis, buoyancy aid and the like.

Young people need to be over 8 years of age and at least 1.4m tall (4ft 7) and confident in water.

All will need to fill in and bring the attached consent form with them (no consent no go)

Young people will need to arrange to get there as we will not be able to provide transport.

Places are limited but we encourage any junior to attend (see hight and age restrictions), contact Mick Lord if you could like to attend.

The cost will be £5 payable to NOC.

Website:- www.nwscnotts.com/psgp?id=152

Many Thanks

Mick

p.s. We will be hoping along with the junior team captain to organise one(ish) activity per month.

Well done to all the juniors who turned out and ran for NOC today it was a great turnout and result, we are through to the final on the 5th December in the Wyre Forest, near Bewdley (HOC event) It would be great if we could have everyone who turned out today and more. Once again, well done.

A fantastic set of courses are awaiting those who wish to take part.

Coaching, planning, mapping, organising and controlling are all available.

Further details are available in the flyer.

Application forms for the coaching are here, and for the rest are here.

Thanks to Mick Lord for this great review of the recent Peter Palmer relays event.

The club had a fantastic turnout at the Peter Palmers on home ground of Chetwynd Barracks; we had 16 young people running for the club.

Young People:-
Ben & Jess Beresford
Joe & Max Elliot
Sam & Hannah Horsewill
Ben & Jack Lord
Nick Malbon
Charlotte, Tom & Jordan Webster
Will Parkinson
Bethany Blunden
Jack Whickham
Keiran Huggan or as he first appeared in the results Karen.

Fiona Claxton who ran around with Bethany and deserves a big thank-you for arriving very early Sun morning to run a Yellow.

Also Sam and Hannah who arrived back from holiday in Switzerland at 6pm Sat evening and arrived to run for their club at 8pm sat evening.

We had 2 competitive teams and 4young people for a non-comp team who ran with a W16 from HH, we skipped the first leg and started on second it worked well in the end.

On the Sat evening most of ours chose not to take part in the army activities, I think all the SHOUTING by the army guys may have put them off.

A large group went to Tesco with Julie and thought that they were taking part in “supermarket sweep” filling up a trolley with lots of toys and food until they had to put it all back (spoilsports).

Sleep, I think the easiest answer to that is 200 young people in one room = no sleep.

We had a great team spirit throughout the event and some great runs, I would like to mention Bethany Blunden and Jack Whickham who have been going to the satellite clubs and made the brave move to come along to an event where they knew very few people, participated well and I hope that they will continue to enjoy the satellite clubs and participate in events.

I feel that the young people did the club proud all tried very hard on their courses and some ran out of their comfort zones, running the night legs when they really didn’t want to initially.

It is obvious that one of our areas for development is attracting and retaining young women into the sport and as such into the club, we could have easily had 3 competitive teams if we were able to call upon more young women.

Chetwynd was an interesting place to run and would make a good sprint race in the future, whilst there I was speaking with Major Drummond (rtd) he was telling me that they had set up a permanent course on the camp and were looking to stage more “civilian” events, I was also thinking that it may be good for the satellite club to meet their periodically if the military would allow it.


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Photos courtesy of Robert lines.

Helpers:-Jim Clarke, Julie Lord, Paul & Rachel Beresford.

P.S I blame my lack of sleep on mis-punching at the Lincoln in the maze and I’m sticking to it.

Mick Lord

Yvette Baker Trophy (Junior Interclub Competition Regional Heat) this Sunday 19th September at Carsington Pastures, Derbyshire.

All NOC juniors are eligible to compete and we hope as many of you as possible will come and run for the club. There are courses from yellow to green, most juniors can run whichever course they normally take part on, with only some restrictions on age or if you are a high level orienteer. The scoring system is such that the more runners we get there, the more points we can deny the opposition, so everyone’s score helps the team. Boys and girls score separately. Please try to attend.

Young people who run the white courses normally but would like to compete and run a Yellow may be able to run with another young person on the Yellow course only, let Mick Lord know if you are thinking of this.

If young people would like to go but are unable to get there, please contact Mick as we may be able to organise individual lifts or get a minibus for the event, I am happy to organise a minibus even if just a few juniors would like to travel together.

We need as many juniors as possible running at the event on courses Yellow to Green.

Please contact Mick Lord if you need any more clarification.

More details can be found on the dvo website, entry will be in the normal way. This is also an EM league event. Don’t forget to tick the relevant box saying you are running in the Yvette Baker competition.

Who is Yvette Baker? Find out here.

This Saturday (11th September 2010) sees the club awards and A.G.M. at Bramcote. We hope to see as many people as possible attending.

If you are coming to the “Come And Try It” event then you will already be in the right place. If you are just arriving for the meeting then you will need to drive into Bramcote leisure centre, keep driving past the leisure centre car parks on your left and down the hill and the school car park is on your right.

