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SCThe Home of Scottish Orienteering REJune 2014 Spring 2013 INSIDE SSOF LiDAR Mapping EVENT NEWS ScotJOS Update PLUS magazine of the lots more scottish orienteering association magazine of the SCOTTISH ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION SC RE The Home of Scottish Orienteering contents 04 | PRESIdent’s pIECE 06 | SOA NEWS 07 | PATRONS OF SCOTTISH ORIENTEERING - CAMERON MCNEISH 08 | EVENT NEWS 11 | CAUTIONARY TAle – A STRUGGLE AT THE BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 | EXPERIence – IN PICTURES 13 | OUTCOME OF THE MAP SCALES DEBATE 14 | AN INTERVIEW WIth… ROBIN STRAIN 16 | SCOTTISH SCHOOls’ OrIENTEERING 8 FESTIVAL 17 | TALKING POInt – the SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM 18 | GUEST COACH ARTIcle – SoLWAY SUMMER COACHING 0 | COACHING COrner – tAX QUESTIONS 1 | IN PRAISE Of… ROUTEGADGET | BEHIND THE Scenes – LIDAR DATA AND THE HOLY GRAIL 4 | JUNIOR SQUAD NEWS 5 | SCOTJOS TRAINING WEEKEND 16 14 – MORAY 6 | ELITE NEWS 7 | VETERAN NEWS 8 | FUTURE EVENTS ROTA 9 | COMMENT - THE MARCH OF TIME 30 | WOC & HIGHLAND 015 3 | EVENT PREVIEW 34 | MEMBER BENEFITS 35 | COMPASS POINT SOL AND BTO SOUL DATES 5 3 www.scottish-orienteering.org editor’s intro AboUT ORIENTEERING Information on orienteering or any SOA activity can be obtained Scottish Orienteers, from the Association Secretary: [email protected] HELLO again – hope you’ve been enjoying some of the great orienteering opportunities that we’ve Addresses of clubs, details of had since the last issue of SCORE. groups and a short guide to the sport are available from the: This issue contains news and views from these National Orienteering Centre events, plus other interesting articles, including an Glenmore Lodge, Aviemore explanation of what LiDAR means and how it’s used, PH22 1QU. a piece about the Solway summer coaching initiative, Tel 01479 861374 an interview with Robin Strain (electronic systems fax 01479 861375 guru), and all the usual features. NationalOCentre@ As ever, thanks to all contributors – for the scottish-orienteering.org next issue, I’d like to include some accounts of experiences at summer multi-day events. Are you SCORE Advertising going to the Italian 5 Days (WOC spectator races); Full page: colour £120, mono £90; the Swiss O Week; the O-Ringen; the OOcup; the half page: colour £80, mono £60. Lakes 5 Days; another Discounted rates available for multi-day event? If multiple issues. so, I’d love to hear Contact us to discuss: from you. (And even communications@ if you’re not going scottish-orienteering.org to one of these, your contributions will be SCORE Editor very welcome!) The Sally Lindsay next issue will be in [email protected] late September. Design I don’t have any MediArtStudio recent photos of me in www.mediartstudio.co.uk action, so here’s one Carlyle, AIRE Picture: Wendy email: [email protected] from last year’s JK. At the JK Sprint (013), Reading University Hope you enjoy the summer, wherever you may be! Printed by: Groverprint & Design, Sally Lindsay Studio 2B1, Industrial Estate, Editor Newtonmore PH20 1AL COPY DATE FOR NEXT ISSUE: 27 AUGUST 2014 The views expressed by contributors Cover pic - Claire Ward victorious in W21E at the British to SCORE are not necessarily those of Championships. the SOA Executive, nor of the Editor. Pic courtesy Crawford Lindsay, ESOC. www.scottish-orienteering.org 3 president’s piece by Roger Scrutton (ESOC) SOA President email: [email protected] t has been a very busy couple of months since the last edition Iof SCORE. This period has been sandwiched between an SOA Board meeting in March, at which we discussed the challenge of re- establishing membership growth, following the sharp decline when the new GB-wide orienteering membership structure was introduced in 2013, and the 2014 SOA AGM in May, at which the same challenge was discussed. In-between, there was the SOA Club Development Conference, at which the same issue was also discussed. For now, I think we have discussed this issue enough. The membership is not keen on the SOA making any structural changes here in Scotland to help with a return to growth, but the SOA will support clubs in what might be called a ‘membership drive’ in the Carlyle, AIRE Picture: Wendy Roger on the run-in at the British Individual context of the current structure. Championships The 2014 Scottish Championships All of this was just a few months were held in beautiful Perthshire. before the events, but everything The original venue for the Individual worked out well, thanks to the efforts of day was the western part of Linn of Terry, STAG (with the help of ScotJOS) Tummel, but we ran into a number and the East Area clubs organising of technical difficulties that made it the Scottish Championships necessary to find a new venue. Terry weekend. Following the Individual O’Brien stepped up to offer Dalnamein, day at Dalnamein, I heard a lot of which had been scheduled to host compliments on the area and the STAG’s Scottish Orienteering League course planning. There was some event, but then a new venue for SOL2 surprise at how good the area is for had to be found. Terry stepped up competition, and of course planning again and offered to organise this at and other arrangements had been put Faskally. together in a hurry. 