BKO Articles

4 October 2016: Members Update

As well as the good results from overseas already reported, much closer to home, Mark Saunders had a great run to win the Mens Open course at the Royal Wooton Basset urban event on the 25 September putting him in first place in the Southern England Orienteering Urban League with just a few more races to complete this year’s competition. ....

1 October 2016: Silver for Denise in the World Masters MTBO Champs

An alternative discipline in orienteering is Mountain Bike Orieteering (MTBO) which has the same idea of navigating at speed but, in this case, bicycles are used.  Denise Harper has shown hersef a very capable MTB orienteer and has travelled to Lithuania to complete in this year's World Masters Championships. ...

25 September 2016: 3 Second places for Fiona in Porto

It has been a good weekend for Fiona Clough in this weekend's Porto City Races.  With a second place in Friday night's evening event she maintained this standard and gained second place in the Women Super Vet class in yesterday's race and completed the set with a third second place today.  Congratulations to her on a great performance up against a large number of competitors from across Europe.

23 September 2016: 2nd place for Fiona Clough in the Porto night race

A race around the city of Porto in Portugal may not be everyone's ides of orienteering but the annual Porto City Race weekend has become an established part of the international urban calendar.  This year Fiona Clough and Derick Mercer have included it on their schedule and for Fiona it looks like being a good move.  In tonight's first race, she successfully navigated the complex course and was placed second in the Women Super Vet class.

6 August 2016: Lily Hill Park

Thank you to those who attended today's event at Lily Hill Park - we hope you enjoyed your run.  Some photos of the event taken during the closing stages are available in a Flickr album.  See: Lily Hill Park Flickr Album

Photo Challenge 2016

This is a chance to try and match photographs of controls taken at our urban event in mid-June with the controls shown on the map. Click the title above to find out more and get the complete set of control photographs. ....

12 July 2016: BKO Update

We had quite a selection of competitors at Saturday’s Lower Earley event – several local newcomers and one who had even come by train from Bristol! If you missed the event, you can see the results on the website ....

22 May: BKO Event at Bloom Wood - Results/Photos/Routegadget

Results have been posted on the Emit-UK site.  See: Emit UK - BKO Bloom Wood Results   For Routegadget, go to Bloom Wood - Routegadget. An album of photos from today's event at Bloom Wood is available on the Flickr site ....

15 May: BKO Newsletter - May 2016

Another issue of the Berkshire Orienteers Newsletter has just been distributed to members. The May issue should be arriving by post tomorrow or within a couple of days - pdf versions were e-mailed tonight to those members who have chosen that option. Non-members ....

11 May 2016: World Orienteering Day

In support of World Orienteering day on Wednesday 11th May, we will be running one of our wednesday evening training events at Swinley West (near Bracknell). All levels of ability welcome. Just turn up !

See event details at: http://bko.org.uk/activity/swinley-west-11-may-16

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