Thanks to everyone who came along to our Sprint event at Tweedbank. It’s not often that we can offer a event which was so convenient for public transport. We strongly believe in supporting local businesses so our prizes were all sourced locally – Tempest Brewery in Tweedbank and Simply Delicious (Tablet) in Melrose.
Although we now have mapped many urban areas all across the Borders, Tweedbank was our very first urban area (in 1989) and I do hope you can now see why.
Come and join us in May if you can for our series of 4 Wednesday evening sprint events in a range of woodland and parkland settings.
Andrew Armstrong, Organiser
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I managed to get the winning times fairly close to the 12-15 minute guideline for all courses so I was happy with that.
The Championship courses were deliberately fairly straightforward in the first half, tempting runners into running too hard or getting complacent, but you still had to stay in control and leave enough in the tank for the hill and some tricky navigation in the second half. The SOUL courses tried not to be a re-run of the first race so everyone had different controls for this, and most courses visited new areas of the map which I used to inject some long legs with at least 2 route choices.
I’ve dug out the 1989 version of the map, a handrawn 1:5000 affair with the only housing being north of the pond. The houses at the south-west corner were under construction but there were only fields between the pond and the industrial estate. No railway station of course ! It’s been an ongoing mapping project for various club members for the past 36 years and it’s still ongoing with the industrial estate constantly changing but it remains one of our prime areas.
A few thanks: Tweedbank Primary School, the Animal & Plant Health Agency (next to the Finish), various residents and businesses that let me put controls on their property, John Tullie for pre-running some provisional courses and finding routes I hadn’t anticipated, Paul McGreal RR for manning the computers which allowed me to plan for a change, Allie Wilson Craw for Controlling, and all the RRs who helped on the day.
Lindsey Knox, Planner
Results:
| Scottish Sprints Champs 2025 | SOUL 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Results | Scottish Sprint Champs 2025 results | SOUL3 2025 |
| Routegadget | Sprint Champs Routegadget | SOUL3 Routegadget |
| Winsplits | Scottish Sprint Championships 2025 | SOUL3 |
| BOF results | Sprints BOF results | SOUL BOF results |
| SOUL standings | SOUL points | |
| Photos | photos | |
| List of Scottish Champions | champions list |