Not such a bad night despite the forecast and oddly the worst wet bits were gigantic puddles on the main tracks and not the stream that bisects the area E-W as expected. There were about four people who complained about location of control 167 (I suspect they were right), most said they found it no problem so I have left it in the results.
John L.
Summer Series Events – fun, friendly events with something for everyone on Wednesday evenings. Events will have an easy (white/yellow standard), medium (orange standard) and two as-hard-as-we-can-make-it courses of different lengths (generally referred to as short and long tech).
Starts 6-7pm, courses close 8pm (unless changed for a particular event, please check website for any changes)
Seniors £3, students/juniors £1
| Date | Place/Google Map | Results |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May | Hazlehead* | Results , Splits , RG |
| 1 June | Countesswells* | Results , Splits , RG |
| 8 June | Scolty* | Results , Splits , RG |
| 15 June | Tyrebagger* | Results , Splits , RG |
| 22 June | Crathes* | Results , Splits , RG |
| 29 June | Balmedie* + BBQ | Results , Splits , RG |
| 6 July | Cheyne Hill | Results , Splits , RG |
| 13 July | Glen Dye | Results , Splits , RG |
| 20 July | Dunnottar | Results , Splits , RG |
| 27 July | No event (Welsh 5 days) | Gramps in Wales |
| 3 Aug | Back O’Bennachie | Results , Splits , RG |
| 10 Aug | Foggieton | Results , Splits , RG , Juniors |
| 17 Aug | Mulloch | Results , Splits , RG |
| 24 Aug | Templars Park + BBQ + PRIZE-GIVING! | RetrO Results , Overall |
Help us spread the word by printing off a copy of the flyer and putting it up on a notice board.
(In case you’re wondering, the photo was taken by Chris Spencer of ActivNorth.)
Overall results after 6 events.
Congrats to Jake Chapman and Sarah Dunn on a Maroc double win this year.
Hope you all enjoyed these short courses although I think maybe we need to choose our areas with care for next year as some were not really that sprinty.
And Balmedie wasn’t that foresty either I suppose!
April 13th Countesswells Results Splits
April 20th Sluie Results
April 27th Dunnottar Results Splits
May 4th Tillyfourie Results Splits
May 11th Balmedie Results Splits
May 18th Tillquhillie Results
Venue: Hazlehead Park NE
click here to see the course map.
Format: 45 minute score event, with “snooker-like” colour rules.
I hope you all enjoyed a splosh round Hazlehead at the HHH. Here are the results.
Congratulations to Adrian who was he only one to achieve the maximum score, with Katrina and Jeremy only one point behind.
I have been very strict about enforcing the rules. In particular, the final yellow – black sequence only scored after the twelve red + colour pairs had been visited. This did reduce some people’s scores quite a bit, but did not affect the top three places. Apologies if anyone feels aggrieved!
Thanks to Ian for helping to bring in controls.
Anne
Hard to tell whether the Lidar contours are drastically different to the old map as you tend to navigate by the BIG features in the dark so it will be interesting to try the new map out in the summer. Has Rob got any more mega-mapping projects up his sleeve I wonder?
Can you beat 68/70 in 165 seconds?
(all options selected, 3 multiple choice answers per question)
Congratulations to all our trophy winners!
Juniors: Josie Gomersall & Paul Caffyn
Seniors: Ewelina Szczeblewska & Mark Stockton
Veterans: Lesley Gomersall & Evgueni Chepelin
Super Veterans: Sonia Armitage & Rob Hickling
The trophies were presented at the AGM, although some recipients queried the results (Lesley G, “Are you sure?!”) If you weren’t there and think nobody else might have collected on your behalf then contact the Ian Hamilton asap.
2015 GRAMP Champs by age class.pdf
2015 GRAMP Champs by category (for trophies).pdf
For those of you who didn’t make it to the AGM, here’s a copy of the Chairman’s Report and the 2015 Roll of Honour and other awards.
A very wet but thankfully warm (OK – tepid) night and most folk got a real drooking half way round.
It was still raining so much by the time Helen finished that she drove 20m to the Chillimobile rather than get her spare dry clothes wet!
***UPDATE*** Amended Results Splits
Control 172 was incorrectly placed on the small hill ~30m NE of where it should have been.
