The SYO website has now moved. Please change your bookmarks and favourites to the new site: http://www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk
Contributors: Charlie Adams; Colin Best; Phil Haywood; Sally Soady.
Thanks to Colin Best for permission to reproduce sections of SYO News below. Copy date for the next magazine is Thursday December 24th 1998 for the issue to be printed by 11th January 1999. Please send contributions to Colin Best or to the Webmaster to be passed on.
Chairman's Notes
CompassSport Cup Final
Mapping Course
Noticeboard
Sheffield Night Orienteering Training
British Champs 1999
SYO Club Champs
SYO Events 1999
Fixtures
What a good weekend - thanks to Natasha for organising the dinner, after Dave and Jenny organised the first one last year I think we now have an annual "do" and we are thinking of booking the Maynard Arms again for next year. If you have any views let us know - for example is there a venue on the other side of Sheffield at a similar price?
Thanks to Brian for organising the coach to the Compass Sport Cup final. Maybe we should have a coach a couple of times a year - it helped me to put a couple more faces to names and we had a useful meeting on the way up about increasing junior participation. Phil used the opportunity to get a few more volunteers for organising and planning (though he is still looking for a few more) and Charlie got rid of a few JK and British maps. And what's more we came back with the trophy! Well done to everyone who ran for the club, especially the junior members. For some of the courses there were plenty of other people to count if we had bad runs, but the juniors rose to the occasion with some excellent runs. Next year we will have to have a bottle of Champagne and celebrate the occasion!
Didn't CLARO look smart in their jackets! We have decided, after much debate, to adopt the yellow/black Silva O-tops as club kit - Jenny & Gordon Fiander will be taking orders shortly.
Coming up is the Club Champs, planned and organised by the Sutherland family, details elsewhere in the newsletter, always an enjoyable event. In the New Year we will be organising a couple of coaching days and a club weekend in the Lake District. The coaching will consist of several different groups, for example juniors, adult beginners and experienced orienteers, each with their own coach with exercises geared to their needs. The trip to the Lakes will be good preparation for the British Champs in May and probably a good social weekend as well.>
Sally Soady
WE WON!!
|
Having beaten Airienteers in the third round at Allerthorpe in June we were through to the final on Sunday 18th October. The final actually consists of semi-final and a final all run at the same race. Everybody just runs one race and the points are calculated to see which of the four clubs win through to the final, before being recalculated to determine the winner. We were up against Lakeland Orienteering Club in the semi. We won this match comfortably whilst Nottingham Orienteering Club beat Southdown Orienteers, so lining up a final between ourselves and Nottingham. This we also won by a margin of 69 to 62 points to regain the trophy we last won in 1995. The club had hired a 53 seater coach for the day and virtually the whole club took advantage and travelled to the event together. This made for a long day but was more than compensated by the increase in team spirit. As usual we were strong on Brown I, run exclusively by M21s, securing a whitewash against both LOC and NOC. However the Blue II team (W20/21/35) did not peform to their usual high standard. This was largely due to two noticeable absences due to illness and injury. However this was entirely made up for by our W40+ team on the Green Course. The worst of our three winners equalled LOC ex-world champion Carol McNeill's time, producing a whitewash on that couse. Also, as usual of late, it was the junior courses - Orange and Light Green - where we were the weakest. Dan Tett and Joe Charles both did well on Orange but probably unfairly had to bear undue pressure to perform due to a lack of any other competitors to fall back on in the vent of a disqualification or a bad run. On the Light Green course (W18 and M16) as in the last round we had just one competitor, Owen Dickinson. He duly finished his course and collected three points. Any other finisher would have given us another two points. Thanks to everyone who turned up to run, whether or not you scored. Next year the format of the competition changes, hopefully making it easier to get a full turnout or near full turnout for each round. SYO have a trophy for each of the seven CompassSport Cup courses which is awarded to the person who scores most points throughout that year's C/S Cup competition. These trophies were not awarded in 1997 as we did not enter the competition. The winners for 1998 are listed below. I would just like to point out that Bill Edwards would have won Brown I if he had copied the correct course at the second master-maps at Allerthorpe.
Charlie Adams
|
|
Dave Peel will be offering advice and help to anybody who wants to learn how to do a field survey for a map. The idea is to take an old map of Wombwell Woods and to resurvey it as the basis for a new map which Ray Waight will draw up for the Club in time for an event to take place later in 1999.
It is an ideal opportunity for anybody who wants to learn about mapping or wants to learn more about mapping to get some real help and at the same time contribute to a new map.
