It's getting close, we're getting excited and hope you are too! We've pulled together the final details for the Purple Thistle over on the <a href="http://www.purple-thistle.co.uk/08/event-info-page.html" target="_PT">event website</a> for your perusal, and it looks set to be a great weekend of orienteering. There's a <a href="http://www.oentries.com/event/entry_list_cat/62-purple-thistle-20...

For those of you heading to Yorkshire this bank holiday weekend for five events across three days, <a href="http://www.eborienteers.org.uk/wr/2008/wr2008fdv3.pdf" target="_WR">final details</a> are available. Two regional events, a night score, a team score and a mountain bike score event take place from Friday to Monday in Lownorth Park, near Scarborough in North Yorkshire. Phew, makes me tire...

The entry deadline for the Force Ten (Phoenix) Long O, taking place on the 16th & 17th of August, is fast approaching. The event is a 2 day 'long orienteering' event which takes place in the Cheviots, the range of hills straddling the border between Scotland and England, and is run by Newcastle and Tyneside Orienteers (NATO). Unlike its Mountain Marathon cousins the event returns to base after ...

Some of Britain's best sprint orienteering athletes came together for head to head racing at the second Ultrasprint, organised by SYO as part of the Cliffhanger outdoor festival in Sheffield. Sponsored by Garmin, £600 of cash prizes were up for grabs, including £150 for the fastest male and female competitor. In both the qualification races and the final, competitors navigated through the "laby...

The twelve best British Junior Orienteers are now camped in Gothenbery, Sweden for the 2008 Junior World Championships. The team is a nice blend of experienced JWOC athletes and newbies on their debut. The first race was the sprint distance no qualification needed for this a straight final involving all nations and all athletes. Team GBR faired okay with some encouraging performances from ...

The South West of Scotland, in particular two of the well renowned Seven Staines mountain biking centres, hosted this year?s British mountain biking championships. Consisting of a long race on the Saturday and a middle distance on the Sunday, the numerous technical trails of Dalbeattie and Mabie Forests respectively were to offer great riding while Janine Inman?s planning (and mapping, and organi...