Sportident sesults from the St Boswells urban race are HERE.

Thursday evening (20th April) was the rescheduled date for the RR club championships at St Boswells. Thick ice on the pavements in January made it an easy decision to postpone. Instead we were blessed with a sunny evening, although a deceptively cold wind.
Being a relatively small area, the wiser members of the club suggested I design an odds and evens score event. Although everyone seemed to have a good run, the speedier runners were polite enough not to complain that I’d definitely miss-calculated the running time. A quick post race decision was made to stick with the original handicaps which meant the prestigious club championship trophy (rather an amusing hotch potch of mementos stuck to a plinth) went to Robin Sloan. Andrew Armstrong took 2nd place and Lindsey Knox 3rd. Next time I think I’ll avoid the complexity of a score !
Two younger residents of St Boswells sped round their course, having enjoyed their orienteering coaching session the previous week at St Boswells Primary School. Hopefully the McLeod’s from Lauder will be inspired to join the club and the Dalgleish’s will be back for more of the RR sprint series.

Kate Darlow, Planner/Organiser

Club Handicap results:

Live results from each of our spring sprint series will be HERE until they get overwritten by the next event.

Full results from today’s event are now HERE

Thanks to Robin for Planning/Organising the event and the weather 🙂

Planner writes: Here is a belated note about the Local event at Gordon Community Woods last Saturday. Thanks to all who came and hope you all enjoyed the run. Well done to Ian who just pipped Phil by 14 seconds, the lead changing hands a couple of times as there seemed to be some route choices  – as a course planner that’s always satisfying. Also well-done to Ava and Roddy, you both had some excellent split-times – you clearly benefitted from Ian’s coaching session!

Thanks to Rob for help setting up, to Lindsey for doing the computing with help from Eileen, and to Eb, Judith, Eileen, James, Ian and Max for bringing in controls (I think I’ve forgotten someone… apologies if so)

Something to remember next time at Gordon is that the wall symbol (although the legend says ‘uncrossable’) doesn’t mean it must NOT be crossed. The only features it is forbidden to cross on rough terrain (using the ISOM 2017 standard) are purple lines or hatching, and olive for private land. Watch out though, sometimes the map says something like ‘all fields are out-of-bounds’ without the purple lines. Conversely, on urban terrain using the ISSprOM 2019 standard, thick black lines and thick green lines must also NOT be crossed. So the point is, next time at Gordon, if you think it is safe to cross, you may cross either of the walls on a direct route. (You may also legally cross the pond with the black line round it, but it’s highly recommended not to try!) If the above causes confusion rather than clarity, have a word with Ian, Lindsey or myself.

Thanks again for coming.

 Robin