Author Archives: Will

The Jack Bloor award supported me to join the FRA for a navigation weekend in the fells, Kettlewell. Over the weekend we combined theory and practice of navigation, including a night navigation. I gained skills for navigating solo in a range of weather conditions, and thanks to the award I have confidence to take onContinue reading “2023 Rose Hagan, FRA Navigational Course, Fell Running “

The Jack Bloor Fund has helped me to attend the Biathlon Youth/Junior World Championships in Kazakhstan, this was my first World Championships and being able to go was amazing.  Whilst out in Kazakhstan I did 3 races, the first being a 15km individual race where I hit 16/20 and this was my best performance ofContinue reading “2023 Ethan Clarke, Biathlon, Youth/Junior World Championships”

Thank you so much for supporting me whilst competing internationally in the Spanish Duathlon Championships for Clubs. Both the individual sprint and supersprint relays were a great experience – competing in the Elite Category on a technical circuit circuit is perfect preparation for individual nationals at the end of the month. I finished 10th individual andContinue reading “2023 Lauren Dickson, Duathlon, Spanish Championships”

This year’s Junior World Orienteering Championship (JWOC) took an unexpected turn when the Portuguese government announced a total ban on forest access due to extreme risk of forest fire. This obviously had a huge impact on the event with the forest relay, middle and long discipline being postponed to a later date in November. TheContinue reading “2022 Pippa Carcas, Orienteering, Junior World Orienteering Championships”

With support from the Jack Bloor fund, I have been able to race my 1st year as an U23 cyclist in Spain. My team, based in Durango (Basque Country), makes an ideal location for training. The region is also home to some of the top level elite/u23 racing in Spain. The main races being theContinue reading “2022 Ben Houlihan, Road Cycling, Racing with Team Eiser-Hirumet”

I am so grateful for receiving the Jack Bloor funding this year. It helped fund an International training trip to Europe (Lake Bled, Slovenia). We spend a week running through the hills, getting some good exposure to surfaces I would be racing on later in the year. Having a lake at our disposal was greatContinue reading “2022 Emily Field, Athletics, Cross Country Training”

Having spent most of the previous year living in Switzerland, I was really looking forward to racing at the World University Orienteering Championships in the Swiss Jura. Not the typical alpine terrain that first comes to mind when picturing Switzerland, but a challenge nonetheless.  I had been selected to run three out of five racesContinue reading “2022, Laura King, Orienteering, World University Championships”

Thank you for your support for my Great Britain orienteering trip. I was having so much fun I didn’t want to come home!!! I thoroughly enjoyed two weeks of training with lots of different exercises and activities. Having never been to Scandinavia before the beautiful but complicated Forest’s were difficult to get used to andContinue reading “2022, Emily Gibbins, Orienteering, Sweden Training Camp”

The World University Orienteering Championships took place in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland. The programme consisted of 3 races: sprint; middle distance; and relay. I was slightly apprehensive as this was my first senior competition and my GB forest debut after the Junior World Orienteering Championships forest races were postponed due to risk of forest fire earlierContinue reading “2022, Pippa Carcas, Orienteering, World University Championships”

Andrew Stemp, Fay Walsh, Paul Pružina – 2-day outdoor first aid training course. A while ago the Airienteers suggested that we do an outdoor first aid course so that we could help out at their orienteering events and the Jack Bloor Fund kindly agreed to cover part of the costs. We thought this was aContinue reading “2022, Fay, Paul and Andrew, Orienteering, Outdoor First Aid Course”