11 podiums for Droobers in Overall & Sprints

This year's JK was a well-organised and delivered event in and around Sheffield. There were some great courses on each day although there were a few comments about course lengths and terrain on some of the older age-group courses.

It was a successful JK for Droobers; in the sprint, Nathan Lawson and Pete Carey took 1st places while Sheila Carey and Trevor Simpson also made the podium in 3rd place; overall, Juliette Soulard, Stephen Elkington, Alistair Landells and Pete Carey were all in 1st place with Sheila Carey getting a second place while Anne Straube and Hilary Simpson came home with a 3rd place. The weather was kind for the individual days with Sunday being particularly sunny up on Wharncliffe but it was somewhat wetter for the relays on Monday. Phil Vokes, Matt Elkington and Nathan Lawson took a hard fought  1st place in the JK Trophy but the rain must have had a dampening effect on Droobers as we did not manage another podium positiuon.

As always, the JK was a great opportunity for members to gather as a club and this year's was no exception. With Easter being so late, another opportunity will follow in a couple of weeks at the British Longs and British Relays up in the Lake District so make sure to enter and join your coplleagues in the ever sunny Lakes!

Rewards for a long trip

17 Droobers made the long trip down to Holmbush Woods for the British Middle Distance Champs at Holbush last weekend. The journey was well worth it because there was a good haul of podium places in what was a quite testing event. There was quite a bit of debate about the length of some of the courses in some age groups, lots of comments about the map and mapping and the need to clamber over a fence to reach the final control was very questionable, to say the least, for some of the older age groups. Then again, when do we orienteers never comment about such things?

Congratulations to all our competitors with a special mention to the 5 podium placements with Kirsten Strain, Juliette Soulard, Sheila Carey and Alistair Landels making the top step in first position with Anne Straube coming in second. Great results 

We are heading into major event season and these results will hopefully lead to more at the JK and and the other events. Speaking of the JK, it would also be great to get some good relay results to add to individual success so contact David Lawson to join one of the teams.