Events/Results

Appreciative crowd required at Foggieton Wed 23rd

Just before the Summer Series event at Foggieton kicks off this Wednesday, there will be a very important presentation taking place and we need a big crowd of appreciative orienteers to supply applause and atmosphere. ScotJOS will be there in force, in their distinctive strip, Iain McLeod will be beaming and Rachel will be playing at paparazzi again.

Intrigued? You’ll just have to come along for ~18:00 to find out more!

16/5/12 Countesswells Results (Summer Series)

Thanks to the Andersons for kicking off this year’s Summer Series at Countesswells with some relatively flat courses to jog round while getting your brains back into O mode. Still caught me out as for some reason number 9 seemed far more enticing a prospect to start with than number 1, so ended up going round backwards. Actually a much more sociable way of doing things as I could say hello to far more people as I passed them going in the opposite direction!

Note to organisers for future Summer Series events – control 101 sadly got vandalised beyond repair. First time we’ve experienced this problem at Countesswells and hopefully it’s a one off.

Rachel

160512_Countesswells_Results.pdf

Sun 27th May Glen Dye Level C Colour Coded

A GRAMP CHAMPS and (JD)²Ccounting event

Parking/registration is at the Bridge of Bogendriep on B974 (turn right after the bridge) Map The event will be signposted from Strachan.

There are two starts in opposite directions from the carpark (so make sure you know which Start is yours!) but all courses have the same Finish. All Starts and Finish can be accessed from registration without crossing or walking along the road.

Courses

Start approx 500m from registration, no road crossings:
White (TD1) 1.6km 20m
Yellow (TD2) 2.5km 55m
Orange (TD3) 3.0km 80m
Light Green (TD4) 3.4km 80m

Start approx 300m from registration, road crossings but running along road itself is not permitted:
Long Orange (TD3) 5km 140m
Green (TD5) 4.4km 115m
Blue (TD5) 6.5km 170m
Brown (TD5) 8.5km 250m

Registration: 10:30 – 12:30
Starts:11:00 – 13:00
Courses close: 15:00

Entry Fees £5 Seniors, £2.50 Juniors/Students, non-BOF members £7

Early Email Entry (EEE) Form- We need your name and the course you’d like to run by noon on Sat 26^th May. EEE is explained below.

Organiser: Evgueni Chepelin would appreciate offers of help by email or text to 07714 242390 from Gramp members, in particular those who are not organising or helping at Jubilee Five.

Planner: Helen Rowlands
Controller: Roger Coombs

Early Email Entry Explained: If you think that you are probably coming to the event, and have a fair idea of which course you would like to run, please would you use the EEE form by noon on Saturday 26^th May telling us your name(s) and course(s). This helps ease the data entry process as we can get ahead of the game before Sunday morning. Ta!

For those who send in an early email entry, you just come to registration at the event, pay for your run and pick up a timing brikke (there is no need to complete an entry slip). A map will be reserved for you up till 12 noon on Sunday.

Please note that this is not a full pre-entry. It’s entirely on a ‘no obligation’ basis and no charge will be made if you cannot come to the event. No money is being taken in advance. This is simply a way of simplifying and speeding up the process of runner registration. If you change your mind, and decide on the morning of the event to run a different course, that’s fine. Simply fill in an entry slip for the new course, and register in the standard way. If you cannot come to the event after all, that’s absolutely fine too. There is no need to email to let us know, and no apologies or explanations are necessary! Anyone who chooses not to make an early email entry will not be disadvantaged – everyone is still welcome to register for a course in the standard way on Sunday morning.

Scolty Forest Sprint Results

Results       Splits

Forest Sprints on Fridays

Last event this week – check the MAROC website for map and travel directions. Last GRAMP Forest Sprint for this year will take place at Scolty 11th May. A fun way to round off the week scampering about a small area – watch out for the changes of direction and keep your wits about you!

Crathes Results Splits  RG
Dunnotar Results Splits
Scolty  Results   Splits

Dunnottar Woods Forest Sprint Results

Apologies for delay in posting results.

