Follow Line                        White Out                 

Brian 22:20                         Mike S 19:10

Paul 32:20                           Alex 23:43

Elspeth 18:43                       Kate G 40:21

Flora 17:17                          Pat 40:00

David 17:16                         Flora 17:37

Mike B 17:04                        David 19:11

Kate B 16:03                       Elspeth 14:47

Oli & 1 17:43                        Kate B 15:16

Emily 17:11                          Pete S 18:07   

Harriet 16:52                        Oli & 1 20:07

Pete S 21:04                         Karen 25:35

Norwegian                           Mike B 11:53

Brian 40:23                           Harriet 21:11

Paul 47:08                            Emily 24:22

Elspeth 27:01                        Anne 26:51

Flora 27:01

Pete S 28:30

Mike B 27:23

Oli & 1 30:57

Harriet 25:10

Kate B 31:37

Sprint

Dorothy 35:48

Kate G 34:00

Alex 20:08

Mike B 13:42

Harriet 20:41

Emily 22:36

Kate B 15:24

The Lincolnshire Urban League dates have been rearranged again - Note these are still provisional.

Clarity and guidelines from BO/Sport England/Government are still required.

NOTE THESE ARE STILL PROVISIONAL

The new latest dates are:

July 29th - Gainsborough

August 5th - Washingborough

August 12th - Kingsway and Lodge Moor

August 19th - Lincoln Bunker's Hill

August 26th - Brigg

September 2nd - Lincoln East End (plus LCS)

Times In No Particular Order

Kate G  75:39

Alex 22:59

Brian 25:01

Helena 15:43

Mike B 13:20

Jackie 19:44

Harriet 17:34

Holly 12:48

Emily 19:54

Kate B 14:19

Times In No Particular Order

Dorothy 42:34

Alex      36:20

Mike S   21:26

Paul      20:52

Pete S   19:11

Pat       78:02

Mike B  11:14

Jolly's   13:56

Jackie   22:28

Emily    17:02

Holly     10:56

Kate B   12:46

Note This is a map memory test and the map is not issued at the start but just a segment of the map showing the first control, then at the first control there is another segment showing control 2 etc.etc.

Times (in no particular order)

Karen 30:21

Holly 13:43

Harriet 16:53

Kate B 14:03

Mike B 24:04

Helena 26:12

Paul 24:42

Pete S 19:43

Brian 21:53

Alex 31:24

Mike S 28:03

Jackie 39:30

Elspeth 18:36

Flora 20:28

David 20:26

Emily 20:14

Times In No Particular Order

Mike S 27:22

Dorothy 27:53

Brian 18:33

Pete S missing 93

Paul missing 93

Helena 13:55

Mike B 08:49

Karen 19:57

Kate B 13:31

Harriet 12:35

Holly 14:53

Following advice from British Orienteering all events Local, Regional and National Events have been suspended for 12 weeks.

As soon as we get the go ahead we should be able to hold events at short notice.

Note the Thirsk EURO City Event is still included in our Fixtures - the decision regarding the holding of this Event will be taken in due course (Courses planned already - so no problem on that front). 

Following discussion with British Orientering and recent advice from the Government re: Covid 19 the JK Committee has decided to cancel this year's events.

For further details follow this link:

https://www.thejk.org.uk/jk2020/

Paul

New article

The 6 Fixtures for the 2020 Lincolnshire Urban League are:

June 10th - Lincoln East End

June 17th - Scunthorpe Kingsway

June 24th - Washingborough

July 1st - Brigg

July 8th - Lincoln Bunker's Hill

July 15th - Gainsborough

The list of events and dates is shown below.

Note: Great Limber is Mausoleum.

Best 7 out of 9 Events will count.

Jokers for planners will once again apply.

Poacher 8 will also be the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield and LUL 1 hosted by LOG.

Poacher 9 will also be LUL 2.

This year we are giving competitors a chance to 'warm up' for the 2020 Lincolnshire Poacher Series by running at a couple of Lamp O Events.

These will be both 45 minute Score events and will be predominantly urban based.

2 new areas will be used :

Winterton on April 8th

Frodingham and Scunthorpe on April 15th

Starts between 6pm and 7pm and therefore they should be held in the daylight.

Under 16's are welcome but they will need to be accompanied.

Then the 9 Poacher Events will be held on the following 9 Wednesdays from April 22nd.

Note: it is possible that bonus points will be awarded for these 2 events - so don't miss out...

The blank Scunthorpe OOM map is shown below to give an insight into what to expect.

From mid-February the Facebook Page will no longer be active - please concider joining the Facebook Group instead (see below),

THANKS!

A new Facebook Group has been created for the club. This will initially work with the current Facebook Page but eventually (hopefully in the not too distant future!) take ove from the Page as HALO's main Facebook point of contact / interaction for both member and non-member orienteers and interested parties alike.

Please join the Group - either via the current Facebook Page or by visiting it directly, link below

HALO Facebook Group

It would also be appreciated if you could "spread the word" in the club's new "push" to be more active in the Social Media department.

THANK YOU!

The full 2020 draw can be found here.

It can be seen that we have been drawn not only with Small Clubs in the YHOA and NEOA areas but also some EMOA and NWOA clubs will be joining us to make it ultra competitive.

Keep the date in your diaries (15th March), once further details are published the team manager will be contacting all our members. 

Coming soon to the North Bank - a Series of 4 x 45 minute Score Events in brand new areas.

Theses will be going back to basics using simplified Open Orienteering maps with no SI Boxes or kites at Control Points.

At the appropriate location - generally lampposts the code number will have to be written down to prove that the competitor has found the correct site.

Competitors will require pen, dibber (for Start and Finish only - can be borrowed FOC), head torch and hi-vis.

Our handicap system used in previous Pub Leagues will apply - scores, penalties & bonuses.

Below are the dates and venues - see website for exact start and finish closer to the date.

£3 entry fee

Note : the dates are alternate Wednesday's with starts between 6 and 7 and they do not clash with the EBOR fixtures of a similar format which are held on the other Wednesday's during the same period.

Wednesday 29th January - North Ferriby

Wednesday 12th February - Brough

Wednesday 26th February - Kirk Ella and Anlaby

Wednesday 11th March - Market Weighton

Under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult if competing at these events as all courses involve crossing roads.

For those able to orienteer during the day during the week there is a Military League Event on Wednesday 15th January in Holgate, York.

This is an urban event and deteails can be found here.

Note pre entry required to reserve map - details on flyer.

This year's quiz is slightly longer than usual - as it was used twice at both LOG and HALO social events.

There are 95 questions plus 5 bonus questions. There is a Colour/ Orienteering theme.

Due to file size it has been split into various parts.

Questions 1 to 20 can be found here.

Questions 21 to 40 can be found here.

Questions 41 to 60 can be found here.

Questions 61 to 85 can be found here.

Questions 86 to 95 can be found here.

The Results can be found here.

It can be seen that there are new winners.

After much scrutinisation of the printouts the revisions show that Philip, Elspeth and Kate are the actual winners.

Apologies to Lawrence, Doug and Judith - but you may be pleased that you are now second.....

Congratulations to Charlotte and Tommy on getting all controls within the time and also on their engagement.

The highlight of the year is fast approaching with our Annual New Years Event being held at Broughton.

This New Year it will be on Tuesday 31st December , apologies to anyone who has to work that day.

Although a town the Village Hall will be the Event Centre on High Street. Parking at the rear or on Estate Avenue. Hall open from 10am. Please register asap and clear dibbers.

The Event will commence with a mass start at 11am prompt, 50 metres from the Hall, where everyone will run a 2km Sprint Course (with gaffles). This course will be on a A4 map at a 1:3000 scale. Once completed competitors need to turn over their maps and collect as many controls on the Score Course (1:5000 scale) within the total 45 minutes limit.

Controls have a value of 5 points on the Sprint Course and 10 points on the Score Course.

Competitors are grouped into teams of 3 , handicapped and drawn beforehand.

Note: the Sprint area may be muddy in parts as 'Rough Open' areas will be encountered but the Score Course will be nearly entirely on paths. After the Sprint the Village Hall will be passed before going on to the Score Course so it is possible to change footwear in a transition area - just like Triathalons - if one is feeling ultra competitive.

Note: on the Score Course a walkway accross a marsh may be used - this may be slippery, so please take care, also everywhere else if icy.

No muddy shoes at all in the Village Hall - before or after the event.

Afterwards Chilli,Baked Poatoes, Soup, Bread etc. will be provided but please bring other seasonal fare for all to share and enjoy.

In order that we can arrange food and map quantities please send me an email on numbers attending. sbpetebtinternet.com by Midnight Sunday 29th December.

Note: this is a free activity and is open to all, including members from other Clubs. 

Quiz and presentations after all kites collected.

Please note : the Forestry Commission are currently carrying out extensive clearing operations in Willingham Woods.

Below highlights the true extent of the work going on over the next few months.

As you can see the whole area will need extensive updates - so should be good practice for those who are keen to utilise their newly and not so newly found mapping skills.

A working day/weekend could possibly be organised in early Spring in order that it is newly revised for a Poacher Event. At least Hamilton Hill has not been cleared or the nice marshy area.

The Permanent Orienteering Course in the woods is not recommended at this moment in time.

The Annual awards Evening took place at the Humber Bridge Country Hotel (formerly Reeds) on Friday night.

Photos courtesy of Brian Ward and Karen Cook

The attendees thoroughly enjoyed the ambience, atmosphere and food, particularly Mario's ability to debone the 4 Dover Sole orders (apologies Pat).

The main speech focused on the Club's negotiations to increase membership by trying to attract the following to join HALO (for a variety of reasons) and some subject to the Welfare Officer's approval:

Prince Andrew

Brian the Snail

Julia and Sergei Skripol

Bernstein and Woodward (Washington Post)

Julan Assange

Rachel Riley

Paul Hollywood

Banksy

Starsky and Hutch

Dr Who

Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightening Seeds

The following were the main winners of the Awards.

ORIENTEER(S) OF THE YEAR - The Jolly Family

PAT O'GRADY TROPHY - Geoff Holmes

HALO CHAMPION - Helena Crutcley

LCS WINNERS - HALO represented by Brian and Lawrence

Golden Whistle Winner - Georgia

Note : for those who did not attend a furter presentation will take place at the New Year's Eve Event at Broughton

The qualifying fixtures for the 2019-20 HALO League may be found here.

Brian's First Batch of Photos are here.

Brian's Second Batch of Photos are here.

Plus Comments can be found in the Results Section for the Event.

Plus the HALO Twitter Feed could well feature some of the Control Sites in the popular 'Find The Control' Series shortly.

Also if you wish to paticipate in a Survey for this event please complete here.

Congratulations to Helena on retaining the Humber Championship Title.

Last year's event was held at the flat and very runnable Sandall Beat, however this year the event was held at Wombwell, which was far more testing in terms of technicality and physicality.

Helena once again showed her versatility by winning again on this very different terrain.

Scores are below - congratulations to all HALO competitors for completing their courses and not mispunching.

Those running at Humber Bridge CP were:

David Jolly                18th place     22:55      61.89%

Alex Gymer               55th place     27:22      61.88%

Peter Harris               50th place     26:36      60.84%

Mike Byron and dog   25th place     24:00      58.61% (99th parkrun)

Mary Carrick              138th place   40:10       55.44%

Pat Simmons             142nd place   42:07      51:17% (New PB)

Congratulations to David who won by the smallest possible margin (0.01%), commiserations to Alex.

Well done to Pat on her PB.

Whist at Sedgefield

Megan Smith             131st place  29:16       50.63%

Oli Smith                  134th place  29:20       44.09%

Well done to Megan for her 4 second victory....

The Final League Table after 6 rounds is shown below

Thanks to all 31 competitors who took part. Second place was very close between Pete, David and Mike

.

The minutes for the recent AGM are now available in the Members' area of the website.

Can I encourage you to particularly read the Chair's address as it outlines some important work that the Committee will be undertaking with the membership this year.

You may also wish to read Memorandum 1 (at the foot of the minutes) as this provides a bit of extra context.

HALO are pleased to announce that over the coming months we will be working with British Orienteering on an event participant satisfaction initiative to develop our understanding of the participant experience at club events.

Between September and December participants at a selection of events will be invited to share their views and comments via a short survey. The Participant Satisfaction Survey will help us understand participant satisfaction with different aspects of the events, including the courses, facilities, volunteers, logistics and equipment as well as the overall satisfaction with events.

We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts. The comments and insight obtained from your responses will help British Orienteering and the club to identify participant-focused development opportunities and to continually improve these events.

HALO in conjunction with British Orienteering will be holding Participation Surveys at the following events.

Barton Ocyober 5th

Victoria Dock October 9th

HBCP October 12th

The link to the survey can be found in this poster here

Following recent trials Results can now be accessed live via the website - even for local events.

Thanks to Pete Shew we can now offer to all competitors and followers live results.

These are updated instantaneously as soon as the competitor downloads.

Hope you all enjoy hours of fun logging on from your devices all around the world....

Congratulations to Dean Field for winning the HALO League title for the 2018-19 season. It was a close run thing with Helena and Mike Smith just behind. The top Senior was the ever improving Mike Byron.

The first two events for the 2019-20 season will be Wombwell on October 13th and our Hessle Urban event on October 19th.

Others to be announced in due course.

Thanks go to Pete shew for producing the statistics. 

The Results from Round Sixcan be found here.

The Final League Table can be found here.

Congratulations to all trophy winners and LOG for regaining Team Trophy.

Sprint headcam here.

MD Urban headcam here.

Thanks to Tony Udris SYO

Charlotte Ward's route choice anayses fot the Gainsborough Sprint courses:

• Course A
• Course B
• Course C
• Course D
• Course E

The 6 Event Urban Series starts on Wednesday June 26th at Quarrington near Sleaford hosted by LOG.

This exciting indivdual and club competition this year, sees 3 new areas with 3 new maps as the two Lincolnshire Clubs organise these premier urban local events.

Then on consecutive Wednesday evenings in July the 5 other events are :

3rd July   - Cleethorpes - Haverstoe Park incorporating parts of the Sea Front.

10th July - Nettleham, nr Lincoln

17th July - Willows and Freshney, Grimsby

24th July - Lincoln (area TBA) - replaces Grantham

31st July - Louth

There are 3 courses Short (upto 2km), Medium (approx 3.5k - 4.0m), Long (approx 5.0 to 5.5km)

Note Under 16's are restricted to the Short Course unless they are accompanied by an Adult.

Please find Publicity Leaflet for the weekend.

Final Details can be found here.

Congratulations to Dorothy on taking the Urban title beating Mary C by 1 point and Brian W by 10 points.

The handicap which takes into account age, gender, course length and course climb means that you are never too old to be a champion! In fact Dorothy has peaked at the right time after good runs recently in the Poacher Series and at York last weekend.

There were 16 HALO entries at Wingfield in Rotherham which was a commendable turn out - good practice for the upcoming Poacher Sprints, the LCS and the YHOA and EMOA Sprint Championships, all still to come in June.

HALO are this year hosting the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield which this year will be at our Poacher Event at Scunthorpe Central Park on Wednesday 12th June.

The format will be similar to that we used 2 years ago at Primrose (when we won) with a 2 kms Prologue Sprint where everyone runs the same course. This is then followed by a mass start race where everyone runs their course visiting the same controls but not necessarily in the same order with the use of butterflies and gaffles.

The second race, mass start will start at either 6.50pm or 7.00pm.

As far as the Poacher scoring is concerned, Short runners just have to complete the first course but both Medium and Long runners need to do both Courses. Runners will be assigned to the Course that they usually run at the Poacher Events. 

Lincolnshire Challenge Shield scoring 2019 
(Same as 2015 and 2017)

There will be two stages to the event, a prologue and a mass start with each of the stages scored as follows:

Scoring will be based on a summation of individual points scored by runners from each club across the following categories. There is no limit to the number of runners from a club running at the event.

1. Juniors (M/W20-)
2. Seniors (M/W21-M/W45)
3. Veterans (M/W 50 )

Runners within a category will be awarded points with 50 for the winner, 49 for second, and so on. For each club, the top scoring fifteen runners' scores are totalled, subject to the following rules:

• Each category will have from three to six counters with at least one female and a maximum of four males.
• The fifteen counters must contain at least four females.
• There must be fifteen counting runners for the club's total score to be valid.

The club's total scores for the prologue and the mass start are added together to give the final score.

Disqualification in either the prologue or mass start will result in the individual scoring 0 for that particular stage, but they can still be eligible for inclusion in their team’s final score by scoring well in the other stage.

The club with the highest final score is to be announced as the winner of the Lincoln Challenge Shield.

In a Report that I did for Poacher 3, I summised that Liam Harrington of LOG is the Poacher Long Course Champion of Champions.

I was right. Thanks to Pete K (who else) for providing the up to date definitive list.

Did not expect such a winning margin.

Some interesting winners from the past.

One or two amenments : should read Andy Monro (CLARO), Thomas Honniball (OD)

A new App has been designed to make it easier to find and add to a calendar the BO Fixtures that you may wish to attend.

Thanks to Neil Bricknell for developing this FREE App. NOW AVAILABLE ON ANDROID (via Google Play) AS WELL AS APPLE

The facebook link is https://www.facebook.com/pg/Humberside-and-Lincolnshire-Orienteers-190873247650813/posts/?ref=page_internal

The App is Event-O and is easily installed.

You can then set your preferences in terms of Regions (for Regional Events) and Clubs (for Local Events).

Many thanks to all HALO runners taking part on Sunday - great to see almost 30 runners representing the club.

Team results are here

Full results and analysis can be found here

Individual results can be found here

The provisional HALO team can be found here - let Neil know ASAP if any further changes required.
Note - SIAC dibbers will not be enabled for this event.

Final details here 

Compass Sport Trophy Round 1.  30 HALO members entered.
This year’s first round is on Sunday 17th March at Sherwood Pines (NOC).  
Course details and eligibility as follows:-
[1]      Brown                                        Men Open
[2]      Short Brown                               M20- M40
[3]      Blue Women                               Women Open
[4]      Blue Men                                    M50
[5]      Green Women                             W20- W45
[6]      Green Men                                  M60
[8A]    Junior Men (Green)                      Men 18-
[7]      Veterans Short Green                   M70 W60
[8B]    Junior Women (Short Green)        Women 18-
[10]    Super Veterans (Short Green)       M80 W70
[9A]    Orange Men                                Men 14-
[9B]    Orange Women                            Women 14-

Neil needs to know your BOF number, dibber number, Age class, Name, Preferred start time and preferred course

START LIST for all Clubs here.

The Results of the 12 control Sprint around Yarborough are as follows (not handicapped) :

Note: All those doing the Sprint all completed the Course in the correct order.

1. Philip Johnston-Davies 5:24

2. Brian Ward 5:33

3. Richard Crabb 5:47

4. Andrew Ridgeway 6:07

5. Wayne Byrne 6:19

6. David Jolly 6:25

7. Peter Harris 6:45

8. Mike Byron 6:55

9. Brian Hostad 7:09

10. Kate Brown 7:52

11. Lawrence Brown 8:05

12. Marcus Lancastle 8:41

13. Paul Simmons 9:34

14. Harriet Gilman 9:37

15 Chris Simmonds 9:45

16.=l Brian Slater 10:41

          Pete Shew 10:41

18. Amanada Ward 11:46

19. John Butler 12:48

20. Mary Carrick 13:40

21. Pat Simmons 16:03

Well done Philip and Kate the respective fastest times.

Hope you all enjoyed it!

A number of videos have been produced by SLOW with the aid of the GB squad. Think Fast, Run Hard, Go Orienteering

The complete Series is below:

Number 1 featuring HALO's Charlotte Ward is here. Entitled Setting the Map.

Number 2 featuring Graham Gristwood is here. Entitled A Newcomers' Guide.

Number 3 featuring Hector Haines is here. Entitled Using A Compass.

Number 4 featuring Meghan Carter-Davies is here. Entitled Using Attack Points.

Nunber 5 featuring Charlotte Watson is here Entitled Aiming Off.

Number 6 featuring Chris Smithard is here. Entitled Large Contour Features.

Number 7 featuring Kris Jones is here. Entitled Intricate Contours.

Number 8 featuring Alice Leake is here. Entitled Route Choice.

Number 9 featuring Ralph Street is here. Entitled Simplification.

Please Find Below the Provisional List of the Lincolnshire Poacher Fixtures for 2019

The 2019 fixtures have been further updated (8th January) and the full list can be viewed here, and also on the League/Fixtures web page.

Note : The Dragons return on Only Connect on Monday 7th January- good luck Lawrence.

Can you solve this Only Connect Wall?

4 Groups of 4.

Reasoning Essential.

Please find below the fixtures for YUL 2019.

Excellent mix in terms of quantity, dates, terrain and geographical spread.

Note one of theses will also no doubt will be HALO Urban Championship - exact venue to be determined at a later date.

Team Results

Team 1 - Paul, Mike & Harry                      630 points

Team 2 - Harriet, Mary & Pat                     620 Points

Team 3 - Peter H, Pete S & Anne                690 points

Team 4 - Andrew, Brian, Liz Georgia       480 Points

Team 5 - Elspeth (David), Dorothy, Shelley 500 points

Questions  1 to 10 are here.

Questions 11 to 20 are here.

Questions 21 to 30 are here.

Questions 31 to 40 are here.

answers to be posted in due course.

Please note there is a BAOC event on January 16th (Wednesday) on Beverley Westwood.

Details here

Pre entry Required.

The Final YHOA SuperLeague Event of 2018 came to Twigmoor on Sunday 9th December.Our final event of the year was originally planned to be at Mausoleum Woods, but this will now be in April 2019.

However Twigmoor is a well guarded secret and  provided an excellent venue for this Regional event with excellent runnability, plenty of undulations and an extensive path network with brown,green and blue features aplenty. Novice, Junior and Adult courses werebeen planned and tested Orienteers of all ages and abilities.

The Organisers' comments can be found here.

Note: the previous evening a Yorkshire Night League Event was being held at the same area.

Thanks to all the HALO members who helped at the event.

Did you solve the Control Description Wall??

Answers

Group 1 - 82,85,92,95 - Blue Features

Group 2 - 83,90,94,97 - Linear Features

Group 3 - 84,87,93,100 - Brown Features

Group 4 - 86, 89,96,98 - Reversable Numbers (which should not be used!!!)

Congratulations to all those who solved the puzzle.

Note: Watch the HALO members on Only Connect on Monday 10th December 8pm.

There ia a link here on how to use the Defibrillator that the Club owns. The Lifepak CR Plus.

A shorter version is here.

A general St John's version is here.

A parkrun version from Australia is here.

It is useful for all members to view this not just the First Aiders.

Although American this is still a very practical and informative youtube video.

The Final League Table is below:

Congratulations to Brian (first M) and Jackie (first F)

May look at revising the handicap system for 2019 to take into account the increased speed of the older generation!

Hopefully then the Under 50's will then have a more sporting chance.

Thanks to all planners, registrars and kite collectors.

And thanks to all 38 different competitors.

RouteGadget for final event can be found here.

Congratulations to the following for being placed in the top 3 for their Class in the 2018 Yorkshire Urban League

Emma Van Dam 3rd WJ

Charlotte Ward  1st WO

Brian Ward        1st MSV

Amanda Ward    2nd WSV

Jackie Edwards  3rd WSV

John Butler        2nd MHV

FRIDAY 16th November 19:30

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This year the HALO parkrun Challenge was held at one single venue - Humber Beridge Country Park.

Circumstances this year meant that only 7 members made the start line on a bleak and wet Saturday morning.

The Results were in grade/age % order

1. Jackie Edwards     74.14%     Time 26:33

2. Neil Harvatt          65.75%             24:49

3. David Jolly            61.74%             22:47

4. Mike Byron           61.62%             22:40

5. Peter Harris          60.43%             26:32

6. Alex Gymer          58.49%              28:40

7. Mary Carrick         55.89%             39:11

So Congratulations to Jackie who took the title - well desrved and winning by a large margin.

There was some head to head racing as Mike and David battled it out, with Mike being the first HALOite to finish. Also Jackie and Peter paced each other throughout with the latter taking the honours (Sure it was more than 1 Second!!)

Jackies turn to select venue next year - HBCP could again be the choice - hopefully there won't be the puddles to negotiate.

The full Results can be found here.

The minutes of the recent Club AGM for 2017/2018 are now available in the Members' Area of this website

On Tuesday morning a HALO member appeared on Radio 2's Pop Master.

Find out here 

Rather than playing the whole show he starts at 01:07:40 

The opening event in the 2018/19 HALO Pub League is on Tuesday 25 September at Beverley North.  Registration, start and finish are at the Hayride, Grange Way, Beverley HU17 9GP.  Starts are from 6.00 to 7.00pm, controls will be collected from 8.00pm.  Usual score format, visit up to 21 controls in any order, 10 points per control with a penalty of 10 points for every minute or part thereof after 45 minutes.  After your run stay for a meal and a drink - reasonable prices.  Entry fee £4.00.  Volunteers to collect controls welcome.  Planner - John Butler 01482 870312.

The 2018-19 HALO League begins on Sunday 23rd September at the SYO Urban event at Attercliffe.

The current list of the remaining 19 fixtures may be viewed here.

The new Orienteering Season returns with an extremely busy fixture schedule in the next few weeks.

In fact during the 36 day period from 25th September until 30th October there will be no less than 11 HALO events!!!

