Issue 33 - Autumn / Winter 2015 Pictured: Aidan Smith Credit: Porsgrunn O-lag Pictured: Aidan Smith Credit: Porsgrunn

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Following their weekend preparations at the camp, back in the Lakes in May, the British team JUNIOR WORLD duly arrived in Rauland, Norway, for the 2015 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) JWOC 2015 Opening Ceremony. and immediately spent two days training on the ORIENTEERING Credit Porsgrunn O-lag technical Scandinavian model areas, in excellent weather combined with stunning views of the renowned Telemark region. CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hannah Cox in the Sprint, JWOC. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag

Aidan Smith in the Sprint at JWOC. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag Report and photos by Paul Murgatroyd,Head Left to right, back row: Will Rigg, Dane Blomquist, Aidan Smith, Chris Galloway, Coach for Talent Matthew Elkington, Sasha Chepelin. Left to right, front row: Megan Carter Davies, 2015 Julie Emmerson, Sarah Jones, Hannah Cox, Helen Ockenden, Fiona Bunn. Sarah Jones in the JWOC Middle Final. Credit Porsgrunn O-lag Making their debuts competing for Great Britain at this With little respite the athletes had to recover quickly level were five of the women’s team: Fiona Bunn (Sprint, and then prepare themselves for the Middle finals Middle, Relay); Megan Carter-Davies (Sprint, Long, The following day the athletes went straight into the which were run in significantly better conditions than After a day’s rest and recuperation, with some further Relay); Hannah Cox (Sprint, Relay); Sarah Jones (Sprint, Middle Qualification race in Ådalen, Rauland, with the qualification. Sasha Chepelin was the first Brit off in practice on model terrain, the final race in the individual The final event of a tough week saw challenging Middle, Relay) and Helen Ockenden (Middle, Long, some technical orienteering challenges expected to be the A-finals and had a strong final section after some programme was the Long. Aidan Smith ran a strong head-to-head racing in the relay races. In the men’s race, Relay), with only Julie Emmerson (Middle, Long, Relay) a thrown at them throughout the day. The weather had early time loss, to finish in 45th position. Aidan Smith race from the very start to end up claiming an amazing favourites took a commanding lead on first leg stalwart of previous campaigns. deteriorated rapidly overnight and the warm heat of the produced another strong result to finish in 19th place, 4th place. This outstanding performance rounded off and never looked back; a truly dominant display from the Sprint was replaced with a more typical mountainous having qualified in 11th position in his heat. Last starter, a fantastic week of individual races for this promising winners of the overall nations’ competition. Norway 2 and The men’s team had more of a smattering of Junior World climate. The rain set in soon after the first starter and of Finland, won the gold medal having lead young athlete and gives him the best ever men’s result in Sweden took silver and bronze respectively in a Orienteering Championships experience, with Alexander temperatures were no more than 10-12 degrees for the for nearly the entire course. In the Women’s A-final Sarah the forest for a British athlete at JWOC. Scandi-dominated race. Great Britain 2 ran three Chepelin (Middle, Long, Relay), Chris Galloway (Sprint, entire event. Jones started strongly from third start and after some consistent legs to finish as 10th nation and ahead of a Long, Relay) and Aidan Smith (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay) errors in the middle section she finished in 41st position. Alongside this, Sasha (Alexander) Chepelin also tired Great Britain 1. being the ‘veterans’ of the group along with Dane Blomquist Sasha Chepelin and Aidan Smith coped well with the Norway’s Anine Ahlsand took the gold medal on home performed solidly to come in the top 50, even though (Sprint, Long, Relay), Matthew Elkington (Sprint, Middle, tricky Nordic terrain, which was a mixture of vague soil. he faded towards the end after giving everything in the There was a lot more drama at the front of the women’s Relay) and Will Rigg (Middle, Long, Relay) being there for contour detail and summer vegetation, making it difficult energy sapping terrain. Following two days rain, the race with Sweden coming out on top after a strong their first time. to differentiate