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ESOA Juniors' Training at Craigmillar Castle
Interlopers hosted a very successful ESOA Juniors' Training Session at our Craigmillar Castle Park event on Saturday 5th March - read on for full details ...
Interlopers hosted the first ESOA (East of Scotland Orienteering Association) juniors' training session of the year, on a gloriously sunny Saturday afternoon at Craigmillar Castle Park in Edinburgh. This was aimed at Orange and Light Green juniors from across the six East clubs, and provided a good chance to develop skills in part of the park area before going off to compete in the Interlopers event running that afternoon. We were also joined by a group from the Erskine Stuart's Melville Schools orienteering club run by Rona Molloy, building on a successful joint training session last the autumn.
The Orange groups warmed up with some compass practice going through wooded areas, before short-loop exercises designed to develop Plan-Picture-Direction thinking to help with tackling more complex legs.
After a bit of pacing as warm-up, the Light Green group also worked on compass practice before undertaking some corridor loops and focusing on map contact. There seemed to be enough energy left over for some good performances at the event - a combination of spring and young legs!
Many thanks to the fantastic East club coaches - Katherine Ivory (INT) who planned and led the session, with support from Roger Scrutton (ESOC), David Robertson (ESOC), Ian Doig (KFO), Matthew Clark (KFO) and Katherine Kirk (ESOC).
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