I have therefore voided leg 4-5 on the Short and 8-9 on the Long as although everyone found it in the end it is obvious from the splits and RG that it caused those who read the map and contours correctly a lot of bother. I haven’t voided the subsequent leg though as the two sites are so close that it wouldn’t have affected navigation away from 172.
Apologies for this – I spent quite some time recce-ing that area when planning and can only put the misplacing on the day down to my brain still whirring away with work stuff following a very hectic morning and O-mode yet to fully kick in.
(Adrian – hereby strip you of the BE award and claim it for myself!!)
You know Rob told us about geo-referencing maps at the AGM? Well what can I say but WOW!?
Loading RG2 with the geo-referenced version of the GD map was so quick and easy in comparison to the old way. I can now see why Rob was so keen to treat himself the club to a GPS to do this!
A lovely bright day for a great dash round Tollohill, thanks to Ali for the great courses. The place was positively peppered with controls. Well done to those who braved the ‘no paths’ option. We hope you enjoyed your runs.
Results and Splits and Routegadget!
A few takers for the iO – but not a high success rate with some gadgets freezing, others the app stopped – we need to work on that. It won’t be replacing EMIT for a bit!
Hot off the press – results (revised 26/11/15) and splits. Routegadget now loaded too.
Interesting to see how you all coped with Pete’s long legs across those large areas of nothingness in a variety of different ways. Mine was to chicken out completely and refuse to run at all as my bearings are rubbish at the best of times, so you all have the moral high ground tonight. Bad luck to Rob for losing his magnifiers, I’ll ask Pete to look out for them when he’s collecting controls tomorrow.
Best of all was the reappearance of the Chillimobile! Hooray!
The last championship event of the year, the Scottish Score Orienteering championships, was held last Sunday 22nd November at Pitmedden Forest, Fife. The provisional results can be found are the KFO website here.
Gramp competitors ran well and came away with some excellent results:
In the associated Scottish Inter-Club competition, GRAMP was 3rd in the Large Clubs class, behind ESOC and RR. We beat FVO, TAY and Interlopers, despite having fewer counting competitors than each of those three clubs.
The trophies for the 2015 Compass-Point Scottish Orienteering League (SOL) were also presented at the event. Click here to find out the final SOL positions and GRAMP’s class winners.
So a great end to the year on the competition front.
Final rankings for John Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2015
Congratulations to everyone who took part in so many races this year and in particular to the following:
Morvern Farquharson 1st W10
Kirsty Farquharson 3rd W10
Josie Gomersall 2nd W14
Ailsa Anderson 3rd W14
Naomi Lang 3rd W16
Lachlan Kirk 3rd M16
Having “done” Venice, Barcelona and Rome in previous years, we looked at either Antwerp or Sevilla for our autumn City O Break this year and the lure of tapas, beautiful medieval streets and the chance to practice our Spanish again swung it. (Sorry, Antwerp!)
3 very different O races to help justify all that tapas – a Middle distance in spaghetti western territory on Saturday morning, a Night Sprint round a small but complicated city park on Saturday evening including a string of tricky controls in the multi-levelled buildings of the Plaza de Espana before dodging the horse-drawn carriages to reach the finish, and then the grand finale of an Urban around those beautiful medieval streets on Sunday morning where an early start was a distinct advantage before the pavement cafes started sprouting up and the “Pullmans” of touristas started clogging the pavements.
The 1st and 3rd race times were combined to give the placings for the overall Trofeo Sevilla O-Meeting and Pete gained his place on the podium as 3rd M50. As well as the certificate – a great cartoonish mix of flamenco dancer and O map by a local artist – he won 500ml of olive oil but sadly had to leave it behind as we only had hand luggage.
As Denise said last night: “Typical Crathes! Just when you think you know it…..”
Routegadget2 has been loaded up … please enter your routes here.
Here are the Results and Split Times for the local event held on Sunday 15th November, at Shooting Greens, near Feughside.
Enter your routes at our Routegadget2 website.
I’m afraid it was all rather “mizzly” – misty and drizzly … orienteering in the clouds! But fortunately it didn’t really rain and the complete lack of wind meant that it didn’t feel quite as cold as it might have. Anyway you seemed to have enjoyable runs.
My very grateful thanks to all my helpers: Anne, Paul, Jeremy, Chris, Margaret and Carolyn.
Special thanks to control collectors: Bill, Paul, Bob and Helen.
And our thanks to our neighbouring club, MAROC, for kindly loaning us Shooting Greens to use for this event, after the original venue (Raemoir) could not be used due to forestry work.
