Category Archives: Social Events

Social Evening- Winter Talk

Monday 16 March 2015
7- 9pm

at the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Base (next to the Argus Centre), Selkirk

An Evening with Paul McGreal

The athlete, organiser and all-round top bloke will give a talk on some of his recent and forthcoming projects and events.

As well as being an orienteer and a member of Roxburgh Reivers, Paul has been involved as a competitor and organiser in a range of sports including triathlon, duathlon, adventure racing, hill-running, mountain marathons, mountain-biking, hashing, hockey and shinty. Paul is well known for his organisation of acclaimed adventure races and triathlons. He is organiser of the World Orienteering Championship 2015 to be held in the Highlands this summer. In addition Paul is a member of the Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team and has made a number of appearances on the BBCs Adventure Show. An informative and entertaining evening is promised.

Tea, Coffee and Juice will be available. Please bring snacks to share.

Fee: There is no charge for this event but donations to Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue are welcomed.

Evening Training & Social @ Jedburgh

Ian Maxwell organised an enjoyable technique training exercise based in the Sports Hall at Jedburgh Grammar School.  The session focused on map orientation, a core technique in orienteering.  A course laid out on a grid gave everyone a chance to practice this skill in a semi-competitive way.  Afterwards we retired upstairs for tea, coffee, juice and some rather nice mince pies (thank you Pauline).  ‘Results’ to follow………………………..

Celebration of Sport

We’re delighted to one of the finalists in the Club of the Year category at this years Celebration of Sport.  John and Robin are representing us at The Cardrona Hotel on Friday for the dinner and awards presentation.  Fingers crossed !

Update:  sadly we didn’t win but congratulations to Peebles Cycling Club who are so successful they have a waiting list for members. Luckily we have no restrictions on numbers so there’s no danger of us every having a waiting list.

 

Boxing Day social

There was a large turnout of over 30 people for our annual Boxing Day social at Wilton Park, Hawick.

Douglas Tullie was first back having found all 4 of the Christmas songs.  He also earned the bonus for correctly guessing that M&S sell about 34 million mince pies over the festive season. On the juniors course, Eilidh Murray returned ahead of all the boys having found the 2 songs, and she also correctly guessed the mince pies number.

After the run we all enjoyed a mini-feast and refreshments.  Thanks to the Wilton Dean Hall Committee for the use of their hall again.