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Oct 17, 2022

We are the Champions!!!

Well done to everyone who helped the club regain the CompassSport Trophy yesterday, and to Louise Adams for winning the Golden Boot. Read on for details and photos...

This year it was Scotland's turn to host the CompassSport Cup and Trophy Finals, with FVO hosting at the newly remapped Tulliallan and Devilla. The event was based at the Police College at Tulliallan, with assembly and finish on a large flat grass field in front of the college. The run in, always a highlight due to the awarding of the Golden Boot trophies to fastest man and woman, was cunningly constructed to involve first a slight downhill section, followed by a 90 degree turn up a steep and slippery grass slope before heading back past all the club tents to the finish, all in full view of the spectators and commentary team.

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(Assembly / Finish arena, and view along the run-in - William Ivory)

Out in the woods, the terrain didn't disappoint, with plenty of tough heather to run through / over, or round where there were paths. Low visibility due to localised patches of young tree growth meant that, while the woods were white (mostly) in terms of runnability, you had to be careful not to lose map contact or it could be hard to relocate. The planner did an excellent job of keeping up the challenge right to the end as the controls near the finish alternated between the open parkland and the low visibility woods alongside.

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(Megan finishing, and Download Area - William Ivory)

Interlopers had a good sized team this year, though with one or two key call offs due to illness, it was a close fought battle for the trophy. In the end, Interlopers finished 5 points ahead of MAROC, with Moravian in third place. In the Cup competition, SYO held off FVO by 6 points, with LOC some way back in third (AIRE had the same points but lost out when a 26th result was counted to differentiate them!). Louise Adams (INT) and Jamie Goddard (FVO) won the Golden Boot. Well done to all our runners - even if your run didn't count in the top 13, it may well have helped push our rivals down those critical few points! For the record, our counters were: