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Summer Series so far….

….apart from not being very summery (!) has got off to a good start again and we’re seeing quite a few newcomers as the result of the pre-series coaching and promotion. This is great but causing a few headaches for our coaches as there simply aren’t enough of them to go round!

Whilst we will always try and have someone allocated to welcome newcomers and provide hints and tips, if I could ask our regulars to look out for new faces and make them feel welcome by saying hello and offering any assistance, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam

Summer Series points after two events

Mulloch Forest Sprint – results

I hope you all enjoyed your run. Thank-you for turning out on a rather chilly night.

Helen

Mulloch Results.pdf
Mulloch Split time results.pdf

Collieston Multi-Terrain Challenge Sat 6th July 11am

When we use Forvie for our bigger events, we park in a local farmer’s field and take a collection which goes towards the Collieston Pier Fund. Now’s your chance to donate again and have a bit of fun by taking part in the Collieston Multi-Terrain Challenge on Sat 6th July when you can choose between 3, 5 or 10k routes around Collieston and Forvie Nature Reserve starting from or near the Community Centre in Colieston at 11am. If you need more details, contact the organiser on 01358 751325.

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Team McGramp take BOC 2013 Mixed Adhoc Relay prize

Team McGramp – aka Carolyn, Calum and Iain McLeod – fought off the opposition down south to romp home to victory in the British Orienteering Relay Mixed Adhoc class by some 2.5 minutes. Probably sweetest of all was beating Maroc 7 (who should surely have been disq’d as there are only 3 runners to a team?? )

Individually Team McGramp also had good results: 4th W45L, 10th M18E and 6th M50S respectively.
Several other Gramps were in attendance too including the Hicklings, Bob Daly, Paul Duley, the Armitages and at least one Hale and Chepelin that I spotted in the results. Sasha kept up his winning form post-JK by taking top spot for M16A.

Congratulations all round!

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Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team, Sponsored Walk 2013

Every year thousands of people walk, climb, bike and run in the Cairngorms and the mountains surrounding the rivers Dee and Don and the vast majority do so in complete safety and never need assistance from anyone other than their companions. But often enough, people do get into severe difficulties and then they require the help of a more specialised kind. Aberdeen MRT, along with Braemar MRT and Police Scotland (ex-Grampian Police) MRT, are available for call-out 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to respond to mountain incidents anywhere in the Grampian Region (and further afield if necessary) which includes much of the Cairngorms, the mountains around Lochnagar and Glen Shee and the lower hills and forests such as those at Fetteresso, Bennachie and Pitfichie.

People are rescued from the Scottish mountains totally free of charge but unlike the emergency services, mountain rescue is not funded solely by the government and the vast bulk of an MRT’s annual operating costs are met by donations given by members of the public. All of the Team members are dedicated volunteers and none of them are paid for their time but training and equipping an MRT takes a lot of money on an annual basis, even before the cost of each rescue is taken into consideration. The Sponsored Walk is the primary way in which Aberdeen MRT funds itself from year to year.

Further details can be obtained from the website .
If anyone wishes to make a donation directly to Aberdeen MRT they can do so by visiting http://www.justgiving.com/aberdeenmountainrescue

Many thanks and best regards,

Hugh Wallace   for Aberdeen and St. John Mountain Rescue Association

Walk Poster 2013 b.pdf
Spon_Walk_Entry_Form 2013.pdf

We’ve never needed the Aberdeen MRT crew at an event yet, touch wood, but you never know. Anyone interested in getting a Team GRAMP together to take part? Rachel

(JD)2C rankings after Glen Dye

Hi GJOs!

Wondering how your ranking points for the (JD)2C are looking after Glen Dye? Then wonder no more and check here – Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2013 rankings after Glen Dye.

What’s the (JD)2C? It’s a competition between the GRAMP and MAROC Juniors – if you’re a member of either club then you’re automatically entered into it so all you have to do is keep coming to the events and keep practising and keep getting better!

If you want to know more about the rules and points system then click here.

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Fantastic result for Sasha at the World Schools

3rd in the Middle Distance Race

Well done, Sasha!

Here he is in the traditional medal winners’ pose along with Dane Blomquist of the England team. Take a look at the results and pics on the WSC2013 website – if you think it looks hot and sunny in this photo then imagine that run-in along all that loose sand.

Sasha also came 6th in the Long Distance race and teamed up with Jens Van Lommel of Belgium/Flemish team and Xiaojia Ou of China to come 35th out of 148 in the Friendship Relay. I guess a handover is the same whatever language you speak but must have been interesting trying to discuss routes afterwards?

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Orienteers and tree diseases

You’ll all have heard about Ash Dieback by now and seen the round robin from BOF that Ian circulated a while ago with advice on how we can help prevent the spread of this and other tree diseases. Here’s a little reminder of how we as orienteers (who are therefore more likely to visit parts of the woods most others never reach), can help prevent the spread – and it’s really worth paying more attention this time as the spring/summer weather tempts us all out and about and especially as Glen Dye has been confirmed as victim of an outbreak of a similar disease affecting larch.

You can help by following these guidelines whether orienteering or just out for a walk:

• If possible, thoroughly wash all footwear, paws and bike/buggy tyres before leaving the area – the spores are carried in clods of mud and leaf litter stuck to these – but don’t just dunk your shoes in the nearest stream as this will simply disperse any contamination all the more effectively!
• Alternatively, wash footwear, paws and tyres when you get home and using a garden fungicide will make this more effective (but not on the paws please)
• Thoroughly wash and dry any clothing especially if it’s clarted in mud – preferably give it 48 hours before reuse if possible. Spores are wind-bourne before they get into the mud so you may pick some up while running around. (Even if you haven’t, it’s common courtesy to other orienteers down-wind of you at the next event!)

