Full results are now HERE

Thanks to Ian (and assistant Eileen) for planning/organising a really enjoyable run round the town, and to everyone who helped collect in the controls at the end.

Next up is an urban event in Kelso on 12/10/25. Entry form will be available shortly.

Results from the Mountainbike Orienteering event are HERE

A hot day in the Scottish Borders. Hope you all enjoyed the trip round beautiful sun dappled Bowhill. The varied and very extensive track network meant I was spoilt for choice with setting you course planning problems. The big hill gave me even more options. I was aiming for you to either (a) have several viable route options on each leg and force you to make decisions, (b) have some of those legs with technical navigations (lots of twists and turns), or (c) both.

The courses were a few minutes (c. 10?) longer than I’d planned for. So, think yourselves lucky I abandoned the previous version as being too long last weekend! You’d still be out there 🙂

Paul McGreal, Organiser

Thanks to Ian and Eileen for planning/organising etc.

Full results are HERE

Thanks to Rob for organising/planning. Full results are HERE

Thank you to the small band of enthusiastic folk who turned out at Selkirk Hill on a beautiful evening. The area is a lovely spot at this time of year although much of the vegetation is very jaggy and best given a wide berth.   In hindsight the course was a tad too long but thanks for the positive comments and I was pleased to hear there  were a variety of routes chosen.

As ever it was very much a team effort to make the event happen.  Thanks to Lindsey, for the technical stuff, including help with the course planning software, dealing with entries and producing results as they happened.  Tidying up after the event  was done in quick time, thanks to Eileen, Judith and Paul for volunteering to do this without hesitation.

Rob

Full results are HERE

Thanks to Eb and Robin for a joint effort of planning and organising. You’ll see a negative split time to the Finish – caused by the time on the last control drifting a bit since it was programmed, all now fixed for next time.

Next up is Selkirk Hill on 21/5, get your entries in by breakfast time on Thursday morning (15/5). See the event page for full details.

Full results are HERE

Thanks to Robin for organising/planning the first of the sprint series – he even managed a lovely sunny evening !

Planner’s Report: Thanks to all who came to the first of the RR Summer Sprints at Gordon Community Woods. Several folk commented on how the woodlands are becoming more open and pleasant for orienteering as the years go by. Congratulations to Ian Maxwell for storming round the course in under twenty minutes – and this despite the planner putting a control in the wrong place. Apologies for that, and the lesson is always to check the location of a control site from more than one direction! Hope it was still an enjoyable run for those who participated.