Hazlehead SS Results 10/6/15

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.

Results

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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Back O’Bennachie 7th June 15 Results

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Here are the results and splits for today’s race at Back O’ Bennachie:

Results.   Splits.

Winsplits   Routegadget

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

 

Crathes SS 3/6/15 Results

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?!

Crathes Results 150603.pdf

Dunnottar Woods Summer Series 27/5/15 Results

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.

Results

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.

 

Scottish Championships 2015

A small but determined contingent of Gramps travelled across to EckoLand for the Scottish Championships 23rd/24th May and gained several podium finishes between them:

1st
17+ Points Relay Class: Gramp One aka Carolyn and Iain McLeod and Bob Daly (Woohoo!)
W21S Individual: Heather Hale (Woohoo too!)

2nd
W50L Carolyn McLeod
W55S Anne Hoy
M50S Richard Oxlade

3rd
W55S Sonia Armitage
W60S Anne Hickling
M60L Rob Hickling

 

Tyrebagger Summer Series 20/5/15 Results

Round 2 of the GAC posed a bit more of a challenge with much rougher terrain and more intricate navigation required for some controls (“that tree!”) but, hey, that’s the whole point of the Challenge!

Well done to all who got round and thanks to the walking wounded who helped collect controls, Bob Daly and Matt Parkes. (Hope the leg holds good for the Scottish Champs, Bob, and good luck to all GRAMPS going across west for that.)

Results

1 Red squirrel spotted while out hanging controls – keep your eyes peeled folks & report your sightings, red or grey, dead or alive, here. And nowhere near as cute but still wildlife I suppose, the midges were pretty active so future organisers might want to add some Smidge to the organiser’s box of useful things?

O map symbols and control descriptions explained

Prompted by a good bit of feedback from a beginner regarding the lack of a legend on the Tyrebagger map (sorry about that) here is a useful link to a page explaining map symbols and control descriptions:

Map symbols and control descriptions explained

(NB these are for forest maps. There is a different set for urban maps with additional symbols for things like steps and underpasses.)

TIP There’s a lot to take in on that page so concentrate on the basics…

Map symbols – concentrate on the linear features first:
-paths, tracks
– streams, ditches
– fences and walls

Once you get more confident and start to go “off piste”:
– start to read the contours (ask at Registration for a quick lesson if you find this hard at first)
– use the vegetation information to avoid the thickest trees and bracken and boggiest marshy bits

Control descriptions – concentrate on the symbols described as being in Column D:
– paths, tracks
– streams, ditches
– fences, walls
And the symbols in Column F:
– crossing
– junction

Got those sussed? Good. Now add the symbols for the following to your control symbol vocabulary as these are often used on easier courses where they pop up next to linear features:
– boulder
– gate
– pond
– depression (small hole in the ground)
– building
– bridge
– knoll (very small hill)

Worry about the rest later when you get onto the medium/harder courses – looks like loads when you look at that Maprunner page but you’ll only need about a quarter of what’s shown. And if you don’t recognise a control description just ask at Registration or go on a mystery tour and see what you find when you get there!

Forest Sprint 2015 – AUOC double

Congrats to Janne Heikkinen and Angel Iliev of AUOC for gaining the top two slots this year closely followed by Bob Daly GRAMP. Maroc’s Joe Wright and Abi Mason take the Junior honours.

Full results can be found on the Maroc website or here (pdf).

Foggieton SS 13/5/15 Results

Thanks to Jonathan for a great start to the series with fabulous weather too. Great to see so many new and old faces. Thanks for coming, and spread the word!

Some close results on the easy course – Duncan and Olivia only a few seconds apart they will need to pat close attention in the training sessions to keep that up … Well done also to Mark Stockton for the winning time on long course, even with most the map missing.

Results here (Grampian Activity Challenge results to follow … too complicated for a mere mortal like me)

See you all at Tyrebagger next week.

Scotly Forest Sprint 8/5/15 Results

Thanks to everyone who came to the event at Scolty on Friday.  The weather held fair and there was no mention of exit polls during the post event analysis.  Well done to  MAROC’s Jo Wright who narrowly beat AUOC’s flying Finn Janne Heikkinen.

The leader after 5 events is Bob Daly (Gramp) 5 points ahead of AUOC’s Janne Heikkinen.  Leading junior is MAROC’s Jo Wright.   Abigail Mason of MAROC is the leading female junior and also leads the women’s class ahead of AUOC’s Michaela Kolistanikova.

The final event of this series is next Friday (15th) at Dess.

Results on Forest Sprint post

CompassPoint SOL4 – Glen Dye – 3rd May

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The fabulous Glen Dye area was the setting for CompassPoint SOL4

As you’ll have noticed, there was not much dappled sunshine flowing between the trees (as in the photo) … something was flowing all right, but the wet stuff not the sunshine. Congratulations and thanks to you all for participating and helping in such drenching conditions.
Results are now finalised:

Results by Courses
Splits by Course
Results by Age Class
Splits by Age Class

Here’s the links to Winsplits, Splitsbrowser and to Routegadget.
And BOF results with Ranking Points
Pre-O

Here are the Pre-O results and course solution sheet. Well done to the four people who had all four correct answers!

(N.B. On the solution sheet:- Z controls were those where no kite was correctly placed, and the solution sheet indicates where a correctly-placed kite would have been placed by “Z”).

Final Details

Tollohill Forest Sprint Fri 24-4-15 Results

Results
Overall results after 3 events

Congratulations to Keith Yardley for taking on a Sprint as his first go at planning – plenty of controls and twists and turns saw us all stopping dead at one point or another asking “Which path am I on? Where was I going?”

Lost property – pair of trainers left in the back of Rachel’s car – email me on flump@care4free.net to arrange where and when to hand them back please.

Forest Sprint – Tollohill – 24/04/15 – Results

Thanks to all who came along, hope you enjoyed it, even those who came from Balmy Banchory to the Haberdeen Haar. Congratulations to Janne for a flying run.

Results
Splits

Keith Y

Grampian Orienteers help CNR to victory in the ActivityMix CD Urban Navigation

Rachel Scott and Kate Robertson helped Team CNR to victory today in the ActivityMix Corporate Decathlon Urban Navigation event. Although as it all took place within a very small and well-known area of central Aberdeen there was very little navigation involved unless you count the navigation through Google and Yahoo pages to find the answers to some of the questions as it was part treasure hunt, part pub quiz on the run and a little bit of selfie-ing, sometimes with the help of bemused but willing passersby up for a bit of fun.

Interesting concept – each team was issued with an iPhone running an app that showed a map of central Aberdeen marked with ~40 locations where questions could be found or instructions for selfies taken doing certain things.
Questions were worth 10, 20 or 30 points with half points value awarded if you used the Hint button and penalties if you were late back. Basically a 2 hour Score but with many technological twists.

As you got close enough to a question location and entered the small GPS hotspot around it, the app would pick up on it and then allow you to access the question but only while close enough to that hotspot. Answers were entered and submitted electronically and you instantly got feedback whether you’d got it right or not. There were also a couple of mystery questions whose locations weren’t marked but which popped up on the screen as you happened to pass the GPS hotspot to trigger them.

Wonder what the app was? Could we use it, or something similar, to put on urban POCs?
Which reminds me – I saw an ad in CompassSport for The iOrienteering App. Anyone got an iPhone and some time to spare to try it out?

Forest Sprint Countesswells 10/4/15 Results

Thanks to Team Esson headed up by David for tonight’s dash round Countesswells. Good to see lots of new faces – hope you enjoyed your intro to the sport and we’ll see you at Tillifourie next Friday.

Roger Coombs of Maroc will be doing the Forest Sprint League points again this year. Your best 4 scores out of the 6 races will count towards your total. Bit early to call as yet but keep an eye on Alex Maclachlan who won last year and was the person doing a bit of informal coaching tonight.

FS Countesswells Results.pdf

FS Countesswells Splits.pdf

JK2015 – 2 GRAMPs on the podium

Congrats to Pete Lawrence and Anne Hickling for their 3rd places overall on M50S and W60S respectively after 2 days of tough and intricate orienteering in the Lake District.

Steep, rocky, muddy hillsides really sorted the sheep from the mountain goats. It was all too tempting to follow the muddy trods along the path of least resistance even though your brain was saying you needed to keep higher and really concentrate on ticking off the features.

Anne also found the energy and brain power to compete in the Temp O and Pre-O competitions narrowly missing a top 10 finish in the latter.

  Photo by Claro Orienteer (Flickr)

Grampian Adventure Challenge 2016

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Shell Shearwater are this year’s well deserved champions. Congratulations!

 

Final Scores

Top 3 women’s and top 3 men’s scores make up the score for the night. The series result is based on the team’s best 4 events. Individual totals are also based on your best 4 scores.

