Easter event held in Perthshire this year..... Perth sprint on Friday, Rannoch - the two forest events on Saturday and Sunday, Tullochroist - ( foot of Scheihallion) for Sunday's relays.

Perth - Kinnoull Hill session

Tayside runners picked up medals at Sunday"s (19th Oct 25) Scottish Score Championships held at the Falkirk Wheel nature reserve.

Catriona Phin - 1st woman - and Clive Masson - 2nd man- on the long green course were the best of the 8 strong Tayside OC turnout at today's Riverside Park open event staged by the Kingdom of Fife club in Glenrothes.

There were testing times for Tayside runners at this year's (2025) Scxottish Six Day event held on Deeside with the event centre at Ballater.

Teenager Finn Duguid competes this weekend in the European Youth Championships In the Czech Republic.

Thirty Two Tayside O Club members are entered for the mammoth UK orienteering event which gets underway on Deeside next week.

Tayside club brothers Carl and Finn Selmer Duguid  won their age class (S1 and S5) titles at Pitencrieff Park in Dunfermline (5th June).

See full results at 

https://www.ssoa.org.uk/results/2025/

Finn Duguid and Carl Duguid were medal winners on Saturday at the British Long Distance Championships in the Lake District.  Finn won the M18 title while Carl was 3rd in the M14 class.  

Finn was over 20 minutes ahead of the silver medalist with his time of 75m 05s for the 8.8km course once again beating the M20 title winner James Hammond (Forth Valley) who was running the same course.

Carl  was 8 minutes 59s down on the M14 winnner with his time of 63m15s for 4.5km 

https://www.ssoa.org.uk

Date Thursday 4th June.

Venue Pittencrieff Park Dunfermline

Two very different venues saw club runners take on some of Scotland's best age class orienteers at Aberfoyle and Limerigg.

Tayside Orienteers hosts local events in the area once per month.  Fun, informal, ideal for newcomers.  Held near Crieff, Pitlochry, Perth, Alyth, Dundee.  See Events

Tayside junior internationalist, Finn Duguid, get a write up about his orienteering world in this month's Compass Sport (Oct 2024).  Finn reveals in his interview that his favourite terrain is flat Swedish forest, his biggest achievment is 5th in the European Youth championships and his pre-race playlist is topped by Kickstarts by Example.

Liz Fraser, a Tayside member who was in at the very beginning of orienteering in Perth, chalked up her 100th run at Perth parkrun on Saturday (12th October).

KINNOULL HILL has been designated as a possible area for a future national competition and the area has been embargoed until further notice. Going there, even for a walk, could make you inelligible to compete.