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 2025, ELO are contributing five races to the series – this is the second of them, around Musselburgh!
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have a range of courses to suit everyone including under 16s who have a course with no road crossings.
Results
- Live results should be available here on the day of the event.
Vogrie Country Park
Saturday 26 April 2025
Vogrie Country Park is a woodland estate managed by Midlothian Council. The Tyne Water runs through the park in a steep sided valley which can provide a physical challenge. Vogrie usually hosts a Saturday parkrun and has a popular playground but its varied terrain and 12 mile path network make this a popular venue for orienteering, particularly for those new to the sport. For the more experienced there are plenty of ways to navigate between controls both on paths and off them!
Registration, start and finish are near the main house and we look forward to seeing you there.
Loose control descriptions will be available for the orange, red and green courses.
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
North Berwick Sprintelope
Wednesday 23 April 2025
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 2025, ELO are contributing five races to the series – this is the first of them, around North Berwick!
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have a range of courses to suit everyone including under 16s who have a course with no road crossings.
Although online entries are now closed you can enter on the night.
Please note that Control Descriptions are on the BACK of the maps for the Long and Short courses.
We will have tea/coffee/hot chocolate available after the event!
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
Rankings watch
April 2025
ELO is enjoying its healthiest ever status in the British Orienteering rankings. Joel Atkinson is our first ever current member* to reach the top 100. Emily Atkinson and Ross Lyall are also in the top 500 with two more members in the top 1000. 28 ELO members have at least one ranking run in the last year and 13 of them have their full complement of six counting events …
| Position | Name | Points |
| 87 | Joel Atkinson | 8022 |
| 202 | Emily Atkinson | 7775 |
| 472 | Ross Lyall | 7381 |
| 682 | Jonathan Ellis | 7158 |
| 738 | Duncan Edmondson | 7090 |
| 1074 | Michael Atkinson | 6747 |
| 1077 | Peter Brownsort | 6745 |
| 1216 | Jennifer Atkinson | 6618 |
| 1400 | Tim Harding | 6427 |
| 1573 | Pete Younger | 6263 |
| 1638 | Robin Strain | 6206 |
| 2134 | Sheila Strain | 5726 |
| 2357 | Jamie Wilson | 5401 |
Barns Ness
Saturday 29 March 2025
As usual we thank all the competitors who braved the chilly wind and our large team who stage the event – especially Neil and Trina for planning courses and organising the event. And this time we also have to thank the many people who grabbed hold when the registration tent tried to blow away!
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
East Lothian Schools Orienteering Festival
East Lothian Orienteers were involved in the East Lothian Schools Orienteering Festival held at Levenhall on Wednesday 19th February in conjunction with East Lothian Outdoor Learning Service.
Although there were only bulk entries from two primary schools, six schools were represented and approximately 120 pupils took part. There was some hot competition, although we did hear of one boy saying he took a bit longer than he could to stay out of school as long as possible.
In addition to the main competition there were a number of fun, orienteering-based activities and challenges. From all the reports we heard, all the pupils had a great time and we look forward to a bigger entry when the event returns next year.
Results – East Lothian Schools Orienteering Festival – 19 Feb 2025
John Muir Country Park
Saturday 22 February 2025
Many thanks to all who came to enjoy a run at JMCP with most courses venturing into the woods for the first time since the sad depletion by Storm Arwen in 2021.
Special thanks to Jonathan and Andrea for planning and organising the event and to Jamie and Vik for arranging junior coaching beforehand. Jonathan planned an extra Red course for those who wanted to stretch their legs without a serious navigation challenge, and it was particularly popular on the day.
The catering table raised £50 for Mary’s Meals plus any donations made online.
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
Musselburgh UKUL
Sunday 2 February 2025
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
- Scottish Orienteering Urban League
We should like to apologise to those early starters on course 4 who lost some time at #1 due to the incorrect number on the loose control descriptions. We have considered voiding the course or removing the first two legs but having looked at the splits, we think that, with two or three exceptions, there was no significant impact on the results because of any delay you may have experienced. With apologies to those affected, we have left the results as they were at download.
Balgone SNC
Saturday 1 February 2025
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
CompassSport Trophy
Sunday 23rd Feb 2025
Congratulations to all our runners in the CompassSport Trophy. ELO finished a very creditable 9th out of 15 teams competing. Several of the clubs above us have much larger membership to draw on.
All our runners completed their courses successfully and several were tackling courses tougher and/or longer than their usual ones.
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