Results, Winsplits and Routegadget all published, see links above.

 Planner's Comments

I jumped at the opportunity when initially asked to plan the British Nights on Tankersley. It's a great area with a great Neil Northrop map and would obviously provide an extra challenge at night. Only after agreeing to take on the role did I decide to go to New Zealand for 5 weeks immediately before the event (I returned on Tuesday 29th Jan)! This effectively meant that I would have to complete the planning before I went. The only problem with this was that Neil was still working on the map at that stage! In the end it all worked out OK and all comments I heard were favourable. Thanks to those with negative thoughts for keeping them to themselves!

As most will now know, we had a total of three SI boxes stolen. I was lucky in spotting no 31 (first control on a number of courses) before the first start and managing to replace it just in time. The other two (95 and 48) only became apparent as the first runners arrived in the area. However the thief was kind enough to leave the stake and kite behind so most people simply used the back-up punch to punch their map and carried on. One or two were unsure at no 48 that they were in the right place as the thief had also taken the card with the control code. I got out and replaced the controls as soon as possible but unfortunately quite a number of you were still affected. My apologies on behalf of the thief.

Congratulions to all class winners. The following deserve particular mention: Rachael Rothman's time on W21L (course 3) was excellent, beating all the old men (course 3A was nearly identical) and narrowly missing out on Aidan Smith's scalp. Jenny Peel showed her class on W45L, winning by a large margin. I was also particularly pleased to see how competitive M21L was: Jonny and Rich's dead heat was closely followed by a number of other classy performances. The winning time was even very close to the requirement of 75 minutes.

The following need my thanks. Firstly my son Michael for effectively being my assistant planner, dealing with planning issues whilst I was away but mostly for his assistance in putting out and collecting controls. Nick Barrable was also a great help with control collection. All controls, not being reused the following morning, were back in by 10.45pm. Charles Daniel controlled me efficiently and with minimum fuss. Even the weather was kind. No thanks to whoever stole the three SI boxes; what do they think they'll do with them?!

Charlie Adams