The 2009 Guildford Summer Series A series of three fun orienteering races on summer Friday evenings : Sprint-O, a Trail Challenge and courses for newcomers and juniors Round 1 – Friday 5 June 2009 – Guildford Spectrum Results Round 2 – Friday 26 June 2009 – Stoke Park Results Round 3 / Final – Friday 17 July 2009 – Shalford Park Click on the links below to find out more about each event format ... Sprint-O Trail Challenge Newcomers/Juniors Club Meetings ... watch this space Been and gone ... 25th May (Monday) : Surrey Hill Races, Dorking ... results 31st May : TVOC Regional, Christmas Common... results 5th June (Friday) : GO Summer Series 1, The Spectrum...results 26th June (Friday) : GO Summer Series 2, Stoke Park...results Coming to a forest near you soon ... 17th July (Friday) : GO Summer Series 3, Shalford Park. Click here .... soon for the final details. Various dates : SLOW Summer Events, Generally London area Routegadget ... Click on the logo to add your routes to National Fixtures Information ... Click here for National fixtures information. Injury problems ... Check out the Physiobench as it may be able to help.

30th June 2009 : Two down ... one to GO ...

Pete Couldery and his band of loyal helpers hosted a very pleasant evening at Stoke Park last Friday and we trust you all enjoyed the beautiful warm evening and fast running conditions. One more event left to go now in the clubs first summer series which have been masterminded by Pete, and from comments overheard from finishers, have been very well reveived and enjoyed. Well done Pete for a fine initiative and job well done. This is going to be a hard act to follow in 2010, but lets all support Pete and make sure it happens.

So make a date in your diary for Friday 17th July and another new venue at Shalford Park on the south side of town. Final details will appear on the web soon.

24th June 2009 : Another North Downs Relay victory for team GO

Team GO cruised to a fine victory on Saturday beating teams from SLOW, Haywards Heath Harriers and Canterbury Harriers. The winning margin this year was just over 36 minutes, and apart from a brief spell after leg 7, GO held the lead from Dover to Farnham. So well run to everyone who took part from all participating clubs. This years winning time of 16 hours 17 minutes and 31 seconds was the best for a few years.

Special mention must be made of Mike Scholes from Haywards Heath who despite being almost totally blind ran from Newlands Corner to the finish with his guide Tim Hicks. The pretty rough in places and very sandy ground proved to be a challenge for Mike, but if any one runner deserves mention it has to be Mike for such a very brave effort.

Full results can be found on the NDR web page.

19th May 2009 : David Abrams reserve for World Junior Championships

Spotted on the BO web pages, David Abrams has been named as first reserve for the Junior World Orienteering Championships being held in Italy in July. David has has an up and down season with illness affecting him early in the season, but we all knew that he showed great potential from a tender age, and that there were good things to come. So well done David. We certainly don't wish injury on any of your fellow team mates, but it would be great if you did get to run in July. If you do make the start line this year, as they would say in Italy, runa likea the winda and enjoy the experience. GO will be rooting for you.

David has also been selected for a 2010 Pre-JWOC training camp in Denmark at the end of July, so if 2009 doesn't happen lets keep fingers firmly crossed for 2010.

17th May 2009 : Another British Title for James

James Crawford had continued his trophy collecting habit with another good run to claim the M50 title at the British Middle distance championships held last weekennd near Nottingham. James only took the lead in the closing stages in what would appear to have been a pretty tricky area, with many runners losing time with errors. You can read James's account by clicking here

11th May 2009 : GO Ladies show great form at the BOK National Event and JK

Not content with a win in the JK Sprint in Northumberland, Christine Kiddier continued in fine style to win W55L at recent National Event at New Beechenhust in the Forest of Dean. Also on the podium was Linda Pakuls who was an excellent 3rd on W50L. Linda led the eventual winner Elisabeth Dickson up to control 7 of 14, but Elisabeth had the better stamina over the second half and Sarah Howes sneaked in to snatch silver.

Place your bets now for top 3 positions in the National Rankings by the end of the season.

3rd May 2009 : GO 2009 Club Championships. Final positions after 8 events. Check out the positions

17th April 2009 : GO 2009 Club Championships. Standings after 6 events. Check out the positions

2nd March 2009 : Podium places at the British Championships.

Team GO had a great weekend at this years British Championships with Christine Kiddier taking a fantastic 2nd place in W55L behind Sarah Brown from SLOW. Christine was also 2nd last week at the HH National event. James's World Champion training regime seems to be paying dividends for Christine, so contact James if you want to get fit and start hitting the podium. Peter Nicholls also had two 3rd places in consecutive weeks in a very classy M50L field. Great running from them both.

On Sunday the venue moved to a new area at Beaulieu and Dibden which proved to be a very nice venue for the relays. Fast and close competition saw the GO M50's team of James Crawford, Alastair Doyle and Peter Nicholls win the title by just under 90 seconds, with the next 4 teams packing in the next 30 seconds. The GO team of Keith Tonkin, Pete Couldery and Mark Smith were not far back in 6th. Not to be outdone, the W50 team of Linda Pakuls, Jenny Nicholls and Christine Kiddier came a fine 4th in the ladies race and only just missed out on a podium place. Next year ...

27th January 2009 : GO 2009 Club Championships. Standings after 5 events. Check out the positions

25th January 2009 : GO 2009 Club Championships. Standings after 4 events. Check out the positions