FVO won this year’s Scottish Relay Championships at mainly sunny Bowhill today, with Interlopers coming second. FVO comfortably won with a winning time of 1:52:05, some ten minutes ahead of Interlopers. Third place was taken by Team Edinburgh from Edinburgh University Orienteering Club.

FVO also won the newly introduced handicap competition, proving that the handicap system devised to even out the competition still requires some further tweaking. As if that was not enough, FVO also managed a near clean sweep of the spot prizes for the winning times on each of planner James Tullie’s courses.

Despite organising the event, there was some success for Roxburgh Reivers, with club member Kirstin Maxwell winning the ‘Best Junior’ prize for her 19th place on the Orange course running for Tay.

Full results and official comments available through the Results page.

Roxburgh Reivers will host this year’s Scottish 11 Person Relays at Bowhill Estate on Sunday 5 September. For more information (including a downloadable entry-from) please go to the 11 Person Relay homepage. In addition to the usual competition, all competitors are invited to join Roxburgh Reivers for a BYOF (bring your own food) barbecue – we will provide the fire!

Roxburgh Reivers have entered this year’s Compass Sport Cup competition, which is being held locally at Glentress near Peebles on 14 March 2004. If you are able to take part, please contact John Tullie (email: john@bowanhill.demon.co.uk) as soon as possible.

The rules have changed from previous years and you can find out what course you would be eligible to run in at the BOF website.

This year’s Scottish Champs weekend takes place in Speyside over the weekend of 24 and 25 May. The Individual takes place at a new area, Glentruim, near Newtonmore, with the relays being held at Craigbui near Kingussie.

Relays teams for the Sunday need to be entered soon, so if you are going to the event and want to run in the relays please let John Tullie know a.s.a.p. Classes are as follows:

Please indicate if you have a preference for any particular class or colour standard or fellow members you want to run with and John will endeavour to make up teams to suit.

Email: john@bowanhill.demon.co.uk.

This year’s Christmas fun event takes place at Wilton Lodge Park on Boxing Day. Come along and burn off those Christmas calories with Roxburgh Reivers’ annual novelty event.The event starts at 11am, meeting at the Walled Garden, with hot drinks and mince pies afterwards at the Hawick Cycling Club club rooms. For more details, call Rob Cranston on 01450 372095 or email r.a.cranston@btinternet.com.

The final Scottish Orienteering League race of the year took place at Keir Hills in South Ayrshire last weekend. Leading the way for Roxburgh Reivers were John and James Tullie who both won their respective classes (M45L and JM5L). Also having a good day were Karen Maxwell, who won the White course, and Douglas and Andrew Tullie, who came second and third on the JM4 class. In the seniors, Ian Maxwell finished fourth on M40S and Douglas Henderson rounded off the season with a sixth place on M50L.

In the overall standings for the season, Roxburgh Reivers’ best perfomances came from Douglas Tullie, with three wins, and Lindsey Knox (W40L), who bothv finished in second place. Robin Sloan (M55L) and John Tulie also finished in the top three and James Tullie, in a transitional season finished fourth on both JM5M and JM5L, having changed age class half way through the season. Showing promise for the future, Sarah Tullie and Kirsten Maxwell both had a good year in the JW2 age class.

Full results for SOL 7 and overall standings are available from the Scottish Orienteering Association’s Website.