Results HERE.   Notes:  Fiona Forrest was manually timed, and Eleanor Heger forgot to Download. I’d uploaded Routegadget before getting this information, so neither appear on the Routegadget files.

Routegadget HERE. You can draw on your route on the map and compare it with others.  Start by clicking “draw your route” at the top right hand corner, then choose your course and name.

Organiser’s Report

Pity about the rain on Saturday – we might all have preferred the snow of last year. It was a beautiful morning setting out the controls and not bad for taking them in, but the deluge came at just the wrong time. However, it was a great turnout for the event and hopefully all enjoyed their course. More routes on Routegadget please! From those who have put their routes up, I can see there are a few deficiencies in the map – especially around 114 (#7 on Orange and O ++) – so these have been corrected for next time. Otherwise, you seem to have found enough route choices – Tweedbank is ideal for this kind of event.

Well done to Kirstin for the fastest time on O++, but 62 seconds only between the first 4 runners! And well done to Rainer and Marc for a super-fast run round the Yellow course.

Thanks to Rob for manning Registration, Lindsey for printing the maps and doing the computing, and to Douglas and John for bringing in controls. That all meant we were just about on time for our 2pm lunch!

Robin

On a wonderfully sunny November afternoon the action moved to Gordon Community Woodland. This local event was well supported with a number of families from Gordon itself together with quite a number of those who had been at Bowmont or Bowhill earlier in the Autumn Series. It was the best attendance of the series so far and certainly exceeded our expectations as only a handful of people attended the last event we held here in 2010. In fact, we ran out of Orange course maps this time and a few people had to select Yellow or Score courses instead. I do hope that you all enjoyed it nonetheless !  We were able to use the little wooden chalet next to the pond as our start and finish point which was ideal, particularly for the equipment required for SI electronic timing.

Orange and Score competitors were perhaps surprised at control 109 to see a magnificent new willow sculpture of a stag which has appeared in the forest since our last visit. I wonder if there will be more sculptural additions before our next visit ?

Although Gordon is mainly suitable for less technical courses like Yellow and Orange, club members agreed that there was considerable scope for refining the existing map to better represent the complex vegetation changes and produce some more challenging orienteering in the future.

Thanks to Judy & Alan McNeilly, Robin Sloan and Rob Cranston who helped me with the control collection at the end of the event.

Our last event in the Autumn Series is just a little different as we move to a more urban setting at Tweedbank on December 3rd from 12-1pm. It promises to be a lot of fun !

Andrew Armstrong (Organiser)

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Full Results HERE

Score course:  Totals and penalties HERE