SOCK – Autumn 2012 The Magazine of Southampton Club

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Editorial Pete Davis The buzz in the Club is now building as we approach the November Classic weekend. See below for the latest news. By now you will have volunteered your services to help on one or both days. Your team leader will be in touch with details of where you need to be, when and with what. If you have not yet entered, perhaps because you are unsure of your team leader’s requirement for you to run early or late, please do enter now. As we get closer to the weekend, team leaders will be able to sort out start times for helpers that fit in with their, and your, needs. And remember – with your helpers code you get half-price entry to two of the UK’s best orienteering events. You can get your helpers code from http://www.southampton-orienteers.org.uk/document/november-classic-2012-helper- discount-code and enter at Fabian4. Kevin Bracher has carried out a very useful survey that shows a high level of interest in participating in regular orienteering activities. We have a full report from Kevin on that and the plans for an interesting and varied programme. The club committee are focusing on improving the longer term planning of club events and activities. We now have a confirmed event list for next year and soon will have the same for activities. It has been good fun putting together this edition of SOCK – many thanks go to all the contributors. I hope you like the new format. November Classic Weekend – the tension mounts There is a furious amount of activity now for both events but particularly for the Southampton City Urban on Saturday 3rd November. Why so? This is a new initiative for us and the decision has been made to take up the offer of using the new EmiTag proximity controls so there has been some effort put in to understand how they work and their strengths and weaknesses. With so many controls in urban areas we will also be adopting “gripples” to secure them in place. Gripples are wire loops with a built in locking device and help to deter people from removing controls. With EMIT UK providing the EmiTags and sponsorship from Up and Running in Chandlers Ford, you can actually get paid for competing and helping in the Urban event! Up and Running bibs will be worn by the urban competitors and each bib is also a voucher for £10 off a pair of running shoes purchased from the store within two weeks of the event. With the helpers discount, that means the Club pays you £6 to help and you get a free run! On the Sunday we have the all-important November Classic, the event that defines Southampton Orienteering Club. We will be welcoming more than one thousand competitors to the beautiful area of Kings Garn Gutter to compete on 14 courses. The event is being used for an Interland match between England, Belgium, Germany, Holland and France. There is bound to be a great buzz around the event. As we go to press there are over 300 competitors already pre-entered. If you haven’t yet entered be aware that the early entry discount ends on 21st October with late entries accepted up to 28th October. There are also a number of courses on the Wayfarers for EOD and a free string course. All of these courses and facilities need marshalls and helpers to keep things running smoothly. Don’t forget that this is our chance to show the orienteering community what a great club we have. Competitors will need your help to make the best of the day – please keep smiling as you guide and control them whether it is car parking, the start or any other aspect.

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Brian Watkins Following a short illness Brian passed away on 18th August. He will be sadly missed by many club members, none more so than Ray Massey, close friend and neighbour: “Brian and Shirley Watkins moved to Crampmoor, near Romsey, in 1972 and soon became an important part of a small, very friendly local neighbourhood. The numbers were always small - never more than eight families, and now they have dwindled again. When Sue and I moved to Crampmoor in 1974 we were delighted to find such a friendly lot of neighbours, and it was to be expected that we all became good friends. Brian and I particularly so, we had a lot in common: a light-hearted view of life coupled with a strong sense of responsibility. That's not to say we didn't have our differences; some were small, like politics, but some were large, like the colour beer should be. One of Brian's less serious objectives was to form a society for the preservation of brown beer. Brian was a traditionalist. Brian was an excellent family man: his family were the most important part of his life. And he worked hard to provide for them as well as possible. In his youth he wanted to be a farmer: the nearest he ever got to that was when he rented the field next door and kept sheep on it for a few years. He was an accountant by profession, passing his final examinations whilst living in Crampmoor. In those days he worked for the Hamble School of Flying. Later he worked for a large decorating company for several years. After that he worked for Webbs Frozen Foods for a very long time. He seemed to develop a complex love-hate relationship with that company, of which he was company secretary. Brian started orienteering in the early 90’s. Within a couple of years he became heavily involved in the running of the Club sharing the roles of Treasurer and Auditor with Tim Angel. Between them they looked after our monies with great accuracy and professionalism for more than two decades. Brian has also done his fair share of organizing and planning as his orienteering experience grew. His first event as planner was at Bolderwood, notable because Bratley Water was in flood, and several runners ended up swimming across the river. In 2011 he planned a very successful November Classic on Ocknell and Slufters. Brian retired in 2002, and was delighted then to become a member of the SOC Wednesday gang - that section of SOC who delight in going to the mid-week Army orienteering events. He had looked at our joyous Wednesdays with some envy, now he was a crucial member. He was party to many shared beers whilst discussing the joys and woes of the day's event. In 2005 Brian was the proud recipient of the Pits Trophy for an episode that must rate highly as one of the funniest nominations over the years: Brian won the award for an event at Longleat where, with difficulty, he clambered over a high fence, believing his control to be somewhere on the other side. However, he had unwittingly trespassed into the Center Parcs holiday village, where he was quickly picked up and escorted off the premises by security guards! Orienteering involves a lot of travelling. I spent many hours with Brian driving the roads of England (and Wales - Brian had a lot of welsh ancestry in him). During those journeys, other sides of his character emerged. He was a very good driver, I felt safer being driven by Brian than anyone else I can think of. He was also very good company, always ready with a view on any topic. Never a boring journey with Brian. Now he's gone. I still have difficulty believing that. Life isn't fair.” Ray Massey SOCK 185 October 2012 4

World Masters Orienteering Championships 2012 Robin Smith As part of my on-going Jubilee celebrations (I’m a first year M60), I went to the recent World Masters Orienteering Championships, held in the Harz region of Germany. I went as part of the Global O Tours group, there were 40 of us, and all we had to do was to remember what time breakfast was and when the coach left. The rendezvous point was Hannover airport and like all orienteers, some went direct (Southampton or Birmingham), whilst others took the scenic route (Gatwick), arriving well after bedtime. The races themselves take the form of qualifying races and a final – an urban ‘sprint’ and a forest ‘long’. The qualifications are just to sort you out in to ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ etc., based on position, and not your time, from which ever heat you were in. So if there were 4 heats, the top 20 of each went through to the ‘A’ final (the meaningful one), the next 20 to the ‘B’ and so on. The M65 was the largest class having 5 heats. M80 has 2, and the oldest competitor was M95, taking 28mts to do his 1.9km. One of the classes (M50?) in the final was made up of all those who had failed to complete or start any of their heats! Even then they didn’t get a result as one failure means total failure. Besides me, fellow SOC members Philip Eeles, Carol Sands and Tim Sands were also there. Our results: M55A Sprint (3.1km) M55A Long (6.7km) 1. R Lund DEN 13.45 1. N Pavlov RUS 45.01 41. Philip Eeles 16.44 47. Philip Eeles 57.29

