SELOC Successes
The advent of Advent, with Christmas looming not so far behind, seems to squeeze the fixture list a bit at this time of year with fewer Saturday morning events. However, SELOC members still found plenty of places to go. Biggest turnout of the weekend was at SYO’s Ramsley Moor event, where dismal weather didn’t deter Kev Latham (18th on Short Brown course), Michael Hood (19th on Blue) or John Nuttall (38th on Green). Hope they’ve all dried off by now.
In the week, Ed Mellor found his way to LOC’s Wednesday night event in Ingleton, which was billed as urban though I’m not sure local estate agents would thank them for that. He did the long course, finishing 14th. Then on Thursday Albert Sunter was our only representative at MDOC’s Altrincham street league event, running with Jordan and placing 42nd on unadjusted scores.
SELOC Club League
There are effectively just 2 League events to go as only one from PFO can count to avoid unfair advantage (their night league and regional event are both at Holcombe Ranges on consecutive days). So will you maximise points by exploiting the scoring system and doing the night event, where a lower turnout may offer better scores, or look for a nice clean, fast run at the daytime one?
Then all to play for at EPOC’s Newmillerdam event the Sunday before Christmas 23 December prior to the prizegiving at SELOC’s Christmas event (details coming soon but pencil in 27 December).
Upcoming Events
The UK Urban League is the only major UK trophy still to be decided and the final event takes place in Derby on Sunday 9 December. Alternatively, LOC have a park sprint at Brockholes, Windermere if anyone fancies the rare opportunity for a blast round a Lake District area. Before that we have street events from both SROC (Carnforth, and a counter in SROC Street League) and LOC (Windermere) on Wednesday 5th followed by a DEE night street event on Thursday 6th at Appleton, just south of Warrington. Saturday 8th brings another MDOC Park + Urban event in Bramhall, Stockport.
The following week sees midweek night events from MDOC (another Street League, in Romiley on Tuesday 11th) and LOC (in terrain, near Kendal on Wednesday 12th) before we get into PFO’s weekend of events on our doorstep at Holcombe Ranges on 15/16 December. As mentioned, one of these will count in the SELOC Club League but it will be the night event if you do both in order to prevent any unfair knowledge of the terrain. If they don’t want to try and investigate the night’s errors with the benefit of daylight, keenies could manage the night event then head to The Dukeries for NOC’s event on Sunday.
Further ahead into 2019, events making up both the UK O League and the UK Urban League have been announced, so you can start planning your bids to succeed in these prestigious competitions. Membership renewals have been issued via BOF, and you’re advised to renew promptly if you plan on entering any major events such as British Championships or JK while early bird discounts are available.