On Friday, Liam, Adrien and Evan set off to run The Sheffield Big Walk to help raise money for Genetic Disease Research at the University of Sheffield🧬. The route took them round Edale Skyline and heading back into Sheffield, in total they completed 50km with Eleanor joining for the final 30km🏃🏻🏃🏼♀️.
Evan told us about the day “A few of the more mentally unhinged members of ShUOC, including myself, decided to run The Big Walk in aid of Genetic Disease Research at the university this past Friday. We battled the physical, mental and geographical ups and downs but I’m very proud to say we all completed the distances even if we were in various states of broken!” Adrien told us “It was a brilliant day out with some fellow ShUOCers in the Peaks running the 50km Big Walk, some niggles here and there but we mustered through!” Liam just kept it simple, “It was fun”. Eleanor summed up the day “It was a great end to my first year at university, running my longest run with some other ShUOCers. A really enjoyable day!” A huge well done to all 4 ShUOC members, an absolute fantastic achievement! You can still donate to the cause to help support the research at the Uni🖤💛 The link to donate: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/shuoc-big-walk-2022 Last Sunday, ShUOC members headed to Leeds University for the British Sprint Individual Orienteering Championships.
First up in the morning was the Qualifiers, with members running courses to determine which final they made. These courses used Woodhouse Moor before heading back into the university campus and having to think fast in the intricate campus. In the afternoon, after being placed into our finals, ShUOC members headed out into the technical areas of campus, with plenty of steps and levels to keep us all confused! A huge well done to the following members: MOpenB Tom Entwistle 8th MOpenC Adrien Gallet 3rd WOpenA Chloe Potter 7th WOpenB Laura Harrison 11th W20B Eleanor Ellis 1st A few words from Tom nicely summed up the day, “Nice couple of courses at the British Sprints, with a fast and fun Qualifier and technical Finals area left you second guessing. Nice to see ShUOC both old and new out there running strong on their courses! No mispunches in that area is a great sign!” A huge thank you to AIRE for organising the event. Photo credit to Wendy Carlyle📸 Last Thursday, ShUOC members competed in the Bamford Sheepdog Trials Fell Race. A huge well done to Joe Woodley who came 4th overall, with Evan Bowers coming 11th and Andrew Macdonald coming 24th over the 7km course with 300m of climb. Well done to Alice Gamble who came 64th overall.
Over at Stockton, well done to Laura Harrison who competed at the CLOK Stockton Riverside event as part of the 3 day Northern Jubil-O Weekend. This weekend we will see the British Orienteering Mixed Sprint Relays and British Sprint Individual Championships held at Leeds Beckett University and Leeds University. Best of luck to all ShUOC members running both for ShUOC or their respective club! On Tuesday Evening last week, 3 ShUOC members of Henry Webb, Louis James and Connor Smith, all ran at the Totley Moor Fell Race. Well done to Henry who came 3rd overall and 1st MU23, Louis who came 46th overall and 2nd MU23 and Connor who came 97th overall and 3rd MU23!⛰🏃🏻
On Sunday, it saw the annual York Orienteering City Race! Well done to Connor Smith who came 4th in MO and Tom Entwistle and Violette who ran together came 15th in MO. In the Womens Open, well done to Laura Harrison who came 4th round the 11km course and Eleanor Ellis who came 5th! Well done to everyone! It was another busy weekend of racing for ShUOC!
A few of our members travelled to Llanberis for the British Fell Intercounties. A huge well done to Ben Sharrock who took the Mens U23 silver medal for Greater Manchester. Well done to Eve Pannone who was running for Cumbria and took the individual WU23 gold medal with the Cumbria team taking the team gold medal. Elsewhere in the field, Henry Webb ran for Staffordshire for the Mens Team, so well done to him. Well done to Alex Mason and Alice Gamble who both represented Yorkshire with the Mens team taking the gold and the Womens team taking silver. Back in the homeland of Sheffield, 3 of our members headed over to SYO's area of Treeton. A huge well done to Chloe Potter who took 1st place on Short Brown with Adrien coming 18th. Well done to Laura Harrison for coming 2nd on Green. It was a busy day of racing for ShUOC members yesterday!
The majority of our members competed in the Guisborough 3 Tops Fell Race held by Esk Valley Fell Club. In the MU23, a huge well done to Ben Sharrock who came 3rd, Alex Mason 5th, Evan Bowers 8th and Toby Antcliff 12th with Harry Scott coming 17th. In the WU23 category, a huge well done to Eve Pannone who came 1st with Alice Gamble coming 4th! Another huge well done to Joe Woodley who came 11th in MSEN as well! Over in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, at the finish for the 3 Peaks Race, Henry Webb came back in 13th place after 23.3 miles after hitting Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough! A huge well done to him! Back in Sheffield, Chloe and Adrien ran at the local South Yorkshire Orienteers Saturday Orienteering Series and came 1st and 3rd respectively on Blue. Some of our ex ShUOC members have also been out and about. A huge well done to our ex ShUOC members Matthew Elkington and Nathan Lawson who came 3rd and 5th respectively at the Guisborough 3 Tops. Over in Wales, on the Pembrokeshire Coast, ex ShUOC members Joe Thomas, Tomos King and Liam Overett completed the Endurancelife Pembrokeshire Marathon with Joe coming 19th and Liam coming 117th. Well done to everyone who competed over the weekend! Some fantastic results! Photo Credit: David Aspin (Esk Valley Fell Club) ShUOC was rewarded with University Club of the Year by British Orienteering over the Easter Period. We asked our Captain, Evan, what his thoughts were on gaining the award and what the future looks like for the club.
"I'm immensely proud that ShUOC is British Orienteering's University Club of the Year 2022 - this is some completely deserved recognition for a fantastic club. Huge thank yous are in order to everyone who has invested time and energy into ShUOc over the tough last few years, from committees past and present to our amazing members who make the club what it is! This has been a fantastic year for ShUOC, and its been an absolute privilege to be captain - a role made almost easy by the rest of our fantastic committee and members. Some successes from the last year include hosting the return of BUCS orienteering, an event designed to be the most inclusive ever; increasing our membership by 30% from last year and engaging new members through a variety of in person and virtual events; some outstanding individual and team results both in orienteering and fell running; redesigning our website and increasing our online presence as a club and - most importantly - I hope remaining a fun club for everyone involved. I'm incredibly excited for the future of ShUOC, and I believe that this year has set us up for every success going forward!" - Evan, ShUOC 2022 Captain 📷 Credits: Will Street, Hannah Bradley, Anna Beatrix and Katrina Hemingway
On the weekend of the 24th and 25th of November SPOOK (Sheffield Postgraduate Old Orienteering Klub) members returned to Sheffield for the annual alumni weekend. The weekends proceedings were kicked off on Saturday morning by Orienteering relays held at Redmires with teams of two completing 3 legs in each in snowy conditions. Congratulations to the Mixed winners Mary Fleming and Alex Moore, Men's winners Jack Millar and Jack Wright and Women's winners Alice Rigby and Anna Beatrix. In the evening a Black Tie meal was held at the Burton Street Foundation in Hillsborough with speeches and a DJ before everyone headed off to Pop - Tarts! On Sunday morning the annual SPOOK VS SHUOC football match was held with coach Tom Entwistle leading SHUOC to victory in the first time in 5 years. The weekend concluded with the captains memorial held at Notty House on Sunday night with beer generously paid for by donations from SPOOK members. The night also included the annual SHUOC awards as well as SPOOK VS SHUOC beer races where SHUOC narrowly lost to SPOOK. A big shoutout to everyone involved with organizing the event especially Nic and Dan! JWOC 2017 - Tampere, Finland - 9th to 15th July Photo credit to Dave Yee Photography and Vivianne Lawson. Maps from worldofo.com (Men's Long, Women's Sprint, Men's Middle Qualification(2) ). SHUOC captain Nathan Lawson and treasurer Alice Rigby were selected as part of a team of 12 athletes to represent Great Britain at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Finland after a highly competitive selection process. Middle Qualifier - Alice narrowly missed qualifying the top 20 cutoff for the Women's A final by 5 places finishing 25th in her qualifier. Nathan finished 42nd in his heat. Sprint - Alice finished 27th overall out of 149 entrants, only 1 minute and 52 seconds behind the winner. Long - Both athletes finished well with Nathan coming 47th and Alice 65th on tough technical courses of 10.7km and 7.4km respectively. Relay - Nathan ran for the Men's A team finishing 18th and Alice for the Women's B team finishing 23rd. Congrats to team GB who finished 6th overall out of the 38 represented countries!! Full results are available here Scottish Six Days - Royal Deeside, Scotland - 28th July - 3rd August Various SHUOC members traveled north to compete in the biennial event consisting of 6 days of orienteering in the tough terrain of the Scottish highlands. Winners in each category were decided by taking each athletes best 4 results out of the 6 races.
