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River Dee Radio Orienteering Podcasts
Whilst we are all in lockdown, an ideal time to listen to a collection of recent broadcasts from River Dee radio featuring MAROC orienteering:
March 2020: That Friday Feeling talks to Sarah Dunn, MAROC coaching coordinator and Regional Development Officer
March 2020: Night Orienteering Special - Paul visits Burn o' Vat with MAROC coach John Musgrave
September 2019: Orienteering at Glen Feardar
December 2019: Local Sports Personality Jon Musgrave
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup - Standings after 3 events
Here are the JD2C standings after the event at Birsemore on 8th March.
As I'm sure everyone is aware, this will be the last update for some time. The next counting event will be advised when orienteering resumes following all relevant guidelines from BOF and UK government.
Coronavirus and Orienteering
We are all aware of the ongoing coronavirus situation. I am reproducing here the recent communication from British Orienteering - we have been requested to cancel all events for the next 12 weeks and the events at Tillyfourie, Redburn and Sluie have now been removed from the events list.
Full statement below.
Junior Colour and Participation Badges
Latest updates to the junior colour and participation badges.
An explanation for those new to the club: juniors will automatically gain credit for participation (badges awarded for 5, 10, 25 ,50 & 100 events) and for running colour courses within various criteria (iron, bronze, silver and gold badges can be earned). Badges earned during the year are normally awarded at the club AGM in November.
If you think that your junior has run events for which they have not been credited, let Pat know (publicity - see contacts page).
Junior Colour and Participaton Badges
Latest updates to the junior colour and participation badges, up to and including Cambus O'May last Sunday.
Apologies for the sheets not being updated for a while but our juniors have been so busy over the summer it's been almost impossible to keep track!
Please take a moment to look over the sheets for your child to make sure everything makes sense and let Pat know if anything needs added or amended: publicity 'at' marocscotland.org.uk
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup - Revised Final Standings
Another change to the JD2C results - sometimes hard to tell who's run shadowed / paired / family group! So hopefully final revised results for the Jon Duncan Junior Deeside cup. Congratulations to the category winners:
| M8 | Dougal Mather (MAR) | W8 | Joanna McDonald (Gramp) |
| M10 | Fergus Dunbar (MAR) | W10 | Dara Tivendale (MAR) |
| M12 | Ranolph Whitehead (MAR) | W12 | Ruth Gooch (MAR) |
| M14 | Blair Garrett (MAR) | W14 | Morven Farquharson (Gramp) |
| M16 | Sam Griffin (Gramp) | W16 | Amber Graham (MAR) |
Please note that it has been decided that the event at Cambus O'May on 10th November will not count towards the JD2C. Further details below.
River Dee Radio at Glen Feardar
River Dee Radio's 'Sport with Paul' visited MAROCs Glen Feardar event last Sunday. You can hear their Orienteering Special via this link - a very good summary of the Glen Feardar Event and the lead up to it.
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup - Standings after 6 events
Here are the JD2C standings after the event at Balmedie on 7th July.
The next event which counts for the JD2C will be Glen Feardar on this coming Sunday - 25th August.
Scottish Championships Closing date this Sunday 12th May
Reminder that the closing date for online entries for the Individual Championships is midnight this Sunday, 12th May. The event is being hosted by Solway Orienteers and will take place on 25th May at Dalbeattie Town Wood with a revised and extended map.
The Closing date for Relays is 16th May - please let Sarah Dunn know if you want to run in a relay team. The relays will take place at Drumlanrig on Sunday 26th May.
More information on their website here for both the individual and relay events.
Entries via SIEntries here.
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup - Standings after 3 events
Here are the JD2C standings after the events at Glen Dye. There should be another update soon to include the Coull event yesterday.
The next event which counts for the JD2C will be Potarch on 30th June.