M60A Sprint (3.0km) M60B Long (5.9km) 1. R Ramstein SUI 14.13 1. M Dias POR 48.00 34. Robin Smith 17.23 46. Robin Smith 60.38

M60A Long (6.4km) W60C Long (3.2km) 1. M Pietkainen FIN 46.41 1. H Valestrand NOR 35.54 72. Tim Sands 72.10 2. Carol Sands 36.45 Unfortunately I lost a lot of time in the first of the Long qualifying races looking for a boulder in ‘the green’ where there were a lot of other boulders, most of which failed to make it to the map. There was also a lack of relocation features. See controls 6 and 8 (and routes to 3 and 4) on the map below. Though 5 was excellent and one of the fastest times! Next year’s event, only for the over 35’s, is based in Torino, northern Italy, but also travels to Claviere and Sestriere and is from 1 – 10 August. WMOC 2014 is in Brazil.

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Lubor Velecky at the London Olympics in 1948 Jean Velecky Editor’s note: Many of us now have stories to tell about the London Olympics and no doubt as the years roll by they will be passed on to family and friends. Jean’s husband, Lubor, was a spectator at the London Olympics in 1948. Here Jean tells the story about his danger filled journey from a Czechoslovakia under threat of Soviet occupation to London and how his message to his family about his day at the Olympics was how they learned that he had made it to safety. “In May 1948 Lubor Velecky was 20. His father had died in Dachau concentration camp, and he lived in Brno, Czechoslovakia, with his mother and soon-to-be married sister. He was determined, having lived under German occupation during World War II, not to live under the Soviet regime which had taken over in February. He did not want to leave before finishing his SOCK 185 October 2012 6

University exams, but by May the Communists had tightened up the cordon round the frontiers of Czechoslovakia, and things had become difficult for passportless escapees. He could not tell his mother and sister what he was proposing to do, or they would have got into trouble. He heard on the underground grapevine that it might be possible to cross the river Dyje into Austria without being detected. So he took a bus to Znojmo, and then walked towards the river valley. About 200m from the frontier he knocked at the door of a house and asked for a drink of water. In the hall he noticed a crucifix on the wall, and guessed that if the family were Catholic they would be unlikely to be Communists. So he decided to confide in them, and explain what he was proposing. They said that police patrolled the frontier regularly during the day, and even late into the evening, but that between midnight and 3 am they had not been seen or heard. They advised him to take a short stroll along the river in the afternoon to observe the proposed crossing point. So he had a good look at the situation, at a safe distance under the shelter of trees. The crossing point was a former bridge, now dismantled except for the central beam heavily festooned with barbed wire. After an early supper his hosts suggested that he should have some sleep. He was woken, and a voice in the dark said ‘it is time’ He picked up his rucksack, thanked his benefactors, and went out into the dark. Fortunately the moon was fairly bright, so he could see what he was doing, but also be seen. As a gymnast he was used to high beam exercises, but not with a rucksack on his back and plenty of barbed wire on the beam. He got across safely, the only casualty being his only pair of trousers, which got slightly torn. After selling one of his watches (the unofficial international currency in Central Europe) to buy some Austrian schillings, he got a bus to Vienna, and contacted a Czech Viennese family who looked after him for some days and helped him through the red tape of becoming a DP (Displaced Person). He discovered from an official at the British consulate that the British Ministry of Labour were still recruiting European volunteers for work in the undermanned industries (coal mining, agriculture, textiles). So he made his way to the recruiting centre at Muerzzuschlag (between Vienna and Graz). This involved a train journey followed by a 20 kilometre high level walk along a ridge through snow to avoid the Russian Zone. He eventually arrived at the British camp for DPs, in which he was transformed into a European Voluntary Worker. Then after several more weeks he eventually arrived in Harwich on 28 June. He had got to know an Englishman at the British Council in Brno, and this man, who lived in London, took him to the Olympic Games (Lubor enjoyed athletics, especially field sports such as discus.) So he wrote a postcard saying that he had been watching the Olympics, to his English teacher in Brno, and asked somebody who was going to Czechoslovakia to post it for him. This English teacher knew his mother and sister, so this how they knew that he was safe and in England.”

