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Two new challenges for DEEsiders
published: 17/11/2019
The DEE committee is spicing up your orienteering in 2020 with two new challenges.
The first is the DEEside DARE - 25 activities that cover all aspects of the club and orienteering. Start now and complete them all before the end of July and you will be entered into a special prize draw. Complete horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines of 5 along the way and win mystery spot prizes. What are you waiting for? Download your DEE DARE chart now and get started.
The second challenge is the DEE Orienteering League, a competition open to all club members starting in January.
It pits M/W16s and upwards against each other using a handicapped scoring system.
There is a separate competition for each of the M/W 10, 12 and 14 age classes based on the UK Orienteering League system
where the first places DEEsider scores 50 points, the second 49 points, etc.
The aims of the league are to provide an ongoing competition during the year in addition to the summer Galoppen
and to encourage everyone to try out different event formats and visit areas outside of DEE.
Updates on the league scoring will be posted during the course of the year.
The Club Individual Championships (for the various trophies) will continue with the event being part of the League.
Download the DEEside O League document for more information and the event schedule.
50th Birthday Dinner
updated: 11/10/2019
Following the success of the Alyn Waters activity and afternoon tea, with 80 present and past members attending, we are holding a 50th Birthday Dinner at the Willington Hall Hotel near Kelsall on Saturday 16 November.
We are planning displays of material, maps, photos and other items spanning the 50 years of the club. Please contact Jane Mockford (orienteeringj@gmail.com?subject=50th Dinner Memorabilia) if you have material that you think would be of interest.
The menu is here.
All members should have received an email inviting them to contact Jane Mockford (orienteeringj@gmail.com?subject=50th Dinner Attendees) to book their place, and to pay a £10 deposit to the club's account.
British Sprint and Middle Distance Championships Successes
published: 17/09/2019
Some great results for DEEsiders.
Saturday 14 September, in the sunny British Sprint Championships at Loughborough University, it was
- John Embrey Gold M60
- Mike Smithard Gold M70
- Johnathan Bendrey Bronze M12
- Liz Jackson Bronze W55
and near misses for the Harrises
- Anna 4th in W16
- Duncan 4th in M60
On Sunday 15 September at Chinley Churn for the Middle Distance Championships it was in or out of the mist depending on your start time. Podium places for
- Chris Calow Gold M65
- Hannah Hately Silver W20
- Anna Harris Bronze W16
- Mike Smithard Bronze M70
Click for full results for Sprint and Middle.
CSC Final - do we have a team?
published: 03/09/2019
COMPASS SPORT CUP FINAL Sunday 20th OCTOBER 2019
As some of you will remember, we qualified for the final last March. The final is a little distance away, being about 240 miles from Chester but we have travelled such a distance before. And, if you take a 3 year rolling average, we are pretty well placed to get to many finals, eg last year (and next year, should we make it to the final next year – Sutton Park).
Venue is Pippingford Park near Nutley in Sussex. Usual classes, fees paid by DEE, start times 1030 to 1330. Please let me know if you can make it, any start time preference and any change to your SI card number. SO THAT PEOPLE CAN CONFIRM TRAVEL AND ACCOM, please let me know asap. I will advise whether we have a team by 20th September.
Prelim details on the Mole Valley website.
Mike Smithard (smithardm@btinternet.com) Tel. 01244 380565
Happy 50th Birthday DEE
updated: 03/09/2019
The inaugural meeting of Deeside Orienteering Club was held at Chester YMCA on 22 May 1969. 50 years on we are still going strong. Two events to celebrate our birthday:
31 August afternoon - Alyn Waters - orienteering activity and afternoon tea.
79 members and former members attended in various capacities, and a good time was had by all. The afternoon tea laid on by Alyn Waters was scrumptious - and it all went. The training-type orienteering activity was great fun. The times recorded are here.
Thanks to Jane Mockford for organising such a successful celebration of our half-century.
