Planners' Comments

Thank you for all the positive feedback from those of you who enjoyed the courses. 
To be honest, Drummond Hill is such a gorgeous forest that it would be hard to plan 
something unenjoyable, although the area is surprisingly physical. 

I hope the 2k walk to the start wasn't too much for anyone, and that you appreciated 
being able to run on the western part of the ridge. This also meant that we were able 
to keep overlaps between the Day and Night courses to a minimum.

We're sorry if anyone trying to enter on the day was unable to run the course they wanted to. 
A few days before the event we sent numbers of maps to be printed to Stirling Surveys, 
with about 20% spare maps for each course. We then had a very high number of late entries, 
which used up a lot of the surplus.

Lastly, I would like to say a massive thank you to all the Interlopers who helped with 
control-collecting after the event. This made our job an awful lot easier than I was expecting, 
and it was really appreciated - thank you very much!

Gillian Godfree


I hope you all enjoyed being able to run on Drummond Hill for the first time in about 8 years.  
The area is a prime Capercaillie site (and is also where they were re-introduced from Scandinavia
when they were extinct).  While this means that we can't use the area between March and September
it does at least restrict the amount of felling.

Apologies to anyone who found courses 10 and 11 too long.  The lengths were consistent with the
SOL guidelines in comparison to course 9 and, based on Gilian's testing running of courses 9 and 11, 
we expected winning times to be much quicker.

Thanks to our controllers, Ian Pyrah and Mike Atherton, for their helpful comments and coping 
with the tight timescales imposed by the Capercaillie restrictions.

Dave Godfree