Category Archives: Club info

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 forContinue reading “GRAMP SOL Champions 2014 and SEDS call ups for 2015”

….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!!) .

RtC 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 withContinue reading “Race The Castles”

Gamekeeper turned poacher? Something like that – what I’m trying to say is that hopefully Rob H enjoyed the VHIs as a competitor rather than team manager for a change having handed over the reins last year. This year’s competition was hosted by NGOC at their Caddihoe Chase event. Rob won M60 on the firstContinue reading “VHI 2014 – Scotland come second with Rob’s help”

Five club members have just completed a first aid for sport course. Here’s an action shot from the training day just begging for a caption competition – leave us a comment if you have any ideas! But seriously, thanks to Laura, Helen, Carolyn, Ewen and Adrian for putting themselves forward for this important but unsungContinue reading “First aiders practising their TLC”

CompassSport mag has a behind the technical scenes exposé of how Ali Robertson created his fiendish E-W reversed map for the HHH this year. Sounds like he bashed his brain to create the map far more than we had to bash ours trying to use it. (Are we sympathetic?) In SCORE, Neil McLean waxes lyricalContinue reading “GRAMPs in print”

Congratulations to all those Gramps recovering from the weekend’s exertions at the LAMM in Strathcarron … A class: Tim Gomersall & Ryan McHenry 3rd C class: Jack Gomersall & Anna Wells 2nd D class: Sam & Lesley Gomersall 2nd Elite class: Dave Thomson & Gareth Yardley 1st Vets (of those that didn’t podium) And otherContinue reading “Gramps at the LAMM”

Not many Gramps went down for this year’s Scottish Champs but a high percentage of those who did made their mark and either won their age class or got onto the podium for the top three. We even managed to field three relay teams who did well too. Obviously the cream of the Gramp cropContinue reading “2014 Scottish Orienteering Champions”

As they will no doubt be too modest to tell you themselves and in case you don’t scrutinise the P&J… Carolyn McLeod won the Women’s 10k race at Balmoral yesterday (21st overall) and Naomi won the Secondary Schools race and broke the course record by 15 seconds. Woohoo! Well done girls! Sasha was the secondContinue reading “A few Gramps spotted at Run Balmoral”

If you get bored over the hols here’s a wee orienteering puzzle to keep you occupied. Print out the AGM O Starter map which has Start, Finish and 3 controls already marked on it. Using the info contained in the control descriptions and the given distances between some pairs of controls, see if you canContinue reading “Christmas puzzle”

For those of you unable to make it to the AGM on 7/12/13, here is a copy of the Chairman’s Report plus the 2013 Roll of Honour and GRAMP Champs final standings. Helen Rowlands was also collecting names for 2014 events and has emailed you all with the list of events and officials so far.Continue reading “2013 AGM roundup”

Despite the tough tussocky terrain on the first half of the courses, Team HalfGramp managed 6th place in the 8 Person category of this year’s Interclub Relay but we have to come clean and admit that this was only achieved by cunningly taking up organiser Jess’ offer to hire us some SEDS members to makeContinue reading “Standing on the shoulders of (future) giants”

Well done to Sasha, Carolyn and Neil who all won their classes by several minutes at the recent Scottish Champs at Craigengillan Estate. (And well done to Erik for not coming last!!)

You’ll all have heard about Ash Dieback by now and seen the round robin from BOF that Ian circulated a while ago with advice on how we can help prevent the spread of this and other tree diseases. Here’s a little reminder of how we as orienteers (who are therefore more likely to visit partsContinue reading “Orienteers and tree diseases”

Sam Gomersall, Rob Hickling and John Wilkinson, GRAMP’s top 3 Blue Men, psyching out the opposition Congratulations to all of you who ran for the club in the CompassSport Cup Qualifier at Birsemore 17/2/13. We were narrowly beaten by Maroc who scored that little bit more relatively in the shorter courses, no doubt due toContinue reading “Pipped at the post in CompassSport Cup Qualifier”

GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS ROLL OF HONOUR 2012 Club events: 4th in Jamie Stevenson Trophy (Alexander, Jack, Struan, Lachlan, Keith, Paul Calum, Katrina, Kate, Josie, Naomi, Laura, Ailsa & Duncan) Area Events: North Area 2nd in Junior Inter Area Championships (Calum, Katrina) International Call-ups: Scottish Vets for VHI – Scotland 2nd under Team Captain Rob Hickling, DaveContinue reading “GRAMP Roll of Honour 2012”

It seems success is just a question of finding your niche event and for Rachel it finally happened last weekend in Barcelona. Having never won anything before (apart from an attendance award for going to every single Summer Series event a few years ago) she suddenly found herself on the No 1 podium in theContinue reading “International success for Rachel in Barcelona!”

Some Oers showing the hill runners what it’s all about. Well done guys! http://www.gariochroadrunners.com/Garioch_Roadrunners/Bennachie_Hill_Race_files/BHR_results2012.xls

Taking time out from his studenty studiousness, Tim ran M20 for Scotland at the Senior Home Internationals 23rd/24th Sept at Craig a Barns and Errochty. Scotland won pretty much everything in sight, finishing with a total of 55 points against 44 for England, 28 Cymru and 22 for Ireland. Tim got to rub shoulders withContinue reading “Tim Gomersall picked for SHI”

There was success last weekend in the emerald isle for a team from Gramp in the Mourne Mountain Marathon. Experienced MM’ers Sean O’Sullivan and Rob Hickling teamed up to run their first Mourne, which is renowned as a small, friendly and relaxed event. After a good first day, they were third overnight on the BContinue reading “Gramp Mountain Marathon Success”

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”

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”

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”

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”