16 November evening - Willington Hall Hotel - celebration dinner
Congratulations to Matthew and Adam McCreadie
published: 01/07/2019
The McCreadie family have been doing well lately:
- Matthew, after attending an open day and a recent full training day at Tockholes, has been invited to join the NW Junior Orienteering Squad. The invitation rounded off a good weekend for Matthew as, the day after Tockholes, he became NW M14 Sprint Champion at the Horwich Festival.
- Adam, who only started orienteering a year ago, has been selected to run for Wales in the Veteran Home Internationals in Scotland in September.
DEE 50th Anniversary Celebrations
published: 12/05/2019
DEE is 50 years old this year. To celebrate this, we plan two events:
- Saturday 31 August. Venue tbc. An orienteering event, followed by food. Get the date in your diaries now.
- A proper sit-down dinner, to which we hope to invite members past and present. Venue and date tbc - sometime in the Autumn.
Pauline Smithard
published: 01/06/2019
We are sorry to report that Pauline passed away on Sunday 26th May, peacefully at home.
We send the Club's sympathy to Mike, Chris and Zoe. Pauline was a very active and much-loved member - we will all miss her.
Summer Talent Camp Selection
published: 27/04/2019
Congratulations to Anna Harris, who has been selected to go to the British Orienteering Summer Talent Camp in the Cairngorms. Quote from Head Talent Coach about the Camp "helps those who are in the early stages of their Talent squad careers to experience further development opportunities and allow us also to bring along the most promising first-year M/W16's and assess whether they are ready to make the next step up into the Talent squad at the start of next season."
Full British Orienteering announcement here.
CompassSport Cup Heat - DEE Qualify for Finals
published: 19/03/2019
Well done to all DEEsiders in the CompassSport Cup heat at Sherwood Pines on 17 March. DEE finished 3rd in a strong heat. SYO won, so 3 teams qualify for the final. It's on Sunday 20 October 2019 at Pippingford Park near Crowborough (Surrey). Get the date in your diaries!
Full event results here.
Night and Day, They Are The Ones
published: 12/03/2019
DEE competitors achieved super results in the Northern Night Champs, British Night Champs, and the Northern (Day) Champs recently.
Northern Night Championships at Ilkley on 16 Feb 2019
- Anna Harris (W16) running up on the Blue course came 3rd in the Women Open class, behind Chloe Haines and Alice Leake who are both W21. Fantastic result.
- Dad Duncan was 3 minutes ahead of Anna, narrowly missing a podium place in M40+.
- Jon Hateley, John Embrey and Iain Bell finished well in 5th, 6th and 7th places in M55+ (Green).
Full event results here
British Night Championships at Muir of Dinnet on 23 Feb 2019
- Anna Harris is W16 British Night Champion. Running in her own age class, she won by 11 seconds. Congratulations Anna!
- Duncan Harris 3rd in M50
Full event results here
Northern Championships at Wharncliffe on 10 March 2019
By 'eck - they only went and won
- Philip Vokes M21 Elite
- Liz Jackson W55
- John Embrey M60
- Chris Calow M65
Well done to them and to all the other DEEsiders who got round some very demanding courses.
Full event results here
Interland 2019
published: 12/03/2019
Sara Campbell was part of the England team who won the Interland competition in northern France. Well done Sara and all the team.
Event results here
Relay and CSC Heat entries
published: 25/02/2019
From Club Captain Mike Smithard
Lists of runners/teams have now gone out to those on the lists for JK, BOC and Sprint relays, so if you haven't received them and want to run, please let me know asap.
Draft start lists for CSC heat will be out in a day or two, so again, if you don't receive it and want to run, let me know asap after Tuesday.
CompassSport Cup Heat 17 March 2019 Entries
published: 29/01/2019
Message from Club Captain Mike Smithard
Hello all
ENTRIES TO ME BY FEBRUARY 24th
Please let me know asap that you wish to go and any preference on start time, new dibber number, new age group, who you might travel with. So I can sort our entries out and consult on start times allocated and any possible moving people between courses, I would like to know all entries by February 24th.
