Orienteering Race & Workshop 2025

The ASML Runners Club sponsors the participation in Orienteering Race & Workshop 2025 on June 25, 2025 if you're a member of the ASML Runners Club and paid the subscription fee for 2025. Please make sure you're registered and logged in, then you can sign up on this page.

The ASML Runners Club offers the opportunity to broaden your scope as a runner: let’s try Orienteering.

Orienteering is somewhat like trailrunning without a trail, with the challenge to choose your own route on the go, guided by a map and compass, visiting a number of electronic control posts. It is about speed, it’s a race, but it’s more than just going fast; it’s about being fast. You can take both paved, or non-paved roads, or go straight through the forest or over the fields, while using your ability to find the fastest route, and not to get lost. It’s about using your head while running, which adds a new dimension to it. Typically something for all those smart people here at ASML…

The ASML Runners Club has made an introduction program for you, together with KOVZ Orienteering (O-club Eindhoven area), consisting of an introduction session at ASML, two trainings in the field, and an actual race event.

(just one slide from the presentation)

You are supposed to join the introduction and both trainings (unless you joined before). Please register for all four 'events' separately, so I know how many will be present when.

(a tiny sample of an orienteering map)

Details on the locations will follow when you subscribe. During the theory session, we’ll explain what orienteering is like, what you need to know, and how to prepare. After it, in combination with the training sessions, you’ll be ready to race.

The precise locations of the trainings will be communicated later.

The ASML Runners Club will sponsor the race fee incl. chip rental. (Don’t be scared off by the term ‘race’, it’s no problem if this would be your first acquaintance with orienteering, you’ll learn it on the go. My first experience was during a race too.)

But there are many more events throughout the year, in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium. For example the Orienteering Sprint race at the Tu/e Eindhoven University terrain on May 31, and City Cup orienteering race in Meerhoven/Eindhoven on June 1.

And if you have any question, contact Jan-Gerard van der Toorn

See the album (below) of last year, to get an impression.

Register

We'll meet before the event at nearby Eindhoven

Orienteering race 2024 - Einderheide
Orienteering race 2024 - Einderheide