Considering that the weather was most definitely against us, this was a very successful event at Darnaway with an extremely good turn out. In fact the mad panic a few days before as the ordered maps were rapidly swallowed up by the huge number of people entering online nearly caught us on the hop. However, with an emergency order of maps we managed on the day to get everyone a run on their desired course. Well done to Paul Rogan for some great courses and to Liz Barr (ably assisted by Nick) for terrific organising; it would have been a far more miserable time for everyone had we not had the luxury of the Village Hall at Conicavel and the teas and cake afterwards.

Unfortunately there was one incident where a participant sustained a suspected broken arm and again thanks to Dr Liz Barr being on hand this was handled quickly and efficiently.

Sadly one control which was visited by those on the Brown, Blue and Green course was not where it was supposed to be! Although this was corrected as soon as possible, quite a number of runners had already suffered the consequences. After due consideration of the rules it was decided that the leg to control 70 would be voided and Jason Inman's run re-instated as he had successfully completed his course after failing to find control 70; this resulted in him gaining 3rd place on the Blue course. On the Green course there were a number of significant movers and a change at the top that resulted in 2nd and 3rd place swapping; Andrew Barr moved into 2nd place and Callum White into 3rd. The finishing order on the Brown course was not affected, however, to all those who were affected we can only apologise.

Ade Chapman