And apologies for calling them the Scolty results and confusing you. Or maybe we are predicting the Scolty results so anyone mentioned now has to come this Friday and time their run to second-accurate perfection?

Results Splits

Summer Series 2012

Registration 18:30 – 19:30, courses close 20:30.

Seniors £3, Juniors/Students £1  – we charge per map so the whole family can go round together if you want. Bring your friends as well, the more the merrier!

Courses:
Short – easy (yellow) 1.5 – 2 km
Medium – little bit harder (orange) 2.5 – 3km
Short and Long Technical – as hard as we can make it for that area 2.5 – 3km and 3.5 – 4.5km
Keep an eye on the website in case we have to change any of these venues:

• 16th May  Countesswells   Results (click on each name to link to map)
• 23rd May  Foggieton
• 30th May  Cheyne Hill
• 6th June   Tyrebagger
• 13th June  Crathes Castle
• 20th June  Balmedie Beach + BBQ
• 27th June  Tollohill
• 4th July      Duthie Park/Haddo House TBC
• 11th July   Hazlehead Park
• 18th July   Kingshill
• 25th July   Mulloch
• 1st Aug    Dunnottar Woods
• 8th Aug    Bennachie
• 15th Aug  Scolty
• 22nd Aug Glen Dye
• 29th Aug  Templars Park + BBQ

Overall points for whole series (updated as regularly as we can).

Here’s a flyer for you to print out and keep as reminder of dates and venues but remember to check back here for any last minute changes and travel directions.

Jamie Stevenson Trophy 2012 – calling all GJOs

Here’s an invitation for you from Ali and Carolyn to run for GRAMP in this year’s Jamie Stevenson Trophy 17th June at Kinnoull Hill at Perth – just down the road, minibus laid on for you, chance to meet up with fellow GJOs and generally have a great day out – oh and there’s a bit of orienteering involved too of course and Kinnoull is a lovely little area of open woodland with plenty of paths.

How can you say no?  Contact Ali to let him know to count you in.

2012 Forest Sprint Series Fridays 6pm 20/4/12 – 25/5/12

It’s Friday! It’s 6 o’clock! It’s Crackerjack – oh, no sorry, – it’s Forest Sprint time!

April 20th Tilquillie MAROC
April 27th Crathes GRAMP Results Splits  RG
May 4th Dunnottar GRAMP Results Splits
May 11th Scolty GRAMP     Results   Splits
May 18th Sluie MAROC      NB Change of location from Dess to Sluie
May 25th Corsedarder MAROC

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. Overall results can be found on the MAROC website.

Registration: 18:00 to 18:50
Starts: 18:30 to 19:15
Fees: £4 Senior, £2 Junior/Student

Here’s a flyer you might like to download and print a few copies to leave lying around at work etc?

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Sun 25th March Tyrebagger Level C Colour Coded

Results and Splits     Winsplits
Routegadget (sorry Green doesn’t work in this version use link below)
Routegadget for Green course
BOF ranking points (for TD5 courses and BOF members only)

Lost property: size 3F Clarks baby shoe, soft brown leather - contact us to claim

Phew! What a scorcher – the car dashboard showed 22 degrees as we drove away at 3pm so congrats to everyone for not succumbing to heat exhaustion although there may be one or two tingly noses this evening?

Thanks to Gen for giving us a twirl around different parts of the area for a change, the Austs for controlling  and Jayne and her team for registration and computing as seamlessly as ever. Did you try a cake from Laura’s stall in aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind? Yummy! MAROC have got some serious competition there I reckon.

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Night Champs and Bogendriep results uploaded to BOF for ranking points

SNC results have also now been uploaded now but I’d forgotten that night events aren’t counted as ranking events as per BOF Appendix K 1.2.2.  Sorry to build up your hopes. (Some of us are secretly rather pleased that’s the case!)

BOF results page for SNC
BOF results page for Bogendriep

Please check we have your club and BOF number correct and, if not, contact us and we’ll correct it (otherwise you won’t be awarded BOF ranking points).

