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SOC Level D - Bramshaw

By Helen Wheelwright , 8 October, 2022

Routegadget for routes and splits analysis

Planner's comments

Thanks for coming along to the SOC Level D at Bramshaw on such a glorious Autumn day. Bramshaw South - last used for the November Classic in 2019 - is one of the more technical areas of the New Forest and provides plenty of scope for challenging navigation. The courses planned offered opportunities to practise different techniques in the varied terrain. The bracken in some areas made it hard to discern "clearings", and perhaps the courses may have been a tad long, but from the feedback at download most competitors enjoyed the challenge.

Thanks to those who supported my planning - the forest team for hanging and collecting and all those who gave up their time to support in some way or another in the run-up to the event and on the day.

Lisa James

Organiser's comments

What can I say? It was a glorious and memorable day and I am so glad that so many competitors turned up and enjoyed the event. I would just like to add my thanks to our SOC team who turned up to help-with good humour and flexibility and initiative and especially to Julia Loring, the main organiser who put most of the hard work in prior to the day.

Look forward to seeing you all at the November Classic on Sunday 6th of next month.

Helen Wheelwright

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Colin Hicks

3 years 7 months ago

Thoroughly enjoyed the green course Lisa well done on the planning-caught me out totally on the shortest leg! It shows the need for total concentration. We did manage to use the area once since the Classic in 2019 for a closed club event during the rigours of covid with 30 orienteers in the morning and another 30 in the afternoon. But it was great to get back to the area with a proper event with 100 competitors from a great venue. Thanks to Nick Bosbury for suggesting the village hall, following the cutback by Forestry England of the public car parks that are deemed suitable for orienteering events. 

Event
New Forest - Bramshaw

SCOA Update

By Ian Moran , 2 October, 2022

The South Central Orienteering Association (SCOA) is made of the clubs in the region covering Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, southern Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, South Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. SCOA pools the resources of the region’s clubs in order to provide coaching for juniors, training for officials, coordinate fixtures, organise our largest events, and generally support orienteering within the region.

Junior Squad

2022 JIRCS was held in Northern Ireland. Duncan Currie was the sole SOC representative. The SCOA men’s relay team came in third place behind two Scottish teams which is an excellent result. The results for the event can be found here.

It is hoped to have a training session in the New Forest during the weekend of the November Classic.

SCOA Championships

Mappers now get points towards the championships, similar to organisers and planners who have qualified for some time now. This acknowledges that event officials cannot score through competing at events at which they are officiating.

Senior Home Internationals 5th to 6th November 2022

The relay area will be held on Saturday at Hogmoor, near Bordon and the individual will take place alongside the Club’s November Classic, so we can expect to see some of the country’s best orienteers attending. We might even have a current world champion taking part. 60 to 70 competitors are expected from the four nations.

 British Championships 2023 25-26th March 2023

To be hosted by SCOA at Hambledon and Cold Ash. This is a SCOA event, so all SCOA clubs are encouraged to provide personnel to help at the events, so please put the date in your diary.

SCOA league

The 2021/22 season prize giving is scheduled for event 2; the BADO event at Micheldever on 23rd October 2022. The 2022/23 season currently has 5 events registered.   

 

SOC Level D - Hincheslea and Yewtree Bottom

By Pete Davis , 10 September, 2022
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Marcus White

3 years 8 months ago

It was lovely to welcome so many people to the New Forest on a day of gorgeous early autumn sunshine and colour. I am glad that most runners seemed to fully enjoy the experience.

Three issues deserve a mention. Nine controls had to be renumbered at the eleventh hour and I apologise for not fully covering the old numbers on one blue / green course control. The map showed its age despite recent revisions and needs further updating. Finally, two challenging control locations in gorse and bracken could easily be found through careful navigation but the placement was contrary to BOF guidelines (flag visible from 10m or 10% of the distance from the nearest attack point, and usually not at the bottom of depressions). All comments were well received and will inform future planning.

My thanks to Pete for coping admirably with some intriguing last-minute conundrums and also to the hard-working forest teams. 

Pete Davis

3 years 8 months ago

It was great to have the event so well supported by regular orienteers and newcomers. I hope everyone enjoyed the day and that we provided you with a good event at the start of the season. Thanks to the weather gods for blessing us with a dry, fine day and to Forestry England for allowing us to use the area. 

These events are totally reliant on a willing band of volunteers. So I'd like to extend a big thank you to today's team. Special mentions to Terry Smith for running download and producing the results and to Julia Loring for giving up her run to be the start team leader for the whole day.

SOC's next event is at Bramshaw on 8th October. Entries open this week at racesignup.co.uk (shameless plug :-)  )

Pete

Helen Wheelwright

3 years 8 months ago

Thanks, Marcus and Pete for a great event in a lovely area. I enjoyed the wide open vistas on an area I haven't orienteered on before.

Event
New Forest - Hincheslea and Yewtree Bottom