Lots of activity in what initially looked like a quiet weekend, though the superb weather on Saturday no doubt helped. PFO’s event at Alkincoats Park in Colne benefited, with Jo Treasure gaining 8th place on the Light Green course and John Nuttall 11th on a Technical “window” course, i.e. one with most of the map blanked out apart from a small window around each control – good compass work required. Cath Wilson appears to have had a field day with 2nd on White and 6th on Yellow, but I’d imagine she was doing some coaching rather than pot hunting! Meanwhile, Alan Heron was securing 16th position on the Light Green at MDOC’s Park+Urban event in Macclesfield.

Sunday saw John Nuttall out again, over near Harrogate for CLARO’s regional event where he secured 35th place on the Green course – looks like a slow start hampered him but his rock climbing skills came into play on the steep slopes later in the course. Steve Round was 42nd on the same course after a slow late section demonstrated his affinity for flat terrain.

Elsewhere, our mountain marathoners were taking full advantage of the conditions at the ROC event in the northern Lakes. On the Long Score course, Mark Seddon had our best result as top Male SuperVeteran while Kev Latham, running with Sian Calow of DEE, was 3rd in Mixed SuperVets, only 5 points behind the winners. There’s also a Steve Wilson in 3rd place on the Short Score course, but hard to tell if it our man or not as the results don’t show clubs and there is another competitor of that name.