After what seems like a very short winter break the 2006 Scottish Orienteering League kicked off at Dalbeattie Forest last Sunday and Roxburgh Reivers resumed where they left off in 2005 – in winning style.

Robin Sloan had a clean run to comfortably win M55L although he finished with extra red marks down the front of his new o-top, Andrew Tullie was 2^nd on JM5L but took the points for 1^st Scot, Carol Boyd recorded her first win for a while on W35L and Lindsey Knox fresh from her win the previous weekend in Spain had a comprehensive win on W45L.

There were 2^nd places for Douglas Tullie running up two age classes on M21 and Kirstin Maxwell, who was beaten by only a few seconds on JW4.  Other results: John Tullie 4^th M45L, Ian Maxwell 7^th M45L, Andrew Armstrong 11^th M45L, Douglas Henderson 4^th M55L, Karen Maxwell 4^th JW3, Sarah Tullie 5^th JW4, Eileen Maxwell 4^th W40S.

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On a warm almost spring-like afternoon Planner Douglas Tullie found a welcome sun-trap for the Start/Finish area just off the vista from Bowhill House and 20 members were soon sweating their way round the forest.  Each competitor had an individual handicap to collect a set number of controls before they could return and it was Andrew Tullie, targetted to find 16 of the 18 controls, who flew across the finish line in 26.10mins closely followed by newcomer Colin Ross in 26.47 mins.  First lady was Karen Maxwell in 28.46 mins.
 
The Planner had obviously done his job well as there were tall tales of wrong route choices, missed controls and lots of “if only…”
 
Having collected the controls in the action moved to the Education Centre in the courtyard where the ladies presided over a couple of microwaves to produce haggis, neeps and tatties for everyone.  Douglas Henderson brought a home-made cake complete with Reivers logo – Masterchef beware ! 
 
Judy called the AGM to order and gave us an overview of the positive state of the Club. The committee were re-elected en masse, Douglas Tullie was awarded the Junior Trophy for the year and Lindsey Knox accepted the Club Achievement award.  Andrew Tullie collected the Club Championship trophy plus the dubious honour of bringing it back next year dressed in the correct colour of o-top.

Link to results

This year’s Compass Sport Cup will be held at Interloper’s event at Norman’s Law, Fife, on 26 February. As the event clashes with a junior training weekend, numbers will be tight and RR will only be able to put out a skeleton team. If you can go, please let John Tullie know asap by emailing coach@roxburghreivers.org.uk.

For rules see: www.britishorienteering.org.uk/documents/rules/regsguin3p0.pdf

After 6 rounds of the 2005 Scottish Orienteering League two members of Roxburgh Reivers had their age classes sewn up, but for another two it was down to the wire last Sunday when they had to win the final round to be certain of taking the title. The competition took place near Altarstone Forest, near Stobo on an area never used for orienteering before.

Having already won JW2, Karen Maxwell ran JW3 at Stobo, finishing in 3rd place. Ian, having won M45S opted to run M45L and finished 6th.

Both Kirstin Maxwell (JW4) and Lindsey Knox (W45L) went into the final round leading the League but, with several rivals hot on their heels, they knew that they had to produce good runs. Both ladies did just that with Kirstin finishing a close second but gaining enough points to win overall, and Lindsey finishing a clear minute in front of the rest of the field to seal her first Scottish title.

A delighted Club President, Judy McNeilly, said “We’re one of the smallest clubs in Scotland and it’s a tremendous achievement for us to have four Scottish League Champions”.

Full results are available from http://www.rstrain.ndtilda.co.uk/results_05/tt05/.

Despite miserable conditions at Holyrood Park last Sunday, Roxburgh Reivers came away with three wins in the East of scotland Orienteering Championships. Karen Maxwell won W10, with sister Kirsten winning W14. Lindsey Knox also braved the atrocious conditions to come out victorious in the W45 class. Fellow club member Iain Maxwell came third on M45.

Full results are available from the EUOC website.

The penultimate round of the 2005 Scottish O League series took place at Drummond Hill on 9 October. Reivers recorded some tremendous results, with no less than 4 wins, and three league titles confirmed.

In the juniors, Karen and Kirstin Maxwell came first on JW2 and JW4 respectively confirming their league wins for the 2005 series, with Sarah Tulie coming in fifth on the latter. In the junior boys, Andrew Tullie finished in second place, just under two minutes down on the winner.

There was more good news in the seniors, with wins for Robin Sloan (M55L) and Iain Maxwell (M45S), with Iain also taking the M45S title for the year, and Eileen Maxwell coming second on W40S. Completing the results, John Tullie was fourth on M45L and Carol Boyd third on W35S.

Full SOL results are available from the Interlopers website. The final round takes place at Broughton on 6 November.