I would like to say a massive thank you to the Jack Bloor Fund for the financial support that helped make my altitude training camp in Font Romeu possible.

The camp was a really valuable opportunity to spend time training at altitude alongside a strong group of athletes, helping me build my fitness and prepare for the second half of the season. Being able to focus fully on my training in such a good environment made a real difference to my preparation.

Following the camp, I went on to achieve 3rd and 4th place finishes at two national races, as well as 12th place at a European Cup in Alanya, Turkey. Additionally I ran a 5km run PB of 14:08 placing 7th at the home nations 5km event. I believe the work put in during the camp played an important role in these performances and helped me head into these races in good shape.

Support from the Jack Bloor Fund has made a genuine difference, helping ease the financial pressures of competing at this level and allowing me to focus on performing to the best of my ability. It has also helped open up opportunities that might otherwise have been much harder to access.

Thank you again for your generosity and belief in supporting my triathlon journey. I am extremely grateful for the opportunities this support has given me and look forward to building on these results as I continue working towards my goals.

With it being the final race of the season, I didn’t want to put any pressure on myself and instead focused on enjoying the experience of racing in Tenerife.

The start was a little scrappy. I got dragged back early on and made the decision to cut right towards the inside line. From there, I was able to settle into a solid rhythm before the inevitable congestion around the buoys. Unfortunately, my swim hat came off towards the end of the swim, so I didn’t get to bring that home with me. Overall, I had a decent swim, coming out mid-pack around 20 seconds behind the leaders.

It was then a long run up to T1 before chasing hard over the opening laps of the bike. The race eventually came together into one large pack, which was a bit sketchy at times with a few crashes throughout. Not being able to see much through the tunnel certainly didn’t help either. There was then a big battle for position heading into T2.

I managed to start the run in contention but unfortunately struggled with stomach issues and was forced to keep the pace controlled despite my legs feeling quite good. I finished 38th out of 64 finishers, a decent result in a strong field, but I know I am capable of much more.

I would like to say a massive thank you to the Jack Bloor Fund for helping make opportunities like this possible and allowing me to experience racing at this level.

Supported by the Jack Bloor Fund, last weekend I travelled to Trieste, Italy to compete for England at the U23 International Road Running Championship. It was an amazing opportunity to compete against the top athletes in Europe and test my fitness as I start my winter season.

The 10km race followed the seafront as we raced back into the town centre, finishing in the town square, which created an amazing atmosphere. After a conservative first half, I was able to break away in a small group and finished 4th in a PB of 33:43. I was also really proud to be the first England athlete home and led England to a team bronze medal.

The trip was made even better by plenty of Italian pizza and gelato, and I am so grateful to the Jack Bloor Fund for supporting me in this opportunity.

From the 15th to the 25th August, I had the amazing opportunity to go to Czechia with other athletes of my age to train and practice our orienteering.

We arrived very late on Saturday night, before having tea and getting to know the coaches. We then had training for 4 days, consisting of some exercises in the morning and a fun activity in the afternoon, such as a peg relay. All the areas were really cool, with lots of intricate rock detail (see pictures) which provided for some very tricky navigation- and lots of cool scrambling and squeezing through gaps to try reach the controls! On basically every day we could go swimming in a river or lake which was very good to cool off, although it was the coldest czech tour there had ever been, we still had fun jumping in the water.

Thursday was the rest day, in which we had a lie-in (very much needed) and a visit to the nearby waterpark in Liberec which was really fun. That evening, we were joined by Tomas Krivda (world cup middle champion), and then had a day training with him the next day. In the evening he gave us a talk where he went through his world cup middle map, showing us how he navigated through the course (making it sound way too easy!) The final 3 days of training were for a competition (basically the JK but in Czechia) the first day was a middle, then long and then another middle – all in different parts of the same area.

After the third race, we drove back to Prague where we spent the evening exploring the city and enjoying our final night in Czech, before waking up early for the flight back the next day.

Overall, it was a really enjoyable week of training, meeting lovely people, and having lots of fun orienteering in really cool areas! Thank you so much to Airienteers and the Jack Bloor Fund for their generous contribution towards the cost of the trip, making this very memorable week possible!

