Category Archives: Summer Forest Sprint Series

Results RouteGadget Great evening at Balmedie. Many thanks to Tim for planning and Bob and Sam for helping collect controls and David for results service. (P.S. Foggieton RouteGadget is up now too.)

Results RouteGadget A dry but chilly night saw old and new test their wits on the twists and turns of the many paths and linear features at Foggieton. Many thanks to David for all his IT wizardry, and to Gareth for helping with control collecting (and to those who also offered to help – alwaysContinue reading “Foggieton Forest Sprint 13th April Results”

https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2022/FSTollohillRouteGadget Many thanks to Ros for planning a great wee course and to Hugh, Helen and Gareth for helping collect controls

Yellow Results SplitsForest Sprint Results Splits Thank you David once again for doing the honours for Dunnottar (although I suspect it may have been a sneaky ulterior motive involving proximity to one of the finest chippers in the NE that may have decided you to volunteer? 😉 ) Some lovely photos of the afternoon andContinue reading “Dunnottar Woods 5th May Results”

Yellow Results, Forest Sprint Results Splits Shire’s turn to experience that weird feeling of sort of knowing what you were doing but also knowing you don’t really know at the same time. Took most of us until a couple of controls in before it became second nature again. Thanks to David for providing us withContinue reading “Tollohill Woods Wed 21st April Results”

Real O Events!!!! YES, they are finally happening! Here are results from Hazlehead – big thanks to David Esson for cranking the SI controls into BST-mode and persuading them they wanted to go and sit in a wood again after their cushty number sitting in his flat all this time and to Gareth Yardley forContinue reading “Hazlehead Wed 7th April Results”

Final Points FS 2019  If you spot any mistakes please let me know on webmaster@grampoc.com. Many thanks to all our organisers and congratulations to the winners. Unfortunately I don’t think we have prizes for you though apart from the kudos of having won and seeing your name up in lights! . Overall: 1st Eilidh Campbell W18 MAROC Continue reading “Forest Sprint 2019 Final Points”

Series points Results  Splits  RouteGadget If you haven’t used RouteGadget before then take a look at these guides on drawing or uploading your GPS route. Check the built in Splitsbrowser too to see where you lost time. Series points after 4 events Thanks to Helen and Gareth for braving the weather and doing the honours tonight.Continue reading “Forest Sprint 5 @ Scolty 8/5/19”

Results    Splits    Routegadget     Cumulative scores so far A two-hander tonight brought to you by Jonathan Smith who planned and David Esson who ran the event on the ground with a little help from some friends. An interesting finish gave us the chance to rerun or rethink 242 to 172 – did you swap tactics theContinue reading “Forest Sprint 3 @ Hazlehead 24/4/19”

Results  Splits RouteGadget (sorry, can’t quite get all controls correctly centred on features but close enough) Many thanks to David Esson for planning at relatively short notice and hope you all enjoyed your scamper around Tollohill. It’s easy to get confused with all those paths criss-crossing as well as the loopy nature of the courseContinue reading “Forest Sprint 1 @ Tollohill 10/4/19”

The snow has all gone now, leaving the undergrowth nicely flattened.  Much more runnable than Foggieton in the summer.  Results here: Forest_Sprint_Foggieton_Results Thanks to Helen Rowlands for helping clear up, and Bob Daly for collecting the controls.

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 whileContinue reading “Forest Sprint Series 2018 – Weds 11th April to 16th May”

A pleasant cool and dry evening.  A bit difficult to squeeze a 3 km course into such a small area.  Thanks to Helen Rowlands for helping with registration/download, Dennis, Bob and John for collecting controls and Rob Hickling for help with map corrections. Forest_Sprint_Foggieton_Results Overall Results after Foggieton

The midges weren’t actually biting, the notorious mudslides of Dunnottar weren’t anywhere near as bad as previous years, Jon beat Ewan by 2 seconds, the injury wasn’t a broken ankle as feared and Rachel and Pete had their chips. I’d call that an evening full of results. Dunnottar FS 26-4-17.pdf Many thanks to Mark HammondsContinue reading “Dunnottar Forest Sprint 26/4/17 Results”

Results A straightforward event at Hazlehead: just one unmapped abandoned tent between two points – not quite as exciting as the naturist sunbathing in the dunes at Balmedie last year. Olivia had brisk trade at her cake stall, not surprising as we were spoilt for choice and my choice was delicious. Some new faces andContinue reading “Hazlehead Forest Sprint Wednesday 12th April Results”

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 whileContinue reading “Forest Sprint Series 2017 – Wednesdays”

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 IContinue reading “Forest Sprint Series 2016 Final Results”

Thanks to all who came along tonight. The sleet, snow and hail held off for the evening so apart from being a tad slippy underfoot all was well (pity same can’t be said for the afternoon!). Some pretty fast times recorded and some more mature members keeping the young ones off the top slots forContinue reading “Forest Sprint Dunnottar Woods 27/4/16 – Results”

A great turn out for the first of the Forest Sprint series, thank-you to all who gave up their maps to be used again and apologies for any waiting around at the start. Future organisers take note! Results   Splits     Routegadget Overall points Next week the event is being run by MAROC at Sluie, seeContinue reading “Countesswells Forest Sprint 13Apr2016 – Results”

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 IContinue reading “Forest Sprint Series 2016 – Weds 13th April to 18th May”

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 fenceContinue reading “Hazlehead SS Results 10/6/15”

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).

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 JanneContinue reading “Scotly Forest Sprint 8/5/15 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 leftContinue reading “Tollohill Forest Sprint Fri 24-4-15 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

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 whileContinue reading “Forest Sprint Series 2015 Fridays 10th April to 15th May”

Plan a bog standard TD3 course I was told. So I did. And quite successfully judging by the state of many of you but the prize for overall coverage and gloopiness has to go to poor wee Joel Gooch who looked like a giant had picked him up and dunked him in chocolate custard upContinue reading “Scolty Forest Sprint 9/5/14 Results”

Hope you all enjoyed your run, the haar adding that bit of special Grampian atmosphere (seemed particulary keen on hanging round people’s glasses). Results      Splits

What a pleasant evening for the first Forest Sprint of the series of 6 races throughout Deeside this year.  The views from the hill over Aberdeen harbour were great.  Here are the results and splits: Results    Splits Thanks to David for planning a smashing little course that avoided the nasty stuff in the north!

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 whileContinue reading “2014 Forest Sprint Series Fridays”

 April 19th Dunnottar Woods  GRAMP  Results 26th Shooting Greens  MAROC   Results May 3rd Scolty  GRAMP   Results   Splits 10th Dess  MAROC    Results 17th Mulloch  GRAMP    Results   Splits 24th Potarch  MAROC   Results Final results (best 4 of 6 scores count) Ta muchly to all the planners – another nice wee series of diverse areas and approaches toContinue reading “2013 Forest Sprint Series Fridays”

GRAMP organised 3 out of the 6 Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011. Results from our events shown here – the Tollo Hill results are/were with the rest on the Maroc website for reasons I’ve forgotten now. 13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Results     17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Results 13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Splits        17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Splits Sprint O is great fun – lots of controls in quick succession in a relativelyContinue reading “Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011”