LOG Summer League keeps you off the streets, but not out of the bars. The LOG Summer League increases in popularity every year, with more competitors, and more importantly more newcomers, trying this mad sport we call orienteering. We have never had such a close run competition, especially on the short course where five people still had a chance of winning the trophy going into the last event at Stapleford Woods.
Summer Leagues are always a bit contentious.
The trouble is that orienteering is not really a summer sport because of the thick undergrowth at this time of year, and consequently courses can be a bit tough considering the target audience. This was certainly true of the last event at Stapleford, where luxuriant undergrowth combined with recent tree felling operations and last winter's windblow damage to create a very physically demanding forest. Anyway, going into the last event it was all to play for, with all of the relevant people there to fight it out. On the short course who knows what would have happened if Dave Miller had run the short at Bourne instead of dabbling with the long course. His clear cut victory at Stapleford showed that he had the capacity to win overall, but with only two scoring events it was never possible.