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Compass Sport Cup 2015 Results

CSC BalnagowanJust over 30 GRAMP members enjoyed a beautiful sunny day at Balnagowan on Sunday.
Full results are on the MAROC website http://www.marocscotland.org.uk/

In the club competition the result was close but GRAMP came 3rd, just behind much larger teams from FVO and ESOC.

Special mention should be made of Jonathan Smith, who inadvertently entered the Brown course. When he suggested changing to a more amenable course had his arm gently twisted to stick with Brown in the interests of ensuring a full complement of GRAMP entries. He completed the course and gained 92 points for GRAMP.

Photo by ActivNorth

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2015

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAFinal rankings

Rules and events list below.  Any questions? Contact Trevor Ricketts of MAROC or Marianne Lang of GRAMP or ask at an event.

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!

In case you didn’t already know, 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!)

Rules

The (JD)2C competition will be run over 10 x Level C events with the best 6 (TBC) scores counting for each runner.

There will be 6 classes for girls and boys, using the ‘standard’ age classes, i.e. M/W8, M/W10, M/W12, M/W14, M/W16.

Within each event, the Gramp/Maroc Junior who is highest placed for each course scores the maximum course points:
White 200
Yellow 300
Orange 400
Light Green 500
Green 600
Blue 700
Brown 800

Points for subsequent runners are calculated using this formula:
score = [(winner’s time)/(runner’s time)]*(maximum course points)

Every effort will be made to provide a White course at each event. However, if this is not possible, the JDC organisers will review how many events will qualify for the M8 and W8 classes

If you are being shadowed or running in a pair, please declare this when you register. You will score half points for your run

The competition aims to find the best Gramp / Maroc junior in each age class. Juniors may choose the course appropriate to their ability.

Counting events
11th Jan   Glen O’Dee
26th Feb   Crathes
3rd May   Glen Dye
17th May  Bogendriep
7th June   Back O’Bennachie
17th May   Potarch
23rd Aug   Birsemore
13th Sep    Scolty
4th Oct      Easter Clune
14th Nov   Raemoir

Check the clubs’ websites closer to each event for details and entries links.

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Grampian Adventure Challenge 2015

have you gotMaersk successfully defended their winners trophy in 2015.
Well done everyone for tackling some tough courses!

Final scores.

Points are awarded depending on finish position to the 1st three females and males in your team and the best 4 team results out of the 6 will count towards your team total. Trophies for first 3 teams and first 3 individuals from the series.

Email: GAC@grampoc.com

 

 

DNC Mini Night Cup 14/15 successes

(It’s not often I get to put my own name up in lights so I’m going to enjoy this while it lasts….!)

Congrats to Helen Rowlands and Rachel Scott for winning 1st and 2nd Female in this year’s Mini Deeside Night Cup (aka the Short course). Chocolatey prizes featured largely and also vouchers from Field & Trek in Aboyne so thanks to them for their support for the DNC this year.

Lots of other Gramp DNC regulars took part and good to see a couple of our Juniors, Lachlan Kirk and Paul Caffyn, taking on the challenge and no doubt you’ll see the results in their day time orienteering this year as it seems to be what really boosts the Maroc Juniors’ performance.

At the curry and prize giving, Jon M mentioned that maybe next season we might try putting on an Orange course for Juniors and beginners to try and boost the DNC numbers as they seem to have stayed around the 30+ runners/event mark for quite a while now. MOR have put on a few more lowkey night O events recently which have proved very popular with families and beginners so the precedent has been set.

What do you think – would you be tempted to come out and enjoy the fun if there was an Orange on offer?

Forest Sprint Series 2015 Fridays 10th April to 15th May

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.

April 10th  Countesswells GRAMP  Results  Splits
April 17th   Tilliefourie MAROC  Results and splits
April 24th  Tollohill GRAMP  Results  Splits
May 1st      Tilqhuillie MAROC  Results and splits
May 8th     Scolty GRAMP Results
May 15th   Dess MAROC  Results

Overall results

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, £2.50 Junior/Student For a poster to display at work or wave under the noses of interested friends and tempt them along click here. .

Scolty DNC 25/2/15 Results

Here are the provisional results from tonight. Thanks to David for some very fast almost sprint-style courses in the northern part of the forest which tempted you to overshoot while enjoying the runnable terrain.