If you want more info on tree diseases then here are a few links or you can ask our resident biosecurity expert, Gen.

Poster showing spread of identified outbreaks throughout Britain as of Feb 2103
Juniper Dieback – many of the areas we use have juniper
Phytophthora ramorum – Latin for “the larch one”
Chalara fraxinea – Latin for “the ash one”

Unlike Foot and Mouth, the effects of these diseases aren’t so easy to see so easily forgotten about. Please remember and help orienteering to maintain its good reputation with landowners by doing your bit. Thanks.

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Street O – local, laidback, lowkey ***maps now online***

Tonight saw the last of our current Street O series with Ewen taking us on a spiral tour of Mannofield and the Hickling’s back garden (almost). Many thanks to him and the other organisers – Jess, Sam, Ian, Joonas and Evgeuni - for taking part in this experiment. Feedback has been very good and I’ve had a request from one regular to publish the map of the one event he missed he enjoyed them so much.

Here are the maps from this year’s series if you missed out and fancy a go at your (not so) leisure. We’ll publish more every now and then that anyone can download and go round whenever suits as Wednesdays at 6pm isn’t convenient for some. Perhaps time yourself and let us know and we can publish that too so you can get a feel for just how sprinty you are (or aren’t!) compared to the rest.

So if anyone feels like creating a map for future publication, give Sam or Jess a shout and they’ll send you instructions. Doesn’t have to be Aberdeen - Stonehaven, Inverurie, New York, Munich….

2013 Forest Sprint Series Fridays

 April
19th Dunnottar Woods  GRAMP  Results
26th Shooting Greens  MAROC   Results

May
3rd Scolty  GRAMP   Results   Splits
10th Dess  MAROC    Results
17th Mulloch  GRAMP    Results   Splits
24th Potarch  MAROC

Click on area names above for maps showing location.

One course TD3 or Orange standard, about 3km, with lots of controls and route choice in a relatively small area so full on concentration required just as much as fleet feet. Great for developing Juniors too if accompanied by a TD3 standard runner. Best 4 scores out of 6 will count towards the FSS league results.

Registration and Starts: 18:00 to 19:00 (unless indicated otherwise by the planner)
Fees: £4 Senior, £2.50 Junior/Student

Results links will be added as they come through and the overall Forest Sprint League results will be found on the Maroc website. Best 4 of 6 scores count towards your final score and, who knows, maybe even some lavish prizes.

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7/4/13 Glen Dye Results

Provisional results and splits for you all. RouteGadget also ready and waiting. And Winsplits.
Glen Dye Results 7-4-13.pdf
Glen Dye Splits 7-4-13.pdf

BOF results with ranking points

PreO  Results, Course map, Solutions, Comments

Forgot to say thanks to Maroc in the Final Details for the loan of their controls for all events over the weekend.

Lost Property:
Sat – one child’s black & brown striped glove, one lunch box
Sun – control description holder

If you entered via OEntries but didn’t manage to make it to the events and would like us to post you your map anyway then please email flump@care4free.net.

Scottish Sprint Championships/SOUL 2 6th April Results

Congratulations to all our new Scottish Sprint Champs for 2013!   Medal winners

Hope you all enjoyed today, even if it was in a hair-shirty kind of way when you realised how you’d been caught out and mispunched?!

We had a much larger entry than anticipated but still managed to pull off the Chasing Start with your co-operation, so apologies if you had to queue for a while to get your bib but at least we provided you with a legitimate reason to stare at each other’s chests and make lots of new friends. Wonder what the passing motorists thought was going on? Some sort of multi-coloured, extreme recession soup kitchen maybe?

Comments are open for this post so tell us what you thought, warts and all, and if anyone has any good photos give us a link please.

Rachel

06-04-13-SSC2013-Results (final).pdf
06-04-13-SSC2013-SOUL2-Race1-Prologue-Results.pdf
06-04-13-SSC2013-SOUL2-Race1-Prologue-Splits.pdf
06-04-13-SSC2013-SOUL2-Race2-Chase-Results.pdf
06-04-13-SSC2013-SOUL2-Race2-Chase-Splits.pdf

RouteGadget up and running as well

Race 1 Prologue    Winsplits      BOF results with ranking points
Race 2 Chase        Winsplits      BOF results (no rankings points as Chasing Start)

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GRAMPs at JK2013

Apologies for the lack of news celebrating the success of various GRAMPs at this year’s JK but I’ve just not had time to check results. (Wonder why??!) Would anyone else care to do the honours and leave a summary in a comment to this post?

Street O maps

These are very basic maps designed for a bit of navigational distraction on a training run maybe or as an intro to simple urban navigation. Unlike Permanent Orienteering Courses, there are no control markers when you get to the control points so you’ll just have to convince yourself you’re in the right place. (You’ll soon find out if you’re not as nothing will fit as you try to navigate away again!)

The maps are named after the start/finish points. In each case, the full course is approx. 6 km long (as the crow flies so actual running distance will be longer) with a suggested subset of controls to make a shorter version approx 4 km long.

Map showing start/finish points for all Street O maps listed below.