The dining hall has been booked as the venue, food will be laid on and the fun starts at 1 O’clock.

The previous years minutes, agenda and the chair’s report have all been published in the August edition of the Black and Green newsletter (click here). If your name appears on the last page of the newsletter then you have won a prize!

Most pupils are now back at their schools in Nottinghamshire, so now would be a good time to mention the two major schools orienteering events that are taking place this year.

The British Schools Score Championships will take place on the 9th October 2010 at Witton Park Blackburn and the British Schools Orienteering Championships will take place on 21st November 2009 near Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

The closing date for entries for the Score Championships is the 21st September 2010. More details and the entry forms are available on the British Schools website (click here).

Please note: Schools can now join the association for free! So it would be great to see as many pupils as possible from NOC’s catchment area at the events.

A flyer for the November event is pictured below.


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Remi Gauvain is our new club Publicity Officer. He will be working with Gail Lockwood and Angela Quartly to spread the word about our events and coaching. He is relatively new to NOC but has lots of experience orienteering in the UK and in France. He would like to get to know more NOC members, so say hello next time you see him at an event.


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Bassetlaw on Wednesdays is already back in full swing.

Bramcote will start again this Thursday (9th September) whilst West Notts starts the week after on Tuesday the 14th at Berry Hill.

Further details can be found here.

A big thank-you to all the 16 young people who took part in the Peter Palmer relays.

It was good to get so many young people participating at Chetwynd Barracks.

Everyone appeared to enjoy themselves and their runs and we hope that soon everyone else will get the opportunity to run on what appears to be a good area.

Also thanks to those who helped out with the squad on the night, The Lords, The Beresfords and Jim Clarke.

Are there any females that can give us a hand at the Peter Palmers at Chetwyn Barracks in Chilwell this Saturday (4th September) to ensure that we have female cover for the juniors. You will be needed from tea time on the Saturday until around 9 a.m. on the Sunday. If you are able to help then please get in touch with Jim Clarke (e-mail here) or Mick Lord (e-mail here) a.s.a.p.

Members will be sad to know that Alan Jones (a long time member of NOC) passed away last week after a long illness.

He joined the club back in 1984 and was responsible for introducing the rest of the Jones and Streb families to the sport as well as maintaining the clubs equipment for many years.

I am sure he will be sadly missed by all that knew him both personally and as a fellow club member.

We have recently sent out some e-mails to all our contacts on the NOC membership list. Items such as the latest copy of the East Midlands Newsletter and a survey (which entitled all members to a free run) If you didn’t get these, then maybe we don’t have your current e-mail address? Please contact Mark Webster to have it updated.

The Elliott family can be proudly seen wearing their NOC tops on a recent holiday in South Africa. If you have any orienteering holiday snaps then we would love to see them.

Click here for the Elliotts in South Africa (please note the website may appear messy due to the sites default size)

The East Midlands junior squad are having a cake stall/secondhand orienteering stall at DVO's Carsington Pastures event on the 19th September. If anybody has any donations for the secondhand orienteering stall, they could bring it on the day of the event or they can be passed onto Rachel Beresford at the Lakes 5 days or the White Rose event.

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

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson on his selection for this year’s competition. This year it is being held in Scotland (Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th September)

Further details of the squad can be found here and the event website is www.jec2010.co.uk

Good luck and have fun to all those from the East Midlands junior squad who set off this morning on their orienteering tour of Sweden. An action packed week awaits them and the large NOC contingent will hopefully return wiser and stronger for their week away.

The 27th World Orienteering Championships are taking place in Trondheim, Norway. Follow Helen Palmer's blog on making the final of the long distance event here.

Further information here.

Regretfully this weekend’s fixture (Sunday 15th August) has had to be cancelled. It clashes with the two day Caribbean Carnival on the Forest Recreation Ground.

Calling all junior club members! The Peter Palmer relays are coming up and we hope to enter as many teams as possible.

The event will be held over the weekend of 4th and 5th September. This is your opportunity to represent your club and at the same time enjoy fun weekend for juniors.

All standards are catered for from Yellow to Light Green. We can enter up to 3 runners on the yellow leg so if you haven't done many events at yellow, don't worry. The first and possibly 2nd leg will be run in the dark, the rest are day legs. For those wishing to compete in the Lincoln City race you will be finished in time to get there. Ask for a late start.

The cost will be £8 per runner including meals.

We have to have a minimum of 2 girls in each time so the number of teams which we can enter may depend upon the number of girls who will turn up and run.

There is a full programme of activities on the Saturday night. It looks like a great weekend with lots of other juniors from around the country.

A flyer for the event is here here

If you can run and want to be part of this please e-mail Jim Clarke here

Remember its your club and it needs your support.

