Southern Champs & St Ives

[Jayne]

Tried to enter for the Southern Champs today and realised entries closed yesterday I emailed and they've very kindly opened entries again for a few days. So if you want to go, enter now. Looks set to be a great weekend.

[King Penguin]

For those of us living in the middle it's a pity it clashes with Graythwaite.

[rob f]

Hoping to go to graythwaite, but need to sort lifts/accomodation. No one from MDOC got back to me.

[Roger]

The new closing date is Tue 2 April.

Having just started running again after 2+ months injured, I was hoping to assess how well I'd survived three days of JK ambling before signing up for Cornwall; this gives me the chance to do just that. Thanks KERNO.

[graeme]

I rather overambitiously entered M21E here*, and with historical times of 5.5 mins/km was expecting 16k+ . In fact it's only 13k, which is a relief for me but seems a bit odd.

* since there's an outside chance of being able to see the 1:10 map

[roadrunner]

More the reverse for some older age groups. I've got 8km for M60L, compared to 8.5km for M50L at the British Champs and just under 8km for M45L at both the Caddihoe and a normal badge event (all on the same area). In the words of Captain Oates 'I am just going outside and may be some time'.

[greywolf]

I rather overambitiously entered M21E here*, and with historical times of 5.5 mins/km was expecting 16k+ . In fact it's only 13k, which is a relief for me but seems a bit odd.

I noticed this and assumed they weren't bothering with E classes (as there's no separate M/W21L courses listed) however, they are listed separately on Fabian 4

Generally I'm in favour of reducing the number of courses, but they seemed to have abandoned the standard ratios completely and some of the combinations look particularly curious and/or daunting: W21E should be 64% of M21E, but in this case it's 87%, and i don't think W18/W21S usually get 8km... (the guidelines give them 0.36 of M21E, here they're sharing a course with M50, who normally get 0.60 of M21E)