between white and green, and visibility Britain’s B-finalists all ran well, showing strong resolve marshes became absolute quagmires, making it a very last-leg from women’s Long champion, Sara Hagstrom. was low across the forest. Sarah Jones also recovered to overcome their disappointments from the previous physical challenge for all. William Rigg was content with Switzerland finished in 2nd after put Racing got underway after several days of preparation with the from one or two errors early on and managed to secure day’s heats. his 56th and this week has stoked the fires for next them back into contention following a strong middle Sprint race in Åmot. The athletes were faced with interesting her A qualification with a fantastic late surge. On the flip- year’s campaign and Dane Blomquist recovered well leg. Norway took the bronze, having been dominant in side, Fiona Bunn, continuing her impressive JWOC debut, from early time losses to finish in good shape for the route choices from the very start and the longer route choice Men’s A Final the early part of the race before fading towards the end. legs proved critical for the overall results, with unusual and missed out on qualifying for the A final by only 5 seconds. Relays. Megan Carter-Davies had a very strong first leg for Great 1st Olli Ojanaho extreme temperatures adding to the challenge. Aidan Smith, Will Rigg, Matt Elkington, Helen Ockenden and Julie FIN Britain, coming back in 7th. Sarah Jones unfortunately 2nd Erik Andersson 25:13 Emmerson were all understandably disappointed with SWE In the women’s race, Helen Ockenden finished as best competing in his final Junior World Orienteering Championships 3rd Sven Hellmueller +0:14 lost time on the middle leg but Julie Emmerson ran their results and were left to rue what could have been. SUI Brit in 54th and has taken a lot of positives from her first and looking in great physical shape, took Britain’s top result, 19th Aidan Smith +1:03 strongly on last leg to claw some places back and bring GBR finishing in 7th place, 37 seconds behind Tim Robertson of 45th Alexander Chepelin +3:34 JWOC as a second year 18. Julie Emmerson found the back Great Britain as 12th nation. GBR New Zealand, who won the Sprint for the 2nd year running. M20 Heat A +8:48 going tough, but was still looking forward to anchoring SWE 21:14 the women’s A team in the Relay and Megan Carter- Dane Blomquist had an excellent debut finishing in 23rd place. 1st Simon Imark Women’s A Final +3:17 Men Aidan Smith GBR Davies was going so well at the first radio, before a Matthew Elkington finished in 66th place in his JWOC debut 11th 1st GBR +3:42 Anine Ahlsand 1st and Chris Galloway, unfortunately struggling with sickness to Alexander Chepelin NOR 26:57 parallel error on the long leg led to her dropping out of Finland 1 (Raitanen/Niemi/Ojanaho) 15th 2nd Johanna Oberg 1:36:39 SWE contention. 2nd Norway 2 (Christiansen/Olaussen/Holter) finish in 92nd, such a disappointing result for him personally 3rd Sandrine Mueller +0:14 3rd Sweden 1 (Granqvist/Andersson/Hector0 +1:23 after a great domestic season. Megan Carter-Davies was best 41st SUI +0:17 M20 Heat B Sarah Jones 15th +1:42 GBR +7:32 Great Britain 2 (Elkington/Blomquist/Galloway) of a strong Women’s Sprint team, taking a fantastic 17th place. 23:41 +10:48 Erik Andersson SWE Men 1st [10th Nation] Fiona Bunn finished in 34th, Hannah Cox in 44th, and Sarah GBR +6:26 Men’s B Final 20th Great Britain 1 (Chepelin/Rigg/Smith) 27th Will Rigg 1st Olli Ojanaho +16:16 Jones in 49th place. FIN 1st Quentin Rauturier 4th Aidan Smith 1:07:00 FRA GBR 10th Will Rigg 25:42 45th Alexander Chepelin +2:05 Women M20 Heat C GBR GBR M20 25th +2:26 56th +11:47 24:49 Matthew Elkington Will Rigg 1st Sweden 1 (Svensson/Oberg/Hagstrom) Olli Ojanaho FIN GBR +6:02 GBR +13:56 NZL 14:31 1st 96th Dane Blomquist 2nd 1:44:17 Tim Robertson +6:22 GBR Switzerland 1 (Bachman/Aebersold/Mueller) 1st Matthew Elkington GBR +22:01 +2:27 FIN +0:03 26th Women’s B Final 3rd Norway 2 (Martenson/Vassend/Olaussen) 2nd Aleksi Niemi +2:52 +0:26 Women 15th Great Britain (Carter-Davies/Jones/Emmerson) Algirdas Bartkevicius LTU 1st Kayla Fairbairn 3rd NZL +15:40 GBR +0:37 W20 Heat A 6th Julie Emmerson 27:44 1st 7th Aidan Smith Sara Hagstrom 32nd Great Britain (Cox/Ockenden/Bunn) [12th Nation] 25:13 GBR +3:01 SWE 52:06 GBR +1:15 Sandrine Mueller SUI 8th Helen Ockenden 54th Helen Ockenden +44:13 23rd Dane Blomquist 1st GBR GBR GBR +9:26 +3:17 59th +16:42 GBR +2:30 27th Julie Emmerson Julie Emmerson 66th Matthew Elkington 72nd GBR +18:24 GBR +3:16 Megan Carter-Davies 92nd Chris Galloway GBR +22:31 W20 Heat B FIN 24:39 W20 1st Noora Koskinen GBR +8:26 SUI 13:56 21st Fiona Bunn 1st Simona Aebersold NOR +0:10 2nd Heidi Martensson FIN +0:34 W20 Heat C 3rd Karoliina Ukskoski +1:45 SWE 25:00 Megan Carter-Davies GBR 1st Sara Hagstrom 17th GBR +12:40 GBR +2:30 20th Sarah Jones 34th Fiona Bunn GBR +15:24 GBR +2:46 30th Helen Ockenden 44th Hannah Cox FULL RESULTS CAN BE FOUND ON THE JWOC WEBSITE GBR +2:51 49th Sarah Jones Hannah Cox happy after being first starter, finisher, and race leader in the JWOC Sprint. 