O EVENTS CALENDAR introduction

The Events Calendar is a page of links to fixture information, collected from various sources ranging from official to gossip. Events listed, especially those in the more distant future, may be nothing more than a provisional proposal, and the landowner of the venue may not yet have given permission, or even been approached. Don't believe anything unless you can confirm it, possibly by following the link to the organising club's website. Even if you have confirmed it once, check again for last-minute changes before travelling. I'd appreciate an e-mail if you spot one of the errors.

Details on the organising club's website can usually be found under ¨fixtures¨ or ¨events¨, but some smaller events may be under ¨training¨ or even ¨schools league¨.

This is a personal selection made by Ian Ditchfield. I may not be entirely consistent, but will normally include all events within an hour or so's drive of any part of Mole Valley, higher status events over a wider area, all of Britain's highest-level events, and even a few overseas events. The general idea is to include any open domestic event which an orienteer based in Mole Valley would be likely to attend, and a selection of foreign events. Some of the smaller and more local events may be training exercises with no formal timing.

Most events are open to all, but some clubs expect regular attendees at their smallest events to join them; any such restriction should be clear from the event details on the club web site. Closed events are usually excluded unless Mole Valley are involved. The exclusion of closed events even extends to important events for which you have to be selected to take part, for example the British Elite Championship or the Home Internationals. I assume that those eligible will know about them without looking here!

This is not an official fixtures list. If you are looking for such a document, try the Mole Valley home page for our own events, the South-East Association (SEOA) for other south-eastern events, or the British Orienteering Federation fixture list. A wider range of overseas events may be found on the ¨World of O¨ web site.

This list is also restricted to foot and trail orienteering events. If you are after mountain bike events, try the BMBO web site.

For most lines, clicking on the event level will take you to the entry in the British Orienteering fixtures list, clicking on the entries open icon will take you to the entries system, clicking on the organising club's name will take you to their web site and clicking on the location name will take you to a location map. This map will be provided by Streetmap if you click at the left end of the location name, or Google if you click at the right end. Overseas events obviously have no British Orienteering fixtures link, and only a single map link for Google.

I try to make the map links point to the car park, but they may just indicate the general competition area. In any case, car parks are likely to change and there is no reason for event organisers to tell me when they do.

The distance quoted is the approximate road mileage by a direct route from the River Mole at Leatherhead, except for events outside Europe for which it will be the approximate air mileage from a London airport.

Occasionally there may be a line for entry opening or closing dates, or for a price hike date. Entry opening dates are only shown if I think an event is likely to fill up quickly. Closing dates are only shown if more than a week before the event date. Price dates are likewise only if more than a week before the event, and only if the change is significant. Dates are only shown for UK and the most major overseas events, and then only if I happen to spot them.

The following icons are used:

	event of particular importance to Mole Valley members, usually either organised by Mole Valley or featuring some form of inter-club competition
	National Championship, UK Orienteering League event, or other event graded by British Orienteering as ¨Major¨
	event graded by British Orienteering as ¨National¨ (if not in the UK Orienteering League)
	British Orienteering National Ranking event
	Night event
	event contains TrailO, possibly only as an optional component of a mainly foot-O event
	Overseas event
	on-line pre-entry opening, closing or price change date (not usually shown, see note above)
	online entries have opened

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