The Scottish Orienteering season kicked off in earnest last weekend with a double-header in Perthshire.

The Scottish Sprint Championships were held in an urban area of Perth on Saturday morning and with winning times of only around 15 minutes the pace was fast and furious.   A small number of Roxburgh Reivers ran, with the best results coming from Douglas Tullie and Kirstin Maxwell, both finishing with a bronze medal.

The first of the seven Scottish League races took place at Dalrulzion, north of Blaigowrie, on Sunday.  (Day 1 at Tay 2009).  John Tullie revels in rough underfoot conditions and had a clear victory in M50.  Sarah Tullie and Karen Maxwell also showed a clean pair of heels to their rivals winning W20 and W16 respectively, while Lindsey Knox took 3rd on W50.   Special mention to Barry Veitch who managed to get more confused than Lindsey going to their same first control !

The penetrating bleep of the alarm clock drags me from the world of Morpheus. It is not yet 7 am, it is still dark, and I suspect it is cold outside. Continue reading →

It’s been a busy few weeks so here’s a resume of what’s been happening. Apologies in advance for everything that I’m going to miss out. Continue reading →

5 Roxburgh Reivers (the Maxwell family and Douglas Henderson) decided to go south to the smooth streets of Sheffield and Lincoln rather than the rough Grampian forests last weekend and produced some good results on both days. Continue reading →

O-Ringen 2010

This annual event was held in mid July in the central Swedish town of Orebro.  Lying on the shores of Lake Hjalmaren, Orebro is located on the banks of the River Svatan and has a fortified castle forming a magnificent backdrop. Continue reading →

The Masters terrain was Alp, crag and grot

Five Reivers had entered – gave it all that they’d got,

Lindsey was best, her finals two “A”s

Jim, Rob and Robin had up and down days

And Doug(las)’s French was a winner, but (malheuresement) his “O”ing was not!