AIRE Coaching Update - Feb 2026
Here is an collective article showcasing our latest coaching sessions between December 2025 and February 2026.
Night Orienteering Training - Weds 14th January
British Orienteering are encouraging you to try night orienteering. See Night Orienteering explained. We are offering a training session:
Wednesday 14th January 7.00pm to 8.30pm at Hirst Wood, Saltaire.
Suitable for adult and older teenage members who want to practice night orienteering in a relaxed session with a coach & other participants. It will prepare you for competing in more races at night/entering in a night event for the first time. Suitable if you are ‘light green’ to ‘brown’ course standard or if you have been doing urban night events and wish to try the forest.
You will need a decent head torch. If you don’t have a compass we can lend you one. SI dibbers not needed.
Book a place: lindseyking49AThotmail.co.uk Final details will be sent to all who book.
Lindsey King, Coach.
AIRE Junior Coaching - Oct 2025
Hirst Wood, Saltaire
Here is an article from our latest junior coaching session in Hirst Wood, Saltaire on 12th October 2025.
Junior Coaching Activities - Autumn 2025
Airienteers Junior Coaching activities - Autumn 2025
- Sunday 12th October 2pm-4pm. Hirst Wood, Saltaire, Shipley - junior coaching - yellow to green standard
- Sunday 9th November 9am-3pm. Junior trip by minibus to the EBOR event at Skipwith between Selby & York (Remembrance Sunday so check if you are needed on parade first!). Picking up Ilkley/Otley/Guiseley/Leeds. Useful training if you are attending the British Schools Event in Edinburgh the following weekend.
Training opportunities for members
Wednesday 30th April 8pm - 9pm online session - British Championships preparation.
Would you like to qualify as an orienteering coach?
Please follow the 'Read more' link for more details and how to sign up.
Junior Coaching
Middleton Woods Ilkley
Mud and rain didn’t stop 7 juniors and parents having fun orienteering in Middleton Woods Ilkley this month! In the coaching session we practised planning routes from one control to another, matching map symbols to names and finished with the popular peg relay race and biscuits...... cont.