More details have been added to the Harvester Relays webpage, including details of course lengths, technical difficulty and lighting for the different legs, and confirmation of start times. As advertised, the Harvester Relays will start earlier than usual to allow competitors to take part in SOL 5 the next day.
See the Harvester Relays webpage for more information.
Whilst the rest of the Club were doing battle in the ESOA Inter Club Championships, Roxburgh Reiver Martin Sloan was sleeping off nearly two and half working days of exercise.
Martin was one of Brodies LLP‘s team for this year’s Monster Bike and Hike, a charitable event raising money for Maggies Cancer Care Centres. The challenge involves cycling 30 miles from Fort William to Fort Augustus, then hiking the remaining 40 miles of the Great Glen Way from Fort Augustus to Inverness, all within 24 hours. The Brodies team comfortably beat this target, finishing at 3:05am on Sunday morning, with a time of 19 hours exactly.
Thanks to internal fundraising events, and external sponsorship (including sponsorship from fellow Roxburgh Reivers), the team are well on their way to meeting their fundraising target of £3,000. If you would like to sponsor the team, there’s still time – please follow this link to the team’s page on the Just Giving website:
Proving that quality is better than quantity Reivers took the title of East of Scotland Club Champions for 2006 at Dalmeny Estate on Sunday.
The area is brand new to orienteering but, due to lambing, about half the area was out of bounds on this occasion and a lot of rest was brambly. However, there were some nice parts and the views over the Forth were stunning.
On the Brown course James Tullie finished 2nd overall with Paul McGreal and Andrew Tullie fighting for the second counter, Paul just pipping it. On Blue Ian Maxwell was first counter in 6th place followed by Andrew Armstrong. Rob Cranston unfortunately mispunched on a knoll which had two controls very close together.
On the 6.5km Green course Lindsey never got going through the brambles and finished 7th with Bill Bruce backing up in 8th. Kirstin Maxwell, just back from Slovakia, took full points on the Light Green and Colin Ross excelled himself by finishing 5th despite having to use pictorial descriptions for the first time.
On Orange Jane and Alison McNeilly (and Judy) came out of retirement and took the top 2 places while on Red Eileen Maxwell had a breeze round the course to win by less than a minute from Bill Knox (brother of Jim). Karen Maxwell had an easy day at the office winning Yellow comfortably and Vicky Ross showed how much shes improved by taking 4th spot.
The final scores were RR 184, ESOC 167, INT 148, EUOC 60, KFO 49, ELO 36, TAY 8, LINOC 0.
See the Summer Series 3/SOL 5 information page for more information.
Please note that although this event forms part of Roxburgh Reivers’ 2006 Summer Series it is being run in conjunction with round 5 of the Scottish Orienteering League and that Summer Series entry fees will not apply.
See The Big Weekend homepage for more information.
Roxburgh Reivers were well represented at the British Orienteering Championships near Midhurst In West Sussex last Saturday with several club members putting in excellent performances over very wet and physical courses.
Douglas Tullie dropped in on his way back from competing in the Spring Cup in Denmark to finish a superb 2nd in the M18 race, only 33 seconds behind the winner and Ian Maxwell achieved his best result to date finishing 3rd in the M45S race behind two former GB internationals.
James Tullie finished in 5th place in a very competitive M20E class with Kirstin Maxwell and Sarah Tullie placed 9th and 12th respectively in the W14 race. Andrew Tullie finished 24th on M18L , John Tullie was 20th on M45L and Douglas Henderson was 72nd on M55L
Kirstin and Ian along with several other Scots competitors made the long journey back up on the Saturday evening to compete in the final SoSOL of the season at Devilla the following morning. The forest is being clear felled and thinned, and this combination with the normal long heather meant the courses were quite physical.
Best performances from the Reivers came from Robin Sloan who finished 2nd on the Blue course and Kirstin Maxwell who was 6th on Green. Winning the overall league titles are Karen Maxwell and Kirstin Maxwell, a tremendous achievement by both athletes and a good result for the club with two class winners from the seven available. KFO had a frustrating day their generator broke down so the SI system couldnt function and everyone had to make up their own control card using a quarter page A4. And one control apparently went walkies.