Yellow: 1.9km, 75m climb; an easy course with controls on (or very close to) paths.
Light Green: 2.7km, 125m climb; a medium-to-hard difficulty course, using the better runnability forest.
Short Blue: 4.6km, 175m climb; a hard course, with more climb and in parts tougher underfoot.
Organiser / Controller – Rob Hickling
Planner – Helen Rowlands
A belated congratulations (she only found out herself last weekend!) to GJO Morven Farquharson on winning the Northern Lights W10 Trophy for her run at Loch Vaa, back in early September, where she was the fastest W10 on the Yellow course in a time of 23:15.
Congratulations to David and Lachlan Kirk on their excellent 10th place on the C Course in this year’s OMM.
Quite a debut for an M16 (although we already knew that Lachlan can run the legs off anything!)
And thanks for the tip off and congratulations too to Mark Stockton and Urban Sprint newcomer, Chris Cowley, on their 11th place on the A.
The clocks have gone back and we have the Deeside Night Cup to illuminate your Wednesday evenings. First event was an introductory event at Hazlehead on Wednesday 28th October on a damp and rather misty evening. There were three courses:
Long Technical – 5.0km
Short Technical – 3.1 km
Orange – 2.8 km
Here are the Results and Splits.
See you all next Wednesday at Potarch, from 6pm, when the Deeside Night Cup scoring applies and the game is on!
To try and make best use of the darker nights, the DNC will start and finish a bit earlier than in previous years and also run closer to Xmas/New Year break to squeeze in a couple more. Helen Rowlands is the DNC Coordinator for GRAMP. We have planners for all the GRAMP events but if you think you can lend a hand at registration or by collecting controls she’d still like to hear from you. Contact her using this contact form.
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Two courses 3km and 5km at TD5/Green standard as far as possible. No concessions to the dark. There may also be an additional Orange in a couple of our less technical/scary areas for really junior Juniors and beginners to be able to have a go too. Check the details on the DNC blog.
28/10/2015 Hazlehead intro event
04/11/2015 MAROC Potarch
11/11/2015 Crathes
18/11/2015 MAROC Sluie
25/11/2015 Glen Dye part1
03/12/2016 MAROC Shooting Greens
09/12/2015 Glen Dye part2
16/12/2015 MAROC Balnagowan
23/12/2015 Balmedie
30/12/2015 MAROC Glen Tanar (cancelled)
06/01/2016 Tyrebagger
13/01/2016 MAROC Glen Tanar
20/01/2016 Forvie
27/01/2016 MAROC Bogendreip
03/02/2016 Scolty
10/02/2016 MAROC Dinnet North
17/02/2016 MAROC Torphantrick (fingers crossed and permissions TBC)
As this is a shared series, we operate a separate blog with full list of dates, venues, travel maps, final results and chat – DNC Blog. Once it kicks off in earnest check there rather than here for up to date details like snow reports.
There are 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!
He won’t thank me for telling you this (he’s very quiet and self-effacing) but we have a hero in our midst. He’s been regularly volunteering to get controls in after events for years and years but looks like he’s now started collecting competitors instead…..!
“Can you relay a thank you to Bob Daly who came upon me injured in the forest today and reported this to the controller? He then came back up to help carry me to a waiting car. I have a spiral fracture of the fibula in my right leg and a stitched right knee – the result of 2 separate mishaps! Please pass on my heartfelt thanks – I was so glad to see him in the forest! Regards Marjory Craig”
Our very own Rob Hickling helped Scotland to second place down in Wales over the weekend.
I haven’t had a chance to read the results in detail but did spot him doing very well in the individual M60 competition on Saturday chasing down fellow Scot and big rival Eddie Harwood to score 7 and 8 points respectively (top of the class basically!)
Full results can be found on the Mid Wales Orienteers website.
Maybe Rob will post a comment to this telling us all about how they mustered enough energy to run after an epic journey to reach the far side of Mid Wales?
Well done to GJOs Dara Tivendale, Morven Farquharson, Isobel Anderson, Kirsty Farquharson, Duncan Will, Douglas Walmsley, Mairi Walmsley and Alex Lang for holding it together at Wood of Easter Clune over the weekend and not being phased by stiff competition from Maroc and MOR.
They ran in courses varying from White to Light Green and for many this would have been their first taste of major competion. 264 points total gave them 3rd place overall and they also boosted their (JD)2C scores at the same time. An excellent day all round!
