Aire Affairs Copy Date
The Copy Date for the next issue of Aire Affairs is Thursday, 22nd August. Please send me your holiday-O and non-O stories; event reports; successes and near misses. Fifty or so Airienteers were at the Scottish Six Days and it would be great to have lots of contributions. Send me your views on your week in Strathearn! And if you are orienteering around Bradford Grammar, we would love to hear about it.
Contributions to wendy.carlyle@btinternet.com
Scottish 6 Days
Overall Wins for Laura and Jack
Over 40 Aire members joined circa 2500 competitors at the Bi Annual Scottish 6 Day centred on Creiff. One of the best Scottish 6 Days yet – there was a huge variety of different terrain types in both forest and moorland, two areas totally new to orienteering and different race formats (two Middle Distance).
There were a number of notable Aire performances including overall wins for Laura King in W20L (including wins on individual days 2,4&6) and Jack Cooper in M35S.(wins days 2,5&6)
Peter Haines was 2nd overall on M65L (win on day 5) (first Brit a Norwegian beating him by a single point) Tony Thornley 2nd on M70L (win on day 6) Wendy Carlyle 2nd on W60S (win on day 6). Carey Martin was 3rd overall on W60L (wins days 3&5).
There will be a fuller article in the next Aire Affairs.
AIRE Summer Sprint League 2019
Congratulations to the following winners:
- Joe Woodley
- Steve Webb
- Alice Leake
- Joyce Marshall
Results:
Final League Standings:
Thank you to all helpers and competitors for taking part in this year's sprint series. We hope that you all enjoyed yourselves.
Why not join us at the following upcoming events:
Tues 20th August: Bradford Grammar School (Indoor Orienteering) and Lister Park (Sprint)
Sat 7th September: Colton (Prologue Sprint) and Temple Newsam (Chasing Sprint)
Sun 8th September: Leeds City (Urban)
AIRE Spring Sprint League 2019
Congratulations to the following winners:
- Dave Murgatroyd
- Chris Gibbins
- Anne Maguire
- Kirsty Hall
Prizes will be awarded at Woodhouse Ridge
Results:
Final League Standings:
Thank you to all helpers and competitors for taking part in this year's sprint series. We hope that you all enjoyed yourselves and will see you back for the first event of the next series: Weds 12th June - Woodhouse Ridge
Junior Local Events
A series of 4 Events for Juniors/Families and Beginners.
Aire is hosting a series of 4 events designed specifically by JDO Simon Martland for Juniors on Saturday afternoons. Each event will have a series of easy courses for the Juniors/Families and a Challenge course for more experienced orienteers. The events are being held between 1:00 and 3:30 on 11th May at Hudson Park, Wetherby:18th May at Nunroyd Park, Guiseley: 8th June at Bowling Park, Bradford and 22nd June at Riverside Gardens Ilkley.
Flyer Saturday Junior Events
More details are on the Events page.
Airienteers on the radio!
and local news...
Listen to Tony and Laura on BBC Radio 33m - 45m
Ilkley Gazette - Airienteers 50th
Ilkley Gazette - Northern Night Champs
Plus Mike Bushell tries out orienteering on the BBC - Get Inspired
JK Weekend
Evie Conway wins W18 Elite
Easter weekend saw over 30 club members running at the annual JK Orienteering Festival. The event consisted of a sprint race at Aldershot Garrison, followed by middle and long distance individual races at Windmill Hill and Cold Ash respectively and the final race being a relay at Minley.
There were some great results for Aire members over the weekend, with star performance being Evie Conway who won W18E overall with two 2nd place finishes on the day in both the middle and long.
Peter Haines was second overall in M65 but first Brit (beaten by former World Champs medallist Sigurd Daehli of Norway) with 3rd and 2nd places on the days....
Event Safety Workshop
2nd May Leeds University
The Event Safety Workshop for 2nd May is now full. If you had been thinking of attending please let David Williams know so we can coordinate interest to arrange a future course
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.
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!