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Boxing Day Social

Waiting to start the quiz

An excellent turnout of 39 people running today and that was without a few poor souls who were suffering from various lurgies. Thanks to everyone for the great spread of food and drink for the apres-run.

Well done to Rob and John for finishing the general knowledge “quiz” with a maximum score of 8, Rob finishing 1st overall on time. Sam picked up the goodies for first junior to finish and Sarah scooped the ladies prize. I know it’s a lovely park but Anne and David decided to spend a lot more than the allotted 40 minutes in it and were penalised accordingly (but they got rewarded with booby prizes !)

The answers:

Question	Answer
How many Teletubbies were girls	2
On a computer keyboard which key is shared with £	3
How many stars feature on the flag of New Zealand	4
How many rings on the Olympic flag	5
How many colours on a Rubiks Cube	6
How many colours in a rainbow	7
In the 12 Days of Christmas, how many Maids a Milking	8
Number of hurdles in a 400m hurdles race	10

Eildons Hills 6/12/14 (and Xmas dinner)

A good turnout on a winters day but we certainly got better weather than later in the afternoon.

Results: HERE

Winsplits: HERE

The event was followed by our Christmas dinner in The Townhouse in Melrose where 33 of us we were served a most enjoyable meal. Thanks to Judy for organising this.

Christmas 2014

ESOA Champs – The Hirsel

Results are HERE

Routegadget HERE

Winsplits HERE

List of East of Scotland Champions: ESOA INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS 2014

The organiser writes:
Perfect weather for November, willing and hard working RR club members and ideal facilities at the Hirsel made this an easy event to organise, although finding a herd of Highland Cattle in residence in the route to the start yesterday morning was a surprise. Soon sorted by a very co-operative Douglas and Angus Estate in the person of John Letham, to whom we are very grateful for supporting our first event at the Hirsel. Planner Andrew Armstrong and controller Alasdair Wilson Craw provided interesting and challenging courses, judging from the feedback I heard, and you the competitors made the whole day worthwhile by attending in such good numbers. Thanks for coming, thanks for supporting the Homestead Tea Room and in particular thanks for supporting our Juniors’ fundraising efforts for the World Schools in Turkey next year – they made an excellent total of £120. Please come again!
Robin Sloan
Lost Property: 1 ‘large’ sweat shirt, with Glenmore Forest Park logo
1 beanie hat, Irishsup.com logo
•Contact organiser for return, see contact details on event web page
Also found in the classroom:
1 pair overtrousers
Small rucsac containing pair binoculars
• These are still at the Hirsel, as we couldn’t be sure they belonged to an O participant

Roxburgh Reivers win 7 Area titles:

Yousuf M14, Lindsey W55, Ian M50, Eileen W50, John M55, Elena W14. (missing Fiona W40)

Traquair results

Thanks for the good turnout and pleased to see that everyone seems to have enjoyed the format. It was very satisfying to see the new map being used (despite me forgetting to add the northing lines !). Hopefully we’ll be allowed back another time and I can finish mapping some of the outlying areas that we didn’t use this time.

The full results are HERE

A spreadsheet of your total times for either Yellow+Maze or Courses 1+2+maze are below. Well done to Charlotte on the Yellow/Maze combination and 3 good runs from Kirstin on the Course1,2 and Maze combination, despite Faisal’s best (if slightly cheating) efforts.

Position	Name	Yellow	course 1	course 2	Maze	Total
1	Charlotte Muller Stuart	00:21:57			00:08:33	0:30:30
2	Eva Gibson	00:21:58			00:19:19	0:41:17
3	Emma Amos	00:26:07			00:23:21	0:49:28
4	Eilidh Murray	00:26:08			00:23:28	0:49:36
5	Trinity Hill	00:32:53			00:17:01	0:49:54


1	Kirstin Maxwell		00:09:18	00:13:24	00:07:47	0:30:29
2	Faisal Khursheed		00:11:20	00:12:48	00:07:35	0:31:43
3	Ian Maxwell		00:10:30	00:14:05	00:07:27	0:32:02
4	Robin Sloan		00:11:58	00:15:51	00:08:36	0:36:25
5	Andrew Armstrong		00:13:26	00:15:50	00:09:10	0:38:26
6	Eb Rooney		00:14:50	00:18:22	00:08:46	0:41:58
7	Maggie Cripps		00:15:36	00:18:36	00:09:05	0:43:17
8	Pauline McAdam		00:16:35	00:20:01	00:10:38	0:47:14
9	Yousuf Khursheed		00:14:05	00:24:15	00:09:41	0:48:01
10	Mairi Eades		00:17:12	00:21:53	00:10:56	0:50:01
11	Bridget Khursheed		00:22:04	00:20:15	00:10:17	0:52:36
12	Duncan Sheill		00:21:05	00:23:27	00:10:39	0:55:11
13	Keith Murray		00:22:18	00:22:03	00:11:32	0:55:53
14	Sam McKinnon		00:18:59	00:26:20	00:12:19	0:57:38
15	Fiona Johnston		00:20:19	00:26:51	00:11:20	0:58:30
16	Cathy Rooney		00:24:04	00:23:03	00:12:43	0:59:50
17	Bill Urquhart		00:25:35	00:26:27	00:09:16	1:01:18
18	Judith Pate		00:23:20	00:39:52	00:18:35	1:21:47
19	Fiona Eades		00:31:41	00:39:32	00:13:15	1:24:28
20	David Paterson		00:32:03	00:41:03	00:26:45	1:39:51

The new permanent course was duly opened and hopefully the course will be well used. Thanks to Catherine Maxwell Stuart for agreeing to host the course, as well as having us competing there on Saturday.

Opening of the Traquair Permanent Orienteering Course

Eileen took a few photos on the day…

British Championships 2014

The British Orienteering Championships were held in north Northumberland and the winner was the glorious weather.

The forest for the individual race on Saturday has been rarely used and provided a very physical challenge to all the runners with most of the area covered in either heather, high bilberries or tree brashings making running very difficult. Roxburgh Reivers still managed to get two people on the podium in the shape of Fiona Forrest on W40 and John Tullie on M55 who were both 3rd in their classes. Pauline McAdam just missed out, finishing 4th on W55.

John Tullie 3rd

The relay championships provided much more pleasant running conditions among grassed-over mine workings near Otterburn. Kirstin Maxwell had a great run to help her Edinburgh University team to first place on the Women’s Premier class in what was her final run as a student. Roxburgh Reivers had a record six teams competing, including two junior teams. Although none made it onto the podium Elena Heger deserves a mention for having the fastest time on her leg on the mixed under-18 class, and Yousuf Khursheed also ran well for 4th place on his M14 leg.

Edinburgh Uni winning team.

Some photos courtesy of Rainer Heger below:

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Next event – Teviothead 7th June

Details of our next event at Teviothead are now via the link to the right hand side.

This is the final local event before the summer break and were having a barbeque afterwards in Teviothead Hall, just across the road. Everyone welcome but you need to bring your own food.

The hardest course is Light Green+ which is a mixture of Light Green and Green controls. There will also be a contour-only version of this course for the people wanting an extra challenge. Ian is running a “contours” coaching session starting at 12 noon which will be helpful for Orange and Light Green+ competitors.

Roxburgh Reivers Orienteering Club

the orienteering club of the Scottish Borders since 1969