Edinburgh University Orienteering Club organised today's South of Scotland Orienteering League race. I ran the Brown course which was 8.4k with 630m of climb and 30 controls. The course incorporated a section of micro-O (between controls 18 and 25) which had a map at a scale of 1:1,000.
Edinburgh University Orienteering Club organise the Big Weekend every January in Edinburgh, with a City Race on Saturday and a race in Holyrood Park on Sunday.
In the City Race, I ran Course C/Men's Superveteran which was 3.9k with 22 controls.
This was the third time Clydeside Orienteers have tried to organise this event - bad weather having scuppered previous attempts. I ran the Long course which was 5.5k with 18 controls.
I am an enthusiastic orienteer who runs for Forth Valley Orienteers in Scotland. I began orienteering nearly 40 years ago when at school in Cheshire and currently compete in the M55 age class.
This site is a record of my orienteering exploits, with occasional forays into my other hobbies of telemark skiing and watching wildlife.