2015-2-25-ScoltyDNC Splits.pdf
2015-2-25-ScoltyDNCResults.pdf  Revised to void the legs on either side of No 4

Apologies from the planner for placing No 4 on the wrong boulder – although the control was visible from the right boulder if you did a lighthouse impression. He’s revised the results to void the legs either side of No 4 to compensate.

Summer Series 2015

Summer Series events – fun friendly events with something for everyone on Wed 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.
Starts  6-7pm, courses close 8pm (tbc). Seniors £3, students/juniors £1

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13th May     Foggieton*               Results
20th May     Tyrebagger*             Results
27st May      Dunnottar*                Results   
3rd June      Crathes*                   Results
10th June    Hazlehead*              Results 
17th June    Balmedie* + BBQ     Results
24th June    Cheyne Hill              Results 
1st July       Glen Dye                  Results
8th July       Mulloch                         Results               
15th July     Perwinnes Moss       Results
22nd July    Tollo Hill        –CANCELLED —
29th July     Bennachie                Results
5th Aug       No event – all at WOC/Scottish 6 Days
12th Aug     Countesswells          Results
19th Aug     Scolty                            Results
26th Aug     Templars Park + BBQ    Results

…and then on to the Urban Series   Results

Guide to O map symbols and control descriptions

Junior Attendance Awards
The more events you attend, the higher the award you’ll get. 3 for Bronze, 6 for Silver, 10 for Gold.

have you got*This year, the Summer Series incorporates the Grampian Adventure Challenge for teams of 8 at the venues marked by an asterisk.
Check the GAC post for results and comments and contact email.

Please help promote the Summer Series by displaying this poster somewhere and/or talking to your friends about it. It’s the ideal intro to orienteering and a great family thing to do.

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Crathes Level C colour coded event – 22 Feb 2015

Crathes 22Feb15 Results   Crathes 22Feb15 Splits    BOF results pages c/w ranking points

Draw your routes at Routegadget2 here.
Analyse your split times at Winsplits here.

Many thanks to all the helpers for their labours in the cold sleety weather.

Courses
Brown   7.4 km  – very hard
Blue      5.6 km   – very hard
Green   4.3 km   – very hard
Light Green 3.0 km  – hard
Orange  2.5 km  – medium
Yellow   1.8 km  – easy
White    1.2 km  – very easy

GRAMP CHAMPS and (JD)2C event
Emit timing

Officials
Organiser: Gareth Yardley
Planner: Sam Gomersall
Controller: Steve Spencer

Glen Dye DNC 11th Feb results

A beautiful clear, cold evening, about -2 degrees, no wind, no moon, wonderful star-gazing weather!

A good entry enjoyed some of the faster terrain in Glen Dye.  The long course descended down through the heather slopes of the western semi-open/rough open moorland.  First time it’s been used at night we think.

Results are on the DNC website.

Forvie DNC 28/1/15 Results

The event details read: “some genuine TD5+ with absolutely no paths, very few natural line features and acres of dunes to perambulate through”.

I’ll admit to finding the prospect of all that a wee bit scary (being incapable of holding a bearing for more than 20m on a good day) but it was great fun trying to alternately de-clutter and find a relatively safe line through/round so much detail and then trying to tune back into the detail to get to the right depression amongst hundreds of contenders. Great night out, thanks Ian.

2015-1-28 ForvieDNC.pdf
ForvieDNC Splits.pdf

Scolty Score – 18/01/2015

Here are the Results and Splits for today’s event at Scolty:

Score Results    Score Splits

White Results    White Splits

Routegadget has now been loaded up for the Score classes, so please put up your routes!  Just click here.

Congratulations to Mark Stockton who showed us all how it should be done.

Route Mark Stockton

Comments on your punching at the Start and the Finish:

Several of you are not very good at it !

– Quite a few failed to punch the Start.  This would normally disqualify you.  However we have been generous and estimated your start times based on your first control punch time.

– A couple of you failed to punch at the Finish.  This would also normally disqualify you.  However we have been generous and used your download time as your finish time.

If you’re unsure how to use the Emit timing chip provided to you, please ask at Registration.

Today’s Courses:

White – 1.7 km linear course (collect controls in specified order, no route choice) all on paths but unsuitable for buggies.

