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Congratulations To Goff Hill and Bert Park for winning the long course on the Rodings Ralley in record time. It is the 4th consecutive year for a SUFFOC team to win this event. To Barnardistone Hall School who were very successful at the Schools Championship held in the Forest of Dean held in November. They won the team competition as well as coming 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th…Thomas King won the year 8 boys event. Notices The East Anglian Championship will be held at the Silverstone Badge event on the 23rd of February. Do you want to become an event Controller? Minimum requirements to have planned 2 courses and organized 1 event. If you do please contact your chairman as East Anglia will put on a course if there are sufficient numbers. We have 2/3 members interested already. The club is short of controllers and we must rely on the goodwill of controllers from other clubs for most of our events. Dibber Hire to Increase – The cost of hiring a dibber owned by the EAOA will go up to 75p in 2003. A copy of BOF rules and regulations has been sent to club. If anybody would like to look at this please contact the chairman. For those of you have there own copy of this and wonder where all the appendices mentioned in it are. Most of them are still being written! Chairman’s Chat A new committee was formed at the clubs AGM in October. A warm welcome to Goff Hill and Rob Weed to the committee. A big thanks to Clive Coles and June Webb for there hard work over the last few years for the club. If something blue whizzes past you whilst out in the forest it will be Clive with the extra speed he has gained from the pressures of chairman being off his shoulders. The first part of the season has seen some glorious weather at events, although too warm at times for those us of a more energetic nature. Rendlesham being an excellent example of this. It was the first event Paul Lowe organized and should be congratulated on his success. Paul was called beyond the normal duties of being an organizer having to place controls on the Saturday afternoon when the planner became ill. He also had to cope with a change of car park created by the high winds the previous week as well as being a few volunteers short. A job well done. There has been some good orienteering although an effort has been required to go beyond the borders of Suffolk. It is only a pity that NOR have had two events that have clashed with other East Anglian events and yet the next week there has no event in the fixtures list. Looking forward to 2003 Simon Peck is confident of completing the mapping of Tunstall Forest to enable the club to hold an event in November. His work is much appreciated by the club. Happy Orienteering in 2003 and I look forward to seeing you a Knettishall Heath on 12th January. Andrew Elliot
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Membership Renewals The AGM voted to keep club fees at the same level as last year. A renewal for club members will be enclosed with the Punch. BOF members will have received a renewal notice at the start of December. The fees for 2003 will
be... New Committee Chairman & EAOA representative Secretary Treasurer & Membership The following agreed to carry on and cover their previous remits :- Fixtures & Web Master Newsletter (Punch) Editor The positions of Equipment and Publicity Officer need to be filled. If anybody can help please can you contact the Secretary or the Chairman.
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Rodings Ralley Report What were you doing on the night of 16th November? Sitting by a warm fire whilst socializing with friends. Drinking Beer? Two teams from SUFFOC were amongst 90 others looking for up 9 controls in Epping Forest, in the dark. The controls are dimly lit tents placed in undergrowth plotted by grid reference on a 1:20000 scale map. Finding certainly them improves your compass work and pacing skills. Side paths are not seen easily in the dark. Controls 1 to 3 had been found. A hot drinks stop, an optional part of the course revitalized. Control 4 with pin point accuracy to a tent in the middle of a large area of forest fight. Planners are no more sympathetic in the dark than light. Finding a control 50 metres from the path is a challenge in the dark as failed to find control 5 after much searching. It was close to the path other teams had found it. Our nadir was control 7. We wandered around, we got lost. The only sensible option was to go north. We brushed past holly bushes, defoliated trees were illuminated by our head lights and seemed to completely surround us at times. Was there a way out? Thoughts of the Blair Witch crossed out minds. We eventually reached that elusive path to the relief of one team member who admitted she has never been so scared in her life. 5 minutes later she talking about entering next years event. Why? Well you get all the highs and lows of a challenging orienteering event with your team mates. Walking around Epping Forest in the dark sounds completely mad but is great fun. Phone Goff Hill now to enter for 2003.
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BOF News 29th November 2002Orienteers are reminded that the first closing date for Moray 2003 (27th July to 2nd August 2003), the latest in a series of six day events held every two years in Scotland, is January 31st 2003. This year, in order to make entry as painless as possible, the organisers have made online entry available. This service goes live on December 1st 2002 and access is available via the event website at www.moray2003.org. The North East of Scotland, where the event is being held, has the benefit of the most equable climate in Britain and has numerous historic landmarks e.g. Culloden Battlefield and associations e.g. The Wolf of Badenoch as well as some of the most challenging orienteering available anywhere. Do not miss it! Orienteering in Europe The club has received details of the following major European orienteering events planned for next year. These are • The Belgian ‘3
O-Days’, 7-9 June 2003 • Orienteering 2003 in Switzerland. This is two separate events held in adjacent weeks: o ‘Tour O Swiss’, July 26-August 2, described as “Roundtrip and 4-Day Orienteering” (also described as the Big Mac of orienteering). This is an 8-day combination of orienteering and sightseeing taking you to St. Moritz, Lugano, Brig (Matterhorn area) and Bern. Orienteering is described as an option in the package! And you can do it by train and coach or by car.o ‘Swiss O Week’, August 3-9. This is a 6-day Orienteering event coinciding with the World Championships. You run partly on the WOC maps and legs. Further details of the Swiss events can be seen at www.olwm2003.ch, including on-line applications.If you are interested to find out whether others from the club are going to either event, or even thinking about it, please e-mail me. Goff Hill
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