Please note several important features of this event:
- change of venue for this event to Barns Ness
- earlier start window of 11:30am until 1:00pm as everyone is invited to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy together on the beach afterwards!
- advance entries closing earlier than usual – online entries closing on Thursday at 22:00
- path-only courses are offered – see below under Terrain.
Barns Ness is a great area for orienteering, consisting of a strip of coastal land about 2000m long and no wider than 400m in any place; typically it’s around 200m wide. The immediate coastline in the north is mainly stony beach and rocky foreshore, with intricate sandy dunes on the east facing side. A flat coastal plain extends south. The obvious man-made features include disused limekiln buildings, the Lighthouse (completed in 1901 by cousins of Robert Louis Stevenson) and an old quarry. The western edge of the area is bordered by a steep slope, rising about 15-20m above the coastal plain.
Parking and registration is at the White Sands car park.
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Tranent Sprintelope
Wednesday 1st July 2026
Sprintelopes are lightweight informal events featuring Urban style races around the streets of towns in East Lothian and other areas in and around Edinburgh on Wednesday evenings.
In 2026, ELO are contributing four races to the series – this is the fifth of them, around Tranent. Expect some deviously similar looking sections on a map with plenty of scope for making parallel errors!
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have a range of courses to suit everyone.
Results
- Live results should be available here on the day of the event.