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Report and photos by Paul Murgatroyd,Head Coach for Talent Talent Camps CAIRNGORM CAMP, SCOTLAND 26TH – 31ST JULY 2015

After their physical testing, the athletes ran over then focussed on those skills over a short forest Finally, on the fourth day, the squad spent the The first of the summer Talent Camps took place in a short forest course, at Moor of Alvie, to help course. This was followed by an exercise without morning considering the essential elements of the assess where their technical levels are currently. In the compass, where the athletes were challenged ‘competition phase’ and here the morning exercise the Cairngorms, during the week before the World the evening they looked at methods for technical to use the detail on the map to work through two placed their processes under race pressure, with Championships and the Scottish 6 Days, with 33 analysis and how they help influence and guide more exercises, where the specific attention was a mass start, interval exercise at Loch Vaa, and athletes and six coaches looking at aspects of a training. on creating a picture of each leg. then finished with a return to Moor of Alvie, where they attempted to apply all of their learning back periodised physical and technical year. The purpose The following day, the athletes moved into the On the third day, the squad began to move into the to the forest course run earlier in the week. The was to provide the young developing athletes with ‘general preparation’ phase and started by ‘specific preparation’ phase, with work at Craig following morning’s review session reflected on breaking their orienteering technique down into Leach and Littlemill, where the spotlight turned ideas for training sessions which would help develop lessons learnt from the camp and considered how the fundamental skills: direction, distance and to the athletes’ planning skills. Here the focus the athletes could move forward from here, as fitness and skill during the various phases. picture. They practiced each of these skills in turn was on ensuring a good solid plan was drawn up they continued their own personal development. over a variety of courses at Uath Lochan, which before each leg commenced and then the athletes On the back of their performances at the camp, After introductions and settling in on Sunday evening, Monday focussed allowed them to hone these techniques whilst also concentrated on applying the relevant skills six new athletes were invited into the Talent Squad on ‘base phase’ preparation and saw the athletes assessing their enabling the coaches to continue to assess the from the previous sessions. The pace gradually for 2015/16 and congratulations go to Laura King, physical strengths and weaknesses through two time trials, complete athletes’ strengths and weaknesses. It all began increased during the day, mimicking how the Lucy Haines, Grace Molloy, Jack Leitch, Alastair with splits analysis. Athletes tested themselves over two separate loops with a classic ‘star exercise’, in order to practice orienteer would be building towards the racing Thomas and Jake Chapman. and were firstly timed on the climb, descent and on the flat before the their compass work and distance judgement and season. second course examining their speed and strength in terrain. There were some impressive performances and awards were made to: Grace Molloy Lucy Haines GIRLS Alex Carcas BOYS Queen of the Mountain Cecilie Andersen Demon Descender Lucy Haines (pictured) King of the Mountain Alastair Thomas Top Terrain Terminator Grace Malloy (pictured) Demon Descender Andrew Barr Top Terrain Terminator Alex Carcas (pictured) Photographs of Alex Carcas, Lucy Haines and Grace Molloy on the terrain time trial course. LIVING THE HIGH PRE-JUNIOR WORLD ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS CAMP, SWITZERLAND 9TH LIFE – 16TH