West Anglian Orienteering Club

New edition of Jabberwaoc now out

The spring edition of Jabberwaoc is now on-line. Read it here, or visit the Jabberwaoc page for previous editions.

WAOC at the JK 2024

Many WAOC members spent the Easter weekend at the JK festival of orienteering, which this year offered a sprint in the campus of Loughborough University, two days on Cannock Chase (Beaudesert) featuring mud and more mud, and a Relay event on Stanton Moor featuring runnable heather moorland and intricate abandoned mine workings.

Annual PrizegivingSome photos from the event

This year we held our AGM and prizegiving at Arbury Community Centre in North Cambridge, on the afternoon of Saturday 16th March. These followed a MapRun activity, taking advantage of the nearby excellent urban orienteering terrain.

WAOC'S East Anglian and Midland Champions

The EA region hosted the Midland Championships this year (the first time for a long time) which meant that there was a splendid turnout from clubs across the centre of England (on a splendid day) to compete for the Midland Championship trophies. The event was combined with the East Anglian Championsips and quite a few WAOC runners took home some silverware.

East Anglian Urban League 2023 - Our class winners

The class winners from the 2023 East Anglian Urban League were rewarded with medals, at a brief ceremony at the Kings Forest event on 18th February.
A pleasingly large number of WAOC club members were recipients.

WAOC winners in the East Anglian League 2023

The category winners in the 2023 East Anglian League were awarded their medals at the recent CompassSport Cup and Trophy event in the Kings Forest. Recipients included an impressive line-up of WAOC orienteers.

WAGAL 2024

The first two events of our WAGAL club league took place in February, and points from these have been calculated. The current scores can be viewed on the WAGAL scoreboard.

JabberWAOC magazineThe Newsletter of WAOC

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!