Hope you have not booked any holidays during this hectic period!

The Autumn Pub League kicks off on Tuesday 25th September at the Hayride n Beverley and runs through on consecutive Tuesday's until 30th October.

Note: the AGM Event at Hessle on 29th September will also be included in this Series - giving 7 x 45 minute Score Events.

Last year's 2 new HALO Championships will also take place during this time :

HALO Urban Championships will be held at Attercliffe, Sheffield on 23rd September.

HALO parkrun challenge will be held at Humber Bridge CP on 6th October, then following this run there will be a Local O Event within the Country Park. 

Note: unfortunately Charlotte will not be able to defend her parkrun title as she has a World Cup Race that weekend - at least it gives the rest of us a chance.

Then the climax of the Autumn will be the Gainsborough (Yorkshire?) Urban League Event on Saturday 20th October - a brand new area and brand new map.

Inevitably with such an intensive programme of events a large number of planners etc. will be required so if you can assist please contact Brian asap.

bslatercleeyahoo.com

I hope you are all revitalised after the summer - it looks like you will need to be.

Hope to see as many of you as possible at these events.

Our Annual General Meeting for 2017/18 will now be held on Saturday 29th September 2018 at The Sports Centre, King George V Playing Fields, Beverley Road, Hessle HU13 9AJ

The meeting will follow the 45 minutes Score Event that has starts from 1pm. It is expected that the AGM will be able to start by 3:30pm.

Any member who wishes to formally raise a point for discussion at the AGM should send details to Paul Simmons (secretaryhalo-orienteering.org.uk) by 15th September 2018, so it can be included on the agenda.

The same date applies for anyone who wishes to propose a member to be on the Committee, or for anyone who wishes to stand down.

The agenda will be published by 22nd September 2018.

For those who missed the HALO Summer Camp and Barbecue here is the quiz Questions1-10 Questions 11-20 Questions 21-30 Questions 31-40

FIle size dictated that had to be split into 4.

The top score on the day was 26 - well done Kate and Laurence Brown.

Answers to be posted in due course.

Pleased to report the LUL Inter Club trophy has eventually come home  to HALO.

After 5 years of hurt HALO have eventually won the trophy.

With a very slender lead of just 6 points going into the last event both teams were able to field relatively strong teams although Paul was away on BO coaching duties and Charlotte was doing last minute training for WOC preperation.

So it was no surprise that the end result was close.

The team and individual points for the Market Rasen Event can be found here.

This shows that HALO extended the margin of victory by only 2 points giving an overall 8 points difference. The unofficial results on the night calculated by our resident mathematiciangave HALO a greater victory!!!! So somewhat relieved that the actuals still were in HALO's favour - phew!

The individual results were correct and can be found here. Note the team points from the other table still have to be added.

So congratulations to all HALO members who competed this series.

Also congratulations to individual trophy winners Elspeth, Amanda W, Dom, Amanda R and Liam.

Many thanks to planners Jo & Michael, Clare, Kev, Megan, Isoldt & Peter.

Thanks to Brian H for tables etc.

Can confirm that Helena has won the double this year - not only being crowned HALO Champion but also now HALO League Champion.

Full standings in League Tab.

Congratulations also to age category winners Emma, David, Peter H and Dean - hope to see you at the awards dinner in November for the presentations. 

Please note the LUL 4 Event will now take place on Thursday 12th July rather than the previously advertised date of Wednesday 11th July.

This is to avoid a potential World Cup Semi Final Clash which may or may not feature England.

Apologies to non football fans.

The following are courtesy of Brian Ward

Louth Maze photos are here

Cleethorpes Sprint are here.

And a 6 minute video of the Maze is here.

The following are courtesy of Steve Rush (BOK)

Louth Middle photos are here

Skegness UKUL are here

The following Headcam views courtesy of Tony Udris

Cleethorpes Sprint is here

The Louth Maze is here

The Louth Urban is here

Skegness UKUL is here

As per BO guidelines anyone wishing to have an image removed or not shown on social media please contact sbpetebtinternet.com as you have a right 'to be forgotten'

Photos from the Poacher Normanby Hall Event can be found here.

Credits : Presentations - Brian Ward & Action - Amanda Ward

As per BO Guidelines anyone who wishes an image to be erased or not used on social media websites please email spbetebtinternet.com  as you have a right 'To Be Forgotten'. 

Please note at both Cleethorpes and Louth there will be a cake stall for the GB squad / WOC fundraising fund thanks to Charlotte Ward.

Final details for Cleethorpes can be found in Events section.

Final details for Louth can be found here.

Final details for Skegness can be found here.

There will be 2 HALO Championships in June:

The Main Event

June 10th : Sandal Beat, Near Doncaster

Handicapped according to age/gender.

Indoor Championships

June 23rd : Louth Livestock Market Maze

Long Course competitors compete for this inaugral competition.

The results of the Main Event are below - a phenomenal performance from our female members 7 in the top 9. Well done all and especially to Helena on another well earned victory, just pipping Charlotte for the title.

Can confirm that there will be a maze at the Indoor Louth Livestock Market on Saturday June 23rd as part of the Sea, Sand and Spires Weekend.

Hopefully will commence at 3pm prior to the Middle Distance Event.

EOD only with a nominal entry fee - Donations to GB Squad for WOC fundraising fund.

2 Courses planned one approximately 200m (straight line distance) and one 400m.

However expect to run further.

The map is OCAD drawn at 1:300 scale and A4 sized.

The competition area is jet washed each week so is relatively clean. But please wash/sanitise hands after competing.

THe surface is a serrated concrete and non slip but the railings are robust and often immovable so extra care required.

There is an excellent upper viewing level which can be used. Photo below taken from there.

To comply with  General Data Protection Regulation by entering any of our events competitors agree that we may publish your Personal Information as part of the results of the event and may pass such information to the Governing Body or any affiliated organisation for the purpose of insurance or for publishing results either for the event alone or combined with or compared to other events. Results may include (but not limited to) name, club affiliation, race times and age group.

Congratulations to the HALO Juniors competing at Oakwell Hall, who came a cretitable 2nd behind SYO, but ahead of local Club EPOC.

However, as SYO Juniors are the current champions they qualify for the Final by right anyway. This means that HALO Juniors qualify as the next best placed team.

The Final is being hosted by Harlequins Orienteering Club (HOC) with the date set for the event as Sunday 1st July. The Final will be at the Arrow Country Park, Redditch, just south of Birmingham.

Neil Harvatt will be contacting members of the team to see who will be attending.

Full results for Oakwell Hall can be found here.

In order to keep you on your toes this  Poacher season some new formats will be introduced. Nothing too complcated but should produce more competition with the introduction of voluntary head to head racing.

Poacher 7 Central Park, Scunthorpe

The 3 usual courses will be run (Short, Medium and Long). However for the Medium and Long competitors there will be 3 different versions all identical in terms of distances and controls visited but in 3 different orders. So competitors can start at the same time (i.e. 2 or 3 setting off together), so that rivals can race against each other.

The full details can be found here.

Poacher 8 Kingsway Gardens, Scunthorpe & Poacher 10 Baysgarth Park, Barton

For these two events another format will be introduced.

There will be 3 courses all approximately 2kms (A,B & C).

Short competitors will run Course A;

Medium Competitors will run Courses B & C;

Long Competitors will run all 3 Courses A, B & C.

In order to extend the head to head racing there will be at least 2 versions of each of these Courses. There is no reason why on Courses B & C why Medium runners not can race against Long runners. There will be similar lengths, distances and butterflies so each course is equal. Once again not too complicated.

However incorporated in these micro sprints there could be a maze. Also controls could be very close together e.g. either side of a tree, so precise navigation required. There will be time penalties of 30 seconds for first mistake or mispunch, 1 minute for second, 1.5 minutes for third etc. As controls will be in close proximity the SIAC air facility will be switched off.

Poacher 11

Format yet to be determined.

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Preliminary Details for the LOUTH event can be found here.

Preliminary Details for the CLEETHORPES event can be found here.

For Tourism Details including Accommodation Please Click Here.

Entries Now Open on Fabian 4 here

Cleethorpes Sprint :

Mass Start 11.30 for all courses (although latecomers can punch start up to 12noon)

Approximate Course Lengths (optimum route) subject to Controlling etc. NB: Courses can be amended when Course Lengths finalised.

Long > 3.5k

Medium 2.8k to 3.5k

Short/U16 < 2.8k

Louth Middle Distance Urban:

Stars 4 p.m to 5.30 p.m

Approximate Course Lengths (straight line) subject to Controlling etc.

A MO = 5.5k

B MV/WO =5.0k

C MSV/WV = 4.4k

D MUV/WSV = 3.8k

E MHV/WUV/WHV =3.0k

F JW/JM = 2.6k

G YJW/YJM = 2.3k

Skegness will be Classic UKUL distances.

See Event page for further details

2 HALO members have been on TV this weekend.

Whereas Lawrence was on ITV's the Chase on Friday Charlotte was on another 'Chase' around the streets of Ticino in  Switzerland in the European Championships.

I will not spoil your viewing by letting you know how they got on but Congratulations to both.

Watch Lawrence here. Note you may need to sign in to ITV CatchUp.

Watch Charlotte here. Note Charlotte is in action after 10 minutes.

HALO have a team of 11 juniors taking part in the Yvette Baker Trophy on Sunday May 13th. The event, organised by EPOC, is at Oakwell Hall. There are courses on the day for adults also.
Can all HALO members attending cheer on our gallant team.
The team is Elizabeth, Georgia and Henry Cook, Elspeth and Flora Jolly, Tilly and Dom Houlden, James Drewery, Joe Field and George and Emma Van Dam.  Good luck!

Congratulations to LOG for their victory on this occasion, competition was intense and a very friendly welcome was enjoyed by all.  A great atmosphere was created by the venue and the excellent course produced by Annie Gibb. 

We had a good turn out for this event despite the many who were incapacitated owing to other commitments.  For instance our chair was orienteering on Ryanair seeking Portugal. 

HALO could not provide enough runners for each of the categories and so would only be able to achieve 2nd position!.  Yours truly messed up on number 9 thinking no. 4 was good enough.  

Mary Vickers handed over the Shield to Paul Murgatroyd for them to keep for just 1 year...?  Ever the optimist. 

Brian Ward was the official photographer and will hopefully provide a link for us to see hectic scenes of madly engrossed navigator/runners. 

https://www.facebook.com/BrianWard62/media_set?set=a.10212124503404905.1073741931.1145152008&type=3&uploaded=154

Visit the LOG website for results. http://www.logonline.org.uk/Result/2018/WITHEM18/index.html

Please note due to unforeseen circumstances Poacher 7 wil now be held at Central Park, Scunthorpe (using the Car Park in the centre of the park off Kingsway).

As it is World Orienteering Day there will be a different format. Details will follow in due course.

It is nearly time for HALO to defend the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield - after last year's resounding success at Primrose Woods we now have to venture not too far down the A46 to Witham St Hughs, a brand new orienteering area, just to the SW of Lincoln.

THURSDAY 3rd MAY.

Details of the event can be found here.

As can be seen there are 2 courses : one Prologue and one Mass Start (the latter should be good practice for the forthcoming Sea, Sand and Spires Sprint at Cleethorpes).

All ages and gender classes required to score points for the Club. This is an ideal chance to represent your Club at a very informal Local event.

In order to predict map numbers , if you are able to participate please email me at sbpetebtinternet.com or complete the list at either of the next 2 Poacher Events.

EPOC are hosting ths year's premier junior competition, the Yvette Baker Trophy (YBT).  The  Qualifying Round for HALO and the other Yorkshire clubs is on Sunday 13th May at Oakwell Hall (close to the M62 near Dewsbury).
Courses on offer will be the required Yellow, Orange, Light Green and Green for the YBT plus a 45 minute score for anyone who doesn't want to do one of the colour courses.  This competition is good for all juniors as they can run the course suitable for their ability rather than having to run in their age class.  I need to send details of the HALO team to the EPOC organisers by April 30th, therefore could any families with juniors please let me know before then if they are able to represent the club.  HALO will pay for all junior entry fees.

Neil Harvatt (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk)

HALO will be defending the Trophy this year on Thursday 3rd May at a change of venue. Rather than the muddy marshlands of West Common LOG will be hosting the competition in a brand new area which will suit a Sprint format.

Rather than West Common the Event will now be situated at Witham St Hughes which is a village SW of Lincoln on the A46, so easily accessible.

All members and second club members are welcome and all ages and genders can contribute by scoring points at this team Event .

Further Details will be posted on the LOG website in due course.

For those who are not avid BO Website Readers'  an article appears in the current News regarding HALO's involvement in the Humber Night Challenge.

This can be found here.

As ever thanks go to all those members involved in this prestigous event.

NOTE : besides the already published dates for Events and Activities for the Spring and Summer, please add the following :

HALO LEAGUE
Due to a couple of cancellations these 2 events can be added:
West Haigh as an alternate to Southwell Urban on 29.4.18
Sandall Beat 10.6.18

HALO CHAMPIONSHIPS
X Country - Sandall Beat 10.6.18
Urban - Gleadless (Sheffield) 23.9.18
parkrun - HBCP 6.10.18 (followed by CATI event)

AGM
Cottingham 29.9.18 (possibly after a 45 min Pub League Score Event part of Autumn Series  although on a Saturday)

Autumn Pub League
Series commences Tuesday 11.9.18

AWARDS EVENING

Provisional Date : Saturday 17th November

Congratulations to Rosie who proved that consistency certainly pays off. This Series was certainly a roller coaster with 5 different individual winners and Series winner Rosie's best placing was 4th. Thanks to all the planners Isoldt x2, Helena, Brian W and Paul plus to  Brian S for all his SI work. The Pub League will resume in September. Hope you all enjoyed the events, all of which were 'Odds and Evens' (a first) - it certainly helped Rosie with her mathematical background, when you certainly need to think on your feet. It was a pity the weather was not ideal this year but we all look forward to the '60 days of Sunshine' promised for May and June as we enter the Poacher Season.

Control collecting in the daylight at Tealby, pleasant change. Which control is this?

The Guisecliff Event was cancelled.

Note: the Belvoir Event (Midland Champs) on Sunday 18th March which was Pre Entry (which ended 15 days before the event) plus very limited EOD has been taken off the list as only 2 HALO members had the foresight to enter before the deadline. Apologies to George and Emma.

Therefore there will be an extra event added to compensate - probably wait until Pete returns from Australia in April.

A 20 plus HALO team competed at the CST Regional Heat at Canklow in Rotherham on Sunday.

The 13 points scorers were:

Flora (100), Yasmin (100), Zac (99), Helena (96),Dean (96), Jake (95), Peter H (95), Neil (94), Harriet (93), Helen (92), Joe (92), Rod (91), Elspeth (90)

Well done to all especially Course Winners Flora and Yasmin.

The team results are below. The Trophy competition was competitive and we were not far behind former large club EBOR and last year's finalist CLARO.

The Canklow area was relatively physical and this can be exemplified by the following portrait that is going viral on Social Media.

Well done Mary for protecting your map which somehow remained spotless.

However the main event was the Tea In the Tent Cake eating. With a theme of YELLOW the HALO bakers produced the following:

Taken before Mary V's masterpiece was displayed and consumed.

Thanks to all competitors and participants and especially the Jolly family for their organisation of  the Tea In The Tent.

I understand nexy year we could be at Sherwood Pines where we will be probably renew our rivalry with LOG...........

The start times for the team are here - now with dibber number on same page!

Good luck to all the HALO runners on Sunday.  We are hoping to take the club tents, so there should be space for socialising, please bring own refreshments.

Refreshment update from David

Tea will be served in the tent, with cake too, as an incentive to finish your run quickly (without mp) and to support other HALO runners in doing so.   With the event being hosted by SYO and recently becoming Spring and it being Mothering Sunday I am put in mind of the colour YELLOW. This is also Flora’s favourite colour so she will approve of that being the theme.
I don’t think we need to compete with the cakes (the eating can judge) but if any bakers can bring along a “yellow” cake then please let me know so that I know how many I (don’t) need to make.  Any style!
nb.  coffee will also be an option
SYO have black in their colours, I will try not to include this in the cake, but if I do, it will still be edible.
See you on Sunday. 

David

Next week's Pub League event will now take place in Cottingham - starting at The Fair Maid in Baynard Ave.

Week 5, 27th March, will be in Beverley...further details on that event in due course.

Tomorrow's event : Tuesday 6th March : the event will be at Barton on Humber starting from the White Swan.

Now we are well into 2018 the final standings for 2 of the YHOA 2017 Leagues have been finalised.

The YHOA Superleague podium places went to Neil, Joe, Emma, Yasmin and Helena.

Full listing is here.

YHOA Urban First places went to George, Emma and Brian W.

Other top 10 placings were Paul ,Megan, Helen, Amanda, Helena, Ken, Mary C and Dorothy

Full listing is here.

The YHOA Night League concludes this Saturday at Brayton Barff.

In contention for honours are Field family, James, Mary C and Jackie.

Presentations follow Sunday's Alistair Tinto Memorial Event at Storthes Hall. If you would like to receive your momento at the Event, a YHOA Committee member should be taking details.

I have cancelled tomorrow evening’s club night at Longcroft School.  For those that need their orienteering fix this week, then don’t forget to come along to the Humber Bridge Country Park on Tuesday evening (January 23rd).  Four courses to have a go at with starts from 6pm to 7pm.  There will be a tent in the first meadow for registration, bag drop, etc.  May be able to start from 5:30 if tent up and controls out by then.  Both start and finish will be adjacent.  Neil Harvatt

Series Table after 6 Rounds can be found below.

Asw Neil planned 3 Events he is shown at the top of the table due to his maximum points in the 2 events he competed in.

The number of Leagues and competitions that Orienteers can run in seems at times endless and can be exemplified by the fact that HALO's Event in April at Thirsk is actually in 4 different Leagues.

HALO League - Yorkshire Urban League - UK Urban League - UK Orienteering League

Also individually competitors can also amass BO Ranking points, gain BO Awards and also achieve Colour Coded Standards at this one Event. 

Lastly at this Event UK Orienteering League Club points can also be gained.

So let's hope you all have a good run when the time comes and can score plenty of points in all these different competitions!

Unfortunately all these different competitions are probably daunting for any newcomer to comprehend. However complicated the constituent Rules of the Leagues are, the actual format of the Events are all relatively simple. So if you can compete successfully at a Local Event you can easily compete at Regional and National Events and have the added bonus of being eligible for all those extra Leagues.

Below I will try to explain all the Leagues that HALO members can run in.

LOCAL

HALO like most Clubs have their own Leagues in order that Club members can compete against each other. Some are handicapped to allow for age and gender differences so that all competitors can compete on an equal footing.

HALO League - this competition takes place annually throughout the year from Autumn to early Summer, generally at Regional Events within 50 miles of the HALO area. These can be on either a Saturday or a Sunday. There is a mix of events of various disciplines totalling approximately 15 with the best 7 or 8 scores counting. Scores from these are handicapped. Organisers, Planners and Controllers at the HALO Events receive an average score. This is open to all HALO members, including 2nd Club members and is designed to determine the Club's 'best' orienteer during the year.

Pub League - currently HALO have 2 such Leagues, one in the Autumn (Sept/Oct) and one in the Spring (Feb/March) both are identical with 6 Events (3 North Bank & 3 South Bank) on Tuesday evenings. These are all 45 minutes Score Events with generally 20 Controls to try to collect within the time limit. Penalties are given to those who exceed the time limit. As these are also age/gender handicapped they are competitive and Winners on the night generally come from all classes. These are generally run in urban environments so Juniors have to be accompanied and Hi Visibilty clothing is required. Planners receive an average of their best 3 scores. The best 4 scores from the Series determine the winner of the League.

Winter Night Park Sprint League - this Winter (Dec/Jan) HALO are holding 6 Events (3 North and 3 South) at Night (Tuesday). These are suitable for all, designed to give orienteers practice at nights and practice at sprints. They will be held in Park environments so they will be marginally less technical. There will also be 4 courses of various lengths (1km/1.5km/2km & 2.5km) and competitors can run either 2, 3, or 4 courses. Placings will be handicapped and based on average speeds. Should be fun!

Poacher - 2018 will be the 21st year that HALO have run this Series. Since the first event only minor changes to the format have taken place. Briefly : 11 Events, Wednesday Evenings, April to June, 3 Courses, Best 8 Count, Jokers for Planners, Predominantly Forests, 9 Trophies to be won, Not handicapped - plenty of Post Race Analysis! The fact that the Series has run for such a long time is a reflection of its popularity and to the innovative thinking of Pete K in its conception, as it was the first midweek Series (or virtually the first) held by Clubs in the country.

Lincolnshire Urban League - this League is run by HALO in conjunction with our Lincolnshire neighbours LOG. There are 6 Events, typically in Market Towns throughout Lincolnshire in June and July; 3 organised by HALO (Wednesday Evenings) and 3 organised by LOG (Thursday Evenings). There are 3 courses with trophies awarded to top Gender Scorers on each Course. It is also a Team Event whereby members from HALO and LOG compete against each other. Members from other Clubs welcome.

Other Clubs also have their own Local Leagues which are open to Members and non-Members of other Clubs e.g. LOG Fight the Night, LOG Park Series, EBOR Night Series etc..

REGIONAL

Yorkshire Super League -  approximately 10  Regional events throughout the year Jan to Dec at YHOA Club venues. Best 5 scores count. There are specific courses to run for each age/ gender class. Details on the YHOA website http://www.yhoa.org.uk/yorkshire-superleague/  Note can include National Events and can be held on Saturdays but usually on Sundays.

Yorkshire Night League - each autumn/winter each of the 6 YHOA Club hosts a night event with 4 courses from Novices to Long with the best 3 scores counting. Details on the YHOA website http://www.yhoa.org.uk/yhoa-night-league/  Note theses are generally held on Saturday Evenings.

Yorkshire Urban League - usually at least 10 Sprint and Urban Events at YHOA venues from Jan to December with the best 6 scores counting. Details for 2017 can be found here http://www.oxfordfusion.com/ukul/index.cfm?&Org=6

Other Regions - the majority of the UK Regions have their own Leagues but not all have their own Night League and all the Southern Regions amalgamate to form the Southern England Orienteering Urban League. Note some Regional Leagues do not allow competitors from outside their Region to win prizes although they can score points!

NATIONAL

UK Orienteering League - 16 to 20 Events of various terrains held throughout the UK, mainly National Events with a few Regional to make up the numbers. Details can be found here http://www.ukorienteeringleague.org.uk/page/Home Note : individual scores are also included in a Club League table as well.

UK Urban League - This popular League comprises of approximately 20 Urban and a few Sprint events throughout the year and covers the whole UK. Very often the urban events are part of multi event weekends.There are 7 courses covering all age ranges. Details here http://www.oxfordfusion.com/ukul/index.cfm?&Org=2

EUROPEAN

Euro City Race League - Approximately 8 Cities in UK/Belgium/France/Italy/Spain & Portugal host multi Event weekends with the Urban City Races on the Sunday forming the League. Details here http://cityracetour.org/about Note the Age Classes differ to the UKUL & the UK Regional Leagues at the SV Level (50 rather than 55).

Although we currently do not have a Social Secretary on our Committee our programme for Social Activities will continue on similar lines to those that have developed over the past couple of years thanks to Helena's input.

Therefore the following socials will take place again this year.

Tea in the Tent - Compass Sport Trophy Event - Canklow Woods 11th March

Barbeque - mid August

Awards Evening - end October/early November

Training Weekend (if not 2018 hopefully2019)

New Years Score Event

Plus the regular Spring and Autumn Pub Leagues

Plus the Post Race Analyses after Poacher Events

Plus a new introduction of pub meetings after HALO League Events accross Yorkshire & East Midlands

Anne J has volunteered to co-ordinate the Tea in the Tent but if anyone wishes to take on the role of Social Secretary or just wishes to organise some of the other events they are more than welcome. This position is not necessarily a Committee role, so other such responsibilities are voluntary.

Look forward to seeing new and old members at these Social Events.

The Military are running an event at Beverley Westwood on the 17th January. 3 courses - first start 11:00.

You need to pre-enter for all BAOC events.

More details from http://www.baoc.info/.

They have also planned an event at Primrose for the 31st January. This does now appear on their website.

Pre entry details also added.

Please be aware of the following:

1. EBOR Night League event - change of date and venue.

On 4th January I was informed of the following, though the EBOR website has not be updated to reflect the change of venue.

Due to circumstances beyond the control of the club, EBOR have had to rearrange the date and venue for this event. It will now take place on 27th January at Bayton Barff. 

Refer to the EBOR website before you travel!

2. YHOA Middle Distance Championships, January 28th, Storthes Hall (EPOC)

This will also be a Memorial Event for Alistiar Tinto. Please read this note from Mike Cope.

Ken Hutson

Fixtures Secretary

Due to fixture congestion the New Year's Event will be held on New Year's Eve on Sunday December 31st at 11.00 at South Cave. I believe this is not the first time that it has been held on NYE rather than NYD - but can not recollect the other event(s).

I hope this minor change to 'tradition' will not affect too many people's plans over the festive period and you have time to rearrange plans accordingly and can enjoy your NYE celebrations without the need to get up too early the following day.

Thanks to Tommy (one of last year's victorious team) for coming forward and volunteering on the planning front.

Attached here.

Overnight on the 121/12/2017 the web server we use for the HALO web site was modified without warning and this has broken some web pages.

