Jedburgh Abbey formed the backdrop for registration and download as Ian Maxwell gave us an enjoyable challenge on the pavements and footpaths along side the Jed Water.

The full results are HERE

It was a good night for the Heger family with Marc just pipping Patrick for the top spot by 12 seconds.

There were lots of younger members and guests today. Pride of place goes to Elspeth Sloan running as a W4 and impressing her World Master grandad with an excellent time for her age.

At least one of the local residents forgot their local knowledge around the swimming pool and ended up on the wrong side of the A68 when looking for control number 7.

The League table below is based on taking the aggregate of the best two results from three. I think this gives a more accurate view of potential final standings than adding all three scores together. Focusing on the best two keeps Ian Maxwell in the lead, just ahead of Marc and Patrick.

You can enlarge the table by clicking on it.

Next week’s event is at Selkirk Hill, planned by Fiona Johnston – park at the Argus Centre. Start times are from 6pm as usual.

This is just a short post to show the results. More material will follow later along with the up-to-date League Table after two events.

The full results are HERE

The League table after two events is shown below:

To enlarge the table, just click on it

The table will change next week as Ian is organising and we will move onto three counting events. Until we get to week 5, the table is based on the sum of all your ,points so far. From week 5 onwards we will just take your best four scores.

The next event is in the urban environment of Jedburgh next Wednesday with the first start at 6pm. More details are elsewhere on the website.

Congratulations to everyone who ran at Bowmont yesterday evening in ther first Sprint of the 2017 Wednesday evening.

Thanks to Pauline for planning interesting and challenging courses.

The full results are HERE

The next event is in the rhododendrons of The Hirsel next Wednesday with the first start at 6pm. More details are elsewhere on the website.

After one race the Series positions look like this:

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Provisional results are HERE

Winsplits are HERE

Routegadget is HERE

Photos below

Lost property:   A pair of white Pringle socks were found at the event. Claim from John Tullie:   johntullie@btconnect.com

Planner’s Report:

A couple of key decisions drove most of the rest of the course planning (a) I wanted to use some different parts of the hill, and have a start/finish/parking area that was weather resilient (not that we needed it today!), (b) I wanted everyone to have an ‘open hill’ experience as well as legs in the forest (which has got more pleasant in recent years), and (c) it’s not an especially technical area, so I tried to force route choice decisions.

The resulted in the ‘right across the map’ leg that was on Blue and Brown (post-race, no two people told me they’d gone the same way!), and ‘over-or-round’ options for most other courses. In hindsight, I’m not sure that was a good idea for Short Green – sorry. I also know that many of you found it pretty physical – the gorse and heather are on the march on Eildon due to lack of grazing.

I hope you enjoyed the challenge, hilltop views, and the sunshine we laid on for you.

Paul McGreal RR

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Well done to everyone who braved the heavy terrain of Lanton today.

The full results are HERE

It was good to see a new face from the Borders [Kate Grimsditch representing Jed Joggers] as well as a Catherine Maccoll visiting from Edinburgh Southern Orienteering Club. It was also good to see a number of families. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves.

Lanton can be tough underfoot and the rain of the past few days contributed to some serious mud in a n umber of places. I planned the longer courses to try to give you a a number of legs where there was a choice of going straight through the woods or taking a longer route round [muddy] paths, rides and tracks. Few controls were very far from a clear attack point off a path or track but holding a bearing through some bits of broken terrain or dense woodland may have been a problem today.

The Yellow Course was designed to let you see a bit more of wooded areas rather than just forest roads.

Thanks for helping us out by parking sensibly. Lanton is not ideal for parking. I know some of the Reivers who participated in Ian Maxwell’s training session beforehand parked quite a distance away and then had an intensive training session before walking to the start. I suspect one or two of you were glad to get to rest this evening.

Thanks to Robin Sloan for acting as Controller of the event and to Robin, John Tullie, Ian Maxwell, Keith Murray, James Purves and Sam McKinnon for bringing in the Controls. Robin and my wife, Susan, also helped me put out the controls.

Roxburgh Reivers next event is the South of Scotland Orienteering League on the Eildon Hills on Sunday 26th March. Full details elsewhere on this website. Entries through OEntries please.

You are also invited to take part in Roxburgh Reivers Sprint Series on Wednesday evenings from 26th April to 31st May inclusive at Bowmont, The Hirsel, Jedburgh [Urban NOT Lanton], Selkirk Hill, Melrose [Urban] and Hawick. More details will appear on the website soon. Four races to count and courses will be of Orange standard with Yellow also at some venues. Seniors £15 for the whole series, £3 pay as you go, Juniors £7.50 and £1.50.

Duncan Shiell [Planner and Organiser]