Jim Clarke

P.S. The Yvette Baker Trophy date is the 19th September 2010 (Carsington Pastures), please add this date to your diary, further details to follow.

The Black and Green Word Machine is the club's magazine, Peter Hubberstey will be editing the next issue, so if you would like to send him an article, then contact him here.The deadline for the next issue is the 5th August.

This years’ event will be staged at Bramcote Hills after a Come And Try It (CATI) event. The date for your diary is Saturday 11th September 2010, further details to follow.

The Bassetlaw Hub Club will be holding its final club night of the summer next Wednesday, 28th July. We will be meeting at Bevercotes Wood, from 6.30pm to 9.00pm.

Six Bassetlaw Club families are planning to spend the August Bank Holiday weekend camping in North Yorkshire so that they can compete at the White Rose Event. We will be putting up our club tent and any NOC members are very welcome to come and make use of it during the events. http://www.whiteroseweekend.org.uk/

NOC won’t have to travel too far, as this year the event will be held at Chilwell Barracks, over the weekend of the 4th/5th September. Further details here.

The Colwick Park summer league event, Sunday July 18th is being held from the Adventure Centre.

This is on the banks of the Trent in a quiet corner of the park with plenty of space and complete with proper toilets!

Given the glorious weather we've been experiencing, why not bring a picnic lunch and extend your visit for a relaxing social occasion?

Football provided - but please no vuvuzelas!

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson on his England selection for the senior home international to be raced against Ireland, Scotland and Wales on 6-7 November 2010 in the New Forest. Full details can be found here.

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 Burton family, Colin, Karen, Lawrence and Owen
Paul Hudson
Pierre Gerard
The Elliott family, Jane, Emma, Lauren and Alan
The Knight family, Kerry, Amelia, Richard and William
Peter and Georgia Whitehouse, Paola Signoretta
Kevin Hill
Barbara Greenwood
Helen Wright
Pel Williamson
The Dean family, Anthony, Millie, Louise and Mabel
Ali Cheung
Rebecca Barton, Bill and Emily Jones
Richard Hawksley and Michelle Eden
The Beresford family, Rachel, Paul, Ben and Jessica.
Patrick Ellis
Carlos Fernandez Lence

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

Gary Peet and Catherine Hughes feature in the Summer Focus magazine. Have a look at the article on page 5. http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/focus.php

David Olivant sneaks in with a picture on page 4.

Peter Hodkinson features on pages 11 and 12.

*page numbers refer to the downloaded document

The Bassetlaw club are holding their club night this Wednesday (9th June) at Bevercotes Pit Wood. There will be a selection of courses available.

The area has been remapped to show how the woodland is maturing.

Park by the entrance to the wood.

Bevercotes is located just off the B6387, about 1 mile north of the A1/A57 roundabout.

Tuesday’s sessions will be at Thieves Wood. Please meet at the Thieves Wood public car park off the B6139 Coxmoor Road, which is between the A611 Derby Road and the B6020 which leads to the Larch Farm crossroads on the A60. Whistles will be compulsory & a compass preferable, but can be provided plus come prepared for walking / running in the woods. Map of the car park is here.

A Men’s NOC Team of Andy Llewellyn, Richard Robinson and Peter Hodkinson finished this Years UK Relay League season with 3rd place at the Scottish Champs relays at Rannoch Forest in central Scotland. Andy got the team off to a good start on first leg coming back in 4th placed in a time of just over 37mins (5.8km) closely between Interlopers and a strong FVO second team and a couple of minutes down on the lead of Edinburgh University and under a minute behind second placed FVO. Richard set off and was soon alongside the Interlopers Russian International Jegor Kostylev (the individual winner) who made a small mistake but was unable to keep up with the Russians blistering pace. However, Richard managed to overhaul the FVO runner in 2nd and came back in 3rd with a time of just over 35mins (5.7km) with a healthy 2mins lead over FVO; just over 1min behind Interlopers and 3mins behind Edinburgh Uni. Peter went off chasing strong runners from Interlopers (Murray Strain) and Edinburgh Uni (Doug Tullie) hoping they made mistakes but despite another good performance from Peter there were no slip ups from the top teams. However, Peter managed to increase the lead over FVO to over 5 minutes for a comfortable 3rd place finish (35mins for 5.8km).

Despite going into this last race in equal third place with FVO in the UK Relay league, NOC Men ended in 5th position as INT had only previously competed in 2 races (best 3 of 4 to count), and FVO had a worse result than NOC to be removed and had a higher finish on count back (2nd at Harvester) therefore finishing in a very credible position behind some very strong teams.

UK Relay league Men’s final standings: 1st SHUOC – 75; 2nd SYO – 60; 3rd INT– 60; 4th FVO – 54; 5th NOC – 54

The results from Sunday are now available here.

