SOS Events
Virtual Orienteering Courses
The MapRun orienteering app allows you to take part in “Virtual” orienteering courses using the GPS in your smartphone (or watch) at a time convenient for yourself.
You run a course using either the map on your phone screen or a paper version, and your phone will beep when you reach the correct location of each control.
New to Orienteering?
Orienteering is an exciting outdoor adventure sport which involves walking or running whilst navigating around a course using a detailed map and sometimes a compass.
The aim is to navigate in sequence between a set of control points and decide the best route to complete the course in the quickest time. It does not matter how young, old or fit you are, as you can run, walk or jog the course and progress at your own pace.
Club News
Stragglers at JK
Eleven Stragglers made the journey to Yorkshire and participated in this year’s Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering held over the Easter weekend.
Stragglers win a hat trick!
A team of Stragglers have won their third Beat The Street competition. Following on from the competitions in Chelmsford and Maldon, SOS have again won the running & cycling club section proving their tenacity on the county's streets.
Mike Powell Davies Shield Awarded
At the recent Summer Midweek Series event at Great Notley, Club Chairman, Eddie Banks presented the Mike Powell Davies Shield for 2024 to Chris Childs. The Shield is awarded annually for services to the Club.
Straggler becomes a Welsh Champion
Congratulations to Joshua Owen who won M18 at Welsh Championships hosted by Eryri Orienteering Club on March 2nd.