Club Nights

Club nights are social evenings focussing on learning and socialising. They are mostly hosted by Gene Beveridge, an experienced coach from NWOC. They are open to anyone, even if you are new to orienteering or not part of a club or school team. The topics often have a coaching angle as this is one of the best opportunities we have to review recent competitions in depth. We recommend bring your maps or a laptop.

There will always be an opportunity to practise course planning with OCAD or Purple Pen. This is excellent for not just improving your course planning, but also your orienteering. We will provide map files and download links for this.

Things we do:

• Social 4km walk or jog
• Review recent competitions
• Looking at race maps
• Looking at GPS tracks on Otrax and LiveLox
• Preview upcoming competitions
• Looking at old maps of the area and past competitions
• Covering key points from bulletins
• Planning practise courses with OCAD or Purple Pen
• Cover useful coaching topics
• Rogaine planning
• Route choice analysis
• ONZ Workbooks
• Watch videos
• Share stories
• Answer your questions

We want club nights to provide as much value as possible and coming with questions is a great way to do that.

Location and Time

Location: St George’s Scout Hall, 13 Griffin Ave, Epsom

Social walk or jog through Cornwall Park: 6:30pm

Indoors: 7:00pm to 8:30pm at the latest

Dates

Club nights are held on every second Wednesday throughout the orienteering season. (Sometimes one is moved forward or back 1 week to align with other events.)

Dates for 2026:

• February 25
• March 4
• March 18
• April 1
• April 15
• April 29
• May 13
• May 27
• June 10
• June 24
• July 8
• July 22
• August 5
• August 19
• September 2
• September 16
• October 7