Selkirk Hill (incl. RR Night Championships)
2025-01-22 18:30 (Europe/London) | Selkirk Hill
The venue for the inaugural club Night Championships is Selkirk Hill.
Parking: self-park at the Argus Centre near Selkirk High School. HERE. Please park nicely and don’t block any doorways.
Registration/Start/Finish/Download: are all 700m east along the road from the Centre, on the road to Buxton which is a dead-end. You can leave clothing/valuables in Paul’s van which will be parked in the small car park there.
Start: Mass start at 6:30pm. Allow time to park, walk along the road and register.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. If you would like a late entry email Paul to check map availability
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Course: One Score-type course, medium difficulty, suitable for most abilities but any young juniors should be accompanied. 40 minutes to find as many of the 23 controls as possible, 10 points per control, penalty for taking more than 40 minutes, bonus points for clearing the course with time to spare. Exact numbers TBC.
Club championsips: Club members who enter beforehand will get a handicap which will remain a secret. Example: if your handicap is 200 and you score 180 your % score is 90%. Highest % wins. Non-club members are very welcome to run but won’t get a handicap.
SAFETY: You are strongly advised to carry a back-up light of some sort in case of failure of your main light – a small torch, or your phone, anything that would get you back to the Finish.

Eildon Hills & Woodlands Orienteering Event
2025-02-09 11:00 - 13:00
This is a fund-raiser for Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue with the surplus after costs going to the team.
Parking/Registration: The start is located close to Rhymer’s Stone, Melrose – Post code is TD6 9HA. Ample parking on the public road – please do not block people’s driveway. Registration will open at 10:30am. It’s a short walk to the Start line.
Terrain: Generally muddy (unless frozen) you are recommended to wear trail shoes or similar with some grip.
The Eildon Hills can be quite exposed in winter, so please think about carrying a water/wind proof top. If conditions are poor, being equipped with one may be compulsory.
Starts: 11:00 – 13:00 with courses closing at 14:30.
Courses:

Yellow 2.1km, 75m of climb (short in length/easy navigation),
Orange 3.4km, 125m climb (medium/medium)
Green 3.7km, 280m climb (medium/difficult),
Red 5.9km, 160m climb (long/medium, very suitable for adult runners).

Entry fees: Senior BOF/SOA members £5.50, Junior BOF/SOA members £2.75. Non-members £6.50/£3.25. SIAC dibber hire + 50p, older manual dibber hire free.
Entry: Pre-entries have now closed. Limited entry on the day.
Note – RR club members will be at the Registration to offer help and advice to beginners of all ages so everyone is welcome. If you have a compass, then please bring it along and we can show you how to use it with the map to aid your navigation and make orienteering more fun ! We’ll also have a few spare compasses to lend you for the day.

Bowmont Forest, near Kelso
2025-03-16 13:00 - 14:00
Parking: in the usual “walkers” car park HERE.
Parking 2: we have a high entry for the event, parking will be tight, you may have to park on the road verges.
Courses: Yellow (3km + 30m climb/easy difficulty), Orange (3.7km + 40m climb/medium), Light Green (4.4km + 60 climb/harder), Red (6km + 60m climb/medium difficulty). These are the actual distances for the best route, not the straight line distance.
Timing: Starts from 1 – 2pm. Courses close at 3:30pm.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. If you want a late entry email John Tullie to check availability.
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Medical conditions: Anyone with a medical condition can leave details in a sealed envelope at Registration which they can retrieve when they finish.
Planner/Organiser: John Tullie