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Swiss 5 Days 2012 & WOC 2012 Tim Morgan This year the Swiss O Week was held alongside World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in the Olympic city of Lausanne, Switzerland, hopefully drawing our sport to the attention of the people who run the International Olympic Committee, and this meant that we shared the terrain with the top athletes in the world, and watched them compete to become world champions. We arrived around Saturday midday and after the tent had been put up, Mum and I wandered down to the harbour to watch the WOC Sprint Final. The arena was alive, with a packed stand, a big screen, TV cameras and brilliant run through / run in. Every time a Swiss athlete started or was on the big screen, the crowd went nuts, which may have helped them to achieve a 1-2-3 in the men’s race and Simone Niggli to destroy the women’s. Scott Fraser missed the podium by 12 seconds, although he could have been closer had he not lost 11 of those by running past the spectators. It had an audience of over 100,000 on Swiss national TV, a fair bit considering most of their orienteers would have been at the event. The next day was the first stage of the 5 days. It was a sprint around the same area used for the WOC Sprint Qualification, a University campus on the shores of Lake Geneva. The first half of the course showed some promise for it to be a technical race but as it progressed it became more and more of a typical European Sprint which have come to attention recently. Still, it was good fun, and having a 9 am start meant the rest of the day was spent at the pool. The second day of the competition was on an area in the Jura, with the terrain being rocky with a fair bit of contour detail and low visibility in parts added to the challenge. I made a few early mistakes whilst getting used to the terrain, but mostly I had a clean run and enjoyed it. It was an area which required good technique but it wasn’t horrific to run through. We then made our way over to watch the Middle Distance Qualification, which was using the area just over the road. Day 3 was again in the Jura. This time the area was more technical, although the courses much shorter. The ground features were similar to the previous day, but the vagueness of the vegetation and lack of visibility in the light green area made it harder to recognise features on the ground which you were expecting from the map. I was the only one in the family who had to go in this area for the majority of the course so they just thought I was making excuses. I remember having difficulty even distinguishing between what was a path and what was open. And by the way, the Swiss idea of open isn’t the same as ours. I was fairly confident after the day before, and got off to a good start, but I then made a huge mistake in the low visibility stuff because I wasn’t 100% sure where I was, not even knowing whether I had passed my attack point. After a good eight or nine minutes wasted faffing around mistaking boulders for crags and other stupid errors, I eventually found the control, and it wasn’t too far from where I originally was. From then on I made rage-filled mistakes, beasting off without taking enough detail in, SOCK 185 October 2012 8 making sloppy mistakes like directional and parallel errors. Once I got back out into the more runnable forest, things picked up and I started to orienteer quite well again, if a little cautiously, but finished feeling rather dejected and miserable. The rest of the family found it tricky as well, and Mum managed to make an already bad knee even worse on the run in. Later I found out that Switzerland and Finland had held their selection races on this area. As the race was in the morning, everyone stayed to watch the Middle Final in the afternoon which was just across the road. It was probably more exciting than a lot of the sports in the Olympics. No one could believe it when Simone Niggli made a two minute mistake by going from 8-16 instead of 8-9, a somewhat basic mistake from the 20-time world champion who is untouchable. The crowd was stunned as we watched her tracking. I’ve never seen anyone so angry with herself, or upset, as she crossed the line, throwing her map to the ground. In the men’s race, Thierry Gueorgiou finished just off the podium in 4th, despite carrying a stress fracture, and it was Edgars Bertuks who took gold for Latvia. Some of you may have noticed that the Latvian had attended the Midlands Champs weekend in March, where he came 6th in the Malvern urban but then thrashed M21E the next day, winning by eight minutes. The next day was the “Alpine Day”. The area was between the ski resorts of Villars-sur-Ollon and Les Diablerets, and everyone had to get a funicular train. Naturally, it was steep, and rough and technical. The planner was slightly over-eager and the winning time on my course was 71 minutes which is closer to a women’s elite time than a men’s 16. I was having a clean run, but having a midday start meant 30 degree heat and I was dehydrated. My concentration just went and as soon as I started to get into the technical part of the course I made many mistakes and it became a battle to finish, but I was never going to give up. It was the most physically demanding course I’ve done, and I still managed to run the run in, which was literally straight up a ski slope. Still, there were nice views of Mont Blanc and it was probably the best place to be that day. The next day was a rest day for us, but it was the Long Distance Final just up the road so we went and watched that. The area was the same as our day 5. The men had 18km, and yet despite having taken completely different routes on some of the longer legs, they are separated by such small amounts of time. Watching the GPS tracking and stuff in the arena is gripping and tells you a lot about how the best orienteers orienteer. In the end it was Olav Lundanes of Norway who stormed to victory, with the Swiss managing to keep an athlete on the podium in the form of Matthias Merz, who had already won silver in the sprint, and the middle distance champion Edgars Bertuks completing the top three. They commented that it was the physically supreme athletes who came out on top. (Bertuks for example used to be a professional track athlete before deciding to orienteer full time). In the women’s race it wasn’t quite as close; and there aren’t any prizes for predicting who won! In fact a fair few of you probably could have predicted the entire podium. Simone Niggli was untouchable as she was in the lead for every control apart from one of the TV ones which gave everyone a scare, with Finnish superstar taking silver and last year’s champion in third. For those of you who don’t know, Simone Niggli is huge over in Switzerland; she’s won Sport’s Personality of the Year twice, alongside Roger Federer. That’s like Scott Fraser beating people like Mo Farah, Bradley Wiggins and Ben SOCK 185 October 2012 9

Ainslie to our award. (The athlete from Kenya had quite a crowd too. He runs the marathon in 2:11. If he learns to navigate, he could be pretty decent!!). The next day it was our turn to run on the same area. It was a chasing start, basically meaning your start time is determined on your previous results and it’s the first to get to the finish who wins. This means you might start one second behind someone or a few minutes behind. With regards to the area, if someone gave you the map and told you it’s in Berkshire you wouldn’t have any trouble believing them. This meant that the challenges were more on the route choice on the long legs and keeping concentration towards the latter stages of the rather long courses as opposed to fine navigation reading. I was surprised when I caught the guy, who started about a minute ahead on number one, but we both then made a horrifically embarrassing mistake, letting the head to head racing and hard pace get the better of us. From then on it seemed like I would maybe lose a little bit on micro-route choices compared to him but no matter how hard I tried to pull away he seemed to stick right behind me. More frustratingly, he was just following me. I made a few mistakes and it wasn’t a great performance but in some ways it was also one of my best performances. Technically it was bad, but physically I felt strong despite going at a pace which felt more appropriate for a 5k, and mentally I was strong to the point at which it took me a while to remember about the mistakes after I had finished, which I think is the true meaning of “forget about your errors”. Unfortunately we couldn’t stay the next day to watch the relay as we had to have a mad drive all the way back to Southampton as I had a plane to catch for the National Talent Development Camp on the same day. Summer Series Prizegiving The last event of SOC’s 2012 Summer Series was held at Hursley Park. It was a great location for the event, barbecue and prizegiving. Here are some photos from the day showing some of the worthy winners. Well done to everybody involved in the Summer Series whether as competitors or organisers. Particularly a big, big thank you to Kevin Bracher and Simon Bevan for co-ordinating the series.

