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O-Ringen 2026: Gothenburg, Sweden

Thanks to Isabel for this report For a long time, Jeff and I have been talking about making what feels like every orienteer’s life pilgrimage… a trip to Sweden’s annual O-Ringen orienteering competition.  This year, we finally did it and what an incredible experience it was! O-Ringen is the world’s largest orienteering event – I’d call it a festival really. …

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Outdoor Sanity?

Question: What started in southeast Europe nearly 25 years ago and has now spread north and west reaching Ireland for the first time this year?No, not some nasty tick-borne disease, but instead a very nice orienteering event, the OO Cup. It’s a 5 day event held annually. Until 2015 it was always held in Slovenia but since then it’s been…

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Indoor insanity?

The OO Cup kicked off in Killarney with a warm-up indoor event at St Brendan’s College. As we were staying in Killarney for the OO Cup week Christine and I thought we would give this a go. Billed as the Kerry Festival of Orienteering the event saw over 400 take part in an indoor/outdoor multi-level event with numerous artificial barriers,…

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ABC, Easy as 1-2-3

The Allerdale Bike Challenge is an annual series of five cycle events which explore the local lanes around Allerdale District. It’s open to riders of all bike types from lightweight road bikes to mountain bikes, from recumbent bikes to tandems. The format is a 2 hour score event using SportIdent timing on tarmac roads & lanes, with a maximum of 25 controls available…

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BL Long-O (and not so Long-O) – a Preview

From organisers and planners Dan and Karen After the cancellation of last two Border Liners events (blame curlews and roadworks) there is more reason than ever to come to the annual Long-O on Sunday 16th August. The first thing to say is don’t be put off by the name “Long-O”. Yes, there are very long courses (up to 17km) for…

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Saunders Mountain Marathon

The Saunders Mountain Marathon (SLMM) took place on 4th/5th July based in St John’s in the Vale, with courses covering the fells around Helvellyn and The Dodds. Despite heatwaves the week before and after, the weekend itself was cool and drizzly with the tops clag-covered most of the time. The event is always popular with orienteers and this year at…

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Ride to the Sun  

by Paul Watson This informal annual cycle ride starting at Bitts Park and arriving at Cramond Beach, Edinburgh, in time to view the sunrise takes place every year on the closest Saturday / Sunday to the longest day. With a couple of tweaks to the direct route it’s 100 miles exactly on mainly quiet bike friendly roads. Having only progressed…

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British Sprint Champs – 27th/28th June

The British Sprint Champs took place last weekend in Bristol. The relay was held on Saturday, followed by the Individual Races on Sunday. Both were at university campuses Three BL members attended, just the right number for a relay team. With Christine on first leg, Jane on second and Keith on third, the team finished 18th in the Super Vets…

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Stacking Chairs

BL chairman Dan is also the chairman of the British Orienteering Map Advisory Group (MAG). With not much event news at the moment, it seemed a good opportunity to find out a more about this group, and his role. Can you give us a quick outline of what the MAG does? The official brief of the group is advising the Events…

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Border Hopping Border Liners

Two new maps, two historic seaside towns, two different countries: the ingredients for a great weekend of urban orienteering.On Saturday (6th June) the venue was Berwick on Tweed, the northernmost town in England, famous for its bastioned town walls built to keep out marauding Scots (which clearly don’t work as more than 50 of them attended). Courses included a mixture…

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