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Nick Barrable - British Night Champion
Our congratulations to Nick Barrable, who added the British Night Champion title to his British Sprint title. The darkness proved little hindrance as he covered 10.5km over the mixed heathland and woodland - at Hawley and Hornley Commons near Sandhurst - in 63 minutes to win by the smallest of margi
Devil's Burdens relays
The FVO team (Gareth, Steve, Jason, Fraser, Marus and Will) came in 22nd in the Devils Burden relays on Sat 28th. But the picture below is of Ted wearing Non-FVO colours. Other FVO runners included Sandy Grant, Beccy and Jon
Pitmedden
FVO ventured back to Pitmedden where our juniors triumphed in the Jamie Stevenson trophy earlier this autumn.
ScotJos
Congratulations to our junior members who have been selected for Scotjos - the Scotland Junior Squad for 2006
Club Champs and Dinner Dance
Gareth and Jan raised the bar on Club Championships by putting on an excellent event on a new area that Gareth himself had mapped . To top it all - a choice of different piping hot soups on a freezing day. Congratulations then to our new club champions:
Team of the Year
Stirling Sports Council awards FVO "Team of the Year"
South Achray SOSOL
SoSOL 2 at South Achray
Scottish Score
A small but select band of FVO runners made the trip down to Loch Doon near Ayr to compete in the Scottish Score Championships and represent FVO in the Scottish Inter-Club Championships. All of them finished in the top 3 in their class, with four age class winners! Well done to all. This was enough
Jamie Stevenson Trophy Success
More success to report I am pleased to say! This time it is congratulations to the FVO junior team, who were clear winners of the Jamie Stevenson Trophy at Pitmedden Forest, ahead of the MAROC team that pipped them for the trophy at last year's event. There were a lot of strong runs, including cours
Podium at MTBO World Champs!
Janine Hensman (FVO) represented Great Britain at the World Mountain Biking Orienteering Championships in Slovakia last week. Despite having broken her collar bone only 6 weeks before that prevented any mountain biking until just days before the race, Janine gained an amazing 25th in the middle dist
JK Relays
Well done to all the FVO teams at the JK Relays on Easter Monday, particularly the Women's Short team of Victoria, Louise and Beccy which was in the prizes in 2nd place (outsprinting 3rd on the run-in!) Other good finishes by our relay teams included the Men's Open team in 9th, the Women's Open team