9th November 2005 : 2006 Punchbowl Marathon ... Sunday 12th February 2006

Have you ever fancied a long walk or run across some of the finest terrain in Surrey? If the answers is yes, then how about trying the LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) Punchbowl Marathon in February. What O event gives you a 48 km course with food and drink thrown in for such a modest entry fee!! Several Gophers have run and walked this over the years, and it really is a good tough challenge ... if you are up for it! Be there or miss a fine event ...

Venue : Chichester Hall, Witley OS186 / GR948394
Start : Walkers 7.30 am , Runners / Joggers 8.30 am
Parking : On verge OPPOSITE HALL , NOT beside the Hall
Maps : Landranger No 186, or Explorers Nos.133,134,and 145 (bring your own)
Routes : Two, 20 or 30 miles. There are 4 checkpoints including a hot meal at the finish. Those reaching Tilford after 12.30 pm MUST do the 20 mile route. The route is the same as 2005 (check with Alastair or Jeremy if you need to know where it went).
Entry Fee : For EOD : £6.50, £6.00 for LDWA members
Route Description : collect from the registration desk on the day.


If you want to find out more about the LDWA, click here

October 2005 : 2006 GO Club Championships

Club Captain Christine Kiddier writes ...
The club championship is changing this year. In an effort to make things fairer and to get more of you involved, the championship will not be decided on one performance, but the best of four from the following events :-

13th November : SN Regional Event : Ash Ranges
27th November : SLOW Regional Event : Esher Common
4th December : MV District event : Banstead Heath
15th January : SO District Event : Broadstone Warren ... Note : Tilgate used instead as venue changed.
22nd January : BADO District Event : Chawton Park .... EVENT CANCELLED
19th February : HH Regional Event : Burnham Beeches
12th March : SO Regional Event : Selhurst Park, Arundel
9th April : SN Compass Sport Cup (and presumably trophy) : Wisley

In the Regional Events, run in your age group as per normal. I will work out the points from the results. In the District Events, you need to run the following, or run a higher course:-

Brown : M21+
Blue : W21+ and M45+ / M20-
Green : W45+ / W20-/ M60+
Light Green : M/W18-
Orange : W/M14-

The points are based on mins/km, and the best four will count, so you can run in as few as four events, or all of them, or anything in between. Good luck.

October 2005 : GO unveils it's new logo ...

After many happy hours with the GO colouring set, a new logo has been designed and approved by the GO team. We hope you like it ...

15th October 2005 : CompassSport Cup Final

Team GO contested the final of the CompassSport Trophy at the weekend near Burnley on courses that were described by some as seeming to be all up hill!! Despite that, the team did well to finish in 9th place hehind winners FVO. Well run to all of those Gophers who took part.

October 2005 : Comrades Wars and Peaces ...

If you have the odd spare hour or two and fancy a spot of scintillating bedtime reading then, check out the Comrades tales of woe that you can find beneath this link. Enjoy. We did ... I think

... we seem to have fallen into a Black Hole in January ..... but luckily emerged again!!

15th January 2005 : Dune hopping in Holland ... 26th - 28th March 2005

Request from UZO Orienteering the Netherlands ...

Orienteering friends!
From 26 until 28 of March we organize an international orienteering event in the dunes of the Hague (the Netherlands). We can offer you terrific terrain (the most difficult terrain of the Netherlands with many many details and great variation in vegetation) with new maps of high quality. The competitions will be held very close together and close to accommodations thus offering the possibility to go to the competitions without needing a car. The Hague is easy to reach by train, boat or plane ( via Schiphol airport). The Hague offers a wide variety of cultural sightseeing possibilities combined with the North Sea beach only two kilometers away!! Also the famous flower bulb area is only 30 kilometers away and the competition is just in its season.

We would like to ask you to inform the people of your club of this possibility by placing our link ( http://www.nolb.nl/~holland3d/ ) on your site and/or maybe consider coming!

Hope to see you at eastern 2005 at the 3-days of Holland in the Hague!
Warm orienteering greetings!

Mietta Groeneveld
UZO Orienteering the Netherlands

9th January 2005 : Outward Bound ... a request

We have received the following request from the Outward Bound organisation ... "Dear Secretary
I am writing to ask for your help with placing an article in your newsletter or website. I work for The Outward Bound Trust, which has shaped the lives of thousands of people.

We have created a Roll of Honour for people who completed courses and been a part of Outward Bound since 1941. So far this project has been very successful, but with your help we can each out to more ex-participants and staff members who have experienced an Outward Bound course. Attached to this document is a small announcement. If you could find room for it in your next newsletter I would be very grateful. If you wish to find out more about the Roll of Honour, then visit our website. Thank you for your help."

Outward Bound Announcement

9th January 2005 : Belgium 3 Days, 14th - 16th May 2005 ...

Dear Orienteering Friends,

We would like to invite you to "The 3 days of Belgium 2005", which will be held over "Whitsunday" in Flanders. (14-16 May 2005). You will be running on a very varied terrain with pine forest and deciduous forest, alternate with dune landscape.

You can find all the information on our website or by e-mailing info@orientatie.org.

Looking forward to welcome you in Belgium!

Best regards,
Mireille Vanoosterhout
Sporttechnisch Coördinator van het Vlaams Verbond voor Oriënteringssporten

9th January 2005 : Warm weather training in Spain and Portugal...

Welcome to Spain and Portugal!

Training camps and competitions in Barbate, Málaga, Granada, Alicante-Murcia, Madrid and Portugal.

WRE 5th - 6th of February and 12th - 13th of February in Portugal.
WRE 12th - 13th of February in Alicante, and 5th-6th of March in Madrid

We have around 70 different trainings put out.
We also help you with the flights:

Please contact: marie@iafatours.com or Per Sterner at per@orienteering-spain.com or check out the website