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This site maintained by Dick Keighley.    

Latest Update  2 July 2009

This section is regularly updated. Please remember to hit the Refresh (or Reload) button on your browser to check for this - otherwise you will still be looking at last month's copy saved in the cache of your browser.

NEW  Wednesday evening event & MLS Moors Valley added 2/07,Blandford & Kingston Maurward flyers added 18/06,Furrow Hoppers Relay flyer added 05/06,

MESSAGE BOARD - don't forget to check the message board.

Download  publicity flyer

Next WIM events 
 
Dorset Coast Path Relay July 11    
Blandford Urban Race July 18 details here
Kingston Maurward event July 19 details here
Moors Valley July 22 (Wed) Military League South & evening event
Furrow Hoppers Relay July 26 Bryanston

Sat 20 June Moors Valley MTBO event     
A successful event, with lots of families taking part.       Results

Sat 13 June  British MTBO Championships Long race - Wareham Forest. John Houlihan rides away from the Start of the Long race

Final Results   (including Sunday's Middle race)

 Sun 7 June  Gillingham urban race     Results     Splits
 

Moors Valley Challenge 
To mark the relaunch of the Permanent Course, experienced orienteers and runners are invited to take part in the Moors Valley Challenge - how quickly can you visit all 50 control points on the new course?

Let us know if you have bettered the record, currently held by Dale Paget (WSX) of 78-20

Dorset Schools Champs Results & Photos

 Moors Valley Challenge, Mountain Bike event and Saturday
 afternoon event - Results here

Waffle
The May issue of Waffle has been published and has been distributed to members. You can read it here.

Club League updated
Mike Kite has updated the new club league tables up to and including the BOKTrot. He's also provided an explanation of what events are used for calculating league points and  how we are modifying the league to suit the new event structure. View it here.

Sun 15  March CompassSport Trophy - regional qualifying round, Bullers Hill,Exeter.
Congratulations to all those club members who ran for the club at this event. Despite missing a few of our leading runners, we won the South West qualifying round and progress to the finals later in the year. Full results via the Devon website here.

British Championships weekend

pictures: Dick Keighley

A huge turnout of club members over the weekend with lots of good performances on both days. The pictures show the M/W60 relay team with their Bronze medals, and John & Di Tilsley who were presented with the BOF/BSOA award for Outstanding Services to Schools Orienteering by Martin Ward, a director of BOF. More relay pictures from Chris Branford's site here  There is a link to Digisport's photographs  on the BOF website: several WIM members appear.

Wessex Region Night League 2008-9 final results
The culmination of the Wessex Night Orienteering League at Stonedown Wood resulted in one or two positional changes at the top of the league after each runner's best six events were calculated. Congratulations to Gavin Clegg, the League winner, and thanks to Chris Branford for administering the league and the scoring system.

Results spreadsheet for the entire season          Best six events

Sun 15 Feb 2009 The  South West Middle Distance Championships & WIM Winter Warmer
 
FinalResults    Photographs   Comments, corrections, String course results, Splitsbrowser link  etc. all posted on the Results page. The Ranking List points on the BOF website have also now been updated. There was a glitch in the calculation software which initially put a lot of people on the M21 list!

Sturminster Newton Night event Jan 16
Results here

Inside Park Jan 10
Corrected results and splits here.

Boxing Day Canter 2008  Friday Dec 26

Final  Results   See the rest of Chris Branford's photos here

Day/Night event Hurn Forest  Sat Nov 29
Results both events  here. The Night League and Dorset Schools League tables have also been adjusted to include the event.

British Schools Championships  Hawley & Hornley Nov 16

Several WIM juniors took part in this year's British Schools Champs including groups from Purbeck & Clayesmore schools. Congratulations to Beccy Whittingham, 3rd in Year 5 Girls, and to Clayesmore School who won the small secondary schools team class for the 3rd time in succession and the 11th time since  they first won it in 1994. More on the Dorset Schools page.

Night Event on Blandford Camp  Training Area Sat Nov 15
Results  here

Founders Trophy 2008
This year's club championship competition for the Founders Trophy, held at the November Classic, has resulted in a tie for first place between Keith Henderson and Sue Hands. The results are here.

CompassSport Trophy Final - Sutton Park  Oct 19
The WIM Officers and Committee would like to congratulate and thank all the WIM members who took part in the final of the CompassSport Trophy at Sutton Park.

Over 40 members ran, helping the club to achieve 3rd place in the Trophy competition, our best ever result.  Helen Bridle & Sue Hands both won their class.

Club     Points      Counters

FVO        1233        13
SARUM  1223        13
WIM         1169        13

Wed  October 15  Ringwood Forest South
The results for this event are on the BAOC website - download them here

Club AGM-  Canford  October 10
The AGM was well attended. The club's Officers remain unchanged. On the Committee, Lyn Branford and Kirsty Staunton stood down after a number of years service. Chris Branford and Hilary Pickering were elected in their place. After the AGM, John and Di Tilsley gave a short presentation of some of their superb photographs of New Zealand.

Several WIM members competed in the first City of London urban orienteering event. Kirsty came 2nd in the W40+ class. Graham Gristwood of GB's world championship winning relay team was on hand to present the prizes.

Permanent Orienteering course, MTBO and Permanent Trail-O courses

Moors Valley Challenge - New Course

  1 Dale Paget                        M45           WSX         1:18:20                  
   2 Steven Horsler                    M40           WIM         1:22:50                     
   3 Gavin Clegg                       M50           WSX         1:28:52  

How quickly can you visit all the controls (including the six new, technical ones) on the Moors Valley permanent course.  Will we offer a prize for the fastest time?