AUGUST 2015 In the second Talent Camp of the summer, some of the most promising juniors from Great Britain and Northern Ireland visited Switzerland in order to train and prepare on areas relevant for the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2016. As a good degree of funding for the Talent Squad is based on top 20 performances at JWOC it was deemed crucial to their chances that the likely JWOC contenders visited the terrain the year before the event. Based at St. Moritz, 1800m above sea level, this camp focussed on gaining understanding of the kind of training the athletes will need to implement in the coming year in order to be successful at JWOC 2016. They also took on board valuable experience of running at altitude and how the body would respond to exercise in hypobaric (low atmospheric pressure) conditions. The team arrived late on Sunday changed back to the Long discipline night and so took a fairly easy day recovery after lunch and then spend on Monday, with some easy running and then, on Saturday, the team joined how to look after themselves and each the Swedish junior team, who were at the evenings evaluating the day’s in the morning, followed by a drills training.” other, experiencing the Swiss cuisine session and a swim in the lake and the same accommodation, for more and understanding the balance of hard head-to-head relay training. then a short orienteering exercise in Performance Manager, Jackie work and recovery on a long training the afternoon. Tuesday was devoted to camp such as this.” Technical Talent Coach, Mark Nixon, Newton, said: “This camp provided relay and middle training, Wednesday a valuable opportunity for athletes to long and on Thursday the team said: “The athletes arrived at this The coaching team included Mark camp with exactly the right attitude who are showing promise for JWOC trained for the sprint. The morning saw 2016 and offered so much more Nixon and Jackie Newton, along with them carry out two sessions on sprint and took every opportunity to learn, Allan Bogle, Talent Development improve their technical skills and get than training in relevant terrain; it maps and then take to the athletics also allowed them to consider the Coach for Northern Ireland and track in the afternoon to experience ready for 2016. Most days saw them Bashir Hussain, UKA endurance physical and psychological elements Photo left to right: a short, but intense, track session do two sessions: one in the morning coach, bringing together expertise that will come into play at next year’s Back row: Hannah Cox, Paul Pruzina, Will Rigg, Joe Woodley, Harrison McCartney, Allan Bogle at altitude. On Friday, the emphasis and a second late in the afternoon. We in technical, physical and altitude JWOC. On top of that, the athletes Middle row: Sarah Jones, Julie Emmerson, Helen Ockenden, Megan Carter-Davies, Fiona Bunn were able to allow ‘down-time’ and training. became a close-knit team and learned Front row: Jackie Newton, Mark Nixon, Sasha Chepelin, Dane Blomquist

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Millie Map asks, Photo by Bob Dredge Photo by Bob Dredge I would love to go orienteering more often and be able to practise and Photo by Bob Dredge learn more orienteering skills. Do you European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) 2015, held in Romania, saw the team of Back row, left to right: Paul Murgatroyd, Andrew Barr, know where I can do this?” Andrew Barr, Alex Carcus, Harrison McCartney, Tam Wilson, Pippa Dakin, Jennifer Ricketts, Alice Alex Carcus, Harrison McCartney, Tam Wilson, Mark Nixon Rigby and Fay Walsh all representing Great Britain and taking on the challenge of competing in Front row, left to right: Pippa Dakin, Jennifer Ricketts, Alice tough European forests. Thomas and Fay were making their GB debuts, and five of the others were Rigby and Fay Walsh Photo by Jackie Newton Charlie building on their experience of running at a similarly demanding EYOC in Macedonia last year. Compass says,

