Well done to all the Scottish Vets for securing second place overall in this year’s Veteran Home Internationals over in Tollymore during the weekend. Provisional points are reported on the SOA website by Rob Hickling, VHI Team Manager http://www.scottish-orienteering.org/soa/page/vhipoints-results-from-the-vhi and you can check the individual athlete’s performances on the Tollymore O’Fest website http://www.niorienteering.org.uk/tollymore2012/results/results.htm. Obviously RobContinue reading “Scotland 2nd at VHIs”
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The Battle of the C Course LAMM 2012 and Brain Bending at WTOC 2012
Have a quick look at the top few teams on this year’s LAMM C course and see how many GRAMP (and MAROC) names you can spot. We have Ian Hamilton+ Alec Erskine in 8th, Alistair + Rosalyn Marshall in 6th, Gordon Urquart + Douglas Cowan in 5th and right at the top of the listContinue reading “The Battle of the C Course LAMM 2012 and Brain Bending at WTOC 2012”
Balmoral races
The Balmoral 15 mile race on Sunday was an invasion of orienteers. The route was Balmoral to Invercauld bridge and back via Glen Gelder and the lower slopes of Lochnagar (a few hills then). Robbie Siimspon sometime LAMM partner of Oleg Chepelin came first in 1.21, with Murray Strain and Oleg taking 2nd and 3rd.Continue reading “Balmoral races”
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 recentContinue reading “JK 2012 – a weekend of seconds”
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.
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,Continue reading “CompassSport Cup 2012 Report”
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 ofContinue reading “Fun ski O at The Clash on Saturday 7th”
3 GRAMPs win at 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!!) 😉 TheContinue reading “3 GRAMPs win at 2011 Scottish Score Champs”
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