Sunday, August 27, 2006

Purple Thistle


Max and Colin travelled far north to Glen Affric for the Purple Thistle orienteering weekend. Beautiful countryside and fairly good weather. The courses were extremely difficult. Max came second on the junior course (of 2 competitors). Colin did very well on the Big Thistle course coming somewhere in the top half. Max is pictured rock climbing at the Day 2 finish.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Turnhouse Hill

Went out for a walk in the Pentlands with around 20 people from the office. Pleasant walk to the summit of Turnhouse in mixed weather. Hannah did well. A doddle for Max.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

The Goodies


Family trip out to see the Goodies at the Fringe Festival. The show wasn't really aimed at kids so Hannah found it a bit dull in parts.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Portmore Loch Club Handicap Race

First handicap race of the season that I've managed to get to. Got a bit lost in the forest which seemed to get thicker and thicker. Managed to finish in third place thanks to a generous handicap.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Orienteering Blackford Hill

While Colin was at the half-marathon Cherry, Max and Hannah went orienteering at the local hill. Max really enjoyed his run getting round the orange course in 43 minutes, coming 6th of 13. Hannah went round the white in 28 minutes.

Haddington Half Marathon

Colin ran at the Haddington half marathon getting round in a fantastic 1 hr 42 min 50 secs easily beating personal best of 1 hr 47 and last years time of 1 hr 49.

Cherry, Max and Hannah went orienteering at Blackford hill and all did well.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Caerketton Hill Race

Max and Colin headed out to the steep hills of the Pentlands for a challenging hill run.

Max did brilliantly well in the Junior run coming in fourth place in a very demanding course. He won a £ 5 gift token for his efforts.

Colin came in 44 place out of 66 runners in 19 min 7 sec. This was a good improvement on a year earlier when he came 36 of 41 in 21 min 20 sec.

Hannah's Birthday Party



A nice afternoon at Gorgie City farm.

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Mayar & Driesh


Max and Colin bagged 2 more munros. Glorious weather meant the going was quite tough in the heat. Very nice walk first to Driesh and then to Mayar. Got round the 14 km route in 5 hrs 15 minutes.

Max has now completed 10 munros.