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Please note the change of venue for this event to Barns Ness. Parking and registration is at the White Sands car park.
We will also have an earlier start window of 11:30am until 1:00pm and invite everyone to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy together on the beach afterwards!
Barns Ness is a great area for orienteering, consisting of a fairly narrow 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.
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have a range of path-only courses to suit everyone and a sociable picnic afterwards!
Read more…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.
Read more…Results
- Simple results are here.
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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.
Read more…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
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.
Read more…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.
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.
Read more…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.
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.
Read more…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.
- Read more…
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.
