HAVOC win GLOSS 2025

21st Jul 25

HAVOC have won the GLOSS series, 2025.  That is our eigth win in a row.  We have held the trophy since we first won in 2017.

The series, which looked tough when it was announced, with three events in the West, some fast park style runs, and featuring six races for only the second time in recent history, ended up being handsomely won by HAVOC, even with a race to spare.  We ran hosts SLOW close at Northala, took our home event at Hornchurch, just got pipped by the massive team from HH at Haileybury, prevailed in the heat of Fairlop Waters and then sealed victory at Nonsuch, upsetting hosts, MV, and seeing off the challenge of HH who were the only team who could catch us. 

The final scoreboard looks like this:

HAVOC           98

HH                  94

DFOK              88

We had runs from 22 club members.  15 of those runners were in our top 6 in at least one event.  We had a full team at all six events, and made double figures at four of them (14 each for the last two Western events!).  We totalled 66 runs overall (an average team size of 11 per event).  Colin, Jenny and Zbig made all six events.  Colin scored in five of those, to take our top scorer for the year, with 432 points.  Andrew, Chris P, Seb and Chloe scored in all the events they entered.  Seb and Simon top scored 100 points at Northala and Fairlop respectively.  We had a different runner top scoring for us at each event!  As a club we had 17 runs in the top 10 throughout the series. 

As a club we were never out of the top two places at every event, scoring three firsts and three seconds.  And, as equally important, we had six post race drinks gatherings – showing that our club spirit may be more prevalent than any other orienteering club in London. 

So, once again, we can call ourselves the best club in London!

Go HAVOC!

Our final participation figures were: