Thursday 25th April 2019 (Hawker Centre)

Thursday 16th May 2019 (Ranelagh – Dysart venue)

Thursday 6th June 2019 (Russell School, Petersham – halfway between the Hawker Centre and Ranelagh)

Thursday 27th June 2019 (Hawker Centre)

Thursday 11th July 2019 (Ranelagh – Dysart venue)

Thursday 29th August 2019 (Hawker Centre)

The races are over a roughly 2K distance, and
first-timers are give a handicap according to their age.

More details can be found on The Stragglers website:
http://www.stragglers.org/index.php/stragglers-juniors
It will save you time on the night if you download the registration form and take it with you. parkrun barcodes acceptable.

Yes – it’s the start of the 2019 season this Sunday, 17th March, at 9am at Barn Elms track.

We hope to see you all there.

Sheen Shufflers in conjunction with Wimbledon Windmilers are hosting a Street/Common Orienteering event on Easter Monday 22nd April at 10am. The meeting and start place is at the north west end of Lauriston Road, SW19 near the junction with Southside Common.

What is Street – Orienteering?
A very informal urban orienteering race, where you are given a special map of the local area, with the aim of running around looking for specific locations (“controls”) on the map. You will also be given a clue sheet (on the back), which will ask a question for each control, which you will be able to complete when you find the correct location – e.g. “fire hydrant number” or the “colour of door at number 20” etc.

Each control is assigned a points value – generally the ones further away are worth more points. The aim is to score as many points as possible, within the given time limit of one hour. Try to keep within this limit, as you will be deducted 1 point for every 3 seconds you are late getting back! If you don’t want to be out for a full 60 minutes you can always come back earlier.

What does the map look like?
An A4 sheet with streets shown on with black lines and paths shown as dotted lines – and obvious major roads. As with all orienteering maps, there are no street names on the map! The controls are normally drawn overprinted in purple. To help distinguish which side of the road you need to be looking at, the control circles are shown with a dot in the middle. The start and finish is always at the same place and shown by a triangle.

What kit do I need?
All you should need is running kit, a pen (and a spare is always worth having) and a watch. A compass is not required! If you are still not sure about what to do – arrive a bit earlier and we will give you a quick tutorial.

Cost of Entry
Free!

Special Instructions
Please arrive in good time before the start so we can register you. It’s a mass start, so everyone goes off at the same time.
All ‘Juniors’ should be accompanied by a parent or responsible guardian.
There are plenty of road crossings on the more major roads – so please use them rather than taking a gamble!

Apres Run
We will convene after the event at The Swan at the south end of Lauriston Road where the papers will be marked and we can announce the winners.
Any questions – please ask. It’s a fun event so we hope we’ll see quite a few of you taking part – and if you are planning on being there, please tell us so we will know how many maps to print.

bob.reed@post.com

U11 (2.2km) 

Ferris Chapple      13.11

Dylan Martin         13.17

U13 (2.5km) 

Hamish Chapple   12.43

Vedaant Saggi        15.55

The full results will be published on http://www.thepowerof10.info in the next couple of days.

The Down’s league fixtures are well organised and hopefully we will have more juniors participating in future events.

The last fixture of this season is this Sunday 3rd March 2019. 

Steve & Louise will be at the track tomorrow morning at 9.15 for their last cross country session before the final Downs League fixture of the season next Sunday (3rd March).  This session is open to all whether you intend to run the cross country or not.

Steve and Louise are also running sessions at the track on Mondays and Wednesdays at 5.15pm starting next week in term time through to the Autumn half term. Sessions are £7.50 which includes track fee.

They have their own website http://www.barnesathletics.com and are on Facebook @oldfieldmcduellrunningfitness and twitter @oldfieldmcduell

Sadly, tomorrow’s cross-country training at Barn Elms is cancelled due to the weather conditions,

We are pleased to announce that Junior Athletics resumes for the 2019 season at 9am on Sunday March 17th at Barn Elms track. We look forward to welcoming you all back then!

The next junior’s cross country is on Sunday 17th February 2019 with the last fixture of the season being two weeks later on 3rd March.

Steve and Louise will be running junior cross country sessions at Barn Elms track on the following Sundays at 9.15

Sunday 20th January , Sunday 27th January , Sunday 3rd February , Sunday 10th February and Sunday 24th February.

The sessions will follow the structure: warm up , Game , 6 x 150m finishing with a 2.5km run.

The sessions are £7.50 and are open to all.

Check out http://www.barnesathletics.com for the midweek junior’s sessions that will restart in February.

The Event

For the second year running, we will be hosting our own Street Orienteering event in Mortlake and Sheen. The event will take place on Thursday 27th December at 10:30am with the start just to the north of Mortlake Station opposite Thompson House School. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that it doesn’t pour with rain again this year.
This is open to both our senior and junior sections and any friends who’d like to join in, though we would request that ‘children’ run with guardians. We can always sort out logistics if you let me know you want to run and have no one to run with – we won’t stop you running in groups. Can you let me know (bob.reed@post.com) if you want to run as we need to know approximately how many maps to print – it’s colour ink on special tear proof paper.

What is Street – Orienteering?

A very informal urban orienteering race, where you are given a special map of the local area, with the aim of running around looking specific locations (“controls”) on the map. You will also be given a clue sheet (on the back), which will ask a question for each control, which you will be able to complete when you find the correct location – e.g. “fire hydrant number” or the “colour of door at number 20” etc.
Each control is assigned a points value – generally the ones further away are worth more points. The aim is to score as many points as possible, within the given time limit of one hour. Try to keep within this limit, as you will be deducted 1 point for every 3 seconds you are late getting back! If you don’t want to be out for a full 60 minutes you can always come back earlier.

What does the map look like?

An A4 sheet with streets shown as black lines and paths shown as dotted lines – and obvious major roads. As with all orienteering maps, there are no street names on the map! The controls are normally drawn overprinted in purple. To help distinguish which side of the road you need to be looking at, the control circles are shown with a dot in the middle. The start and finish is always at the same place and shown by a triangle.

What kit do I need?

All you should need is running kit, a pen (a spare is also handy as I can testify) and a watch. A compass is not required! If you are still not sure about what to do – arrive a bit earlier and we will give you a quick tutorial.

Cost of Entry

Free!

Special Instructions

There are plenty of road crossings on the more major roads – so please use them rather than taking a gamble!

Apres Run

We will reconvene after the event at The Hare & Hounds in East Sheen!

Any questions – please ask. It’s a fun event so we hope we’ll see quite a few of you taking part!

The next Street-O in the 2018-19 season takes place from The Park Hotel, 19 Park Road, Teddington, TW11 0AB on the above date. As it is an electronic start, you can start anytime between 6:30 and 7:30pm. You can run in groups, so bring along a chum or two, providing you have an adult with you.

The Street-O format has clues located at various points on a map. You have 60 minutes to visit as many of these as possible, in any order, and return to the finish.
Don’t forget to bring a pen to write down your answers to the clues as you go around, an SI card if you have one, and a watch so that you aren’t late back! You may find a torch/head-torch and compass useful too and hi-vis clothing would be sensible. They really are great fun and all over (if you time yourself right) in 1 hour.

All competitors take part at their own risk. You MUST be over 16 to take part in this event, unless you are accompanied by a parent or guardian. This is a condition of the insurance.

http://slow.org.uk/streeto/teddington-street-o-tuesday-13-november/

If you need any further information, please ask bob.reed@post.com