Scottish Sprint Championships plus SOUL
2025-04-05
Update 2/4/25:
The Sprint Championships start list is available on SiEntries.
The final information file is available to download HERE
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2 urban sprint races in Tweedbank, near Galashiels. Race 1 will be the 2025 Scottish Sprint Championships, Race 2 will be a Scottish Urban League counter/Open Sprint. Make a weekend of it with the INTERLOPERS SoSol at West Calder on 6/4/25.
There is an embargo on the area and anyone found training with an orienteering map on the area between now and 5/4/25 will be disqualified. The main road through Tweedbank is out of bounds for orienteering motorists on the day as runners will be crossing the road. Orienteering motorists need to approach from the east direction, Embargo map HERE
Event Centre: The Tweedbank Community Centre, Essenside Drive, Tweedbank, Galashiels. (No parking here or on the roads nearby). Registration, toilets, bag drop. The Community Centre is about 800m from the railway station.
Parking; At the small roundabout into the Railway station you can park on the left (south) on any of the Industrial Estate roads, then walk the short distance to the railway station from where there will be tapes west along a path 800m to the Community Centre. We can’t stop you parking in the station car park but if it’s busy be mindful that paying passengers should take precendence. Wherever you park please also be mindful about changing in public.
Getting there: half-hourly train from Edinburgh, Bus from various towns via the Galashiels Interchange. By car, easily reached via both the A7 and A68.
Start/Finish: Both are approximately 400m from the Event Centre, in different directions. The routes will be marked with strips of tape, don’t deviate from these routes. After finishing the Sprint Championships your map will be collected for retrieval later, then make your way to download promptly.
Event times: First race (Scottish Sprint Championships) starts 11:30-12:45, second race (SOUL) starts 13:00-14:15. Championships Prizegiving: asap after 14:15.
Courses: The normal urban categories, planned for winning times of 12-15 minutes. Juniors being shadowed will be non-competitive on the Sprint Championships race but still competitive on the SOUL race. Shadowers must run their own course first. Courses 6 and 7 are suitable for unaccompanied under 16s and under 12s respectively but see the road crossings message below. Anyone over the age of 16 on the day may enter Men or Women Open.
Both Sprint Championships Course 7 and SOUL Course 7 have a butterfly loop, please make sure that all participants on these courses understand that this means visiting a control part-way through their course, doing a loop then visiting the same control again before doing the rest of their course. Novices on these courses, please ask if you’re not clear on this.
Road crossings: The speed limit in the town is 20 mph apart from one busier road in the centre which is 30 mph and has one underpass which is compulsory for Courses 6 and 7. The underpass will have a control at it. Course 7 has a small number of road crossings in cul-de-sacs which have very low traffic. Course 6 may cross roads anywhere they wish apart from busier road which has the underpass control. Courses 1 – 5 may cross all roads anywhere they wish.
Everyone must be vigilant about householders driving their cars out of their short driveways over the pavement.
Map: 1:4000/ 1:3000 2.5m contours (see the course table below). To ISSprOM 2019-2, Revision 6 standard. Map updated March 2025. Control descriptions on the front of each map and loose copies in the start lanes.
Course 7 maps: Championship Course 7 maps will only be available in the Start lanes. All SOUL Course 7 maps will be picked up just before the Start lanes so that parents can discuss with their juniors if necessary. Competent juniors/novices on SOUL 7 also need to pick up their map before they enter the Start lanes.
Terrain: a mix of complicated housing with many cul-de-sacs and passageways, less complicated housing and some parkland. Any woodland not marked as white is best avoided ! Previous Urban on RR Routegadget: HERE
Entries: are now open on SiEntries: Closing date 30/3/25 after which late entries as long as maps are available but entries close completely on Wednesday 2/4/25 – there is no entry after this or on the day.
Prizegiving/Trophies
There are Scottish Sprint Championship Glass trophies for the first Scot on Men Open and Women Open. Medals for the top 3 people on all classes regardless of whether they are eligible to be Scottish Champion. Small prize for Scottish Champion in the following classes – male and female in 10,12,14,16,18,20,Open, Vet, Supervet, Ultravet, Hypervet. Prizegiving around 14:15hrs. There are no prizes for the SOUL race.
Results: Live results should be available HERE.
Family groups
Family groups should enter one of the Open classes and enter one of their juniors only, then add the additional names in the “further information” box on the entry page. Extra maps can be booked for £1 each.
Sportident timing. Controls will be programmed for contactless punching but any dibber will work. Courses all have less than 27 controls. The Start and Finish units are NOT contactless, you must punch these manually.
Medical conditions
Anyone with a known medical condition should complete the form http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/images/uploaded/downloads/officials_handbook_safety_firstaid_medical_form_280514.doc, place it in a sealed envelope addressed with their name and leave it at registration in assembly. Envelopes will only be opened if required for a medical emergency and unopened envelopes will be destroyed immediately after the event.
Dogs on leads allowed apart from inside the event centre or on the courses.
Organiser: Andrew Armstrong RR
Planner: Lindsey Knox RR
Entries: Ian Maxwell RR
Computing on the day: Paul McGreal RR
Controller: Allie Wilson Craw NATO

Club EGM
2025-04-29 21:00 - 21:15
A quick Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss/approve a change to the Constitution to allow the committee to comply with new Child Protection legislation which came into force on 1/4/25.
Members will receive an email with the Zoom login details.