Short Score
45 minutes time limit. Penalties: 5 points deducted for every minute (or part) over time limit
Controls are all worth 10 points each
Straight line route length to collect all controls approx 3.5km

Long Score
75 minutes time limit. 10 points deducted for every minute (or part) over time limit.
Controls have different point values (10 and 20)
Straight line route length to collect all controls approx 8km but will require navigation at TD5 level to achieve

Balmedie DNC 14/1/15 Results

Turned into a real wild, wet and windy night although most of us managed to get round before it really set in. Commiserations to John for having to earn his 50 planner’s points the really hard way collecting in! Just when I thought I was getting to know Balmedie in the dark well enough to relax a bit, John caught me out with some tricky controls on knolls where if you turned your torch away at the wrong moment you ran straight past. Aagh! Must get the distance judgement thing sussed.

Ice rink in the car park added to the fun but what I really wish I’d seen was the chillimobile squeezing between the posts guarding the entrance to the car park. Are they still there I wonder?

20150114 Balmedie DNC Results.pdf
20150114 Balmedie DNC Splits.pdf

GRAMPOCALYPSE @ Dunnottar Woods HHH 2015 Results

Thanks to everyone who turned out to help disinfect Dunnottar Woods – due to your heroic efforts the woods are now officially clear of Mank-O and the good citizens of Stoney can walk their dogs safely again. Thanks to Pete and Ian S for control wrangling for me, Ali and Kate for hosting the social afterwards and not least Judith Anderson for some amazingly evil looking spore cakes (seems Mank-O actually tastes quite good as they were ‘cleared’ very fast.)

Good to see our local guest runners having such a blast on the Yellow that they wanted a bash at the ‘big’ course too and we ended up with a sort of impromptu Score course going on as well. (Psst! There’s another Score course coming up at Scolty on Sunday Jan 18th, more details on the website soon.)

Congratulations to Mark and Ali for battling it out to get maximum tallies on the Spore course. They both took different approaches so for interest I’ve mocked up their ‘routes’ and also added my best shot (admittedly planned from my armchair although I did test run it) which was different again.
Several folk seemed to lose the power of mental arithmetic halfway through and incurred penalties for going over the 125 spore limit for their second or third batch of locations but then got back into the groove again to finish. Or maybe their oxygen starved brains flipped the even = 25 / odd = 50 for a while and then flipped back as they started to recover?
I’m sure there’s a psychologist out there who would have a field day with all that data once they’d finished analysing my imagination.

Rachel

2015-01-02 GRAMPOCALYPSE @ Dunnottar Woods Spore Overall Results.pdf
2015-01-02 GRAMPOCALYPSE @ Dunnottar Woods Spore Splits.pdf
2015-01-02 GRAMPOCALYPSE @ Dunnottar Woods Yellow Results.pdf
GRAMPOCALYPSE Spore planner best shot.pdf
GRAMPOCALYPSE Spore Mark control sequence.pdf
GRAMPOCALYPSE Spore Ali control sequence.pdf

2014 Chairman’s Report and Roll of Honour

For those of you who didn’t make it to the AGM, here’s a copy of the Chairman’s Report and the 2014 Roll of Honour and other awards.
Don’t forget that Ian H is still waiting for your contributions to the 2014 Yearbook to add a little colour to this list of achievements so get scribbling!!

2014 GRAMP Roll of Honour and other awards.pdf
Chairmans report 2014.pdf

Raemoir DNC 17/12/2014

Many thanks to all those who turned up for event at Raemoir, to Gareth for the challenging courses, and the hosptality of the Raemoir Hotel (including a heater!).

Raemoir Results

Raemoir Splits

 

GRAMP Champs 2014

Congratulations to all our trophy winners!

Juniors: Naomi Lang & Sasha Chepelin
Seniors: Jen Hickling & Mark Stockton
Veterans: Helen Rowlands & Sam Gomersall
Super Veterans: Oonagh Grassie & Rob Hickling

The trophies were presented at the AGM when Iain McLeod unveiled the new category of Super Vets (55+) to reflect our membership age range these days.

(In a nice gesture, Carolyn took pity on the engraver and declared herself non-comp this year in order that somebody else’s name might appear on the plate for a change!)

2014 GRAMP Champs by age class.pdf
2014 GRAMP Champs by category (for trophies).pdf

Countesswells Score event results – 7th Dec 2014

Countesswells woods was looking pretty as a picture in the winter sunshine, with a dusting of snow which fell in the small hours.  It was a bit muddy underfoot on some of the paths, but otherwise faster running than in the summer when the bracken is up.  Several of you sped round the controls at low mins/km.