I am fixing problems as i find them and am aware of the HALO League page and the event location problems.

Please let me know if you see other problems - peteshew.org

Pete Shew

NOTE ROME DATE HAS CHANGED - NOT NOW 5/7 OCT BUT 12/14 OCT

Please note from 1st January 2018 the IOF have updated the Control Descriptions.

The full document can be found here.

There are a few changes for you to spot! Makes good bedtime reading (for some).

Map planning software hopefully will be updated accordingly.

I will re-site the control a.s.a.p.

Map packs at the kiosk will have a note added. 

Other users, please look us up in a fortnight to see if we have updated the the control's location on the map.

If this message has been deleted then the courses will have been modified and made available on this site in the POC window.

Apologies but our youngsters will probably thank me.  Brian

The 2018 Fixtures for the UK Urban League have been announced.

HALO will be involved again with 2 Events.

Firstly 21st April (Sat) in Thirsk, we are organising and planning this event in EBOR country, which is the day before EBOR's Northern Championships at Wass.

Secondly 24th June - the LOG Skegness event is the day after HALO's events in Cleethorpesw and Louth and together they form the Sea, Sand and Spires Weekend.

As ever your support for these large events is welcomed and when you receive your diaries for 2018 please pencil/write/key in accordingly.

At the recent YHOA Fixtures meeting the following changes were announced that impact on the 2017/18 HALO League:

18th February: Tankersley (SYO) - This is now a Middle Distance event;

4th March: Venue change - This CLARO event will now take place at Guisecliff;

8th July: Venue and Type change - This will now be an Urban event, Sheffield City Race;

The HALO League fixture list has been amended accordingly (see below).

Ken Hutson

Fixtures Secretary

The HALO League rules have been updated for the coming season. The main changes are:

• Removal of the running up/down adjustments. They would have made almost no difference to last year's results and can disadvantage competitors for whom there is no suitable course.
• Adjustment of the handicaps in line with the current BO standards.
• Adjustment of expected forests courses to be run, although this has less significance without the bonus/penalty previously applied when running a different course.
• Changing Urban course designations and age categories in line with current BO guidelines.

The rules document is in the league section of the website as usual

The fixtures for the 2017/8 competition are:

(changes from 14th November)

15th Oct Selby Urban (EBOR) (Urb)

29th Oct Londesborough (HALO) (XC)

5th Nov Shirebrook Wood (NOC) (XC)

26th Nov Eccleshall Wood, Sheffield (SYO) (XC - HALO Training Weekend))

10th Dec Beverley Westwood (HALO) (XC)

30th Dec Skipwith (EBOR) - NOW CONFIRMED (XC)

14th Jan Rivelin (SYO) (XC)

4th Feb  South Common (LOG) (XC)

18th Feb Tankersley (SYO) (MD)

4th Mar  Guisecliff (CLARO) (XC - YHOA Championships)

11th Mar Canklow (SYO) (XC - Compass Sport Trophy, Round 1)

18th Mar Belvior Castle (LEI) (XC - Midland Championships)

21st Apr Thirsk (HALO) (Urb) alternate 22nd Apr Wass (EBOR) (XC - Northern Championships)

29th Apr Southwell (NOC) (Urb)

6th May  Kippax (AIRE) (Urb)

27th May Harrogate (CLARO) alternate 28th May York (EBOR) - both (Urb)

24th Jun Skegness (LOG) (Urb)

8th July Sheffield City (SYO) (Urb)

 After 3 Rounds Current Champion Helena is setting the pace as she attempts to make it a hat trick. Up to date League Tables can be found by clicking the 'League' tab.

I am pleased to announce that the 2 most prestigious Awards for 2017 go to:

Orienteer Of The Year - Chris Simmonds 

As the first and only editor in chief of our weekly newsletter Chris has consistently and continually produced both informative and entertaining articles throughout the 3 years of it's inception. A well deserved recipient determined by former Chair Neil.

Pat O'Grady Trophy - Mary Carrick

We have all been on the receiving end of Mary 's stories of the dramas of that night in January - but the speed of her recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. Her determination and dedication to the sport and the club is undeniable and another worthy winner.

Congratulations to both Chris and Mary and also to the other Awards' winners announced at the Jolly Miller in Wrawby. Special mention to Helena for her organisation of the event and the 2 trophies won - HALO League winner & HALO Champion.

Peter H (new Chair)

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Following the 2 Events in October the HALO Champions for 2017 are:

Urban

1. Brian Ward

2. Emma Van Dam

3. David Jolly

Classic

1. Helena Crutchley

2. Emma Van Dam

3. Helen Chan

Congratulations to Brian and Helena for their victories and also to Emma for her 2 second places.

Tophies to be presented on Friday night - unfortunately BW will not be able to attend as he is 'cruising' his way to the Barcelona O Race on Saturday.

Thanks to all who ran in either or both of the Championships, and also to Brian S and Mary for their organisation and planning at Londesborough (and hence could not run in the Classic Championships). Both Events were also part of the HALO League - so to decipher individual placings, please click on the 'League' tab to see how close you were to winning!

A brand new parkrun is starting up in our area - THIS Saturday 4th November 2017 - at Normanby Hall.

If you are getting bored with running round the same old park park, or if you've had enough of coping with the hundereds of runners who go to some of our local events, why not give this one a go.

 The course is flat and goes through the woods to the west of the site -and there is a pretty good tea shop there as well.

Rod Williams, one of our HALO members, has been a prime mover in getting it going.

http://www.parkrun.org.uk/normanbyhall/course/

Note : there is free parking between 8 & 11 if you show your barcode at the entrance.

Please note entries are now closed via Fabian 4 for the Event at Londesborough on Saturday 28th October.

Start List available  here.

Further details can be found in the Events section.

Limited EOD available.

A new Winter Series of Night Park Sprints has been scheduled in the HALO Calendar.

This Series will consist of 6 Events (3 North Bank & 3 South Bank) in Dec/Jan/Feb on Tuesday evenings.

The format will be similar to that used in the 3 Poacher Sprints held in June each year.

However, there will be only 4 courses 1 x 1km, 1 x 1.5km, 1 x 2km & 1 x 2.5km.

Competitors need to complete a minimum of : Adults 3km & Juniors 2.5km.

Being in a Park environment the Courses will be suitable for both beginners and Orienteers who are new to Night Events. With multiple Courses being run, both distances from Start and Assembly areas and proximity to other competitors will never be too far.

Results will be determined by average speeds and a gender/age handicap formula will be applied accordingly.

Start times will be from approx. 6pm. Lights (head/chest or wrist required). As Courses will not cross public roads Juniors can compete with Parents' permission or be accompanied accordingly.

Entry Fees £4 Adults & £2 Juniors - Families £10.

The events planned are:

5th Dec - Central Park, Scunthorpe (Assembly at the adjacent Brumby Hall Sports & Social Club).

12th Dec - King George V Playing FIelds, Cottingham

16th Jan - Weelsby Woods, Grimsby 

23rd Jan - Humber Bridge Country Park, Hessle

30th Jan - Cleethorpes Country Park, Cleethorpes

6th Feb - Oak Road Playing Fields, Hull

Please check website before travelling in case of cancellation due to adverse weather conditions.

The HALO Awards dinner will be held on the 3rd of November this year at the Jolly Milller in Wrawby (DN20 8RH on the A18 just East of Brigg). Menu choices and costs are shown on the event entry.

Helena Crutchley needs you to specify menu choices by the end of Saturday 28th oif October, and payment should also be received by that date. She can be contaced by email at helenarainow.globalnet.co.uk.

Aptly the what3words location identifier of the Jolly Miller is "port clinking land"

Showing his versatility, David Jolly tried the amateur radio direction finding version of orienteering and came back with the win. Results and splits here.

Competitors have to navigate to a series of unmapped orienteering controls using radio direction finding equipment, not confusing their current target with the others that transmit in turn on the same frequency. David competed in the 80m class (which is not the distance or climb but the wavelength of the 3.5MHz radio sugnal) and finished in 52.45 minutes over six minutes ahead of the next competitor. Good for a first attempt.

The minutes from Saturday's AGM can now be found in the Members Area.

Please note : anyone interested in this event?

We have all tried the orienteering in this area - why not now run 10k tackling the horse jumps and other obstacles rather than navigating around them.

The date : Sunday 25th March 2018 is the day after the Humber Night Challenge.

Website is here.

Entries now open - £19.50.

Results by course can be found here.

Many thanks to the HALO helpers who contributed to making this event a success: Ken; Dorothy; and Sue on Registration; Helena; Harriet; Mike and Chris collecting controls and especially Mary and Mike who were there from 11am helping to put the controls and stayed to the very end to help clear away.

It was good to see so many newcomers present, nearly all of whom went on to complete a second course after enjoying their first.  Special mention to the Greenleys who completed three courses and were fastest on the White and Yellow and second fastest on the Orange.  Well done to David and Harry who were fastest on the Orange course.  The Orange course was very competitive with Sunny, Woody and both Palmer family groups all finishing within 4 minutes of the fastest time.  Not surprisingly, The Technical course defeated those newcomers that had a go at it, however this was probably as much to do with time constraints than anything else.    There was a good turnout of HALO members competing on the Technical course, fastest time of the day went to Mike Byron, possibly aided by knowing exactly where he had located some of the controls.  Nevertheless, a very good time, beating newly crowned HALO league champion Helena into second place by just over 2 minutes.  Chris Simmonds secured third a further 3 minutes behind.

The HALO AGM will take place on Saturday the 21st October at North Ferriby Parish Hall, Church Road, HU14 3DA following the event at Humber Bridge Country park. This will be at approximately 4 p.m.

The agend for the meeting can be found here.

Please have a go at placing your route on Route Gadget - when you have time.  Retirees no excuses!

Thanks to Pete Shew for exploring and implementing this well-received innovation.

Although parkruns are generally non competitive it would be fun to see which HALO member can record the highest Age Grade % on one specific day. So on Saturday September 23rd all HALO members can compare their grades with each other. To obtain a Grade on that day just compete at any parkrun event that day anywhere in the world; and those who do not have 'Hum and Lincs Orienteers' as their parkrun affiliated Club just email me that you are running at a parkrun event that day and the location so your result can be included.

For those who have not run a parkrun, registration is required at their website and then a barcode then needs to be printed accordingly. No registration at the event is required - just turn up and run the predetermined 5km course at the 09:00 start and then scan your barcode at the finish with the card handed out on the finishing line.

When registering try to remember to enter - Hum and Lincs Orienteers - in the club section.

Those who have already registered can alter their profiles and join the Hum and Lincs Orienteers if they so wish.

For this first event any location can be used but the faster, flatter areas should give a quicker time (in theory) - so no doubt a number of those on the South Bank will be running at Scunthorpe rather than Gainsborough and those on the North Bank will be running at East Park rather than Humber Bridge Country Park !

So nearer the time please email if you wish to be included sbpetebtinternet.com

Whoever 'wins' this year will have the pleasure of nominating the venue for next year - where all HALO members can 'compete' again against each other at the same time and place.

Plenty of time to start your training.....

Few photos from the day

Unfortunately Helen had company.

The Scunthorpe contingent. No it's not a nobbly knees contest!

And can you match the watch to the athlete??

Plus a few from Cleethorpes.(courtesy of Colin Wright)

Hope you all enjoyed your runs today - have been able to find 28 HALO members in various results (if you know of any others please let me know so that I can add accordingly). It certainly makes a change to compete against others at 9 different locations in UK - it would have been 10 if Mary V was able to find a parkrun in Toronto (although her time would have been 5 hours slower than the rest of us!).

The updated results you have all been waiting for are here. Now includes Lawrence Cook - apologies for not including beforehand.

Congratulations to Charlotte on a PB and we wish her well next Saturday when she defends her British Sprint Title. Also congratulations to others who acheived PB's or SB's or competed for the first time at a parkrun.

HALO Annual General Meeting 2017

This will be held at the North Ferriby Parish Hall, Church Road, HU14 3DA

on Saturday 21st October 2017

The meeting will follow the event at the Humber Bridge Country Park and it is expected that the meeting will be able to start at 4pm

Any member who wishes to formally raise a point for discussion at the AGM should send details to Paul Simmons ( secretaryhalo-orienteering.org.uk ), the Club Secretary, by 7th October, 2017 so it can be included in the agenda.

The same date applies for anyone who wishes to propose a member to be on the Committee, or indeed to be Chairman as Neil Harvatt's tenure will be ending, as required by club rules. Chairmen can only be in post for a period of three years.

Following the AGM there will be a Pie and Peas Quiz night at the same venue and the club is hoping to field a team. The Quiz will be starting at 7pm and HALO members will be most welcome. It will cost £8 per person to participate. If this interests you contact Ken Hutson- whose contact details can be found in the members section of the website.

Paul Simmons

Club Secretary

Day 3 of the London City Weekend saw HALO Chairman Neil Harvatt winning the UltraSprint Race in Victoria Park. This event consisted of 3 Prologue x 1km Sprints all including a maze before the Final containing the top 4 athletes in each age/gender class.

Those who compete in our Poacher Series are aware of the fast and furious nature of these short sprints. But theses are even faster and more furious as over 20 controls have to be found on the 1km course and to make it more interesting controls are placed very close together and no Control Descriptions are given only a dot on the map.

An example is shown below.

To complicate matters further there could be more than one control on the same tree - so precision is the key. Neil certainly was very accurate as in the final he only finished third but he was the only one with a 'clear round' so the others incurred time penalties.

Suggest all Poacher competitors take note as one of these events could be replicated next year!

Here is Neil in the start lane for the final.

And this is Neil celebrating his success

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There has been a good amount of interest for this orienteering activity.  It will commence at 3pm and finish around 5pm.  The afternoon will consist of introductory activities to allow beginners to become familiar with the Beverley Westwood map and how to use it for navigating.  Following an introduction to electronic timing , there will then be a series of courses of varying length and difficulty to test your navigation skills.  Suitable for all ages (under 16's will need to be accompanied by a responsible adult).  Booking is required (neilharvatt1live.com).

Alistair Tinto, EPOC member and recent chaiman of the Yorkshire and Humberside Orienteering Association, sadly died last night (August 19), aged 50.  He had been fighting a brain tumour for the last 12 months and was being treated in the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford.  He was well known to many HALO members, as he was a regular attender (and frequent organiser) at many orienteering events.  He also worked very closely with many HALO members during the successful organisation of the 2016 JK. 
He will be sadly missed by his family, by EPOC and by the orienteering community in general.

The Schools Out holiday activity session planned for Tuesday August 15th has, unfortunately, had to be cancelled due to a lack of bookings (holiday season).  Both afternoon and evening sessions are cancelled.
 There has been quite a lot of interest for August 22nd, so that one will definitley go ahead.

HALO's 35th Anniversary Event has now been unveiled.

On Saturday August 12th a Woods and Wolds Mini Marathon is scheduled.

The area covered will include some of the Lincolnshire Poacher areas.

There will be 2 Score Events running simultaneously:

1 x 3 Hour Score Event (starting 10:00) plus

1 x 1 Hour Score Event (starting 12 noon) 

Maps will be double sided with one side showing the full area at 1:25000 whilst the other side will include extracts from some of the Poacher maps plus Tealby Village for more detailed navigation.

There will be of 31 controls to collect                    : 10 x 10 points (Village and Environs)

                                                                         : 10 x 20 points (predominantly Woods area)

                                                                         : 10 x 35 points (predominantly Wolds area)

                                                                         : 1 x 40 points (at the highest point!!!!) 

STOP PRESS : Now 2 Urban Controls included (1 x 20 & 1 x 35)

The Event Centre will be Tealby Village Hall.

Pre registration will be required - please email sbpetebtinternet.com to reserve map by Wednesday August 9th.

A Prize giving plus Barbecue will follow the Event.

A summary can be found here.

The LUL final event finished on Wednesday July 26th at Willows and Fereshney to the West of Grimsby. 

The Individual Series Titles have been decided. Congratulations to Hannah, Holly, Ben, Tanya and Liam for their individual successes.

So LOG took 4 titles to HALO's one - but only 2 remained unbeaten - Holly and Liam, special congratulations to them.

Perhaps next year Dilbert will have to modify the rules!!!

Note : this is also a team event whereby HALO compete against LOG in yet another competition. The team competition scores are one all (LOG=CST,HALO=LCS) so far this year, so lets hope we can enjoy another victory in this Series.

Can reveal that LOG retained the Team prize by 56 points after HALO had made significant inroads into the margin between the 2 teams.

LUL Individual Points for round 6 can be found here.

The Final LUL Team Points after LUL 6 can be found here.

For those who missed the Market Rasen Event the Courses can be found here.

Thanks to all for supporting the Series with nearly 100 different competitors the popularity of the LUL Series has increased once again this year.

Thanks to the planners who provided the interest throughout, namely Ann, Amanda and Charlie from LOG and Peter H, Holly/Colin & Oli for HALO.

Thanks to the SI teams and Registrars: Craig, Liam & Paul (LOG) Pete S, Brian S, Neil & Isoldt (HALO).

Lastly thanks to Brian H for compiling all of the Results' Summaries.

Note: the last HALO event of the Summer is the Woods & Wolds Mini Marathon's on August 12th and the last LOG event is the Lincoln City Race on August 20th.

After the last event at Bradford, the HALO League final standings are  . . . [long pause]

League Champion: Helena Crutchley

Senior Champion Helen Chan. No further places awarded as no-one with enough events to qualify

Master Champion Dean Field, 2nd Paul Van Dam, 3rd Pete Harris

Super Vet Champion Pete Shew, 2nd Mike Smith, 3rd Mary Carrick

Junior Champion George Van Dam, 2nd Emma Van Dam, 3rd Joe Field

The next League season will start in September or October, check the web site for League events. Also watch out for some tweaking of the rules and the running speed tables for the 2017/18 season.

Don't be shy about competing, if you haven't been an Orienteering "tourist" then give it a go. No volunteering, no control collection, just turn up, run and the rest of the day is your own. It also gives you a chance to experience different areas, and remember the other clubs are mostly just like HALO, friendly and willing to help out if you are unsure about anything. You could also log in to the HALO web site and use the Car Share feature to save on travel costs.

Stage 1 Photos here with thanks to Brian Ward

Stage 2 Photos here with thanks to Brian Ward

Orienteering has featured twice on television this week.

Firstly Mary Vickers appeared in front of the Estuary TV cameras on Thursday evening discussing HALO and 50 years of BO. If you missed it, hopefully the video will be on You Tube shortly and the link will be found on this page.

Secondly Sprint O was featured on BBC Breakfast News on Saturday morning. This can be viewed here.

Full Fixture List can be found here. For the Historians the early fixtures are documented here.

The much anticipated 2017 season started at Willingham Woods on Wednesday 12th April and continues this Wednesday (14th June) at Hemswell Cliff

Who in just 2 weeks time are going to be crowned the Champions.

The Medium Course may be the least predictable with last year's winner Lawrence deciding to tackle the Long Course. This may leave the door open for Chris and Holly.

Liam looks favourite on the Long but David J is showing good form in the LOG Spring Series as is Paul; the latter may be among the Masters contenders. Neil looks odds on for the Super Veteran trophy and the Ultra Veteran title could be a 3 horse race with Pete S, Mike and Brian (now he is 70) in contention. Can anybody defeat Helena on the Women's Course who remains unbeaten since 2010 - Yasmin,Kate and Harriet will be trying hard.

The battle resumes from 18:00, if not before.

Note: Jokers are available from Day 1 for Poacher Planners.

SPRINT SERIES NOTES

For the Healing Manor event the following courses are available.

Note : after final planning the previous Sprint Course Format remains and there will now be no 0.5km course.

1km 6 Controls

1.5km 9 Controls

2.0 km 12 Controls

2.5 km 15 Controls

3.0 km 18 Controls

Note the Healing Event will still however have reduced minimum distances.

For those not familiar:

Competitors can run as many courses as they want but to qualify for Poacher Points there are minimum distances that have to be run - there is no MAXIMUM.

Short Course - minimum distance 2.5 kms (recommended for Under 16's 1km & 1.5km)

Medium Course - minimum distance 3.5 kms (any combination)

Long Course - W & >M60 4.5 kms (any combination)

Long Course - <M60 5.5 kms (any combination)

Placings are based on average speeds over the total distance covered on the evening. These are computed after download. So you may be able to reduce your minutes per km by running the extra course!!

This is generally fast and furious.

Note: the qualifying distances have been marginally reduced this year.

Note : More undergrowth likely at Healing Manor so Shorts may not be recommended.

PRESENTATIONS WILL FOLLOW THIS FINAL EVENT

On site PIG and WHISTLE will be open

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71 HALO and LOG members starting at Primrose Woods on World Orienteering Day

 They're off - which way?????

Last but not least setting off - one of whom finishes in the top 5.

And the winner is........

Closely followed by these 2.

And the winners are.........................................HALO!!

The Spring 2017 season certainly lived up to expectations with 6 exciting events the Final Series League Table can be found here.

The final event in Cottingham,well planned by Jackie was an enthralling encounter with 5 competitors competing for the Series title.

It could not have been closer with Chairman Neil edging past Holly, Pete S and Brian W by a solitary point, with David 2 points further behind. Holly could not do any more by winning on the night, Brian was only able to hobble round and Pete had one of those nights, whilst David although successfully collecting all 20 controls in just under 45 minutes was unable to gain any bonus points.

The Series will be repeated in the Autumn commencing on Tuesday 12th September, when hopefully we all will be injury free and Mary C will be fully recovered. 

Before then we have the YBT qualifier, 11 Poacher Events (one of which incorporating the LCS), 6 Lincolnshire Urban Events and a 35th Anniversary Event, plus Oli and Megan get married (Best Wishes from all at HALO).

Well Done Holly - That was a very good result for your 1st Urban Sprint, competing against the top British Juniors.

Click this link to see the junior women's results      http://www.od.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#45&course=2

After the launch of permanent orienteering courses at eight Hull parks in 2016, a ninth will be added during the 2017 easter period.  The latest addition is at Loglands and Longhill and the opening event will be on Tuesday April 11th 2017.  Loglands is a nature reserve adjacent to the Longhill Playing Fields, separated by a deep, but mainly dry, gully. Together they give a good mixture of open fields, woodland and a path network.
Anyone who is available (and willing) to help at the launch (provisionally 1pm to 3pm) should contact Neil on neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk
Sneek preview of the area can be found here

Note that the next HALO league event is this Sunday at Lindley Moor, not Guisecliff as previously advertised (still CLARO).
PARKING WILL NOW BE ON A NARROW FOREST TRACK – PLEASE SHARE TRANSPORT IF POSSIBLE.  ACCESS IS NOW FROM NORWOOD LANE – SIGNS FROM B6451 TO WEST AND B6161 TO EAST IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF BECKWITHSHAW.

Details here

Results from the BAOC event in Primrose Hill can be found at http://www.baoc.info/results/MLN/2017/03/15/Primrose-Hill

There were eight HALO members entered with some commendable performaces against the "military elite", including two first places.

Blue 7.9Km, 50 entries - David Jolly 6th, Wayne Byrne 15th.

Light Green 4.4Km, 39 entries - Rod Williams 1st, Paul Simmons 15th, Brian Slater 16th, John Butler 23rd, Jackie Edwards 28th.

Red 4.9Km 6 entries, - Pete Shew 1st.

Many thanks to the 30 plus HALO members who turned out yesterday for the Compass Sport Trophy Competition at Burwell Woods, near Louth.  There were some excellent performances, particularly from the juniors with Emma, George and Holly all scoring maximum points. Rod, in the Veterans also scored maximum points.  The final outcome was very close but LOG pipped us with 1290 points compared to our 1284.  Congratulations to all LOG members.  I hope the team are feeling better this morning as a number of members left Louth with a variety of pulls, strains and aches.
Tea in the Tent was very popular, thanks Helena, and congratulations to the cake winners, Holly and Emily, Chris, Sue and Isoldt.  The standard of cakes was again very high and thanks to everyone who participated.

Full results are on the LOG website here

SYO are hosting a weekend of Orienteering events on 18/19 March in conjunction with the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. There is an urban event on Saturday which is the first event in this year's YHOA urban league and on Sunday the action moves to Hugset for the YHOA Middle Distance Championships.  Further details here and on the HALO events page. SYO recomend pre -entering via Fabian4.

A reminder that there is no club night on Monday February 20th 2017 at Longcroft as it is half-term in the East Riding.
Normal service will resume next week (February 27th) at Longcroft School (6:30 to 8pm).  All are welcome, members or non-members.
Don’t forget that the spring urban league starts on February 21st in Louth, followed by next Tuesday (February 28th) in N Bransholme, Hull.  See fixture page on the club's web-site for further details of all six urban events.

The Oak Road event will go ahead.  There will be some spare maps available - ring Neil (07800-784255) to reserve a spare map.

Tables after Round 3- click here to view

The 2016/17 HALO Winter night league kicked off on Tuesday evening at the Humber Bridge Country Park.  First honours taken by David Jolly.
Round 2 Tuesday December 13th Noddle Hill Nature Reserve
Round 3 Tuesday January 31st Cottingham KGV Playing Fields
Round 4 Tuesday February 7th Oak Road Playing Fields

Contact Neil (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk) by midnight Sunday prior to each event to enter.

For all those interested the Team Scores with th Bonus Points for the NYD Event can be found here.