Dane Blomquist and Matt Elkington finished 7th and 11th respectively on the highly competitive M21E category. Alice Rigby and Stephen Elkington both earned bronze medals finishing 3rd on the W20L and M20S. Nathan Lawson also finished strongly at 9th out of 32 in the M20L. Full results available here Intrepid explorers journeyed their way down to "that London" to compete in the annual Jan Kjellstrom (JK) competition... what else would you do on an Easter Weekend?! The first day took place on the campus of Brunel University for the Sprint. The opportunity to use the SI Air, a contact less dibber, added to the excitement. The elite men's course was a 2.7km straight line route. The top ten was filled with SPOOK and ShUOC members with Kris Jones and Ralph Street in 1st and 2nd, Jonny Crickmore in 5th, Willy Garner in 7th and Dane Blomquist in 9th. ShUOC really represented in the M21E class with Adam Potter (11th), Matthew Elkington (18th), Olly Williams (25th), Nicholas Barber (34th), Alex Moore (40th), Edward Lawrence (60th), Adam Walker (73rd) and Tom Entwistle (75th). In the Men's M20E class Nathan Lawson started off his successful weekend by finishing 2nd, with James Mellor finishing in 25th, Stephen Elkington in 29th and Alex Bett (33rd) overall. Alice Rigby flew round the W20 elite and finished 2nd, a mere 1 second behind the winner.Katie Blacford also race W20E finishing 14th. Meanwhile in the W21E Tamsin Moran narrowly missed a top ten position finishing 12th over all. Honorary aussie member and commentators worst nightmare, Aislinn Prendergast finished 18th, Hannah Bradley (32nd) and Katherine Bett (47th). Some lucky ShUOCer's were then driven home or to comfortable hospitality establishments with soft bedding and food paid for by their parents. However, a lucky 8 drove on to Brighton to stay in what one trip adviser review called a Gulag. After a nights "sleep" in a bunk bunkbedded, curtainless dormitory shared with various hen parties they were ready to take on the middle distance. Alice Rigby again competed in the W20E and managed to run for less distance than she did during the sprint. She added to her brilliant result of the previous day by finishing 4th overall. Aislinn, Tamsin and Hannah again raced in the W21E over 5km placing 18th, 21st and 31st respectively. Katherine Bett ran the W21L course and finished 14th overall. Nathan Lawson continued his streak of brilliance and finished 3rd on M20E, with James Mellor placing 24th overall, only 13 minutes down on the leader. Stephen Elkington ran M20S this day and came in in 3rd position on the 3km long course. The Men's M21E was again led by SPOOK members; Ralph Street (1st) and Kris Jones (3rd). Dane Blomquist narrowly missed a top ten position finishing 11th. Unfortunately he didn't manage to miss a log leaving him with a substantial bruise and sadly unable to race for the rest of the weekend. Matthew Elkington place in the top 20, finishing 17th overall, Adam Potter (25th), Olly Williams (40th), Nic Barber (41st), Alex Moore (56th), Edward Lawrence (71st), Adam Walker (77th) and Tom Entwistle (79th). A trip to Brighton Beach, a weatherspoons and another "good" nights sleep later and if all our members would make it out of the rhododendrons. Nathan Lawson decided he quite liked placing in the top 3 and finished 3rd again over the 12.4km course, James Mellor also finished within the top 20. Stephen Elkington again ran M20S, however this time he won! in a time of 52:19. Adam Walker finished in the top 10 (8th) on the M21S, beating off future brother in law Thomas Butt. Tom Entwistle ran M21L of 14.4km distance and found that jelly babies can be life savers (24th). The M21E consisted of 17.7km climb and 390m climb. SPOOK showed the course what they were made of with Ralph Street and Kris Jones finishing 2nd and 3rd prospectively. Matthew Elkington finished an impressive 16th, only 16 minutes behind the leaders. Adam Potter was only shortly behind in 19th, Nic Barber (25th), Alex Moore (48th) and Edward Lawrence (54th). On W20E Alice finished in 6th overall, only 2 minutes behind 1st, proving just how competitive this age category was over the weekend. Katherine Bett again competed in W21L, finishing 15th overall. Tamsin Moran had an amazing race on the 11.9km W21E giving her a finishing position of 14th. Aislinn came in just behind in 18th and Hannah Bradley in 25th. On the 4th and final day came the relays. ShUOC entered 4.6 teams in the Men's Trophy and 1 team in the Women's trophy, The Women, ShUOC Pop Tarts (Alice Rigby, Hannah Bradley and Tamsin Moran) finished 6th overall. Aislinn ran for SYO and came home with a trophy after winning! Following injuries from sticks and punctured lungs the ShUOC men's teams faced some reorganisation. Men of Steel (Nathan Lawson, Adam Potter, Matthew Elkington) finished 6th Dashing for Dashley (Olly Williams, Alex Moore and Nic Barber) 13th ShUOC C-men (James Mellor, Joe Thomas, Edward Lawrence) 26th ShUOC morning glory (Alex Bett, Katie Blackford, Stephen Elkington) 30th Rivelin Rascals lacked a 3rd member but Egil Morast and Tom Entwistle placed 23rd and 33rd on their legs. HUGE congratulations to Nathan Lawson and Alice Rigby for placing 3rd and 5th overall in the competition. Photos taken from Will Heap, Wendy Carlyle and Rob Lines |
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