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Beginners’ Corner Orienteering is all about symbols and interpreting them quickly and efficiently. You will already have become adept at map symbols but how are you doing with control descriptions? Before doing this quiz you may want to visit www.maprunner.co.uk where you will find some excellent crib sheets for IOF Control Descriptions and Map Symbols. On the left is the control description sheet from the WIM event at Avon Heath recently. You may have competed on courses that use these pictorial descriptions already – but do you know your way around them? The first row shows the course, Green, the straight- line distance, 4.1km and how many metres of climb, 75. Then come rows for each control with each of the eight columns having a role to play in describing the control. You may be asking yourself why? Why not just use written descriptions? The answer is two-fold. Firstly orienteering is an international sport and, perhaps more than any other sport, sees overseas competitors at all levels of event. The pictorial descriptions solve the language issue – we can all understand them. Secondly it is possible to include much more information about the control site thus helping the orienteer to visualise the location. Column 1 holds the control number – simples. Column 2 holds the control code. This is the number that is on the control itself and allows you to check that you are in the right place. Column 3 shows which feature the control is on if there are other similar features in the immediate area – the north most for instance. Column 4 is the control feature itself. Columns 5, 6 & 7 are appearance, location and dimensions which may appear in any order and include information such as deep or shallow, rocky or sandy, east side or beneath, between or junction. Column 8 is used for “other information” such as refreshment point or first aid post. The final row shows how you should proceed from the final control to the timed finish.

To get you started: The start control is on a track junction. Control 1 has the code 157 and is on the north side of a hill. Your turn now. When you are done turn to page 21 for the answers. SOCK 185 October 2012 11

Club Activity Night Survey Results Kevin Bracher Firstly thank you to all who took part in the Club Activity Survey. We had 44 responses which is quite good apparently. Your answers to the questions were as follows:

How often? What day/time suits you best? 30 20 19 22 18 20 16 14 14 9 9 10 14 12 0 10 9 Once a month Twice a month Weekly 8 6 5 6 4 Are you interested in participating in a 4 2 weekly orienteering activity? 0 37 40 30 20 10 6 What type of activity? 0 35 Yes No 32

30 Preferred Venues? 25 35 32 33 25 29 21 30 28 28 20 19 25 17 25 15 13 13 12 20 11 17 10 15 15 10 15

10 5

5 0

0

Social

Street O

Coaching

Fitnesstraining

SandyBalls

NewForest

Howto use OCAD

FlemingPark

Howto use Condes

UseofRouteGadget

ItchinVallet CP

SotonCommon

Howto plan anevent

QECountry Park

Royal VictoriaCP

TheGregg School

Usingpermanent courses

Howto organise eventan SotonSports Centre

Other suggested venues and comments: Knightwood Sports Centre; other venues in Eastleigh/ Southampton area; easy access by public transport; need to vary the venue rather than go to the same place each week; need to vary venue to suit the activity; visit all the areas for specific activities but have a fixed location for regular meetings; prefer the New Forest; IBM good for social as well as training; areas near Portsmouth. SOCK 185 October 2012 12

How long have you been orienteering? How often do you orienteer? 40 15 32 11 12 30 9 9 10 20 5 10 4 4 0 0 More than 5 3 years or less 1 year or less Most weeks Most weeks Twice a Once a years & mid-week month month

How many individuals in your family orienteer?

30 24 20 9 10 10

0 One Two Three or more

Conclusions: Almost all the responses were in favour of the Club putting on a range of activities for club members. Twice a month seems to meet most people’s needs as to the frequency of activities. During the week two evenings were neck and neck as the preferred days, Wednesdays & Thursdays. For weekend activities a Saturday morning was the most popular. It was also clear that no one venue would be suitable for all the activities. The Gregg School and Fleming Park were equally popular and would both be suitable venues for mid-week activities where indoor facilities are required. There was also good support for the Street O series which the club has put on for a number of years. We have Street Maps of Chandlers Ford, Knightwood & Valley Park, Romsey, Marchwood, Dibden Purlieu and several areas of Southampton. The suggestion to utilise our POCs (Permanent Orienteering Courses) was also well supported. The New Forest also had a high share of the votes. There were suggestions that activities were spread out over the SOC region so that all club members would have at least some activities local to them wherever they live. This was not unexpected as we had long believed that the BOF idea of having one regular time and venue for club activities did not meet the needs of the SOC membership. It is better to spread the activities around and choose the appropriate venue for specific activities. All of the suggested activities had support, the most popular being coaching activities for beginners and experienced orienteers, fitness training, Street O, use of POCs, how to use OCAD mapping software and social gatherings. The way forward: We would like to put out a plan of club activities for at least six months in advance or even a year ahead with a view of having two activities per month except when the Summer Series is running as this will replace one of the activities. The weeks in between activities can be used for the successful socials we regularly hold now. SOCK 185 October 2012 13

We will match the activity to the venue where required but also try to spread the activities around our region when we can. Winter months are best suited to putting on indoor activities such as learning how to use OCAD etc. If we have an indoor session one week we will try to make sure we have a physical activity the next. All the activities suggested will be included in the plan. For this to work the club will need volunteers with specific skills to organise and run the activities programme. If you have Skills in the use of OCAD, Condes, Route Gadget, planning, organising, coaching or fitness or are available to organise a Street O or plan an exercise using a POC we need to hear from you. Contact Kevin Bracher, Club Captain: [email protected] A tale of two long-distance footpaths David Currie Early September saw SOC participate in two long-distance footpath relays. Dorset Coast Path Relay First up was the Dorset Coast Path Relay (http://www.coastpathrelay.org.uk/) organised in aid of the South West Junior Squad. This year there were only five teams participating: Cornwall, Wessex, Bristol, SOC and the juniors themselves. As the name suggests, the relay runs along the South West Coast Path from the Dorset county boundary near Lyme Regis to that at Sandbanks. The twist is that teams can have as many runners as they like, changing as often as they like. Simon Whipple was once again responsible for corralling the SOC team. The other teams have the benefit of starting nearer home and Simon only succeeded in persuading a car full to attend the 8am start with others joining the team as it progressed steadily westwards. A recent introduction to the event has been a re-group at Lulworth Cove at which point the first four teams were tightly packed with just 15 minutes separating them. Sadly, SOC was the fifth, a further half an hour down. Traditionally the club has fared better in the second half where limited access to the coast means the larger teams can’t utilise the superior numbers to such a great extent. Unfortunately Simon was to put in his bid for this year’s pits or depression trophy. On an uneven track a small but rather sharp rock punctured his oil sump leaving the car and its passengers stranded. The team’s final time was 9:08:10, still its third best ever result but a long way behind KERNO’s winning time of 7:41:50 and nearly an hour behind the fourth placed team. All was not lost though. When the team’s small size (15) was taken into account, we ended up in a respectable second place in the handicap. Many thanks to Simon for organising. I hope to see lots more of the club out next year for what is always a fun day out in some spectacular scenery. Test Way Relay A week later, the club was once again fielding a team, this time against many of the region’s running clubs in the Test Way Relay. This relay stretches from Inkpen Beacon in the north, down to Totton and is significantly flatter than the Dorset Coast! Having been dropped in to organising role by Roderick Johnstone, I at least had a much simpler task than Simon in having to find just eight runners. SOCK 185 October 2012 14