The SPLITS for the NYD event are in the results section - the 2nd lot of 'Full Results'.  You will see Tommy's winning control sequence.

Recently announced 2017 fixtures.

Paris          May 6/7

Antwerp     May 13/14

Bristol       June 10/11

Treviso     June 17/18

Porto        Sep 22-24

Barcelona November 4/5

Bilbao      November 11/12

https://www.facebook.com/cityraceeurotour/posts/684373711725864?pnref=story

The map is now complete and I can confirm the New Years Day Event will be around the streets of Market Rasen.

The event will be a 45 minutes Score Event (Teams of 3 randomly drawn) with a mass start in the Market Place as close as possible to 11a.m.

Note under 16's need to be accompanied by parents.

In order that correct map numbers are printed, teams can be allocated and the correct amount of food prepared, pre entries are required.

However please bring a selection of starters, nibbles, snacks, desserts, cakes etc.

The venue where the social activities will be held is MIDDLE RASEN VILLAGE HALL - approx 2km West of Market Rasen.

Full details can be found here.

Entries as at Xmas Eve were between 30 and 40 - so we are looking at kick starting the 35th Anniversary of HALO with in excess of 35 members attending this social event - which is very encouraging. Plus there is still time for others to enter.

The event is open to members of other clubs if pre entered accordingly.

TEAMS can be found HERE.

This event will go ahead.  There will be a few spare maps - contact Neil on 07800-784255 if you intend to be there and didn't received the email I sent around 12:40 on Monday.

Meet at the fishing lake car park.  See event page for details

Starts from 6pm to 7pm, possibly earlier if controls out.

Now that we know the weather will be kind on Sunday please would intending participants endeavour to enter through Fabian4 so that we can estimate map numbers.  

Why am I making this unorthodox request?  We are aware that we have competing events in surrounding regions, and therefore attendance is hard to judge.

Entries can be made up to midnight on Friday.  I will print on Saturday morning.  Thank you all in anticipation.

All HALO members, please email Paul Beresford for a discount code to enter via Fabian4.  This will help me to estimate course map requirements.

HALO have teamed up with Hull CC during 2016 to provide eight permanent orienteering course locations in the city's parks.  These are at Alderman Kneeshaw Recreation Ground, Bude Park Playing Fields, Costello Playing Fields, East Park, Noddle Hill Nature Reserve, Oak Road Playing Fields, Pickering Park and West Park.   Each of the parks has 3 options - short, medium and long courses.  Hull CC have produced an orienteering booklet featuring all 24 courses.

The permanent courses are aimed at families (although the long courses will challenge most participants) and it is hoped that many of those taking part will then want to extend their orienteering experience.
If you have any comments on the courses or require any further information, contact Neil Harvatt (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk)

Full details of the locations and how to get the maps can be found on the club's Permanent Orienteering Course page on the New to Orienteering page or follow this link to the location (http://halo-orienteering.uk/page/_pocs)

Due to the low number of participants, the night event scheduled for Tuesday November 29th has been postponed.  Provisionally it is hoped to re-arrange the event for Tuesday December 13th.  The night event at the Humber Bridge Country Park on December 6th will go ahead.

We are back training this week on Wednesday 7th December. 6pm to 7.30 at Caistor Yarborough Academy.

The Annual Awards Dinner is on Saturday 12th November at The George in Kirton in Lindsey. Full details have been sent by email but see the menu below. The George would like menu selections by this weekend so please contact Helena with your choices asap. They can take a few updates next week but not too many please. Thank you.

£20 for 3 courses, £17.50 for 2.

Menu
 
Soufflé with mushrooms and cheddar cheese
Pan fried pigeon breast with black pudding
Chicken liver & brandy pate with chutney and toast
Baked black pudding, mushroom & blue cheese stack
Prawn Cocktail with marie rose sauce
 
Game pie with venison, rabbit & pigeon
Aberdeen Angus rump steak, onion rings and peppercorn sauce
Sea food mixed grill with a lemon and parsley butter
Confit pork belly with champ mash and red wine gravy
Mushroom stroganoff
 
Sticky toffee pudding with toffee sauce
Apple crumble and custard
Chocolate Brownie and vanilla ice cream
Selection of Thaymar’s dairy ice cream, natural vanilla bean, strawberries and cream & chunky chocolate

The Final Pub League Standings after all 6 Events can be found here.

The Best 4 Scores Counted.

Despite Neil being AWOL due to sickness he was crowned champion as Mary was unable to take advantage of his absence. It was a close contest and Mary unfortunately would have won on the night (handicap) if she had not exceeded the time limit. With over 4 minutes to get from her last control to the finish and a distance of only 300m to navigate, victory was in sight. However Mary decided to take the 'scenic' less direct route and circumvent the Market Place and explore all the adjacent paths, alleyways and roads  and as a result ended up 47 seconds over the time limit as only Mary can do!

The 2016 HALO Championships were held at the recent Pillar Wood Event.

The points awarded and placings can be found here.

Congratulations to Helena, Neil and Mary/George for making the podium.

Note: Mary & George finished with equal points - not sure whether the 'Rules' differentiate for those with same scores, but Mary currently listed as third????

The HALO training camp in Malaga 4 week's earlier certainly paid off!!

To find previous years' results on the website - they can be found under the 'League' tab and then 'Championship' tab.

The new HALO leagues launches with a choice of urban races, Peaseholme Park (Scarborough) or Bourne. View all the fixtures here.  20 events, best 8 scores to count.

New article

The first event of 2017 will be the traditional New Year's Day Team race, which will take place in Market Rasen. This will be on a brand new map. The Organiser(s) will be the Jolly Family - one of whom were in the winning team this year.

So as soon as you receive your new diary or calendar please pencil in accordingly.

2017 is an important year for HALO, with it being the 35th Anniversary of the Club and also the 20th Anniversary of the Lincolnshire Poacher Series so also expect some celebration events throughout the ye 

The minutes from the Club's recent AGM are now available in the Members' area of the website.

Pleased to report that the GB Mixed Sprint Relay team came 4th at the World Championships in Sweden.

Charlotte running first, ran a solid leg finishing 8th only 34 seconds behind the leaders out of a field of 30 plus countries. This put GB in a strong position and they were able to gradually overtake 4 other nations during the rest of the race to take a podium position. This was a marked improvement on last year's 13 th place and in fact the best ever GB result in the Sprint Relay. This relatively young team were competing against current World Championship teams and individuals and performed as well as could be expected.

Full details can be found on various websites - BO IOF WOC2016.

An interesting analysis of the event can be found on the World of O site, which shows that Charlotte was the quickest between controls 1 & 4 for those running the same 'gaffle'.

On the Saturday morning Charlotte qualified for the Individual Final, however she and the team management decided to concentrate on the Relay and not take any chances by competing in the afternoon.

WATCH THE ACTION - replay of the event.

Charlotte now writes a regular blog on what it takes to become an elite athelete. This can be found here. This is an interesting read on the physical and mental requirements to compete at the very top in the sport.

The Final Agenda for the AGM is available  here

The AGM follows our event at East Park, Hull on the afternoon of 17th September 2016.

We will be using a room in the Park Offices for our meeting.

Teas, refreshments and toilets are available from the Park Cafe in the same building.

Please come along!

Wayne, we didn't know you were Welsh! 

A reward and recognition at last for putting in all that hard graft into your training and staging excellent events for HALO members et al and the Armed Forces.

We wish you well. 

The event is to be held on 3rd September 2016 at Cassy Water, Rostrevor.

Final table after 5 events -  thank you to everyone who took part and especially Paul, Mary and Jackie for puting controls out during the summer

August 22nd.  Lots of discussion over control 63.  You had the option of finding the rootstock that was on the map or the one that had a control on it.  Unfortunately for David, he found it without realising and therefore missed an easier one!  If you ask him nicely you can view his gps route when collecting number 63 - but nobody believed that!
Results here

August 15th
Results here

August 8th
All competitors have been credited with an extra control - I forgot to put 87 out, sorry!  But I was impressed with the confdence of all who knew they were in the right place and assumed it had been nicked.
 Results here

August 1st

Thanks to Paul for organising - and to Mary for helping to put out controls.  All of which were in exactly the right place even if not displaying the correct codes!

Results for August 1st Yorkshire Day

 July 18

Thanks to Mark b for planning the event and for Paul and Mary who stepped in at the last minute to hang controls.

Results for July 18

Following on from his Mastermind performances Lawrence Cook (2016 Medium Poacher Champion) has recently been on the Channel 4 quiz show 15 to 1.

His first outing was on Friday afternoon. This was followed by today's show (Monday). and then the Final on Friday 12th.

For those who missed out, the show is available on Catch Up TV / All 4.

I will not spoil your enjoyment by letting you know the result.

Pity we don't have a Quiz contest v LOG - we might win a trophy!!

Starts at 2pm at John & Sue Chaney's house - full venue details in the event list

This afternoon HALO's Charlotte Ward was part of the victorious GB mixed relay Sprint Team at the World  Univesity Orienteering Championships. Competing in Hungray the team were led off by Charlotte who already had gained a 7th place in the Individual race on Sunday and continued her good form by handing over in 3rd place only 6 seconds behind. The 2 men Peter Hodgkinson and Kris Jones were then able to take the lead before handing over to Megan Carter-Davies who was able to maintain the lead beating the Czech Republic by 50 seconds.

This is a fine achievement as GB's reputation as a top Sprint Orienteering Nation grows all the time.

We all offer Charlotte, Amanda and Brian our warmest congratulations and wish Charlotte all the best at the World Championships in Sweden in 3 weeks. It certainly has been a busy year for our JK, British and now World (Uni) Champion.

After taking a narrow (18 point) lead in to the final event the HALO team of 17 runners were narrowly beaten by a LOG team competing on home territory in Washingborough, on the day and in the Series.

However I can report that HALO won trophy, thanks to Chris who took the Medium Men's title. So often the runner up in the Poacher, it was a creditable effort from Chris.

The points for the event can be found here.

The Series points can be found here.

Thanks for the success of the Series go to Brian H for compiling the scores and to the other planner Brian S and IT man Pete S.

Also congratulations to LOG and thanks to all the HALO competitors who took part in the Series, which retained its' competitive edge in the spirit of sport.

Reminder for those running the Lincoln City Race on August 14th, entries are open on Fabian 4.

Not forgetting the HALO babecue on Saturday 6th August.

Enjoy the rest of the 'summer' watching the Olympics and following Charlotte at WOC 2016.

HALO's final event of the spring and summer concluded in Caistor with the 5th round of the increasingly popular LUL (Lincolnshire Urban League).

The individual points scored for the 5th Round can be found here.

The series table and the team competition scores can be found here.

With one event next week in Washingborough it is all to run for in the team contest.

After the race in Grantham the points can be found here and the series table can be found here.

Rounds 4 and 5 are both hosted by HALO, firstly on Thursday July 14th in Brigg , which will include the new mapped area to the north of the town; then on Thursday July 21st in Caistor, which is an entirely new map.

See Charlotte following Brian on the Long Course here.

LUL2 points allocation can be found here.

Overall series points can be found here.

I am pleased to report that Charlotte Ward came first in the Women's Elite Open Race in Antwerp, beating the experienced defending Russian Champion Galina Valindagrova by a winning margin of 8 seconds. Charlotte also was placed second to the Russian in the cumulative overall competition which included the 2 sprint events on the Saturday and the City Race on the Sunday.

Also representing HALO was Club Chairman Neil Harvatt who finished 10th in the City Race and 10th & 14th in the 2 Sprint Races.

The next race in the Series is in Malaga  in early September which also coincides with Neil's 60th birthday. This event will no doubt attract a number of HALO members who will no doubt be enjoying this urban orienteering fiesta.

The poacher series has ended and the results can be seen on the Leage Tables page.  Thanks go to Pete Harris for all his hard work making it a success once again.

Some pictures ofthe presentations can be found in this PDF courtesy of Chris Simmonds.

Head cam video courtesy of Brian Ward .

Course E here.

The LUL starts this year on Thursday 23rd June in Lincoln (Boultham Park and environs). Those familiar with the Lincoln parkrun will know the area well. The original map used for the LCS in 2014 has been extended to encompass the adjacent urban terrain so it will be a mix of park and street navigation. The second event will be at Bottesford (S of Scunthorpe) on June 30th this replaces Caistor which hopefully now will be 21st July if our new map has been completed. Other events are  Brigg (newly exytended) on July 14th, Grantham July 7th and Washingborough July 28th.

There are 3 courses : Short approx 2k, Medium approx 4k and Long approx 6k.

This ia also a team competition HALO v LOG - the rules of which are equally complicated as the LCS - so shall not bore you now. The best 3 runs out of 6 count towards the individual prizes.

So in summary the fixtures are:

Boultham Park    June 23rd

Bottesford          June 30th

Grantham          July 7th

Brigg                 July 14th

Caistor               July 21st

Washingborough July 28th

We now have 2 British Champions! 

On Saturday at the Queen Elizabeth Park in London, Charlotte Ward retained her British title in the Sprint Championships. In not so ideal conditions Charlotte won both her heat and the final, the latter by a matter of a few seconds, with the run in leg being crucial. Carrying an injury from the previous week's Sheffield event and running in slippery conditions this was another outstanding achievement. This is a busy time for Charlotte with the World University and the World Championships still to compete in this summer.

Other HALOites were not as successful but Neil and Helena made the 'A' final on their respective courses and finished 7th and 14th, as did Emma Van Dam who also finished 7th.

On Sunday however Emma competing in the Middle Distance Champioships near Dorking produced an even better performance by winning the W12 class by a 5 minute winning margin. This convincing result in a very technical area all bodes well for the future.

So we not only have a Sprint Queen but also a Middle Princess. Congratulations not only to both Charlotte and Emma but also to their families who fully support them whole heartedly.

For those who have forgotten or unfamiliar the last 3 Poacher Events of the season will follow the 5 course format.

There are 5 courses : 1km (6controls), 1.5km (9controls), 2km (12controls), 2.5km (15controls) & 3km (18 controls).

You can pick which individual courses to run but you must total at least :

Short 2.5km

Medium 4.0km

Long (W classes and M60 )  5.5km

Long (M60-) 7.0km

After the RAF Cranwell event the points and tables can be found in the Results section.

Thanks to Pete S for all his sterling work in computing them, after the minor hiccups - it certainly did not feel like British Summer Time.

HALO in conjunction with Hull Culture and Leisure have established permanent orienteering courses at Costello Playing Fields and at East Park.  Why not come along and try them out at the launch of each.
Wednesday June 1st 10am to 12noon - Costello playing fields.  Park at the Anlaby Park Road North end of the park.  The start is less than 100 metres from the end of the car park along the main path.
Friday June 3rd 11am to 2pm - East Park.  Lots of parking within East Park.  The start is close to the Pavilion Cafe on the west side of the Bowling Green.
Both permanent courses are suitable for push and wheel chair users.
Follow this link for further information  http://www.activehull.co.uk/view/event/2848

GRIMSBY Urban - this full length feature is not a 15 Classification but a 12A.

Head Cam Course B courtesy of Tony can be found here.

ENTRIES are now closed on  Fabian4. EOD available with good supply of spare maps for all courses.

FINAL DETAILS can be found here.

The second YUL event and third UKUL Event will be hosted by HALO at that not so Yorkshire area - Willows and Freshney on the western outskirts of Grimsby on May 22nd.

The area is easily accessible from the A180 dual carraigeway - literally 2 minutes.

The original map has been extended to cover the area East which encompasses Little Coates, Yarborough, Freshney Green and the Leisure Centre areas. The 4 longest courses are planned to utilise this new area. It is also envisaged to have a seperate Sprint Course of approximately 2 kms for competitors to have an extra chance to experience the Willows estate after they have completed their urban courses. 

Full YUL fixtures can be found here.

Or why not log on to the Facebook page here.

HALO's British and JK Champion Charlotte Ward's busy International Schedulecontinues this weekend (May 21st/22nd) at the European Championships in Czech Republic.

Hopefully she will be competing in the Sprint Relay on Saturday in Bruntal, followed by the Individual Sprint competition on Sunday. Parents Brian and Amanda will be following closely but will still have time to compete at our own Willows and Freshney event on Sunday after watching the Qualifiers early morning and then returning home to watch the Final in the afternoon. The EOC website can be found here.

Charlotte already preselected to represent GB again at the World Championships in Sweden later in the year has a busy summer with further World Cup performances, the British Championships at the Olympic Park in London and the World University Championships in Hungary.

Hopefully she will get a chance to run locally during the summer perhaps at some of the LUL,YUL or UKUL events scheduled in the area.

Note those who have their HALO Calendars on display please note the LUL this year will now be on 6 successive Thursdays not as previously recorded, commencing on 2rd June.

So the list is (still provisional - depending on map completions).

June 23rd Lincoln Boultham Park

June 30th Caistor

July 7th Grantham

July 14th Brigg

July 21st Louth

July 28th Washingborough

Our Poacher event on Wednesday 11th May has been registered for World Orienteering Day.

Note to track our event it is included in the Scandinavian numbered circle (to access UK events). Then on London.

The latest IOF newsletter can be found here.  Follow on twitter #worldorienteeringday

As the dust begins to settle, it is time to reflect on the success that was this year’s JK Orienteering festival.  Success in many different ways.  The festival was a collaboration between the six Yorkshire and Humberside clubs (AIRE, CLARO, EBOR, EPOC, HALO and SYO) and featured events at Leeds University, Wass Forest in the Yorkshire Moors, Kilnsey in the Yorkshire Dales and Storthes Hall near Huddersfield.  The whole event was a success, over the last two years, the six clubs have got together to put on the four top level events, expertly coordinated by ex-HALO and current CLARO member, Mike Cope.

HALO members helped throughout the whole weekend, but HALO’s focus was on the Friday sprint event at Leeds University.  The courses, which were universally acclaimed, were planned by Brian Ward.  The safety officer for the whole weekend was Ken Hutson – you should see the amount of paperwork that that role involves.  Not content with that onerous role, Ken was also the assistant organiser for the Friday event at Leeds, helping me out as Organiser.  Brian Slater had the thankless task of coordinating all the SI equipment for Friday, which included a separate set for the elite contactless punching course.  Communications expert David Jolly managed the radios for the four days.

The following members also provided invaluable help on the Friday:-
Paul Beresford; John Butler; Mary Carrick; Danny and Helen Chan; John and Sue Chaney; Helena Crutchley; Barry and Jackie Edwards; Alex and Kate Gymer; Isoldt and Peter Harris; Andrew Houlden; Anne, Marsaili, Elspeth and Flora Jolly; Pete and Julie Shew; Paul and Patricia Simmons; Alex, Jacob and Sally Smith; Mike and Dorothy Smith; Paul, Maria, Emma and George Van Dam; Stuart Whittingham and Matt Williams.  That’s a great turnout for a club of our size - I do hope I haven’t missed anyone!
Inevitable with more than 2100 competitors, there will be the odd niggle (two I think), but I was overwhelmed by the huge number of positive comments received, both for the technicality of the courses and the overall organisation.  That is all down to the hard work of the volunteers on the day, many of whom, helped for the whole day without having a run.

Success also came on the courses for HALO.  Emma Van Dam won the W12 class by over 30 seconds and very impressively Charlotte Ward won the Women’s Elite class with a healthy winning margin. – Wow!!  Women’s champion – well done Charlotte.
Other top ten results were: Pete Shew (6th on M70); Elspeth Jolly (9th on Novice).

Top ten finishers on Day 2 at Wass were: Paul Simmons (10th M65S); John Butler (8th M70S); Emma Van Dam (9th on W12A); Helena Crutchley (2nd on W50S).

Top ten finishers on Day 3 at Kilnsey were: Emma Van Dam (3rd on W12A); Jackie Edwards (10th on W60S).  The weather devastated the field with horizontal hail storms and a white out plus the odd burst of sunshine.

Best overall finisher for Days 2 and 3 combined was Emma Van Dam – 5th

In the relay competition at Storthes Hall, five HALO teams competed against each other in the Ad-hoc class.  First HALO team home were the Wards (Brian, Amanda, Charlotte); who had a 9 minute lead over the Van Dams (Paul, Emma, George).  5 minutes behind them were Peter & Isoldt H with David J.  A mere 19 minutes later Neil H, Mary C and Brian S rolled up, and just 6 minutes later the final HALO team of Chris and Dom S plus Alex S.
The three relay legs were run in the order of Medium, Short and Long.  Fastest HALO member on Medium was Brian Ward.  Emma and George Van Dam were both fastest on the Short and Long legs respectively.

Full results and photos can be found on the JK web-site

Neil Harvatt, (very proud) Chair.

Apologies for lack of information this season - less time now that I have retired.

This year should be similar to the past 5 years, with a few minor alterations.

Firstly thank you to the new planners - 3 events will be planned by first timers.

Secondly there will be 11 events - 7 cross country, 3 sprints and 1 in LOG land , incorporating the annual team competition, the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield. The Poacher points allocated at this event will be dependent on the format - but it will be fair and include only Poacher competitors.

Thirdly, our event on May 11th (Poacher 5 - Primrose Warren) is registered with the IOF for World Orienteering Day Status. To mark this, points scored will be recorded twice, as though there are 2 seperate events. So if you win, you will receive 50 points in both 'events' - so certainly an event you will want to do well at - especially for those planners wishing to play their Joker!!!! 

Fourthly, due to the above, the best 8 out of 12 scores from the 11 events will count to determine the overall winners.

Fifthly, note parking venues at the events are subject to late change so, please check the latest details to find exact location.

The Final League Table after the 4 events can be found here.

Note the best 3 scores counted.

And the winner is...............

Even if he was still an M55 I think he would have still won convincingly.

Please note entries close 23:59 on Thursday 3rd March.

HALO have 5 teams entered for the relays - all legs have been covered but one or two may be persuaded to stand down if a late lucrative offer is forthcoming!!!

 I would not expect everybody to recite the 'Hail Mary' three times but we should all Hail Mary for her exploits this weekend. Mary competed firstly at the National Cross Country Championships at Donnington on Saturday, secondly she competed at the British Night Championships in Leicestershire on Saturday evening and thirdly at the Midland Championships at Sherwood on Sunday morning.

She may not have ran 'full of grace' but she definitely ran with grit and determination.

In event 1, she was competing in the Senior Open Class, with many rivals one third her age, including our own Charltte Ward who finished a very commendable 41st. Mary did finish ahead of 6 of her rivals out of a field of 750 plus.

In event 2, she was competing on the long course and beat the 2 hour barrier. Mary did finish in 6th place out of a field of 7.

In event 3, she was competing once again on the long course. Mary did finish in a respectable 13th place, in a field of 21 competitors.

So the next time you raise a glass there is somebody you should toast after her 'achievements' this weekend.

Note: for the full story I am sure Mary C will be more than happy to give you full details at the Pub League Event on Tuesday.

Did you miss one? Do you need to check a back issue? There is now an archive of all the HALO News mailings that Chris has sent out since November 2013. It is planned to keep it updated one week behind the publication of each issue.

The link can be found in the left side-bar underneath the "subscribe" link.

Please note the Closing Date for Entries is WEDNESDAY 17th February via Fabian 4.

This is a popular area for HALO members. This Level A event certainly has some long courses to negotiate!

There is no Entry on Day except for Short Colour Coded courses up to Light Green.

For the upcoming Lincolnshire Shield annual contest v LOG - why not design a 'mascot' for HALO in the form of a Baron.

With last year's popular Lincoln Baron's now charitably sold off - this is an ideal opportunity to produce our own Baron.

Using the attached template (courtesy of Wild In Art) put your artistic skills to use and design a HALO themed Baron.

SEND your designs to sbpetebtinternet.com and I will publish them on this page accordingly. You can remain anonymous, if you so desire.

The best design may well be then chosen to represent HALO at the LCS by being transformed into an actual model. 

This is open to all - not only to the Juniors!!

On Sunday March 13th, CLARO are hosting the Yorkshire, Humberside and North East round of the Compass Sport Trophy, to be held at Timble Ings, near Blubberhouses.  This is the main team competition in the Orienteering calendar and I hope we can get as many members as possible to take part to represent HALO. 
We need as wide as spread of ages as possible to maximise our scoring potential.  In this year’s competition we are competing against CLARO, EPOC, NATO, NN and SROC.  The available courses (with age groups) are as follows:-
1 Brown Men Open
2 Short Brown M20- M40
3 Blue Women Women Open
4 Blue Men M50
5 Green Women W20- W45
6 Green Men M60
7 Veterans Short Green M70 W60
8A Junior Men (Green) Men 18-
8B Junior Women (Short Green) Women 18-
9A Orange Men Men 14-
9B Orange Women Women 14- 
Please let me know as soon as possible (with dibber and BOF number, age class and preferred course) if you are available to run for HALO on that date.  I will coordinate all entries and HALO will pay the fees.  It is intended to run another social alongside the event in the same way as the very popular Cake competition that Helena organised last year at Sherwood Pines (created more interest than the orienteering!!).
I need to submit all entries by March 1st.  neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk
Further details can be found by following this link.

For those who enjoyed the Military League event on Beverley Westwood recently (and for those who didn't make it), the next installment is at Scarth Moor/Cod Beck, Osmotherly, on Wednesday February 10th.  These events are open to civilians and the starts are from 11:00 to 13:45.  Click here for flyer.

