Alana Invernon, a member of Ben Lairig Mountaineering mountaineering club was awarded a Jack Bloor grant towards her mountain leader award. I’ve just come back from my mountain training course with Bryn Williams which was absolutely fantastic so thanks so much for helping me get towards that – with an eye on booking my assessmentContinue reading “2024, Alana Invernon, Mountain Leader Training, Mountaineering”
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2023, Euan Tryner, Junior World Championships, Orienteering
Thanks to a grant from the Jack Bloor Fund l was able to compete in my first Junior World Orienteering Championships in Romania. The highs and low of JWOC 2023. All in all, a pretty good debut JWOC, 44th in the Sprint, 34th in the middle, and 20th in the long. Sprint was never theContinue reading “2023, Euan Tryner, Junior World Championships, Orienteering”
2024 Helena Coy, Warm Weather Training Camp, Triathlon
Thank you so much for the support towards my warm weather training week in Fuerteventura, it was great fun! Over the week we completed around 25 hours of training, 8 hours of swimming, 10 and half hours of cycling, 3 hours of running and 2 hours of s&c. The weather was really great throughout theContinue reading “2024 Helena Coy, Warm Weather Training Camp, Triathlon”
2023 Imogen Pieters, Junior World Championships, Orienteering
The Junior World Orienteering championships was held in Baia Mare, Romania between the 30th-8th July this year. I was selected for the Great Britain team off a series of selection races in the spring in the Lake District, as one of 6 girls in the W20 team. JWOC was an amazing week of races, gettingContinue reading “2023 Imogen Pieters, Junior World Championships, Orienteering”
2023 Martha Calton-Sel, Senior European Cup, Triathlon
After recovering from an operation last December and picking up an injury in the return to training, I was really happy to be able to get on the start line again, albeit much later in the season.I qualified, and was selected to represent Great Britain at the Senior European Triathlon Cup in Alanya, Turkey, fromContinue reading “2023 Martha Calton-Sel, Senior European Cup, Triathlon”
2023 Pippa Carcas, European Orienteering Championships, Orienteering
I was very grateful to be selected for the European Orienteering Championships in Verona after struggling with injury for much of this year. The championship, for me, consisted of an individual sprint qualifier and a knockout sprint. Unfortunately I mispunched in the first race after the spectator run through. The knockout qualifier went a bitContinue reading “2023 Pippa Carcas, European Orienteering Championships, Orienteering”
2023 Betty Bergstrand, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running
Youth World Skyrunning 2023 Race Report- Betty Bergstrand This year’s Youth World Skyrunning Championship was located in a small village, Fonte Cerreto, just north of L’aquila, Italy. It is an event spread over a weekend, with a vertical kilometre race (VK) on the Friday and the skyrace on the Sunday. The VK was a toughContinue reading “2023 Betty Bergstrand, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running”
2023 Emily Field, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running
Thanks to the support of the Jack Bloor Memorial Fund, I was able to travel to L’Aquila, Italy this August (2023), to represent Team United Kingdom in the Youth World Sky Running Championships. I raced in two events in the U23 category, the uphill only (3.8 km long with 1,033m vertical climb) on the FridayContinue reading “2023 Emily Field, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running”
2023 Ben Houlihan, World MTBO Championships, Orienteering
I was recently given the opportunity to race at the U23 Mountain Bike Orienteering World Championships in Folgaria, Italy. Having just finished my U23 road race season, it was certainly a new way of racing, having to balance both MTB and map reading. After 2 model events to refresh everyone’s map reading skills, the championshipsContinue reading “2023 Ben Houlihan, World MTBO Championships, Orienteering”
2023 Emily Gibbins, Swedish Training Camp, Orienteering
With support from the Jack Bloor Memorial Fund I was able to enjoy a fantastic week long orienteering training camp in Gothenburg, Sweden. We trained twice every day exploring numerous Swedish forests. The Swedish terrain is known for its difficulty and complexity and thus makes for an excellent place to develop your navigation. In additionContinue reading “2023 Emily Gibbins, Swedish Training Camp, Orienteering”
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