The Portsmouth pairing of Jes Dickin and Andrew Nash got the team off to a flying start, both coming 9th on their legs out of a total of 12 teams. I have run the relay numerous times before but never the third leg and I paid the price of having failed to recce the route (other than on Google Earth) with a few hesitations and a couple of junctions overshot. The Test Way is not nearly as clearly marked as it could be! Ian and Tamsin Moran took over for the next two legs with Ian notching up an impressive 6th place. Kevin Bracher was next up, having warmed up with a couple of hours of control hanging at Slufters! Philip Cooper had the penultimate run, handing over to Iain McNally on the anchor leg. Iain obviously needs to get back to orienteering to brush up on his navigation as he took a major detour just after setting off from Romsey. Having got wet shoes on the final run along the beach at Sandbanks the previous week, Iain was to get them wet again as the tide was in at Totton! If Iain had not taken such a circuitous route he may have pulled us up in to 8th place but, as things stood, we finished as we had started out: in 9th place, completing the 44 mile route in 5:50:45. Full results can be found on the Totton Running Club website: http://tottonrc.weebly.com/final-testway-results-2012.html Thanks to everyone that agreed to run and put on such a good show on the day. Thanks also to Roderick for suggesting that we enter and offering his services to the organisers on behalf of the team. BOF and Club Discounts As members of British Orienteering we get access to a number of discounts and preferential deals. Details are provided on the British Orienteering website at http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/page/discounts. This includes offers from Go Ape, Cotswold Outdoors and the AA (breakdown cover, not help with your drinking problem) and many more. As to Club discounts, well we are having trouble tracking down what they might be. If any of you out there are aware of any discounts or deals available to SOC members please let me know at [email protected]. SOC it to ‘em Some recent achievements of note by SOC orienteers Southern Championships: Rachel Cooper 2nd W21L Olwen Rowlands 2nd W21S Tim Morgan 3rd M16A Chris Williamson 1st M21L Simon Bevan 1st M45S Jane Morgan is currently 2nd in the CompassPoint UK Masters Cup W50 class with three events to go. SOCK 185 October 2012 15

Membership News Peter Stewart At the end of September 2012 the membership stands at 191 with 181 British Orienteering members and 10 associates. The club extends a warm welcome to the following new members: Robert Finch Derek, Charlotte and Oliver Lewis Sue Tilney Justin, Helen and Ben Simmonds Matthew, Jill, Michael and Laura Ellis Cristophe Pige James Hartshorn and Candice Walley Allan and Louis Farrington We look forward to seeing you again at forthcoming events. Membership Renewal Peter Stewart As discussed at our AGM, British Orienteering has, in the past year, made significant changes to the membership structure. These changes come into effect in for the 2013 membership year. The effect for most people is that membership fees are significantly reduced. As you will be aware the British Orienteering renewal fees include a combination of BOF fees plus SOC fees. The changes implemented by BOF include: National / Local membership is disbanded and everyone will effectively have national membership, with the benefit of member discount at all events. BOF fees will be per person, the BOF family subscription has been disbanded. Student will be charged for member either as Senior or Junior according to age. Membership can be renewed from 1st November. The SOC membership fees remain the same as in recent years and SOC have retained the Family subscription. So you can still have a Family membership and the total fees will be based on Family rate for the SOC part and the sum of the individual BOF fees for each of the family members. The SOC Fees for 2013 are: Junior Up to M/W20 Free Senior M/W 21 and over £5 Family £7

The combined fees are easy to calculate for individual membership subscriptions: Membership SOC Fee BOF Fee Total Renewal Fee Junior Free £2 £2 Senior £5 £5 £10

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Family Fees can be calculated as follows: SOC Family Fee £7 X Juniors at £2 each = £ X Seniors at £5 each = £ (max 2)

Total: £ There has been some discussion about the need for young children to be members of BOF. The committee recommends that children participating on their own should be BOF members. However there doesn’t appear to be any benefit of BOF membership for young children participating entirely under the supervision of an adult member. SOC will regard a SOC family membership as including children as SOC associates if the children are not affiliated to British Orienteering. To minimise administration we don’t plan to register or provide membership cards for these children. They will be able to participate in SOC events as SOC members. Wardrobe Malfunction Robin Smith Or how I lost my sole at Longleat I trod in an innocuous muddy patch and the suction tore off 90% of the tread. I finished the rest of the course with my sock taking the brunt of the stony paths and the forest floor. Strangely I didn't get any splinters or cuts, but my other foot (heel) now hurts to put pressure on, as I presume I was compensating. These are (were) Walsh PB trainers currently retailing at £62 for adult. I bought them in March this year and they have completed about 35 events (say 250km). In common with other orienteers, I normally expect my shoes to last a year, about 90 events, or 600km. British Orienteering Event Officials Conference Terry Smith Tim Sands and Terry Smith attended the British Orienteering Event Officials Conference at Warwick University, 8th & 9th September. The event included the Mappers Conference, which ran in parallel. I’ve noted which of us attended each session. I have copies of the presentation materials should anyone want further details of content. Topic Attendee(s) Comments Event Officials Conference Sprint Mapping and Tim & Terry Highlighted an opportunity to better define Planning mapping and planning, particularly around features that may (not) need to be “un-crossable” and difficulties arising from trying to portraying multi-level terrain on a 2D map. GPS Tracking Tim & Terry Useful report on tracking experience gained at the Harvester Relays 2011. Unlikely to be applicable to SOC events for some years. SOCK 185 October 2012 17

Topic Attendee(s) Comments British Sprint Champs Tim & Terry Similar messages to Sprint Mapping session. 2012 Starts at Major Tim & Terry Excellent presentation on running starts. Some events good ideas applicable to November Classic. The UCI Tim & Terry Stimulating talk offering a different perspective on Commissaires how to handle events. May have up to 9 “controllers” for an event like the Classic, distributed to different functions e.g. start, finish… They ensure rules are applied and their word is final! Relay Map Labelling Tim & Terry Evening practical session demonstrating one way of labelling relay maps The Map printing Tim & Terry Useful session by Mick Lucking of things to prepare process for and watch in the printing process. Interesting “spot the diffence” test between samples of laser and litho printed maps. Mapping Conference LiDar workshop Terry Long session that can be summarised as Lidar (Aerial Laser Scanning) may be useful for mapping forested, complex terrain where the cost can be justified (comparable to photogrammetry). Also reinforced policy that SOC are developing to draw / update all maps oriented to grid north. Mapper training and Terry Interesting! Some mappers didn’t feel they should accreditation scheme be subjected to competency review to become accredited. Couldn’t agree on a scheme.

