Events/Results

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

Sun 26/2/12 Bogendriep Level C Colour Coded

Our first “big” event of the year and it’s a GRAMP CHAMPS and (JD)2C counter so come and get some points chalked up.  This was supposed to have been a second stab at running the event at Scolty which was cancelled due to snow last year, but felling plans have scuppered it this year instead! So, we’ve borrowed Bogendriep for the day and will be using a bit of the area you don’t often get to see (for the longer courses anyway).

Parking will be on forest tracks – turn off the B974 just before you get to Bridge of Bogendriep. Map

Assembly is adjacent to the parking; the Start is 900m from Assembly along the parking track so runners please be aware of traffic and vice versa; the Finish is 100m from Assembly/Download.

7 colour coded courses:
White 1.6km 20m climb
Yellow  2.2km 25m
Orange  3km 105m
Light Green  3.2km 105m
Green  4km 175m
Blue  5.9km 245m
Brown  7.4km 360m

Reg: 10:30 – 12:30
Starts 11:00 – 13:00
Courses close 14:30 ish
£5 Seniors  £2.50 Juniors/Students.

We’ll be operating the Early Email Entry system up until midnight Friday 24th – tell us if you intend coming and we’ll reserve you a map until 12:00 on the day. No need to fill in a stub at reg, just go to the EEE registration point to pay and collect your brikke.

Planner: Pete Lawrence   Controller: Alistair Marshall (MAROC)
Ali Robertson is organising and wouldn’t turn down a few more offers of help please.

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

Scottish Night Champs Glen Dye 25th Feb 2012

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