Congratulations to Helen Palmer on her selection for the “Long”, Trondheim (Norway) is the venue for this year’s championships. Full team announcement here.

At the Clumber event - three students are offering FREE sports massages for before or after your run. All 3 student are qualified in Swedish massage and are providing this free service for us as part of their sports massage studies at Retford college.

Sports massage benefits include:-
- increased lymphatic flow - speeds up removal of toxins from the body
- loosens tight and sore muscles
- aids in repairing damaged tissue
- helps improve flexibility

If everything goes to plan this Sunday then you will be able to partake in a free sports massage before or after you've done your course.

Don’t be shy, members of the committee are already queuing up to be first in line so loosen up before your run or have those tired and aching muscles gently massaged after, the choice is yours!

Several NOC members have been selected for various training camps over the Summer, congratulations to them all.

The Junior Regional Squads Lagganlia training camp 2010
Nick Malbon and William Parkinson are off to Scotland. Full details here.

British Orienteering Talent Coaching Camp
Jenny Evans is also off to Scotland, this time Cairngorm. Full details here.

Selections for British Orienteering International Racing Camp
Peter Hodkinson is travelling to Gdansk in Poland. Full details here.

When: Saturday 19th June 2010

Where: Groby Community School, Ratby Road, Leicester, LE6 0GE

Time: 1.30 – 4.45pm

Cost: No charge

Who is this for: EMOA club members.

Anyone considering or already booked to be an event official in autumn 2010 and onwards. Organisers, planners, controllers (of all grades) or any club member who helps at orienteering events. This is part of a new modular training system for event officials and attendance at this workshop will be part of all planner / controller / organiser training in the future.

Aims of the workshop: To provide event volunteers with an overview of safety and welfare issues which may arise as a result of staging an orienteering event of any size / level. Particular attention will be paid to practical measures which event volunteers can employ to minimize risks and what to do in the event of an accident or incident occurring.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the workshop the participants will understand how to:
· establish a safe environment for competitors, officials, spectators and members of the public
· establish good working relationships with volunteers, event helpers and other partners
· comply with the relevant rules and guidelines for the staging of orienteering events

The workshop will be led by an experienced British Orienteering tutor and there will be plenty of opportunities to share experiences and to learn from each other.

All participants will receive an attendance certificate. Attendance at this workshop will be required for future event official qualification.

This is a newly revised unit for event officials and this workshop is part of a pilot so your participation and comments will be most welcome.

To book on the course please email Hilary Palmer by 3rd June. Application form here

Last weekend saw a hive of activity on Cannock Chase as the British Championships took place.

Liz Parkinson turned out to be NOC’s top performer on the individual courses, notching 2nd place on W18L.

Unfortunately 4th seemed to be NOC’s bogey number.

W60L Hilary Palmer 4th
W21S Emily Powell 4th
M55L Michael Napier 4th
M50S Paul Morris 4th
W50S Christine Elliott 5th

The relays proved to be just as frustrating. The M50 class saw the combination of Lomas/Napier/Evans just pip Lucking/Morris/Elliott, the teams finishing 5th and 6th, Silver evading the team by just 45 seconds.

Next years’ event is just up the road in Sheffield, the 7th and 8th May 2011 (the weekend after the early May bank holiday)

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

West Notts managed some great publicity via an article in last week’s Chad. Read the image below for the full details.


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Bramcote park school have confirmed that we can meet in the foyer of the school and that there is parking available there too.

There is a map showing directions here.

We will be based there all year round, with activities outside in summer then will move inside to the school hall when the clocks change and the evenings become dark.

If you have any queries about orienteering feel free to contact me or our club secretary.

I look forward to seeing you on Thursday at 6.30pm.

Warm regards,

Catherine Hughes

Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson for being selected for the Junior World Orienteering Championships. They are being held in Aalborg, Denmark from Friday 2nd – Sunday 11th July 2010. The full team is here.

Mick Lord is organising a trip to the Harvester Relays, for many people the highlight of the orienteering year.

Interested? Then read the further details here

Don’t delay as it is the weekend of the 8th/9th May.

Did you get an e-mail about this? It was sent to all our juniors(or their parents), do we have your correct e-mail address? Contact Mark (Mark's e-mail) if you didn't.

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 Gibb family, Robert, Alexander, Jennie, Radina and Rianne
Benedict Harwood
Jannette Blunden
Jamie Webb-Bowen
Richard and Matthew Adkins
The Pass family, Simon, Adam, Alison and Rachel
Sam and Sara Hempsall
Jackie Page and David Houlton
Angela Quartly

Held on a bright sunny day at Haverthwaite in the Lake District. Congratulations to Peter Hodkinson (M20E) and Hilary Palmer (W60) who both came out on top. A fantastic location with near perfect conditions made for some great racing. Full results and Routegadget available here.

