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Active Dorset Move It Week 2021

Move It Week is Here!  This week we are inviting you to get involved in one of the many activities in the …

British Summertime 2021

British Summertime Map running- Its summer term at last, and I’m happy to be back working with groups again- the focus of …

Cartography works 2021 Innovation

Cartography works A new post for a new look website. Here is a post about todays release which now brings together all …

Maprun 2020/21

A live Strava Club which is bringing together those runners using MapRun APP from all over U.K also what we are achieving …

Summer Projects Round Up 2020

Youth Sport Trust  COVID era freelance work has been good for me, and I’m one of the lucky ones due to a …

Maprun/Orienteering 2020

MapRun Todays post brings together the last 11 weeks of the U.Ks adjustment to the COVID19 era and how my clubmates in …

Summer Series Orienteering 2020

Summer Series Orienteering 2020 Update- while all organised events are postponed due our current situation, theres still running, cycling to do for …

Academic Year 2018-19 Coaching Round- Up

Heres a short summary of the year just ended. Another superb year of engagement with Schools across Dorset. From a small- group …

Orienteering Case Study

This is a post about work Ive recently completed for BSG. (Bournemouth School for Girls) By request the P.E Staff reached me …

Orienteering Coaching Review and 2018-19 Schools Offer

Heres an offer for the schools that have had Orienteering Maps made for them from 2005 onwards. Unless there has been significant …

Poole Out of Town Race 03 June 2018

This is one not to miss, we had the first of the Wessex Night League events last October here, and now with …

Chiltern Challenge Race 2005-2022

One for the Orienteers and Forest Lovers today. This is an area Ive been going to for 22 years now- anyone whos …

Competition Week! 2018 SPRING 1 Orienteering

    This half term I have planned, organised and delivered my first 5 day week of full programs of Orienteering coaching …

Orienteering Score Event Sequencing

Weekend events included a local at Avon Heath Country Park, an area the local clubs use regularly and venue of one of …

Mapping/ Cartography 2017

In 2016 my Cartography work really started with winning a contract to update 10 School Orienteering maps for Purbeck Schools Sports Co-ordinator.  …

Wessex Night League 2017-18

Dont be afraid of the dark. Clocks have changed, what you going to do all winter? watch telly………………..         …

Summer Term Highlights 2017

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Dorset Schools Games/ Orienteering Champs 2017

Just had an urgent feeling that this needed to be documented from last week. Poole East Dorset Area P.E Co-Ordinator Katrina Cole …

Spring Term 2017 Round -Up

Huzzah! Its about to change over into summer term again after the Easter Holidays so heres a round-up of action completed in …

2017 GCSE P.E Assessments- Orienteering.

  A great pleasure to be surprised by colleagues at Winton and Glenmoor that although Orienteering has now left the Secondary Curriculum, …

Weekend Run

Belstone Blast weekend. Big weekends start here. From this point onwards the race season starts. My blog last week reported the S.W champs …

South West Orienteering champs 01/02 October 2016

This weekend Wessex and Wimborne Orienteering clubs hosted the annual South West Orienteering Championships, the start of my competition season proper. There’s a …

Why do we go Orienteering?

We are at the pre-season period for Orienteers, there are events all year these days, summer relays and participation events- but this …

End of Term round up Summer 2016

Soon to be riding the train to Aberdeen for summer holidays, here’s a short round up of what keeps me so busy …

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