Autumn Urban Sprint Series

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.

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.

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!!”