Thank you to the Jack Bloor Fund, giving me this award it is really appreciated.

l competed yesterday at the European Triathlon Cup in Coimbra. I had a solid swim with a very close first buoy to contend. Coming out roughly 10 seconds down from the lead swimmer meant I had to work very hard through T1 and the start of the bike to make the front break-away group and ended up bridging the gap after a few minutes.

The bike course was very fast with a few sharp inclines and fast corners and as a group of 12 we managed to stay away from the chasers going into T2.

The run was an interesting course including a lot of twists and turns around the river and adjacent park. I managed a solid run leg building into the second lap where I finished 6th overall in the elite women’s field and first GBR athlete.

At the end of July, I travelled to Portugal to compete at the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC), representing Great Britain and Durham University, with the support of the Jack Bloor Fund.

The competition was based around an hour inland from Porto, in the town of Vila Real, and consisted of three races: the Knockout Sprint, Individual Sprint and Forest Middle.

Having been injured for the first half of the year, I was very pleased to be selected and used the competition as an important part of my journey back from injury. As it was also my final year at Durham University, this was the last opportunity I would have to compete at WUOC, making the experience particularly special.

The sprint-focused nature of the competition suited me well, as sprint orienteering tends to be the discipline in which I perform best, compared to forest orienteering. Throughout the week, temperatures exceeded 30°C during the races, while the courses presented challenging navigation through the narrow and twisty streets of Vila Real, making the competition even more demanding.

I learnt a great deal throughout the week, both from the competition itself and from racing alongside athletes from universities around the world. Most importantly, the championships proved to be the perfect step in my return to full fitness following my injury, giving me valuable racing experience and confidence as I continued to build back towards my previous level.

The Jack Bloor Fund has kindly supported a number of my orienteering competitions over the past few years and has been instrumental in my development as an athlete. I am exceptionally grateful for the Fund’s continued support, which enabled me to take part in WUOC and represent both Great Britain and Durham University on the international stage.

The Jack Bloor Fund helped give me the amazing opportunity to attend a GB training camp in Poland to help prepare for the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC), which are being held there next summer. The competition is based in the Lower Silesia region, very near the Czech border!

The camp gave us the opportunity to get a feel for the different terrains across the competition areas. The maps vary greatly, featuring large ridges and valleys for the Long distance, and flatter plains with more intricate rock detail for the Middle and Relay. The organisers of the official competition provided lots of different training opportunities across both types of terrain. We had a lot of fun comparing route choices on the longer legs. To test them, we would head out in groups, with each person picking a different option and starting at the same time. This allowed us to compare speed differences and judge which routes would be faster in the actual competitions. One of the most exciting routes I took involved a huge ski slope where I descended over 200m!

JWOC also includes two sprint disciplines: the individual sprint and the mixed sprint relay. The races next summer will take place in two separate towns, so this week we ran around some similar villages in the surrounding area. Most of the towns featured varying terrain; often, there was a river running through the centre with parkland on either side, leading into complex backstreets and residential areas. This made for both challenging and beautiful training!

The week was incredibly helpful in giving me insight into the terrain. It will also help keep me motivated throughout the winter months as I focus on the selection races in the spring. I greatly appreciate the support that the Jack Bloor Fund continually provides to athletes like myself, allowing us these incredible opportunities to both train and race!

Lagganlia is a yearly orienteering training camp for M/W14, based at Lagganlia near Aviemore. I, along with 23 other athletes had been selected to go to Scotland and have a week full of orienteering training, competitions, activities and a whole load of fun.

On Saturday morning, I woke up ready for a very long train journey up to Aviemore. I met some of the other orienteers on the train up and then we got a minibus to our accommodation. That evening we played a bunch of random (slightly awkward) activities, however it was clear everyone was excited for the week to come and already starting to make friends!

On the first day of training, we woke up quite early and packed our bags ready to head off to the forest. We did some pacing exercises which was quite useful especially as the area (Heathfield) was quite flat. We also did a clock relay, and it was nice to get to know the others in my team (even if someone decided to put our baton (a teddy) in a random spot because they thought the control had been placed wrong!).