Wow! That was a blast! Never-ending route choices and plenty of twists and turns not to mention furkling in bushes and round the back of buildings in the dark towards the end. A big thank you to our guest planner, Janne, for cramming so much fun onto a piece of A4 paper.
Funny how many of us switched off mentally just after the map change and went charging past a control which was more or less on a straight line between two others. We were so clued in to left, right, double back, left again by that stage that a straight line must have seemed just too easy to our fuddled brains so we dismissed it.
Results Splits Overall points (best 3 of 5 results) Overall points by category
Overall joint winners of the Series and MOpen are Janne Heikkinen AUOC and Mark Stockton GRAMP with the maximum possible 150 points apiece. Mark managed to pull a win out of the hat at the last race to equal Janne’s tally, narrowly squeaking in with 10 seconds to spare over a certain Angel (I’m-not-feeling-too-good-I-probably-won’t-run-tonight) Iliev AUOC.
U16: Alex Lang GRAMP and Olivia Coman GRAMP
J: Jake Chapman MAROC (and no WJ runners)
Open: Janne Heikkinen AUOC/Mark Stockton GRAMP and Mikaela Kolistanikova AUOC
V: David Kirk GRAMP and Rachel Scott GRAMP
SV: Rob Hickiling GRAMP and Fiona/June/Fiona IND
Best Newcomers to orienteering: Kirsty Robson and Chris Cowley
If you didn’t pick up your prize last night, get in touch and we’ll arrange something – email Rachel on webmaster@grampoc.com.
Hope you enjoyed it all as much as I have and see you next Autumn?
Congratulations to the following GRAMPS on their SOL successes in 2015:
Rob Hickling 1st M60 (have a good one at the VHIs this weekend!)
George Esson 3rd M65S
Neil McLean 1st M70
Morven Farquharson 2nd W10
Kirsty Farquharson 3rd W10
Carolyn McLeod 1st W40L
Anne Hoy 3rd W55S
Anne Hickling 1st W60S
This pair of apes were spotted swinging through the canopy at Crathes this afternoon. There is a banana skin for the first person who can work out which Gramp members are in disguise.
Nice to see lots of new faces from AUOC. Bit of an in-at-the-deep end experience for some with 3km packed into the Hillhead area by using a double-sided map (although some old hands didn’t listen to that bit of the instructions…!) but some very good results none the less. That’s what young legs do for you *sigh!*
Results and Splits
Overall points – remember it’s your best 3 of 5 that count
Overall points by category – so you can see what you need to do next week to clinch victory
MV is the closest battle to watch – will Bob run too fast and make too many mistakes next week and let David Kirk through to claim one of those lavish prizes? And will Mark manage an outright win to equal Janne at the top of the MOpen leader board? (Janne has 50 points safely in the bag already by planning next week.)
I need to tidy up a few details like clubs and age classes too so if you’ve spotted a mistake then let me know now webmaster@grampoc.com.
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“That was quite good considering I don’t like pavements!”
Another convert to urban/sprint orienteering? Hope so.
Thanks to Rachel Salway and her team for rescuing no 12 from a bin later on during the race.
Better turn out than last year but still the least popular venue of the series and it looks like next year we’ll be forced to think about using somewhere else maybe due to the AWPR steaming through. Back to Balgownie proper maybe? Or Scotstown School map was mentioned.
A beautiful autumn morning for our event!
Click on the links to Final Results and Splits.
BOF ranking points (none for Brown as not enough Senior finishers)
Analyse your splits at Winsplits.
Trace your routes on the map at Routegadget.
Thanks very much to the officials:
Organiser: Helen Rowlands
Planner: Jonathan Smith
Controller: Sarah Dunn (MAROC)
and to all our helpers.
Wed 2th Sept Duthie Park and Ferryhill :- Results and split times
Wed 9th Sept Westburn and Victoria Parks :- Results and split times
Wed 16th Sept Balgownie Results and Splits
Wed 23rd Sept Seaton Park and Hillhead Results and Splits
Wed 30th Sept Aberdeen Uni Kings Campus Results Splits
Overall points (best 3 of 5 results) Overall points by category
Overall joint winners of the Series and MOpen are Janne Heikkinen AUOC and Mark Stockton GRAMP with the maximum possible 150 points apiece. Mark managed to pull a win out of the hat at the last race to equal Janne’s tally, narrowly squeaking in with 10 seconds to spare over a certain Angel (I’m-not-feeling-too-good-I-probably-won’t-run-tonight) Iliev AUOC.
