The CUOC SprintO this year will be held on Saturday 20th November 2010 at Brandon Country Park, Thetford Forest.

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Our May Week event this year will be held on Coe Fen on Thursday 17th June, with orienteering and a picnic. Picnic and soft drinks will be provided at a small cost, bring your own alcoholic drinks if you want them.
Come at 2.30pm for some short but fun courses, and do as many as you like! There will be a mass start for a mini-score course at 3.30pm, then picnic straight afterwards.
For anybody who doesn’t know the idea of the score event – the idea is that everybody starts at the same time, and everybody has to find all the points, but in any order they choose. The first person back wins! The points will be close together in quite a small area, so be prepared to think quickly!

Congratulations to Matt Halliday and Mairead Rocke for winning their classes.

This year it was a close battle between the college, with the top three being within 2 minutes of each other, but Pembroke managed to come out on top. With the second team prize being contested by Clare and St Catherine's, the later managed to just pull through to win.

Full Results

BUCS this year was hosted by Bristol Uinversity. The individual was at Sallowvallets in the Forest of Dean, with physically challenging courses, especially for those used to the flat surroundings of Cambridge. Matt Haliday had a good run, finishing 8th on the Men's A. The relay was at Stock Hill which was an excellent relay area with pockets of intricate detail, but very fast overall. Our men's realy team managed to beat Oxford, only losing to Edinburgh and Sheffield teams.
Overall we came 4th, which was a decent result. The top three were Edinburgh, Sheffield and Oxford, with Edinburgh winning vey convincingly.

Full Resutls

This year's Varity Match took place on Saturday 6th March on Penhale Sands in Cornwall, with excellent (and technically challenging) courses planned by Scott Collier (JOK). The men's match was reasonably close with Matt Halliday (Cambridge) taking the individual victory, followed by Ben Stevens (Cambridge). Unfortunately (with 4 runners to count) Oxford were too consistent and won by ten minutes overall.
We were unable to field a full team in the women's race, but Mairead Rocke (Cambridge) finished 3rd.

Full Results

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Please contact Adam (rab206) if you are interested in any of the following events.

21st February Epping SW.
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28th February VARSITY SELECTION RACE Burnham Beeches. Anyone interested in running at Varsity should try and attend this race. There will also be a pre-varsity social that night.
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6th March VARSITY Penhale Sands.
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13th March BUCS Forest of Dean. Both BUCS and varsity have novice courses so anyone who wants to is encouraged to attend.
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String Course Results

Icenian Trophy Results

Thanks to everyone who helped

Controller's Comments
CUOC is a small club which, by its nature, suffers from a high turnover in membership. Despite this, (but with a bit of help from their friends at WAOC) they managed to produce a quality event once again. Congratulations to Ben Stevens, who, in addition to planning fair courses which made use good use of the available terrain, took on much of the Organiser’s workload.
I started the day with a little trepidation on encountering a moderate snow shower on the way to the event, but with the weather turning into fine sunshine, it was a pity more on-the-day entries didn’t venture out – they would have enjoyed their courses as much as those of you I talked to enjoyed theirs.
Andrew Cordle

This year CUOC are organising day 1 of the Thetford Thrash in Brandon Country Park, which is an EA League event
Incorporating large sections of very runnable mature deciduous woodland, and one section of surprisingly tricky contour detail, this is one of the best areas in Theford Forest, and will make a refreshing change for anyone used to the usual Theford areas.

Entry on the day is available. If you would like to guarantee a map for your preferred course, please email entries@waoc.org.uk

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Event Page - Includes planner's and controller's comments

Thank you to everyone who helped out and made the event such a success.

There are some photos here. If you've got photos you'd like to share email cityrace@cuoc.org.uk and we'll post a link.