Sun 26/2/12 Bogendriep Level C Colour Coded Results

Scottish Night Champs Glen Dye – 25/02/12

Here are the final results for the Scottish Night Champs 2012 – what a superb night for orienteering. Great courses (thanks Richard).

Routegadget        Winsplits

FinalResults_Classes.pdf
FinalResults_Courses.pdf
Final_SplitTimes.pdf

DNC Crathes results 22/2/12

Thanks to Dave for the Dhansak Dash to nicely round off this year’s DNC and also his band of control collectors who helped wrap everything up so quickly in time for the prize-giving. Check the DNC blog for who won what.

Crathes Split time results.pdf
Crathes Simple Results.pdf
Routegadget

CompassSport Cup 2012 Report

Team GRAMP came third in the CompassSport Cup competition today, 59 points behind arch rivals (and friends) MAROC who in turn lost to ESOC by a mere 11 points. Congratulations to ESOC who now go through to the final in September.

Thanks to everyone who heeded the clarion call and turned out for the club, especially Foss and Erik who got up at 5:30 this morning for the 284-mile round trip!

Well done to Felix Späth, a very recent new member, and Sasha for gaining the maximum points for their respective classes and all the other GRAMPs who backed them up (a full list and course results etc is available here) not least Keith Yardley and Lachlan Kirk who kept their heads and put in solid performances against the MAROC M14- runners. Some of us plodded too slowly to make a mark, others blew up mid-course, some picked up the wrong map and some just couldn’t make it on the day but even taking all that into account I still don’t think we could have matched ESOC’s performance had everything gone according to plan.

Thanks also to Evgueni for chauffering the minibus and accomodating Pete’s demands for a later departure so he could have a few more minutes in bed (Foss and Erik were not impressed by such lack of moral fibre) and also to the Gomersalls for providing top notch tea/cake/blethering venue after the event.

Forvie Night-O Results

Thanks to Ian for 2 great courses – lots of appreciative words despite the freezing wind. I hope the long trip from MAROC land was worth the effort. Routegadget will follow tomorrow.

Richard

Forvie Simple Results.pdf
Forvie Split time results.pdf

DNC Raemoir 25/1/25 Results – Updated

Simple results     Splits     RouteGadget

Deeside Night Cup 2011/12

Click here to jump through to the DNC blog

We are teaming up with MAROC again to bring you 12 more stonking Night O events for the DNC 2011/12.

Keep an eye on this for any last minute changes to venues/parking etc.

TRAINING: lowkey, probably no timing, just a chance to learn/practise bearings and other night tactics

FROM 23^rd NOV ONWARDS: Timed courses, both TD5 Green Standard so if you can’t yet do a Green alone you’ll need to ask an experienced night O officianado to shadow you. 

Starts 6-7pm, courses close 7:30-8pm depending on weather/area/organiser. Seniors £4, Juniors/Students £2.50.

TORCH HIRE: £2 per night, 2 torches available, contact Sam G/Iain M/Richard O.

DNC GRAMP CO-ORDINATOR: Richard Oxlade

Tyrebagger DNC 11/1/12 – Results

<<Tyrebagger DNC 11-1-12 – Results.pdf>> <<Tyrebagger DNC 11-1-12 – Split time results.pdf>>

Was sorely tempted to stop and hide inside the sculpture/hut/temple thingy towards the end but decided against as rumours of orienteers flipping out over a ‘ghost’ or, worse still, suffering a heart attack wouldn’t be good publicity for the DNC! Thanks to Lesley and Jack for manning the fort while Sam was otherwise occupied. Routegadget is also up. http://www.gramp.routegadget.co.uk/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=74&kieli=

Tyrebagger DNC 11-1-12 – Results.pdf
Tyrebagger DNC 11-1-12 – Split time results.pdf

Fun ski O at The Clash on Saturday 7th

Congratulations to Ian H and Gen J on coming 2nd on the Long and Short courses respectively. The Langs and Barracloughs were also out in force on the Short course and Bob Daly was seen in racing mode on the Long trying to dash round on what little snow was left by the end of the afternoon before the Nordic Ski Club collected in the controls.