We have once again been allocated to the heat requested viz Sherwood Pines, organised by Nottingham OC. We went there in 2015 and qualified. Again there will be 6 teams, so 2 go through as well as SYO who always (well, nearly always, (DVO beat them one year) win their heat. So, ignoring SYO whose result does not affect qualification for the other teams, we have to finsh in the top 2 of DVO (always close), Norwich, Leicester, EBOR and ourselves.
We entered Sherwood Pines as the best guess at the best option to qualify. There are 3 heats all about the same time away so not like last year, when we went to Nesscliffe as, being nearby, we thought that would maximise our numbers as a club day out. Not sure that worked number-wise but we had the right people there! We have a couple of members who live over that way who hopefully will be available and should be able to get there as their local clubs are running.
NEW RULES - as below. Firstly following consultation on splitting the Short Green course results into 2 'courses', they have done that but in a different way to that proposed so, therefore, more people in the older age groups can now count. Still 25 to count overall.
Secondly (not below) - I'm glad to see that they have set a rule that map boxes at the start should have ALL of colour, course number and age classes on which sorts out the frustration of people taking wrong maps because not all the info is there.
Best wishes, Mike Smithard (smithardm@btinternet.com) Tel. 01244 380565
EXTRACT FROM EMAIL FROM CO-ORDINATOR
Information for Club Captains
Please find attached the draw for the Compass Sport Cup qualifying rounds to held on 17 March 2019. All clubs have been allocated to their first choice venue. This does create an imbalance of numbers at some events, but as the rounds move geographically it gives different clubs the opportunity to qualify for the Final.
Changes to Rules:
a. Course 7 Short Green is now M70+ and W60+ and remains a large course for scoring purposes (ie 100,99,98...., up to 4 to count)
b. There is a new course 10, Short Green, a small course for scoring purposes, which is M80+ W70+. (ie 100, 98, 96, 94.....up to 4 to count) This is planned as a separate course from Course 7 but can be the same as Course 8B. (Note - that's the W18- course)
c. If the organising club uses an on-line entry system, then ALL clubs in that round MUST enter ALL their runners on the system by the closing date. Changes and further entries are at the organiser's discretion but MUST be shown on the on-line system.
The Compass Sport Coordinating Group seek women members to join the Group to widen their representation. There are no meetings. The Group discusses, via email, queries by clubs, reviews the rules and is a consultation process for the Coordinator when a decision is required over contentious issues.
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Welsh Champs Nash Woods, Presteigne SUnday 3 March 2019
published: 27/01/2019
The Welsh Orienteering Championships will be held at Nash Woods near Presteigne on Sunday 3 March 2019.
CompassSport Cup Heat 17 March 2019
published: 07/01/2019
Message from Club Captain Mike Smithard
Somewhere but quite far away, wherever.
Draw will be announced about 14th January but try to keep date free. Will be nearly 2 hours away from Chester but that's no furher than Cannock Chase far end. Slightly good news is that two of our (non-counting) over-populated M60+ class have matured enough to have to only run the Short Green course this year - so a 1st and 2nd please would help (you know who you are, no pressure). Not sure if a possible split of the Short Green course will be implemented yet, news on that with draw I expect.
Yvette Baker Heat, Wrekin event 20 January 2019
published: 07/01/2019
Message from Club Captain Mike Smithard
DEE juniors are running in this heat at Boreatton Park, a PGL site between Oswestry and Shrewsbury. Gets it done before the exam season starts. New format this year with competition split between 'big' (25+ juniors) and 'small' clubs similar to CSC/CST competition. Duncan Harris is co-ordinating our team (which has to be pre-entered) and has circulated details round our juniors. Any juniors running in the school league are eligible to run for us (unless their school is affiliated to another club). I imagine OD might be running here but, as they finished in top 5 last year, if they win here, the next club will qualify also for the final. Any junior (M/W18-) who hasn't already be contacted and is interested/could be persuaded, contact Duncan asap 01244 399854.