For up to date information, keep an eye on the Army website. http://www.baoc.info/events

A message from John Butler, the HALO organiser for the Night Challenge:-

In previous years you have been very generous in giving up your time to help out on the Humber Night Challenge which, as you know, is a particularly high profile event organised by the Humberside Police, the Humberside Fire & Rescue Service and ourselves.

 Your help in previous years has been very much appreciated and the purpose of this message is to ask you to give a hand at this year's event which is on the evening of Saturday 5th March and the early hours of the following day starting and finishing at the same venue as the last five years, Brantingham Park (the home of Hull Ionians Rugby Football Club) in the East Riding.

 We are expecting some 150 youngsters aged between 13 and 17 from East Riding, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire in 30 teams to tackle 19 kms of night orienteering, mainly off road, with a number of challenges on route.  The teams are recruited through Neighbourhood Policing Teams from young people they know and youth and community groups they work alongside.  The aim is to include young people who may not have had the opportunity to take part in this kind of outdoor experience, have little experience of the countryside or know what opportunities are available.

This will be the 7th year that we have been one of the joint organisers of this event which we have always seen as a way of giving something back to those members of the community who are not so fortunate as ourselves.  We certainly don't do it for money but as your Treasurer I cannot ignore the fact that HALO has received grants totalling £2,800 from the Tribune Trust in the last 6 years as a direct consequence of our involvement.  

 As last year HALO is responsible for the route, maps, registration, navigation training, start, controls, finish and the results so we will all be inside the Club House dry and warm during the event (apart from those who put out and collect the controls!) and we will organise shifts, depending on the number of helpers, so that you don't have to be there all night (unless you really want to!)

 I look forward to your positive response, by the end of this month if possible as the Police are already chasing me for the names and addresses of the HALO helpers. treasurerhalo-orienteering.org.uk

Brian's video following Charlotte can be found here.

For those unable to attend the NYD quiz acn be found here.

Canyou score more than 25?

Score event Map

For those of you who are eagerly awaiting the League scores to be published for this season 2015/2016 - I am afraid we will have to apologise. As some of you are probably aware - the compiler of the League has been away from these shores visiting family and friends in Australasia. I am sure he has run some parkruns out there. (Trying to find results - no joy so far. Had to resort to emailing parkrun HQ.)

Pete has run three parkruns , whilst on 'holiday' - details here. Thanks to parkrun.uk and parkrun.au for providing information so quickly.

Believe he will be back soon - when I am sure his first job will be to trawl through and analyse the results and publish accordingly.

I am sure one of the Field's will be the leader in most of the categories!

Click on results and select.

The Christmas Tree Dash Results are here.

The colour map with codes is here and a map with all controls (showing the decoys) is here.

Please note this event has been cancelled.

So you may have to wait until the NYD event to work off your Xmas excesses.

You can test your knowledge of control descriptions here. Courtsey of maprunner.

The weather forecast has forced this action upon us.  We hope you understand. 

Don't miss 6th Feb. in this very rustic woodland.

Brian - Organiser; Chris - Planner.

We as a Committee are sometimes slow in updating the Fixtures on the Website, not only for HALO Events but also for those in the surrounding Regions, plus the National Events.

At this early stage, approximately 120 Events and Activities have been identified as those that members may be interested in attending or assisting at in 2016.

This comprehensive list of Events can be found here -  printer friendly.

Alternatively purchase the 2016 HALO Calendar - pre orders (plus a few spare) available at Bradley Woods Event (possibly delivered in time for Awards Dinner).

NOTE 1) : this is not a definitive list - more will be added e.g. Lincolnshire Challenge Shield, Schools Events, Autumn Saturday Events, AGM etc. etc.

          2) : many of these are provisional and all  are subject to change so PLEASE access the relevant Club's website before travelling

          3) : some (not many) Events will be pre entry only, so also check before hand

          4) : this does not also include the 'Foreign' events which some HALO members may be attending across Europe

          5) : this does not include the Coaching sessions arranged for the benefit of members in Beverley and Grimsby throughout the year

So 2016 looks like being just as busy as 2015, even without the Scottish 6 Days and World Championships!!!

Fixtures will also be included e.g. HALO, HALO League, National Events etc.

First Order of Wall Calendars sent to printers - can confirm price of £6 and as of Friday 20th November have now arrived..

Should be availabe at Bradley Woods Event (and at Awards Dinner) - for those not ordered a few spare printed, so still chance to reserve.

NOW ALL SOLD OUT - if sufficient demand another order will be placed.

Or if anyone wants their own customised with some of their own photos - this can be arranged accordingly.

Note also my new email : sbpetebtinternet.com

ACTUAL DRAFT CAN BE FOUND HERE

British Orienteering membership (and HALO's) runs from 1st January until 31st December regardless of the date you join.  (e.g. if you join on May 15th 2015 your membership will expire on 31st December 2015).  Membership of BOF and HALO is £10 per annum for adults.  You can get even better value for money by joining between now and the end of December.  Your membership will last until 31st December 2016.  What a bargain.

The easiest way to join is online via the British Orienteering web-site (link to BO website).

Alternatively download a membership form and return to a HALO member or post to British Orienteering.

Organisers at HALO events should have a membership form for you to complete.

NOTE: It is a requirement of our public liability insurance that non-members may not run more than three events in any one year. This includes accompanying runners.

You should have received details by email of this year's Awards Dinner at Harrisons in Barton upon Humber on 21st November.

The menu is here.

Sign up by contacting Helena with you menu choices.

If you have not received the full details (location  etc), contact Helena - helenaATrainow.globalnet.co.uk

2 Teams (of 3) and One Individual competed at the Red Bull Challenge Event at Sherwood Pines on Sunday.

Yasmin was the youngest competitor and came a creditable 17th out of 36 in the Women's Race.

As far as the Teams are concerned 'A Field and 2 Paddocks' (namely Dean, Zac and Jake) came second with the 'HALO' team of Peter H, David J & Wayne B finishing 5th out of 41.

The former, only 60 points from victory, which would have resulted in an invitation to the Red Bull Air Race in Ascot next year - to spectate and not compete!

The latter, who's combined age was far higher than the others in the top 6 - predominantly University Teams - used their experience and logistics skills to out run and out think far younger opponents.

The full Results can be found here.

This Event is a 75 minutes Score Event (so the Pub League proved to be good training) with the addition of 6 Challenge Controls, these were archery, tree climbing, barrel rolling, beam balancing, onion firing and portcullis opening. Jake was the star who completed all 6. Bonus points are given to arriving at and completing these challenges.

The map can be found here - note the Challenge Controls are those circles outlined with a star (apologies for B&W image).

HALO team results download can be found here.

In orienteering terms this event is far from traditional, but it certainly attracts the young up and coming stars of the sport ( the lucrative prizes may help) as well as the older fraternity (the free food, drink and O tops may help), but all in all it is very professionally organised and would recommend to all. Thanks Red Bull.

Note: there may not be an Event in 2016 but hopefully 2017.

The Final Autumn Pub League Series Table  after 6 Events is here.

Note best 4 scores count.

Congratulations to Pete Shew on winning this title - although a handicap formula is used to determine the points scored; the points seem to be 'fairly' apportioned in that Pete is a worthy winner, after a couple of recent runner-ups in other HALO competitions.

For anyone wishing to participate in a research study, entitled HALO (Health of Adults' Logitudinal Observational) run in conjunction with parkrun please read this article.

I know of some illustrious HALO members who do suffer with their knee joints so any new research will be welcomed.

The Minutes for this year's AGM are now available in the members area.

These minutes include a short report from the Chairman. This will be extended following the longer Club Report he will give at the Annual Club Dinner.

Harrison's - Barton : Saturday 21st November. - Get your tickets from Helena.

HALO League 2015-16

18 events (including 5 Alternates)

Best 8 scores to count

Current League rules here

Wayne's Courses - you will need to click on the course names that follow.  The long has 2 parts.  Orange, Technical & Long

Kirton In Lindsey at it's best can be viewed here. Courtesy of Team Ward.

Broughton at Twilight can be viewed here.

The key to the Broughton Event was when and how to visit the controls in the centre of the map - especially 119.

Fastest Dave Jolly went to 119 first and it certainly paid off - this 'optimum' route was 600m shorter than others and it was certainly not the obvious route from the Start. Thanks to Luke for utilising his local knowledge to good effect.

Third Episode - Beverley can be viewed here.

Ann and family would like to thank all from HALO and all the other Orienteering friends from other Clubs for all the messages and support that they have received in the past few weeks. They would also like to thank everyone who attended the funeral and the Celebration of Pat's life.

This Celebration included tributes and memories from his two brothers, three sons and two of his grandaughters - all reflecting on his kindness, his humour and his inspiration and not forgetting his love for sport and his family. His popularity was exemplified by the numbers attending the funeral with the Crematorium completely full, not only all the seating taken up but also all the standing areas overflowing.

Ann also much appreciates how kind everyone has been and would like to thank all those who have made donations to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Ann and her sons will be presenting a cheque to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance on Wednesday (9th September) to the value of £1170 for all the money raised.

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that on Thursday 20th August (evening) LOG are having a training event entitled 'Race the Barons'.

This seems as though it could be a 'fun' event and I am sure all HALOites as possible will be made welcome.

Only 25 Barons to find in historic Lincoln! Plenty of hills to negotate in preperation for the 3 hour Mini Wolds Mountain Marathon 2 days afterwards at Tetford.

Head Cam Video can be found here.

Better off with no sound - especially the uphill section.

Apologies for any choice language - that ******** train!!!

Dates for your Diary 1: HALO Local Events Autumn 2015

Autumn Pub League

1.  Sep 15       Kirton in Lindsey - David Jolly
2.  Sep 22       Hull University - Paul Simmons & Neil
3.  Sep 29       Broughton - Luke Snell
4.  Oct  6        Beverley - Mary Carrick
5.  Oct 13       Bottesford TBA*
6.  Oct 20       Hull Waterfront - Neil Harvatt

Please Note:

• All events will take place on Tuesday evenings
• Planners/Organisers are required for events marked *. Please contact Brian Slater (bslatercleeyahoo.com) if you would like to plan one of these events. Full support provided!

Saturday Series (SHALOL)

1. Sep 19     Havelock, Grimsby Brian Slater
2. Oct  3      Cottingham - Neil Harvatt
3. Oct 10     Freshney & Willows*
4. Oct 17     Humber Bridge Country Park - Stuart Whittingham ( HALO AGM)
5. Nov  7     East Park, Hull*
6. Nov 28    Bradley Woods, Grimsby - Chris Simmonds

Please Note:

• Planners/Organisers are required for events marked *. Please contact Brian Slater (bslatercleeyahoo.com) if you would like to plan one of these. Full support provided!

Important dates for your diaries of forthcoming HALO events:

2015

Saturday 17th October      HALO AGM (follows HBCP SHALOL event)

Saturday 21st November   HALO Annual Dinner & Presentation Evening

Saturday 12th December   HALO YHOA Night League event on Swinemoor, Beverley

Sunday 13th December     HALO Regional Event, Beverley Westwood

2016

Friday 1st January             HALO New Years Day event, Cottingham

Sat/Sun 5/6 March             Humber Night Challenge

Sunday 13th March           Compass Sport Trophy Heat

Friday 25th March             JK2016 Sprint Event, Leeds University - HALO organising

Details of all these events will be posted on the HALO website when they become available.

This year's barbeque is on 15th August at Mike & Dorothy Smith's in Belton. Details have been sent out by email - contact Helena if you haven't received it or want further information. See you there.

Please note the recently refurbished and re-opened local pub will also have festivities on during the day. Details here.

15 HALOites successfully completed at least 4 events to qualify for a finishing position at the Scottish 6 Days. Their respective overall positions were:

W12A Emma Van Dam  53rd out of 73

W16A Yasmin Field        47th out of 91

W50S Rosie Field          54th out of 139

W55S Isoldt Harris        68th out of 78

W65L Mary Carrick        56th out of 76

M14A George Van Dam 41st out of 104

M14A Joe Field              80th out of 104

M20L Zac Field              20th out of 62

M20L Jake Field             45th out of 62

M45S Andrew Houlden 83rd out of 107

M50S Dean Field           14th out of 107

M55S Peter Harris         92nd out of 139

M55L Neil Harvatt          97th out of 209

M65L Brian Slater          145th out of 152

M70S John Butler           22nd out of 42

The competition was certainly tough in terms of both the terrain and the abilities of the rivals from all over the World. I am sure all thoroughly enjoyed their experiences, even Mary who surprisingly had 2 voided scores for failing to complete her course after running off the map and for mispunching!

To finish in the top half of one's course was an achievement in itself.

The weather was predominantly dry, if predominantly cool and the midges were predominantly bearable - so predominantly ideal running conditions.

The above shows 2 HALOites finishing on different courses at Day 2 - considering there were 6000 entries this is more than a coincidence.

In only her second international race, Charlotte came a brilliant 17th in the World Championships Sprint Final. She was less than 2 minutes down on the winner and top British woman. Many, many congratulations Charlotte!!

Full results can be found here.

If you missed the TV coverage, you can catch up on BBC iplayer here soon (it was nice to hear HALO and Beverley get a mention by the TV commentator!).

Charlotte races this afternoon in the sprint final and you can follow the action by watching the TV coverage – yesterday’s coverage of the relay was an excellent mix of shots of the runners on the course and shots of the GPS trails on the map as it happened. Today’s coverage starts at 16:45.

Charlotte’s excellent third place in the qualifier means that she starts late at 17:29, running with the best and starting just a minute ahead of the world number one Judith Wyder. However Judith ran the relay yesterday and collapsed at the finish so who knows how she will race today. Other favourites failed to qualify (this link shows that even the world’s best have bad days!)  but all the British runners made it through to the final, including Kristian Jones who won his heat, so it should be an exciting race.

To follow the action click here; this will take you to the webpage for the race. On the right hand side in blue are some links to the start list, the results as they come in and to the TV coverage.

BBC ALBA will be broadcasting live coverage of the Sprint Relay, Sprint Final, and Relay races at the 2015 World Orienteering Championships.

Date                           Race                      Live BBC ALBA coverage

Sat 1st August            Sprint Relay           18:00-19:25
Sun 2nd August          Sprint Final             16:45-19:10
Wed 5th August          Relay                     16:00-18:10

The television coverage will be presented by Derek Mackay, with expert analysis from orienteering coach and former British international Lorna Eades. The coverage will feature profiles of some of the top participating athletes, including interviews with several of those representing the British team, with debutante Charlotte Ward and the experienced Murray Strain talking about the rise in the sport’s popularity and their own ambitions for the races.BBC ALBA will also hear from other British athletes including Ruth Holmes, Kris Jones, Hollie Orr and Hector Haines, and from British Development and Performance Coach Liz Campbell.
BBC ALBA is available on Freeview channel 8 in Scotland, Sky channel 143 and Virgin Media channel 161 throughout the UK, and online via BBC iPlayer.

Good luck to all the British team competing in the World Orienteering Championships but especially to Charlotte Ward of HALO.

Charlotte, wishing you the dream run; you're an inspiration and we're very proud of you. Love HALO

Start times now available for the qualifier.

Charlotte will be wearing Bib 46 starting at 18:16.

Charlotte 3rd in Qualification Race on Friday. Heat 3 Results here.

After a splendid performance running on the Willowsesque terrain Charlotte finished a more than creditable 3rd. She will now compete on Sunday in Forres - see you either there or tuned in.

Results from the Willows Sprint Training can be found here.

This was one of the last training sessions that Charlotte carried out in HALO territory before she competes at the World Championships on July 31st. Father, coach and mentor Brian set out a suitable course in HALO's own world class Sprint area at the Willows Estate.

Charlotte's route can be viewed here.

Although the competition was far from World Class - with the average age well over 50 - the test race was ideal preperation for the World Championships.

Once again we all wish Charlotte all the best for the next 2 weeks. She travels to the GB training camp, just East of Inverness, this weekend via Edinburgh for more Sprint sessions.

Assembly and Start close to previous LUL/Poacher -  at Library 50m North of previous area (Binbrook Way).

Starts between 1p.m. and 1.30 p.m.

#thinkfastrunhard at Willows, Grimsby. Si punching with an Elite length Sprint - 3.7km optimum route 18 controls (provisional).

This is a HALO "Activity" there will a nominal charge of £1 per entry to cover map printing costs.

PRE-ENTRY ONLY - we will NOT be printing ANY extra maps - if you haven't pre-entered you will NOT get a run just by turning up!

Pre-Entries to -

brianhalo-orienteering.org.uk BEFORE Saturday 18th July.

The last Spring / Summer event of 2015 saw some competitive races in the Seaside Town of Skegness.

The final updated Series table can be found here.

Congratulations to Jackie on winning the Medium Ladies title and for competing in all 6 LUL Events.

Other trophies all won by members of LOG including the team trophy.

Many congratulations to LOG on retaining the LCS on HALO terrain. A very competitive and fun evening's entertainment was had by all due to Brian Ward's excellent planning of gaffles, butterflies and Psi loops which had many running around sowewhat bemused. However the mis punches were probably less than in past years - due to intense concentration and pre event warnings. In all only 20 control sites were used - so it is surprising what can be achieved in such a small area with so few controls with excellent planning techniques.

Besides the 2 Brian's thanks must also go to Pete Shew's IT input - to have such a display of the 'live' scores presented in such a comprehensive way is no mean achievement - I am sure you will agree and appreciate all the hard work that is required.

The first race resulted in a 20 point winning margin to LOG, whereas the gap in the second race was only 2 points (was this due to Brian Slater's motivational talk during the HALO Team Huddle???). So thanks to everyone who turned out only 24 hours after the last Poacher Event. There is always next year and this year's Lincs Urban League to be completed over the next few weeks.

At least we won the Quiz!! due to Chris Simmonds' impressive homework.

Answers for those who did the Quiz from afar (I know of a few) can be found here.

So it's official - this is the newly designed O kit that Charlotte will be wearing at the World Champs in Scotland starting on July 31st for the Sprint Qualifying Race. Then hopefully Charlotte will progress to the Final 2 days later.

Not quite as smart as the new HALO top but not a bad alternative!

The Sprint areas to be used could well be Willowsesque so don't be surprised if you see the Ward's using the delights of West Grimsby as a training and coaching area in the next few weeks.

Those not attending and supporting Charlotte in Scotland, there should be plenty of opportunities to view on some TV Channels and/or follow the GPS Tracking on the Internet. Full details will be posted in due course.

After a few nervous weeks (for Amanda and Brian anyway) BO have now announced further additions to the team to represent GB including Charlotte.

See the link here. 

The O kit is available to purchase, so if you are dreaming of representing GB in the future visit the Noname kit supplier's website.

Just a few notes and reminders about the LCS on Thursday. FINAL DETAILS here. 

Attached is the updated start list for the first course.

This includes the head to head start times - HALO v LOG competitors start at the same time but run different courses (same legs & controls but in a different order).

Please check to see if you have been included.

LOG are bringing a strong team so it should be a competitive and fun evening. Their total number is a few less than HALO, so some HALO runner's will start the first race on their own.

The allocation of points is based on individual times so the head to head races do not influence the overall scores - just a fun element and an incentive to beat an opposing club counterpart.

Also this year - each race (Prologue and Start) will be scored seperately. So if you mispunch in one race you can still be competitive and score in the other and not be totally disqualified. (In previous years a number of us have mp'd in the first race and then the second race has been meaningless).

Any non competing HALO member able to assist on the night, their help would be appreciated.

I have also completed a Quiz based on Lincolnshire - this can be viewed here. Hard copies will be available at Pillar on Weds and LCS on Thursday. Anyone not competing at the event can email their answers to me by Thursday 4p.m. - skybluepetetiscali.co.uk   Answers revealed at LCS prize ceremony. 

This week saw the 2015 LUL kick off with back to back events at 2 contrasting Lincolnshire venues - firstly on Wednesday the Willows and Freshney Event in Grimsby provided a complex social housing area with infinite route choice detail and an adjacent River parkland with it's open spaces and secondly on Thursday Horncastle with it's market town features provided an equally enjoyable area for such an event.

An excellent headcam video  of the Willows and Freshney Event captured by Brian Ward can be found here.

Despite being on consecutive evenings a number of HALO & LOG members competed at both events. This has resulted in the Team contest being very closely fought with LOG currently leading by 4 points.

The League Tables for individual and team contests can be found here.

Please note a planner still required for our Brigg event. 

British Orienteering have just announced their teams to compete at the World Cup 2 Series in Norway/Sweden in early June and Charlotte Ward's consistent good form has been recognised with  selection to both the Sprint and Sprint Relay teams.

 The full teams can be found here.

This will be a full GB Senior debut for Charlotte and all at HALO send their congratulations to her on reaching this milestone (or should that be kmstone?).

You can possibly help support Charlotte by Voting for Her to try to gain financial assistance through the current sponsorship that Mars Milk are offering to sports individuals and sports clubs. You may not be aware but to represent GB abroad in Orienteering the athletes have to finance all expenses themselves - entries, air fares, accommodation, travel etc. are all self funded. So any form of funding is more than useful especially when in full time education.

British Orienteering support this initiative fom Mars Milk and have promoted it on their website.

So don't delay and click the link  - VOTE FOR CHARLOTTE

The terrain for the relays was not particularly urbanesque with steep crags,cliffs and plenty of rough open and not a building in sight apart from the imposing granite castle of Fredriksten, Halden (not used). So it was not a surprise that the GB2 team struggled and the team were well behind the leaders before Charlotte ran the anchor leg finishing 29th out of 38 teams.

In the Individual sprint event the following day despite being one of the early starters Charlotte on her International Debut finished a very creditable 27th out of a field of 97 and 2nd GB runner. Her time of 15:16 was  less than 2 minutes behind the Swedish winner Tove Alexandersson. However due to technical issues with the Touch Free Si Equipment the race as a World Cup event was voided but nethertheless this should not undervalue Charlotte's excellent performance. Below is the map of the area - complete with a Hull like marina.

After much debate and deliberation the 2015 Lincolnshire Urban League Dates and Venues have been finalised.

There are a few changes this year.

1) Firstly, the whole Series of 6 Events is condensed into a 25 day period.

2) Secondly, 2 events will be held on Saturdays (Bottesford and Skegness) to allow competitors from rival clubs to compete in at least 4 events without having to travel too far midweek.

3) The Saturday events will have start times from 10:00 to 12:00 - to beat the traffic in Skegness and allow others to do other weekend activities more readily.

4) The first Event at Willows and Freshney will be also part of the Poacher Series - so regular Poacher competitors can compete and score in both events accordingly (BOGOF).

5) Probably a slightly different team scoring system (still to be agreed).

This is an extremely busy schedule as also during the same time HALO will also host the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield on June 18th and also the Poacher finale on June 17th.

The full Fixture List and flyer can be found here.

Results here

/doc/2015 NELincs Orienteering Championship Results.pdf held at Oasis Wintringham Academy, Grimsby on 22nd May. B Slater

School team results and individual results are available on the results pages.
Follow this link

Brian has produced the following videos of the Sprint Event at Hull University and Hull Urban Eventy.

Firstly the start for the Chase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuR45B5_YeE

Secondly the Course A Prologue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNl-wsCqXwM&feature=youtu.be

Note : these were produced at 4a.m. on Sunday morning just before Brian left to put out the controls for the Hull Old Town Urban Event!

Photos of the Hull -O Urban Event on Sunday.

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/131070996@N08/sets/72157650663461924

Course B Part 1 Head Cam View Hull-O Urban

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtgotS0qrI&feature=youtu.be

Course B Part 2 Head Cam View Hull-O Urban

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6O6r9BHFnY&feature=youtu.be

Charlotte Ward continued her excellent form this season by winning the British Sprint Championships at Aldershot. After being runner up last year she has now made the top of the podium in 2015.

Congratulations to all the Ward family, SHUOC and City of Hull AC plus all at HALO who have helped, coached and inspired her throughout her orienteering career to date.

There are two new web pages under the About menu. They are:

A map showing the geographic distribution of HALO members derived from coarse postcode information. As well as indications of numbers, logged on HALO members can also see the names at each location. This page is at http://halo-orienteering.uk/page/_mempc

A map showing the mapped orienteering areas within HALO's ambit. This page is at http://halo-orienteering.uk/page/_areas A future development of this page is expected to allow the display of the orienteering maps of the areas.

Colourful advertisement to read and/or forward.  Both events will count towards the YHOA League.

Hope you enjoy this promotional film to whet your apetite. How many potential control sites can you spot?

Entries are now open for both events via Fabian 4.

Helpers please contact Brian S for discount code.

 Be inspired and watch this. Spread the word.

 Not quite Poacher country but the principles are the same.

Sorry for the delay. Routegadget and  Splitalyser are now available for Poacher 1 at Swallow Vale. Unless you havce Java support in your web browser you are best using the RG2 version. Please refresh the page if you get problems as we have an ongoing issue with the web site which is being addressed.

This article is a worthwhile read to new and experienced Orienteers.

Although in American 'speak' the benefits of orienteering can be read here.

1) This is the 18th Year that this popular Series of Orienteering Events has taken place. 1997 was the first year that Pete Kullich masterminded the format - one of the first (if not the first) midweek Series introduced in British Orienteering. Note in 2001 due to foot and mouth restrictions there were no events.

2) The format for the first 8 events is : 3 Courses ; Short (1.5 to 2 kms) suitable for newcomers and novice juniors; Medium (3 to 3.5 kms) suitable for intermediates (Lt/Short Green Std); Long (4.5 to 5.5kms) suitable for more experienced  (Green Standard). The last 3 events of the Series are slightly different in that there are 5 courses of lengths of 1,1.5,2,2.5 & 3 kms - competitors then have to complete at least 2 courses - the exact total distance required is dependent on age and gender.