Hogmany Hangover Handicap 2012 Results

Here are the results – slightly different from what was announced on the day but as far as I can make out the only damage done is one or two folk gaining more chocolate than was really good for them. Thanks to Katrina and the rest of the McLeod clan for planning and hosting.

Results for all courses

Balmedie Night-O Results 14/12/2011

Here are the long awaited results! Also on Routegadget. Thanks to Ian for 2 testing courses. Hope you enjoyed them.

Richard

Split time results – Balmedie.pdf
Simple results – Balmedie.pdf

Post-AGM Bi-O-thlon @ Kirkhill 11/12/2011

Splits   Simple results and notes. Glad to see Ewen practically did the Bike O section (as opposed to impractically which would presumably mean by unicycle?) but dismayed to see that Carolyn won the Short Bi-O course on foot alone!! (Although maybe she should be DSQed as she didn’t wear a helmet or have to figure out how to carry her Emit brikke and steer at the same time?)

Thanks to Dave and family for cheerfully manning a somewhat chilly registration/transition while the rest of us had great fun battling through ice-encrusted puddles and braving death-defying descents on our bikes before taking off on wobbly legs for the Foot O section where more than one experienced orienteer was caught out by the control on the top of a big crag. Dagnabbit!

Did you enjoy it? Should we try more Bike O events? Leave a comment below and let us know.

Foggieton Night-O Results 30/11/11 – Updated

I’ve updated the results as I’d mistakenly put Jon on the Medium course – a first I’m sure. Results now on Routegadget.

Richard

Simple results – Foggieton.pdf
Split time results – Foggieton.pdf

3 GRAMP 2011 Scottish Score Champs

Well done to 3 GRAMPS who won Scottish Score Championship status at Stirling today (27/11/11) – Tim Griffin M45, Dave Armitage M60 and Katrina McLeod W18. Also to Sam Gomersall M50 who came second behind Martin Dean (which is as good as winning in my book as the area is Martin’s back yard!!)
The ingenious trade-off between fast grass and tarmac around the University Campus coupled with the steeper rougher terrain to the north made it quite difficult to judge how long you thought you’d take in each area and to decide whether to do the Campus loop first with fresh legs or to leave it to last to stagger through on the way to the Finish. Another nice touch, that caught many folk out, was the inclusion of several of the highest scoring controls very close to the Start/Finish rather than in the furthest corners of the map as is often the case. Those that took a moment to read the instructions and map carefully before pegging off were rewarded with some unexpected easy hits – good for the confidence and ego!
Full results can be found on the FVO website.

Sun 13/11/11 Raemoir Level C Colour Coded

Raemoir_Results.pdf
Raemoir_Splits.pdf

Winsplits    Routegadget     BOF ranking points

VHI 2011 Relays – partial results

Firstly, I would like to offer a wholehearted apology for the error that caused us to void the relay result and, by consequence, the overall Veterans Home International 2011 event. Quite simply, we made a labelling error for the all of the 2 Women + 1 Man category courses, i.e. on 4 of the 8 Courses. This resulted in competitors being given the wrong length courses for their legs, which meant that many senior veterans were sent out on much longer courses than anticipated, which after their efforts to conquer Birsemore Hill yesterday was, I’m sure, less than welcome. There was also confusion for later leg runners, who also had to run out of class and, no doubt, a severe feeling of let-down. The fact that this problem was greeted with such grace, forbearance and, amazingly, sympathy from competitors was truly humbling. I can’t say how grateful we all are for your responses, especially as I know of the long lengths many people went to to come and represent their country.

Following consultation, the Team Managers agreed that the preferred option was to not to attempt to declare a result on the basis of the remaining classes and as a result, there are no 2011 Relay, Overall or Stonewall Trophy Winners. It was felt that the extent of the voided courses was such that any result would not be fair. If the courses voided had crossed both categories, there may have been a case for declaring a result.