U16: Alex Lang GRAMP and Olivia Coman GRAMP
J: Jake Chapman MAROC (and no WJ runners)
Open: Janne Heikkinen AUOC/Mark Stockton GRAMP and Mikaela Kolistanikova AUOC
V: David Kirk GRAMP and Rachel Scott GRAMP
SV: Rob Hickiling GRAMP and Fiona/June/Fiona IND
Best Newcomers to orienteering: Kirsty Robson and Chris Cowley
If you didn’t pick up your prize last night, get in touch and we’ll arrange something – email Rachel on webmaster@grampoc.com.
We’ll be awarding points again this year – winner gets 50, 2nd gets 47, 3rd gets 44, 4th gets 41 and then decreasing one point for each place thereafter.
1 point even if you mis-punch or don’t complete the course.
Don’t ask why but that’s the way it was decided to do it for the DNC so I’ve just followed suite!
Your best 3 results out of 5 count towards your overall total and could win you a lavish prize in one of these categories (loosely based on the SOUL system):
JU16 – Junior shadowed
J Junior
Open – any age class*
V Veteran 40+
SV Super Veteran 55+
UV Ultra Veteran 65+
*Let me know if you want to compete in the Open category otherwise I’ll put you in the category for your age class
Scores so far attached and I’ll try to update asap after each race. Rachel
Congratulations to everyone who achieved one of the summer series awards:
Gold:
Ailsa Anderson, Isobel Anderson, Paul Caffyn, Olivia Coman, Lachlan Kirk, Patrick Lang, Joe Wright, Keith Yardley
Silver:
Eilidh Campbell, Alex Lang, Duncan Will
Bronze:
Alistair Chapman, Jake Chapman, Heather Darby, Gideon Emerson, Amber Graham, Luke Graham, Naomi Lang, Abigail Mason, John Silver, Hannah Will
Anyone who didn’t collect their award at Templars should contact Anne to arrange to get it.
Keep on orienteering!
Thank-you everyone for coming along and giving Poker-O a go. I know it all sounded a bit daunting at the start “what, no map?!”, but I think all those brave enough to try it enjoyed themselves. Maybe even found a few delicious raspberries en-route? The medium course was very short (long story) – but packed in plenty of controls. Perhaps a warm up for the Urban Series starting next week at Duthie Park?
Results below – as complete as I can get them. I put the score brikkes through the download software so they counted the controls ‘properly’. Mostly!
I’ll leave the rules up in case you are still wondering what happened to you last night. Great to see the full age range of competitors; M2 – M80 (or is that the length of a traffic jam …). That’s what I love about orienteering.
That’s the summer series for another year. Thank-you for coming along and a special thanks to all the organisers on the front line ( planners) and all those working behind the scenes sorting permissions, GAC, equipment, BBQs, awards, maps, fixture lists, website info, controlling and welcoming new members. And if you have any ideas about changes/improvements to the series, please let someone from the committee know.
Poker-O
In the 40 minute time limit, visit as many controls as you can and build the best poker card hand.
Poker-O Scoring
For each control on score course: 10 points (total available 230 points)
For poker hands (see also this PDF of poker-o scores):
HAND POINTS
Royal Flush 200
Straight Flush 150
Five of a Kind* 120
Four of a Kind 100
Full House 80
Flush 60
Straight 50
Three of a Kind 40
Two Pairs 30
Pair 20
High Card 10
*Five of a Kind is not a normal poker hand, and is not illustrated on sheet, but is possible here because multiple packs of cards are being used.
Time penalties: minus 10 points for every minute or part thereof over 40 minutes.
Card penalties: minus 10 points for any lost cards.
There is no ranking of scores by card rank (eg a pair of Jacks has same value as a pair of 2’s).
Tied scores (sum of control, card and penalty points) are sorted by run time, faster time wins.
Enjoy!
Great result for Tim yesterday in a truly mind boggling race around the peaks on either side of Glen Coe. Part hill running, part scrambling, part Spider Manning his way round 30 odd km of brutal terrain in 7:55:09 and only 11 minutes behind the Skyrunning World Champion, Emelie Forsberg. (Don’t think he’ll mind being chicked in this case!)
