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‘On Top of the World’ (nearly!) down-under – Mary Wilkinson  The 2005 Mountain Running World Trophy in Wellington, New Zealand provided those involved with the opportunity to test their running skills against the best mountain runners in the world in an amazing country. Once the 30 plus hours of travel had been negotiated, the courseContinue reading “Mary Wilkinson – Mountain Running World Trophy, Wellington, New Zealand – September 2005”

I’m pleased to say the trip to Portugal went really well. This is the first time I have been warm weather training and it was so good to train with a group of quality athletes. I managed to stick to my programme, but modified some of the sessions to enable me to do some trackContinue reading “Mark Buckingham – Warm weather athletic training camp, Portugal, March 2005”

Thank you for the £25 you gave me towards my summer training tour for orienteering. The tour was very good – we trained hard every day and did a lot of practice in compass work and contour reading. I competed in the scottish 6 day event after the tour and came 2nd overall, winning onContinue reading “George Stevens- Scottish orienteering training camp, July 2005”

  Thankyou very much for the money that you donated towards my lagganlia trip.It was a great week of training and I felt it benefited my orienteering skills. We did training exercises 3-4 times a day in and around lagganlia. The areas were very technical and made us work hard. At the end of theContinue reading “Chloe Haines – BOF Lagganlia orienteering training camp, Scotland, July 2005”

I am writing to thank you for your generous donation toward my O-ringen finances. The O-ringen went very well and I finished in 29th overall out of 250. I managed to improve my racing over the week, peaking on the final day to do the 15th fastest time on the course. This managed to pullContinue reading “Hector Haines – Swedish Orienteering competition – 5 day, July 2005”

Dear Trustees, Below is a brief report of my recent trip to Austria which was supported by the Jack Bloor Fund; “Unfortunately my trip did not have the smoothest of starts due to the tragic events in London on the 7th July. I was due to travel to London on this day where I wouldContinue reading “John Heneghan – European Mountain Running Trophy, Austria, July 2005”

My Trip to Ireland  I am writing this letter to send my thanks for giving me the opportunity to  go to Ireland and compete in the home international it was a fantastic  experience.  The journey was a very long one but I still enjoyed it. We travelled to Wales  from Penrith which took quite aContinue reading “Amy Louise McGivern – British and Irish fell championships in Ireland, October 2005”