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Celtman

Celtman is described as one of the toughest sporting events in the UK. This phrase is probably rather overused, but in this case it’s fully justified. It’s an extreme triathlon in the NW Scottish Highlands made up of a 3.4 km sea swim, a 200km cycle with 2200 m of ascent and a 42 km mountain run including two Munros…

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Troutal Fell Cumbrian Galoppen

Round 5 of the Cumbrian Galoppen tool place on Sunday (27th Sept), organised by LOC. It was an excellent event, but unfortunately will stick in the memory for the wrong reasons. Firstly, there was the weather. The timing couldn’t have been worse – it started raining at about 10am, and stopped about 3pm, and it was windy too. Not surprisingly…

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Coast and Islands 2026 on Coll

Report from Karen Parker The annual Coast and Islands orienteering week for 2026 has just finished. I’m writing this sitting in our campervan in the rain being buffeted by wind gusts, on a campsite where the water system has failed. That might sound a bit miserable, but in fact it’s been a great week. We are on Coll, an island…

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Late Summer Summary

As the hot, dry summer draws to a cooler, more unsettled end a number of weekend events have drawn BL members east, north and south. The annual White Rose event was held over the bank holiday weekend (28th to 31st August) in Scarborough. It started with a mass start night event (which none of the BL members took part in).…

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BL Long-O (and not so Long-O)

Report from Dan and Karen Parker, Planners and Organisers The 6th annual BL Long-O (and not so Long-O) took place last Sunday (16th August). There was a record turnout of 130 competitors which surprised us as we’d thought that a lot of people would be away on holiday. As usual there were 5 courses from Long (17km) to Super Short…

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Lakes 5 Day 2026

Last week (2nd to 7th August) saw the return of the quadrennial Lakes 5 Day event organised by NWOA. As usual, Border Liners were responsible for the Day 1 event, held this year at Askham Common.  It was a great start to the week with warm sunny weather, excellent courses and slick organisation. Paul, the planner, had to cope with…

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O-Ringen 2026: Gothenburg, Sweden

Thanks to Isabel for this report For a long time, Jeff and I have been talking about making what feels like every orienteer’s life pilgrimage… a trip to Sweden’s annual O-Ringen orienteering competition.  This year, we finally did it and what an incredible experience it was! O-Ringen is the world’s largest orienteering event – I’d call it a festival really. …

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Outdoor Sanity?

Question: What started in southeast Europe nearly 25 years ago and has now spread north and west reaching Ireland for the first time this year?No, not some nasty tick-borne disease, but instead a very nice orienteering event, the OO Cup. It’s a 5 day event held annually. Until 2015 it was always held in Slovenia but since then it’s been…

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Indoor insanity?

The OO Cup kicked off in Killarney with a warm-up indoor event at St Brendan’s College. As we were staying in Killarney for the OO Cup week Christine and I thought we would give this a go. Billed as the Kerry Festival of Orienteering the event saw over 400 take part in an indoor/outdoor multi-level event with numerous artificial barriers,…

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ABC, Easy as 1-2-3

The Allerdale Bike Challenge is an annual series of five cycle events which explore the local lanes around Allerdale District. It’s open to riders of all bike types from lightweight road bikes to mountain bikes, from recumbent bikes to tandems. The format is a 2 hour score event using SportIdent timing on tarmac roads & lanes, with a maximum of 25 controls available…

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