And the winner of the Peter Palmer Trophy - Coach of the Year Award is (large pause, build up the suspense)

NOC’s very own Catherine Hughes.

Congratulations to Catherine on receiving this fantastic award.

Just in case you missed it, the results from the winter league have been published, with just the three events making up our first ever winter league it was a very close in the points tally. The other brilliant news is that three of our winners are very new to the sport and had either attended the club’s training nights or the pre-event coaching. So, well done to all those involved. Next year’s winter league will be bigger and better and talking about leagues don’t forget our summer league kicks off very soon at Bulwell Hall Park on the 25th April.

White Course

1 James Peet
2 Rhiannon Emery
3 Severn Family
3 J. Goode

Yellow Course

1 Ethan Shepherd
2 Samuel Elliott
2 Olivia Utting

Orange Course

1 Alison Slater
2 Christine Elliott
3 Juliet Severn

Technical Course

1 William Parkinson
2 Andrew Brakewell
2 Simon Bradbury
2 Simon Elliott

Full results and tables can be found at the bottom of the Brierley results here.

The next edition of the club’s magazine is due to be published at the end of April.

Enjoyed the city race? Went to your first JK? Loved the mud and sand at the JK? Attended West Notts and Bassetlaw club nights? New to Orienteering? Ran your first ever night ‘O’? Set up your first string course? Helped on the start line at an event? Learned something new?

Anything really, we would love to hear about it.

Peter Hubberstey will be collating the articles so if you would like to contribute to the next issue then please send him a line ( e-mail here )

Closing date for articles is Monday 19th April.

Previous editions are available here.

We are hosting the PSUK Championships on Wednesday the 28th April 2010 at Blidworth and Sansom Woods. Whilst this is not a huge event, we do need a few volunteers to help with start/finish and road crossing duties, etc. We will need people from around 10.00am until not later than 2.00pm. Anyone volunteering will be given a free run around a course of their choice; an ideal opportunity to get in that last training run before the British Championships.

Anyone wishing to volunteer, please e-mail Steve Green by next Monday the 19th April.

More details on the event can be found on the PSUK website.

The Easter weekend saw many NOC members travel down to Devon for the annual JK orienteering experience.

Day 1 saw the sprints at Bicton College, apparently it was the highest ever number of entries for the JK Sprint.

Peter Hodkinson and Hilary Plamer came out on top in some very competitive racing, Helen Palmer nearly made it a family double coming 2nd and Jenny Evans made a great 3rd on her course. So day 1 went to the ladies of NOC.

Day 2 will be remembered by everyone for the MUD at Cookworthy forest. Many seasoned runners commented that they had never seen as much mud as they encountered on the Saturday. Day 3 went from mud to sand as the JK moved to the sand dunes of Braunton Burrows. A very technical area which caught out a few people. David Olivant ended in top spot on the M60S with Peter Hodkinson using his speed on the sand to take the overall M20E title. Samuel Horsewill, David Booker and Laura Evans came 2nd in their respective classes, with Robert Drew and Hilary Palmer both coming home 3rd.

For those who messed up big style then “fortunately” the relays were also at Braunton so a few demons could be expelled the following day!

Day 1 Bicton College

M20E 1st Peter Hodkinson

W18E 3rd Jenny Evans

W21E 2nd Helen Palmer

W60 1st Hilary Palmer

Day 2 Cookworthy Forest & Day 3 Braunton Burrows (combined results)

M18L 2nd Samuel Horsewill NOC (GBR)
4th Harry Nicholson NOC (GBR)

M20E 1st Peter Hodkinson

M21V 3rd Robert Drew

M55S 2nd David Booker

M60S 1st David Olivant

W20L 2nd Laura Evans

W60L 3rd Hilary Palmer

Day 4 Relays

NOC’s best result was a JK Trophy 5th

Robbin' in the Hood : Peter Hodkinson/James Taylor/Richard Robinson

Full results and details at http://www.jk2010.co.uk/

The condensed version of the gallery for today's Urban race is now available here. There are about 4 times as many pictures as shown, and if you would like to see more views, then let the webmaster know which picture numbers are of interest, and he'll try to fill in the gaps!

Nottinghamshire Orienteering Club (NOC) are looking to use the services of a self employed licensed coach to work in the Broxtowe area ... see details in adjacent panel on this page.

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

Do you know of a NOC member who you think deserves an award?

The British Orienteering Services to Orienteering Awards are to recognise and acknowledge the great work done by volunteers in orienteering. We should celebrate the many different sorts of volunteering undertaken by members including for example, those that have made club maps, run the welcoming event registration / help desk, managed the club equipment store, run the club results service etc.