1   Aberdeen Beach Leisure Centre   shorter version 1 – 7, 13, 14      
2   Duthie Park   shorter version 1 – 4, 8 – 10     
3   Westburn Park  shorter version 1 – 7, 13, 14 
4   St Machar Drive   shorter version 1 – 8, 12   
5   RGU Sports Centre   shorter version 1 – 5, 10, 11  
6   Johnstone Gardens   shorter version 1 – 5/6    

Have fun! Let us know how long you took if you timed yourself and we’ll publish those too so you can see how you compare. If you fancy having a go at making a map for yourself or for next year’s Street O series or to publish here, then have a play on http://oomap.co.uk/, all the brainchild of Oli O’Brien of SLOW.

Summer Series 2013

What better way to get out and enjoy a Wednesday summer evening than by coming along to one of our Summer Series events?

Get out, get some fresh air, get fit! Bring the kids and friends and make a real family outing of it or pit yourself against our resident experts and really go for it – the choice is yours but we can guarantee you’ll enjoy it either way and look forward to welcoming back our regular Summer visitors for this year’s fix!

Seniors £3, Juniors/Students £1, groups welcome and we’ll only charge you £1/extra map.

Come along and register between 6:30 to 7.30pm and ask advice if you need it. You can start your course any time you like but bear in mind we will declare courses closed and start collecting controls at 8:00pm (maybe earlier towards the end of summer and evenings get darker quicker.)

There are 3 or 4 courses on offer every evening:

EASY (Yellow Standard) approx 1.5 – 2km along paths, fences, streams and other linear features

MEDIUM (Orange Standard) 2.5 – 3km getting a bit more adventurous with controls a short way off the linear features and scope for cutting corners30 minutes running to 60 minutes walking, approx 2.5-3km

TECHNICAL COURSES (Light Green/Green Standard) 2.5 – 3km and 3.5 – 4.5km options for the experienced orienteers or those up for a challenge (but don’t forget the 8pm cut off.)

Click on each area name below for link to map showing location. Results will be posted asap following each event and also Series points and awards updates as and when.
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  8^th May      Countesswells          Results
15^th May      Tyrebagger               Results and Splits       Points after 2 events
22^nd May     Crathes                     Results
29^th May      Cheyne Hill               Results
  5^th June     Foggieton                 Results
12^th June     Balmedie + BBQ      Results
19^th June     Dunnottar                Results
26^th June     Kingshill                    Results
  3^rd July       Hazlehead                Results
10^th July       Glen Dye     Results
17^th July       Tollo Hill                   Results
24^th July       Scolty                        Results
31^st July       No event  – all at Moray 2013!
  7^th Aug       Mulloch                    Results
14^th Aug       Perwinnes Moss     Results
21^st Aug       Bennachie                Results
28^th Aug       Templars Park + BBQ      Results

Check here before each event in case there’s been a last minute change.

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DNC Glen Dye Results 18/2/13

After a slight pause (frustrating for some but very handy for those of us away on holiday who thought we were going to miss the fun) for snow last week, we got to scamper round some of the lumpiest bits of Glen Dye. Ali’s signature style of Middle Distance flavour control picking proved very popular and certainly made the forest seem almost crowded with bobbing head torches.

Despite the short notice of the new date, 32 intrepid night orienteers took to the tricky moraine contours. Sasha stormed the long course ahead of Josh, and they were well ahead of the rest. Evgueni was just prevented from making it a Chepelin double by a fast run from Pete.

Results     Splits   RouteGadget

Pipped at the post in CompassSport Cup Qualifier

Sam Gomersall, Rob Hickling and John Wilkinson, GRAMP’s top 3 Blue Men, psyching out the opposition

Congratulations to all of you who ran for the club in the CompassSport Cup Qualifier at Birsemore 17/2/13. We were narrowly beaten by Maroc who scored that little bit more relatively in the shorter courses, no doubt due to their depth in numbers of Juniors, to ensure they won by 2386 points to our 2245.

A full set of results and scores can be found on the Maroc website.

Scolty 3/2/13 Results

This event was twice postponed, due to snow in 2011 and 2012! We had some snow this time but it just made the hill more interesting. Thanks to Pete L. and Steve S. for putting out and checking the controls. Great job by Sasha in organising his first large event! Here are the provisional results and splits.

Scolty Split times.pdf          Routegadget
ScoltyResults.pdf                 Results on BOF website showing Ranking Points

Colour Standard Qualifying Times

Further thanks: to Vicky Morrison stepping in to help with a bit of adhoc First Aid on a bad cut. No doubt she was glad of something to do while hanging around waiting for Gary but this does remind me that it’s been a while since we made sure we have sufficient folk in the club either already trained in First Aid or willing to be trained – if you think you can help, please contact Helen Rowlands so she can make a list to help Organisers make contact with you. (You never know, you or your family may need the help yourself one day so think of it as an insurance policy!)

Forvie DNC Results

For the brave souls who ventured out to Forvie on Wednesday night, here are the results. Thanks for turning up!

Helen

ForvieDNC_SimpleResults.pdf
ForvieDNC_Splits.pdf

16/1/13 DNC Raemoir Results

Results and Splits for Raemoir

A lovely crisp and sparkly night with a light dusting of snow and some good courses from Murray Anderson that avoided to much direct climb and picked out some of the trickiest features to find on both Medium and Long. Plenty of competitors stayed on for a drink and/or a bite at the Raemoir Hotel afterwards who kindly allowed us to use their car park and hallway for registration, so many thanks to them for their hospitality.

