42 riders turned up on what turned out to be a far better day than originally forecast, with later starters having slightly less rain . I enjoyed my rides checking control placement and knew that even with the rain most tracks would be rideable. My main errors and apologies, was using local knowledge in a couple of places, the Bridleway behind Wood Hall which has changed recently and the bridleway north of the Devils Toe Nail where locals know to keep left and pick up the track, I was unaware that the bridleway crossing the old railway was now more prominent and also not shown on the 1:50.000 map ( it is on the 1:25,000) I can see from the traces that this caught out a few of you and I can only apologise.

Thanks to all of you for turning up and to the Scotts Arms for the hospitality and for the positive comments on my planning which seemed to make you all have to think carefully about where to go. When planning the map I looked at the 2015 and 2019 maps and decided to keep the area about the same and if tracks had been a bit quicker Martin may have got over 500. The trouble is the western route can’t be made shorter as there are no tracks that you would want to use and many of you realised this and committed to it

The results are on the maprun server here , and a summary of the results are on the website, Thank you to all those who have uploaded your results, I have assumed a couple of the groups and if I have your score wrong please let me know and I will correct.

Congratulations to Martin Edwards the overall and M40 winner who rode 53 km and scored 385 points, second and 1st M50 was Simon ‘I’m taking it easy ‘ Coiley with 346 points and 3rd and 1st M60 was Paul Dobson with 325 points. 1st M70 was David Day with 302 points ( after an organisers recount!) 1st Ladies were Jemima Parker and Jo Anderson with 225 points , 1st Mixed pair were Lindsey and Robert King with 211 points and 1st Generation were Rik and Ewan Thompson with 174 points. 1st e-bike was Tony Thornley with 295 points
https://results.maprun.net/#/