These club volunteers carry out many tasks which they enjoy and do not expect any reward but continue to do the jobs because they enjoy being able to put something back into the sport – this is your chance to show your thanks to the unsung heroes of club volunteering!

All members can nominate someone they believe deserves a Services to Orienteering Award.

Steve Green is co-ordinating our club’s nominations, so please just send Steve (e-mail here) a note with any suggestions and a quick note on why they should receive the award. It’s not our decision who wins but we can as a club come up with the names we want to put forward.

The Walsh Trophy for the Best City/Sprint Map for 2009 has been awarded to NOC’s very own David Olivant. Congratulations to David for producing an outstanding map of Nottingham University, which was used for last year’s British Sprint Championships. See the map for yourself and re-live those runs on NOC’s Routegadget page http://www.noc-uk.org/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi , once again well done to David on winning the award.

The Walsh Trophy
The trophy is made of old walnut with a triangular cross section and an etched plate with an image of Canary Wharf, London. It is awarded annually to the best urban or sprint map drawn to ISSOM specification.

Congratulations to Catherine Hughes on her appointment as NOC’s club development officer.

As you may know the post has been created as part of the ‘More Hands For More Faces’ Sport England backed project.

Catherine will be working with both parts of the project, which officially starts on the 1st April.

More Hands
· Complete ‘Valuing Volunteers’ Training Course
· Coordinate and mentor the volunteers for each event for the roles of planner, organiser, controller and whiz kid, including updating procedures and guidelines.
· Develop systems to maximise use of volunteers (especially in Helper Groups) for Club activities.
· Ensure all Club Official roles are filled and supported and identify potential candidates for any vacancies.
· Develop a system to recognise and reward volunteers

More Faces
· Liaise with appropriate committee members to ensure provision of a full programme of events and activities and ensure those events are able to attract novice participants.
· Develop novice welcome pack.
· Support development of novices to become Club members.

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

The event saw a fantastic increase in numbers participating (76 on the day) on the previous club championships held at Cademan and Thringstone Woods in 2009. So a big thank you to all those who made the trip to Belvoir Castle.

The 2010 Club Champions are

M10: James Lowthian*
M12: Ben Harwood
M14: William Parkinson
M16: Jordan Webster
M18: Samuel Horsewill
M20: James Taylor*
M21: Richard Robinson*
M40: Anthony Donaldson
M45: Mark Webster
M50: Kevin Lomas*
M55: Michael Napier*
M60: Alan Beardsley
M65: Peter Hubberstey
M70: Tony Buckland
M75: Eric Gebbett

W10: Elisa Wayles
W12: Charlotte Webster
W16: Victoria Littlewood
W18: Elizabeth Parkinson
W21: Emily Powell
W35: Jill Barker*
W40: Catherine Hughes
W45: Janet Evans
W50: Christine Elliott
W55: Jane Booker
W60: Hilary Palmer
W65: Margaret Buckland
W70: Valerie Gebbett

* Midland Champion

The start times for the event on Sunday are now available here as well as the final details now being published on the LEI website www.leioc.org.uk

Turnout from NOC is on the up again, with so far a fantastic 76 people entered. Last year’s NOC club championships had 55 NOC competitors on the day (Cademan and Thringstone Woods) and the year before that 46 (Tankersley).

As well as the NOC champs. it is also a National Event, the Midland Championships & Future Champions Cup, so there is plenty to play for.

Further rules for the day.

You must be a member of NOC to qualify for the NOC Club championships!

In each age group the fastest NOC member to successfully finish the “top” age class course will be that particular NOC champion. If there is no finisher then the next course in that age group will be used and so on.

So for the seniors it will be the order of E,L,S and V

For juniors it will be A and then B. If there is an equivalent colour coded course (as defined in the final details) then that may come into consideration as well.

There should be no shadowing of juniors (or adults)

Have a great run, enjoy the day and an area that hasn’t been used for nearly 30 years.

Anyone interested needs to contact me (Steve Green) and send me a short CV indicating how they have the skills and experience to fulfil the role.

The closing date is next Wednesday (17th March 2010).

If anyone wishes to contact me (chair) to discuss the requirements of the role, they would be very welcome to do so.

Please see the attached document for further details. Click here for the document.

Steve

Well done to Hilary Palmer on being part of the successful England team which won Interland 2010 over the past weekend. The event was held at Hechtel, Leopoldsburg in NE Belgium.

Results and further information can be found here.

Don’t forget Hilary will be coaching at Burntstump on Saturday 20th March, all are welcome.

Saturday saw ESOC hosting the British Night Championship, just south of Edinburgh on the Pentland Hills.

Congratulations to Michael Napier on his victory in the M55L class.

