Events

I am working with Masterplan Adventure to organise orienteering events. Read about some of the events I've been involved in so far:

Scottish Spring

Planning courses for the first Scottish Orienteering League race of the year at Corranbuie in Kintyre, and also organising the weekend.

Scottish Spring - Kintyre

Planning courses for a Scottish O League in a great technical forest, and a little bit about organising the thing too…

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Poltonhall

Read the story of a small informal event from start to finish - finding an area, making the map and planning the courses!

Poltonhall for AROS sprint relay - start to finish

What do you need to go orienteering? 1. A good area I was sitting at a EUOC pasta night when my friend Jim and I got onto the topic of whether there were any decent sprint O areas in the Edinburgh area that hadn’t yet been mapped. So, we opened

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Sprint Scotland

A weekend of World Ranking Events and Team GB selection races in Alloa and Falkirk:

Sprint Scotland

Organising a World Ranking Event and GB team selection races for the European Champs. Sprint Scotland is the flagship event of Masterplan Adventure; it’s really the event that got the club going in 2016. It felt like a big responsibility to take on the job of organising it for 2023,

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Lews Castle

The final day of Coast & Islands, this is the story of me and Chris mapping and planning an event in two days:

Lews Castle

Hope today was a fun end to the week, despite the unfortunate issue with the olive green. Here’s the story of the mapping and planning, which were both a joint effort between me and Chris. So back in May, Chris and I had finished all the Tarbert stages, and left

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Planning courses - Torsacleit

The story of planning courses for Day 5 of Coast & Islands - particularly thinking about control sites.

Planning courses - Torsacleit

Hope you enjoyed today despite the inclement weather. Here’s the story of Torsacleit from my perspective: I heard one or two people say it felt like the Lakes today, and indeed, it was a Martin Bagness map (which I thought was excellent). When he sent it to Chris and I,

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A unique sprint - Tarbert

Half urban, half super-detailed terrain, this was a sprint like no other. Here's the story of the mapping and planning.

A unique sprint - Tarbert

When we were scouting out Harris for Coast & Islands, we discovered that immediately adjacent to Tarbert was a cracking area of rock and contour detail, and so came the idea to have a combined terrain/urban sprint. I had two jobs for this stage - mapping the urban section, and

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Lakes Spring

Another weekend working with Martin Bagness, under the Masterplan Adventure banner, on the 4-5th March 2023. Read the article:

Lakes Spring

After the successful Lakeland Warrior weekend, Martin Bagness and I noticed that South Ribble Orienteering Club had a national event scheduled for Sunday 5th March, on Whitbarrow, a top-quality area which is rarely used. Given this would be a month before the JK, we thought that we could organise a

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Christmas Cup

Working with Masterplan Adventure, I organised a 4-day event in Scotland from 29th December 2022 to 1st January 2023. Read the article:

Christmas Cup

This was my big job of the last couple months of 2022; a 4-day event from 29th Dec to 1st Jan, working with Masterplan Adventure. We’d lined up three really good quality forest areas for the first three days, all around Perthshire and Stirlingshire, then we had Graeme Ackland on

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Lakeland Warrior

Working together with Martin Bagness, we organised a weekend of World Ranking Events in the Lake District. Read the article:

Lakeland Warrior

In Autumn 2020, as orienteering events began to return after the first lockdown, ex-international orienteers and all-round orienteering legends Martin Bagness and Carol McNeil organised a low-key weekend of racing, aimed primarily at elites. Numbers were kept low, organisation minimal, but the quali…

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