DNC Raemoir Results 16-1-13.pdf
DNC Raemoir Splits 16-1-13.pdf

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2013

Latest rankings

JD2C 2013 Event List and Rules.pdf  Any questions? Contact Trevor Ricketts of MAROC or Iain Barraclough of GRAMP or ask at an event.

You’re automatically entered into the competition if you’re a GRAMP or MAROC Junior, all you need do now is make sure you get along to as many events as you can this year.  Good Luck!

In case you didn’t already know, the Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup is named after an honorary GRAMP and ex-British Team member, Jon Duncan, who is now enjoying semi-retirement from the international orienteering scene growing beetroot in Norway. (Honest!)

GRAMP Roll of Honour 2012

GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS ROLL OF HONOUR 2012

Club events:
4th in Jamie Stevenson Trophy
(Alexander, Jack, Struan, Lachlan, Keith, Paul Calum, Katrina, Kate, Josie, Naomi, Laura, Ailsa & Duncan)

Area Events:
North Area 2nd in Junior Inter Area Championships (Calum, Katrina)

International Call-ups:
Scottish Vets for VHI – Scotland 2nd under Team Captain Rob Hickling, Dave Armitage
Scottish Junior Squad for JHI – Scotland 2nd Alexander Chepelin, Katrina McLeod
Scottish Junior Squad for Junior Inter Regional – Scotland 1st Alexander Chepelin, Katrina McLeod
European Youth Championships (GB): Alexander Chepelin
GB Talent Development Squad: Alexander Chepelin

Winners in Major Events:
Scottish Orienteering League (SOL)*: M55S Donald Grassie, M60L Dave Armitage, M65L Neil McLean, W12B Josie Gomersall, W55S Oonagh Grassie

*We also had lots of 2nd and 3rd places in this year’s SOL:
SECONDS:
Lachlan Kirk M14B, Ali Robertson M35L, Mike Pearson M60S, Angus Aitken M80
Katrina McLeod W18, Margaret Aust W60S
THIRDS:
Pete Lawrence M45L, Rob Hickling M55L, Carolyn McLeod W40, Sonia Armitage W50L
Close but no cigar – 4th Matthew Parkes M35S, Bob Daly M55L, Kate Robertson W21S

JK (Sprint): M16 Alexander Chepelin
JK (Individual): M20L Tim Gomersall

Scottish Champs – Individual: M16B Rob Wilkinson, M50S Richard Oxlade, M60S Mike Pearson, M80L Angus Aitken
Scottish Champs – Relay: 11+ Handicap Doug Guy, Nick Hale, Evgueni Chepelin
17+ Handicap Mike Greenwood, Sonia Armitage, David Armitage

Deeside Night Cup: Mini Alexander Chepelin

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup: W12 Naomi Lang

GRAMP Club Championships:
Junior Men: Calum McLeod Junior Women: Kate Wilkinson
Senior Men: Ali Robertson Senior Women: Seonag Robertson
Vet Men: Bob Daly Vet Women: Carolyn McLeod

Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona: W45 Rachel Scott
Mourne Mountain Marathon: B Class Sean O’Sullivan and Rob Hickling
LAMM: C Class Tim and Jack Gomersall
GMC: B Class Jack and Tim Gomersall

Tyrebagger DNC Results and Splits

19-12-12-TyrebaggerDNCSplits.pdf
19-12-12-TyrebaggerDNCResults.pdf

Routegadget now up and running (which was more than I could manage on the brackeny bits!!)

Foggieton Post-AGM Advent Calendar Score 9/12/12 – Results

Thanks to Anne for setting up a fiendish little Advent Calendar -based exercise to tax our Sunday brains as well as stretch our legs. Just the effort of spotting the next number in sequence on such a crowded map was bad enough! And thanks to Rob for bending his brain “doing the math” in the back of the car to give us our results almost instantaneously.     Results.

Junior Inter-Club Competition 2012

Well done to Maya Chillingworth and the Robertson Kids for flying the GRAMP flag at the Junior Inter-Club Competition at MOR’s Quarrelwood event recently. Between them they scored only 1 point less than the full team of ten from MOR! The big surprise of the day was INVOC managing to beat MAROC to the trophy so congratulations to them too.

Don’t know what the woods were like for the Juniors but our woods on the other side of the road were so full of fallen, but still crispy, beech leaves that it was like running through ankle-deep cornflakes a lot of the time!

Inter-Club Junior Comp 2012 – Results.pdf

Grampian Mountain Challenge 2012 Glen Dye – Results

Here are the results for GMC 2012 :-

Overall results    Day 1 – Splits   Day 2 – Splits   Routegadget

UPDATE 21/11/12 – Routegadget is now loaded up, separately for the Forest sections and the Hill sections of both days.  PLEASE would all competitors take the time to add their routes, as this will help the planners improve future events.  You can also analyse the splits using Splitsbrowser and Splitalyzer.

More photos from Ali Robertson who would also like to thank Maroc for the use of their controls.

UPDATE 20/11/12 – couple of extra sponsor acknowledgements and a message from the organiser added at the end of this post.

More photos here from Donnie Mann     Some photos here from Sarah Dunn
And if you can’t spot yourself in all those then try this lot of photos from Ian Hamilton
Photos from Simon Caldwell

We were incredibly lucky with the weather again for the GMC with blue skies throughout and I’m told “Good event – lots of happy faces at the download” so I’m guessing everyone enjoyed it whether or not they managed to bag a prize (like a certain happy chappy pictured below).