Andrew Llewellyn finished 4th in the M21L class.

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

Amy Parkinson
Gill Francis
Rachel Holliday
Toby Pike
Gail Lockwood
Steven Chamberlain and Rowan Langton
The Staszkiewicz family
Joe Stas
Jonathan Holmes
David and Laura Dickinson
Alison Slater

Yes! NOC are absolutely delighted to announce that their application for a grant from Sport England has been successful.

For those avid fans who delight in reading the committee minutes (click here), you will already know the outline of the bid.

For the rest, well, in summary, the club will now be able to fund a club development officer for 1 year and be able to acquire a full set of electronic (S.I.) kit for all our future events.

NOC will be providing another coaching session on Saturday 20th March, from 10.30 am to 12 noon.

Hilary Palmer will be overseeing the activities.

Parking is in the upper overspill car park (free) or you can pay in the lower car park (i.e. the one next to the toilet block)

Coaching for all ages (yellow moving up to orange courses and those who do harder courses as well) will be based at the end of the grassy area of the park beyond the cricket pitch near the pond.

Emphasis will be on using the compass: rough setting of the map and aiming off and more accurate bearings compass work.

It would be helpful to know numbers in advance so please email Hilary

This will be held in conjunction with the Midland Champs at Belvoir Castle Estate, Sunday 21st March.

After last year’s middle distance event the quest is on to find who are the club champions at the longer distances.

NOC competitors should enter the 'top' class for their age group, for most people it will be the ‘A’ or ‘Long’ class. However for example M/W18 etc. this should be elite rather than long.

Most orienteers will compete on terrain that has not been used for competitions for nearly 30 years, so if you are normally running “short” why not give “long” a go this time, if just for once this year?

Entries are now open and further details are here. The first closing date for cheaper entires is fast approaching (1st March 2010)

As well as the NOC club champs it is also a National Event & Midland Championships & Future Champions Cup!

The initial details for the city race have now been published. On-line entries will be open very soon for what promises to be a fantastic event.

There will be a free “Come and Try it” course, with entries for this on the day. So it is a great opportunity to invite friends/family/work colleagues along to sample the best of urban orienteering in a superb city centre location.

Sunday 11th April 2010, Nottingham market square, add it to your calendar/diary now!

Initial Details : click here

POSTERS

City race poster 1


click for large image

Unfortunately no club at Blidworth had the required number of competitors this year to win the trophy and so sadly the RHT will not be awarded.

A special mention and thanks to Michael Napier for some exhaustive analysis of the results, there were numerous results depending on the various criteria that could have been applied, but it was decided that on this occasion we would stick with the rules of engagement that were published in the final details.

The NOC committee will be looking into the rules and maybe a new format for a future RHT. We hope to make it as inclusive as is possible.

After his success with Radio Mansfield, Gary Peet has followed it up with Trent FM! A listing on their website for the Silverhill Wood event( click here ) and for the regular Tuesday night sessions at West Notts college ( click here )

NOC are once again providing coaching at this Saturday’s Silverhill event.

The session will start just after 10:00 a.m.

As always advice on which course to tackle will be available and the coaches will also be on hand after your run to discuss the route and answer any questions you have.

The coaching is open to everyone, you do not have to be a member of NOC to attend. So if you have any friends and family who wish to try orienteering out, please bring them along.

The committee have given this a great deal of thought. Hopefully it covers everything a forward thinking club requires. We have a plan, find it here . Any comments and suggestions will be gratefully received.

The Bassetlaw Orienteering Club will be holding a night orienteering event on Wednesday 17th February, at Ranby House School, Ranby, between Retford and Worksop.

The session starts at 6.30pm, in the Old Gym. refreshments for all after you have run. Last start at 7.30pm

Radio Mansfield’s website now has information about the Tuesday night sessions at West Notts College. Under their events listings area “The Guide” (see here) it lists out the Tuesday night sessions and also mentions the forthcoming Silverhill wood event. Well done to Gary Peet for his persistence in helping to get us listed with Radio Mansfield.

Congratulations to the following NOC members on their success at the Blidworth event.

W14 Hannah Horsewill
W18 Elizabeth Parkinson
W70 Valerie Gebbett
M10 James Lowthian
M14 William Parkinson
M16 Samuel Horsewill
M55 Michael Napier

Details of all the 2010 East Midlands Champions and photographs of the presentation can be found here.

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

British Orienteering recently launched a ranking list of orienteers, based on results from ranking events. The new ranking system includes everyone in a single list, which can then be filtered (by age class, gender, and by club). The list also shows the number of positions you have moved up, or down, since the previous week.

Here's the ranking list of NOC members.

Further details of the new scheme can be found on the British Orienteering website here.

Entries for relay teams at the JK and British have to be made through me(Simon Elliott) on behalf of NOC.