Those who are interested should contact Colin Best who is co-ordinating the day.
- see the special Noticeboard page.
There is usually just one course. It is not suitable for beginners but those people who want to hone up their night orienteering skills are very welcome.
Mass Start 7pm
Phone the organiser to get an overprinted map
Course time 50-60 minutes
| Dec 1st | Venue TBA | Dave Harrison |
| Dec 8th | Wharncliffe | Oli Johnson's house |
| Dec 15th | Venue TBA | Jamie Stevenson |
| Jan 12th | Ecclesall / Limb Valley | Bill Edwards |
| Jan 19th | Rivelin | Charlie Adams |
| Jan 26th | Canklow | Helen Hargreaves |
| Jan 30th | Blacka Moor | Dave Peel (Proper SYO Night Event) |
| Feb 2nd | Beeley Woods | Oli Johnson's house |
| Feb 9th | Greno Woods | Night Lightfoot |
| Feb 16th | Venue TBA | Hilary Bloor |
| Feb 23rd | Lady Canning's Plantation | Ricky Baxter (new map) |
| Mar 2nd | Hathersage Moor | Al Buckley (new map) |
Prior to Dec 1st we will meet on Tuesdays at 7pm from Burbage Bridge for headlight runs, then grub/beer at Norfolk Arms. Any queries phone Richard Baxter or Dave Peel.
Advance Information! We have secured the use of Cartmell Fell Village Hall for the weekend of the British Champs in 1999 ie 8th and 9th May.
There is floor space for sleeping, four massive woodburning stoves to keep everybody warm, a kitchen and washing facilities. Cost will be roughly £2 per person per night.
Contact Sally Soady if you want some floor space.
Contact Jim Sutherland if you want to run. The format is likely to be the same as in previous years with runners being handicapped by virtue of when they start with the winner being the first finisher. It's usually good fun and there will be a pub with grub organised for afterwards. There will be a supervised 'Treasure-O' to occupy the one to ten year olds whilst their parents orienteer - sounds excellent!
The fixtures for next year are beginning to take shape but I still need volunteers to be planners, controllers and organisers. For those of you who are controllers I would think that to control or officiate at one event per annum is not asking a lot. However, I can report some progress and thank you to those who put their names forward on the coach returning from the CSC final. The current position is as follows:-
| Date | Venue | Event Type | Planner | Controller | Organiser |
| Jan 3rd | Strines | C4 | Dave Pilling | Guy Seaman | |
| Jan 30th | Blacka Moor | N4 | Dave Peel | Pete Gorvett | Phil Haywood |
| Jan 31st | Blacka Moor | C4 | Bill Edwards | Pete Gorvett | Brian Shaw |
| Feb 28th | Coneygreen and Lees Hall | C5 - local | Karl Marshall | Robin Stansfield | Dave Charles |
| Apr 11th | Ecclesall | C4 | Tim Tett | ||
| May 2nd | Yorkshire Relish* Rivelin | C3 | Charlie Adams | ||
| May 3rd | Yorkshire Relish* Wharncliffe | C3 | |||
| May 19th | YHOA Short League Canklow | Short Race | John Soady | ||
| July 4th | Cusworth | C5 - local | John Helliwell | ||
| Sep 5th | Burbage and Ecclesall | Long O | Ben Akers Ruth Hambleton |
Colin Best | |
| Oct 31st | Wombwell | C4 | Ray Waight | Martin McShane | |
| Nov 7th | Sandall Beat | C5 - local | |||
| Dec 11th | Club Champs |
Early 2000 National/Badge Event - Ewden (provisionally 27/2/00)
SYO confirmed to hold BNC in 2001.
*John Soady will be the co-ordinator for the Yorkshire Relish.
We have also had an approach by YHOA to see whether SYO could offer a venue for the British Champs in 2002 as negotiations for an area in AIRE territory have broken down. Wharncliffe has been suggested.
The format of the Yorkshire Relish is also likely to change as EPOC are willing to run a short race and CLARO may be interested in a relay.
However enough of the future my immediate need is for an organiser for Strines. (The car parking which is often a problem is already sorted out.) e-mail philh@sypte.co.uk
WITHOUT YOU OFFERING TO OFFICIATE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO REGISTER THE EVENT WITH BOF AND ENSURE IT IS IN FUTURE FIXTURE LISTS PRODUCED BY BOF AND COMPASSPORT. For the club to retain a healthy financial position we need more orienteers to our own events than recently and this means advertising them well in advance.
Phil Haywood
- see the special Fixtures page.
Last modified: July 25 2003 10:21.
