CLYDE at JK 2022

A small but enthusiatic group of CLYDEsiders made the long trip to South Wales for the Easter weekend to compete in arguably the most important orienteering event in the UK orienteering calendar, the Jan Kjellstrom International Festival of Orienteering.

CLYDE at the Scottish Sprint Championships 2022

A weekend of sunny weather and furious sprint racing in Dundee saw several strong CLYDE performances, but the standout results were definitely the crowning of Donald Petrie as the new Scottish Men's Ultravets Sprint Champion and a third place (second W65) on the Women's Ultravets course for Amelia Petrie. Full results can be found on the Masterplan Adventure website. Well done to all of the CLYDE members who took part.

CLYDE Dumbarton Urban Orienteering Event on 5th March 2022

Thanks to everyone who took part in CLYDE's first major event of 2022, namely our Scottish Urban Orienteering League (SOUL) event on a new map of Dumbarton on 5th March 2022. Simple results are here, for full results click on the "Results" link above.

CLYDE Sprint Training at Linwood a Great Success

Thanks for Andy Paterson for organising some great sprint orienteering training at Linwood on 30th January, consisting of a straight-or-round pairs exercise and two mass start sprint exercises. We even managed to avoid the rain showers! The mass start courses can be run anytime by anyone as "Linwood A" and "Linwood B" using MapRun6.

CLYDE Annual Awards 2021

CLYDE's annual award winners for 2021 were announced at the recent AGM and are

• Most Improved Male – Thomas Wilson
• Most Improved Female – Alice Wilson
• Cannon Trophy (for most SOL Points) – Amelia Petrie
• Croy Bowl – Alastair Dunlop (for organising the website upgrade)
• Best Performance – Alice McCartney (for her run at the British Relays)

Steve Wilson gets a late call-up for Scotland

CLYDEside member Steve Wilson was a late addition to the Scottish team which came an honourable second to England at the Veteran Home International held in Surrey in December 2021.

Thomas Wilson wins the Barcelona City Race

CLYDE member Thomas Wilson was victorious in the Barcelona City Race held on 31st October 2021.

News from Return to Mugdock

Well done to all who helped and took part in the second of our "Return to Orienteering" Thursday evening training events. Maprun times for those who ran with phones are here

Return to Orienteering

It was exciting to have the first of our "Return to Orienteering" events on Thursday evening in Paisley. Alastair planned the Urban course and Nick did the on the day organisation. Even the "mixed" weather didn't put off our enthusiastic athletes. Some even managed to use the MapRun app, and their results and tracks are on the MapRun website

Orienteering activities, games and stuff

We’ve gathered a list of some online orienteering games, quizzes, software and other stuff that can be played with at home or out on your own. See below for the list.
Based on a list generated by Chris Smithard who has his own list here.