JK relays Monday April 5th / British relays Sunday May 2nd

In order not to pay excessive amounts for entering late, the closing dates are:

March 8th for JK and March 28th for the British, therefore in order to give me time to sort the teams out, I must know by:

February 27th for the JK and March 20th for the British at the very latest please!

Clearly if you can let me know about both events at the same time it would be much easier.

The age classes are slightly different for the two event - please look on the event web sites to see which you would like to run in.

JK: www.jk2010.co.uk/entries/
A - JK Trophy (teams of 3: long, short, long)
B - Women’s Trophy (teams of 3: long, short, long)
C – Men’s Short (long, short, long)
D – Women’s Short (long, short, long)
E - Senior Men M120+ (long, short, long)
F - Senior Women W120+ (long, short, long)
G - Veteran Men M165+ (long, short, long)
H - Veteran Women W165+ (long, short, long)
J - Intermediate Men M48- (green, orange, green)
K - Intermediate Women W48- (green, orange, green)
L - Junior Relay M/W40- (orange, yellow, orange)
M - Mini Relay M/W12 and under (yellow, yellow, yellow)
N - Mixed Ad Hoc (green - long, green - short, orange)

Entry fee (per runner): £11 senior, £7 Junior

British: (teams of 3) www.walton-chasers.co.uk/boc2010/entries.html
Men’s Premier/Women’s Premier
Men’s Short/ Women’s Short
M40 / W40
M50 / W50
M60 / W60
M18 / W18
M14 / W14
M/W12 – Mini Relay
Mixed Ad Hoc
Junior Ad Hoc (M/W18-)

Entry fee (per runner): £13 senior, £8 Junior

As always, please suggest who should be in each team (assuming they're prepared to run!)

Each year someone complains that they should have been in team x rather than runner y but despite my asking prior to declaring, hasn't mentioned it to me prior to the race. Speak up or......don't complain!

The British is on our doorstep at Cannock Chase, it would be nice to get a decent turnout of NOC teams.

Cheques payable to NOC

Send together with BOF number and SI number to:

Simon Elliott
9 Devonshire Avenue
Beeston
Nottingham
NG9 1BS

British Orienteering's World Class National Squad has been selected. The squad has two members from NOC, well done to Helen Palmer and Peter Hodkinson for their inclusion. Further details can be found here.

British Orienteering's inaugural World Class Talent Squad has been selected, congratulations go out to our very own NOC member James Taylor on making it into the squad. Further details are available here.

Just to reassure folk, everything is looking good for the event at Blidworth on the 7th February.

As a result of the recent thaw the snow has gone, parking will be in a good firm field and that the event will go ahead unless there is a dramatic deterioration in the weather that lasts through to the event.

The position will be reassessed nearer the event date but we are confident it will proceed as planned.

We hope to get the final details out later this week.

Ray Barnes is featured(a full page spread) in the latest magazine of the International Orienteering Federation.

As you probably know Ray is our website technical guru, what he doesn’t know about website design isn’t worth knowing. He has also over the years at some point in time filled nearly every committee position, he’s been the chair twice!

Ray was even down from his North-East home to run both the Saturday night and Sunday morning event at Rufford

So to read more on “The man behind the rankings” and share Ray’s moment in the spotlight visit the website here and view the O-zine 4 2009 file. He is on page six.

It looks like we have misplaced the two NOC banners (plus some other items of kit)

Simon Elliott would like to take them to the Compass Sport Cup qualifier next week.

Can you please contact Simon if you know of their whereabouts?

Simon can be reached here.

NOC are hoping to provide coaching at most of their events over the next few months. Over the course of fixtures they should cater for all skill levels within the club.

The first of these will be on Sunday at the local Rufford Country Park event.

This session will start at 10:00 a.m. and will cover a few of the basics for absolute beginners and those who wish to re-trace some of those essential skills.

A couple of cone exercises will be followed by a map walk, this will leave plenty of time to then enjoy a run/jog/walk on the courses available.

Advice on which course to tackle will be available and the coaches will also be on hand after your run to discuss the route and answer any questions you have.

Provisional results are now available. The prize giving will take place before the DVO event at Allestree on Feb 14th 2010.

NOC top three places are as follows

White Male
2nd James Lowthian

White Female
2nd Francesca Littlewood

Yellow Male
2nd Thomas Webster

Orange Female
3rd Charlotte Webster

Light Green Male
1st Jordan Webster
3rd Jack Lord

Lt Green Female
1st Victoria Littlewood
3rd Margaret Buckland

Green Male
3rd Tony Buckland

Green Female
1st Jane Booker

Blue Male
3rd Steve Green

Full tables available here .

Happy new year! A new year, a new decade and maybe new age classes for some?

Have a great 2010.