2-day World Ranking Event
Congratulations to Alice Leake who won!
Alice Leake AIRE was 1st overall on the sprint races in Kelso/Jedburgh Scotland on 10/11 June. Nice one!
Laura King AIRE was =8th on day 1 but rookie error forgetting to take her SI card to start on day 2 caused a late start :(
Airienteers score equal third in Compass Sport Cup final
Thanks to everyone who made the trip up to Scotland and ran so well representing AIRE in the Compass Sport Cup final. While the huge teams of defending champions SYO and hosts FVO were fighting it out for the overall win (which went narrowly to SYO) we had a very close tussle with Lakeland for third place. In the end we were tied on points from our top 25 scoring runners and the equivalent of a photo finish or penalty shoot out was awarded to Lakeland as their 26th counter was ahead of ours.
But overall it was our best performance for many years and encouraging for the future as we had several runners who were unable to make the trip on this occasion. It was great to be part of a well organised final in the challenging terrain of Devilla and Tulliallan. Full reports to follow in the forthcoming edition of Aire Affairs.
| 1st | 25 | 2425 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd | 25 | 2419 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd | 25 | 2223 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4th | 25 | 2223 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5th | 25 | 2165 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6th | 20 | 1495 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7th | 7 | 591 |
Thanks Steve
AIRE places 5th in CompassSport Cup Final
Thanks to everybody who represented AIRE in the final at Tankersley, Hesley and Parkin Woods on Sunday. We had a really good turnout of 59 runners on the day with representation across all the age classes from the 12s to the 80s. The team gamely tackled courses in the wooded post-industrial landscape; some with great aplomb, some with exasperation in places (more the latter for me!).
In a field of 10 very competitive clubs we finished 5th, just 4 points off 4th position. Full results are:
| SYO | South Yorkshire | 2397 |
| FVO | Forth Valley | 2368 |
| WCOC | West Cumberland | 2245 |
| OD | Octavian Droobers (Coventry) | 2183 |
| AIRE | You know who | 2179 |
| SLOW | South London | 2100 |
| DVO | Derwent Valley | 2049 |
| LEI | Leicester | 1549 |
| BOK | Bristol | 1460 |
| ESOC | Edinburgh Southern | 825 |
Yvette Baker Trophy
AIRE’s junior team travelled to deepest Gloucestershire for the Yvette Baker trophy this month. The race was held at the beautiful Westonbirt National Arboreteum... (click Read more to find out what happened)
Promising Junior performances at major competitions
Congratulations to the 5 Aire Juniors who competed over the weekend of 5/6 June in the Lake District. The areas of Summerhouse Knott and High Dam are physically and navigationally tough. Most of you will not have run in such hard areas or read such a complex map before. The events also attracted the best orienteers from GB as the races were selection races for international events. You should all be proud of your performance!
| AIRE JUNIORS | British Middle Distance Summerhouse Knott
| Northern Champs High Dam – long distance
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| James Woodham | M14 - 7th | M14B 1st Silver |
| Tom Threlfall | M16 -25th | M16A 20th Bronze |
| Emily Gibbins | W16 – 7th Gold | W16A 15th Silver |
| Jack Villiers | M18 - 26th | M18S 3rd |
| Jake Powell | M18 19th Bronze | M18E 20th Bronze |
Jack Bloor Race 2021 Results
MapRun Challenge
Airienteers were pleased to host and support the Jack Bloor Race 2021 MapRun Challenge.
In lieu of the traditional annual fell race, the virtual race was run on Ilkley Moor, in your own time, anytime, for the entire month of May.
Yvette Baker Trophy – great results!
A huge, big thank you to 13 Aire juniors who ran for the club at the Yvette Baker heat at Middleton Park. TEAM AIRE was:
Jack, Jake, Tom, Annie, Megan, Katie, James, Harry, Henry, Jack, Bethan, Charlie & Kate.
Although SYO (South Yorkshire) scored more points - 899, we had enough runners to score on each course meaning that we were only a few points behind- 861 despite their large turn out. That is a brilliant achievement when many of you have done so little orienteering for a year.
Highlights were Katie who finished smiling though dripping wet with rain and our youngest competitor Kate who persevered on a tricky yellow course in her smart new Aire top.
Lindsey King – Coach
Juniors Compass Sport Cup report
We may not be able to go to any orienteering events at the moment 🙁 However, I thought you would like to see some of our juniors sporting their new AIRE tops to cheer you up.....
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!