3) The full Fixtures and Post Race Analysis Venues can be found here.

4) Entry Fees are Adults £3, Juniors £2, Families £8. Dibber hire is £1. (NB: Dibber Hire is Free to HALO members)

5) Please note due to Third Party Insurance restrictions British Orienteering has  introduced a policy that non BO members are only allowed to compete in 3 events in any one year. Membership to HALO/BO is possible on the day at each event or online here.

6) Start times are approximately between 5.45p.m. and 7p.m. - some flexibility depending on light conditions. For the first few events competitors are encouraged to start as early as possible due to the restricted light.

7) The best 8 Event Scores out of the total of 11 count towards the League titles.

8) There are trophies for the following : Short Champion, Medium Champion, Long Champion, Masters Champion (Long Course), Super Veterans (Long Course), Ultra Veterans (usually Long Course), Womens (Long Course), Lady (Medium Course), Junior (Medium Course).

9) Planners are 'rewarded' by being able to use a 'Joker' at another event, whereby the points gained at their nominated event are transposed to the event that they plan at.

10) The success of the Series is partly due to the fact that the majority of competitors help in some way and if competitors are not planning or organising it is hoped that they can contribute by collecting kites at the end of an Event. Therefore a Rota has been drawn up and can be found here. 

Note this is not an exhaustive list and if your name is not included please volunteer whenever convenient. Thanking you in anticipation.

Thanks to the brave 16 soles who ventured out onto The Westwood on a wet and blustery night, it makes setting the courses out worthwhile.  Special thanks to Ken, Stuart, Matt, Paul and Pat for collecting the controls in.  This meant that I could stay warm and dry in my car!

Follow this link for results

Next club night will be on Monday April 20th - meeting near Burton Bushes on opposite side of road to the racecourse grandstand, but nearer the cattlegrid.

Brian Ward's headcam videos of the Black course at Knapton on 29th March 2015 can be found at Knapton Black part 1 and Knapton Black part 2

Many thanks to the 13 HALO members involved in this year’s Humber Night Challenge which was organised jointly by Humber Police, Humber Fire and Rescue, the Tribune Trust and HALO on 21/22 March. 127 youngsters aged between 13 and 17 from East Riding, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire in 28 teams successfully completed 20K of night orienteering, mainly off road, starting and finishing at Brantingham Park (the home of Hull Ionians Rugby Football Club) in the East Riding. The teams, who had to tackle eight challenges on route which had a road safety theme, were recruited through Neighbourhood Policing Teams from young people they know and youth and community groups they work alongside. The aim was to include young people who may not have had the opportunity to take part in this kind of outdoor experience, have little experience of the countryside or know what opportunities are available. The results are being kept under wraps until the prizegiving on 24 April.

Please note Entries are now closed for this event. Please note there is also no Entry On The Day for this event. Here's something to whet your appetite  Promo Video!

Helpers also need to register on line in the same way - discounts will apply - please email Ken for the discount code and offer your services for helping accordingly.

Charlotte Ward is the new Women's 10K Sheffield Varsity Champion. Proud parents Brian and Amanda have informed us, via Twitter, that on a tight, twisty, hilly Sheffield course she set a new personal best time of 38:29 for the distance. A tremendous performance. Results from the event can be found here.

Before you get hold of your copies of Hello or OK magazine and even the Souvenir Edition of this week's HALO Newsletter - here is an exclusive short film.

Please keep this date free if you are able.
There are very few team competitions in the orienteering calendar – this is the main one.  We will take part in the first round at Sherwood Pines on Sunday March 15th 2015.  The club will pay the entry fees – therefore entries should be done via Neil Harvatt neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk
Please let him know if you are available (together with age class, BOF and dibber number) and which courses you would be willing to run (see below) and preferred start times (early, middle or late).
The teams in the trophy competition are SELOC SUFFOC EPOC HALO POTOC LOG WRE, so a good turnout will be required.

Further information can be found on the Compass Sport Trophy web-site at http://www.pgopage.co.uk/compasssportcup.htm

Sherwood Pines is an extensive forest with many visitor attractions, so a good venue for all the family.  Keep an eye on this webpage for some potentially exciting cake related news.
Hope to see you there – any questions just ask neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk

The available classes are as follows.

CS Class
CompassSport Course               BOF Age Classes              Class Size
1 Brown                                       Men Open                       Large
2 Short Brown                              M20- M40                       Large
3 Blue Women                              Women Open                  Large
4 Blue Men                                   M50                               Large
5 Green Women                            W20- W45                      Large
6 Green Men                                 M60                               Large
7 Veterans Short Green                 M70 W60                        Large
8A Junior Men (Green)                   Men 18-                         Small
8B Junior Women (Short Green)      Women 18-                   Small
9A Orange Men                              Men 14-                        Small
9B Orange Women                         Women 14-                   Small

Final Details and Start Times Link can be found here. 

The results for Monday Night's score activity are here.

The split times for each competitor are here

Thanks for all who turned up on what turned out to be a pleasant evening. I did make up the scoring system after the event, any complaints to me!
Evening was made easier for me due to the many control collecting volunteers - Helen, Alex, Kerria, Davd, Mary, Ken and Paul - Cheers.

Updated 18/02/2015

The HALO league is a competition for HALO members and runs for approximately one year.  Trophies are presented at the Annual Awards Dinner in November. The scoring system (see 'League tab for all the gory details) allows each person to compete against the 'norm' for their age and gender and hence each HALO member can compete against every other HALO member regardless of age or gender.

Please Note:

League Event 11 - this event is now at Harlow Hill not Hanging Moor

League Event 13 - is confirmed as an Urban Sprint based at a small parkland area, Ponderosa

League Event 7 - this is now an urban event in Halifax

Fixture list below:-

HALO junior George Van Dam represented England in the annual Interland compettion last weekend.  George finished 3rd in the M14 class thus helping England to their 21st victory in the competiton.
Follow this link for the full results.

Well done George!

Both of SYO's Ramsley Moor events this weekend have been cancelled due to deep lying snow.

Steve Corrigan has asked my to let you know that the YHOA Night League presentation will be held at at the British Night Champs, Middleton Park on the 28th of February.

After a hectic end to 2014 plus the NYD Event HALO are having a well earned 'breather' in January allowing other clubs to provide the entertainment.

However this will be short lived with plenty of Events planned in the forthcoming months.

February/March : 4 Pub League Events (2 North & 2 South)

March 15th       : Compass Sport Trophy at Sherwood Pines (as many HALO members to compete please). Plus one of Helena's Social's.

March 29th       : YHOA Middle Distance Championships at Scardale and Knapton

April/May         : Series of Saturday Events

April  8th         : First Wednesday night 'Poacher' Event - 11 in Series on consecutive Wednesday nights.

May 16th/17th : Hull-O Weekend - Sprint & Urban Events (UKUL Event) 

June 11th        : Lincolnshire Urban League starts (3 organised by LOG and 3 organised by HALO) 4 Thursday evenings plus 2 Saturday mornings.

June 24th        : Lincolnshire Challenge Shield (hosted by HALO this year)

In addition there are numerous HALO League Events at various Yorkshire and East Midland venues during this period at weekends. LOG will be organising Winter and Spring Mid Week series' as well.

On the National scene the JK will be in the Lake District at Easter and the British Champs are in the Forest of Dean 2 weeks later. The UK Urban League starts on January 25th in Crewe and runs throughout the year.

Of course there are the World Championships in Scotland in August. Similarly there are plenty of European events to attend - of which some HALOites I am sure will participate in.

And lastly there is also another HALO 'Event' on March 7th.........albeit taking place in EBOR land!

So it currently certainly is a lull before the storm.

When Events are finalised they will be posted on the website in due course - keep your diaries free.

The Beverley Club Night will commence the 2015 season on Monday January 12th.  Meeting in the Girls Gym at Longcroft Upper School from 6:30 to 8:00pm.  Sessions will generally be outside, so please come prepared for the weather.
New members are always welcome, just turn up with trainers and appropriate clothing.  Contact Neil at neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk or 07800-784255 if you require further information.

Click here for the NYD splits

Clickhere for video link.

Routgadget for Leconfield is now available - see the results page for the link.

British Orienteering have recently announced their Talent, Development and Performance Squads for 2015 and in addition they have also announced a 'Watch' Squad for athletes 'who are just outside the criteria for inclusion into the squads or are not able to accept their place in the squads at this time'. Charlotte has been included in this Watch squad and one hopes thefore she is now on the fringe of the Performance Squad which consists of all the GB seasoned International regular competitors.

On New Year's Day 2014 when she was the leading points scorer at the HALO Tealby Score Event trudging through the mud and cow pats of the Lincolnshire Wolds on a 19th Century map would she believe 10 months later she would be sprinting round the delights of Stirling Castle donning an England vest on a map voted the best Sprint map by the IOF for 2014?

Her acheivements this year are too numerous to mention - a winning regular at many LUL (won't mention the S word) ,EMUL, YUL and UKUL Events as well as winning the Canadian Championships and second at the British Championships. So this latest recognition is well deserved and all bodes well for 2015.

I understand Charlotte will be competing at this year's NYD Event at Spur Chase so this your chance to compete along side one of the leaging GB orienteers (the lucky ones may even be in her team). We all therefore hope that 2015 will be equally if not more successful for Charlotte and with the WOC only 8 months away we won't mention the F word quite yet!

Provisional plans are underway for next year's first big Orienteering Event on New Years Day. It is envisaged that Wootton Village Hall (Swallow Lane DN39 6ZY) will be the assembly for the morning's activities with the competition taking place a short drive away at Spur Chase Woods. The courses will be planned by Junior's Luke Snell and Jacob Smith. The exact format is yet to be determined but I am sure will consist of a team contest as per the HALO tradition.

Proceedings will commence as close as possible to 11 a.m. - so please be ready for briefings/rules etc. at that time before heading to the woods.

Post run festivities will then take the form of the previous 2 years with food, drink and light entertainment in the Village Hall - so please bring suitable fayre.

This event is free and welcome to all so please inform Alex as soon as possible to guarantee a map and run by emailing : alexsmith568googlemail.com or tweeting @physmeister

Congratulations to HALO junior George Van Dam who has been selected to run for England in the Interland Cup.  This competition takes place on February 8th 2015 in the South Downs. The Interland Cup is England’s only international competition outside the British Isles. England competes annually in this six-cornered match against two Belgian teams (Flemish and French speaking), the Netherlands, the Nordrhein-Westfalische (NW Germany) team and the French Ligue Nord–Pas de Calais de course d’orientation (LNPCCO). The competition is truly a team effort spanning age groups from W and M14 to W and M60 : 42 team members in all. 

Full team selection and further details can be found here

Congratulations to the following HALO members who achieved top 3 finishes in the 2014 Yorkshire and Humberside Superleague competition.  This was for their best 5 runs in the 9 designated superleague events throughout the year.

John Butler 1st M65S
Waynw Byrne 3rd M21S
Dean Field 3rd M45L
Paul Van Dam 3rd M45S
Jake Field 3rd M20-
Joe Field 2nd M14-
George Van Dam 3rd M14-
Charlotte Ward 2nd W21L
Roseanne Field 1st W35S
Helen Smith 2nd W35S
Mary Carrick 3rd W65L
Yasmin Field 2nd W16-
Emma van dam 3rd W10-

Details and full results here

RouteGadget is now available for Primrose Night and Twigmore Regional events. See the links on the relevant results panels.

Spot the HALO runner at the end of Saturday's sprints

Thanks to the those who turned up this evening - and especially to Kerria, Helen, Alex, Brian, Stuart, Paul and Mary for collecting controls in.

Congratulations to Poppy for completing her first orienteering course in the dark.

Full list of all competitors controls here

Results list here

Back to Longcroft next week

Congratulations to George Van Dam who came first in the M14A class at the Midlands Championships hosted by DVO at the Longshaw Estate on October 26th, an excellent run.
Full results on the DVO web-site here

The final event in Brigg once again produced some exciting racing, a continuation from all the previous 5 events, with well planned courses from Alex.

The in form Brian Ward not only beat the equally in form Paul on the handicap for this event but was able to win the Series Title accordingly.

The final standings are here.

Thanks to all involved planners Neil (inevitably), Brian (inevitably), Ken, Paul and Alex. Plus Brian Hostad for results/tables formulation. Plus kite collectors - a few too many to mention. Note that 130 last night was a pig to ungripple. Hope all enjoyed this Autumn's  6 Event Series (increased from 4) and now enjoy the long nights over winter - however plenty of HALO coaching opportunities to keep you physically and mentally in tune. 

The minutes of the recent Club AGM are now available in the Members Section.

Full results and event details  http://www.gd4caminhos.com/en/portocityrace 

This weekend, HALO's newly elected Chairman Neil Harvatt won not one, but two medals at the Euro City Tour Series at Porto.

Competing in  3 events over the weekend Neil came third in both the Night  Event on Friday (around the World Heritage City Area) and the prestigous Euro City Race Tour Event on Sunday morning (around the Foz coastal district).

On the Saturday he was in 6th place in the Score event in Porto's picturesque City Park, this was mainly due to the fact that the Veterans and Super Veterans ran in the same class - (so 50 plus competitors). This latter event was a mental challenge as well as physical as it entailed gathering exactly 1000 points with a maximum of 30 controls in 90 minutes. The points for each control ranged from 0 to 100. In the 28 degree heat it proved a real test with Neil's mathematical background helping enormously. Very few competitors recorded the exact total of 1000 points, one HALO competitor, Isoldt H did so in the V/SV W class but unfortunately visited 2 too many control sites when accumulating the 1000 points - so close to another HALO medal.

The whole event was very well organised, staged in superb surroundings and with superb weather.

As you read this Neil will no doubt be polishing his medals on the plane home. Hopefully the tinned sardines, he was also presented with will be allowed through the hand luggage controls at the airport - he might even share them with you at the HALO Awards Dinner in a few weeks time!

P.S. Neil's achievement was surpassed by Amanda Roberts of LOG who won one silver and two bronze medals, but our Chairman did beat LOG's Chairman Paul who only won one silver.

All HALO members, their partners and families ar einvited to the first HALO awards dinner.

It will be held on Saturday 15th November at The George, Kirton in Lindsey, 7 for 7:30pm. 
The menu is below and the cost is £20 for 3 courses or £17.50 for 2 courses.
The senior awards which are normally presented at the AGM will now be presented on this evening. 

I've booked the function room which is upstairs from the main bar/restaurant.
If you wish to stay over, the venue has 6 rooms which cost £65 including breakfast.
Childrens' menus can be sorted on the night. 

Booking

Please email me with numbers and menu choices. Please pay a £5 per person deposit at the time of booking; the deadline for deposits is end of Sunday 19th October please. The balance is due by end of Sunday November 9th.(If you're happy to pay the full amount when you book, feel free!).
Pay either by sending a cheque to the address below, or cash to me if you see me at an event, or electronically. My bank account number is below - for security reasons I won't add the sort code here but I'll email it separately when you book.
If you want to book a room, please contact The George directly and mention that you are attending this function to get the price quoted (normal price is £80). Details below. 

What about Christmas?

Many thanks to everyone who responded to my email questionnaire about socials and Christmas dinners. Based on the responses, the committee decided that we would hold this awards dinner instead of a Christmas dinner and we hope that it will become an annual event. This year we won't have a Christmas social as such but from next year HALO will hold an event in mid December and I'm hoping to add a Christmassy social aspect to it! The successful New Year Event will continue. 

See you at the dinner,

Helena  

Menu 

Soup of the day
Chicken liver & brandy pate with chutney and toast
Baked black pudding, mushroom & blue cheese stack
Oven baked gnocchi with goats cheese
Prawn Cocktail with marie rose sauce

 Twice baked cheddar cheese soufflé with spinach
Aberdeen Angus rump steak, onion rings and peppercorn sauce
Sea food mixed grill with a lemon and parsley butter
Confit pork belly with champ mash and red wine gravy
Chicken schnitzel with a mushroom and brandy sauce

 Sticky toffee pudding with toffee sauce
Apple crumble and custard
Chocolate Brownie and vanilla ice cream
Selection of Thaymar’s dairy ice cream, natural vanilla bean, strawberries and cream & chunky chocolate  

Venue Details

The George, 20 High Street, Kirton in Lindsey, DN21 4LX  Tel 01652 640600

http://www.thegeorgekirton.co.uk/index.html

Helena's email: Helenarainow.globalnet.co.uk

The live tracking of the Peter Palmer event is now on the IOF Livecenter website next to the 2014 World Champs. Legs two, four and the exciting sprint finish of leg 6 are all there.

HALO this autumn will be holding 4 of their Satuday Level D Local Events at Park Run Venues. This gives an opportunity for competitors to participate in both forms of running on the same morning!

The venues and dates are as follows:

September 27th - Central Park, Scunthorpe 

October 11th - Cleethorpes Country Park

October 18th - Humber Bridge Country Park

November 15th East Park, Hull

Flyer can be found here. 

Park Run home page is here

Note : These are not the only Saturday Events this Autumn - but these are the ones organised at Park Run Venues - please see the Fixtures tab for definitive list of venues, dates and times accordingly.

Also Note : These Park Run Venue Events are to be held from 10.00 to 12 Noon, however the other Saturday Events are generally held from 13.00 to 14.30 so please check before hand. 

Apologies for not reporting earlier - besides Charlottes second place, Emma Van Dam also landed a silver at the British Sprint Championships in the W10 class. Emma has been improving all season and this result is the culmination of a number of good performances. Also George's 11th place should be highly regarded as he is a Year 1 M14 and hopefully can go even better next year in the same age class.

Charlotte followed up  her Canadian titlle  with a Silver Medal at the British Sprint Championship at Keele University on Saturday. Competing against the all the top British athletes she competed the 2.4km course comprising of 23 controls in 13:28, 48 seconds behind World Champion contender Tessa Hill.

Congratulations to not only Charlotte but also to her parents Amanda and Brian who support, mentor, train, coach, manage, feed, transport her in such a way she peaks at the right time at the right place. All the training at the Lincolnshire Urban League events has certainly paid off - Spalding excepted!

Click on the link below to access the event page.

http://www.halo-orienteering.org.uk/page/_oneevent?id=504

The junior relay is for juniors from M/W 12 to M/W 18.  The relay starts at 4:30am and consists of 6 legs, 2 of which (Long Orange standard) will be in the dark.  All HALO juniors who would like to run and haven't yet been contacted, should contact Neil Harvatt on neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk.

The 2nd annual Indoor Championships will be taking place at the University of Lincoln on Thursday 11th September, starting at 7pm. A combination of maze and flat-out sports hall orienteering will be on the menu and it promises, as last year, to be full-on! Please register your interest by email to: pmmurgatroydaol.com. The flyer for the event can be found here – note that there is no entry on the night.

There will now be a one week break and the club night will restart on Monday September 15th at Longcroft School, Beverley (6:30 to 8pm).  All welcome - contact Neil Harvatt (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk) for further information.

Results here for Monday September 1st 2014

Results here for August 18th 2014

Results here for July 28th 2014.  Ignore first 'time' column.

Note the LOG City Race is being held this year in surburban Lincoln - Birchwood on Sunday 31st August 2014.

SYO have an Urban event on Saturday 30th August and hoping to have a Prologue and Chase as training for the British Sprint Championships the following weekend.

Details of Lincoln are here.

LOG are once again organising a 3 Hour Score Event in the Lincolnshire Wolds centred on the village of Tetford near Horncastle.

The date for your diariies is Saturday 26th July with a mass start at 10.00 a.m from the White Hart Inn.

To register your interest to predict map numbers please e mail Paul - pmmurgatroydaol.com

Further details can be found on LOG website here.

Barbeque at Pete & Julie Shew's house in Broughton. More details nearer the date both here and by email. If there any questions in the mean time please contact Helena Crutchley (helenarainow.globalnet.co.uk.

its on July 27th by the way.

Come and try out the mini-mass start, gaffled, map-memory and a bit Norwegian half kilometer course. Bring your own dibber for automatic registration/download - dibbers will be available but then someone has to do the SI :-( The Live Results screen will be running to enable the massed crowds(?) to follow the event. Read the flyer for details and map.

Location is 66 High Street, Broughton. See the event details for a link to Streetmap.

I've cracked how to enter Routegadget details for multi-stage events like the Lincolnshire Poacher park series, so Hemswell Routegadget is finally here. Check the results page for the various links.

Amanda grabbed a handful of photos on her Blackberry(!) - they can be found here

 It is that time of year again. The weather is improving, the flowers are in bloom, the clocks will be changing and the brambles are growing! - so the 2014 Poacher season is upon us.

The 10th event is at Hemswell Cliff- Parking is one mile West of Caenby Corner on the A631 on the Old Parade Ground next to the Antiques Centres.

Note this event is the second of the 3 Sprint/Park Events. Same format as previous 2 years.

5 Courses - 1km, 1.5km, 2km, 2.5kms & 3 kms.

The following minimum distances need to be completed.

Short Course - 2.5kms

Medium Course - 4kms

Long Course - Men > 60 & all Women 5.5kms

Long Course - Men < 60 7kms

Any distance combinations are allowed as long as minimum achieved.

POST RACE ANALYSIS - possibly Willows Licenced Cafe/Restaurant who have a Bar-b-q on that night.On A631 2 miles East of Caenby Corner just outside Glentham.

Same entry fees £3 (Adults) & £2 (Juniors) plus £8 Families. SI Dibber Hire £1 (free to HALO members). Club Membership available on line at British Orienteering website -  here.

All welcome - courses for beginners and experienced.

Full list of events can be found here. Or in the Fixtures section on this website. Further details of the Poacher League formats and Trophies to be won can be found via the 'rotating' icon on the Home Page.

Start times from approx 5.45 pm  to 7 pm ish. (sometimes earlier - can not necessarily guarantee).

2 New areas with 2 New maps have been incorporated this year as well as some of the old favourites.

The Poacher Knock Out Cup at the end of the Series has now been cancelled, with a handicup cup now being incorporated in the last Series event at Normanby Park.

As always check prior to the event for actual details of parking etc. as they are subject to last minute change. 

A Kite collecting Rota can be found here.

Due to the heavy rain currently falling, there will be no club night tonight.

Apologies

Mary and Jackie's Icelandic adventure

This year's Lincolnshire Challenge Shield was being hosted by LOG at Boultham Park in Lincoln on Thursday May 29th.

Final Results can be found here.   LOG 1394 points (15 scorers) and HALO 1282 points (14 scorers).

'We can't always rely on our Veterans to gain us victory'. - famous last words.

Well done to our Juniors once again with Luke, Dom, Emily, Elspeth and Flora all completing the 2 courses and scoring points for the club (Which was a combination of Yellow/ Orange and Light Green controls). So it was a great effort particularly by the latter 2 who are Poacher Short or Yellow competitors. Bodes well for the future.

The Seniors performed well with some new stars - Lawrence, Alex, Helen, Karen and George being our scorers (Sally just outside).

Now to the Veterans, where thanks to mispunches in the maze we only had 4 scorers. 3 seasoned orienteers (2 of whom are regularly coached using mazes by our Chairman) unfortunately mp'd in the maze.

On my calculations if these 2 (who shall remain nameless) had finished as per their recorded times we could have achieved an extra 116 points giving us victory after discounting the lowest Veteran score. If only......

The successful Veteran scorers were Neil, Chris, Pete S and Mary V.

So we were a lot closer than the scores suggests. There is always next year.

Thanks to all of those competing - hope you enjoyed it.

Please note the Poacher Knock Out Cup due to take place on Wednesday 25th June at Elsham has regretably been cancelled.

An alternative Cup competition will now be incorporated within the last Series event on Wednesday 18th June at Normanby Park (South).

This will be a Handicap event based on a formula which has a 50% weighting for age and gender and a 50% weighting for Poacher average speeds.

The overall weighting will be published in advance for each competitor. Then the actual on the night average speeds will be multiplied by the weighting (all less than 1) to give the handicap average time.

Hopefully then competitors should be able to see on the display screen the League and Cup comparitive positions simultaneously (fingers crossed) and then they can decide whether to do that extra run to try to reduce their average speeds accordingly.

Also after the last event the Annual Poacher Presentations will take place for both League and Cup trophies adjacent to the Competition area.

Routegadget is now available for the Mausoleum Poacher. Sorry for the delay.

The club juniors once again performed admirably in the Yvette Baker Trophy competiton, held on April 27th at Valley Gardens Harrogate. Unfortunately we didn't have enough juniors available on the day to be able to compete with the bigger clubs, but each of our juniors did very well.  The following six were the club's scorers (each club can have a maximum 9 scorers, with only four from any one course, so we were up against it, numbers wise.)

Our other runner was Flora Jolly who had a great run on Yellow to score 93 points.

For the record, SYO were victorious and our team came 4th

Routegadget is now available for last Wednesday's Poacher event at Willingham. See the results page for the link.