Here is the Score Course map.
Score Results and Splits
Yellow course results

Here are maps showing the routes taken by the top three in each of the score categories:

65 mins class:
Route Mark Stockton   Route Alex MacLachlan   Route Sam Gomersall

35 mins class:
Route Naomi Lang   Route John Lang   Route Josie Gomersall

Thanks to Dave Kirk for planning and organising the event.  Also appreciation for Ian Searle for manning the computer, latterly with frozen fingers and toes.   We hope you noticed the new score splits printouts – we were using brand new timing and points calculation software for the first time.  This seemed to go okay, and you’ll see it in action twice more at score events in January.

Countesswells DNC 3/12/14

A good twirl round a frosty forest followed by hot soup and chilli. Can’t beat it.

2014-12-03 Countesswells DNC Splits.pdf
2014-12-03 Countesswells DNC.PDF     (corrected with Joe Wright on Long)

Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup 2014

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIt’s all over for this year – Final Results and Trophy/Medal Winners.

Congratulations to Maya Reynard on winning W10 and Hannah Will, Morvern Farquharson, Isobel Anderson, Naomi Lang, Daniel Smith, Paul Caffyn and Lachlan Kirk on winning medals too.

Shadowing is shown in the results tables by the number being in italics.  If you notice an incorrect record of shadowing at any event in the results,  please contact Trevor Ricketts to correct using this contact form.

 

GRAMP SOL Champions 2014 and SEDS call ups for 2015

Congratulations to these GRAMPs who have been crowned SOL Class Winners for 2014:

W10B Morvern Farqhuarson
W40L Carolyn McLeod
W55S Oonagh Grassie
M18 Sasha Chepelin
M21L Gordon Hale
M35S David Esson
M60L Rob Hickling
M70L Neil McLean

And congratulations too to Tim Gomersall, Katrina McLeod and Calum McLeod on receiving their call up papers for the Scottish Elite Development Squad Development Tier for 2015.

This means they get the chance to train with the best of the best and who knows, we might be cheering them on in future WOCs?! Go for it, guys!

DNC 2014 Hazlehead warm up – results

Many apologies for the delay, Sam had to get the Sleeper to London immediately after the event and just back now. Dedication, eh?
There are a couple of names that only ever seem to run at night. I think they may be vampires?

DNC 2014 Hazlehead 19-11-14 Results.pdf

GMC 2014 – a keek behind the scenes both ways….

Non-runners – to see what the runners got up to, take a look at Routegadget (too difficult and time consuming to get a more accurate bit for the O section but it was really the hill section that had the big route choices so we’ve chosen to get that bit as good as poss.)

Runners – this is what some of the non-runners got up to…

the waiters BA small overnight bag or two B

 

OMM congratulations….

….to Tim Gomersall and Anna Wells 2nd Mixed Pair and 6th Overall on the B
Mark Stockton and Chris Cowley* 15th on the A

(*not a GRAMP member yet but I’m sure Mark gave him the hard sell to pass the time overnight!!)

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Deeside Night Cup 14/15

For a full list of dates, venues, travel maps, final results and chat for the 2014/15 DNC take a look at the DNC Blog.

There are 2 courses of about 5k for the DNC and 3k for the DN(mini)C, both TD5 or Green standard so if you’re a beginner not yet confident of doing a Green alone then we’ll have to try and find you an experienced running partner (it’s only fair on the planners not to have to wait for hours trying to decide whether to call out the Rescue for you!)

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!
Helen Rowlands is the GRAMP half of the DNC co-ordinating team.  Contact her using this contact form.

Forvie 19/10/14 – Race the Castles, SHI Relays and Northern Lights

Race the Castles and SHI Relays Full results can be found on the RtC website.
Congrats to Carolyn McLeod on second in W40 (Queen of the Castle-in-waiting?) and to our Organiser Jayne MacGregor and Planner Ian Searle for all their hard work at Forvie. I’m told that you can barely see the run-in track a couple of weeks later let alone any evidence out in the dunes that so many people enjoyed such a great day.

