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Click to read the article (pdf)   Fully Vertical KM Brad Traviss Unfortunately after my 6 th place finish at the world mountain running championships in Krynica-Zdorj Poland, my preparation and training for the vertical kilometre in Switzerland didn’t go quite to plan! After starting university, I first came down with the dreaded “Freshers Flu”Continue reading “2013 – Fell Running – Vertical KM Race – Brad Traviss”

Lagganlia 2013    Laura King   Lagganlia is an annual, weeklong orienteering training camp for up to twenty-four 2nd year M/W14s. It is based in the Cairngorms National Park at Lagganlia Centre for Outdoor Learning in Glen Feshie near Aviemore. I first found out I had been selected for Lagganlia by a letter through the post. ToContinue reading “2013 Orienteering – Scotland Training – Laura King”

Expedition to Climb Mt. Elbrus, July 2013 Michael Mason Brief summary of project: A mountaineering expedition traversing Mt. Elbrus (5642m), in the Western Caucuses, from north to south. July 2013. Brief description of activities: We flew into Moscow and transferred to Kislovodsk by train. A two hour off road drive took us to base campContinue reading “2013 Mountaineering – Mt Elbrus – Michael Mason”

The trip started with a 4am wakeup call and before I’d woken up fully the entire England team consisting of 40 athletes and 8 coaches were airborne and headed for Portugal. Two years ago I went to the World Schools in Trentino Italy; it was one of the best trips of my life, I couldn’tContinue reading “2013 World Schools Orienteering Championships – Joe Woodley”

World Schools Orienteering Championships-Portugal April 2013 After a qualifying event in November 2012 I was selected to run in the world schools orienteering championships along with 4 other girls my age, in a squad of 40 from England. There were 21 countries from all around the world, including New Zealand, China and Mozambique: with aContinue reading “World Schools Orienteering Championships-Portugal April 2013”

On 6-10 August 2012 I went on a performance climbing course partly funded by the Jack Bloor Fund. The course was held at the Plas y Brenin Centre in North Wales which is the national mountain centre. This centre is used by many people of all ages and abilities for numerous outside activities. On theContinue reading “Alex Hall – Plas y Brenin 2012”

From the 28/07 to the 04/08 I went on a residential to Outward Bound Ullswater, I initially did it as my Duke of Edinburgh award scheme requires me to go on a residential. I first found an advert for the Jack Bloor fund in the Fellrunner, this encouraged me to apply for the money whilstContinue reading “Annie Roberts – Serious Adventure Course 2012”

Junior World Orienteering Champs                Florence Haines On the 6th of July I flew out to Slovakia with the rest of the Great Britain team for a week in Košice. After a hot sleep we went to the long model training. I found this really useful because the terrain was so different toContinue reading “Florence Haines – Junior World Orienteering Champs”

Lagganlia Tour of 2012 Lagganlia was an exciting orienteering training week for M14s selected from throughout Britain. We had experienced coaches who had competed at the top level in orienteering so there was a lot of great advice for us to learn from. My two coaches were Jonny and Rodger and I learned masses fromContinue reading “Ruaridh Mon-Williams Orienteering 2012”

European Youth Championships 2012 This year I was selected to represent Great Britain at EYOC, in Bugeat France. Leading up to the event I was excited but also fairly nervous seeing as it was my first international competition for GB. On the day the rest of the team were travelling by Euro-star from London, IContinue reading “Joe Woodley – Orienteering 2012”