“Yes, orienteering clubs across the Report by Paul Murgatroyd, Head Coach for Talent country run Community O Club EUROPEAN YOUTH Nights on a weekly basis. Each week you will be able to practise ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 ??? or learn new orienteering skills as The M18 team managed to least 20 seconds and a potential well as make new friends. To find the W18 runners were affected by this to become increasingly demanding beat their ranking position of place in the top ten. He finished European countries competed in the and it was not a great piece of planning a Community O Club near you visit After the training sessions, held the day throughout the race and in many ways 12th through generally steady in 26th with a time of 12:51. Long distance race, held in the forest of by the EYOC organising team. Debutant www.britishorienteering.org.uk/event after arrival, the general view on the advantaged the earlier runners. performances, broken by only Olli Ojanaho continued his rich Faget, some 10 kilometres south west Fay Walsh was next GB female, 41st in area was that it was fast at times, once a few errors in the technical vein of form, winning in 11:49, and search for activities. of Cluj-Napoca. Arriving at quarantine 1:04:18, closely followed by Alice Rigby the slopes had been conquered, and Overall, our athletes were satisfied with challenge of switching from fast a margin of 8 seconds. Best GB they were met with gloom so dark that in 43rd in 1:04:37. Jenny Rickets came fairly visible. Comparisons were made to their solid all round performances. In and furious to very detailed map male was Alex Carcus, who just some commented that they needed in 62nd in 1:17:11, having suffered from some of the Forest of Dean, but rather particular, debutants, Fay Walsh and Tam contact in the green. Andrew pipped Harrison by 2 places head torches! Once under shelter, they a turned ankle during the run, which more steep in places. They also found Wilson, should take a deal of satisfaction Barr came back in 14th place and 4 seconds. Tam Wilson had to wait for up to three and a half was to lead to her withdrawal from underfoot conditions to be slippery on as they both delivered well balanced after leg 1, Tam Wilson gained continued his solid international hours for their run and more or less were the relays the following day. The M18 the fairly heavy clay, made worse by the and sound runs and coped with the new 4 places to come back in 10th debut with a steady 57th place, confined to staying under the available race was won by an astonishing 4:03 heavy downpours this part of Europe pressures of international competition. and this was the finishing followed by Andrew Barr in 65th marquees and trying to keep dry, before by Oli Ojanaho of Norway in 47:25, a was experiencing at that time. The W18 class was won by 24 seconds position maintained by Harrison out of a total of 108 starters. finally warming up for their run. The rain Finnish athlete who would also go on to by Amanda Berggren of Sweden in McCartney.The W18’s fared did relent periodically, but left the area dominate at JWOC, just two weeks later. The following day, in appalling 51:24. The best placed GB runner was less well, after Pippa Dakin lost Pippa Dakin led the female team very heavy and wet underfoot. Crossing Second and third placed runners were conditions, 470 athletes from 32 Pippa Dakin in 1:00:03. Pippa, along contact early on in the first leg and was pleased with her time the steep slopes and river valleys was separated by just 1 second, with the 4th with many other W18’s lost time towards and came back in 24th. This of 11:53, registering 40th place placed runner only 8 seconds back from the end of the race when confronted was maintained by Fay Walsh and some 1 minute 46 seconds there. Harrison McCartney finished top with a very high fence, around an olive and final leg runner, Alice Rigby, down on the winner (Valerie GB runner in 30th place, taking 58:11. green settlement area, which was put in a good performance Aebischer of Switzerland). Just under 2 minutes behind Harrison confusing in the extreme and not to bring the team up to 21st Switzerland achieved a second was Andrew Barr (42nd in 1:00:45). easily defined at all. Many of overall. win in the M16 class with Nicola Next, in 43rd, was Tam Wilson in Muller winning by 22 seconds. 1:00:59 and finally Alex Carcus finished The final race of the competition Next placed GB female was 50th in 1:03:05. was the sprint held in a complex Jenny Rickets, who shook off area of mainly old style tower her ankle injury to finish 48th, Spot the The following day saw the team Difference block apartments with enclosed followed by Alice Rigby in 60th compete in the relays. The terrain public gardens and play-areas and Fay Walsh in 83rd.The story and weather were a contrast to the in between. There were many that would be remembered previous day’s forest and the sun shone small walkways around and in from the 2015 European Youth all day long. The area was a contrast Work out the between the blocks, with several Orienteering Championships is of very fast and open grassland and differences hedges and fences. Around or surely be the three gold medals meadow, albeit very wet in places. between the two zig-zag seemed to be the main for Tereza Janosikovo of the Other potential hazards were dogs and maps. There are route choice considerations. The Czech Republic, which added buffalo - none of the former to report, 10 differences in final controls were placed in a to her silver from last year. In but certainly 4 or 5 buffalo were seen total. 