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2014 Scottish and British Champs successes
Maroc members have had lots of success at both the 2014 Scottish and British Championships over the past couple of weekends. Special congratulations to British Individual champions Jake Chapman (M14) and Jon Musgrave (M50) and to the M14 British relay champions Jake Chapman, Luke Graham and Joe Wright. Read on for a full report of both weekends…
More photos in the 2014 Photo Gallery
Top Maroc performances at JK 2014
Approximately 40 members attended the 2014 Jan Kjellstrom International event in the south Wales valleys over the Easter weekend.
Maroc, as usual, had a series of outstanding performances with many top 10 placings but the club’s sole overall class winner was Ewan Musgrave on M10A, who also won the sprint. The junior relay team of Jake Chapman, Matthew Gooch and Joe Wright finished second in their class.
Top Results for Maroc Juniors at JK Festival
The JK International Orienteering Festival kicked off on Good Friday with a sprint race round the University campus in Reading. A strong contingent from Maroc have travelled down for this 4-day Easter event and were rewarded with top class results from a number of the juniors in the sprint event today.
Lots of JK photos in the photo gallery.
Talent Squad Weekend 9-10th March
March is a good time for the top juniors to be considering their race preparation for the British season – JK, British and Scottish Championships all coming up in the next 2-3 months. Maroc Talent Squad made the most of terrain on their doorstep with an intensive technical weekend based around Ballater on the 9/10th March.
2012-13 Deeside Night Cup Update
The 2012-13 Deeside Night Cup orienteering league finished with an excellent Score event at Crathes and the usual lavish prizegiving at the curry house in Banchory.
Attached are the final DNC results after all 12 events. My apologies for the errors in the prize-giving - I misread some of the results in the spread sheet that Ian passed to me in the curry house (nothing to do with the Kingfisher!). So time now to rest up the head torch and spend Wednesday evenings doing something less strenuous.
Thanks to all the planners for a set of excellent challenging courses, the club access officials for obtaining permission and to you all for turning out in such numbers. See you all in November
Cheers
Jon
DNC Update Dec 2012
The first four races of the “Deeside Night Cup” have now taken place and the series takes a break until January. After 4 races Jon Musgrave is leading the league overall, but with 8 races from 12 to count he must feel threatened by youngster Josh Dudley and there is still plenty of time for other competitors to show their form too. Ross McMurtrie is looking like a strong contender for the Mini Cup, but could be pushed all the way by several other competitors.
Top results in September SOL races, 2012
There were some top results for club members at the two recent Scottish O League races at Forvie and Errochty.
Jukola 2012: Team 1066 and All That…
This is the compilation of a set of stories telling the tale of Maroc’s first team entry to the biggest orienteering relay in the world – Jukola 2012.
Deeside Forest Sprint Series 2012
MAROC and GRAMP are joining forces again, this time to put on this summer’s Deeside Sprint-O series. The series will commence on Friday 20th April and the single course event format will cater for all Orienteers of TD3 standard and above. Expected winning times for the evening races will be in the order of 15-20 minutes.
PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO {encode="" title=""} by midnight on Saturday 14th April to reserve a map for Race 1.
Big 5 O
The Musgrave / Dunn family escaped a couple of weeks of the Scottish winter to attend a new multi-day event in South Africa.