Big thank you to Sean for an ace bit of organising again (see his comments below), Ali for the planning and Ian for controlling and acting as official photographer again. We’ll give you a link to the rest of his photos just as soon as he’s had time to go through them all and if any of you took photos en route you’d like to share then email them or the link to flump@care4free.net please.

GMC 2012 Overall results    Day 1 – Splits   Day 2 – Splits   Routegadget

A big thank you to Haglöfs, Braemar Mountain Sports, Cotswold Outdoor and Tiso for donating prizes to help make the GMC that little bit more special.

Sean the Organiser says:

Well done to all the runners for coping with the short days, long heather and freezing nights. While there were a few scratched legs everyone enjoyed themselves and enjoyed the glorious east coast weather at its best. Thanks to everyone who knew their limits and either dropped out or sped up! Everyone finished within the course cut off time on Sunday.

Thanks to all the marshals from Scouts, Gramp and Cosmic Hillbashers, and to Deeside and Gordon Scouts for the equipment and help setting up. Scout leaders again ran the catering and on their behalf we’re pleased to donate £120 to the Braemar Pipe and Chanter group to help fund new instruments for their young pipers. Thanks to Fasque Estates for permission to use their land and to all the companies who provided prizes.

Watch this space for GMC-2014!! 

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11/11/12 Raemoir Level C Results

Here are the final results and splits for Raemoir:
Raemoir Results v2.pdf
Raemoir Splits v2.pdf

Have you plotted your route yet on Routegadget ?
Winsplits
BOF results and ranking points

Deeside Night Cup

When the clocks change and the nights draw in, the hard core strap on head torches and relish the challenge of night orienteering. The Deeside Night Cup courses are as technical as we can make them with no concessions to the dark and really sort the heroes from the zeroes. The rest of us just have fun scaring ourselves getting lost and found in bits of deepest and really darkest Aberdeenshire we thought we knew really well until somebody turned the lights out.

Watch this space……

International success for Rachel in Barcelona!

It seems success is just a question of finding your niche event and for Rachel it finally happened last weekend in Barcelona. Having never won anything before (apart from an attendance award for going to every single Summer Series event a few years ago) she suddenly found herself on the No 1 podium in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, shaking hands with folk from all over Europe and being presented with a prize while ‘We Are the Champions’ blared out. (Talk about out of body experiences – she’s receiving counselling to help her come to terms with the heady feeling of victory and the urge to sign any item of clothing or paper thrust in her direction!!)

The Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona is a two day event showcasing the city’s sights with a Sprint race on the Saturday, this year around the Barri Gòtic, and a Long race on the Sunday through the warren of paths, fountains, the castle, play parks and grand architectural spaces that make up Montjuïc hill to the SW of the city centre. It’s a long way to go just for a race but if you like urban and long w/e city breaks, you’ll love this event – just a shame you’ll have to wait two years for the next one and Club Orientació Catalunya can’t guarantee that you’ll get the chance to run down the 100m straight in the Olympic Stadium on your way to pick up your map in 2014. Wooohoooo!

Sasha and Katrina help Scotland win 2nd at Junior Home Internationals

Sasha and Katrina went waaaaaaaay down south to Surrey over the weekend to help the Scotland Team gain 2nd place at this year’s Junior Home Internationals. It’s a two day event with an Individual race on the Saturday – Sasha was 4th M16, Katrina 5th W18 – followed by a Relay on the Sunday where the age classes are mixed up - Sasha’s team came 4th in the Mens and Katrina’s 8th in the Womens.

Overall results: England 141 points, Scotland 106, Wales 62 and Ireland 51.
Full results and reports etc can be found at http://www.moorenet.co.uk/seoa/wjhi/

As well as the serious racing there are usually some other activities and competitions for everyone to mess about and relax a bit and have some fun with folk from the other teams. I’ve yet to hear what they got up to this time – maybe Sasha or Katrina can spill the beans?

Sasha makes it into the British Talent Development Squad 2012/13

Fantastic news on the BOF website that Sasha has earned a well-deserved place in the M16 group of the British Talent Development Squad!
You can see the announcement and the company he’ll be keeping on the BOF website. Sadly, this probably means we’ll be seeing even less of him at our local events now, by the time he’s travelled about on Squad duties and exams start kicking in too, but if you do catch a rare glimpse then don’t forget to congratulate him.

Look what you missed out on (if you didn’t come to the Urban events that is)

Ali requested a look-see of the Urban Sprint maps to see what he missed and so here are the maps – thought they might serve as an appetite-whetter for anyone else who didn’t come this year but might be considering it next year…..

Westburn Park was done as map memory as it’s such a small area. Unfortunately the long legs were cropped so that it wasn’t obvious there are entrances to the Victoria Park side at east and west ends and a lot of folk were seen legging it over the uncrossable walls and fences on either side of the main road. Do you know the difference in the symbols and why they’re marked as such? How can we spread the word to newcomers to urban O?

Click on each thumbnail to enlarge.

Orienteers sew up the Bennachie Hill Race

Some Oers showing the hill runners what it’s all about. Well done guys!

http://www.gariochroadrunners.com/Garioch_Roadrunners/Bennachie_Hill_Race_files/BHR_results2012.xls

Deeside Night Cup 2012/13

It’s coming to a wood near you very soon, starting Wednesday 21st Nov with a training event at Foggieton then straight into the serious stuff at Tilquhillie on 28th. For a full list of dates, venues and travel maps take a look at the DNC Blog.

