Cademuir SOSOL

Max and Colin headed off to Peebles for orienteering at Cademuir forest and hill. Another larger open moorland event with a lot of steep climbing. Max had a good run in 6th place on orange and Colin did well coming 9th on Brown.

Max collected his certificate for winning the 2006/2007 SOSOL Orange course league.

SOSOL 1

On Saturday we went out to the Botanic Gardens. Colin, Max and Hannah cycled there and back whilst Cherry walked and bussed. Had some pizza at Pizza express before a look round the gardens. Saw the new Queen Mum memorial garden for the first time.

On Sunday we went to a cold windy hillside near Bridge of Earn for the first SOSOL of the season. The parking proved exciting with some very dodgy tracks to navigate. Max had a good run coming in 4th place of 10 on the orange course. Colin was pleased with his 19th place on Brown with no big mistakes.

On the way back we stopped at East Wemyss on the Fife coastline to search for fossils. Found lots of little black marks in the rocks which might well once had been living creatures.

Blackness Castle

Went out to Blackness Castle on the Firth of Forth. Quite good. Then went for lunch at Cafe Rouge and bought some books at Waterstones.

Orienteering at Bush Estate

We all went out to the Bush estate at the edge of Edinburgh to go orienteering. This is a newly mapped area that is a bio science park. Colin and Max ran whilst Cherry and Hannah went for a walk.

Max came 6th of 18 runners (all adults!). Colin came 20th of 38.

Pentland Skyline

A really tough race especially in the unseasonally warm and sunny weather. Had a pretty good first half of the race although the time didn't seem particularly good. The second half was really draining and got blisters on the feet which made running painful.

Got round the 16 miles and 6200 ft of ascent in just over 4 hrs and came 96th of 124 finishers.