For the second year in a row we have a team for the National Junior Team Competition - the Yvette Baker Trophy (YBT).
The event takes place at Valley Gardens, Harrogate on Sunday April 27th, there will be courses for all (White to Brown)

Team as below with suggested courses:-

Marsaili Jolly W12 - Orange
Elspeth Jolly  W10 - Yellow
Flora Jolly W10 - Yellow
Holly Morrow W14 - Yellow
Amber Morrow W12 - Yellow
George van Dam M14 – L Green
Emma van Dam W10 – Yellow/Orange
Bentley Nicholson M10 - Yellow
Bella Brittain W14 - Yellow
Robert Hostad M14 – Yellow

If you see any of the juniors on the day, please give them your encouragement.

If any other juniors can take part who are not named above, then just turn up, remembering to state at registration that you are from HALO and running in the YBT competiton.

On Monday April 14^th and Monday April 28^th, we have the opportunity to do some training/coaching at Houghton Woods (venue of our last colour coded event on March 30^th).

The sessions will last from 6 to 7:30pm, with parking adjacent to the woodshed (as used for registration on March 30^th).

Turn west off the A1034 in Sancton at Grid Ref SE 901372 and follow the road for approx. 900m. Turn left on to the track at SE 893388. Parking / Assembly will be approx. 300m along the track. Please drive slowly as the track surface is uneven, particularly after the first 200m.

The session will cover a variety of skills, including relocation and recognising map symbols, but principally it will be an opportunity to get used to a technical orienteering area without the pressure of a race.  We will  finish with a short course.

It is not essential to attend both sessions, there will be different activities on each date.

I do need to know numbers for each date, so please reply to this email or to  neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk  if you are reading this on the club web-site. There will be a charge to cover for maps, etc. £2 adults / £1 juniors

Neil

HALO have been involved with all four local authorities (Hull, East Riding, Lincs and NE Lincs), in the past few years, providing Orienteering competitions for the students at these schools.

N Lincs have already held their 2014 final at Brumby Hall with over 350 students from Year 5 to Year 9 taking part from 12 different schools. Brian Slater organised this successful event on March 26^th.

Below are the dates of the remaining finals:-

Monday 19^th May – Hull Final, Hymers College, Hull

Tuesday 20^th May – East Riding Final, Burton Constable Hall

Friday 23^rd May – NE Lincs Final, Oasis Academy Wintringham, Grimsby.

Friday 11^th July - Humber Games Final, Hymers College, Hull (the best teams from each authority compete against each other).

The eagle-eyed among you will realise that the three remaining local authority finals all take place in the same week!  If members are able to help at any of these event, it will be very much appreciated.  Assistance will also be required at the Humber Games Final in July.

If you are able to help please contact Neil (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk) for the Hull event, Brian (bslatercleeyahoo.com) for the Grimsby event and John (johnthe-butlers.co.uk) for the East Riding event.

Splits for courses /doc/20140330splits.pdf requested by a keen analyst.

HALO as being an integral YHOA Club are to organise and plan the Sprint Event at the JK in 2016.

The event which is not only a National (category A ) event it also draws many International Competitors with potentially over 3000 runners.

The event will be held at Leeds University 1.5kms north of the city centre on Good Friday 2016. Brian Ward, our Urban & Sprint specialist will be planning this prestigous event.

Traditional cross country events will be held on the Saturday and Sunday together with the relay on Easter Sunday, all in other suitable areas in Yorkshire.

Although 2 years away, the size of the task (for a small club like ourselves) is such that as many helpers and Team Leaders will be required not only on the day but in the months preceding the event, so please keep the date free in your diaries; and if you are able to carry out a lead role in the organisation of the event please contact our Chairman accordingly. 

The League Table for the Series after 4 Events can be found here.

Perhaps we should rename this  the 'Brian' League - with 3 out of the top 5 having the same Christian name.

Before the resumption of the Autumn Pub League there could well be a rush on HALO members changing their names by deed poll. I don't know whether Brian Carrick would go down too well - there may be a number of Brian's but there is certainly only one Mary (well actually we have 2)!!! If only she had contested another event??

Besides congratulating the 3 Brian's (Ward in particular for claiming victory) also congratulations go to the 2 Field's for gaining the silver and bronze. Which order  they finished in the League (same points) is a matter of debate : age/ height/ looks/ highest individual points score/ average time/ most events competed etc. etc. - I'll let them fight it out amongst themselves.

Thanks to all the planners/mappers/IT Wizards/Kite collectors etc. and the 36 Series competitors. It is possible the Autumn Series will be 6 Events starting in mid Sept to end Oct - so if you are interested in planning an event please let Brian S/Neil or myself know accordingly.

HALO members came out in force on Sunday at Clumber Park and as a result finished 11th in the Robin Hood Trophy Team Competition. In years gone by HALO have been competitive in this Competition but few expected such a result this past weekend. Amongst the CST small clubs HALO  finished 2nd behind our main YHOA nemesis EPOC, but more importantly 27 points ahead of local rivals LOG, who were competing on their doorstep. So one up to HALO with the LCS and LUL to come!

There were a number of outstanding performances notably:

George Van Dam - 1st Light Green and 1st M14A

Brian Ward          - 2nd Blue and 1st M40S (runningup on Short Course)

John Butler          - 4th Very Short Green and 2nd M70S

Emma Van Dam   - 6th Yellow and 4th W10A  

Helen Smith         - 1st W35L

Amanda Ward      - 2nd W50S

Isoldt Harris        - 1st W55S

If I've forgotten to mention anyone apologies - I am sure you'll be included in the Weekly Newsletter.

Another Date for your diaries - Weds April 2nd

HALO and the Forestry Commission in conjunction with Grimsby College are holding a daytime event on the above date at Willingham Woods.

A 'Score' Event  will be organised using the newly refurbished Permanent Orienteering Course.

The event will be suitable for all age groups with all levels of experience. Starts from the main car park on te A631 2kms East of Market Rasen, from 10.30a.m through to 2p.m.

Anyone who can assist Brian Slater at the Event please contact him accordingly.

Once again HALO will be providing support and expertise for this year's Humber Night Challenge. Since 2007 HALO have assisted Humberside Police in the running of this event whereby approximately 130 13 to 17 year olds without previous outdoor pursuit experience embark on a 12 mile overnight hike, whilst carrying out 6 different challenges at different check points.

If any members are able to help, for any periods of time, at this worthwhile event on the evening or night of Saturday 5th April through to the following morning please contact Ken, John B or Mary C. Note HALO members will be based at the Team HQ in Brantingham. Further details can be found here.

Thanks to the 21 members of the HALO team who travelled to Guisecliffe on Sunday. The organisers had made best use of the area with some very runnable contoured forest mixed with an upper moorland area and a nicely contoured former quarry area. A pleasure to run there - unless your name is Ann who may not have such happy memories of lying on her back in a swamp! We didn't trouble the leaders (and never expected to) but it was great to see that we managed to get the maximum 13 counters, despite a couple of mispunches from the team. Special mention to Emma, Dominic and Dan (plus Helen) who all ran courses, harder than they are used to - and all three (four) scored points. And extra mention to Mary and Dominic who persevered on their courses to score points for the club.

Club scores

HALO scorers

Full results at:-       http://www.claro-orienteering.org/guisecliff2014.htm

Also a special thanks to Neil for Captaining the team, erecting the tent, evicting the last occupant before the pub closed, scoring most points; and all whilst he was awaiting news of the impending birth of his first Grandchild. Some commitment.

Thanks to Mary for helping to put controls out, and also to Dan, Brian and Paul for collecting.

Results (odds and evens)

Sorry to have to cancel but it could be dangerous with things flying around.  Brian.

9 Events have been already chosen for this years Yorkshire Urban League (possibly a few more to be added SYO/SHUOC).

These are :

So plenty of opportunities in 2014 not forgetting the East Midlands Urban League and of course the midweek Lincolnshire Urban League.

Details of the YUL and EMUL are at a different website in 2014, together with other Regional and National Leagues.

They can be found here. Remember to add to your favourites.

#ThinkFastRunHard

It is not very often that HALO members have the opportunity to compete as a team against other Orienteering clubs (apart from our highly competitive matches with LOG). The first round of this year’s national team competition will be hosted by CLARO on Sunday February 16^th. The event will be held at Guisecliff, Dacre Banks near to Pateley Bridge. Entries for Trophy courses will be done by the club.Please let me know your availability (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk)  and, if running, which course you would prefer (please note eligibility in table below – you can run up a course and women can run as men – should they wish!!).

Entries need to be submitted by January 31^st . We need at least 13 runners to take part on a variety of courses – see second table below.

Nearer the day, I will attempt to coordinate transport – if you are willing to drive, please let me know.

Please note, you do need to be a current BOF (and HALO) member to take part, so ensure you have renewed your membership for the 2014 season via the British Orienteering web-site.

Courses

CS Class   CompassSport Course  BOF Age Classes          Class Size 

1  Brown                                            Men Open             Large 

2  Short Brown                                   M20- M40            Large 

3  Blue Women                                   Women Open         Large 

4  Blue Men                                        M50                     Large 

5  Green Women                                W20- W45           Large 

6  Green Men                                     M60                     Large 

7  Veterans Short Green                    M70 W60         Large 

8A  Junior Men (Green)                     Men 18-                Small 

8B  Junior Women (Short Green)        Women 18-           Small 

9A  Orange Men                                 Men 14-                Small 

9B  Orange Women                            Women 14-           Small  

· 13 scores to count

· maximum of 2 counters from any one 'Large' CompassSport class

· maximum of 2 counters from each pair of ‘Small’ CompassSport classes. e.g. two from 8A, none from 8B; one from 8A, one from 8B; none from 8A, two from 8B; etc.

RouteGadget uses Java which has come under pressure as an insecure product. Oracle has, therefore, tightened security on Java which means that RouteGadget probably won't be allowed to run in your browser. (It would cost RouteGadget about £150 p.a. to get a certificate to allow it to run!).

There is a new version being developed that doesn't use Java, but it is still in early stages. However, I hope to start to use this in the near future in parallel with the existing Java version.

It is still possible to use Java. A good page to look at is http://www.routegadget.co.uk/index/competitor/java-problems-jan-2014  - I had to upgrade Java to version 7u51 to get the ability to allow specific web sites to be allowed. I also had to allow the halo web site with and without the www separately.

The club is proud to announce that four of our club members have won their individual categories in the 2013 Yorkshire Superleague:

(as on EPOC's website)

M65S - John Butler

M12 - George Van Dam 

W35S - Helen Smith

W10 - Emma Van Dam 

The first event of 2014 will be held in the picturesque Lincolnshire Wolds village of Tealby on New Years Day morning.

To whet your appetite the following details have been announced.

Seeded teams of 3 will compete in a 45 minutes score event. There will be two maps bagged back to back:

1. A new A3 Urban O map of the village (scale : 1:3500) with 15 controls scoring 10 points each.

2. An A3 19th Century Black and White map (scale : 8.5 inches to the mile) of the surrounding Wolds area with 10 controls scoring 20 points each. This equates to approximately to a 1:7500 scale.

Competitors can collect controls from both maps simultaneously. Optimum distance to collect all controls is about 6 miles - but plenty of scoring opportunities for those running/jogging or walking 4 miles or less.

Festivities will then consist of a barbeque (as in  2013 it was inadvertently omitted from the HALO calendar) - weather permitting.

Parking, changing, assembly, toilets, social activities including Quiz (now confirmed)/in the village hall or locally known as Tennyson d'EyncourtMemorial Hall.

Please bring soup/desserts/cheese etc. to share, plus drinks - burgers & sausages with buns provided.

Hall booked from 11am -  mass start(s) at 11.30 am in close proximity to the Hall.

Off road shoes recommended - no outdoor shoes in Village Hall please.

For the more adventurous, maps can be collected via Zip Wire after punching the start.

All welcome - children can be accommodated - may be paired up depending on age. Roads in village are very quiet especially on NYD. One quiet B Road will be marshalled.

To reserve your map please e mail skybluepetetiscali.co.uk asap. Draw (perhaps live on Twitter) will be made New Years Eve - so entries by 30th December please - sooner rather than later.

FINAL DETAILS are here.

TEAMS are HERE.

The Night Series League Table after round 4 at Noddle Hill can be found here.

Congratulations to the top three:-
Dean, Jake and Pete S. 

The British Schools Championships were held at Shipley Country Park near Derby on 17 November 2013.

On what were fast runnable courses HALO members put in very good performances.

Year 5 Girls  Emma Van Dam 2nd

Year 10 Girls Yasmin Field 3rd

Year 7 Boys George Van Dam 5th

Year 12 Boys Jake Field 6th

Year 7 Boys Joe Field 22nd

Next year the event takes place at Temple Newsam so a good opportunity for other HALO junior members

to compete at a major event.

The 2013 UK Orienteering League has now finished and HALO were positioned 66th in the team competition with the following contributing points:

Four courses have been planned for this Saturday at Primrose Warren. The White, Yellow and Orange courses are conventional.  The Technical course will be a 'Norwegian'.  Your map will only show the Start, Finish and first control.  Partial maps at each control will show the location of the next control.  You can either mark the next location on your map with a pen (if you have one) or rely on your memory - your choice!
Starts will be from 1pm to 3pm.  You may attempt as many courses as you wish for one fee (£3 adults, £1.50 juniors), time permitting. Controls will start to be collected from 3:30pm.
The entrance to the woods is via a forest track next to the café in the A18 layby approx. 100 metres north of junction 4 (M180).

The next event after Primrose will be on Thursday November 14th at Normanby South.  The first in our new series of night events.

The first in our new series of night events will be on Thursday November 14th at Normanby South.   Registration at the Bagmoor Lane car park.
The night series will comprise a 45 minute score event.  There will be between 16 and 20 controls for you to find. To maximise the use of the areas, the odd numbered controls will need visiting before the even numbered controls (or vice versa).  10 points for each valid control, 10 point penalty for each part minute late.  5 point bonus if any minutes unused but only if all controls are collected.  The league positions will be handicapped based on age and gender to give everyone chance to win.
Night event 2 (Nov 21^st) – Humber Bridge Country Park – registration at the Country Park Inn. (Note food is served until 9pm and there is a quiz here at 9pm)
Night event 3 (Nov 28^th) – Brumby Hall and Central Park, Scunthorpe – registration at Brumby Hall (tbc)
Night event 4 (Dec 5^th) – Noddle Hill Nature Reserve, Hull – registration in the nature reserve car park (tbc).

Starts are expected to be between 6 and 6:45pm.  Entry fee £3 adults.

IMPORTANT – As this is the first time (in my memory) that we have run a Night Series, will you please email me (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk) if you hope to be there so that I can accurately judge map numbers (There will only be a small number of spare maps printed).  As an incentive to enter the whole series, £9 at the first event will cover all four events.

AIRE has announced that this Sunday's event at Clayton Woods, Horsforth, has had to be cancelled.

This is due to a problem with permissions.

The fixtures for the events that comprise the HALO league event were agreed at the committee meeting on October 24th.

The first two events are
Sun November 3rd - SYO Middle distance event at Bowden Housteads Wood
Sun November 17th - EBOR Urban event at Peasholm and The Secret Garden.

There are 17 events in total and the league will be based on the best 8 performances.  Trophies, etc. will be presented at the 2014 AGM

The Yorkshire and Humber region are hosting the JK festival in 2016.  Please read the following notes arising from the first meeting. There are many opportunities for involvement.

Information for clubs to pass on to all members         JK 2016 Initial plans and Officials.

A steering group for JK 2016 consisting of members of the YHOA committee, YHOA fixtures group, a couple of interested volunteers, and British Orienteering’s Major Events Manager met for the first time on Tuesday 10 Sept.

Initial plans which are being investigated further would have the Day 1 Sprint at Leeds University, Day 2 as a middle distance race at Timble, Day 3 as a classic distance race at Kilnsey, and the Day 4 relays at Storthes Hall.  Having Day 2 as a middle race breaks with tradition, but it is being considered by Events and Competitions Committee who are likely to seek the views of orienteers.

Whilst members of the steering group have agreed to do further work on the suitability of the possible areas, no officials have been agreed as yet.  The list below has been made as a starter although there will be other jobs to take on later.  The steering group is hoping to agree some of the officials below at a meeting scheduled for January 14 2014.  Any member of YHOA who feels they are suitably experienced and willing, is invited to put their name forward.

Event Coordinator

Budget Coordinator

Organisers and planners for each of the 4 days.  Individuals could put themselves forward for these positions, or perhaps better, a couple of people who know they can work together could offer to be joint organisers, or joint planners for a particular day.  Planning and organising roles are not restricted to members of the clubs whose areas are being used.

Trail O Coordinator

Publicity Coordinator

Website/social media Coordinator

Social Programme Coordinator

Safety Officer

If anyone is interested in carrying out one of these roles, please let Alistair Tinto (alistair.tintoyahoo.co.uk">alistair.tintoyahoo.co.uk) know before Christmas so that the steering group can make some decisions in January.  There will be other roles such as Starts Coordinator, Car Parking Coordinator, String Course and many more.  We hope that most YHOA members will help in some way at the actual events, but if you want to be involved as an official on the above list, as an official for a role not yet decided upon, or with the steering group, then again please let Alistair know as soon as possible.

The revised (21 Oct) Final League Table can be found here.

Congratulations to Thomas who scored maximum points from the 3 events that he competed in.

I am sure all 39 orienteers who competed in the series enjoyed the experience and will return in the future. Perhaps the 2014 Autumn Pub League will be expanded to 6 events by starting 2 weeks earlier to make the most of daylight hours - September 10th 2014 should be pencilled into your diaries (subject to Committee ratification)? Giving even more opportunities for potential planners & mappers to 'have a go'. Score events are far easier and less time consuming than set courses, so all volunteers welcome.

Thanks to all those who helped at any of the events - it is appreciated.

Congratulations to the Van Dam siblings who took part in the British Schools Score Championships on Saturday (October 12th).  George was second in the Year 7 boys.  Emma went one better and won the Year 5 girls competition.

Full results here

 Congratulations to Charlotte Ward on winning Women Elite (Course 4b) at the Orienteering Canada National Sprint Championships,

an International Orienteering Federation "World Ranking Event".

Link to maps

There are a number of the Run Challenge events taking place in Hull in the near future - see poster for details.
First event is at Ennerdale Leisure Centre on September 24th 2013.
Further details at www.runchallenge.org.uk

I have to renew my 1st Aid Cert. this Wednesday evening (4 hour course at Scunthorpe) and therefore cannot run the club night at Oasis.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Dave says he will be running at Swallow Vale this Wednesday at 6pm, starting at Riby Grove Farm.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=517450&Y=406050&A=Y&Z=120

He will be please if you join him.

The next session at Oasis will be on 2nd Oct.

Brian

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The Club AGM will take place at 4 to 4.30 PM following the Club Championship on 12 October 2013 at Normanby Hall.

An agenda will be sent out before the event but if you have any items you wish to add to the agenda please contact me on my email address which is in the members section.

The first two local Xplorer events will be at Noddle Hill, Hull on Saturday September 7th and at East Park, Hull on Saturday September 14th 2013. 

According to the Xplorer web-site,
"Xplorer is a fun family challenge aimed at primary and pre-school children and their parents, grandparents and guardians.  It is an outdoor navigational challenge for the whole family to enjoy and involves a healthy mix of physical activity and decision making.  Using a simple map of the park the aim is to find the points marked on the map and write down the name of the secret animal or colour shown on the marker.  Xplorer is perfect for children as they can run around in a safe and friendly environment and will have a great adventure searching for the secret markers.  No experience of map reading is necessary and parents are encouraged to join in the fun!"

Further details on the Xplorer web-site http://www.xplorer.org.uk/xplorer-events

Monday September 2nd - result here
A victory for Joe who had a 4 point lead over Matt in 2nd, with Helen and Peter joint 3rd, just 1 point behind.  All scores were close this week as the handicap becomes fine tuned! This was the last week on the Westwood, next Monday (September 9th) sees us back at Longcroft School for the Autumn term.  Meet at the Girls Gym (Upper School) at 6:30pm.

The Monday night activities will continue throughout the summer (except for August 26th when I hope everyone will be at EBOR's White Rose weekend).
Paul Simmons (August 12th) and Dan Bibbington (August 19th) have kindly offered to organise on those dates.
Meet on The Westwood at 6:30 (south side of Newbegin Pits, Walkington Road, NOT the ice-cream van site).
They will consist of a 60 minute score event.
Numbers are expected to be low due to the holidays, if you hope to be there and you are not a regular please email Neil to ensure enough maps are available   (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk) -be careful to add the final 'k'.

Monday August 19
Results can be viewed here.  Congratulations to Amanda who got the most points, helped by a generous handicap for her first Orienteering outing.  Sorry Amanda your handicap will be much lower next time.  Peter in his buggy also achieved an impressively high score.  A big thank you to Dan for planning the evening and putting out the controls (with help from Kelly).  And thanks also to Paul for being able to understand the complex bonus point rules and work out everybody's score.  Remember nothing on next week (it is the EBOR White Rose weekend), back again on September 2nd.  Then from September 9th at Longcroft School for the Autumn Term.

Monday August 12
Big thank you to Paul for planning and putting out the controls (in torrential rain) - it allowed me to have a run in the pleasant sunshine later on (with a little bit of rain).  Despite the rain, we had double the number of people compared to last week.  John Butler showed all his experience and topped the scoring, just pipping Matt and Christine.
Full Results from last Monday (August 12) are here.
Scoring rules here

Results from Monday August 5th here.

Only a small band of HALO members travelled to the Moray coast for this year's 6 day event.  Everyone else missed a treat, the areas were great, the weather was good (well, 2 wet days, but always warm and never windy) and all events were close together (max drive 30 minutes).  In two years time the same area hosts the World Championships as well as the 2015 Scottish 6 day event - I would recommend it to anyone. There were over 4000 competitors this year, potentially even more in 2015.

Top of the class for HALO was Emma who was the W10B champion - brilliant!  Close behind was John with a 3rd in M70S - well done.

Full results and loads of photographs can be found on the Scottish 6 day website.

HALO's result's here

LOG are holding a 3 Hour Score Event in the picturesque Lincolnshire Wolds on Saturday 17th August.

Results here for the 60 minute score event last Monday.  Sorry to Yasmin and Jake, their split times didn't survive the upload.  Yasmin got 13 controls in 60:03 and Jake got 4 in 21:21 (dodgy tummy).  Dan got the most controls (odds and evens) in the quickest time, the secret being to ignore control 41.  Matt got the most controls in the quickest time in the 'any order' category, Matt would have got all 16 easily inside the hour if he hadn't forgotten about 44 - the nearest one to the finish!  Paul had the fastest time to find control  41.

Nothing on next week (July 29), meet same place on August 5th.  Dan will organise August 19th.  Need volunteers for August 12th and September 2nd.

Amanda was out and about and took a few PHOTOS

PHOTOS from Lawrie Phipps (Airienteers)

HEADCAM Video on YouTube 

Photos from the YHOA Sprints at the University of Hull can be found HERE

For Hi-Res copies please e-mail

brian(at)halo(dash)orienteering(dot)org(dot)uk

THANKS!  :) 

Photos HERE :)

Race And Team Points are here. Overall Series Points are here.

This has been a very exciting, interesting and completely new experience for some.  Between us, LOG and HALO, have some excellent urban areas.  Paul Murgatroyd has come up trumps with this series.  Apparently it was conceived in his bath tub, as was the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield competition. 

Congratulations to the winners of the various classes, you have obviously trained hard and attended most of the meets.  The 2/3rds of the Ward family Mum and Daughter must be ecstatic after there clear-up of the women's classes.  The Simmonds should be fairly happy with Dad and Son victories in the 'short' and 'medium' classes, and Liam is happily back to form taking the lead on the 'long' in his stride.  The team prize goes to LOG. who narrowly missed winning the LCS, but were outright winners of the urban league. What a pleasurable task it was to be able to present 'The Shield' to such formidable opponents.  It was QI that with so many individual winners HALO could not quite clinch the team win.  LOG commentators no doubt will be able to explain the intricate reasons for this puzzling phenomenon.  See LOG's website. www.logonline.org.uk

Thanks to all those who planned events and/or administered SI and starts for the series. I wish you all an active summer, and perhaps you might begin with this weekend's

HALO HULL-O 2013?

Brian Slater, HALO Chair

We had an excellent turn out for the traditional end of term picnic.  Follow flickr link for photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halo-o/

As discussed last Monday, we will continue to meet during the summer on the Westwood.

(Note there will not be one on August 5^th)

Next week we will meet at the southern side of Newbegin Pits to avoid traffic from the races.

My plan for next week is to put out a number of controls throughout the Westwood (secured with cable and positioned discretely (but accurately!).  I will use the SI boxes and a small marker kite.

You will then have 45 (maybe 60) minutes to go out and find as many as you can – the position will be marked on the map, unlike last week!  This way you can do as much or as little as you feel capable of.

If this works OK, we can replicate it in future weeks – but with different control locations and hopefully different planners.

Just a few notes regarding the Urban Event on Thursday.

Directions To Leisure Centre : The signposting in the town is not very good (obscured by trees etc.) so map is here. For SatNav Postcode is LN11 8RS.

Parking : The Leisure Centre have allowed us to use a gravel area (overflow car park) west of the entrance. Up to 25 spaces available. Once full please use adjacent side streets as an alternative rather than the Leisure Centre Car Park, which may be busy with people swimming due to the current heatwave.

Facilities : Toilet and Refreshment facilities can be used at the Leisure Centre (as well as swimming after your run - £3.95)

Maps : all A3 (non waterproof) - not bagged (please bring your own if required). Courses shown in a shade of red (for greater clarity), so if colour blind please  inform at start where alternative maps can be issued.

