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London Orienteering Klubb is an orienteering club which draws its members from the north side of the River Thames and to the west of the Lea Valley. Our runners are of all ages and abilities. New members are welcome. Read more about membership here. Information about our next and recent orienteering events is shown below with more details on our Events page.

Kingsbury StreetO Tuesday 6th February 2024

RESULTS

Waterlow Park Ultra Sprint, Sunday 15 September 2024

London Orienteering Klubb (LOK) invite you to an Ultra Sprint on Sunday 15 September.  This is the third of three events comprising the London City Race weekend (Fri 13 – Sun 15 September 2024).  The London City Race organised by SLOW will be on Saturday and there will be a race on Friday at Burgess Park organised by DFOK.

For the first time since 2017 the Ultra Sprint returns to the London City Race weekend.  Competitors will run three heats on courses of approximately 1km with a high density of controls, including sections in a specially constructed maze. There will then be a set of finals involving all competitors. This high intensity orienteering will provide a challenge to all competitors and is a great spectacle to watch.  Click here for a short video taster from the 2015 event (opens new window).

The event will be held in Waterlow Park, a large, leafy park in Highgate in North London.  The nearest underground station is Archway on the Northern Line (Barnet branch) and then a 700m walk or bus. (Location: Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London, N6 5HG; What3words: ///tape.fortunate.later; Streetmap.co.uk – Map of N6 5HG).

There will be more details and an event page nearer the time.

Trent Park Boxing Day Score Event Tuesday 26th December

In association with HH, LOK staged the traditional Boxing Day Score Event at Trent Park, near Cockfosters. A fun 60 minute score event with a mass start at 11 a.m. Further details are here.

RESULTS are here. Draw your routes or see where others went on Routegadget.

Organiser comments

Like last year the weather was kind to us – a mild 8c with occasional weak bursts of sun.

Congratulations to Harold Wyber of CHIG (M35) for placing first this year. He whizzed round all the controls in 52.26 minutes, 28 seconds quicker than second place Nick Barrable of SYO (M45). Fastest woman was Laura Parkes of HH (W21) who scored 470 points.  

As last year, the Boxing Day event attracted many younger competitors. Luke Bennett of DFOK (M16), who also visited all the controls in time, and Tegan Frampton of HH (W18), provided the top performances, amassing 610 and 450 points respectively.

There are plenty of photos to see taken by Tony Barr (here) and Neil Gostick (here).

Don’t forget to markup your route in RouteGadget here.

Thanks to Neil Gostick of HH for planning the course and to Ronan & Julie Cleary (LOK) for controlling the event, organising permissions and presiding over the mass start. Thanks are also due to Kevin and Laura Parkes (HH) for organising the IT without a hitch. Thanks are also due to the duo of first aiders Hedley Calderbank and Mike Bennett of HH who, between them, provided continuous coverage. 

Once again we are grateful for the co-operation of Southgate Hockey Club, Bridge Security and Berkeley Homes for parking permission. The latter is responsible for the upmarket new housing development in the centre of the park on the site of what was most recently a campus of Middlesex University.

Finally, many hands made light work. Ben Gostick, Ian Byford, Sébastien Flesch, Tim Bywater-Lees assisted Neil in putting out the controls and the Flick family, Yen Nguyen, the Hodsons, Laura Parkes and Danny Figg collected them in afterwards.

See you all again next year!

Catherine Galvin (LOK)

Ronan of LOK briefing the runners ahead of the mass start

Tufnell Park Street O 12th December 2023

RESULTS are here

Planner / organiser’s comments

This is the second Street O that I have planned, the other being one in Hampstead from the Roebuck pub I think in 2016. The area of this event, next to the Heath, is one that I grew up in (control 8 was outside my childhood home). It lies between the Hampstead Street O in the west and the Highgate Street O, earlier this year, in the east.

I wanted to provide the orienteer with the challenge with finding an optimal route when considering the presence of Highgate Hill. I also looked to provide great views from the top of the Holly Lodge, the outskirts of the Heath on a winter’s night, some attractive streets below the start, and variety with housing estates and a denser network of routes in the south-west. The hill was a physical challenge and it meant that no one scored maximum points and came back early, so some success with the optimal route challenge, but probably too much of an influence and physically tough for a weekday evening.

I apologise for the misplacement of the centre point of control 21 on the other side of the road from the substation. David Rosen was very diligent in Controlling but I must have shifted it very slightly by accident in one of the final map iterations.

Thanks to all the volunteers to helped. Chris from SLOW collected the ancient wheely-suitcase with the O-equipment (a legendary artefact?) ready for the next Street O which will be in Chelsea on Tues 9 Jan (link here).

Jon Chandler

Street O: This was one of two Street Orienteering (Street O) races hosted by LOK as part of the SLOW / LOK 2023-24 series (more information can be found here). These are friendly, easy events open to everyone and start and finish at a London pub. You have 60 minutes to find as many answers to a question linked to each control point marked on the map (race, run or walk as you wish).

SE Night Champs – Addington Hills – Sat 18th November

LOK were proud to host the South East Night Championships for 2023 on Saturday 18th November 2023 at Addington Hills. Details are available on the event page here.

Live results link https://londonorienteering.co.uk/liveresults/2023/senights/

Routegadget

Sun 17 Sept 2023British Sprint Relay Championships

Congratulations to South Yorkshire Orienteers (SYO) who are the 2023 Elite British Sprint Relay Champions!

A great selection of photographs of the day from Rob Lines (SO), and 6-minute video from Neil Brooks, the LOK Organiser.

RESULTS  Routegadget