Take a look the website http://www.glencoeskyline.com for a squiz at the race route and possibly photos soon but to give you a brief flavour: “The race route traverses high and remote mountainous terrain. Once committed to many sections of the race route it is impossible to retreat.” (Actually that last bit could equally apply to some of Day 5 of Highland 2015?) Followed by: “Our proposed route features long and sustained sections of scrambling terrain, which is roughly equivalent to moderate standard rock climbing. Be under no illusions that a slip or trip on these serious sections of the route could result in death.”
Ooer!
A wonderful evening had by all (thanks Jack), especially the runners who all arrived back just before the rain started for control collection!
With all the excitement of the World Champs, I haven’t forgotten our own gold, silver and bronze awards. Since one of this year’s summer events was cancelled (Tollo Hill), I’ve decided to reduce the qualification for the gold award to just 9 events. There are quite a few of you who could get to that if you come along to the last two!
Current standings are:
Gold:
Paul Caffyn
Silver:
Ailsa Anderson, Isobel Anderson, Olivia Coman, Lachlan Kirk, Patrick Lang, Duncan Will, Joe Wright, Keith Yardley
Bronze:
Alistair Chapman, Luke Graham, Alex Lang, Abigail Mason, John Silver, Hannah Will
Anne
Bit of a thin turn out again for Countesswells – folk still on hols? not recovered yet from 6 Days?
We did host a training session for the Junior regional Orienteering Squad though who traveled over from Templars Park, where they are having a training camp, to go round the Long Tech with a training twist. We’ve posted their times but not in with the other Long Techs as it’s probably not a valid comparison.
Only two more events left in the Summer Series – Scolty next week followed by templars Park plus BBQ the week after – everyone welcome, bring your own food and drink and we’ll provide the rest.
Ali Robertson leaping over one of Strathfarrar’s finest boggy bits.
(Photo by ActivNorth)
This may look impressive but is as nothing compared to the hoops Richard Oxlade and Anne Hickling have been jumping through on our behalf over the last two years in their respective roles as Highland 2015 Co-ordinator and Scottish Orienteering 6-Day Event Co. Ltd Chairman. A huge thank you to both of them for delivering another great 6 Days despite the added complications of dovetailing with WOC 2015.
Richard even found time to run 4 days of the 6 coming 49th in M55S which is even more impressive given what must have been churning through his mind rather than concentrating on the map.
Several other Gramps were drafted in to help on the Highland 2015 Central Organising Committee too: Kevin Reynard – Treasurer (not to mention his band of eager helpers back at his Counting House), Jayne MacGregor and Anne Hoy – Traders (free coffee and burgers as perks of that job), Anne Hickling again – Nairn Open Sprint Organiser and Rest Day Co-ordinator, Helen Rowlands – Website Updater and Routegadget Putter-upperer.
We also provided Planners for Day 4 in the shape of Ian Searle and Pete Lawrence (to fill gaps left by more experienced members of other clubs drafted in to plan WOC courses), David Esson was the Planner/Organiser for the MTBO on the rest day, Jonathan Smith for the Trail Run and of course all of us stepped up to the mark to deliver Day 1 in true well-organised Gramp style with help from orienteers from WCH, WIM, Goldseekers, SLOW and INVOC. Big thanks go to Adrian Will and Helen Anderson for being our Day Organisers, Ali Robertson as joint Planner with Fraser Purves of FVO and Neil McLean as Controller along with Roger Coombs MAROC.
Somewhere in amongst all that activity, about 70 Gramps, from M/W10 and less to W75, found time to run or hobble round most days and enjoy the best terrain that Scotland has to offer, not to mention some serious relaxation with great banter and camaraderie in the club tent and at the BBQ. We had one podium finisher in the overall results: congratulations to Kate Robertson on her 3rd place W35S.
(It seems traditional to provide some quirky stats in this kind of round up so I offer you this little curiosity to finish: the Red/Blue start list had ~3250 names on it, took up ~50 pages of A4 and weighed 280g.)
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The rain held off, and the hill warmed the tech runners up. Lots of fun had by all!
Next event in TWO weeks’ time: Countesswells, Wed 12 Aug 2015
Results from the Perwinnes Moss. Those who weren’t there missed a glorious evening of sunshine (and fantastic views from NE corner). The newly updated map was a joy to use … but perhaps mid July is not the best time of year for an event here, given the height of undergrowth! Many thanks to Chris, Margaret, Eilidh (9) and Rhuraidh (6) for setting it all up.
