I do hope everyone enjoyed a crisp, winter run in the Dunglass Wood area of The Hirsel today. Quite a contrast from Dundock Wood and the rhodies everywhere. The weather was certainly very kind to us.

I enjoyed planning this handicap score event very much – it’s quite different from all other events including ordinary score events. The secret I think is to make you really think about which controls you want to leave out and it was good to talk to some of you afterwards and hear that you changed your minds about which ones to go for and which to leave out on more than one occasion on your way round.  It’s not about legs as such but it’s certainly about route choice.  It’s also important to use the handicap system to try to equalise times across competitors of all ages and abilities and I think I’ve done a fair job on that judging by the overall results although John Tullie’s winning margin was impressive.

Andrew Armstrong, Planner

The full results are HERE but the adjusted results for the Championships (and guests) are below.  These full results list by number of points scored so don’t mean an awful lot but let you see the order people did their course in.  Apologies to Keith for announcing at the AGM that he was 3rd, my mistake.  

Lindsey