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 third of them, around Dunbar. 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.
Balgone Estate
Saturday 30 May 2026
Balgone was first mapped in 2022 – it is a wooded area with two lochs and plenty of spectacular landscape features.
We are very grateful to James Grant-Suttie and the Balgone estate for permission to map and use this beautiful area for orienteering.
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have a range of courses to suit everyone. The White course is relatively short which means that if you start early, there is a good opportunity to do the Yellow course afterwards. We have ordered some extra white and yellow maps to allow you to do this.
The Herd cafe is open until 3pm so we would encourage you to come and run early and take advantage of the cafe there.
Please note there is a bit of a walk from download to and from the start/finish area and so if juniors are hoping to run two courses they will need to start their first course before 2pm.
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North Berwick Sprintelope
Wednesday 20th May 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 second of them, around North Berwick. 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
- 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.
- Munro Leagues Points for all Sprintelopes
Cockenzie Sprintelope
Wednesday 6th May 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 first of them, around Cockenzie. 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. Meet us on the North side of the Port Seton Community Centre.
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.
Lochend Wood
Saturday 25 April 2026
Another bumper turnout enjoying an ELO Saturday afternoon event in the sunshine. It was particularly good to see so many new faces and local families. We hope many of you will come to next month’s event at the beautiful Balgone estate near North Berwick on 30th May.
Special thanks today to our planner Alex who created courses to make best use of the woods and surrounding residential areas. And thanks also to the huge team of helpers making the event such a success.
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.
Gosford Estate
Saturday 28 March 2026
ELO’s largest ever attendance for a local Saturday event enjoyed fine spring weather in the beautiful grounds of the Gosford estate. Such a large field included lots of new faces and several more experienced orienteers tempted out by the novelty of a rare visit to this venue.
Michael’s courses made the best use of the mapped area – a tricky job when there are many small local restrictions on runners’ routes.
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.
Binning Wood
Saturday 28 February 2026
Event Report
On a day when several of our most experienced orienteers were away competing in Wales it was great to attract so many competitors and a big team of helpers stepping up to provide an enjoyable local event.
Special thanks to Neil for planning courses and for managing to find some new control sites amidst the familiar terrain of Binning Wood.
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
ELO finish 3rd
ELO finished 3rd out of 13 clubs competing in the Scottish heat of the CompassSport Trophy on Sunday. Our best 13 scores across seven different courses counted to our points total so it was a real team effort. Peter Atkinson was our top scorer with 100 points as the winner of his course.
Congratulations to all our runners in the Trossachs which is one of Britain’s most demanding areas for orienteering. The map contains very few paths or linear features to aid navigation and the terrain is either boggy or steep and treacherous underfoot making it difficult to progress at more than walking pace.
Results are available on this link.
Read moreSouth of Scotland League 2026
The aim of the South of Scotland Orienteering League is to promote participation in orienteering beyond the local level by providing:
- larger, but still welcoming, events;
- high-quality courses;
- good areas;
- up-to-date maps.
ELO is planning to host our own event in the series at the start of November and this weekend sees the first event in the series taking place in Holyrood Park (and its not too late to enter even on the day).
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Festive Frolic: Levenhall Links
Sunday 28 December 2025
For longer than most of us can remember ELO have put on a fun orienteering event between Christmas and New Year. As well as finding the controls there has been a puzzle to add to the challenge. A mass start, a social gathering and a lively prize giving have made up for a great way to work off some of the Christmas excesses.
This year’s Festive Frolic is at Levenhall Links on Sunday 28th December and will continue our grand tradition.
Please arrive early if you wish to enter on the day.
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.