There are 2 courses of about 5k for the DNC and 3k for the DN(mini)C, both TD5 or Green standard so if you’re a beginner not yet confident of doing a Green alone then we’ll have to try and find you an experienced running partner (it’s only fair on the planners not to have to wait for hours trying to decide whether to call out the Rescue for you!)

There will be lavish prizes for the best M/W Junior and Senior in each Cup and a host of frivolous prizes for  things like the Toughest of the Tough for the most gruelling courses and Best/Worst Mistake. Seriously though, this is one of the most competitive leagues around and worth turning out for if only for the challenge of finding your way around areas you thought you knew pretty well until someone turned the lights out!
Richard Oxlade is the GRAMP half of the DNC co-ordinating team.  Contact him using this contact form.

GJOs have a stormer at Stoney Stomp 10k

Well done to Lachlan Kirk and Naomi Lang who chalked up brilliant 3rd and 4th places in this year’s Stoney Stomp 10k, with times of 42m 18s and 43m 52s respectively. And it was a pretty hot day on a tough hilly course at Durris Forest so even more of a result. There’s a picture of Lachlan in the Mearns Leader with his bronze medal gleaming in the sunlight and he’s wearing his GRAMP top. Good man! Nothing like a good bit of publicity for the club!

(We only found out about this by happening to read the Leader – c’mon GJOs – don’t be shy – tell us what you’ve been up to so we can share your success with the rest of the club.)

Tim Gomersall picked for SHI

Taking time out from his studenty studiousness, Tim ran M20 for Scotland at the Senior Home Internationals 23rd/24th Sept at Craig a Barns and Errochty.

Scotland won pretty much everything in sight, finishing with a total of 55 points against 44 for England, 28 Cymru and 22 for Ireland. Tim got to rub shoulders with the big boys and ran with Oleg Chepelin (ex-GRAMP) and James Tullie for the Relay but I can’t find him in the Individual results so I’m wondering if Calum McLeod had to be called off the bench? If anyone knows, please tell us…

Gramp Mountain Marathon Success

There was success last weekend in the emerald isle for a team from Gramp in the Mourne Mountain Marathon. Experienced MM’ers Sean O’Sullivan and Rob Hickling teamed up to run their first Mourne, which is renowned as a small, friendly and relaxed event. After a good first day, they were third overnight on the B class, 20 minutes down on the leaders. Then on Sunday, Sean and Rob had the fastest time of the day and took the overall class win by 5 minutes. The splits on Sunday make interesting reading, as some of the other top teams made significant navigational errors and lost quite a lot of time – perhaps because they do less orienteering! The times and splits are at:

http://www.mourne2day.com/Results%202012

If you believe you have the endurance over the hills, why not try participating in the Grampian Mountain Challenge in November!

http://grampoc.com/2012/08/15/grampian-mountain-challenge-2012-glen-dye-17th18th-november/

Forvie SOL 4 09/09/12 Results

Hope you all enjoyed Forvie’s contours – did it help to get your eye in by doing the Pre-O Trail O Taster en route to the Start I wonder?

Final Results                      Final Splits
Routegadget                      Winsplits                   BOF Results with Ranking Points

Pre O Results         Pre O Solutions      Pre O Organisers’ comments

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Autumn Urban Sprint Series

Come September, we’ll keep the weekly happenings going with our Urban Sprint Series. One course, TD3, great for keeping the hard-gained summer fitness and O-brain ticking over.

Watch this space……

GRAMP Champs 2012

Gramp Champs 2012

Final Rankings by Age Class here.       And weighted for Junior/Senior/Vet categories here.

And in Excel format with all the counting scores from each event if you want to analyse your performance further (is it better to target events like Pannanich where you think there’s more chance of hoovering up points?)

Counting events and rules:

1 GRAMP Bogendriep
2 MAROC Alt Cailleach
3 GRAMP Tyrebagger
4 MAROC Balnagowan
5 GRAMP Glen Dye
6 MAROC Sluie
7 GRAMP Crathes
8 MAROC Pannanich
9 MAROC Cambus O’May
10 GRAMP Raemoir

• You have to be a member of Gramp to qualify.
• The Champs are run over 10 nominated events with the best 5 scores counting for each runner.
• Within each event, the Gramp member who is highest placed for each course scores the maximum course points:
  White 200, Yellow 400, Orange 800, Red 1200, Light Green 1600, Green 2000, Blue 2800, Brown 4000.
• Points for subsequent runners are calculated using this formula: score = [(winner's time)/(runner's time)]*(maximum course points)
• Men and Women’s Junior, Senior and Veteran divisions are used to decide Championship positions and individual totals are modified to try and make competition within these divisions as fair as possible:
  M/W10 +100% of total, M/W12 +50%, M/W14 +32%, M/W16 +24%, M/W18 +16%, M/W20 +8%, M/W21to M/W40 +0%, M/W45 +5%, M/W50 +15%, M/W55 +25%, M/W60 +40%, M/W65 +60%, M/W70 +80%, M/W75 and over +100%
• Any questions – contact Iain McLeod

Autumn Urban Sprint Series 2012

Another great little series again this year thanks to good planning and enthusiastic competitors with some very keen competition at the top of the league between various M18/M20/M21s and one or two older Ms with youthful legs. Calum McLeod and Naomi Lang had the Junior side sewn up and Carolyn McLeod met her match in newcomer to the sport if not the area, Ruth Crewe (Cosmics).

