SOUL 8, 2025Newhaven, 23 November
The final event in the 2025 Scottish Orienteering Urban League was organised by ESOC and there was a great turnout from club members (many of whom were helping), with some excellent results.
This event featured a brand new map of the Trinity, Newhaven, and Fort areas, including Victoria Park. The terrain includes residential streets and industrial premises, with pockets of complex development. The event was based at Bangholm Outdoor Centre, which provided good indoor facilities. The Start was a short distance away in Victoria Park, and the courses set off in various directions to controls all over the park, before heading out into the surroundings. Senior courses had some long legs through residential areas, and all courses ended up on the Hawthornvale Path (part of the North Edinburgh path network), with the Finish on playing fields just outside the event centre.
The weather was very wet at first, then the rain eased off through the morning, so it was much more pleasant for later starters.
ESOC results in the top half of their class:
- M Young Junior (1) – Luke Durnall 1st
- M Junior (1) – William Atkinson 1st
- W Open (8) – Helen Bridle 1st, Heidi Ross 2nd
- M Vet (13) – Alistair Hindle 6th
- W Vet (6) – Rachael Imrie 2nd, Fran Daley 3rd
- W Supervet (13) – Katherine Kirk 5th, Emma Anderson 7th
- M Ultravet (16) – Kevin Harding 4th, Martin Caldwell 5th, Crawford Lindsay 6th, Alistair Armitage 7th
- W Ultravet (10) – Alison Harding 1st, Margaret Dalgleish 3rd
- M Hypervet (9) – Les Dalgleish 2nd, Ian Pyrah 3rd
- W Hypervet (5) – Eleanor Pyrah 3rd
Full results including Routegadget (and also officals' reports) are available on the Newhaven SOUL event page of this website.
Further details about the 2025 Scottish Orienteering Urban League, including a list of this year's events and a link to the final league tables, are on the SOUL page of the Scottish Orienteering website.
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