SCOA Bulletin Terry Smith Here is a précis of the Chairman’s summary posted to the SCOA website, which captures the key elements of the meeting. See http://www.scoa-orienteering.org.uk/content/2012/09/13/scoa-bulletin-september-2012 for the full text. SCOA League The first event in the SCOA League for 2012 / 13 will be TVOC’s event at Kings Wood (near High Wycombe) on Sunday 21st October. A further eight events are scheduled for the season. More details at http://www.scoa-orienteering.org.uk/league/2011/09/11/scoa-league- events-2012-13 2013 SCOA Championships The 2013 SCOA Classic Championships will be held at the November Classic, in the New Forest on Sunday 3rd November 2013. SCOA will also, for the first time, hold a Sprint Championship and a Middle Distance Championship in 2013. They will be held at Wellington College on Saturday 6th April and Bagshot Heath on Sunday 7th April respectively. SOCK 185 October 2012 18

JK 2013 Work on organising the JK is progressing well. Entries will open on 1st November. The event will require some 125 helpers each day. SCOA clubs will be asking their members shortly to volunteer to help on, ideally all the days, but at least one or two. New EMIT system SOC were successful in gaining SCOA approval for their proposal to rely on the “O-kite” design on Emit touch-less controls for the Southampton Urban event 3rd Nov 2012 and not use conventional kites. SCOA Levy SCOA has decided to move to the same levy basis adopted by BO for 2013 onwards. This approach should be simpler for clubs to administer. The SCOA levy to apply from 1st January 2013 will be 13.5p per competitor (with juniors counting as 1/3rd). There is no minimum number of competitors or fee. As with the British Orienteering levy, it will not apply to activities – broadly anything which does not produce results. Event Safety Workshop An event safety workshop will be held in the Salisbury area on Saturday 20th or Saturday 27th October, primarily for SARUM members but other clubs’ members are also welcome. Anyone organising an event from 1st January 2013 needs to have attended one of these workshops. If you would like to attend then please contact Katy (technical@scoa- orienteering.org.uk). SCOA Committee Vacancies Proposals are awaited for the positions of SCOA Secretary and Treasurer. Please consider whether you could do one of these roles, and if so then please contact Alun Jones ([email protected]). SOC volunteers for JK2013 I have been asked to approach some specific members to act as floating helpers. These will be experienced people able to step in to any area of the organisation that needs support. Lepe into Action event Di Smith On Thursday 30 Aug, Lepe Country Park hosted an event inspired by the Olympics and Paralympics. As SOC had mapped the park previously, we were invited to lay on something for the day and I agreed to put on a simple event: a 1.1km course with an Olympic theme - training kites with different country flags hanging from them. I kept it very low tech – copy the country code onto the boxes on the map to prove you went there and the whole thing self-timed. The park paid for 50 waterproof maps overprinted with the course: 49 were used. I provided a register sheet for self-timing, a clock and the controls. We also had some colourful club fliers and business cards with the club website on, for people to take away. I posted up a sheet listing the next two local events and these attracted a lot of attention. Throughout the day anyone, but especially children, had the opportunity to try cycling, climbing, archery, cricket, rugby, boules and orienteering. As the climbing tower, cycling and archery were limited in participation at any one time, many families opted to queue for those first. As a result, the majority of orienteering took place in the afternoon. Over 70 children had a go, mostly in family groups, and everyone seemed to enjoy it, especially the competitive element. The early participants set a target time of 17 minutes and during the day it got very competitive with people returning to see who had gone faster than them. The SOCK 185 October 2012 19 fastest time was 10 minutes! I hope that some of them will come along to our local events and experience the real thing! The park used a good technique to encourage people to try all of the activities: everyone was given a ‘passport’ as they arrived and were encouraged to get each activity signed off as they did it. Before leaving they could then hand in their passport, preferably after completing a short questionnaire, receive a medal on a ribbon and be entered into a prize draw. I think this event format worked well – it took very little time to prepare and set up, the main cost of maps was borne by the park, the audience was composed of families interested in outdoor activities and they were incentivised to try everything. Although Terry helped to put out the controls, and it was a bit frantic at times in the afternoon, it was manageable with one person. Many thanks to Alison Steele, manager of Lepe Country Park, for the invitation. SOC Events 2013 Jillian Devine The Club event calendar for 2013: Month Date Level Event Type Venue January Sun 20th C SCOA League Busketts Lawn February Sat 9th D Local Anderwood March Sun 17th C SCOA League Kings Garn Gutter April Sat 13th D Summer Series 1 Greggs School Sat 27th D Summer Series 2 Pear Tree Green May Sat 11th D Summer Series 3 Southampton Common Sat 18th D Portsmouth Series Staunton Country Park Sat 25th D Summer Series 4 Knightwood and Valley Park June Sat 8th D Summer Series 5 Southampton City Parks Sat 22nd D Summer Series 6 Itchen Valley Country Park July Sat 6th D Summer Series 7 Hursley Sat 13th D Portsmouth Series Queen Elizabeth Country Park Sat 20th D Summer Series 8 Royal Victoria Country Park August Sat 17th D Autumn series 1 Southampton Sports Centre September Sat 14th D Autumn series 2 Acres Down Sat 21st D Autumn series 3 Sandy Balls October Sat 12th D Local Autumn series 4 Hincheslea and Wilverly November Sun 3rd B November Classic Round Hill West Sun 3rd D Wayfarers Autumn series 5 December Sun 8th C SCOA League Island Thorns (Northern part)

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Urban 1, 2 and 3 Pete Davis I recently competed in three urban events, each of them quite different both in terms of reputation and level of competition. First up was the Guildford City Race – always a special one for me as this is where I hail from. This year the map had been extended to include Onslow Village allowing the assembly area and finish to be located at the university. The weather was very changeable with sunny spells interspersed with torrential showers. Luckily I managed my run in the dry! The last time I ran at Guildford the map scale was 1:4000. This year’s map was at 1:5000 and I found it quite difficult to read while running. Early on the route choices were interesting but towards the end of the run, on the new part of the map, there was a lot of dead running which was a disappointment. The final few controls were in the university grounds and I was expecting a sting in the tail. It paid off to slow down a bit and make sure I kept in touch with the map on the last three legs.

