INVOC

Club Information
INVOC Club News
INVOC Events & Fixtures 2012
INVOC Event Results
Club League
    2012 standings after Craig Leach
INVOC RouteGadget
    RouteGadget? Follow the link to find out more...
emit Guides
Resources
    SEF, library and other useful stuff
Contact/Membership/Enquiries

Useful Links
BASOC
Moravian OC
MAROC
GRAMP
Scottish Orienteering Association
Scottish 6 Days
National Orienteering Centre (Glenmore Lodge)
British Orienteering
International Orienteering Federation
Nopesport (online orienteering community)

Highland Hill Runners

Local Press:
The Inverness Courier
Highland News


Inverness Orienteering Club was founded in 1978 and was one of the original orienteering clubs in the Highlands. Our area covers terrain both north and south of the Great Glen and as far afield as Sutherland and Speyside. We have strong links with our neighbouring clubs in Badenoch & Strathspey and along the Moray Coast. We put on a whole range of events from small local evening events up to major national competitions to suit all standards. Why not come along and try orienteering?

INVOC has a strong coaching emphasis, particularly for juniors, and we encourage people of all ages to participate in the sport. Throughout the season the Club organises coaching events suitable for all. If you are interested in coaching or joining the Club please get in touch - see the Contact page.

Check out the INVOC News on our new News Page
18 May: EOC news
17 May: Talent Squad Camp selections
10 May: British Champs

Club Committee 2012/2013

President: David Summers
Vice President: Tom Todd
Treasurer: Ray Walder
Secretary: Iain Shepherd
Fixtures: Kevin Holliday
Membership/Junior Coaching: Sue Nicolson
Mapping: Trevor White
Website: Charlie Walton
Equipment: Alec Keith
Minutes Secretary: Marsela McLeod
Publicity: vacant

Please contact enquiries"at"invoc.org.uk for information about committee meetings or if you would like a copy of the AGM minutes.

INVOC policy on penalties for failing to produce membership cards at event registration:
INVOC has decided we will oppose the penalties suggested by British Orienteering for orienteers who cannot produce a BO membership card when registering for an event. Further explanation of our position is available here.

INVOC Hoodies and O-Tops!

Hoodies (£20), Junior O tops (£20) and Senior O tops (short sleeve £35, long sleeve £30) all available from Sue (membership"at"invoc.org.uk).


Not the INVOC News facebook Group: Kevin Holliday has set up a facebook group to provide a forum for lifts, discussion, etc. He says: "If any facebook members want to post messages there then join up and request/inform/rant....lift requests/offers/notification of training or competition travelling etc., let people post what they wish."

The facebook group is intended to be something helpful for interested folk, it is not an 'official' club offering.

INVERNESS ORIENTEERING CLUB
www.invoc.org.uk

Welcome to the Inverness Orienteering Club (INVOC) web site.

New stuff:
18/05/12: news update
17/05/12: Battan found/lost, news update
13/05/12: Battan preliminary results

INVOC Scottish Orienteering League Event - SOL 3 2012

Battan, Kiltarlity, Sunday 13th May

Preliminary Results

We hope to have RouteGadget available shortly with finalised results

Splitsbrowser (preliminary results)

Found: One visor left at the start, and one control description holder that someone doing the brown course had used - reclaim from battan"at"invoc.org.uk.
Lost: One left handed thumb compass (out on the course) - if you found it please get in touch (as above).

 Our next event(s):
Local Evening Score Event: Darroch, Dores, Wednesday 23rd May 2012

details coming soon

Sun 20th May: Moray & Highland Junior Championships, Culbin (between Nairn and Forres)

Event details (PDF, 402kB)          Pre-entries may still be open

The 2012 'M&H' will be included in MOR's Level C event at Culbin. Colour coded courses for all, but special classes (and prizes) for local U17s - juniors, see below for more info. The event is an INVOC League counter, likely to be very popular.

INVOC Juniors:

Moray & Highland Junior Championships, Sun 20th May, Culbin (between Nairn and Forres)
The third M&H Junior Champs will be included in MOR's open Culbin event. This is a special competition for local juniors, including relatively inexperienced competitors, with age-group races (and prizes) for under 17s. Check out the event details here (PDF, 402kB) or the MOR web site. This is a great event to bring friends along to to get them in to orienteering - maybe you could print out a mini-poster (PDF, 258kB), and put it in your school (or library, church, scout hut....).
Pre-entry may still be available at Fabian4. More experienced juniors should enter the M&H age class corresponding to your normal colour course (check the event details) - you might end up competing in an older M&H Champs age group, but it makes it fair for the less regular competitors, and you get your regular INVOC club league points.

Jamie Stevenson Trophy, Sun 17th June, near Perth
This is the big inter-club junior team event in Scotland each year, a great day out for all INVOC juniors (as long as you can run Yellow). We have been second the last two years so are going for a win this year! We are planning on getting together on the Team INVOC bus, there may still be a space or two - contact Sue now (coaching"at"invoc.org.uk) - only £5, parents welcome too. Check out the INVOC JST page for a flavour of the action the last few years.

INVOC Club League
The 2012 League continued with our Level C event at Craig Leach on 22nd April. We have 3 more Level C events scheduled through the year and these will all count for the League - the next one is planned for Sunday 15th July at Rogie. Before that there is the MOR Culbin event on 20th May. MOR have another Level C event in the autumn, and there might be other suitable events too so watch out for further updates.

2012 Club League: standings after Craig Leach

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Visit our flickr photostream for more pictures.

Mail me if you have problems with the photo viewer (website"at"invoc.org.uk).

NHS Highland Advice: Ticks and Lyme borreliosis: Straying off the beaten track in the countryside is much of what orienteering is all about, but it does mean meeting up with the 'residents'. NHS Highland have published a newsletter with advice about dealing with ticks (PDF, 56kB).
Coming soon: North events and some other stuff happening soon...

BASOC Tuesday Evening Events: BASOC are holding a series of low key training-type events on Speyside again, every Tuesday evening - details on the BASOC web site. Also training runs on Fridays and some Mondays.

Moray Forest Runs: Not orienteering, but MOR are much involved with these Wednesday evening trail races in places you'll probably recognise. Check for info on the MOR web site.

20/05/12:  MOR Level C Event, Culbin, Forres (pre-entry CD 16/5)   INVOC League
including the Moray & Highland Junior Champs
23/05/12:  INVOC Evening Event (Score), Darroch, Dores (tbc)
27/05/12:  GRAMP Level C Event, Glen Dye, Banchory
02/06/12:  Scottish Individual Champs, Glen Feardar, Braemar (CD 20/5)
03/06/12:  Scottish Relay Champs, Creag Choinnich, Braemar
04-05/06/12:  Scottish Champs weekend MTBO, Urban Sprint and Middle Distance races, Deeside
06/06/12:  INVOC Evening Event (tbc)
17/06/12:  Jamie Stevenson Trophy, Perth
20/06/12:  INVOC Evening Event (tbc)
23/06/12:  MOR Saturday/Schools League Event, Roseisle, Burghead
24/06/12:  MAROC Level C Event, Sluie, Kincardine O Neil

Check the GRAMP and MAROC web sites for other goings-on out East.