As well as the GRAMP Urban stalwarts we also had several incomers join the league half way through (studying or working in the area this year) and if they had been able to attend more events then the leader board would probably look vastly different. Unfortunately we can’t really delay the start of the Urban Series to accommodate Uni term time as it’s already pretty dark by 7pm even early October and we run the risk of becoming an Urban Night League (although I bet we’d get lots of takers for that anyway as everyone seems to enjoy it so much - even those who aren’t uber-competitive and laugh the whole way round (you know who you are, Blaggers!!)).

Autumn Urban 2012 Final League Results   

• Wed 5th Sept   -  Westburn Park                         Results       
• Wed 12th Sept -  Duthie Park and Ferryhill        Results*  Splits
• Wed 19th Sept -  Balgownie                                Results  Splits      
• Wed 26th Sept -  Seaton Park and Hillhead      Results   Splits   
• Wed 3rd Oct     – Aberdeen Uni Kings Campus    Results  Splits

*Five people didn’t punch control no.9 (E thicket, inside west part). It was well described and I think they didn’t look in quite the right place. Their split times show that they did search around a bit! The results don’t show them as mispunched as we’re feeling generous…

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Westburn Park was done as map memory as it’s such a small area. Unfortunately the long legs were cropped so that it wasn’t obvious there are entrances to the Victoria Park side at east and west ends and a lot of folk were seen legging it over the uncrossable walls and fences on either side of the main road. Do you know the difference in the symbols and why they’re marked as such? How can we spread the word to newcomers to urban O?

Click on each thumbnail to enlarge.

Crathes event Level C – 12 August 2012: Results

On a warm day at Crathes, over 135 people enjoyed running Nick Hale’s courses, carefully controlled by Steve Spencer with our thanks. Well done for getting out and doing some sport, not just watching the Olympics on the box! Appreciation to organiser Adrian Will and timing team Jayne MacGregor and Ian Hamilton, plus all the other Gramp helpers. We hope you enjoyed the refreshments in the Crathes tea-room afterwards. Routegadget and Winsplits are now loaded up.

Results now in BOF database with ranking points allocated.

Crathes 120812 Results.pdf
Crathes 120812 Splits.pdf

Scotland win JIRCs!

Scotland have won the Junior Inter Regional Championships down in Norfolk. Well done guys!

The organising club, NOR, has full results showing Sasha as M16 Champion and Katrina in 7th place W18.  (Think they may be the only two representatives from GRAMP this time?) Try checking the NOR website for more info.

Individual results http://www.norfolkoc.co.uk/media/Results%202012/indres.html
Overall results http://www.norfolkoc.co.uk/media/Results%202012/overallresults240612.pdf
Relay results http://www.norfolkoc.co.uk/media/Results%202012/relayresults240612.html

Jamie Stevenson Trophy 2012 – WELL DONE

Hi there

Just wanted to send a huge WELL DONE to all the GJOs who ran this weekend. I was very proud of your team spirit and enthusiasm you showed today. Everyone ran well in an area which had a very intricate path network. We had a great overall result coming in 4th position and a few excellent individual results. Well done to Sasha , our medal winner in second place and to Struan, Paul, Calum and Katrina who just missed out on podium positions coming in 4th on their respective courses. Also a special mention for our youngest competitor – Duncan who tackled a very tricky yellow course. I hope you all agree that it was a great day out even although the sun didn’t shine. You can see the full results on the SOA website.

Also many thanks to all the adults for your help and support: David, Bill, Adrian, Iain and Evgueni for driving the minibus.

Hope to have some photos here on the website in the next few days.

Keep up the orienteering over the summer and look out for more junior training events in the autumn.

Cheers
Carolyn

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Scotland 2nd at VHIs

Well done to all the Scottish Vets for securing second place overall in this year’s Veteran Home Internationals over in Tollymore during the weekend. Provisional points are reported on the SOA website by Rob Hickling, VHI Team Manager http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/soa/page/vhipoints-results-from-the-vhi and you can check the individual athlete’s performances on the Tollymore O’Fest website http://www.niorienteering.org.uk/tollymore2012/results/results.htm.

Obviously Rob has to be unbiased when reporting these things, but I don’t so congratulations to GRAMPs Dave Armitage on 2nd place in the M60 Individual course and helping his Relay Team to a good start with 4th place on the first leg.

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The Battle of the C Course LAMM 2012 and Brain Bending at WTOC 2012

Have a quick look at the top few teams on this year’s LAMM C course and see how many GRAMP (and MAROC) names you can spot. We have Ian Hamilton+ Alec Erskine in 8th, Alistair + Rosalyn Marshall in 6th, Gordon Urquart + Douglas Cowan in 5th and right at the top of the list are Tim + Jack Gomersall winning by a comfortable 12 minute margin – congratulations lads! (Is the Tom Gomersall on the A course their cousin I wonder?) Also well done to Dave + Liz Kirk for wading in at the relatively deep end on the C course for their first LAMM and surviving and also Gillian Clunas + Elaine Stewart on coming 1st Female Vet, 7th Vets overall and 41st overall on Gillian’s first LAMM too.

Speaking of the A course, Gareth Yardley and partner Dave Thompson also did extremely well coming in as 2nd Vets and 7th overall.  Gareth is even pictured on the LAMM website in a photo entitled “The pointless task of trying to get midges out of your tea” but if you look very carefully, the midge in question appears to be the size of a small dog!!?

