On Tuesday 15th June Bury Primary schools held their first inter school orienteering competition, thanks to the efforts of Janet Rashleigh the SSCO who worked hard to get the schools to compete at Burrs Country Park. 5 schools took part with 50 children completing the course. The children really enjoyed the experience on a very pleasant summers late afternoon and although some of them struggled with the navigation, by having helpers around the area none got too lost. The winning school Summerseat will now go forward to the county final to be held at Tandle Hill in July.

This is the first time that Greater Manchester has held a county final orienteering competition and is being seen as a trial run for an inter county competition to be held across the northwest in the next year or so.

I would like to thank Janet for getting the schools to take part and all the members of SELOC who have on a number of occasions helped at inter schools competitions this year and without whom I wouldn't be able to run the competition.

Orienteering was arranged by SELOC again at the Three Sisters Fun Day, along with a range of other activities for everyone to try out.  There were 33 competitors (mainly groups) that tried the 3 courses on offer.

Full results are available...

With the wet weather affecting the turn out, Moses Gate Country Park, Bolton played host to this months SELOC - Come and Try It event. Hosting a Yellow, Orange and a Technical (Score) event, 22 people come along to join us in sampling the scenery offered by this great location.

The results for all courses are available below..

Moses Gate Results - Yellow and Orange

Moses Gate Splits - Yellow and Orange

Moses Gate Results - Technical

Moses Gate Splits - Technical

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With clouds on the peaks that promised to lift, a trove of SELOC-ites converged on the Langdale Valley for the LOC Regional Pike O’Blisco event. An early registration for this event was required (depending on your start time) due to the start on most of the courses being some 1.5km from registration and about 350m up the path to the Blisco summit. The trek to the start made for a good warm up though.

With plenty of courses on offer we had entrants in many categories.

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Results

Black (10km 500m 23C)
5 – Mark Seddon – 1:23:10
19 – Mark Sammon – 2:28:22

Brown (8km 480m 19C)
29 – Tony Varley – 3:19:02
mp – Albert Sunter

Short Brown (6.5km 330m 15C)
42 – Paul Turner – 1:25:21

Blue 1 (5.5km 280m 14C)
49 - Carl Byrne – 1:13:07
50 – Tony Davies – 1:14:22
52 – Stephen Round 1:15:47

Short Green (2.8km 150m 12C)
33 - Melody Thompson – 1:55:55
mp – Caroline Barcham

Light Green (2.6km 150m 10C)
mp – Dave Anderton

Orange (2.6km 75m 22C)
10 – Harry Anderton – 26:18
18 – Paul Booth – 30:36
35 – Sandra Nicholl – 1:06:00
36 – Noreen Madigan – 1:07:05

White
7 – Sarah Booth – 27:16

Full results and split times available here

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