North London Street O League

Thursday 23rd February – Stanmore

The fifth event of the series sees a visit to Stanmore in L.B. Harrow…. at the end of the Jubilee Line, and no-doubt one or two hills to run up!  Full details can be found here.

All are welcome to attend, with entries starting at just £1.

There’s only one event after this, starting from Hampstead/Gospel Oak … then we’ll be crowning the top man and woman of the series … are you in with a chance … see the league tables here.

Jubilee Festival Orientering Weekend: 2nd – 5th June 2012

LOKs plans are in full swing for organising a Middle Distance race as part of the four-day Jubilee Weekend.  The event will be held on the Bank Hoilday Monday  (4th June). Fine sunny weather is guaranteed!  Full details here.

Orienteering on

See the 5 minute video as part of Sky Sports Get Involved series … includes footage from January’s event at Yateley.

South East League – after Northaw event

The results from the HH event at Northaw are in, and LOK move up the Division 1 table thanks to scoring in EVERY age category!

The 2012 Park Race Series

Plans are being made for another ‘olympic’ set of races in 2012!  For now, just reminisce on those that happened in 2011 by visiting  www.parkrace.org.

Weekend training: Sat 19th – Sun 20th May 2012

LOK is organising a weekend of orienteering training with an overnight stay on Saturday 19th May, possibly at the Tanners Hatch Youth Hostel Association (YHA) hostel near Polesden Lacey in Surrey. The details have yet to be decided but there will be running orienteering training on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, and possibly a night orienteering event.

Accommodation and programme details will be confirmed when there is a clearer idea of numbers. Children are welcome and will need parental supervision. Ian Bullock is organising the event -please send Ian an email if you are interested, with as accurate a statement of numbers and ages as possible. If you have any ideas for training courses or exercises then feel free to forward them on.

Trent Park Boxing Day Event

The Trent Park Boxing Day Score Event in North London was organised by LOK in conjunction with the Happy Herts club. Results can be downloaded here: results /results with split times.

A ‘score’ event entails running to as many controls on the map as possible within 60 minutes. You decide which controls to visit and in which order, with the knowledge that different controls score different point values (10, 20 or 30 points). There is a penalty (2o points) for each minute you are late back. Details (PDF) of the event can be downloaded here.

The map is coloured according to the speed you can run the terrain. Orienteering is a challenging sport for all ages (Images 2, 4 Digisport; 3 British Orienteering)