Last – well actually first Vets – but not least are Dave + Sonia Armitage who came 4th on the D course and look well pleased with their hard-earned prizes (photo by John Brooke).

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, other GRAMPs were helping out at WTOC 2012 and some were also bending their brains instead of their legs in the Public Class.

Foss (current BOF ranking 2232) warmed up with some TempO on Wednesday before having a stormer on Day 1 at Tentsmuir coming 7th overall beating both Nick Barrable (44)  and Sarah-Jane Gaffney (714). Now there’s a result you wouldn’t predict and Foss must be dead chuffed!

The international field of competitors appreciated the warm Scottish hospitality even if the weather was dreich – maybe Neil will explain what the joke was about in the next Telegramp?

If you’ve time on your hands at the end of the month, Latvia is the next stop on the international Trail O scene. The Kapa 12 bulletin will tell you more.

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2012 Scottish Relays Championships – Routegadget is loaded up + link to photos added 13/6/12

Visit the GRAMP Routegadget site to enter your routes for the Scottish Relays, and compare your gaffles, routes and splits with others on the same course!

http://www.gramp.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi

6/6/12 Message from the Organisers:
Firstly, thanks go to Nicholas Barber of CLOK who interrupted his first leg run to help Steve Feltbower of FVO who suffered an injury on the far side of the map but still managed to limp a fair way home before our rescue team caught up with him.

Secondly, apologies for the download queue caused by networking problems but most of you seemed to find it quite a sociable wait as there was much chatting and comparing of routes going on. With no network we couldn’t make any changes until the download deluge slowed to a trickle so thanks also for your patience in waiting for name changes and mp checks/reinstatements to show in the printed results.

Thirdly, another big thanks to all our GRAMP helpers, MOR for doing the car parking (although by their own admission the biggest problem was making sure cars avoided the lapwing nests) and Lucy Fryer of AROS who volunteered ages ago as she wanted to learn a bit more about Emit and OS2003 relay software and ended up doing a fantastic job all day on download for us.

More photos here.

Jubilee Five – Scolty MTBO

The third event in the Jubilee Five festival of orienteering in Royal Deeside was the mountain bike orieteering competition, held in Scolty and Blackhall Forest, south of the River Dee near Banchory.

Conditions were as near as perfect as you could ask for – dry trails (mostly…though John Mason managed to fin a wet ditch to fall into!), blue skies, fluffy white clouds, nice sunshine, cool temperatures (14C). Fifty-nine riders spread across three courses showed us how mountain biking should be done. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves whilst discovering that Scolty and Blackhall are particularly well blessed with those brown line things called contours. This makes route choice on a MTB much more interesting.

My thanks to Planner (Richard Oxlade), Controller (Sarah Dunn) and my helpers Duncan Grassie, Josh Dudley and Rachel Scott.

RH

(For anyone still wondering about the non-competitive nature of this event, the Forestry Commission were concerned for the safety of other forest users on a busy (for Scolty) Bank Holiday so granted permission for our event providing the urge to speed recklessly was removed by making it an event rather than a race.)

2012 Scottish Relays Championships Results

Following correction of names and checking times and punching, here is an updated set of results (by class) and splits (by course) that you can download.

RH

SRC12 Results Sun Evening.pdf
SRC12 Splits Sun evening.pdf

Winners:

Men’s Open: Interlopers Team Compasspoint 1
(Alan Cherry, Oleg Chepelin, Murray Strain)

Women’s Open: Edinburgh University EUOC Myths
(Rebecca Harding, Kirstin Maxwell, Caherine Taylor)

Junior Relays:
36-: MAROC Bison
44-: Interlopers Team Compasspoint N

Handicap Classes:
8 pts: Interlopers Team Compasspoint W
11 pts: Grampian Orienteers 3
14 pts: SROC Free Hardings
17 pts: Grampian Orienteers 6
20 pts: Forth Valley 14

Handicap Overall
1 SROC 1hr 23m 37s
2 GRAMP 6 1hr 27m 33s
3 FVO 14 1hr 27m 55s

It was a large event with 500 runners. Congratulations to all who took part, and thanks to all the Gramp helpers and friends who helped run it so successfully.

Glen Dye Level C 27/5/12

Results    Splits   Routegadget

BOF results loaded but for some reason not picking up non-comps. Will correct after Jubilee 5 and hols.

Another scorcher! 27 degrees this time – too hot for Rachels and a few others judging by the results. Was glad to reach the relative cool of the coast as it was a mere 17 degrees in Stoney.

Thanks to Helen for a cracking first crack at planning a “proper” event (I was enjoying it until my head boiled over at number 17!) and Evgueni for organising. Also to all helpers including Tessa Campbell of MAROC who wasn’t afraid to tell Mark Nixon to try not to win the Green in too fast a time as it would stymie son Iain’s chances of getting Gold Standard – again!
Bit of a conundrum this – Mark is using our events to train for Middle Distance and we’re happy to assist in any way we can but it obviously has unforeseen consequences. Answers on a postcard please (but not to me!!)

Ticks: I’m up to 13 free range wrigglers now – anyone want to declare their tally for the Golden Tweezers?

I received an email from Jan Strandskog wondering whether anyone actively tries to stop ticks from settling rather than just pick them off after the event and, if so, what do they use? The only product he knows of is one sold in Europe called Centaur but as it’s rather expensive to buy online (after carriage and tax) he’s looking for anyone going to Europe to buy him a bottle from a chemists to bring back to try out. Leave a comment if you do use anything or are willing to be a mule for Jan.

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