Gordon - evening sprint
2025-05-07 18:30 - 19:00
The first of our summer evening sprints is at Gordon Community Woodland.
Parking: Small car park on the minor road from East Gordon to Mack’s Mill. From the A6105 Earlston to Duns road, turn north 1.5 miles east of Gordon village. At the bottom of the hill, bear left at the Gordon Community Wood sign. Map HERE
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Times: Starts from 6:30 – 7pm. Courses close at 8.00pm.
Course: One sprint course of Orange (i.e. medium) standard.
Entry fees: Senior members £3.50, Junior members £1.75. Senior non-members £4.50, Junior non-members £2.25. You can enter for one race at a time or all 4 on the same form. Entry form HERE
Please pre-enter by bedtime on Wednesday 30/4/25. Late entries email Robin Sloan to check for available maps. (see below for email address).
Sportident timing: Hire a contactless dibber for 50p, older non-contactless hire is free.
Terrain notes: Community woodland with a network of paths. Off-path heathery and rougher ground with trees planted in lines of small ridges. Some lovely small patches of more runnable woodland.
Many of the board walks are in poor condition, especially between the parking and the Start and Finish. Please take extra care on these, walk carefully!
Clothing: Full leg coverage required, no shorts.

Gala Policies - evening sprint
2025-05-14 18:30 - 19:00
It’s Gala Policies for our second evening sprint.
Parking: Start and Finish will be near Galashiels Swimming Pool. Please do not park in the Swimming Pool car park, as normally there is plenty space in Livingston Place and beside the Focus Community Centre. TD1 1DQ
Times: Starts from 6:30 – 7pm. Courses close at TBC
Course: One sprint course of Orange (i.e. medium) standard.
Entry fees: Senior members £3.50, Junior members £1.75. Senior non-members £4.50, Junior non-members £2.25. Entry form HERE
Please pre-enter by bedtime on Wednesday 7/5/25.
Sportident timing: Hire a contactless dibber for 50p, older non-contactless hire is free.
Terrain notes: Woodland with a network of paths and some open areas, off-path a mix of runnability, undergrowth will be growing.
Clothing: Full leg coverage required, no shorts.

Selkirk Hill - evening sprint
2025-05-21 18:30 - 19:00 | Selkirk Hill
3rd in the evening sprint series, at Selkirk Hill. Part of World Orienteering Week (WOW) – all juniors will receive a completion certificate 🙂

Car parking: Please park in the vicinity of the Argus Centre in Selkirk (grid ref: NT476286). From there it is a 10 minute walk to the Start, Finish and Registration at Buxton (grid ref NT483287) – i.e. the usual small car park east from the Argus Centre. HERE
Course: The course is 2.4 km in length, Orange (medium) difficulty. The aim is to start people at minute intervals from 6:30 to 7:00pm with the course closing at 7:45pm. The winning time should be under 20 minutes.
Terrain: Mostly open, scrubby, heathland with fast running on the paths. Most of the running can be done on paths but off the paths there are many jaggy, scratchy bushes & trees. Full leg cover required, no shorts.
Registration: You only need to visit Registration if you have to pick up a hired dibber, pay some money, or check the battery on your own SIAC dibber. Otherwise you can go directly to the Start.
Start procedures: Clear and Check your dibbers before you enter the start boxes, as usual. There will be a contactless check box for those of you with SIAC dibbers to waft. If your SIAC fails to register you will need to “dib” manually at the controls.
Map scale: 1:4000. No legend on the map.
Control descriptions: On the front of the map only, no loose descriptions.
Control sites: Control units will be grippled to anything suitably immobile at the control site. Consequently control units may be sited low to the ground.
Entry fees: Senior members £3.50, Junior members £1.75. Senior non-members £4.50, Junior non-members £2.25. Entry form HERE
Please pre-enter by bedtime on Wednesday 14/5/25.
Sportident timing: Hire a contactless dibber for 50p, older non-contactless hire is free.
Clothing: Full leg coverage required, no shorts.

