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Captains Blog – December 2011

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Hi All I hope you have all managed to venture into the woods for at least one event this season.  The weather has been mild and not too wet, so it has been great orienteering conditions. Well done to Ray and Peter and all the helpers at the Mitre event on 20 November.  The event [...]

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CHIG promoted to Division 1

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A quick note to congratulate the runners who competed on Sunday 6 March at the Epping SW event, the final round in the SE league.  The club finished a close second to HAVOC in the event which pulled the club back up to second over all and promotion from Division 2. I am sure competition [...]

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Compass Sport Trophy

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Hi Chig Members A quick note to say well done to all who raced at Ranmore Common  in the Compass Trophy Qualifying event on Sunday. We were extremely lucky with the weather, with a mild 13 degrees and whilst cloudy, we had a fine day.  We were promised some challenging terrain in the guidance notes [...]

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Captain’s Blog – August 2009

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Summer Events, Multi-Day Internationals and family holidays all done so it is now back into a full itinerary of regular Weekend Orienteering. For the summer I can report that after a good start at the first FROLIC in Claybury Park where we were a close 3rd, CHIG members clearly had other things planned for the [...]

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Captain’s Blog – June/July 2009

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Apologies for the delay in putting fingers to keypad to update the Captain’s Blog. Orienteering has taken a back seat in the Brett’s household since the Easter trip to Newcastle to the JK for a couple of reasons: one good and one bad. The bad first; my long reoccurring injuries are back and so I [...]

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Captain’s Blog – May 2009

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First I should say Hi! I am Mike Brett, and I am the new CHIG team Captain having only joined the club as a full member this year, along with Kate my wife and W9 Jocelyn and M7 Oliver. No better way to get to learn all the names than to goad, cajole and blackmail [...]

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