Bloom Wood was in tip top form today. Thanks to Stefan for planning the courses through the most runnable areas. The woods were also living up to their name with fabulous displays of bluebells in some areas. The photo shows one of the areas made out of bounds to avoid the flowers. Thanks to the many helpers who made the day run smoothly. Looking forwards to seeing those of you who tried out orienteering for the first time today at future events. John Methven (Organiser).

Read comments from the Controller (Mark Thompson, TVOC) by following this link.

Photos and final results for Cold Ash and SCOA championship results and officials comments are here.  

Hope everyone had a good run out and found challenges on what is a mixed area.  The ever changing landscape and inaccessible areas of a working forest made creating suitable courses quite difficult, which, alongside our relative lack of planning experience and never ending rain meant that both we and our controller(s) had plenty of correspondence and many trips into the forest before everyone was happy. We got there in the end though, and the overall feedback seemed positive.  Certainly everyone looked suitably tired and dishevelled on their return, and that seems like a good trip out to me

Routegadget for Wednesdays training can be found here . Feel free to use this to review your route choices and split times. 
https://www.bko.routegadget.co.uk/rg2

https://www.bko.org.uk/sites/default/files/results/2024/06-05/