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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!

Sasha invited to BOF Talent Camp

British Orienteering have announced selections to their Talent Camp, to be held at Badaguish Outdoor Centre this summer, and the list includes several SCOTJos names not least our own Sasha Chepelin for M16. Well done Sasha!

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup points published

Latest rankings now published following the Balnagowan event. Click on the (JD)2C link from the GJO menu option above at any time to see the rules, events and latest rankings.

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.

Sasha has been picked for EYOC

Congratulations to Sasha who will be representing Great Britain at the European Youth Orienteering Champs this year at Bugeat, Limousin in France. Not entirely sure of the format but it involves Sprint, Long, Relays and a banquet which sounds very grand! I bet even now he’s checking out Meymac on Streetview in preparation.

Have a good one Sasha!

JK 2012 – a weekend of seconds

Just back from the JK and trawling through the results the overall impression is quite a few 2nds for GRAMP, some good personal performances from some and two 1sts – congrats to Sasha and Tim Gomersall for adding to their silverware collection! Some pretty tough terrain out there, not helped by a lot of recent windblow, made for some long days for some of us with quite a few knocks and sprains (oh and don’t forget the evil nettle patch at the relays) but the brain cells also took a hammering as it was generally good technical, tricky stuff. Most of us came out of it still smiling (although maybe it was smiling at the prospect of the well-earned seconds of Easter Eggs?) and enjoyed it even if we weren’t bothering the podium people at all.

In no particular order:

2nd place for Helen Cromie in both the WOpen Sprint and W21S (living closer to the Scandi action must be paying off?), Sam Griffin M10B, Jack Gomersall M18L,Richard Oxlade M50S, Calum/Sasha/Jack Men’s Short Relay (10 minutes ahead of the ‘old men’ Doug/Nick/Dad!)

1st place for Sasha M16 Sprint and Tim Gomersall M20L

Hats off to the three brave orienteers who had a tilt at the Elite classes – Calum McLeod M18E 17th (and one MAROC scalp), Katrina McLeod W18E 15th (and two MAROC scalps!) and not quite last but enjoyed every energy-sapping minute of it Gordon Urquhart M21E 54th!

3rd place for Anne Hickling on W55S and she found time to help with the Trail O (and is still seeking helpers for WTOC2012 please BTW)

Well done too to the Junior Ws who did well considering their lack of experience of big events like the JK but kept it together on both days – Maya Reynard W10B 8th, Josie Gomersall W12B 5th and Chloe Raynard W14B 4th.

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Scottish Sprint Champs 2012

Congratulations to both Carolyn McLeod W45 and Sasha Chepelin M16 who won Scottish Sprint Champion status at St Andrews Uni Campus over the weekend. Katrina was also on the podium, 2nd equal in W18, having kept up the McLeod family tradition of racing each other over the same courses and beating Mum by 55 seconds.

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2012

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!)

Here are the rules and 2012 (JD)2C events.  Any questions? Contact Trevor Ricketts of MAROC or Iain Barraclough of GRAMP or ask at an event.

We’ll be posting the (JD)2C rankings here as the year progresses and, as 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!

Rankings after Balnagowan

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.

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.

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2011

Here are the final results:  (JD)2C 2011 Final Results

Big Fat Congratulations to:

Laura Smith, Isobel Anderson and Maya Reynard who packed out the top three places in W8 – looks so good when it says GRAMP, GRAMP, GRAMP!

Also Ailsa Anderson and Josie Gomersall for 1st and 2nd in W10, Naomi Lang and Kate Wilkinson 3rd in W12 and W14 respectively. The boys struggled a bit this year but well done to Patrick Lang, Keith Yardley and Jack Gomersall who all came 3rd in M8, M12 and M16 respectively and Sasha Chepelin who cruised to 1st place in M14.

And everyone who took part in this year’s (JD)2C – even if you didn’t get into the top three places hopefully you enjoyed the friendly competition with Maroc and the chance to run in some great areas in Deeside.

Josie clocks 100!!

The following GJOs were given Participation Award badges at the Junior training event at Countesswells:

5 courses completed Hannah Will
10 courses completed Duncan Will
10 courses completed Kirsty and Morven Farquharson

First club member to qualify for the 100 Award is Josie Gomersall – that’s real dedication to orienteering.

Well done everyone!

Oonagh

CONGRATULATIONS GJOs @ the Junior Inter-area Competition 2011

Kate and Rob Wilkinson, Naomi Lang, Laura Barraclough and Sasha Chepelin were all picked to run for the North Area Team (GRAMP, MAROC, MOR, BASOC, INVOC) at the Junior Inter-Area Competition down in the borders 29th/30th October.

North Area Team came 2nd overall after Saturday’s Relays and Sunday’s Individual results were added into the mix.  Well done guys!

You can see their results at http://www.rstrain.ndtilda.co.uk/results_11/jia/res/ and http://www.rstrain.ndtilda.co.uk/results_11/tt/d_res/
Sasha also took part in the Tinto Twin Night Event (is there no stopping him?!) and won his class. Congratulations!