The next day was the sprint championships, so we took the minibuses to Spey Valley Resort for the qualifiers. Then for the semis and the finals, we had to move the location to a secret venue because of the nearby forest fires, which turned out to be our accommodation! I messed up on the confusing butterfly loops for the qualifiers, but I won my semi-final and came 4th overall in the final.

On the third day, we headed to the wooded sand dunes of Roseisle where we did our usual training and a distraction exercise in the afternoon. This was one of the highlights of my week because it was fun running around the forest, being chased by people with cameras and speakers blasting music!

The fourth day was my favourite area, North Granish because the terrain was really runnable with intricate contours. In the morning we had drawn our own simplified map, but I lost mine, so I had to use someone else’s! However, it was well drawn, and I ran the course very well with the simplified map! That night we went to Spey Valley Golf Course for some Night O, which was crazy because we were listening to disco music whilst running round the course! Also, the minibuses there and back were full of singing, dancing and glow sticks!

I guess because the area had been amazing the previous day, Loch Vaa on the fifth day was difficult, and it didn’t help that I had nearly left my o shoes at the accommodation! The heather went up to your thighs, and it was impossible to run but I made some very accurate bearings as I was going fairly slow. We did a peg race and with all the heather and the heat it was very tiring!

Finally on the last day of orienteering, we did the Lagganlia Tour Champs in Culbin. It was a nice course, and I tried to use all the skills I had learned in the past week, especially reading contours! I had a mistake on one control where it was frustrating as I had gone very close around it, but I was just not focused. However, the rest of the course was great, and I made some good route choices. We then came back to Lagganlia for our final fun relay.

Throughout the week, we worked in coaching groups where we debriefed and went through our maps together. This was really helpful, as the coaches were able to identify our strengths and weaknesses as well as give us specific feedback on what we needed to improve.

Finally, I would like to thank all the coaches, cooks and staff who helped make the trip possible as well as Jack Bloor for their funding.

Thanks to the Jack Bloor Fund which has helped fund my trip to the World University Triathlon championships in Switzerland The funding helped pay for flights and the entry costs.

With this support I was able to compete with less financial stress and came 35th in the individual race and we came 3rd in the mixed team relay. This was my first international race and podium. This was an incredible experience and I hope to compete more internationally in the future. 

I am so grateful to the Jack Bloor Fund for supporting me through this competition. The fund is deeply appreciated for providing the funding to help young athletes like myself continue to develop and compete at a high level! Thank you!

The World University Championships 2026 were held in Vila Real, Portugal, at the end of July. I was selected to compete for Great Britain within a team of 6 women and 6 men. The competition programme consisted of a Knockout Sprint, Individual Sprint, Mixed Sprint Relay and Middle Race.

The team arrived two days before the competition started to help us get used to the terrain and the heat, which played a big part in the competitions. However, luckily I had spent some time racing and training in the heat before this, so I was used to racing and dealing with these conditions, which make a big impact on your performance.

The first race was the Knockout, which consisted of a qualifier in the morning where 36 athletes qualify to the final rounds in the afternoon. I was really happy with this race, placing 3rd in heat C out of 3 heats, so that secured me a place in the quarter-final. However, my race in the afternoon did not go to plan, with a small navigational error meaning I moved from a qualifying position to 5/6 in the heat, and with a huge hill climb up to the finish, I couldn’t close the gap to 3rd place to qualify, so unfortunately I was knocked out. However, the next day in the Mixed Sprint Relay, I ran 1st leg for GB1 and came back in the front pack, putting the team in a great position for the rest of the relay, so I was really happy with that. We finished 7th as a team.

Next was the Individual Sprint, after a rest day in between to recharge the batteries. This was an incredibly technically demanding sprint race, with many barriers in the terrain to increase the difficulty. At the beginning of the race, I made some small mistakes but then really improved throughout the second half, meaning my final result was 18th, which I was slightly disappointed with, but there were definitely a lot of positives to take.

Finally, there was the Middle Race, where I unfortunately suffered heat exhaustion in 32-degree temperatures and could not continue my race from about halfway through. Stopping was the sensible decision, and I am now recovered. I was just gutted I couldn’t give it my all.

I have a lot of mixed feelings leaving the competition, as I definitely felt that I had more to give throughout the sprint season, but there were so many positives to take.