BKO Articles

4 November 2016: Members Update

It’s the first weekend in November so it must be the ‘November Classic’ on Sunday. 34 BKO members (in classes from M12/W14 to M90/W65) will be tackling courses around the New Forest. Although today’s rain will have dampened the ground, the very dry October means that the marshes should be generally firm and the streams crossable. ....

30 October 2016: Greenham Common Results, etc

The following provide results, routegadget and photos for this weekend's two events on Greenham Common staged jointly by BKO and BADO: ....

19 October 2016: Members Update

Most of you will have noticed that we had a large turnout for our Saturday event at Bramshill last weekend but our team of volunteers, led by Jane Courtier, generally coped well. The weather was good (unlike Sunday) which helped but the areas of young trees made the going on Andy Parry’s courses tough in places and quite a challenge. Katy Stubbs’ map of our new area was impressive including detailed mapping of the numerous ridges. ....

16 October 2016: Bramshill Results and Routegadget now available

Thank you for coming to our event at Bramshill yesterday.  It was great to be using a new area although the many blocks of young trees made for some tough going.  Full results are now available as well as Routegadget and a Flickr album of photos taken out in the area from about 11.30-12.45.  See our results page at Bramshill Results for all the links.

4 October 2016: Members Update

As well as the good results from overseas already reported, much closer to home, Mark Saunders had a great run to win the Mens Open course at the Royal Wooton Basset urban event on the 25 September putting him in first place in the Southern England Orienteering Urban League with just a few more races to complete this year’s competition. ....

1 October 2016: Silver for Denise in the World Masters MTBO Champs

An alternative discipline in orienteering is Mountain Bike Orieteering (MTBO) which has the same idea of navigating at speed but, in this case, bicycles are used.  Denise Harper has shown hersef a very capable MTB orienteer and has travelled to Lithuania to complete in this year's World Masters Championships. ...

25 September 2016: 3 Second places for Fiona in Porto

It has been a good weekend for Fiona Clough in this weekend's Porto City Races.  With a second place in Friday night's evening event she maintained this standard and gained second place in the Women Super Vet class in yesterday's race and completed the set with a third second place today.  Congratulations to her on a great performance up against a large number of competitors from across Europe.

23 September 2016: 2nd place for Fiona Clough in the Porto night race

A race around the city of Porto in Portugal may not be everyone's ides of orienteering but the annual Porto City Race weekend has become an established part of the international urban calendar.  This year Fiona Clough and Derick Mercer have included it on their schedule and for Fiona it looks like being a good move.  In tonight's first race, she successfully navigated the complex course and was placed second in the Women Super Vet class.

6 August 2016: Lily Hill Park

Thank you to those who attended today's event at Lily Hill Park - we hope you enjoyed your run.  Some photos of the event taken during the closing stages are available in a Flickr album.  See: Lily Hill Park Flickr Album

Photo Challenge 2016

This is a chance to try and match photographs of controls taken at our urban event in mid-June with the controls shown on the map. Click the title above to find out more and get the complete set of control photographs. ....

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