Northern lights 2014 Forvie (open to all SOA club members)
M10 Yellow David Spencer MOR
W10 Yellow Kirsten Robertson CLYDE
M12 Orange Matthew Gooch MAROC
W12 Orange Alice Wilson CLYDE
M14 Lt Green Jo Wright MAROC
W14 Lt Green Naomi Lang GRAMP
M16 Blue Ross McMurtrie MAROC
W16 Green Grace Molloy FVO (W14)
M18 Brown Andrew Barr MOR
W18 Blue Sarah Jones EUOC
M21 Brown Not awarded W21 Sh Brown Not awarded
M35 Brown Not awarded W35 Blue Not awarded

Pitgavenie Cup (Most deserving North Junior on the day)
Ewan Musgrave MAROC (M10 2nd on Orange)

Contours Trophy (most deserving North Veteran 40+ on the day)
David Weir MOR M50 Brown

Apologies for the abortive attempt to hold the Northern Lights prizegiving on the day armed with an incomplete set of results. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but at the time we thought the Juniors would be keen to know who’d won and we didn’t want to disappoint those who’d stayed on – thanks for your patience. Some of the trophies are on their way south to the upcoming ScotJOS weekend for onpass to the southern area clubs.

Event Photography Lots of fantastic photos from Forvie now on Chris Spencer’s website Activnorth

Lost Property (from all RtC events that all ended up at Forvie)
Claims to Jayne.macgregor@outlook.comForvie lost property.png

  • Large red metal thermos
  • Large blue ‘Maxim’ water bottle
  • Magnifier with red cord
  • Thumb compass
  • Kids black Mountainlife top
  • Kids black Helly Hansen anorak
  • Navy & red Saucony jacket
  • Navy Scottish Schools hoodie
  • Large black Adidas Fleece
  • Pair black Craft gloves
  • Pair spectacles
  • Vapro control description holder
  • Small Canon battery pack (grey)
  • Goody bag (left in Edinburgh) containing pair of INDY trainers and black Trekmates top

Thanks to all the competitors who not only left the assembly field in pristine condition but helped raise £700 to go towards the cost of sending the Banchory Schools team to the World Schools 2015 in Turkey. A further £250 will be donated to local cancer charity UCAN at the request of the farmer for the use of the parking and assembly fields.

Some King of The Castles prizes still to be awarded, if you think you qualified (first 3 in each of the standard classes), email Jayne.macgregor@outlook.com to arrange collection.

If anyone knows who should have custody of the Home Internationals Nations country flags also email Jayne.macgregor@outlook.com

String Course Results

Forvie String Course results

Race The Castles

sashaRtC Part 1: From the serious athlete having fun pitting himself against the world’s elite to someone just having serious fun, all the Gramps who travelled down to Edinburgh and Stirling over the weekend had a great time in the urban legs of RtC. Sasha is collecting international scalps like there’s no tomorrow especially with a stormer at Stirling coming 20th – the results list reads Denmark, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Scotland, Scotland… Norway…. Belgium…. Italy….. GRAMP. Looks great!!

Carolyn McLeod is also doing really well currently lying 4th overall in Womens Vets and she almost admitted to enjoying the urban orienteering! Let’s see what she can do in her preferred terrain this weekend. (No pressure, Carolyn! Good luck!)

mePhotos here are courtesy of Crawford Lindsay ESOC and Wendy Carlisle AIRE. Click on their names to see more photos of GRAMPs in action (plus a couple of familiar EUOC defectors).

RtC Part 2: Big thanks to the clubs involved down south for kicking RtC off in style and we look forward to welcoming everyone up north soon for Balmoral and Forvie.

Forvie – Final Details (Bulletin 2)       Start Times on Fabian 4
Results will be posted on the RtC website.

 

 

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SOA win JIRCs – Sasha mentioned in despatches

JROS logo

 

 

Well done to the SOA Team who travelled down to the Lake District to compete in the Junior Inter Regional Champs and won by a very close 5 points over NWOA. Nopesport reports that Sasha and another competitor stopped to help someone with a dislocated shoulder but that Sasha still went on to win.

Photos and more photos from Rob Lines. (I’m just away to buy shares in face paint!)

Aberdeen Uni Autumn Urban Sprint 1/10/14 Results

Wow! AUOC are really going from strength to strength with 11 runners and Janne busy coaching and encouraging after putting out controls as tonight’s planner. A great wee course making good use of the complex alleyways and extra vertical dimension offered by Aberdeen Uni which foxed many scouting round at the bottom of steps instead of looking up!

Unfortunately, somebody took a shine to one of the controls and early runner Carolyn McLeod got waylaid searching in bushes for it before coming back to report it. Fortunately we managed to replace it in time so that only Iain McLeod was similarly affected. Although technically missing a punch, I’ve reinstated their results (which are eerily exactly the same to the second). If anyone in AUOC hears anything on the grapevine about where our control might have got to please ask for it back. Ta.

