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Share  Tweet Thursday 14th March 2024

Online presentation: how the process to select GBR teams works

To help all aspiring athletes, parents and coaches understand how the GBR teams are selected for Foot O international competitions, Bob Dredge, the chair of both the senior and junior selection panels, is giving an online presentation.

The presentation will be on Monday 18th March from 19:30-20:30.

The presentation will cover the process of how selections are made. There will be the opportunity to ask any questions. To maximise the time we have for questions, it is assumed that all attendees have read the Foot O selection policy beforehand.

If you would like to join, please email tbray [at] britishorienteering.org.uk for a link.

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Share  Tweet Tuesday 12th March 2024

Revive Active are Official Supplement Supplier to the GB Squad

We are thrilled to officially partner with Revive Active to support our orienteering community throughout all levels.

 

Coming on board as Official Supplement Supplier to the Senior GB squad, the athletes will be supported by the range of products on offer to help them train, perform and recover during the 2024-5 season.

 

If you are heading to the JK Festival make sure you visit the Revive tent on Day 3 to try out the products for yourself, and if you're lucky enough - you may be taking home some Revive goodies, thanks to kind sponsorship of Days 2 and 3.

 

Kay Hawke, Partnerships Manager - A key component of our partnership, is that Revive have shown that they are dedicated to supporting our whole membership - whether it's sponsorship of our Senior Squad, major events, member discount codes or future community-based work. It is clear from our discussions that we share the same passion for what being outdoors and active can do for somebody's wellbeing. Their sponsorship of our GB Squad will enable us to ensure that our athletes are prepared in the best possible way in which is an exciting year ahead for our sport and we are looking forward to what 2024 can bring from our work together.

 

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Share  Tweet Monday 11th March 2024

Junior Sprint Selection Races – Friday 12 April 2024

British Orienteering is organising a junior selection race to select the GBR teams for EYOC (16/18) and JWOC (18/20). Here are all the details:

  • Venue: University of York
  • Date: Friday 12 April, the evening before British Orienteering Long Distance Championships.
  • Junior selection race with all 16/18/20 age athletes welcome. Entry is open to all juniors, regardless of membership or not of the GBR L3 Talent or L4 Development squads.
  • Junior start times 1700-1900.
  • Opportunity for those travelling with juniors (i.e. parents) to have an informal run 1900-1930.

Entries

To enter, please visit this link

This site also contains further details of the race.

This is one of the five primary selection races to select the EYOC and JWOC teams. More details in the British Orienteering selection policy (here https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/Selection)

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Share  Tweet Monday 26th October 2020

British Orienteering welcomed 80 attendees to their latest webinar

From experiences of returning to traditional events to virtual leagues – the webinar on Tuesday 20 October 2020 enabled 80 attendees from across the home countries to hear directly from club volunteers about their club experiences as well as listen to the latest national picture from British Orienteering presented by Natalie Weir and Ric Gamble.

On the night attendees watching heard from a selection of club speakers including Jon Eaton (WCOC), Colin Dickson (BAOC), Jason Falconer (WSX), Phill Batts (CLOK), Martyn Roome (SROC). 

Juls Hanvey (Sporting Clubs Coordinator – NI) who gave us an overview of an LVO October Outdoors project.  This project highlighted four weeks of adventurous orienteering challenges across three boroughs supported by The Outdoor Partnership NI and delivered via virtual orienteering courses.  This project highlighted how we can potentially start thinking about utilising virtual orienteering courses as a brilliant tool to engage newcomers in the current COVID19 climate.

Sal Chaffey (DVO) and Mike Godfree (DVO) who couldn’t join us on the night have also provided their ideas and experiences of MapRun and this presentation, along with the others featured and the link to the video can be found here. 

British Orienteering continue to be motivated and inspired by all that clubs are doing to embrace, innovate and organise round the current restrictions as well as continuing to try to negotiate permissions and access.

We hope those who attended found being able to hear and share experiences interesting and inspiring.  Please do keep an eye out for future webinars – with the next one likely to be featuring and discussing MapRunG experiences – MapRun on a Garmin Watch.

Further details will be announced on the British Orienteering website shortly.

Permanent Orienteering Course control
MapRun

Did you know? 

British Orienteering has a dedicated webinars page on the website where all the webinars produced are listed.  

The dark nights present a great opportunity to catch up on the recent webinar series focused around Returning to Orienteering , Permanent Orienteering, and Virtual Orienteering Courses., plus many more.  You may have missed one or two of them, or maybe it would be useful to re-watch them again to help you build on any ideas you already have.

To access all the series of webinars produced during lockdown follow the links below.  Click on the session title to watch any of the sessions back in your own time.

Q&A on the Back to Orienteering guidance.

This session outlines the key points resulting from the published guidance for each nation and took live questions. We hope this session provides the confidence and practical understanding to support clubs as they continue to move forward in planning their return to local level event delivery.

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Entries, Booking & Contactless payment systems.

This session provides a recap of fully integrated entry with payment systems - Fabian, SI, Eventrac etc followed by some excellent examples of individual club booking systems from CLOK, POTOC & HH.  An overview of the most common contactless card payment systems - Izettle vs Sumup vs Square is provided along with a helpful experience of using iZettle from SLOW.  LVO also provide a helpful iZettle user guide handout.

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Introduction to the UsynligO Virtual App

Simon Bailey from BOK demonstrates how the UsynligO app can be used to set up virtual courses, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as taking questions.

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Q&A on the next steps of the Back to Orienteering plan

Join British Orienteering CEO Peter Hart and the Development team to discuss the Back to Orienteering action plan. Peter and the team answered your questions live and heard your thoughts for how local events and the sport may look when local events and activities resume.

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Bitesize Webinar session: 
Using OCAD for Map Run

In this recorded session, Pat discusses using OCAD with MapRun. Pat provides support for users of the MapRun App on using OCAD maps/exporting courses.

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Bitesize Webinar session:
Map Run Administration

In this recorded session, Pat follows up his earlier Map Run webinar by explaining the local administration role associated with Map Run.

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Open Orienteering Map

This session sees Oliver O'Brien demonstrating how to use Open Orienteering Map, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as relating its use for creating virtual Orienteering and it's more familiar use in urban/ street orienteering.

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How to use the MapRun app for virtual courses

In this webinar Pat demonstrates how the app can be used to set up virtual courses, the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as taking questions and answers.  

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Using Routegadget to set up virtual courses

In this webinar, Simon demonstrates how to use Routegadget to set up virtual courses (without SI results), the practicalities and functions of the platform as well as an taking questions to provide further insight into its practicalities.

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Getting to know Routegadget

Simon Errington from Hertfordshire Orienteering Club (HH) presents all about Routegadget. Showing you the basics through to some more advanced techniques.

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Don't forget - if you have a subject you would like to hear more about, please email:  nweir@britishorienteering.org.uk

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