10 items sloping semi open park area, the W16 sprint she imposed wallowing in one very wet marsh after have appeared – before entering the finish arena her ability and fitness on the the end of the race. The fast open was can you spot all on a sports field. rest of the field to win the broken by many light and dark green 1.7km course by a margin of 34 10 of them? mapped patches of vegetation in which Our hopes were high for top GB seconds. In true sprint style only several controls were placed. Here the seed, Harrison McCartney, who 11 seconds separated the next going was broken by fallen branches elected to go in the first block 5 runners. and thorn bushes. All in all, it was a and was the first M18 starter. technically challenging area and very He would also have been the easy to lose contact with the map in first finisher but for a lapse to Photo by the heat of the relay pack. Bob Dredge the final control that cost him at

06 Ozone Issue 33 Ozone Issue 33 07 Junior Athlete Profiles Cecilie Andersen, 18 Club: How long have you been in the Talent Bristol Orienteering Klub Squad? Less than a year. Do your parents orienteer? Yes they do. What have been the benefits? More access to good training and coaches. Where did you start orienteering? I started orienteering when I joined an orienteering Are there any particular aspects of club at my secondary school. your training you are working on at the moment? What do you enjoy about orienteering? I am trying to do more of my training in terrain I enjoy being able to run in loads of different terrains rather than road to make it more specific to and the challenge of map reading which makes the orienteering. running more interesting. What advice would you give to people Do you have a coach? Not officially but Pete Maliphant helps me a lot with wanting to get into the squad? Try and prepare really well for the big races of talking through maps and stuff and analysing my the season by focusing your training on this races. I also have a running coach at my athletics and look at maps beforehand. club. What do you enjoy doing outside of How has this helped you? Pete helps me as he has a lot more experience orienteering? I do quite a bit of track running and cross of orienteering than I do and he gives really good country which is good fun to mix up the advice. training. Harrison McCartney, 17 Club: How long have you been in the Talent Squad? Octavian Droobers I am entering my third season in the Talent Squad. I have been in the squad since September 2013. Do your parents orienteer? My Dad does. What have been the benefits? It has given a lot of support and advice regarding my Where did you start orienteering? training in general, which has increased in volume a We came across a Permanent Orienteering fair amount since when I started in the squad. course at our local park. We took a very long time to walk round an Orange course. Are there any particular aspects of your training you are working on at the moment? What do you enjoy about orienteering? Winter is coming and I am going to focus on longer I enjoy running in some of the most scenic and intervals, tempo and long runs which is typical of technical terrain that Britain has to offer. base phase training.

Do you have a coach? What advice would you give to people wanting Yes, Ed Nicholas. My Dad is also providing the to get into the squad? moral support (albeit less technical advice). It is probably more about consistency than anything else. Focus on the technical challenges rather than How has this helped you? your speed and you will find that you become an It has definitely given my physical training Orienteer rather than a runner with a map! some direction. We sit down, discuss how the next 6 weeks will go, devise a training plan What do you enjoy doing outside of and all I have to do is hopefully orienteering?

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