Wilton Park, Hawick - evening sprint
2025-05-28 18:30 - 19:00
The last in the summer evening sprints, in Wilton Park.
Parking: at the Walled Garden or along at the Changing Rooms. What3words: ///scanty.stitch.trail Map HERE
Times: Starts from 6:30 – 7pm. The Start is down in the park towards the museum and will be taped.
Course: One easy course suitable for all. All in the park, no road crossing so suitable for juniors. Ideal for beginners or anyone who wants to give the sport a try, basic tuition available at the start.
Entry fees: Senior members £3.50, Junior members £1.75. Senior non-members £4.50, Junior non-members £2.25. Pairs/Family entries just pay for the youngest person in the group.
Pre-entries have now closed. Email Ian Maxwell (details below) if you missed the deadline but want to reserve a map.
Sportident timing: Hire a contactless dibber for 50p, older non-contactless hire is free.
Terrain notes: Local park with a small area of woodland. Beware of loose dogs and kids on scooters.
Clothing: Shorts permitted.

MTBO Bowhill, near Selkirk
2025-07-12 10:30 - 13:00
Sat 12th Jul 2025 at Bowhill, near Selkirk
The 2026 World Master Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships are taking place between 8th to 14th September 2026 and are being based around the floral town of Forres in the north of Scotland. Bowhill is a chance for competitors to get in some practice well beforehand. As part of South Scotland MTBO Adventure weekend you can also race at Beecraigs the next day.
Registration 1030-1200, Starts 1200-1300.
Middle Distance (expected winning times 40-50mins) and 3 courses (including one that will be fine for newcomers).
Details, flyer to download and entry link are here: https://www.bmbo.org.uk/calendar/details.php?event_id=1660

Jedburgh urban
2025-09-14 13:00 - 14:00
Parking/Registration: Abbey Bridge car park (south of the Abbey), near to Thistle Pavilion. Map here.
Public Toilets available, 50p pay by card.
Starts: between 1 and 2pm
Start and Finish both nearby.
Course: Two courses suitable for all abilities but anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. The adult must run their own course first if they want a competitive run themselves.
Terrain: almost all on tarmac, possibly some sections on parkland.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. Late entries should be available but email Ian Maxwell to check (details below).
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Clothing/Footwear: Shorts can be worn. No metal-studded running shoes.

Kelso urban
2025-10-12 13:00 - 14:00
Parking/Registration: The car park near the river at the southern end of Mayfield Lane (near Mayfield Garden Centre) TD5 7BL. Map HERE
Starts: between 1 and 2pm
Start and Finish : Close by
Courses: Two courses suitable for all abilities but anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. The adult must run their own course first if they want a competitive run themselves.
Courses lengths: On the most likely routes the long course is about 5.6km, the short course about 3km. All with very little climb.
Terrain: almost all on tarmac, possibly some sections on parkland. As with all urban races, please take care crossing roads, some in the centre of Kelso are quite busy. Watch out for pedestrians also when emerging from vennels and closes.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. A few extra maps are being printed to late entries, email Eb Rooney (see below) to check availablility.
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Clothing/Footwear: Shorts can be worn. No metal-studded running shoes.

Sandyknowe Craigs/Smailholm Tower
2025-11-15 13:00 - 14:00
Sandyknowe Craigs/Smailholm Tower.
Parking/Registration: at Smailholm Tower. Follow the existing Tourist signs from the main road, through the Sandyknowe Farm steading, past the small loch and on to the Tower. There won’t be any orienteering signs at the main road end. Map HERE
Starts: between 1 and 2pm
Start and Finish : Close by
Courses: There will be 2 TD5 courses, a Green and a Short Green. If there’s demand for it there will also be a Yellowy/Orange course so make sure you pre-enter if you want this course.
Courses lengths: Green 3.5km/ 100m climb. Short Green 2.5km/ 75m climb. Yellowy/Orange 1.5km/ 45m climb.
Terrain: Open cattle-grazed land with a lot of contour detail, gorse and crags. Very few line features apart from the fences which separate the area into 4 blocks. Courses will be planned to avoid barbed or high fences. There should be no cattle when we’re there.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. Contact John Tullie, details on this page, to check late availability.
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Clothing/Footwear: Full leg cover is compulsory. Shoes with some grip recommended.