4 www.scottish-orienteering.org Now the GB Strategy Group is due to meet for the first time, in mid-June, with representation from England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. I am looking forward to the discussions and expect to be seeking the views of clubs on a number of issues The Relays at Newtyle Hill also SOA will be seeking the views of brought a pleasant(?) surprise in clubs in the coming months is its own the form of a figure-of-eight loop on 4-Year Strategy. The current Strategy the longer courses, which was a is for 2012-2015, and will need to be thoughtful use of an area that can be revised in time for our next application physically tough (hills and heather). for funding from sportscotland for the Congratulations to all the Scottish 2015-2016 year. Individual Champions and Relay A very enjoyable aspect of being Champions 2014. President is that you are invited to do To return to a topic I have mentioned various interesting orienteering things. before, I’m pleased to say that British I’ll mention just a couple. I was recently Orienteering is now in the process invited to the 2014 Perth and Kinross of convening a GB Strategy Working Schools Festival Final at Scone Palace, Group. British Orienteering is sensitive where over 300 pupils from across to the fact that it is seen as an ‘English’ Perthshire took part, 1000 having taken organisation, so a couple of years part in the Heats. ago it embarked on a committee At this event the 10,000th pupil, restructuring exercise, to make sure over the ten years the Festival has that all Home Nations are represented been running, was participating and I in developing and putting into practice was delighted to present mementoes its strategies. to mark this milestone. And then I Several groups are already up and was invited to present prizes at the running, e.g. Events and Competitions, recent Scottish Championships, in a Coaching, Talent and Performance. ceremony that threatened to last a very Now the GB Strategy Group is due to long time, but in the event was very meet for the first time, in mid-June, with efficiently and timeously completed. representation from England, Wales, It’s June, and schools break up in Northern Ireland and Scotland. a few weeks. You may well take your I am looking forward to the holiday during the school holidays, discussions and expect to be seeking or you might try to avoid the school the views of clubs on a number of holidays, but whatever you do, have a issues. Another topic on which the great summer. www.scottish-orienteering.org 5 soa news by Hilary Quick (BASOC) SOA Development Officer email: [email protected] he SOA Club Development SOA President Roger Scrutton Conference on 17 May is continuing to lead discussion Tsaw some 25 people from of issues around membership clubs as far apart as INVOC and and event insurance, and SOLWAY coming together for we are reviewing the Junior wide-ranging discussion. Incentive Scheme documents, Murray Strain gave an insight as well as putting together a into the athlete’s perspective short information pack to entice on the World Orienteering newcomers to join a club. We’re Championships (WOC), which led keen to hear from you with your on to consideration of what clubs views on how the SOA can best need to be doing to make the support your efforts to recruit most of an increased interest in members. the sport in the build-up to, during, Chris Fitzsimons has now taken and after WOC 2015. up the post of Admin Assistant This linked with a challenge for the SOA, based at Glenmore to state 10 qualities of a good Lodge. He is working 2 days a orienteering club – what do YOU week – currently quite variable consider important? We also from week to week – largely considered aspects of skills providing support to me and transfer – how do we extract already making a significant expertise from the “old hands” contribution. and infuse it into newcomers? He will also be doing other Summaries of group discussions occasional tasks for the SOA are on the website: Board and for Colin Matheson http://www.scottish-orienteering. (SOA Professional Officer), and org/soa/page/soa-club- will gradually take on specific development-conference-2014 projects.