Planner's Report

When planning the course, there were a few obstacles that had to be tackled.  Firstly, we were denied the use of a large open area to the West of the map.  Included in this are the fields that would normally be used for parking.  Not having access to these meant that parking was restricted the track to the far East of the map resulting in a long walk to the start.

In the forest there was a good variety of terrain, from the tricky hill to the North to the ‘Scandinavian’ (thanks Mike) terrain to the South.  It was good to hear the positive comments about the courses and I am glad that everyone seemed to have a good time.

Congratulations to Jack Gomersall for winning the yellow in a time of 24 ½ mins, which is good going on a physically tough yellow.

It was also good to see Sasha Chepelin moving up confidently to the orange, and finishing with a very good time of under 40 mins.  It was good also to see so many family groups turning up and enjoying themselves on the orange.

The run of the day has to be by Finlay Langan on his first ever run on a Green.  Although his Dad beat him today, it will not be long until the positions are reversed.

It was very close on the blue with Ben Hartman edging out some very tough opposition, including newly crowned Scottish Champion Andy Tivendale, maintaining his recent run of form.  I’d also like to point out that I don’t seem to remember Bill Melville running M21 at the Scottish Champs!

Again thanks to everyone for turning up and those who helped out as well.

Danny Oliver