Course Lengths : Short 1.9k, Medium 4k, Long 5.9k

Terrain : Purely urban - all streets & paths and runnable grass (no nettles or brambles) Shorts ok.

Out Of Bounds : Note the Leisure Centre Car Park is Out of Bounds whilst running the courses (only affects Medium and Long) but can be crossed to access Leisure Centre and Parking whilst not competing.

Trophy Presentations : to be held as soon as is practically possible after the Event.

15 HALO members made the journey to Sleaford where they experienced some excellent courses from Andy & Craig Lucas of LOG with mixed results.

Thescores for the courses can be found here. 

And the Series tables can be found here.

Marsaili and Holly were making their Urban debuts on the Short and will gain significant experience from this Event. Unlike Dominic who despite taking second place on the night takes the Series title. Similarly Chris who despite his lowest Series score on the Middle Course has now accummulated sufficient Series points to be crowned Male Middle Champion. Congratulations to both father and son. Although Amanda did not compete last night she still is in pole position for the Female Middle title although she can still be overtaken by LOG's Trudy. Unlike Charlotte who was also  confirmed  as the Female Long Champion after producing an excellent performance on the night only being beaten by less than 30 seconds by LOG's 'likely lads' Liam and Paul. So HALO has taken at least 3 out of the 5 individual trophies on offer and hopefully a 4th.

The team event looks as though it will be going to LOG who now have a 105 point lead going into the last round (partly due to a high RAFO turnout last night). Anything can happen, so a good HALO turnout at the last event in Louth will be required. Parking and assembly is in the SW corner of the Meridian Leisure Centre overflow car park.

The young HALO juniors did a fantastic job at Belton Woods, Grantham. Everyone of the team completed their course successfully, despite many volunteering to run 'up' a course to help the team out. Individual points are as follows:-

Yellow
Emma  97 points
Bella  - 93 points
Holly  - 90 points
Jacob   69 points
Elspeth and Amber  - 72 points

Orange
Dominic  72 points
Emily     91 points
Luke    69 points
Marsaili   81 points

Light Green
George  84 points

Considering how inexperienced the team were on their particular courses, the future looks very rosy indeed for HALO.

Team photo here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halo-o/

Course results here

http://www.logonline.org.uk/Result/2013/YBT_Final/results.htm

Congratulations to HALO members George Van Dam and Emma Van Dam who both had successful runs at the Yorkshire Primary Schools Championships, held at Ripley Castle, Harrogate today (26 June).

Emma was second girl on the Y4 course (and an impressive 4th overall), whilst George went one better and was fastest around the Y6 course.

There is an Urban weekend in Rome on 1st to 3rd November.

Flights currently around £100 (Ryanair from East Midlands)

Helen Smith has offered to act as entries secretary for this. Contact Helen if you are interested - Note Helen will only coordinate entries, not hotels and flights.

 A few photos here on Flickr photostream

Congratulations to HALO for regaining the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield. Even without our top Urban orienteers and also our Fixtures Secretary we were still able to regain the trophy due to a true team effort, with our Juniors being the main contributors. Commiserations to our rivals LOG, some of whom travelled long distances in horrendous traffic conditions. There's always next year.

So overall it is now a tie on 2 victories apiece. Where and when will LOG elect to hold the 2014 LCS?

Team scorers can be found here.

Individual Points scored can be found here.

Hopefully you will have been able to decipher the individual scores from the Poacher Results. Note those LOG members who were held up in traffic and were unable to complete their full minimum distances have still been included in the Results process - apologies for any confusion when the start was being packed away.

For those who were unable to make it to Swallow Vale - the quiz I compiled can be found here.

The winners on the night were a team from the  LOG Committee scoring 35.5 points - can you beat them.

The answers are here.

Latest top score is 42 from honoury club member Pete Kullich.

Full details of the event(s) taking place this Wednesday can be found elsewhere.

One additional event is a picture quiz based on Lincolnshire and 'O' Trivia that I have compiled. Entry is free but if anyone wishes to make a contribution to my sponsorship for running the Great North Run it would be appreciated (on behalf of the Air Ambulance). Question papers from registration, answers and prizes at the presentations in the Blacksmith Arms at Rothwell (All welcome).

One change to the Poacher Long Course - Qualifying minimum distances have been reduced to 5km (Females and over 60 Males) and 6km (under 60's).

Climb on the courses varies from 40m to 115m, from 1km course to 3km course.

The LCS minimum distances remain at 4km Seniors and 2.5km Juniors, similar distances for the Poacher Medium and Short courses. 

HALO have a number of high profile events in the near future and will need more than the normal number of helpers.

Monday July 1st North Lincs Schools Orienteering Final - Oasis Academy, Grimsby (daytime).  Contact Brian Slater if you are able to help at this one.

Friday July 12th The Humber Games Orienteering Final - Hymers College, Hull.  The culmination of the four local authority schools orienteering competitions.  Other sports will also be taking place.  Contact Neil Harvatt if you are able to help here, giving T shirt size.  The School Games organisers are providing T shirts for volunteers.

The above two events won't need too many more helpers (many have already volunteered), it's the two below that really need YOU!

The Hull-O weekend.

Saturday July 20th - YHOA Sprint Championships at Hull University (Organiser Ken Hutson)

Sunday July 21st - Hull Urban NopeSport Race (Organiser Amanda Ward)

If you can help (for even a short period of time), contact Ken , Amanda or Neil Harvatt (weekend coordinator) (neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk).  You will be able to run also.

Entries have already started to come in through Fabian4, if you want to take part and help contact Ken, Amanda or Neil for a helpers discount code prior to entering

There will also be a half price technical event T shirts for helpers (£5), we couldn't add this reduction to Fabian, so either let Neil know or add it to your entry and you'll get the extra money back.

Thanks in anticipation.

The YBT final will take at Belton Park (National Trust) near Grantham on Sunday 7 July 2013 and is being organised by LOG.

Final Details are here - http://www.logonline.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/YBTFinaldetails2013.pdf

If you can let Neil Harvatt know your availablility as he will need to submit the team in advance for start times.

There are still several heats to be held but at the moment the following other clubs have qualified for the final - DEVON, CLOK, WCH, POW, LOC and possibily MDOC.

The Lincolnshire Poacher format changes for the last 3 events (just like last year).

5 courses to choose from - 1k,1.5k,2k,2.5k & 3k.

Full details are shown here.

Trust all is clear and hope to see you all at Normanby Hall on Wednesday.

The last event will also incorporate the Lincolnshire Challenge Shield - the annual HALO v LOG team competition. The rules for this will be posted in due course - but if you are a HALO member and you fulfil the Poacher criteria you will also meet the LCS rules and score in both competitions contemporaneously.

Normanby Park Photos

The late May Bank Holiday Weekend brought glorious weather and some fine Urban Orienteering to both Yorkshire and Shropshire. 

HALO were mostly well represented (well, thanks to Pete "Poacher" Harris we managed a HALO run at Ludlow!), at the back-to-back

Yorkshire Urban League races on Sunday in Ripon and on Monday in York. For those not "in the know" GET THERE EARLY to York!

Various results and photo links can be found for Ludlow, Ripon and York by following the links :) 

Two contrasting Urban Events this Sunday - Neil, Helen and Ken ventured to the Porto City Race, Neil finished 3rd (photo from Porto City Race Facebook Page)

with Results here - lots of photos via the Facebook Page too.

Meanwhile, in the depths of Derbyshire, Derwent Valley Orienteers hosted an East Midlands Urban League event in Chesterfield. Several #HaloUrbanRacingTeam

members attended, including most of the #WardOrienteeringTeam. Results here and RouteGadget here. 

This was HALO's 1st junior team competition.  The result was close - only 13 points lead on Airienteers. 

Well done all the runners. 

 HALO's scorers can be seen on the link below - highlight and right click.

 http://www.aire.org.uk/events/archiveresults/2013/2013-03-24_Danefield_YBT/Results/team_yvette_baker_trophy_qualifier.html

HALO Results

and

HALO Photos

Congratulations to :

Charlotte Ward 1st (W21L)

Helen Smith 1st (W35S)

Brian Ward 1st (M50S)

plus : Emma Van Dam 1st on Colour Coded (VSE) whose time would have won W10B (same course)

Also notable efforts from :

George Van Dam 5th (M12A)

Amanda Ward 6th (W50S)

Paul Van Dam 9th (M45S)

Helena Crutchley 15th (W50L)

Neil Harvatt 39th (M55L)

Mary Carrick 31st (W60L)

plus all the Field family with Zac 5th (M18E),  Yasmin 10th (W14A), Rosie 13th (W45S), Joe 19th (M12A), Jake 20th (M18E) 

and Dean 54th (M50L) 

Please note: we will not be running the Beverley Club Nights on Monday May 6th or  Monday May 27th (both Bank Holidays).

We will be operating as normal on May 13th and May 20th .  And every Monday in June and then up to (and including)  July 15th.

Keep an eye on the web-site as some of the Monday night sessions will be held on The Westwood.

The good news is that for the first time in many years we have enough juniors (just) to take part in the Yvette Baker Trophy.

If anyone knows of any other juniors who could take part,   please email Neil Harvatt at neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk">neilhalo-orienteering.org.uk Don't forget to add the 'k' at the end of the email address which the system seems determined to ignore (you wouldn't believe how many times I have tried to get that right!!)

A minimum of 9 is required for a team and the scores of the best 9 contribute to the team score.  There are a number of restrictions in the scoring – a maximum of 4 scorers on any one course (e.g. Yellow) and a maximum of 3 scorers from any one class (e.g. Yellow Girls).  Yellow Boys and Yellow Girls are separate classes.

The team with provisional courses is as follows:-

Sam Offler             M18   L Green
Jay Robinson         M18   L Green
Jacob Smith           M12   Yellow
Dominic SimmondsM14   Orange
Luke Snell              M14   Yellow
Bella Brittain          W12   Yellow
Eddie Frew            M16   Orange
Devon Legge         W18   Orange
Marsaili Jolly          W12   Yellow
George Van Dam   M12   Orange
Emma Van Dam     W10   Yellow (paired with another Yellow Girl)       

Course         girls   boys
Yellow           2        2
Orange        1        3
L Green                 2

Event details here
Rules here – section 4 details eligibility for the different courses

The East Riding Schools held their Orienteering Final on Tuesday April 30th 2013 at Burton Constable Hall.

Over 150 children had qualified to take place in this final.

Provisional team results can be seen here.

Hull Schools Orienteering Final takes place on Monday May 20th.

NE Lincs Schools Final takes place on Monday July 1st.

The N Lincs Schools Final took place on Friday April 26th.

The best five teams in each year group from each of the four local authority finals will compete in the Humber Games Final at Hymers College on Friday July 12th.

The Humber Games Final is part of the 2013 School Games and features many sports in addition to Orienteering.

In addition to the School Games, the Yorkshire and Humberside Orienteering Association will be holding a Primary School Competition on June 26th at Ripley Castle near Harrogate.  Details here.

It's a long clip but fast forward and watch it from 0:17:45 approx until 0:18:00, keeping an eye on the guy in red - recognise him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDZoKsWo2Oo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O8DmkAC2wI

HALO will be hosting not one but two prestigous events in July. One Hull of a Weekend will not only provide fast and furious action for all sprint and urban specialists but also provide all orienteers and fun runners of all abilities the opportunity to compete in two contrasting areas of the City of Hull.

Saturday 20th July will be the Yorkshire and Humberside Sprint Championships at Hull University and

Sunday 21st July will be Nopesport Urban League Race 9 in Hull Old Town and Marina (adjacent to The Deep).

An initial flyer can be found here.

So keep these date in your diaries : Saturday 20th July and Sunday 21st July.

Further details to be posted in due course on this website.

Or follow on Facebook or Twitter @HALOrienteering #SprintOrienteering #UrbanOrienteering

HALO's popular Wednesday evening Poacher Events returned on tonight WEDNESDAY 10th April. This year follows the same format as last year - with 8 cross country events , 2 Park Events and the last event a combination of the two!

NOTE The Ultra Veterans Trophy will this year be competed for on the Medium Course. Also it is unlikely that Poacher founder Pete Kullich wil be able to defend his trophy due to injury.

We have 3 new planning teams this year - thanks to Chris/Alex, Helen & Dave. More are always required and any other volunteers can easily be incorporated into this year's fixtures.

The Fixtures can be found here.

A Kite Collecting Rota can be found here. Your assistance in adhering to this is appreciated.

Follow on Twitter #HALOPoacherSeries or @Halorienteering

PLEASE NOTE THE FIXTURES AND PARKING ARRANGEMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE  AT THE LAST MINUTE e.g. parking locations SO PLEASE CHECK BEFORE THE EVENT.

Also to complete your Spring/Summer Orienteering Evenings - HALO are jointly holding an Urban Series with LOG on 6 consecutive Thursdays starting on June 13th in Horncastle. Full details will be posted in due course. As part of the Series we will be incorporating the Lincolnshire Shield on June 20th and introducing two newly mapped areas - Barton-on-Humber and Louth. Plenty to look forward to.

Congratulations to series winners:-

Overall  - Zac Field

Leading Junior - Jake Field

leading lady - Charlotte Ward

Final Tables after round 4 here

Points for Round 4 Beverley here

Results for Round 3 Barton-upon-Humber here

Results for Round 2 South Cave here

Poster here

For each event there will be approximately 20 SI boxes hung on lampposts or similar.  You will have 45 minutes to find as many as possible.  Start times may vary but will be approximately 18:00 to 19:00.  As the title suggests, the registration and download will be in a local pub.  We hope that you will take advantage of the landlords generosity and take some refreshments or even a meal in each pub.  Exact details of the times and venues will be available on the event's page for each event nearer the date. Entry fee will be £5 (£4 juniors)- this includes a £2.50 drinks voucher which can only be redeemed on the night.  Due to insurance restrictions under 16's cannot take part unless accompanied by an adult.

Thanks to new member, Brian Hostad, we have a league to add even more interest to the nine Saturday events between January and March 2013.  

The final table is here - the category winners have been highlighted.

Round 1 (Central Park) results can be viewed here

Round 2 (Oasis Academy) results here

Round 3 (Normanby Hall) results here

Round 4 (Cleethorpes Country Park) revised results here

Round 5 Humber Bridge Country Park results here

Round 6 Beverley Westwood results can ve viewed here

Round 7 Primrose Hill results

Round 8 East Park, Hull results here here

I thought we might have a countryside run at 6pm in Swallow Vale. 

Park at the farm at the foot of  Riby Road drag.  Travel West 1.5 miles from Riby Village/Riby Crossroads.

Brian - 01472 509247

Short video on the HALO Facebook Page

                       Orienteering At

                             Weelsby Wood, Grimsby

Register next to the cafe

Come and ‘HAVE A GO’

on Saturday 23rd Mar. 2013.

‘starts’ are from 1pm to 3pm.

Juniors (under 21) - £1.50

Adults - £3, Families – reduced rates

Courses & instruction for All

Please come prepared for the weather.  PTO

At the start of this year we had to cancel the first two club nights at Beverley.  I doubt that the snow then was as bad as it turned out last Monday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halo-o/sets/72157632999930105/

Next week (Monday 18th March) is the last week before easter, so we will be having the customary event plus feast and hopefully better weather.

Competing for England in her first, full Senior call up, Charlotte returned a victory in the Women's Open (W21) class in the Netherlands as England retained their Interland crown on foreign soil.

Results are a bit "flaky" at best - this link takes you to SplitsBrowser - select view "results table" then class "W21"

Charlotte completed what she describes as a "grotty" forest course of 8km (straight line) in 67:48 to finish ahead of 2nd overall (and 2nd England counter) Helen Gardner (not the EBOR Helen Gardner!) from SLOW in 69:16

Well Done #WardOrienteeringTeam member Charlotte Ward (!) 

The attendances continue to grow on Monday nights at Longcroft - many thanks to all participants.  Last week's figure of 22 has only been beaten once - and that was a Monday Night Christmas competition.

The (slightly) bad news for next week (March 4th) is that due to exams, the gym will not be available.  Hence all activities will be outside - please come prepared for the weather.  The changing rooms will still be open as normal.

Photo's

Congratulations to LOG, who were able to field a full strength team in a neighbouring area, and progress to the Final after defeating a plucky HALO team by 31 points.

Team Results : 1st LOG 1280 points, HALO 1249 and SUFFOC 936

The HALO individual point scorers were Charlotte Ward (100), Helena Crutchley(100), Sam Offler(100), Mark Tyzka(98), Jeff Slater(98), Dave Offler(98), Brian Ward(98),Paul Van Dam(95), Mary Carrick(94), Peter Harris(94), Mike Smith(92), Helen Smith (92) and Amanda Ward(90).

Everybody ran up to their or very close to their full potential - not too many mishaps and no mispunches. The 100 point scorers certainly need a special mention as it was certainly physically tough - the HALO tent at the end resembled a scene from M*A*S*H.

One should mention other Team HALO members who also hopefully enjoyed their experiences on such a pleasant day. The scores were Dorothy Smith(92), Paddy Neligan(90), Pete Shew(88), debutant Brian Hostad(86), John Butler(86), Isoldt Harris(84) and last but not least the Chairman(84).

Hopefully next year we will be on more local terrain and Neil is able to resume his Captain duties and somebody else can volunteer to be the oldest runner on the Brown Course.

At least we were first to post results on our website - or were all LOG competitors still celebrating in the Exeter Arms.

Last weekends events at Tankersley were also part of the newly formed UK Orienteering League - for both individuals and clubs. After the first two rounds HALO are currently in 15th place (2nd place amongst the 'small' clubs). Our top individual currently is Mary Carrick in 101st place - 32 places ahead of Neil Harvatt. Perserverance certainly paid off on Saturday evening (& well into Saturday night) for Mary, who can now claim to be just outside the top 100 orienteers in the country!!!! Details of the UK League can be found here. 

Hi All,

As there is an Urban Race at Beverley this Wednesday I will close the Grimsby Club Night which will allow us to compete in Beverley. 

Please use the car share facility to get together for travel to Beverley. 

Allow at least 1 hour to get to Beverley from Grimsby (there are road works at Willerby/Cottingham by-pass). 

Hope to see you there if you can make it!

Brian, Gy. Club Night Coach.

Charlotte has been selected to represent England at the forthcoming Interland International match in Breda, Holland in mid March. Currently ranked 15th in her first year as a senior (Women 21), she obviously impressed selectors enough with her performances over the course of 2012 as a final year junior to gain her first senior cap. Hopefully the first of many!

Charlotte has been selected for The University of Sheffield, Elite Sports Performance Scheme, for orienteering. Based on her current British Orienteering ranking in the Women 21 class (first year Senior), and her performances in winning three Urban League titles in 2012 - including the National "Nopesport" Urban League, as well as the Yorkshire Urban League and the South of England Urban League. Charlotte also won outright several very high profile urban races including the Oxford City Race.

Many thanks to Brian Slater for providing a very convincing and detailed coaches report to help Charlotte achieve her goal of being accepted into the ESPS at Sheffield. 

For those Members who have not read the posting in HALO News or have not received the email and are able to support the Club and run at Fineshade please contact me asap at skybluepetetiscali.co.uk giving details of SI Number/BO Number/Age Class and whether you are able to 'run up'.

Also we have been allocated start times 17 minutes apart for each class. So those who have already contacted me please let me know your preferred start time and who you are travelling with; so similar times can be submitted.

Thanks for your support.

Note entries have to be made before February 1st - so if you can decide by Thursday 31st January it would be appreciated.

LOG's Night Score Cup starts on Thursday January 31st and runs for 5 consecutive Thursdays.  45 minute score events with mass starts at 7:15pm.

Details here

Teams now entered for JK Relay

In course order - Green, Short Green, Orange (not necessarily on-the-day running order)

Come on Mum - Charlotte, Brian W, Amanda

Three H's - Pete H, Andrew, Isoldt

HALO Ladies - Helena, Helen, Mary

HALO Gentlemen - Neil, Brian S, Paddy 

Should make for some good intra-club rivalry :) 

Saturday 08:30 - Very sorry - overnight heavy snow has resulted in postponment of today's event.  To be rearranged for Saturday February 23rd (subject to permission from pasture masters).

Update Friday 5pm.  The weather forecast is for snow overnight, dying out by the morning, possibly turning to rain.  A generally fine day on Saturday.  We are intending to proceed with the event, but clearly extreme overnight conditions could scupper our plans.  A notice will be placed on this web-site on Saturday morning if it is necessary to postpone the event.

Update Thursday 11pm.  Paul and I had a pleasant walk around The Westwood this afternoon.  It is looking very white.  The roads are clear and the event will go ahead unless there is a sudden deterioration in the weather.  Watch this space.

If you have children, why not bring along a sledge and have even more fun before or after your Orienteering.

The area we will be using for parking is popular with the sledgers, so may be busy. 

Members were shocked to hear that Tom Chesters, who was a HALO member in 2011, was one of the four climbers who tragically lost their lives in a climbing accident on Saturday afternoon near Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands.  Two other members of the group survived although one of them is said to be in a critical condition in hospital.  Tom, who was 28, was a very competent orienteer who competed in a number of events for HALO in 2011 including the Scottish 6 Days.  He was a medical engineering research PhD student at Hull University and joined AIRE when he moved to Leeds.  Sadly, Tom's girlfriend, Rachel Majumdar, a doctor from Harrogate and a member of AIRE, was also one of the victims.   Our sincere condolences to Tom and Rachel's families and friends on their very sad loss.

According to the Hull Daily Mail the six experienced hill walkers were said to be well equipped for their winter trek across Bidean Nam Bian. a mountain near Glencoe.  The group had started their descent down a steep incline on the south side of the valley at about 2pm on Saturday when a sheet of snow gave way beneath them and carried them 1,000 feet to the bottom of the mountain at speeds estimated to be up to 50 mph. 

Confirmation that HALO's Urban Event on July 21st has been selected for inclusion as part of the UK wide 2013 Nopesport Urban League.

The other 15 fixtures and details of the League can be found at  http://urbanleague.nopesport.com

Hopefully HALO's Charlotte Ward will be able to defend her Women's Open title in 2013 by accumulating sufficient points before heading off to Canada ?

Monday night's club night has been cancelled again this week (January 21st 2013) due to the current and forecast weather conditions.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

See you all next week if not before (Saturday at Beverley Westwood, 1pm to 3pm, Registration near to the York/Newbald Road junction. Icecream and burger van area.)

Despite only fielding 8 runners, HALO produced three age group champions in the 2013 Yorkshire and Humberside Championships.  They were hosted last Sunday (January 13th) by SYO at Big Moor and Gritsone Edge.  The more  geographically minded of you will be aware that Big Moor is neither in Yorkshire nor in Humberside.  This year's question: Which club started that trend in 2012?

The YHOA Champions are listed here.

Congratulations to W10 champion, Emma and M12 champion, George.    There was another one but he was simply lucky!

The full results can be found here.

Following the two successful urban evening events in September (Brigg) and October (Hull) last year, HALO will be organising four more such events in Spring 2013.
They are as follows:-
Thursday March 7th - Broughton (new map)
Thursday March 14th - Hull University
Thursday March 21st - Barton-on Humber (new map)
Thursday April 4th - Beverley.

For each event there will be approximately 20 SI boxes hung on lampposts or similar.  You will have 45 minutes to find as many as possible.  Start times may vary but will be approximately 17:30 to 19:00.  As the title suggests, the registration and download will be in a local pub.  We hope that you will take advantage of the landlords generosity and take some refreshments or even a meal in each pub.  Exact details of the times and venues will be available on the event's page for each event nearer the date.

There will be 9 (nine) Saturday events organised by HALO between January and March 2013.
Each will feature White, Yellow, Orange and Technical (Light Green or Green depending on the area) courses.
These events are perfect for beginners, but they also present great opportunities for existing orienteers to practise their skills.

The nine events are as follows:-

Sat Jan 12 - Central Park, Scunthorpe
Sat Jan 19 - Oasis Academy, Grimsby
Sat Jan 26 - Beverley Westwood
Sat Feb 2 - Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe
Sat Feb 9 - Cleethorpes Country Park
Sat Feb 16 - Humber Bridge Country Park
Sat Mar 2 - Primrose Warren, Scunthorpe
Sat Mar 16 - East Park, Hull
Sat Mar 23 - Weelsby Woods, Grimsby 

Please support these events if you are able.
In particular, if you would like to plan or organise one, then contact Neil Harvatt (fixtureshalo-orienteering.org.uk) or Brian Slater (chairmanhalo-orienteering.org.uk)

Yasmin Field has been selected as travelling reserve for England in the Interland Cup on March 10th in the Netherlands.  Well done Yasmin.

Further details at http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/index.php?pg=1&action=news&id=MjYzNg==&rtn=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5icml0aXNob3JpZW50ZWVyaW5nLm9yZy51ay8=

FOUND PROPERTY - A PINK FLEECE AND A PURPLEY SPORTS TOP.  The O'Gradys have them.

The New Years Day Rules

The Team scores and positions

The Splits

This was a lovely day for a jog and a social - big thanks to the O'Grady Family for hosting the festival - Thanks to All who participated.  Congrats to the Podium teams. Photos here on Dropbox

I am coordinating Relay entries for JK and BOC

If interested please e-mail me at

brian(at)halo-orienteering(dot)org(dot)uk

with 2013 age class and Si card number (for BOC - JK is Emit)

Thanks - Brian (W)