STAG Glasgow City Race weekendGlasgow Caledonian Uni, Kelvingrove Park, City Centre

Indoor Sprint (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Friday night saw the indoor sprint, summarised by Sally Lindsay as "immensely confusing (as expected) and great fun". ESOC president Walter Clark secured a 5th place in the Long race against some stiff (or perhaps less stiff?) younger competition, describing it as his best result in years and saying "The indoor race was by far the most complex and fun indoor 3D event that I’ve ever experienced. I had no idea what I was getting myself into and it was a brilliant experience, not just because I ended up doing well - honest".

ESOC results in the top half are shown below (see also the full results on the website).

• Long (69) - Walter Clark 5th, Ben Brown 7th, Craig Nolan 14th, Calum Robertson 20th

• Medium (58) - Helena Nolan 6th, Lucie Hamplova 9th, Heidi Ross 14th, Rosamund Vickers 14th

• Short (26) - Judith Bell 3rd

Sprint Relay & Individual Sprint (Glasgow University and Kelvingrove Park)

Saturday offered two options; either a 2-person sprint relay (1 man, 1 woman) or an individual sprint. The terrain was a mix of two styles, with the all-urban university campus to start and the mixed urban+ parkland of Kelvingrove to finish. This was raced as two separate legs for the relay, or as two parts for the individual sprint. The unusually warm weather meant that the park was busy with sun lovers, posing an additional unmapped navigational challenge for runners threading a route through.

In the sprint relay, ESOC was represented by the sibling duo Ben & Megan Brown, as well as oldhand-meets-newcomer combination of Walter Clark & Carolyn Dyson. After 80 minutes of orienteering, Megan & Ben were pipped by just 46 seconds into the runner up spot behind Quentin Harding and Ruth Ker of CLARO. Meantime Walter & Carolyn managed to mispunch - but were in illustrious company with 6 of 19 elite teams also mispunching!

In the individual sprint, ESOC had 4 winners: Emma Daley (YJW), Rebecca Daley (YW), Luigi Lerose (MV) and Helen Nolan (WSV). Other standout results were Heidi's 2nd place in the Women's Open and Emma Anderson's 3rd place in Veteran Women. Asked about her great result, Heidi commented on her strategy of being more decisive: "This sprint I tried to always be moving and be decisive as possible. It stopped me overthinking my route choice and trying to work out the optimum route which takes time. Instead I focused on entering/leaving controls quickly and moving onto the next control asap even if it meant my route choice was a tad longer. I was able to make up the time by running faster". Meantime Emma highlighted the tough conditions: "It was a total surprise tbh as the previous week I was last at Glenrothes in a field of a similar size! It was hot and humid, so my running felt very laboured and I know I made some incorrect route choices. Maybe it was just that others were suffering more 😆".

ESOC results in the top half or top 3 are shown below (see also the full results on the website).

Sprint Relay:

• Open Class (7) - Ben & Megan Brown 2nd

• Young Junior Women (1) - Emma Daley 1st

• Junior Men (3) - William Atkinson 3rd

• Junior Women (1) - Rebecca Daley 1st

• Women's Open (18) - Heidi Ross 2nd

• Veteran Men (14) - Luigi Lerose 1st

• Veteran Women (14) - Emma Anderson 3rd, Fran Daley 4th

• Senior Veteran Men (25) - Keith Brown 6th

• Senior Veteran Women (30) - Helena Nolan 1st

• Ultra Veteran Women (19) - Sally Lindsay 7th

• Hyper Veteran Women (13) - Eleanor Pyrah 6th

Glasgow City Race (Glasgow City)

Sunday was the day of the eponymous Euro City Race. Another hot day! An especial well done to Alexis Gow, Calum Robertson and Helena Nolan who scored a trio of Silvers.

ESOC results in the top half or top 3 are shown below (see also the full results on the website).

• Junior Men (2) - Calum Robertson 2nd

• Junior Women (2) - Alexis Gow 2nd

• Men's Open (28) - Ben Brown 6th

• Women's Open (18) - Enrada Cepele 8th, Lucie Hamplova 9th

• Veteran Men (31) - Luigi Lerose 6th, Terry Johnstone 13th, David McNeish 16th

• Senior Veteran Men (34) - Keith Brown 10th

• Senior Veteran Women (38) - Helen Nolan 2nd

• Ultra Veteran Men (32) - Martin Caldwell 8th=

• Ultra Veteran Women (22) - Sally Lindsay 6th, Margaret Dalgleish 7th, Mary Williams 9th, Rhona Fraser 11th

• Hyper Veteran Men (17) - Ian Pyrah 8th

• Hyper Veteran Women (15) - Eleanor Pyrah 4th