Grampian
Mountain Challenge 13th/14th Nov
This new and exciting event will challenge both elite mountain
marathoners and any orienteer who likes big days on the hill!
With a few fresh twists to the tried and tested mountain marathon format, we
bring the full-on two-day event to Deeside.
Put this weekend in your diary.
Online entries
now open. More (updated)
details here.
11/8 Person Relay – 4th
September at Crathes Castle, Deeside
The 11 Person Relay for larger clubs and the 8 Person Relay for small clubs
will take place at Crathes Castle (NO 735968) on Saturday 4th September 2010 by
kind permission of the National Trust for Scotland.
For more details and links to entry forms etc
click here.
Entries should be received by the 27th
August 2010. There will be no entry on the day for relay teams.
GRAMPS - tell Evgueni asap if you want to run
in one of our teams - legs of different length and technicality available so let
him know your standard (Orange to Green) and he'll make sure you're given
something suitable. 01224 868304.
Summer Series 
Every Wednesday evening
until 1st September.
18:30 to 19:30 registration, courses close at 20:00; Ł2 Seniors, Ł1 Juniors;
three courses from short and easy to a few km and as hard as we can make it for
that area.
Ideal intro for friends and family so bring a crowd and get out and enjoy those
summer evenings.
Check the Events Page for the full list of venues and map links to help you find
them or download this
handy list but check the website before setting
out in case things have changed.
Summer Series 2010 Results
Hazlehead now added
Summer Series points so far
Summer Series Awards so
far
Extra competition
for those who did the hard or technical course at Tollo Hill:
Can anyone identify the archeological feature
which was Control 9? Tell
me if you think you know the answer and
I'll pass it on to Ewen.
And speaking of competitions, anyone got the answer
to the question in the Junior section of the last Telegramp? Again, tell
me and I'll check with Neil. Any correct answer
received wins a lavish prize.
Apologies to the
International Federation Biathlonorienteering (IBOF) for causing any confusion
with our previous references to the World Orienteering Biathlon on this site.
Luboš Přibyl, Chairman
of United Biathlon Orienteering,
sent me an email advising me that the
3rd World Orienteering Biathlon is, in fact,
being held July 30th - August 1st in the Czech Republic.
Bad timing on our part as maybe folk have been searching online and diverted
here and the last thing we wanted to do was cause confusion or offence.
Just to clarify, our event involved darts not guns and was a fun celebration of
the induction of Jon Duncan into Edinburgh University's Sport Hall of Fame. Jon,
who is an honorary member of GRAMP, staged a similar event in 2002. We have
retitled our event to avoid further confusion. For further info on real
Biathlonorienteering check
www.biathlon.dk or
www.biathlonorienteering.se.
Scottish Oridarteering Champs
Well done to the 10 game souls with enough energy left to chance their
throwing arms in the 1st Scottish Oridarteering Champs at Aberdeen University,
held to celebrate JD's induction into Edinburgh University Sport Hall of Fame.
They all received lavish prizes as promised and we have four new champions in
the club:
Mens' Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Tim Gomersall
Womens' Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Katrina McLeod
Mens' Veteran Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Ian Hamilton
Womens' Veteran Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Sheena Farquhar
(JD)2C rankings after Sluie Click
here (Posted
4/7)
Two more events have been resheduled to bring the
number of events counting towards the Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup and the
GRAMP Champs to the full quota of 10 again. Both in August which is usually the
quiet month for O events so make sure you take advantage of the opportunity and
come along to Creag Choinnich (MAROC) on Sunday 22nd and Glen Dye on Sunday
29th.
Ewen Rennie spotted leading Stonehaven Half
Marathon!

Paul Duley was captured in action too - click on the inset for the full size
photo.
Congratulations to Carolyn McLeod for avoiding "the wifie hanging out a window
taking photos" and ultimately winning the Ladies race in 1:26:16 some 12 minutes
ahead of Paul.
Reminder about ticks
Now it's summer, make sure you check for ticks after running or orienteering
through undergrowth. They can carry and pass on Lyme Disease if they manage to
take a bite but providing you remove them asap it's highly unlikely you'll
contract this. The
SOA website as a good page of info about them
and don't worry,
NASA are on the case!
SOL 4 Scolty Results
by course Results
by age class
Splits
Routegadget
String course
Winsplits
Organiser's comments and lost property
Junior Inter-area 2010
Overall Results - updated
9/6/10
JIA Relay results
JIA Relay Splits
Just been looking at the comments on RG - well
done to Angela Dixon for admitting to a spot of mid-course geocaching up Scolty
tower! Did you find it? And looks like Evelyn Mason enjoyed herself too :
)
Results by course now updated to include Colour
Standard times.
Balmedie results (Posted 10/5)
Results/splits
Routegadget
Well that was more like it wasn't it?
None of that pesky snow nor even a drop of rain, just lots of sun and happy
orienteers milling about having survived the Dunes Experience.
Some seemed to
get on better than others judging by Sarah's comments: "All seemed to go pretty
smoothly and courses were good. I sat near 166 for a while watching competitors.
The amazing thing was that of the 10 people who came into the control, only 1
was meant to be there - the other 9 were ~250m off line from either 165 or 167!"
Thanks Chris for taxing the old brain cells so much and also everyone else for
organising or helping out; if you ever need an impromptu fire patrol, I can
recommend the Archibalds (MAROC.)
More GRAMP successes - this time at British
Champs
(Posted 4/5)
Well done to Sasha for bagging the M14A British
Orienteering Champion title and the GRAMP Trotters - aka Sasha, Dad and Duncan
Grassie - for getting a very creditable 5th place in the Mens Short Relay.
Neil's hard work recognised
(Posted 03/5)

Congratulations to Neil McLean who was nominated by the club
for the Aberdeenshire Sports Council’s Service to Sport Award & received a
Highly Commended certificate.
Thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm over the years,
Neil, in Junior Development and many, many other facets orienteering.
(Sorry - been meaning to put this up for some time but kept forgetting before
logging off each time.)
Ultra-GRAMP
(Posted 26/4)
So you think that the London Marathon looked like
hard work? Gramp member Gary Morrison completed the Highland Fling
ultra-marathon yesterday (Sat 24th). The distance is a double marathon - 53
miles, from Milngavie to Tyndrum along the paths and tracks of the southern part
of the West Highland Way. His time was 12 hours 20 mins, which looks pretty
respectable to me! This was after Gary completed the A class at the Highlander
Mountain Marathon two weeks ago, and the Deeside 33 Ultra Marathon (33 miles)
the week before that. Results for the Highland Fling will be posted at:
http://www.highlandflingrace.org/ and the D33 race results are at
http://deesidewayultra.webnode.com/.
Will Ali and Sean will be able to satisfy this man's lust for kms with their
Grampian Mountain Challenge?
Monday training sessions move outdoors again
(Posted 29/3)
Starting April 19th, the Monday night training
sessions will restart at 7pm at Duthie Park
and then move around to different locations around Aberdeen. Here's a
list of provisional dates and venues but be
warned that these may have to be changed at short notice, so check here before
coming along each week.
WELL DONE US!! (Posted
17/3)
GRAMP has been named as
British Orienteering Club of the Year!
This is due in no small part to Anne Hickling's hard work in development of both
the club and the sport's profile loca lly over the past few years, for which she
has received a British Orienteering Service Award.
And as if that wasn't enough, Oleg Chepelin has been selected for the 2010 World
Class Squad.
Well done to them both and also the rest of us for helping make
GRAMP such a success!
How shall we celebrate?
Scottish Sprint Champs (Updated
9/3)
King's Buildings campus in Edinburgh on Saturday 6th made a brilliantly intricate
area with plenty of blind alleys to catch folk out. Change of format this year
and rather than individual age classes there were three categories of trophy;
Junior, Senior and Vets and Tim Gomersall is the Scottish Junior Men's Sprint
Champ of 2010. Well done Tim!
Night Champs (Posted
8/3)
The British Night Championships took place later on on the 6th on the North Face
of the Pentlands with slippery melting snow on steep slopes, evil gorse bushes
to dodge and the occasional cameraman looming out of the dark as it was filmed
for (probably) the next Adventure Show programme at the end of the month.
M18 Tim G 3rd, M21L Oleg 2nd (is he GRAMP
still? We'll claim him for this result anyway!)
M45L Evgueni 3rd, M45S Sam G 2nd, M50S
Iain McLeod 1st, W45S Rachel 3rd
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