EVENTS

NEWS

19 July 2009 FROLIC with CAT-O

Venue: Nonsuch Park

Flyer: Added 2 July

[Updated 2 July 2009]

16 August 2009 Mole Picnic

Venue: Buchan Country Park

Flyer: To follow

The famous annual MV Picnic Event is only open to Moles.

It is usually run on a fiendish handicapping system which last year involved your shoe size - among other things!

The competition is followed by a mass Mole picnic and the awarding of the trophy - Moley. See the Mole Roll for past winners.

[Added 14 Mar 2009]

26 September 2009 CAT-O

Venue: Nork Park

Flyer: To follow

[Added 14 Mar 2009]

17 October 2009 CAT-O

Venue: Redhill Common

Flyer: To follow

[Added 14 Mar 2009]

31 October 2009 CAT-O

Venue: Buchan Country Park

Flyer: To follow

NB the date of this event is a change from previously advertised

[Updated 8 June 2009]

21 November 2009 Night event

Venue: To be confirmed

Flyer: To follow

[updated 22 May 2009]

19 December 2009 South East Night League event

This event is CANCELLED

[updated 22 May 2009]

20 December 2009 South East Veterans and Families Championships

Venue: St Leonard's Forest, Holmbush Forest and Buchan Country Park

Flyer: To follow

[Updated 14 Mar 2009]

17 January 2010 Regional event

Venue: Effingham Woods and Sheepleas

Flyer: To follow

[Added 14 Mar 2009]

More details about each of these events will be posted at the Web site as they become available. If you want more information, contact the webmistress

A fuller list of national orienteering fixtures can be found at the British Orienteering Federation home pages

MV Forum. The MV Forum is a place for you to exchange news, views and information with other Moles.

To join send the following information to the webmistress:

- the name you want to be known as at the Forum. Please make sure this is something that will allow other Moles to recognise you rather than using a nickname

- your email address, and whether you want this to be made visible to other MV members so that they can email you directly rather than needing to respond to you via the Forum itself

- the password you want to use to log into the Forum

[ added 16 Oct 2006]

British Orienteering

South East Orienteering Association (SEOA) for magazine (SENAV), news and information relating to orienteering in the region
SENiLe (the South East Night League)

CompassSport (the orienteering magazine)
Nopesport (forum for those keen to chat about their sport) - but don't forget the MV forum too
Online (international orienteering news)

Please let the webmistress know if any of these links fail, or if there are other web sites you'd like to see linked to
 

As you may know, the Mole News is circulated in two ways by email and by post. Up to date email addresses are vital for this process to be successful and efficient. So please: 

- If your email address changes, as a matter of courtesy, let the Membership Secretary know.

- If you receive the Mole News by post and would like to do so by email instead, notify the Membership Secretary. 
 

ABOUT MOLE VALLEY ORIENTEERING CLUB

Mole Valley Orienteering Club covers parts of South London and Surrey and the River Mole lies at its heart. Our members cluster around the towns of Reigate, Epsom, Dorking, Sutton, Leatherhead and their surroundings. However we also have members that live further afield. 

Our official name is Mole Valley Map and Compass Foot Racing Society - we abbreviate to MV for easy reference!

We take the swallow as our symbol as it represents the swallow holes in the River Mole. These are holes in the river bed that mean the river disappears underground during dry periods. We also like to think that because swallows are fast and accurate navigators, they suit us well as an emblem. 

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We hope everyone who took part in this event had a good time.

The results are now available.

We hope everyone who tried orienteering at this event had a good time.

If you enjoyed the event, you might like to consider one of our other come and try or low key events.

There is information on the left of this page, but the dates for your diary are:

19 Jul, Nonsuch Park (near Cheam)
26 Sep, Nork Park (near Banstead)
17 Oct, Redhill Common (near Redhill)
31 Oct, Buchan Country Park (near Crawley) (Changed date)

Check back at this web site regularly if any of those events interest you, to learn more information about each event as it is published.

You can see the results here.

[Added 6 June 2009]

Results are now available.

[Added 25 May 2009]

The South East Night League event scheduled for 19 December 2009 has now been cancelled.

It has been replaced with a new night event on 21 November, venue to be announced.

[Added 22 May 2009]

If you would like to know how you are doing in this league after the first five events of 2009, take a look at the spreadsheet.

 [Added 7 May 2009]

Congratulations to Keith Masson who won the club Handicap for the third successive year. The competition was held at SO's Winkins event on 19 April.

The leader board looks like this:

 1  Keith Masson
 2  Tony Burton
 3  Philip Gristwood
 4  Nigel Bush
 5  Nick Green
 6  Mike Elliot
 7  Sandra Vogel
 8=George Engelhardt
     Mark Cheeseman
10=Jackie Olive
     Tony Schofield
11  Jon Moore
12  Peter Martin
13  Michael White

The Junior Flyer competition was won by Samantha Martin.

Full results can be found at SO's web site.

Check past winners at the Mole Roll.

Thanks go to Philip Gristwood for calculating the results.

[Added 28 April 2009]

Holmbush & St Leonard's Forests and Buchan Country Park 5 April 2009.  

Results are now available.

Routegadget and badge times added 6 April

Organiser's report added 9 April.

There will be no more uploads for this event

[Updated 9 April 2009]

The suspense is over.

At the Mole Dinner on 4 April the Mole Of The Year 2008 was announced.

We said we would not name the recipient publicly until after the trophy presentation was made. That took place at the Holmbush, St Leonard's and Buchan Country Park event on 5 April.

For exemplary effort as the Organiser of Day 3 of JK 2008 on Ashdown Forest, MOTY 2008 is Mike Bolton.

The presentation was made by club chair Ian Ditchfield. Click the photo to see a larger version.

You can see previous recipients of this trophy on the Mole Roll

[Added 5 April 2009]

This year's Dinner was held on 3 April at the Bookham Grange Country House Hotel, Little Bookham Common.

A select band of Moles turned out to enjoy good food, good company and a somewhat swanky venue.

Margaret Stedman announced the recipient of the Mole Of The Year Trophy. That person being absent their name will not be revealed till the presentation has taken place. But if you look carefully at the photo below you will be able to deduce who it was not awarded to!

Photo by Sandra Vogel. Click the photo to see a larger version.

[Added 4 April 2009]

If you would like to know how you are doing in this league after the first four events of 2009, take a look at the spreadsheet.

 [Added 1 April 2009]

Thanks to all Moles who turned out for the club at Mill Bank and Whitley on Sunday. According to the provisional results we were just pipped into second place by SOS.

See the results at the Saxons web site.

[Added 30 March 2009]

Congratulations to everyone who took part in this event. We hope you had a good time.

The results are now available. Click here to see them.

 [Added 6 March 2009]

South East Galoppen after three events

If you would like to know how you are doing in this league after the first three events of 2009, take a look at the spreadsheet.

 [Added 4 March 2009]

Club Handicap Trophy.

A date has been set for this competition. It will take place at the SO event at Winkins and Red Copse on 19 April.

To see past winners of the Club Handicap visit the Mole Roll.

 [Updated 23 Jan 2009]