Urban event 2 followed the next day at Basingstoke. Credit Ian Buxton Organised by Basingstoke and Andover Orienteering Club and planned by our very own Robin Smith as part of his 60th year celebrations (?) we were promised an urban event with a difference. And in my view we really did get that. The map was superb and the planning was thoughtful and made the best use of the large housing estate at Beggarwood and Hatch Warren. In fact it seemed that the estate planners had an orienteering event in mind when they created the road and path network! Robin managed to create courses with good route choices that weren’t always obvious to the eye. And the clear

mapping really helped to get the most out of the Credit Ian Buxton event. Great fun. My third event was the London City Race on 22nd September. This was to be my first London event and I had heard so much about it from others so I was looking forward to the day. And it didn’t disappoint. With about 1200 competitors from many nations the atmosphere at the event was great. The race itself was enjoyable although I did hear a few comments about some of the courses not being challenging enough. The junior Credit Ian Buxton courses were very restricted by the necessity of keeping them away from the roads. The longer adult courses made it as far as the Barbican and its tricky multi- level route choices. My course (7) did not have that challenge but it was enjoyable and again the weather was fantastic. My favourite? For the orienteering – Basingstoke – thanks Robin: for the location – London, of course: for the route choice past the house where I was born – Guildford. Can’t say fairer than that! Publicity initiatives – your help is needed Pete Davis One way or another there is quite a bit going on with Club publicity and we need your help. We are looking for help with any aspect of publicity so all volunteers are welcome no matter what their prior experience. We are looking for help with photography, graphic design, copy writing, website design, website maintenance, social media and media relations. Interested? Please email me at [email protected]. To give you a flavour of our plans:  Permanent orienteering courses – maps, flyers and posters. Kieran Devine is hard at work creating new maps, maintaining courses and building relationships with park SOCK 185 October 2012 21

wardens. He has some great plans for adding information to the maps, and producing flyers and posters for each course with good quality photos. Leading on from that we will be establishing an area of the website specifically for permanent courses with a page for each course. And there are more ideas bubbling under.  Website. We feel it is in need of a makeover. The basic building blocks are good as we all can contribute news, articles and opinions. Also the event listings are automated. But the design is looking a bit dated and we probably need to separate the member area from the public facing side a bit more.  Photo library. Whether it is flyers, posters, final details, SOCK or the website we are always on the lookout for good quality photos.  Facebook and Twitter. Are we making the best use of them? Do we need to do more. We are particularly interested in getting help from our younger club members who will be more aware of what works well and what doesn’t.  The media. We could do more to engage with the local press and publicise what is happening with the club and its events and initiatives.  Flyers for the 2013 events including the Summer Series. To support all of this work we need a few hardy souls who are happy to give some time and effort. If you can help in any way, large or small, please let me know. Good photos are the key to much of what we are trying to achieve – if you have any please, please consider allowing the club to use them. Answers to the Control Description quiz The start control is on a track junction. Control 1 has the code 157 and is on the north side of a hill. 2 - 152 is at the south end of an erosion gully. 3 - 153 is in the centre of a large depression. 4 - 154 is in a small depression. 5 – 158 is in the north part of a quarry. 6 – 162 is at the junction of an earth bank and a thicket. 7 – 159 is at the north east end of an erosion gully. 8 – 160 is on the east side of a vegetation boundary. 9 – 161 is on the south-east side of a distinctive tree. 10 – 165 is in an erosion gully. 11 – 167 is at the south-west end of a small erosion gully. 12 – 145 is on the east side of a distinctive tree. 13 – 148 is on the south most earth bank junction. 14 – 150 is in the centre of a large depression. 15 – 164 is in a re-entrant. 16 – 155 is at the east corner of a vegetation boundary. 17 – 156 is at the west side of a thicket. 18 – 142 is at a track junction. Navigate 150 metres to the finish. How did you do? As you translated the descriptions did you try to visualise the control site in your mind? A good tip to help you learn control descriptions and map symbols is to review your run after each event. Make sure you understand all the control descriptions and can relate them to the map symbols. SOCK 185 October 2012 22

Event Calendar An extract from the British Orienteering Fixtures List showing Level A UK wide, Level B from our adjoining regions, all events from SCOA and events from our adjoining clubs. Check the British Orienteering website for updates. Date Event (click for details) Level Club Region Venue/Map Nearest Town GridRef

Sat 13/10/12 SOC Dibden Level D SOC SCOA Dibden Southampton SU405057

Sun 14/10/12 WSX Dorset Delight Level C WSX SWOA Blandford Forest Blandford Forum ST813094 Wisley & Ocham

Sun 14/10/12 Junior Home Internationals Level B SN SEOA Cobham TQ079582

Commons Norris Hill/Velmead

Wed 17/10/12 Military League South Level D BAOC SCOA Fleet SU824536

Common Oxford City Race 2012 &

Sat 20/10/12 Level C OUOC SCOA Oxford City Centre Oxford

Southern Urban League Barcombe, between SOG 3 - Knowlands Wood,

Sat 20/10/12 Level D SO SEOA Knowlands Wood Lewes, Uckfield &

Barcombe Haywards Heath TVOC Regional Event &

Sun 21/10/12 Level C TVOC SCOA Kingswood High Wycombe su885936

Yvette Baker Trophy Heat Dorset Schools and Wootton Hill near

Sat 27/10/12 Level D WIM SWOA Charmouth SY355970

Informal - Wootton Hill Wootton Fitzpaine SOG 4 - Stoughton (west), to the north-west of