Perwinnes Moss Results 15-07-2015
Next week – Tollohill
Thank-you to everyone turning out last night, giving a good show for the Sports Minister, I hope you enjoyed your runs. My apologies to those on the long tech who got caught out by the control number change – as we don’t process the event fully with splits I can’t make any adjustments to times. Extra points to Heather who enjoyed it so much, she did two courses!
Thanks to all who helped out organising the car park, downloading and control collecting, all very much appreciated.
NEXT WEEK – 15 July – at Perwinnes Moss
Congratulations to Lachlan and Keith for taking their dads for a run round Coniston this weekend in the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon. Tricky control sites (some even missing) and poor visibility on Day1 all adding to the fun.
Keith and Dad 3rd in Wansfell class; Lachlan and Dad 13th in Harter Fell class; and congrats also to Jake and Dad (Maroc), 12th in Bedafell class.
Results from Cheyne Hill Summer Series event,Wednesday 24th June:
Clouds of midges provided added incentive to run fast!
Next week is at Glen Dye
Congratulations to all brave enough to defy the mind boggling, leg sapping, shoe filling dunes of Balmedie. I am glad to report that all returned and enjoyed a hearty BBQ afterwards. Many thanks to Ailsa for the courses and to Murray for sorting out the electronic gadgetry that was playing up … results HERE.
This event marked the final of the Grampian Adventure Challenge 2015 with the winners Maersk successfully defending their trophy. Well done everyone for tackling some tough courses! Don’t forget there is an event every Wed through the summer (except 5th August), everyone welcome.
Next event is Cheyne Hill near Stonehaven (tight for parking, so please car share as much as possible).
The weather must have brought out the crowds as John was out of all maps by the end of the evening with quite a few new people turning up and giving it a go. Nobody managed to fall in the ditch on the long and short tech but many got caught out by the fence around the large grass area on the way to the four controls to the South of the main park. And in spite of one control going missing for a while it was found so all kit handed to the Andersons for next week.
Apologies to those who tried to go to the car park on the old road out to Countesswells Road. I have now moved the marker on the map ready for next year. Note to future SS planners – please follow the link from the SS series for your event and shout me now if it shows the wrong place by emailing webmaster@grampoc.com.
Next event is at Balmedie 17/6/15 followed by a BBQ and the GAC Big Reveal/Prize Giving. Everyone welcome, we’ll provide fuel, you just need to bring food and drink and some money for *****CAKE***** Thought that might grab your attention…..
Needing a post BBQ treat? Naomi will be raising money for her World Challenge trip to Vietnam and Cambodia in summer 2016 by selling cakes and fresh lemonade at Balmedie on Wednesday. Make sure you run hard in those dunes and are suitably hungry and thirsty!
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Here are the results and splits for today’s race at Back O’ Bennachie:
Splitsbrowser will be loaded up shortly.
Thanks very much to all the helpers, and well done to those who conquered the hill.
New area, new map – pics attached for a flavour come courtesy of planner, David Esson, the cheerful looking chap on the right enjoying his control site checking. (It’s tough but someone has to do it.)
Courses on offer:
White 1.9k 90m
Yellow 2.5k 90m
Orange 2.8k 90m
Lt Green 2.7k 115m
Green 3.4k 125m
Blue 4.6k 240m
Brown 6.3k 290m
Planner: David Esson
Organiser: Ian Hamilton (hero of the hour – thanks for stepping in)
Controller: George Esson
Here are the results for Wednesday’s event at Crathes. Thanks to Team Anderson for braving the midges long enough to count us all out and count us all in.
Nettles or midges? Which is worse?!
Knees and shins stopped tingling yet from the stingers? I’m told nettles are good for osteo arthritis but don’t think it works in a preventative way unfortunately so unless you’re unlucky enough to already be suffering then last night’s exposure won’t have counted for anything – apart from hard-earned GAC points of course.
The Long Tech course was replaced by an ‘Aberdonian Linear’ which entailed as many loops of a 2.4km course as possible in 45 mins but forfeit all points if over the time limit.
****UPDATE**** Those stingers are famous BTW – used by Nick Nairn on Landward this week to create a Scottish pesto along with the ramsons (wild garlic). Some lovely shots of Dunnottar Woods in the sunshine.
GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS 