| Date | Event location | Near | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 30th | Shooting Greens Night O | Banchory | Local Race, Night |
| Sun Feb 03rd | Carlogie Club Training | Potarch | Training |
| Wed Feb 13th | Wood of Easter Clune Night O | Finzean | Local Race, Night |
| Sun Feb 17th | Bellwood Club Training | Aboyne | Training |
| Wed Feb 20th | Tilquhillie Night O | Banchory | Local Race, Night |
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Type of event: Local Race, Night
Results are now finalised.
Part of the Deeside Night Cup series.
Two courses of around 3km and 5km at TD5/Green standard as far as possible. No concessions to the dark.
The British Night Orienteering Championships are coming to Deeside on the weekend of February 23rd - 24th 2019.
As well as the Night Chamionship event itself on Saturday evening, there will be a SOL at Birsemore on the Sunday and a SOUL sprint event organised by Grampian Orienteers at Cove earlier on the Saturday.
Online entries for all three events are now open on Fabian 4.
First closing date is 4/2/19 after which fees go up by £1.
Final closing date is 18/2/19 midnight.
Maroc will be organising a block of 4 introductory orienteering sessions for newcomers to orienteering, during February and March. The sessions are particularly targeted at family participation but will also be suitable for new adults. Full coaching will be provided and there will be an opportunity for both children and adults to have a go.
Final details of venues are still being confirmed but the plan is to host the first session on Sun 3rd Feb at Carlogie near Potarch. Subsequent sessions will be on 17th Feb (Bellwood, Aboyne), 24th Feb (participation in event at Birsemore) 10th Mar (Torphantrick near Cambus o' May). Full details and an application form are here (Word doc) or here (Pdf)
The Jon Duncan Dunior Deeside Cup (JD2C) is a points competition for Juniors of MAROC and Grampian Orienteers which runs each calendar year. The competition this year will be run over 9 events and is already underway with the event at Glen O'Dee on Sunday.
The full list of fixtures is in the table below and this along with summary of rules in the attached.
| Event number | Date | Organising club | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6th January | MAROC | Glen O'Dee |
| 2 | 24th February | GRAMP/MAROC | SOL1 Birsemore |
| 3 | 24th March | GRAMP | Glen Dye |
| 4 | 28th April | MAROC | Sluie |
| 5 | 30th June | MAROC | Potarch |
| 6 | 7th July | GRAMP | Balmedie |
| 7 | 28th August | MAROC | Glen Feardar |
| 8 | 6th October | GRAMP | Forvie |
| 9 | 10th November | MAROC | Cambus O'May |
Prize giving for the competition (the much coveted wooden statues) will be at the GRAMP And MAROC Club AGMs.
If you are not sure of the age class that you should be running in, this is tied to your year of birth, so effectively your age at the end of 2019 - see the attached table.
With apologies to those affected, belated posting of revised Final standing for the JD2C. Congratulations again to the category winners below as well as to all medal winners in the attached full table.
| M8 | Fraser Pain (GRAMP) | W8 | Dara Tivendale |
| M10 | Findlay Cormack | W10 | Romily Kellas |
| M12 | Ranolph Whitehead | W12 | Ruth Gooch |
| M14 | Ewan Musgrave | W14 | Catriona Chapman |
| M16 | Matthew Gooch | W16 | Eilidh Garrett |