Sprint O Kings Buildings

Max and Colin went our Sprint Orienteering round the Kings Buildings university campus. Great location for a run. Max did very well getting round 2 loops of 1.5 km in just over 30 minutes.

Meadows Mile

Quick race round the Meadows on a regular mile event held by Sri Chimnoy running club. Finished the mile in 6 min 19 sec in 30th place of 42 runners.

Sprint-O

Excellent course around the grounds of Astlie Ainslie hospital and surrounding streets. A few bad controls led to a rather poor placing of 13 of 20.

LAMM Day 2

We were again woken by the bagpipes - this time at 5 am. After a quick sausage stew we were ready to go by 6.30. Not everyone survived the night - one competitor put a tent peg through his foot going to the loo in the night without his shoes on!

On day 2 we again navigated very well with just one hiccup at a control with a poor grid reference. Conditions were again tough with very poor visibility on the mountain peaks.

There were just 136 starters on our course on Day 2 and we came 115 of the 120 who finished. There were 16 who didn't manage to finish the second day. Overall our time was second slowest - but mission accomplished.

Fantistic experience.

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Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon - Day 1

Ian and I headed off on Friday morning for two days in the hills at LAMM in the Assynt region in the far north of Scotland. After a five hour journey we arrived at the basecamp at Inchnadamph near Ullapool. Our objective was to finish and not be the slowest finishers.

We pitched camp with Franks rather outdated tent looking out of place amongst the other more modern base camp tents. Excellent meal from Wilfs in the base camp tent and a few drinks at the local hotel, the only hostelry for about 20 miles, whose sole barperson was wondering why it was a bit busy that night!
Having survived Ian's snoring we were woken by the sound of the piper walking up the glen. After a quick breakfast we set of on what proved to be a long hard journey. In spite of recent training Ian wasn't well prepared for the length of the race or the terrain. Our navigation was very good and we made good progress over the first two controls. For the third Ian had decided that he didn't like hills and that he loved paths and we chosed a very long route that went a very long way round a hill and added about 7 km to the journey and probably lost us about an hour. Thereafter the going was very tough in bad weather and rougn ground. We kept going though and arrived on a mountain peak above mid camp around 7 pm. After a final rough descent we finally got to camp at around 8 pm. I shall never forget to look of admonishment that Ian gave me as we crossed t he line after almost ten very tough hours on the hills.

We quickly put up the tent and had a minestrone cup-a-soup that tasted absolutely fabulous. After that it was quickly to sleep.

On our course there was one slower team and nine that failed to complete out of 145 teams.

R&R

A fairly quiet weekend for everyone. Blanket sale at the school on Saturday afternoon although we didn't manage to sell much. Cherry went to Miniatura whilst the rest of us went on a short cycle ride.

Pentlands Long O

A return to normal form on Sunday at the Pentlands Long Orienteering event. A very long course of 22 km as the crow flies but much longer on the ground took 4 hrs 46 minutes to complete. 21 st of 26 entries. Very tough going and blisters forced me down to walking pace for much of the course.

Edinburgh Sprint Series

A fine result for Colin in this 3 race 1 day competition. Third place on the M35+ class. OK - there were only 7 competitors but still an achievement.

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JGPS 2 Sciennes PS 6

Hannah's team played really well but didn't manage to beat the Sciennes team.

Edinburgh City Cup No 5

5th place (out of 12). Navigation not brilliant but kept going quite well.

Harp Competition

Max came an excellent third place in his first harp competition. Well Done.