Rob Hickling suffered a brikke failure and doesn’t appear to have self-timed so at present isn’t included in the finishers but if he has a time I’m sure he’ll let me know.

2014-10-01AberdeenUniUrbanSprintResults.pdf
2014-10-01AberdeenUniUrbanSprintSplits.pdf

Overall points 2014 (best 3 of 5 to count)
Overall points 2014 by category

Due to tonight’s monster turnout, some folk sadly don’t get any points as they go 30, 27, 24, 21, 20….
I can’t really change the points system for tonight’s event as that wouldn’t be fair on everyone but I have made a note to start much higher next year.

Congratulations to the category winners:
WU16  Naomi Lang  MU16  Lachlan Kirk
WJ  Jennifer Ricketts MAROC   MJ  Jack Gomersall and Angel Iliev AUOC
WS  Shona Thompson and Hazel Wright MAROC  MS Mark Stockton
WV  Rachel Scott   MV  Pete Lawrence (fix! fix! I hear you cry!)
WSV  Fiona, June, Fiona  MSV Stefan Stasiuk (unless Rob claims a better enough time?)
WUV Sheena Farquhar
MUV  George Esson (to show that organising pays dividends – hint, hint for 2015)
Bike  David Esson
Best Newcomers (to the O scene not just Aberdeen) Melanie Costes AUOC and Jeremy Huthwaite

Prizes will be presented at the AGM or got to you somehow, somewhen.

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Morven and Kirsty Farquharson bag the points for GRAMP

The girls got their first taste of big competition on Sunday at the Alvie SOL where between them they bagged 199 points for GRAMP in the North Clubs Inter-Club Junior Competition. Congratulations to you both!

North Clubs Junior Comp 2014 – results.pdf

Seaton Park and Hillhead 24/9/14 Autumn Urban Sprint Results

From famine last week to feast this week as the students are back in town and upping the competition levels considerably as well as the numbers. (I’m told the Vets have now decided to compete in injuries instead: “I’ll see your calf strain and raise you a hamstring! Ha!”)

Results  Splits

My apologies in advance to anyone whose name has been mispelt or age class/club is wrong. Between David’s rapid writing and me trying to decipher it and do some guesswork after the event we’re bound to have got something wrong. Let me know by emailing webmaster@grampoc.com and I’ll correct it. The good thing is you won’t have to dictate it all again next week as your name will appear on the list already (Janne – I’ll send you a copy once I’ve got all the names sorted out.)

Last in the series next week at Aberdeen Uni Kings Campus. Registration will be in the car park accessed off St Machar Drive. Janne Heikkinen is planning it with the aid of other AUOC members on the night so don’t miss a chance to see what they can fling at us on their home turf (tarmac?)

Naomi will be taking home the WU16 prize for definite if not the outright winner at this rate, but Pete and David K will be battling out the MV prize as it’s pretty close and both have played their Organiser’s ace already. Similarly, MSV will be hotly contended if both Rob and newcomer to the Aberdeen O scene,  Stefan Stasiuk, both make it next week and also two more newcomers Shona and Bethan in WJ category.

Tyrebagger Level C 21/9/14 Results

Well, I was fully expecting a very quiet, slow day as loads of folk were away taking advantage of the long Aberdeen weekend but we had 75 competitors in the end to save my day. Thanks to my team of helpers for making things run very smoothly – David E, Anne Hickling, Oonagh, Jayne, Helen A, David K, Lachlan and Lynne- and also to Jonathan Smith for planning his first “big” event and Andy Oliver of Maroc for his help in mentoring and road marshalling as well as controlling.

Rachel

PS Apologies for the lack of printed results today – our printer is sooooo old that there’s no driver available compatible with Windows 8 that we know of so it won’t talk to our swanky new laptops.
PPS Lost property – 1 black/grey ear/head warmer. Email webmaster@grampoc.com to claim.

Final results and splits

BOF results with ranking points
(To gain ranking points you need to have 10 Senior finishers on a TD5 course so sadly nobody gets anything for their efforts on the Green at Tyrebagger as although we had 10 finishers they were predominantly Juniors and not enough folk of any variety on the Brown. Bad luck!)

We’re working on the (JD)2C points as fast as we can (to try and beat the email we always get from a certain very competitive pair in Maroc asking when the points will be posted. Never seem to manage it but we can try.)