Clydeside Orienteers

Clyde Weekly Meeting

The next in our series of virtual meetings is on MONDAY 25 May at 19:30.
This will be a brief roundup of the weekend’s team Lockdown orienteering competition, and possibly a report from the Clyde Catching Features Relay team.
As usual, the meeting is on Zoom, follow this link. or join with:

Meeting ID: 957 0573 4971
Password: 179226

28th Mar 20   Read more...

Orienteering activities, games and stuff

We’ve gathered a list of some online orienteering games, quizzes, software and other stuff that can be played with at home or out on your own. Click here or “read more…” below for the list.
Based on a list generated by Chris Smithard who has his own list here.

26th Mar 20   Read more...

Covid-19: All face-to-face Orienteering activities suspended

As a reaction to the current Covid-19 pandemic, and in line with the SOA statement we have had to suspend all face to face orienteering activities. This includes the Thursday evening hill runs.

At the time of writing it is still possible to run on your own, so you could consider the 5 CLYDE MapRun courses listed on the SOA website.

The club may run some online workshops in the next few weeks on mapping using Open Orienteering Mapper and possibly on other orienteering analysis software.

17th Mar 20   Read more...

Permanent Courses using GPS, Maprun an Orienteering app for your phone

The “MapRun” orienteering app allows you to set up and take part in “Virtual” orienteering courses using the GPS your smartphone. You run a course using either the map on your phone screen or a paper version, and your phone will automatically beep when you reach the correct location of each control (nothing marking it on the ground). At the end of the course your results and split times can be saved into a results table alongside others who have run the course. Clyde have a number of courses available that you can run any time you want to. They are listed on the SOA website along with all the other courses in Scotland. Click “Read more…” below for more details.

03rd Jul 19   Read more...

CLYDE Success at the Scottish Middle Distance Championships

Congratulations to Dave Robertson on becoming M55 Scottish Middle Distance Champion at Gleneagles Arena on Saturday 14th March. Congratulations also to Alice Wilson (W18 silver), Emma Wilson (W21 silver), and Rachel Wilson (W50 bronze), as well as all of the other CLYDE members who took part. Full results can be found at http://masterplanadventure.uk/.

16th Mar 20   Read more...

CLYDE at the Compass Sport Trophy Qualifier

A huge “thank you” to everyone who turned out and ran for CLYDE at the Compass Sport Trophy Qualifier at Errochty yesterday.

The full list of CLYDE heros (with the scorers marked with an asterisk) is

*100 Points Thomas Wilson Brown
*100 Points Emma Wilson Blue Women
*99 Points Robin Orr Blue Men
*95 Points Alice Wilson Blue Women
*94 Points Stephen Wilson Short Brown
*94 Points Iain Mennie Blue Men
*94 Points Ian Davidson Green Men
  94 Points Mirjam Allik Blue Women
  93 Points Bryony McLeod Blue Women
*92 Points Andy Paterson Brown
*85 Points Liz Orr Green Women
  82 Points Ceri Vincent Blue Women
  82 Points Nick Langley Blue Men
*77 Points Rachel Wilson Green Women

but without any Juniors or more SuperVets and despite winning Brown (Thomas) and Blue Women (Emma), a record turnout of 6 runners on Blue Women, Andy Paterson running up from Blue Men to Brown, and me running up from Blue Men to Short Brown, we only scored in 10 out of 13 scoring slots and so finished 7th, well behind qualifiers INT, MOR and INVOC and one place ahead of hosts STAG. Full results are here.

Thanks again to all who did battle with a technically and physically challenging forest on their club’s behalf and what might be the last large orienteering event in Scotland for some time.

16th Mar 20   Read more...

Clyde 2020 Coaching #2 - Saturday 22nd February

We had a good training session on the afternoon of Saturday 22nd February in Balloch Castle Country Park, although the weather could have been kinder! Well done to all athletes and coaches, and thanks to Donald for the warm dry assembly area!

Both beginners and experienced orienteers are invited to brush up their skills as the new orienteering season kicks off at the next CLYDE Coaching Session to be held at Balloch Country Park beside Loch Lomond on Saturday 22nd February.

Where: Balloch Country Park, Castle Car Park, access from Mollanbowie Road. Postcode G83 8LX.

When: Saturday 22nd February 2020 13:30 – 15:30.

Cost : £3 adults/ £1 junior (to cover map and room hire) + £1 for non members.

What: Brush up on basics – attack points, bearings and distance judgement. Excercises for novive/beginner orienteers too.

How to Register: please email Rachel (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) in advance to make sure we have maps for you.

We’ll meet at the council building by Castle Carpark (with toilets and briefing room). Session will be run by Dave supported by Alastair and Donald. 

18th Feb 20   Read more...

CLYDE Successes at Scottish Night Champs Weekend

While most of the rest of Britain was lashed by Storm Dennis, a number of CLYDEsiders headed north to the Moravian Orienteers Winter Warmer Weekend for two days to high quality orienteering consisting of the Scottish Night Championships held on a mixture of urban, forest and technical sand dune terrain at Findhorn on Saturday night and the first Scottish Orienteering League event of the year held in bright sunshine on classic technical forest terrain at Darnaway on Sunday morning. Top CLYDE performances at the Scottish Night Championships were gold (and the overall Scottish SuperVet trophy) for Steve Wilson and silver to Dave Robertson in M55 and bronze for Rachel Wilson in W50, plus a gold in M21 (missing the overall Scottish Night Champs trophy by only 30 seconds) for Thomas Wilson running for EUOC. Full results can be found here.

17th Feb 20   Read more...

CLYDE Night Orienteering Training at Baljaffrey

Thanks for Dave Robertson for organising an excellent night orienteering training session at Baljaffrey on Tuesday 11th February. A number of CLYDE members braved the cold to hone their skills ahead of the Scottish Night Orienteering Championships at the weekend. 

12th Feb 20   Read more...

CLYDE at the Devil’s Burdens Relay 2020

While other CLYDE members were talking part in the Edinburgh City Race last Saturday, six club members were representing CLYDE in the annual Devil’s Burdens Relay in Falkland. The race, which involves four legs (two run singly, two run in pairs) involves a certain amount of navigation and attracts a number of orienteers as well as top hill runners from around Scotland. This is the third year CLYDE has taken part, and this year saw debutants Ben and Alice join the team. Ben Lewis ran an excellent first leg to bring us back in 53rd place and handed over to Mirjam Allik and Alice Wilson who did an outstanding job to finish 54th on leg 2 (probably the longest and toughest leg). This good work was then somewhat undone by Stephen Wilson and Ty Solomon who - slightly embarrassingly for orienteers - lost the route on the way up the hill and dropped around 5 minutes and 20 places before getting back on track to finish 94th on leg 3. The final leg, which, rather unusually, was in a score orienteering format with route choice left up to the individual runners, was run by Iain Mennie, who finished 54th on the leg. Overall, despite the wobble on leg 3, the team finished a very respectable 59th out of 154 teams before adjourning to a nearby cafe for much needed refreshment. Full results can be found here.

27th Jan 20   Read more...