We will publish the results of the ‘valid’ relay courses and attempt to reconstruct the splits of those who ran on the wrong course so that we can provide a set of results by gaffle.
I hope you all enjoyed the Individual Event, narrowly won by England, the social evening in Ballater, that the problems on the Relay did not ruin your weekend and that at least some of you enjoyed running around what is a beautiful forest on courses that attracted praise from the competitors.
I’d like to record my thanks to all of the Team from Grampian and Mar Orienteering clubs that put the events together for their hard work and commitment as well as the landowners and the staff at the Lodge on the Loch.

Once again, please accept my apologies and I wish you all luck if you are selected next year.

Regards,
Pete Lawrence
2011 Veterans Home International Coordinator

09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2M+W_Results      VHI_2M+W_relay_points
09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2M+W_Splits_by_gaffle

Splits for unaffected S and L course runners plus times for affected runners:
09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2W+M_Splits by_gaffle

Autumn Urban Sprint Series 2011

We decided to experiment this year by keeping the regular Wednesday pm slot going through the autumn by using some of our urban maps. Not quite as popular as the Summer Series but we still had a regular core of runners including some of our Cosmic friends who, although being more used to running flat out over the hills, still seemed to really enjoy the extra dimension of getting their heads around such detailed maps.

07/09/11_Hazlehead
07/09/11_Hazlehead_Splits
14/09/11_Duthie_Park_and_Ferryhill
20/09/11_Balgownie
28/09/11_Aberdeen_Uni
05/10/11_Seaton_and_Hillhead

Bob Sheridan (as he whizzed past me at Balgownie):
“This is my kind of orienteering! I like running FAST!!”

SOL 6 Glen Dye Sept 25th 2011 – Results

Routegadget Winsplits
BOF results showing ranking points

Glen-Dye-SOL-6-Results.pdf
Glen-Dye-SOL-6-Splits.pdf
SOL_6_Glen_Dye_string.pdf

Sun 4/9/11 Crathes Level C Colour Coded Results

040911_Crathes_Results
040911_Crathes_Results

Summer Series 2011 – Results and Awards

A big thankyou to all our organiser/planners for helping to put on another cracking Summer Series.
Overall results and awards files below plus individual event files in no particular order.

summer_series_results_2011_final.pdf
2011_SS_final_awards.pdf
Templars_results.pdf
Crathes_results.pdf
Mulloch_Results.pdf
Scolty_results.pdf
Bennachie_Results.pdf
Tollohill_results.pdf
Duthie_results.pdf
Hazlehead_results.pdf
Kingshill_SS_29-06-2011_Results.pdf
Balmedie_220611_results.pdf
DunnottarResults15 june2011.pdf
Perwinnes_Results_3-6-11a.pdf
Foggiton results.pdf
Countesswells Results 17 05 2011.pdf

Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011

GRAMP organised 3 out of the 6 Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011. Results from our events shown here – the Tollo Hill results are/were with the rest on the Maroc website for reasons I’ve forgotten now.

13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Results     17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Results
13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Splits        17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Splits

Sprint O is great fun – lots of controls in quick succession in a relatively short distance and fast running alone is no use in this discipline if it’s of the headless chicken variety! You really have to look closely at the map, make snap decisions about route choice, execute them quickly and cleanly while all the time trying to read a jiggling map and watch where your feet are going. Give it a go.

Sun 5/6/11 Balmedie Level C Colour Coded Results

Do not be alarmed by the amazingly quick winning times on some of the longer courses – there was a bit of a hiccup at this event as some courses had to be truncated/rerouted on the day to avoid various slumbering ravers and their detritus.

05/06/11_Balmedie_Results
05/06/11_Balmedie_Splits

Sun 17/4/11 Bennachie Level C Colour Coded Results

17/04/11_Bennachie_Results
17/04/11_Bennachie_Splits

Sun 27/2/11 Tyrebagger Level C Colour Coded Results

27/02/11_Tyrebagger_Results
27/02/11_Tyrebagger_Splits