Full results are now HERE. Apologies they weren’t on the address shown on some of your splits – fall-out from the website problems I had mid-week.

Planner/Organiser’s Report

This was my first time planning at Bowmont, so it was quite enjoyable getting to experience a forest in more detail than you normally do just running round.

Storm Eowyn rather interrupted the planning and organising process for Bowmont and caused the delay and change of date. It also meant that I had to revise many of my original planning ideas. I hope that you found the resulting courses both challenging and interesting.

The Light Green was my attempt to join up the most technically challenging bits of Bowmont with some decent route choice alternatives but without making it too rough going underfoot. I was very impressed by the speed of the front runners! The Red was planned as a runners course, more on tracks but still with some interesting route choice and visiting some nice bits of the forest. Yellow and Orange are aimed to be stepping stones for beginners – on reflection Yellow was perhaps slightly too difficult, perhaps exacerbated by paths blocked by fallen trees!

Unfortunately the weather wasn’t quite as nice as the day before when I was putting controls out but it was still pretty good for the time of year – and Bowmont was as dry underfoot as I have seen it at this time of year.

I hope you all enjoyed yourself.

Thanks to everyone who helped on the day but particularly Lindsey who gave up her run to organise registration and download.

John Tullie