Sat 27/10/12 Level D SO SEOA Stoughton (west)

Chichester Chichester SO SONIC 2 / KNC

Thu 01/11/12 Level C SO SEOA Hailsham Hailsham

(Hailsham)

Sat 03/11/12 SOC Southampton Urban Level C SOC SCOA Southampton Southampton

King Garn Gutter &

Sun 04/11/12 SOC November Classic Level B SOC SCOA New Forest SU249118

Castle Malwood

Sun 04/11/12 SOC Wayfarers Level D SOC SCOA Ocknell Inclosure Southampton SU249118 WIM/WSX Monthly

Mon 05/11/12 Evening Event and Wessex Level D WIM SWOA Gillingham School Gillingham ST813265

Night League Dorset Schools & Wessex Kings Bottom,

Sat 10/11/12 Night League + limited Level D SARUM SWOA Warminster ST834432

Longleat

Colour coded

Sat 10/11/12 SE Night Championships Level C SO SEOA Worthlodge Crawley

SN - Saturday Series 3

Sat 10/11/12 Level D SN SEOA Wisley Common Ripley TQ068581

Wisley Common WIM Galoppen - Ringwood Ringwood North

Sun 11/11/12 Level C WIM SWOA Ringwood SU108100

North Forest Forest (North End) SO District event & Yvette

Sun 11/11/12 Level C SO SEOA Worthlodge Crawley

Baker Trophy Heat SOG 5 - Sheffield Forest,

Sat 17/11/12 Level D SO SEOA Sheffield Forest Near Danehill

Danehill BADO Level C and SCOA

Sun 18/11/12 Level C BADO SCOA Chawton Park Alton SU672361

League Event SN - Southern Urban

Sat 24/11/12 Level C SN SEOA Woking Woking

League Event SOG 6 - Eartham (south) & Nore Hill & South north of Fontwell &

Sat 24/11/12 Level C SO SEOA

Nore Hill Eartham Slindon, west of Arundel

Sun 25/11/12 SN Trophy Regional Event Level B SN SEOA Hindhead Common Hindhead

East Midlands Champs and Eyam Moor & Bretton

Sun 25/11/12 Level B DVO EMOA Bakewell SK210778

Masters Cup Clough

Sat 01/12/12 Southern Night Champs Level B SLOW SEOA Esher Esher

Sun 02/12/12 OK Nuts Trophy Level C SLOW SEOA TBC Esher TQ121618 SOCK 185 October 2012 23

Date Event (click for details) Level Club Region Venue/Map Nearest Town GridRef

Sat 08/12/12 SOC Matley Heath Level D SOC SCOA Matley Heath New Forest SU333074 WIM 3 in 1 Event - Ringwood North

Sat 08/12/12 Level D WIM SWOA Ringwood

Ringwood North Forest Forest (South end) SOG 7 - Tilgate Park & Tilgate Park & Forest

Sat 08/12/12 Level D SO SEOA Tilgate, Crawley

Forest (north), Crawley (north) Yvette Baker Trophy Final + Collingbourne Woods,

Sun 09/12/12 Level B SARUM SWOA Ludgershall

limited colour coded event nr Ludgershall

Sat 15/12/12 SO Brighton City Race Level D SO SEOA Brighton

SN - Saturday Series 4

Sat 15/12/12 Level D SN SEOA Mytchett Frimley SU893550

Mytchett TVOC Regional Event &

Sun 16/12/12 Level C TVOC SCOA Wendover Woods Wendover sp891101

SCOA League Ash Ranges &

Sat 22/12/12 Military Challenge 2012 Level D BAOC SCOA Aldershot SU

Mytchett Moors Valley Country

Wed 26/12/12 WIM Boxing Day Canter Level D WIM SWOA Ringwood SU108055

Park (North end)

Thu 27/12/12 SO Xmas Score Level D SO SEOA Selhurst tbc

GO Local event Waggoners

Sun 30/12/12 Level C GO SEOA Waggoners Wells Grayshott, Hants SU860343

Wells New Year's Day Score

Tue 01/01/13 Level D SARUM SWOA TBD TBD

event

Thu 03/01/13 SO SONIC 4 / KNC Level C SO SEOA tbc tbc

Poole Park Local Day /

Sat 05/01/13 Level D WSX SWOA Poole Park (Baiter) Poole

Night Chailey Common SOG 8 - Chailey Common on A272, east of

Sat 05/01/13 Level D SO SEOA north (Red House

(north) Haywards Heath Common) BADO Level C and SCOA Humbly Grove

Sun 06/01/13 Level C BADO SCOA Lasham SU695444

League Event (Weston Common) WIM/WSX Monthly Canford and Merley

Mon 07/01/13 Evening Event and Wessex Level D WIM SWOA Wimborne Urban Area

Night League SN - Saturday Series 5 Frith

Sat 12/01/13 Level D SN SEOA Frith Hill Deepcut nr Frimley SU906578

Hill SWOA Galoppen and

Sun 13/01/13 Level B NWO SWOA Marlborough

Ranking Event WIM 3 in 1 Event - Moors Moors Valley Country

Sat 19/01/13 Level D WIM SWOA Ringwood SU108055

Valley Park SOG 9 - Rewell Woods,

Sat 19/01/13 Level D SO SEOA Rewell Woods A27, West of Arundel

Arundel

Sun 20/01/13 SCOA League New Forest Level C SOC SCOA Busketts Lawn Southampton SU329100 SOG 10 - Southwater Southwater Country Southwater, SW of

Sat 26/01/13 Level D SO SEOA

Country Park Park Horsham BKO Concorde Chase

Sun 27/01/13 Level B BKO SCOA Barossa Sandhurst SU871611

(Barossa) Dorset Schools & Wessex

Sat 02/02/13 Night League + limited Level D SARUM SWOA tbc tbc

Colour coded SN - Saturday Series 6

Sat 02/02/13 Eagle House - from Level D SN SEOA Eagle House Crowthorne SU836634

Wellington College

Sun 03/02/13 Midland Championships Level A NOC EMOA Sherwood Mansfield SK626675 WIM Regional - Ibsley Ibsley Common, New

Sun 03/02/13 Level C WIM SWOA Ringwood

Common, New Forest Forest

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