Traquair: event and RR Christmas lunch
2025-12-06 11:30 - 11:45
Venue: Traquair House, near Innerleithen. Grateful thanks to them for permission,
Christmas lunch in Traquair Arms at 2pm. There are 2 menus to choose from, mix and match from either is OK as each course is individually priced. Let Lindsey know of any allergies etc. (details below). Could everyone competing and then going to the lunch please help bring in some controls and generally tidy up. Christmas Menu. Winter Menu. Orders required no later than Tuesday 2/12 and cancellations after that may need paid for.
Starts: 11:30 – 11:45 am. Courses close at 1pm
Parking: Traquair House, down the drive near the Estate Office. Entry from the minor road B7062. Map HERE
Facilities: None, the House, Grounds and Coffee Shop are closed for the season. Use the toilet facilities in Innerleithen before you arrive.
Courses: One Light Green course (a flat 3.9km approx, optimum route) which will, of course, include a trip to the Maze – you’d be disappointed if it didn’t wouldn’t you ! There are 2 loops so there’s the option to do a short Light Green of about 2.3km. Also an easier course of about Yellow+ standard but please pre-enter for this if you can as we won’t print many extra maps.
Map: The map scale is 1:3000. An extract of the Maze is in a separate box, blown up to make it (hopefully) clearer to read. A magnifer might be handy for poorer eyesights ! The Light Green is printed with a turnover at the point where there is the choice of finishing there or doing the whole course.
Terrain: Flat, easy offroad, paths, fields, small amount of paved paths/road. Could be muddy in places so shoes with some grip required but not metal dobbs as they might cause damage to some paved surfaces.
Entries: Pre-entries have now closed. A small number of extra maps have been ordered for late entries, email Lindsey (details below) to book on.
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS. Additional maps £1 each.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.

2026 AGM (on Zoom)
2026-01-15 20:00 - 21:00
The 2026 AGM will be on Zoom, a link will be sent to everyone nearer the time.

2026 Club Champs and Open Event - Dundock, Coldstream
2026-01-31 11:30 - 14:30
We’re back to the fun of the rhododendrons of Dundock Wood for our January event which will include our RR Club Championships.
Please note a change to insurance cover: As from 1/1/26 participants who are not members of British Orienteering are not covered by British Orienteering’s public liability insurance. By entering this event, you acknowledge that you are taking part at your own risk. For example, if you were to accidentally injure a member of the public or damage property during the event, you would not be covered. Regular and semi-regular orienteers may wish to consider becoming a BO member for a fairly modest annual cost. Existing Scottish Orienteering members can upgrade by phoning British Orienteering and paying the difference.
Parking: The small car park off the A697 at NT 819 398. Map HERE
Starts: 11:00am Mass Start for Club Championships and Open. 11:05am for Orange.
Courses: A 40 minute (tbc) Score event for the club championships and Open event, plus a short Orange for beginners (it’ll be somewhere between Yellow and Orange but with so many paths I can’t fulfil the “no more than 2 decision points” requirement to call it Yellow).
Club Championships: will be a handicap system as usual. 40 minutes to find as many controls as possible which will then be compared to the sealed handicap, highest % against target wins. In the event of a tie the fastest person will win.
Terrain: A maze of paths and small clearings amongst a huge area of rhododendrons. Some paths are muddy in all weathers, wear suitable footwear.
Safety: The car park will be busy, please take care especially if you have young children with you. You may encounter walkers, dogs, horses – be courteous and pass quietly. Anyone with a relevent medical condition which we should be aware of may leave a sealed envelope with the details on it with Organiser which they can retrieve unopened after they Finish. Link to the form is HERE
Entries: Pre-entries will open after Christmas. Pre-entry essential for club members wishing to get a handicap.
Entry fees: Senior members £4.50, Junior members £2.25, Non-members £5.50 / £2.75. Fees payable by card (preferably), exact cash, or by BACS.
Timing: Sportident timing. Hire of contactless dibber 50p, hire of older manual dibber Free.
Clothing/Footwear: Full leg cover is compulsory. Shoes with some grip recommended.

Gala Hill (subject to permission)
2026-02-15 11:00 - 12:00
Local event at Gala Hill (subject to landowner permission).
Note slightly earlier start windows in spring 2026.

Tweedbank
2026-03-22 11:00 - 12:00
Local event at Tweedbank. More details later.

Eyemouth urban SOUL and UKUL
2026-06-07 11:00 - 15:00
New map of Eyemouth, both a SOUL and a UKUL
Part of a weekend of orienteering on the east coast – Berwick on Saturday 6/6/26 organised by NATO.
Planner: Andrew Armstrong RR
Organiser: Lindsey Knox RR help@roxburghreivers.org.uk
Controller: Allie Wilson Craw NATO
