Airienteers

The area is ideal for Juniors with numerous paths and rides, little undergrowth and very little public access. It has been used previously for the YBT final.

There is plenty of room for Club Tents and Banners adjacent to the finish.

Entries are now open on Fabian 4 or email Junior Coach Lindsey King

HALO Preliminary Details

Mon 8 Apr Read more…

Aire now has it's own Event Safety Tutor - Will Patterson. All major event officials are expected to have attended an Event Safety Workshop. This provides event volunteers with an overview of safety and welfare issues that may arise when staging an orienteering event. Will will be running an Event Safety Workshop on 2nd May 7:00 pm at The Edge, Leeds University. The Workshop is free to all Aire and BOF members.

Organisers and planners of Wednesday evening events do need to have undertaken the training. So if you are thinking of volunteering in the future please come along. Newer members should also find the course an interesting insight into a detailed area of the sport.

If you are interested in attending and for fuller information please contact; chair@aire.org.uk

David Williams

Wed 3 Apr Read more…

Compass Cup Heat - Bampton Common

Long leg madness...

Well done to all Airienteers who represented the club on Sunday. Great effort particularly from the Juniors to travel all that way and help the club. We were blessed with amazing conditions, compared with the forecast 24hrs before. Many thanks to Border Liners for a well run enjoyable event. Great new area and hopefully we will get a chance to race there again in the future.

Results Winsplits Routegadget

It was very close, unratified results are WCOC 2450 AIRE 2418 MDOC 1836 LOC 1435; unfortunately too many Airienteers lost the plot on the long leg (3 out 3 in our car) . I'm sure this will be fully dissected and analysed in the next Aire Affairs. We live and learn, next topic for AIRE training: How to survive and conquer 'long legs'?

Runs of the day go to: Tony Thonley (1st VSG) who used all his nous to beat the gorse bushes and younger whipets; Evie Conway (1st SG) who won by exactly 1 minute over WCOC and Alasdair McLeod (1st Br) who won by 1 second!

Mon 18 Mar Read more…

Northern Championships Weekend

This weekend saw SYO host a double header terrain and urban events for the Northern Championship.

Wharncliffe North, a steep mixed woodland and moor with lots of rock features and old quarrying areas provided a true physical and navigational test in wet and wintry weather. Congratulations to Tony Thornley who won M70. Other notable Aire performances came from Sue Stevens 2nd in W65, David Alcock 2nd in M40, Tim Patterson 3rd in M35 and Jack Beavers 3rd in M12B.

The Urban event was held at Ponderosa in Sheffield with the best Aire results being Anne Maguire 2nd on the Women's Open course and Sue Stevens 3rd on WUV.

Mon 11 Mar Read more…

Airienteers make the local news!

Ilkley Gazette - Airienteers 50th

Ilkley Gazette - Northern Night Champs

Plus Mike Bushell tries out orienteering on the BBC - Get Inspired

Fri 8 Mar Read more…

50th Anniversary Club Giraffes

Must have club accessory has arrived

To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the club it was decided that a free specially designed limited edition Giraffe would be available to all current club members. Hopefully most of you who attended on Sunday will have picked up your head/neck wear. Alice and Sarah are pictured at the event wearing theirs and many others can be seen sporting them in Wendy's event photos.

For anybody who wasn't at Ilkley on Sunday (or who didn't manage to pick one up) don't fret I will be taking them to Northern Champs weekend events in Sheffield, Compass Sport Cup and to the Spring Sprint League evenings. Hopefully this will enable everybody to get their Giraffe.

David Williams

Tue 5 Mar Read more…