Our next Saturday Series event
Our next Saturday event will be at Mardley Heath on January 5th. All welcome. While white, yellow, orange courses will be just like our usual Saturday Series, there will be a greater range of technical courses, of a Middle style on a small but detailed area.
You can save form-filling and time on the day by pre-registering. This service is free and will reserve a map for you. It also saves us effort, so please do so if you can: Map Reservation
Boxing Day Score Event at Trent Park
This is our traditional burn-off-the-turkey joint venture with LOK. It’s a relaxed and fun score event to help you recover from the Christmas festivities with a mass start at 11am. Details….
Training and Christmas Social
Our annual Christmas (technical) training this year will be held on 28th December. We are planning to use Northaw Great Wood, starting at 10.30 am with a finish time of 12.30 or thereabouts. As usual training will be followed by a club social at Northaw and Cuffley Youth Centre when we will aim to provide games, quizzes and an opportunity to meet and chat with fellow club members. Details..
New club jackets
Our club outerwear design has been updated. Several people have remarked that it looks very smart, thanks Stu Levene for masterminding the upgrade.
If any club member would like to order one, please contact Stu. It would be great to see lots of us in them at events around the country. Details …
Youth League Results
The third Youth league event at Verulamium had a very good turn despite the weather. St Albans High School won both the main competition and the Maureen Webster Memorial Trophy fairly comfortably [Read more..]
Southern Championships 2018
The Southern Championships were held over the weekend of Nov 24/25 on the newly combined areas of Hindhead Common and the Devil’s Punch Bowl. There were some great results and many podium places for Happy Herts runners at both event. [Read more..]
Juniors trained in warm sunshine – yet again!
Phasel’s Wood Activity Centre, near Hemel Hempstead, was the venue for this year’s autumn half-term training for club juniors. Read Keith’s report...
Introduction to Orienteering – Training Course
We are planning to an ’Introduction to Orienteering’ course on Sunday 20th January in St Albans. It will cover terminology, courses, classes, events and competitions and all the basics that you need to know about how the sport is organised and how to start to get the best out of it. Details…
2018 Club Championships
The 2018 Club Championships were held at HAVOC’s Epping SW event on Sunday 18th November.
Congratulations to our champions:
Open: Men Simon Errington; Women not contested
Veterans: Men Mick Smith; Women Helen Errington*
Intermediate: Boys Alex Fielding*; Girls Hannah Freeman*
Juniors Maggie Soulsby
Open Handicap Ben Bardsley
Veterans Handicap Gillian Bowers
Those marked with * retained their title from 2017.
It’s time for evening training again!
We’ve now got two weekly training sessions on the go! They are on Tuesdays in Welwyn Garden City and Thursdays in St Albans [Read more..]
Latest Results..
| Verulamium, 1st December 2018 | Results |
| HABS, 3rd November 2018 | Results |
| Northaw Great Wood, 21st October 2018 | Results |
Results page...
Forthcoming events..
| Tue 18 Dec 18 | Tuesday Evenings Weekly Training run – WGC | every Tuesday evening |
| Tue 18 Dec 18 | Tuesday evening informal social – WGC | A get-together every Tuesday evening |
| Thu 20 Dec 18 | Thursday Evenings Weekly Training run – St Albans | every Thursday evening |
| Wed 26 Dec 18 | LOK / HH Boxing Day Score | Score |
| Fri 28 Dec 18 | Christmas Training and Social | Training and a social get together |
| Sat 5 Jan 19 | Mardley | Beginners and experienced orienteers |
| Sun 20 Jan 19 | Introduction to Orienteering – Training Course | Training course |
| Sat 2 Feb 19 | Club Training – Chipperfield | Pre-event training (members only) |
| Sat 2 Feb 19 | Chipperfield | Beginners, Youth & Saturday Leagues |
Full Fixtures List...
